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1 t THE PEOPLE, BARNWELL, S. C. Ideals of the Legion Chairman Thomas H. Mc Gowan of the Woburn (Mass.) school board recently expressed the Ideals of the American Legion during an address made at a citizens' mass meeting held In that city. - “The American Legion offers Itself as a constant reminder of self-sacrlflce for the good of all. It does not ask for hero worship nor does It ask the American public for sacrifice. It asks only for encouragement in the great work It has undertaken In the care of needy comrades, In per fecting Its organization Into an all-lncluslye entity of er-serv- lee men, but above all to serve our country and our flag and to perpetuate the unexcelled tradi tions of a glorious history. “The Legion strives to be un selfish In undertakings; It asks only for co-operation. The American Legion will maintain Its place In the sun." LEGION FATHERS ADDING COUNCILS The American Legion Fathers, an auxiliary to the veterans’ body, has al ready enrolled a number of councils— as the local units are termed—and ap plications for Information concerning the auxiliary have been flooding na tional headquarters. The first council to receive a char ter from , national headquarters was formed from fathers of men In Har vey post 155 of the Legion In Haney, |j3l. Harvey Is a suburb of Chicago. Others of the^flrst five to be estab lished are in Malden, Mass., St. Paul, *AIlnn., Topeka, Kan., and Bellingham, Wash. The charter fee for a council Is $10, and the application must be signed by DISTJLLATION tank BLOWS UP KILLING TWO. Cahokia, Ills—Two workmen were instantly killed and one ser iously injured in an explosion at thes Lubrite Refining company’ plant, when a tank used in a distil lation process exploded from an undetermine dcause. The tank was hurled more than 100 feet through the air by the force of the explosion. \ The dead are Dolphin Breard, Jr.. 20, of Cahokia, employed as still man; Walter R Middleton, 22, formerly of Depew, Okla., assistant still man. Floyd Stewart, flO. of Cahokia, pump man, in a critical condition suffering, from burns. More than 150 other men at work near the 14 tank units of the plant at the time of the explosion, were not injured. Berard, Middleton and Stewart, who were near the tank were engulfed in the flames which burst from it following the detona tion. WILL LOMI BERLIN PREPARATIONS ARE ABSORB PART OF CREDIT.* MADE TO GERMAN CLEARS WAY FOR EUROPE American Action Will Open Way For t * European Powers to Help Restore Germany. PROPERTY LOSS IS $200,000 FIVE INJURED AND SEVERAL MISSING AFTER BIG FIRE AT GRAND RAPIDS. Giles Wade, of Grand Rapids, Trapped in Building After Directing Guests to Safety. New York.—American bankers, an ticipating recommendations of the ! Dawes commission for financial? as- | sistance to Germany, are making act ive preparations to raise capital for a German international credit bank. While official action has been with held pending publication of the report, steps already have been taken tp as sure American leadership in financing such a institution, whose needs would absorb a large share of the proposed international loan. Subscriptions to the bank's capital would be made by virtually all of this country’s leading financial institutions, it appears. Prominent international bankers have indicated their willing ness to assist in raising America's quota, although the manner and ex tent of their participation will be de- THREE FLIERS KILLED WHEN PLANE CRASHES. Honolulu.—Three ar'my aviators were killed and two Injured when a Martin'bomber aeroplane, taking off at Luke Field, struck an air pocket, crushed to the earth am|t burst into flames. The dead: First Lieutenant W. 6. Moore; First Lieutenant Oscar Monthan; Private Jestsinger.--. Private Torres and Private Bab tice were injured seriously. The officers and Private Baltic* were members of the Twenty-third bombardment squadron; Jetsluger was a member of the Sixth Pursuit Squadron; Private Torres is,a mem ber of the Sixty-fifth Service Squad ron. THREE ARE BEAD BROAD OAKS SANATORIUM PARTLY BURNED; LOSS ABOUT $25,000. 35 PATIENTS ARE RESCUED SNOW FALLS IN -BALTIMORE LITTLE DELAY TO TRAFFIC COMMUNICATION OCCA- . * . . .. . . -„ — *- SIGNED. OR Georgia Woman Badly Burned; Ex- pocted to Be Fourth Victim of Early Morning Fire. Morganton, N. C.