Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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l . THE PEOPLE. BARNWELL, S. C. three members of crew SUCCUMBS TO EXPOSURE. New Orleans.—Three members the crew of the' towboat Annie, .bound from" Mobile*for New Or- 'leans, with a barge, died of' ex posure in Lake Borgne wlfiie the remaining two including William Harvey, 67, of Mobile, captain of the vessel, and Howard Clement, 25, also 'of Mobile; are in,. Charity hospital here in a serious, condi tion’. The dead are: * Charles W. Aikman, 46, and Gus tav K. Huff. :',6. \’pw Orleans, and F 1 . K. Hu harry, age unknown, of Demopolis, Ala. . •. 5,000 RIFLES ARE SOLD TO MEXICO ALSO FIVE MILLION ROUNDS OF .AMMUNITION AND EIGHT AIR PLANES. DELIVERIES MADE AT. ONCE MRS. METZER IS RESCUED JAMES METZER AND HIS EIGHT GRANDCHILDREN PERISH IN - FLAMES. » . * V ' « * High Wind Accompanying Cold Wave Believed to Have Been Indirect Cause; of Fire. Policy of Govern/rtent Merely That af Aiding Neighboring Nation to Maintain Order. Oil Washington.—Sale" of 5,000 Enfield rifles with 5,000,000 rounds of ammu nition _for the guns, and eight Dlt-4 surplus airplanes to the Mexican gov ernment was announced by Secretary Weejts. v .- The transaction was completed dur ing the day when word came by wire to Mexican agents that the govern ment had transferred funds necessary to make, one-half of the payment in cash, the balance to, be paid within 30’ days. The terms fixed by Secre tary Weeks were equivalent to a cash transaction and were . accepted ALL ABOARD LOSE LIVES WHEN STEAMER SINKS. Constantinople. — Confirmation was received of the* sinking of the United States . shipping board steamer Conejos in the Black sea. All aboard were los.t. The Conejos, a freighter, bound front Batum for New York, weflt down in tire Bl^ck sea Thursday. The last wireless message received from the vessel, picked up by the British steamer Molesley, said: ( “Sinking fast. Hold No. 1 full of yater. Have received no re sponse to calls .for hclp.’’ adoition to her gaptain, the Conejos carried six officers and about 30 seamen. American ves sels, )vhich hastened to. her assist ance when her first cry for help was flashed by wireless, report they found no trace of the steamer or of lifeboats. It is assumed, therefore, that -if the officers and crew took to the small boats they Iqter were lost In the terrific sea running at the time. ———M LY 35 ARE KILLED BY BUST HEAT BEATS BACK RESCUE WORKERS IN DISASTER AT ILL+NOIS FACTORY. fir Economical TrOniportotion [IRE ADDS TO DEATH TOLL Half of the 250 Workers in Corn Pro ducts Plant Killed or Mang led. 5 KILLED AND 10 'INJURED City, Pa.—Nine persons were killed in a fire that destroyed a farm house at lylersburg, near Shippen- by the Mexican government, paving ville, Clarion county. , j the way for immediate delivery of the The victims w’ere Jameg Metier and ; war- munitions at ths army depot eight grandchildren, seven "of ThBttr 4 wfiTre~They~ sire stored. / being children of Claude Emminger at Under the terms of the sale the f w hose home the tragic fire occurred, war department will turn oyer the The other victim was Michael Me- rifles and ammunition at Port Sajn SEABOARD WORK TRAIN AND EXTRA CRASH AT SWITCH ' 'NEAR.HOSKINS. Two White Men, E. J. Gravely and H. H. Bradshaw, of Charlotte Were ' Injured. m xfanlgieo, 14. who was visiting at the Houston and Port Bliss w'hile the - Charlotte, ‘N/C.—Five negro tabor- Peoria, Ills.—i-Botwee®-25 and 35 persons are ^believed -tor have been killed and more than a hundred oth ers injured in a terrific dust yplo- sion at the starch plant of the Corn Products Company at Pekin. Ills. Fire broke out after the explosion Rescuers c.puld see the bodies of ap- proximateiy between 25 and 35 vic tims lying in the ruins, but the flames prevented attempts to reach the bodies. . It was estimated it would De sev eral hours before the ruins could be penetrated and the bodies removed.