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Negro "Trusty"
Leaves Mansion
r-olombia, July 1<V?-The office of
Governor Maybank was without the
services of William Roebuck, the negro
porter, who has been working
(here about a year.
Roebuck, a trusty from the state
penitentiary, took French leave, Franda
M IMnckney, the governor's executive
secretary, reported. Ho disappeared
Saturday but nothing waa said
about it at once, IMnckney aald, because
officers believed they were
close In behind him.
IMnckney suld uooouck. a slender,
brown man, was serving a life sentence
after a murder conviction In
Abbeville county IS years ag<5. The
negro was only 15 when convicted, he
Bald.
The fugitive worked about the office
during the day, running errands
and doing cleaning, but was returned
each night to the penitentiary. In
making his escape, Roebuck appropriated
tho automobile of D. A. Smith,
another uecretary in the ofTlce, but
the abandoned car was found several
hours after his disappearance.
Fleet Sails East
Honolulu, July 15.?Two columns
of United States warships steamed
out of Pearl Harbor today, causing
speculation. The vessels were getting
ready to patrol South Pacific
Islands owned by Great Britain and
France.
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REGISTRATION OF ALIEN8
! Washington. July 12.?A law has
passed both Houses that will require
the four or five million aliens
who reside In this country to become
fingerprinted Immediately, In order
that an accurate record of people
residing In this country who have never
sworn allegiance to It may be available
to the Government Authorities.
This Is a part of the general effort
on the part of Congress to make sure
that this country Is protected ^gainst
enemies from within. However, aa the
President pointed out. when signing
the bill, this should not be taken
as a reflection In any way upou any
particular alien or Lhe group as a
whole. The Post Office Department
and Census Bureau will handle the
details of this registration..., '
Responding to a plea by President
Roosevelt that total defense must be
provided for tho United States, the
Senate late Wednesday voted for the
greatest Navy fn th&4 history of the
world.
Without a dissenting vote and after
only an hour's consideration, the
chamber approved a $4,600,000,000 authorization
measure which wilfe give
the Nation a. two-ocean Navy by. 1947.
Earlier In the day, the President
asked the Congress to vote an additional
$4,848,171,967 for defense,
bringing the total to be set aside for
the Army-Navy next year to approximately
$10,000,000,000. In requesting
this unprecendented total, Mr. Roosevelt
pledged:
"We will not use our arms In a war
of aggression; we will not tfWid our
men to take part In European war."
Warnings of "grave danger to democratic
Institutions" that is increasing
from "week to week and almost from
day to day," the President added:
"The principal lesson of the war
up to the present time Is that partial
defense is Inadequate defense. If
the United States Is to have any defense.
It must have total defense."I
am receiving a number of letters
from people interested in securing
employment in connection with the
national defense program, and there
appears to be considerable misunderstanding
as to the opportunities for
such employment and the ftrocedure
to be followed in making application.
The principal need will he for skilled
workers, who, so far as the Government
Is concerned, are selected
through Civil Service appointment.
Anyone qualified for and interested In
these skilled labor jobs should communicate
with the Manager. Fifth
Civil Service District, Atlanta, Georgia,
asking that a notice of the n^(.
'examination for the particular work
in which the applicant is interested
be forwarded to him.
Of course the major part of the
construction and manufacturing work
in the program will be done by private
industry, and these concerns select
their own personnel. They are
expected, however, to draw largely
from the rolls of the State Employment
Offices throughout the country.
Since we have so few industries in
South Carolina manufacturing defense
materials, there Is some question as
to just what this will amount to in
our section. However. It would be
well for anyone interested in defense
employment to register with the nearest
State Employment Office, if he
is not already on its rolls, so that
his availability will be on record.
The new defense taxes on such
luxuries as cigarettes, liquor and
ci r/iuor iii c 12 t S weiii iliiu 0II0CI fll 1/10
beginning of the new fiscal year on
July 1. These taxes added a half cent
to tho price of a pack of cigarettes
and seventy cents to the cost of each
gallon of liquor and made the ten
per cent amusement tax apply to admissions
under forty cents, which
were heretofore exempt. While
a few instances of alleged profiteering
by boosting prices to an extent not
justified by the additional taxes have
been reported, the response on the
whole has been very fine. Everyone
Is anxious to do his bit toward national
defense and these taxes, which
have beeti earmarked for that purpose,
have been cheerfully paid.
The House on Wednesday night
passed the new Hatch bill intended
to limit campaign expenditures and
bar from pernicious political activity
State or local employees partly paid
from Federal funds. House amendments
were Immediately agreed to
and the bill signed by the President.
OLDEST POSTMASTER DEAD
Salters, July 12.? Julius Graham
Lifrange, oldest postmaster In point
of service In the United States, died
at his home here today at the age of
86 He spent bis entire life here and
served as post master for 61 years
He retired laat February.