—Three patients lost their lives and one other was prob ably fatally injured In a fire which partially destroyed Broad Oaks sanato rium, entailing a property loss Estimat ed at $25,000. Th* dead are John P. Green, Char lotte. contractor; Mrs. Isabella Hert ford, of Union, W. Va., who was found p, . j i • i-r.. after the., fire, smothered to death in h«r 1>ed, and Mrs. Julia Hamilton, of Sure Relief FOR INDIGESTION TJ, I mu*EEF m l Show, Greets New York Firat 1924 April Day. New York.—A jazz anow storm, in which winter staged a rough dance with spring to a thunder obligato and lightning novelty effects, and finally tired out its frailer partner, swept the Atlantic states. Jacksonville. Fla . whose room was cut off by the flames, rendering rescue impossible and whose charred bones were found following the fire. Mrs. Corneulia Gaines, a patient from Georgia, was terribly burned. It was said °at Grace hospital, where she wa 3 taken that no hope Is etnertalned for her recovery. Thirty of the 42 pa tients were women. Mr. Green died the death of a hero, 6 Bell-ans Hot water Sure Relief ELL-ANS 254 AND 754 PACKAGES EVERYWHERE ECZEMA After Others Fail PETERSOmilNTMENl Big Box 35 Cents The mighty healing power of Peter •on’* Ointment when eczema or terribl< itching of skin and scal[> tortures yoe is known to tens of thousands of peo pie the country over. ' For pimples, acne, rough nnd re< akin, ulcers, old sores, piles and al! blemishes nnd eruptions It Is supreme ly efficient, as any broad-minded drug gist will tell you. . . * The freak storm was said to have termined by the nature of the Dawes set an April record in New York and Grand? Rapids, Mich—Five persons re P ort - i ^ “ 08t 0 * ' he . countr y u visiU ‘ d J with a record raroly equalled in fact are dead" five are in hospitals with In addition to supplying funds for Winter sifted down-a fluffy snow to fiictiont accor( ting to attaches of the ’ - ‘ - - • a depth varying from four and a half | who credlted h [ m with serious injuries and several others I the establishment of the German bank, I a are m issing as a result of a fire that ■ American financial interests, it is be-j inches in Connecticut to 11 inches in havjng logt hia , .,. r 11„.„i v, 11pvprt will nnpn thp wav for nartici- Baltimore suburbs. In all instances,. sanatorium. own life solely in J destroyedThe Livingston Hotel, a six- lieved, will open the way for partici-i uauimore suouros. in an instances, ^ effortH to Havc otherH . A f t er he 4 story brick structure in the heart of pation by France. Belgium, and other the snow urned to s lu9l J directl> after himsel{ had ^aped the burning build- the business ditsrict. The prpperty foreign nations, whose assistance in it struck the ground. It carried down ^ hp returned repeatedly as the ten men, -either fathers of active Ld- ! i 0S9 is e3timate( i a -t about $200,000. The financing the rehabilitation of Ger-: telephone and telegraph wires abou j flames raged and brough t to safety glonnaires,. or of men who made the ‘ d ead are; > many is one of the essential condi-}^ ew * orll > interferred with harbor ^ lpast thn , e women patients, all of supreme sacrifice in the World war.) He SS ie Marlowe. 32, of Reed tions on which the Dawes report has shipping, delayed . commuters, trains whom m i K ht have pdrished except The organization^ not permitted to oity, Michigan. Her skull was frac- been framed. anf ] was responsible - for a rear-end^^ hi8 effortH He finally was found have either a state or national author-; tured w hen she leaped from a fifth The $100,000,000 credit recently es-, co,1, ® ion ° r el P vated trains resu ting holpleHS in th * corridor and rescued By and Is governed by tbe Legion post 9tory window to the pavement. tablished here for the Batok d$ France 0 „., e „^again, but too late. His injuries were to which attached. The movement is ^ p Sargent, Grand Rapids, a car- was not strictly limited to mjpasures primarily for the counseling of the I,e- n j V al concession man, who died from f 0 r stabilizing exchange, although that , . . . . glonnaires. and assistance in carrying injuries when, like Miss Marlowe, he was effectively accOmplishecL The f ou ? ht the st °!' m throughout the ght Jbut the principles of the veterans' or ganization. Wealth and