^ Eighty injured, many of them badly mangled, had been removed from the wreckage and taken* ttr hqspitnis in Pekin and Peoria, r Ttf5 hundred an( T fifty men were working in, the plant at the .time of the -explosion. ‘ The Corn -Products plant was the principal industry- of Pekin. It was built 24 years ago" by the Illinois Sugar Refining Cohipany, but about eighteen ygars ago was sol’d to the Arniinger home. ’ * | airplanes will be delivered from the, ers were killed and 10 other persons, The fire was discovered by Mrs. deport at, Fairfield. Ohio. The Mex- including two white men. were in- imingcr, who had been ill. She loan government will make its own jured, at least one probably fatally, as awakened by the fumes of smoke arrangements for shipment to the in a collision on- the Seaboard Air and groped her way to the stairway, border. Orders were issued at once Line-railroad, hear Hoskins, just west Corn Products Company and since summoning her husband. for delivery of the military supplies of Charlotte, when a work train was has been enlarged many times. The Emminger succeeded in rescuing *t c designated Mexican aeents. . rammed bv an extra at a switch, nut- plant was said to be equipped with all the known safety appliances and the explosion is the first serious accl- The Economical Quality Car 7~ ' Chevrolet prices are not the loweit on the market. } et Chevrolet economical transportatipicu averages c lowest in cost. This svS^ge COSt esnstders the pur chase price, interest on investment, depreciation and all operating and maintenance costs. /. , ' ' ' A detailed comparison with any other car in the low that Chevrolet is the priced field will convince you best f for delivery of the military supplies of Charlotte, when a work train was rescuing to designated Mexican agents. rammed by an extra at a switch, put- Mrs. Metzer frotp the second floor Although the statement issued by ting two engines out of commission, and attempted several times to re- Seeret&ny Weeks <jUd not disclose'the AH except one of the dead are turn for the children and their grand- total amount of money involved in identified. A check-up of all men father, but each time was driven the sale, on the basis of prevailing working on the trains will be necftt- hack by the flames and smoke. He prices it would appear , .to be less | sary tt> establish the identity of the than $400,000, as Enfield jifles sell fifth negro, it was said, at about' $35 each and surplus ammu* j The dead are: Henry Mathis, of nitlon at about • $18 per thousand Han^Jet; Ji mand Henry Campbell, of rounds while the airplanes would be Columbia, S. C.; Charlie Stark, ad- valued at about $12,000 each. dress unknown, and an unidentified While there were no developments negro. The injured white men are 1 : H. H. was badly burned about the face and hands. • , Joseph G. MacMillan, of Shtppen- ville, coroner, conducted an .investi gation . and. decided that an inquest was unnecessary. The- high wi-nd accompanying the j n connection with opposition in Con- .rold wave was believed to have been the indirect cause of the fire. The v Emminger family had been using gas from thoir*Dwn well until recently when they began to burn Coal. A soot fire in a defective flue was be lieved to have Jbeen fanned to such sf heat th.'it it set fire to the house. dent since R -was built. At 9 o'clock, with the estimates^of doctors on the number of dead;'run ning as high as 35, six of the dead had been id tified. Fire, kept res cuers from removing which could be seen and ,it is feared many bodies will he entirely consumed., the hundred or more injured physicians said a score of them prob- The victims were hor- buy because of its superior quality and because > the purchase price includes full equipment. More than a million Chevrolets are now in use. Twelve huge plants are now building them at the rate of twenty-five hundred per working day. Nearly _ j one-half million Chevrolets were bought in 1923 —fat exceeding in number the sales of any other quality car. Thus, our statements have the strongest possible backing, namely, the faith and patronage of the American people who know automobiles and know • practical values better than any other people on earth. Let any one of our seven thousand dealers show you our seven types of cars and explain how easy it is to get one ana enjoy its ueSi -- 1- . ' . , . . Prices f. 0. i. Flint, Michigan SUPERIOR Roadcter - - - 9490 SUPERIOR Tourinc - - - 495. SUPERIOR Utility Coup* - . MO SUPERIOR Vd*n 795 SUPERIOR Commercial ChsHla • ' 395 SUPERIOR Light Delivery - 495 Utility Express Truck Chassis - 650 Chevrolet Motor Company Division of General Motors Corporation Detroit, Michigan What nobler employment than that of the muh'iwho instructs the rising generation f ———— y When You Buy a Plaster ~ always ask for “Alleoek’s”—the origi nal and genuine 'porous plaster—a standard external remedy.