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r Thursday, March 5, 1925. ■ Ss ♦ THE BARNWELL PEOPLE, BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA. MOTHER! Clean Child’s Bowels with “California Fig Syrup” 5-4. TWO CHILDREN BURNED TO DEATH. Alexandria. Ontario.-— While their father was absent on business and their mother was at the bedside of a stricken son in a MontrgaJ hos pital. Pearl, 12, and Paul Kmile, 10. children of Mr. and Mrs. t’yrille %acoml' were burned to death when fire destroyed their home here. The father is a prominent lumber man. Even if cros>', feverish, bilious, eotv- stlputed or full of cold, children love the pleasant taste of '‘California Fig Syrup.” A tearpoonful never falls to clean the liver find bowels. Ask your druggist for genuine "Cali fornia Fig Syruif’ which has directions for babies and children of all ages printed on bottle- Mother! You must say "California" or you may get an Imitation fig syrtp. FRUIT PRODUCERS COMBINE shod^bette^" 8 ^^ SPRINGLESS SHADES latf long'er-LMkRi’tlvt' Have you RHEUMATISM Lumbago or Gout? RIIETM ACIDK to remore tb*caaae ami drive the potaon from tbs «y«t«m "■UKiaariDi os thi imidi PCTS BHIIIATI8I OS THI OITSIDI ' At All DragicUta Jit. Baily k Son, Wboittalt Diatribatora Baltimore, Md Hammer Drives Screws Hammer driven screws are the latest time-savers tfor work in hard niot.al and composition materials. A bole of the correct size is drilled In the ma terial. Into this the top of tile new type,screw is inserted. As it is ham mered, the screw cuts and twists into the material. The extreme hardness of the screw* ami the angle of its threads make it turn as it is driven.— Popular Science Monthly. < Sure Relief FOR INDIGESTION /ZMmim) inmgestkwi *4 CENTS 6 Bell-ans Hot water Sure Relief INVESTIGATOR OF TRUST FILES REPORT WITH CANADIAN GOVERNMENT. Ottawa, Can. Green fruit producers and consumers throughout Western Canada and in a large portion of the United States are under the domina tion of jobbing and brokerage houses, it was charged in a report filed with the Canadian government by Duncan Lewis, recently appointed to investi gate an alleged fruit distribution trust. , In his report Commissioner found that the combination "has operated detrimentally to the interests of the Canadian public" in British Columbia, Alberta. Saskatchewan and Manitoba provinces. He further held that the Nash houses, of which there are 4T> in Canada .linked up with S-i in United States, are a price-fixing combination illegally maintained under the com bines investigtion act of 1D2;1. It whs under this statute that Lewis was ap pointed as investigator. Various combines under the Nash leadership, described as the largest handlers of green fruit in -the world, according to Lewis, have divided west ern Canada into brokerage areas and have, compelled all brokers seeking produce direct to jobbing houses to pay toll to the brokerage houses of fhe alleged combine. In some in stances, the report, said, this toll amounts to as’ much as f 1)0 a car. This practice, the report holds, "restricts DISCOUNT RATE BODIES OF DEAD MUSIC HAVE BEEN RECOVERED. Sullivan. Ind. — An unceasing search started by mine rescue teams for the bodies of fifty one me men tom bed after an explostbn in the City Coal company's shaft here last Friday, ended when the last corpse was brought to the surface. Burial of the dead was started, services for two of the victims lie ing held here and for another at Dugger, Ind. There will be no com munity funeral. Each faintly will care for its own dead. In several instances, where two members of a family perished, a single service will be held. PAINTS GLOOMY PROSPECT DEMOCRATS LEAVE STATE TO DE FEAT GERRRYMANDER MEASURE. • 4. Indianapolis. Ind*-Eighteen demo- 1 t=r1 cratic members of the Indiana senatle bolted that body seeking by ttretr act ion to prevent passage of a gerryman der bill which they declared would r« act against their party In the second Indiana congressional district. Reports were received that 13 of the ; bolters were at Dayton. O.. and Jerome Brown, principal doorkeeper of the senate, departed for that - city armed with a mandate from the senate to arrest them. Emulating the Rhode Island repub licans who performed a similar coup several months ago, the Indiana demo- , orats left the city secretly and for , several hours were the object of an intensive search by senate officials. Three of the democrat^ were reported to he in Indianapolis, hut Mr. Brown nounced in a statement here that no and his deputies had not succeeded in interest returns would be *«nds remained for carrying out his ' locating them. . c and that the association created! Kepubl.can members of the senate. declared that indictments again the , STONE MOUNTAIN TEETERS BORGLUM MEMORIAL -A v.