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Giant Plane
" Breaks Record
New York. July 9?A giant, new
Mr transport, called a ?trato-lluer,
roared Inlo l*Ouardla Field at 9'.W
tt. m. (EST) today to set a new westeast
transcontinental record for commercial
planes. ' . .
It had taken off from Burbank
Field. I?o? Angeles, at 9:15 P? ?
(EST) last night and stopped briefly
at Kansas City on Its flight
through the so-called substratosphere
?an altitude of about 17.000 feet
It was an hour and 11 minutes ahead
of schedule. - no
The 4 motored Boeing, a 23-ton
$450,000 craft spanned the continent
In the elapsed time of 12 hours
minutes; the fprmer eastbound transport
record was J5 hours 42 minutes.
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A sister ship meanwhile neared
Los Angeles on a westbound flight
from New York?also setting ft record,
Both were Inaugurating rw
coast to coast passenger flights at
the new high level, the planes being
designed with pressure-equalizing
equipment to enable them to fly up
to 20.000 feet without discomfort to
passengers.
'Possums For Rips
In an unexpected place, to wit, the
New York monthly magazine Spain,
some curious notes appear on the
travels of the explorer De Soto in
the Carolines. De Soto's original
swine herd of 13 head increased in
his four years of travel to more than
seven hundred, though his troops ate
much pork and many pigs were stolen
by the Indians. The Cherokees, "who
taught the Spaniards to eat opossum,
were delighted with gifts of breeding
pairs, and raised their own herds
[ of hogs" long before the first English
explorer had reached their country.
The razorbacks of the Southern forests
an and swamps are in many
cases descendants of De Soto's pigs.
De Soto, by the way, thought more
highly of the intelligence of the women
than did most men of his day;
for when he reached Cuba in May,
1538, and was about to depart for his
explorations in what now is comprised
within the states of Georgia.
Florida and the Carolinas, he established
his wife in control of the
government ( a most unusual arrangement
In the 15th century; but followed
also by Pedro de Alvarado
when he left Guatemala for the last
i time, en route to his death in Mexico)."
-There is an interesing legend about
how the community of Van Wyck:
got its name. According to the le-j
gend, the village is named Van Wyck
in honor of a grading foreman who
was stationed in that section during
the building of the Seaboard railroad,
the main line of which runs through
the community, jt is said that on
one of the first "runs" of a train over
the new road, upon approacMng^the^
'community stop, someone was heard
to say. "we must have a name for
this place." It was then when the
wife of the grading foreman who was
in the train said. "We'll call it \ an
Wyck."?l>ancaster News.
General News Notes
The liner Manhattan, en route from
Lisbon with 1.000 American refugees
from the war zone, is due in New
York Thursday. The Manhattan is accompanied
by the United States cruiser
Trenton and the destroyer Dickerson.
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Maurice Masterlinck. the Belgian
plavwrite who wrote the celebrated
story "The Bluebird," htfte arrived in
New York a war refugee. Once rich,'
he said that all he had left in the
world was the little baggage with
him.
Frank Demayo, who was known in
prohibition days as "king" of ^he
rvttv bootleggers, hss flisu a
voluntary petition in bankruptcy.
Liabilities were listed as $312,466 and
assets as $1,050.
A young mother stabbed hdr three
small children to death with a kitchen
knife, and then took her own
life by inhaling fumes from a gas
stove, at Oregon, 111. The bodies of
Mrs. Kay Bressler, 30, and the children
were found in the kitchen of
the home.
' Irvin Berlin,- writer of the song,
"God Bless America," has granted the J
Republican party the right to use the
song in the Wendell Wilkie presidential
campaign. It was sung at the recent
Republican national convention
at Philadelphia.
The stork got caught In an elevator
at Boise. Idaho, so Thomas Truman
Dodds was born in the lift. A Jammed
door trapped Mr. and Mrs. Truman
Dodds and a nurse in the elevator
at a Boise hospital and locked
out the obstetrician.
Marriage license clerks at Louisville.
Ky .-were busy last week explaining
that there was nothing to
th$ rumor that no more permits to
wed would be issued In Kentucky un-1
til after the war. "We haven't even!
added a defense tax yet," they said.
The British admiralty has issued a
statement denying the official Italian
report that Italian planes had seriously
damaged the British battle
cruiser Hood and aircraft carrier Ark
Royal. The Hood it the largeet battie
ship ever built.
Irish coasts will be mined as a safeguard
against any German attempt at
Invasion, according to a report from
Belfast.
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To Release ykstrteft
Men From Guards
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Washington July 16.?The army
ordered 627 Jlght tuaks from the
American Car and Foundry Compauy
today, the largest single tank purchase
in peace-time history. The contract
price was approximately 111,000.000.
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The tanks, about 12 tons each, wilt
be manufactured at the company's
Berwick, Fa., plant. Each will be
equipped with four 30-callDre and
one 45-callbre machine gun and one
37 millimeter anti-craft gun.