—Ady. gross to the sale of arms to Mexico, Bradshaw, engineer. of Charlotte, ably will die. an authorized statement of tire admin- legs •hnd face lacerated; E. J. Grave- .rifely burned. istration attitude became available ly. of Charlotte, ‘construction fore- Cries of nine men entombed in two at the white-house which made it man, one toe amputated. .. telescoped box cars shattered by the plain that the purpose of the Wash- The injured negroes are: Charlie explosion, had ceased this forenoon ington government in. the present Minner, Columbia, 3. C-, right leg and persons working frantically to transaction was wholly one of aiding sprained; Willie Richardson, address (dear away the debris were of the a neighbor state in the maintainance unknown; internal injuries; Charlie Opinion ^he metr had perished. The ruins -were searched after t"he of order and governmental stability Ray, North, S. ,C., collar bone and Near-zero cold is freezing the water fire had burned itself out and the. within its own hprders., shoulder broken, and internal Injur- over th(1 buildings and steam-arising t-harredv hones of ’th - nine victims. • ies; 'Jasper Adams, of South Carolina, between the buildings envelopes the'-^^ 110 wi re placed in a small hex and taken Reduced Amount Public Debt. hip and two ribs broken; McKinely wor |{nifin in almost tota’l darkness at to the, T'yJ'Tsbufg M«*thodist church ,* Washington.—The treasury. accom- Care. Allendale, S. C, leg broken; funeral servita-s Avhre held". “plTshed a " net *■ rCtluctlon of' almost' Emerson TTUrhanSilairfilTTS.'-^.r in- Popularity - , If purchased at the ex pense of l/as^condescension to vice, is u disgracJRto the possessor. Thousands Keep In Good Health by taking one or two Brandreth Pills at bed time. They cleanse the system and purify, the blood.—Adv. The hunter who is chased by a near is lucky if he conies out ahead of the New Substitute for Rubber. “Factlce” is the name"' - given to a ■now rubber substitute formed by com; "w h < t r times. Six Perconv Killed in Explosion. " Franklin. I’i - Six perrons, one of there a woman, were kill' d in a pro mature explosion of nitrn glyoerin<*-at th. ‘shooting" of an oi) well on the farm Of Job n A. St one. tiv,. miles fr« m , hero/ Two oi hers . m. n near the si ■ene, e? ;ca pet ! injury 'five (b :ul are Mr. and Mrs. Paul S ? one. Ht •rbert Whitman an .1 Joi in Whit :man. ' noth • ers; 1 Fugene H N oil a nd Kohert Ivin- her. c! 3to Tie who was a son of the owner of th 0 oil V >a sm- itntl.- his wife. went to wi tness the “?h ioot ing" of the well. $400,000,000 in the public debt in 1923. ternal injuries; ; P-les" Butler, Saluda, according to official figures made pub- s. C.7 right leg crushed, and, William lie. Oostanding obligations of-the na- Bhderick. Orangeburg. 3. C.. inter- turn totalled $21 .atO,!60.346 when the nal injuries.-'-- hooks were closed. , Henry Can^pbell Treasury officials expressed satis faction that the mass of obligations, the bulk of which were incurred dur- TfTjr the World War, now were* in “manageable shape” and said, the re- _ • ——* - — ^ funding operations of the last two years had left rho treasury in a posi tion to care for all maturities of the future’ without Impairment of the pro gram for gradual rpHremept of the debt. Success of the retirement pro Favors Harsh Action to Bar Rum. Washington.—Drastic action to put ; - a Stop, to alleged liquor drinking by one of the five members,.pf Congress and other high negroes,-died at the Good Samaritan Government officials ,and to prevent hospital In minutes after, her arrival leakage of “diplomatic’’ liquors into there, but the other four were killed bootleg channels, “was demanded by instantly. . . Representative Upshaw, Democrat, of ing Is usually twice the weight of the Ingredients. , blning sulphur chloride with any of the various vegetable oils. DEMAND ^BAYER” ASPIRIN' Aspirin Marked With M Bayer Croee* Has Been Proved Safe by Millions. Warning! Unless you see the bams •Bayer’’ on package or cn tablets yon •re not getting the genuine Bayef Aspirin proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians for 23 years. Say “Bayer” when you buy Aspirin. Imitations may prove dangerous.—Adv. Those who like the solitude of the wilds are made to feel that they ought to apologize for it. The "weight of a woman’s first bnk- One of the great - influences. for home staying at nights is the high way man. 1 Railroads Have Big Year. New York.