-.-- _ AVOWS FEDERAL RESERVE?GOVERNORS REORGANIZE WITH PROS- PERITY. New York.—Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York formally recognized the rising tendency of money rates, resulting from recent business expansion and the greater de mand for funds in expanded securities trading .by raising the rediscount rate from 3 to 3'j per cent. The 3 per! cent rate which was the lowest in the history of the federal reserve sys tem as well ns the lowest bank rate in the world, had been in effect since August 8, 1924. The new rate be comes effective at' once. ' The first effects of the advance were felt in the foreign exchange mar ket where a break of more than a , , i „ \\ ashington/—Gutzon Borglum, the cent took place in sterlings The re action in the British currency uppaY- sculptor, who is carving a huge me- ently was based on the theory that morial to the Confederacy on the face with the New ^ oi k rate only one- stone mountain, in Georgia, au- half per cent below the London bank rate, the Attraction of capital to Great Britain Aov 'in lessened. \ Maintenance of lower re discounts in the United States had been expected to aid in the possible return of sterling to par. Although both the stock and bond markets are normally sensitive to any change in the rediscount rate the aci ion had no direct effect since it was not announced until after the close of the sessions.. Dealings, however, were to promote the project "Ms shrunk fuKU(ive8 would be sought in the Mar- into a local habitation with scarcely j on county criminal court under a law a name." which provides a fine of $1,000 for leg- Mr. Borglum, who is in Washington islators who wilfully refuse to vote or in connection with financing the me morial, said the time limit on the attend sessions of the general assem bly. Indictment of the absent democrats, present central group in the^work is Senator Hodges, republican of Gary, somewhat restricted, as had been the expiring case on almost every meeting date of been made to meet his wishes or those the reserve hank directors this year.* of the owner pf the •mountain that The advance ordered was the first "jus-tifies further cession of granite, upward revision of the rate sjnee Feb- "There is uo contract with me to ruary 23. 1923. when a Ho per cent complete the work," he said, "nor is t harge was established- This remain- the agreement in existence equitable, ed in effect until May 1, 1924. when the for or even carried out as R is." first of last year's series of reductions Mr Borlum said there were no funds was initiated. Two subsequent cuts available to distribute the coins he were necessary to bring the rediscount had designed as a tribute to the South distribution, assists the creation of rate j nt0 alignment with open money i from the North, and from which money monopoly, and injures consumer, pro- market quotations, which have govern-1 was to be derived for carrying on the i ducer and broker." and that "no approach has pointed out would make them fugiti ves from justice and their extradition could he asked. Whether the extra dition would he granted was uncertain. Senator Hodges admitted. Lewis recommended the establish ment of nationwide growerowned selling agency as a remedy fro exist ed the reserve, bank rate policy Since memorial project: More than 1,000,- the post-election stock market boom 000 of these already had been struck, and trade expansion got under way he said late last year however, Wall street has "The sad-destroytng fact is, he as- ing conditions, in the marketing of' i )een looking for a higher rediscount serted, “the South as a whole is not fruits and vegetables throughout west- ra t e building the memorial, is not guiding ern Canada. the building of the memorial: t haracter of the work.” V ELLA NS g5<t AND 75$ PACKAGES EVERYWHERE Might Be Possible A,hoy patient at a hospital had a squint, and was consulting one of'the doctors about it. "Itoes he ever see double?" said the doctor !