Industry as Well as Man Power Conscription of,wealth and industry as well as of mail power,.as enunciated la tlie universal draft act, has received unanimous support from 4,000 Boston citizens. " This bill, now ip congress, provides that every national resource be turned to government control in case of war in order to provide the utmost for pro- nation. Gen. Charles If., Edwards, commander of the American Legion in Massachusetts, who spoke at a great mass meeting held In Boston, said that the greatest tragedy of the World war was tbe failure to conscript other resources as well ns those of manhood. Another Legion speaker who was ac claimed for his stand in this direction, was MaJ. George L. Berry, interna tional president of the Printing Press men's union, who spoke before a gath ering of Legion men.In ihe Hub city. Berry, a past national vice commander attempted to jump to the roof of an gold, which forms security for ^the adjoining building, missed and fell to i oaDt it is believed, can now be utiiiz- the pavement. ed to enable France to assume her Miss Jennie Evans, 60, address uu- share 1 of the German bank undertak- known, who died.in a hospital after j n g, a proposed loan to Belgium jumping from a fourth story window, would accomplish a similar purpose. Giles Wade, 70, Grand Rapids, trap- Through this country’s participation ped in the building after directing j n the project, vast stores of Ameri- several guests to safety. His charred ( . an gold would find an outlet in to body has been recovered. • > productive channels. Bankers, in dis- jphn Kelly, 60, Grand Rapids. cussing the situation, said this would Among those registered at' the be one of the-principal benefits to the hotel and who have not been account- United States and also pointed out ed for is E. W. GrinneH, member of that the grantings of an international the firm of Grinneh Bros., operating credit to Germany would open a large mail nrmrre—establishments in De- field for the export of American goods, troit and other Michigan cities. in five boroughs. Baltimore, Md.—Sweeping up-coast from the gulf states, the heaviest > snow of the season and the heaviest ever recorded in Baltimore in Aprif was registered when downtown Balti more lay under a nine-inch blanket.. _ . In the suburbs this depth was exceed- Newton, cf Charlotte, came e . r f’ ed by two inches. • »»««• hearing the news ot Mr. Green. injury, and was with him at the end. Col. W. P. Wood Answers Call. When discovered by tlje night watch- High Point, N. C—Col. William man. Durant Williams, the fire had fatal. His action, in view of the fact that he was weak an4„ had been fh very poor health for several years, was regarded as exemplifying all the elements of the true hero. Mr. Green was taken to Grace hos pital. where at first it was reported that he might recover, but he linger ed all day and then passed away as night came. His step-son-in-law. C. Penuel Wood, of Asheboro, civil war already gained considerable headway, veteran and beloved citizen, died at Doctors, nurses qnd. attendants be- the High Point hospital after an ex- gan at once a heroic effort to get out tended illness, having been a patient , o? the burning building the 42 pa- By assuming leadership in the ac- gince j anuar y 1. Col. Wood was well tieuts'in their charge and the Mor- Mrs. Paul J Barney, /26, of Peo- tual restoration of Germany, the Unit- j tnown a n over the state and his death jjanton firfe company, arriving prompt- ria. 111., Is among the more seriously ed States, they predict, would further w jjj ^ keenly f e lt wherever he was ly on the scene, brought timely aid injured: Her wrist and leg were enhance its financial- prestige, giving known t 0 them in this attempL Many werw broken when she leaped three stories it a position of importance even ex- jj e waa horn in Randolph county carried out bodily. Firemen rescued from the fifth floor of Uie hotel to the' ceeding that of the critical days of the May 2 is43, and was the son of Penuel , several by ladders placed to second roof of The Herald building adjoining, war. j Wood* and Calista Burkhead Wood, otory windows, their wprk handicap- Her husband, who also escaped death , * j] e entered the army of the Con fed- ped by the means formerly employed by jumping to The Herald roof, is Ap p r0 p ria tj on Bill Passed by Senate, eraey in the war between the states suffering from cuts and bruises. j Washington.