— Railroads *of tha. Unit ed States made more progress in 1923 than in any ofh’er.year since the out break of the world war. according to a retTewT made'public by the commit- Georgia. His dehrtand was embodied in a resolution and a speech p re par, eal in support of it. Mr. Upshaw said Congress should “clean around it sown door'by pass ing a resolution declaring persona non grata .to the floor of the House 0 Th-e others were assisting in the op- eration All lived on neathy 'farms 1th the exception of Neil, whose •me was in Franklin. Larger Cotton Crop in Sight. Ww Orleans. The report by Col. Henry C. Hester, secretary” of the -New Orleans CoMon exchange, on -the 1 nvemont of'* lhe ci011 'for rtre~ “five 1923 bales . " ■ XAV/il Ai * ** y-'-'' gram; -however, they added, depended tee on public relations of the eastern anv m einbof found under the influ upon the continuation of thq policy railroads of which E. E. Laomih.of liquor in the Capitol or House of economy., • president of the* Lehigh Valley rail- , pffp.p building, or known to have road, .is 1 chairman. - liquor illefi^lly acquired in his .office.’’ Summarizing its--Conclusions, the Tie also suggested*.that all Federal committee stated that the year wfas, appointees, including cabinet officials Government to Abandon Caswell. Wilmington That it-4s the inten lien of the government to completely tai fftr-yet, Army and Navy officers and diplomat- abandon port Ca-well. at.the mouth / hp highes* degree of opera ic an.d confmhir representatives abroad of the Cape Tear river, is borne out mg efficiency yet .achieved; .the great-! b e. required to take a pledge of total , ... est increase in n**w facilities for. the .,t^. inpn( . p T k p -'oxl-eutive euillOi rrmr months ending December, 31, shoavs a total of 8,2r> , 8;325 brought into sight as, compared with S.12S.248 during the same period last .year, 7,107.16T the year before and 6.3j5v937 in 1920. ... The moCrsnent /oF T>ncpmher was 1.706,793 bales an increase of 164.000 over the same morth last year.*176.955 over the same month last year, 1-79,955 year before last and 22,0.43 in 1920. The movement since August 1 shows at all. United States ports 4,- stantial new by the faet that within the past few days there has been shipped from the coast'defense tw-o barge loads of guns . , ^ . . , , , , lapse of almost eight years, improv and projectiles which were transport- 1 ed Jo^ Charles cannot he posit -- -- •• —- . jra'bstinenc.e. The' ’’ext-eutive gtililn- ^ s, the beginning “of sub-.f tj nP ” addqd, should he used by construction after a President'Cholidge on all Government les which were transport- . 1 , , eatnn. 8. C. Althm.Rh it V ®" * ,,h sh " ,| ’ er!! “"I bJ ' oaitivoly learn..,I. it la un- "».«»'»»•>*• officials known to drink liquor.. I • - and in ikbor and public relations. While figures for December wore derstood the ordnance material now _being~ shipped from^ Fort ( aswoll is ^ .available when the review was swept Vine men--frmn''thF'deck of the Wave Sweeps Nine Men' to Death. ■ i Babylon, N. Y. -A monster wave destined for Fort ville. Bragg, dt Fayette- prepared,^. the committee 'SsTfrnated power boat Sid rpto Great South nay that carload in gs for 1923 would after the craft jlad gone to the rescue — 1 —~ ’• ■■■-' "Amount to nearly ‘50.000,000 cars’“"a^ of these men/m a speed noat that had May Buy Ships Fr»rh"Shipping Board, com pared, with the previous record of grounded in a storm in Fife Island Washington. — President Coolidgc 4f,,000,000 in 1920. . inlet. has requested Director • Lord of the “lathe course of the greatest traf The drowned men, with hut two ex budg'd, bureau to confer with ship fi c . vet offered,” it was stated, “the ceptions, were members of the rescue 840.053 against 4 150,767 last year. - • — v-r- —. -- , 2 111.128 year before last and 3.527,.- ping board and navay department of- railroads' succeeded in turning a car party that had gone Out . to search 686 same time"- in" 1920; overland, ficials with a view to purchase of v.es- shortage into a car surplus. They -for the-speed boat Electra, owned by across the Mississippi, Ohio and. sels nnder control of those, two agen also handled the country's peak load - Untrimac rivers to northern mills and cies for nse'in comhirHing rum- smug- p»r t-ftlffle withoirt dethy.” Camvila 530.704 against 828,12-0--,last glers off the American coast, j"" —^====2 —r ycar, 929.536 year before last and Such purchase of ships for use by Fbur Killed in New Year Celebration. ^f)05.337 same time in 1920. Southern the coast guard, if possible, would, in New-York mill takings, exclusive-of consumption the opinion of the President, be mo*-- that make at southern out ports 2.232.000 against economical than the building of new ‘ new . year'e celebration. Taking toll of Lhe’events the ePermath of every New . York C. C. Eccleston, of Bay Shtire.. The other two were with Ecclestdn in the Electria. - Stamps to ; Aid^ Poor. Berlift —Charity^ stamps are being issued by the Ministry of -Post to help 2,420,000 last year. 2,229.000 year, be- boats at a cost of from 10 to 15 mil- found that four persons had lost their*j