Bids were openedt.gjt Hock Island,
111., arsenal ^aat week. +
MeanwhlV^, Representative .Wild*
rum (D-Va.) announced after a W?lte_
House visit that a bOUA|S appropriations
Hut>?>mmttteo wQul(f start hearings
ii<-\jjS}on<ltty on President Roosevelt'#'
request for an fcdttRional defense
appropriation of |4,800,000,000.
"We expeot to go Into the whole
defense program very thoroughly,"
Woodrtup said, "in checking up on
these new estimates.'' There is much
routine work to be done and the
house committee wants to be abso^
lutely sure that' when their* A fundB
are appropriated they were going to
do two things:
"First, get 100 per cent value for
the jnoney spent, and second, get
quick and effective action."
Married men in the lowest ranks
of the national guard?private, corporal
and sergeant?will be permitted
to resign in an effort to prevent unnecessary
hardships resulting from
the prospective mobilization of 60,-'
000 guardsmen.
This was disclosed today by war
department officials, who said state
adjutants general had been asked to
permit the married men to quit If
| they were not willing to respond to
an order for extended active duty.
. President Roosevelt intends to call
up 60,000 of the guardsmen for a
year's intensive training in case congress
grants him requested apthority
to do so.
The policy of permitting married
men to resign does not apply to the
higher enlisted ranks of master, staff
and technical sergeant. These ranks
carry pay considered sufficient to provide
for dependents.
The base pay for privates on active
[ duty In the guard Is $21 a month, the
same as for regular army troopers.
Many employers throughout theJ
country have worked out plans to give
workers leave with pay -during periods
when they are absent for military
training. Most of these plana
were adopted prior to announcement
of the proposal for a year's training
of nations! guardsmen, hnnrnvar and I
provide for a maximum absence ofj
60 days. As a result, the leave ar-J
rangements may be revised.
Other developments bearing on th?
defense program included: ~?i
Govermental officials were gratified
by assurances from Edward R.
Stettinius, Jr., mdmber ot
al Defease Program CommlBBlontoM
the United States was rapidly beis^B
made Independent of fotrelsa*
cos for key arms matoriale.
The civil aeronautics authority
ported that tho number of airport*
landing fields and seaplane bw IM
the United States had increased Ha
204 from January 1 to July 1 ttfH
STATE THKATwi
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FRIDAY, JULY 19^1
"IT'S A DATE'' 1
Deanna Durbiri and Kay Prauckf
SATURDAY, JULY 2QUTI
*"LONE STAR PIONEElSJ
with Bill Elliott
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Late Show, 10:80 P. m
"KING OF THE
LUMBERJACKS'*
John Payne ? Gloria Dlcktoa I
MONDAY and TUESDaTI
JULY 22nJ and 23rd I
"TILL WE MEET AGAIN"I
iMiSf0rge Bfent ? Merlo Oberon I
WEDNESDAY, JULY 24&I
"ONE WAS BEAUTlFtnel
with
Jean Mulr ? Robert CummlattM
THURSDAY and FRlDAYfl
JULY 25th and 26tli I
"EDISON THE MAN"
with- ft
Spencer Tracy ? Rita Johnsou I
ADMI88ION: >' l|
Matinee, 80o; NlQht, 26a -fl
Children lOo any tlma
YOUR BIGGE8T 1940 FISH
MAY WIN YOU A STUDEBAX*M
For the fish of the year, you turn
win a Studebaker Champion.
That the Champion four-door sefcfl
has been put up for the bast tlifcfl
of 1940 has been announced byfl
Scott Fletcher, sales manager of Ijfl
Studebaker Corporation, who Is efl
operating with "Hunting and TljJ
lng" and "National Sportsmen" nufl
azlnes. These two publications aunutfl
ly hold fish contests for all locallthfl
America and for different typeijH
"Grand prizes of the 1940 .co&tiH
will be a Studebaker Champion," hM
Mr. Fletcher in his announcemnM
"This prize will be the top, but |fl
will be accompanied by more thfl
63,000 of other merchandise ill ijfl
different awards."
Mr. Fletcher added that eotdfl
blanks may be secured at StndebthJ
dealers or local sporting goods ttmftfl
The contest is conducted by the jujM
Ushers of the two magazines Daoeifl
above and they will also mah tirfl
awards. .
roads
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\ "CONCRETE fa 1
t* After you're spent years trying to keep so-called "iow* - mm
cost' roads in a travelable condition, it's a relief to get , m
assigned to a stretch of concrete. Concrete is easy to
maintain?saves the taxpayers real money.*
Real money is right! Concrete roads cost $71 to $495
per mile per year less for surface, maintenance than M
other pavements. Less to build than any other road of
equal load carrying capacity.' Less to drivo oi^than lower
type pavements. \ ? fU.
S. Route 1, north and south, needs / 1
to be widened with concrete
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