—The 'independent of-1 when he was 17‘ years of age he was 17 years of age and The fire Was discovered on' the fifth fi ces a ppropriation bill carrying $349,- fought for three years, spending seven floor of the hotel by N. II. Snowder, QOO.OOO for the veterans' bureau and months in a federal prison, a guest, who notified the clerk, who j^o.OOO.OOO for the shipping board was of the Legion and high in circles of i in turn aroused the guests. It was six passed by the house and sent to the labor organizations, declared that the hours before the flames'were brought senate. passage of such an act was the best under control. The Herald was forced • Ag a pp r0V p d the bill totaled dp- means to forestall war. ; to use the plant of The Grand Rapids p^hnately $399,000,000 or $98,000,000 The bill was first passed ns a resolu- ! Press, an afternoon paper, when water ( j e33 t han last year's appropriation, tion at tbe New Orleans convention of flooded The Herald.-basement, crip- the Legion,' nnd subsequently Intro duced in congress. It has received support of Secretary of Wnr John W. Weeks, and other statesmen. pling the presses. Stone Succeed Daugherty. Amendments approved by the house included one by Representative Hull, republican, Iowa, which would require the shipping board and other govern- Favors Government Paying Expenses. Washington.—A plan to let the gov ernment pay the campaign expenses ♦i oa . of. candidates for public ■office was i brought forward fiere by William Jen nings Bryan. - Recalling that) President Roosevelt once suggested such arrangement, Mr. Bryan safd the senate disclosures had prepared the public_minU for accept to prevent the escape of 1 patients Heavy screening had to be cut and windows broken through by axes. While the work rescue was being car ried on the fire gained rapidly in the frame buildings which formed the north and east wings of the institu- Ion’t Neglj Inflamed eyellda or other eye Irritation*. Tou will And a aoothtnc and aafe remedy In MITCHELL EVE SALVE. BALL A RUCKKL at all New York City drufflata. Arc your home couch- ing or running at the no*e? If *o, give them “SPOHN’S." | A valuable remedy for Cough*, Cold*, Distemper, Influenza, Pink Eye and Worm* among hones and mule*. An occasional dose “tone*" them up. Sold at all drug stores. SP0HN MEDICAL CO. GOSHEN IND.U.Sfl Old Radio Apparatus Apparatus with which an English scientist first experimented with wire less waves in 1879 has been discovered In a London tenement and placed In a museum. CORNS Lift Off-No Pain! t i /v i-i ” ti prepareu inu puuuc miuu iui ai Washington. — President Coolidge ment a g enc ies provided for^in the IpH ance o( the practical*"details of the 8 anization Interpretation of New York Insurance Laws Compensation Insurance rates for firms employing slightly disabled World war veterans should not be ; higher, according to the interpretation of state insurance laws made by Gov. A. II. Smith -of New York. The executive’s ruling came In re sponse to a protest, frqm department Commander E. R. Spafford of the American Legion in New York, who said that certain veterans found It (iifiicult to obtain employment because their physical condition increased rates for workmen’s insurance offered by private concerns. According to Commander Spafford, the veterans had been accepted -ottly- as extra .hazardous risks, and tbe Le gion sought cluriiicnf ion of tbe state’s attitude by word from the governor. “I can state to you,”'wrote Governor Smith to CommandSpafford, “that tbe state insurance funck does not con sider veterans suffering from a partial disability as extra hazardous risks, and takes no action, directly or indi rectly, whether in premium rates or merit rating, which would In any way discourage employment of partially disabled veterans. Each • accident is considered on the merits of the acci dent alon£" . *, ~. tilled his second cabinet vacancy by selecting Harlan Fiske Stone, retiring dean of Columbia University School of Law, as attorney-general. the Pa- i ..secretary of the navy in Curtis D. Wilbur, of Califor nia, Mr. Coolidge turned to the At Having gone recently to -elfie coask to get to call for bids from navy yards for supplies and repairs and’ to award them contracts if their estimates were lower than private concerns. Another amendment approved, of- plan arid advocated quick action so it could be employed in the 1924 cam paign. 