fl- nnnce tb^ feedij**r o.f the poor. These fore last andT.584,OOT'flame tlme^ in Hon dollars such as was recommended lives, eight had been wounded by pis- 1920; and inner stock in excess of recently in the executive's budget mes. tol bullets .fired ^by over-zealous cele- those held at the closa of the c-pnr- sage Ui Congress. The purchase also-’braUvrs^—innumerable—persons— w, *re TTiercial year^ 650,571 againbt 729,361 woiild make the vessels available j made ill by bad liquor and those who last yeah. 307,437 year before last and more quickly thah they would be if j bPeahie ‘tpfoxteated ^ u “** * iougb-t6 attract 698,909 same time in 1920. they had ,to be constructed. More Conferences to Settle Sale. Washington. — Forth er"conf '**etfCes betwef*n -Secretary. Weeks and Manuel 'ellez, t^iarge d’affafrs of the Mexi- nn embassy, will bfc necessary before details of the' sale of surplus war Football Player Has Broken Back. Springfield, Mass —While at home for the Christmas vacation H. W. Preble of Ayer, a sophomore at Spring- field college, discovered that he broke hjs neck In a football game here No vember 24. Te had pains in his police aftentlon numtjer 33. Lutherans Will F‘#ed. Germans. New; York 4-Hundreds of thousands . . t. ' s of destitute Germans will he fed this » . F - - -- ■«-! w.inter at“ “free tables” established throughout Germany, by the Apierican National T^utheran council, Dr. John munitions pf the American . army to neck-hut continued his studies with- A. Morebrad, executive director, an- the Mexican government ran he c v om-: (mt interruption. One of the cervical' noun red. pleted. tlr. Weeks conferred withrI vertebrae is broken and anotTter prol>-^ Ten thousand are beipg fed daily ♦ charge and Matthew Hanna, Chief, ablj dislocated. Ho has leftschoolT a t tables which have been set up in of .the Mexican division-of the state for the rest of the year .and wul under dc part nyCMt. Pending completion of go treatments in a -Boston hospital, the- - negotiations, the war secretary Another student at the cdlleg * *n*ffop- declined tfTrv’.ake any statrvient. , e d a similar iniurv a fevf years ago. copneft'on with toe/parV’h houses, .he c aid and adii’imal faejit’es will be- stamps w-ill be, sold at twice their value and will he"Issued' in denomi- nations of five, ten, twenty ancFfifty gold pfenigs. ‘-‘Duepsche Nothilfe,’ (German relief) will he printed across of the stamps, Playing Your Part in Your Community What will your community be ten, fifteen or twenty years from now? Wifi it be more prosperous,“ more beautiful — a more desir able plaqe to live and work in than today? ^ It will, if you play your part. Look aipjnd you; Somewhere you have seen the magic of concrete roads — the tonic effect-of concrete .streets. Have seen business improved through buildings made firesafe, sanitary and permanent with con crete. Have seen the greater sense of security and pride that comes from concrete schools, churches, theaters and homes. i* . . r * If you are boosting for similar advantages in your own community—your home town —you are truly playing yoiir part. ~"7V Portland Cement Association service : helps anyone to play his part well. “ • It is a free service for the owner, the builder—rfor everyone interested in getting the greatest value from concrete. The cement industry has made this serv ice possible through the Portland Cement Association. It is a service, offered with- -^out any obligation. —— —*— the; fac Four -Persons Die in Crossing Crash Beliefontaine, Ohto^Fpur persons‘ one man, two women and a child, oc cupants of an-automobile bearing a Michigan license, were instantly kill ed when.the machine was struck by a Big -Four train at Huntsville, Inedr here. Paners found in the man’s pockets, bore the name of Ernest R Herron, of Royal Oak. .Mich, Bodies of the victims were brough’ here The map” is. apparently about 35 years of age. One of th4 women Write us for any help you need m using concrete. . ' f -. • ; Ask for a f re * copy of our booklet "Concrete Around the Home." Address our nearest district office PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION qA National Organization to Improve and • Exttnd the Uses of Concrete' Dvnfrr Kanaa* City Atlanta ’ Birmingham imr De» Moinc* Loa Angalca Pa»k»r»hurg N*w York Saattia Detroit Memphia Philadelphw St. u Helena Milwaukee Pittsburgh Vencoueer, B.C. Indianapolis Minneapolis Portland, Orag. Washington,D.C. Jackson villa New Orleans SakLaks City # '' - • - .1... . ‘ ‘ : L urovid d r'o-dly as food supplies • is described as being aboulj the satne an l,o* nlitoined I , V ... . . - ■ V- . i