1 . The formal announcements of can didates weuld be placed before the lerod by—Representative Carter, demn- house under the plan in bujUtin issued crat, would limit salaries of shipping Shippers’ Association Organized. Houston. Tex.^-The Sputhem Cot- tm Shippers association, to includl all cotton growing states, was tenta tively formed here. The proposed or- w'ould embody several state groups, including the ’ Texas Cotton association, the Oklahoma State Cotton exchange and the Arkan sas Cotton Trade association. Among Its purpose would he foster- tng of fair play in trade relations. board officials of $10,400 or more to laritic seaboard for his attorney-gen- oue a ^ none more than $20,000 and oral and in Mr. Stone chose a pres- 1 four not t0 eX ceed $15,000 "a year. ent resident of New York City and, a former New England farm boy. Mr. Wilbur was drawn from Colifornia's supreme court and'Mr. Stone is being taken from a la-w school, and from active practice. The- President seeU-ted Mr. Stbne because ho has known him for 30 years ami has confidence in him; be cause he regards the New Yorker'.as ' possessing the desired qualities of thorough legal knowledge and admin istrative capacity, arid because' he looks upon the Columbia dean, as "a $100,000' man willing for patriotie reasons to adept a $12,000 job.” By a vote of 19G to 170 the house kept in the bill ail amendment‘adopt ed increasing the allotment for the federal trade commission from $680,- 0(H) to' $940,000. *• Mrr'CooRdge chose Sir. Stone from' just as he and his three associated f rom (he Somers at Mobile, Ala., r on a flying (irick bat 300 yards from the 1 . a " list of six and summoned him to aviators were about to take off from ’\i arc 'h 10. He failed to report when scene. A man on the yard in a truck Washington. Arriving in Washington Sand Point field here, is raging at destroyer left Mobile and wired had part of the steering wheel- he was on an early train, Mr. Stonj tfbd the Sitka. Alaska. Prince Rupert, B. C., k j g commanding officer from New Or- holding knocked off and his wind- President were in conference before where the fliers expected to rest, re- i eans asking permission to rejoin his shield broken, but he was not hurt, most of Washington was awake in the ported a rainfall. At Vancouver, B. C., s hip at Jacksonville. Fla., March 16 Windows were—broken in homes sev- d before 8 o'clock* t,he Pres- about one-sixth the way to Prince Ru- d j d n0 ( appear at Jacksoirville erat blocks away. It is said that the Win* Essay Contest The privileges and obligations of an American citizen was tbe subject chosen by the American Legion in I.owell, Mass., for thq annual essay contest. Komnerius Soukaras, a high school student, was awarded first prize for lily essay, which was selected from nearly 2(H). Soukaras was also winner of an essay contest inaugurated by tbe National.'Guard/unit ir Lowell; the subject --was /‘Arm’stlce Day and Its Meaning." ( * U — World Circlers Halted By Storm. Seattle. Wash.—Departure of four I'nited States'Army planes on their flight around the world was postpon ed on occount of adverse weather re ports received from along the route. The worst storm in years, it was reported to Major Freedrick L. Martin, commanding officer of the expedition, by the government and there would elimination of misunderstandings be* be an additional appropriation from tween southern spinners and buyers the federal terasury amounting-, to 10 , of raw cotton, reduction of handling cents per, coter, apportioned. among costs, and ultimata decrease In the parties according to their last record* margin between producer and consum ed •strength. - , er. Thus, said Mr. Bryan, parties arid - • * «* ■ candidates would be saved from ‘‘ob ligating themselves' to the predatory Residence Wrecked By Explosion, interests.” r An 80-horse power bottom a Doesn't hurt one bit! Drop a llttla “Freezone” on an aching corn, instant ly that corn stops hurting, then short ly you lift; It right off with fingers. Your druggist sells a tiny bottle of “Freezonp” for a few cents, sufficient to remove every bard corn, soft corn, or corn between the toes, and the foot calluses, without soreness or lrrltatlon. Severe Stroke Walker—Did you hour of tbe acci dent which befell your brother? —Dudley—Accident-!—No, not serious, Naval Paymaster Missing. Washington.—Secretary Wilbur was advised that Paymaster Krvine R. B&own, of Coronado, Caiit.. has been exploded near the Uopot, wrecking near-by residence. Bricks from the holler and other debris were thrown 100 yards, landing tft a field of M. T. Williams and -badly damaging his I hope? f •«.' Walker—Well, rather.,. An Idea struck jhim and now the entire top of his head is paralyzed. Hall’s Catarrh Medicine 31^^: rid your system of Catarrh or Deafnea caused by Catarrh. Sold by druggist* for over 40 yean P. J. CHENEY &. CO., Toledo, Ohi* reported missing front -the destroyer residence and .others situated near- j Somers and an examthatem bf his ac- ^y. Twelve or 15, men were at work- counts has disclosed a shortage ot on the yards near-toy. of whom several about $120,000. ~ — sustained injuries. Nobody was killed Paymaster Brown was given leave Sherman Alston, colored, was struck hy, morhing ant ident had tendered Mr. Stone portfolio |ind the New York man had accepted. Ancient Indian Race Found. —Lob Angeles—Skeleton remains of what appears to have been an ancient tribe of vegetarian Indians are be ing studied by scientists here as a result of excavations made near Coal- inga, F.resco~coTmtyr by S. M. Purple, geologist. Parts of a skull discovered pert, clouds hang low. Berometric readings north of here were low • Makes Bid For Longer Season. West Pa' m Beach, Fla —Hotels and railroads of Florida have united in a When hie t/mounts were examined the boiler was in bad repair, and this is shortage was discovered. i assigned as the cause of the explosion. V’'" i ' !* ' 6 Convictions in Mobile Liquor Cases. Mobile. Ala.—SU- defendants -Were carrying ^26,00(V)fi0.^waU convicted in t,he United States court, ■e by the House an A sen f td',‘a'result of the first day’s trial in tho federal Fine* Army Appropriation Bill Passes. Washington—The Army appropria tion bill campaign to open the Florida tourist p a33 p d here by season November 1 instead of Janu- thp Senate. 1 | sensational liquor raids by ary 1 and to extend jp from March 1 Q f thp tota i which is $16.000-,firiO agents here last November to May It— - —— - ] pgs than ye ar's appropriations ■ ranging from $100 to $300 were im posed in five cases and the sixth was sentenced to serve 30 days in the county jail less (than IJst year s Following addresses by represepta- and $:> fi00.0o0 less than the budget *tiyttf> of railroad companies the State est j ma t eSi $37,250.00 would be avail- by Mr. Purple indicated, he pointed Hotel Men's association in convention a , dp ( 0r r j v . er and harbor, out that the remains"Fefonged to In- here adopted resolutions called for As sent to the Senate, the bill pro- diaas o*f varying primitive types. The a committee, to push the campaign v i d es for maintenance for another year shape and condition of the teeth, he The plan is to offer greatly reduced of the regular Array at its present said, showed that their possessor rail and hotel rates during the carl>v aU (horized strength of 12,000 officers Jived on grass and herbs. | and lale sections of the tourist season - and 125,000 enlisted men. In the cases disposed of the defend ants entered pleas as not guilty but made P" effort to fight the govern- m - * ~~ .the cases going to 1 ——— ment. A Raw, Sore Throat Eases Quickly When You Apply a Little Mutierole And Musterole won’t blister like the old-fashioned mustard. plaster. Just spread it on with your fingers. It penetrates to the sore spot with a gentle tingle, loosens the congestion and draws out the soreness and pain. * Musterole is a clean, white ointment made with oil of mustard. It is fine for quick relief from sore throat, bronchitis, tonsillitis, croup, stiff neck, asthma, neuralgia, headache, congestion, pleu risy, rheumatism, lumbago, pains and aches of the back or joints, sprains, sore muscles, bruises, chilblains, frosted feet, colds on the chest Keep it handy for instant use. To Mothers: Muiterol* is now mad* in mild*r form for I babies and small children. Ask for Children’s Muaterol*. 35c and'65c, jars and tubes; hos- rital size, $3.00. Better than a mustard ptasMr