■» his mother Ponzi Guilty in Theft Case. South is not even properly informed Slew Sister to Send He- to Heaven. •} Boston —A verdict of guilty was re- or made a part of the.memorial coun . .... , . >o.o„ cc . i turned in Suffolk County Superior nils." ‘ . '“ , Court hv a iurv trying Charles Ponzi. The sculptor said he would not even wanted to openTHe gates 6f hea en io . fornjpr imernational postal return consider the abandonment of so splen oupon financier, on charges of larceny dul a thing. His statement did not from clients. Judge Sisk increased make clear where the “opposition wag Ponzi's bail from $2,000 to $10,000 and | coming from, but charged there were gave him time to file a motion for ar- "persistent efforts to degrade; the rest of judgment. The jury found Ponzi guilty on four teen counts of the four indictments against him which covered an aggre gate of $9,r*00. The complainants were persons who in 1920 invested in ibis session of congress materially ... K1 ^_ Ponzi’s enterprise which guaranteed were reduced with the recommitting of | i i * ^ _ _ __,_A P .“ 'fabulous returns. Evidence at the the Underwood leasing bill to confer- trail showed that the former financial cnee by the senate. "wizard" had taken in millions from Hy a v °tc of 45 to 41 the ruling of investors. | President Cummings that the confe- Ponzi pleaded guilty in 1920 to frau- rpes h 3 ' 1 exceeded their authority by her, said Anna Levasseur, a middle aged dressmaker wlro shot ! and in* stantly killed her sister Anais on Feb ruary Ifi, when she was arraigned be fore the investigating magistrate, charged with murder. The woman explained that her sister was suffering from tuberculosis of an advanced stage and that she shot her to relieve her sufllering She denied her act had liden influenced- by the killing by Mila Uminska, a Polish act ress of her finance to relieve him from agony from an Incurable disease. Mile Uminska recently was acquitted. "I am a\firm believer in the here after,” declared Anna evasseur. "I have no fear of gitinjg to the great be yond to iiieet my sister if men sentence me to die." Stone Mountain Sculptor Dismissed. ! -Atlanta.—Vr arrants charging Gutzon Borglum. sculptor, aud J. G. Tucker, his superintendent of construction, with malicious mischief in connection with the destruction of the working plans and models for carving the Con federate memorial on Stone mountain, near Atlanta, were sworn out by th* ^ Stone Mountain Memorial association! which dismissed Borlum as directing sculptor. The warrant was served on Tucker and Sheriff J. A McCurdy, of Dekalb county, In which Stone mountain is located, was looking fo. Borglum to serve him with the warrant. The as sociation asked that bonds of $25,000 he fixed in each case. The association announced that it had filed suit against Borglum for $50,000 for alleged destruction of the models and working plans. Armed guards were placed on duty at Stone Mountain by the Dekalb county sheriff, the association said. Gutzon Borglum declared that the action of the Stone Mountain Memor- Muscle Shoals Bill Off Floor. Washington.—Prospects for enact ment of Muscle Shoals legislation at this session of Congress . materially |‘. al aviation in dismissing him as exactly say that, sir,"- she replied, and then, trying to be helpful., she added. "He's one of twins, though - ~ i ' ■ . 1 - p'r'aps lo* does." Wright’* Indian Vegetable rills are not only a purgative. They exert a tonic action on the digestion Test them yourself now. 27 2 I’earl St., .V Y Adv. Misplaced Sympathy An elephant was walking in a jungle when he came to a pheasant's nest •Hind found that tin* mother TTmUlntd flown away. The small birds looked very lonely and cold and hungry. "Pom*—FHtle things," said the ele phant. In a sentimental voice. “They have no mother." And down he sat on the nest. Tears of joy and sadness 'are both drawn from the same tank. YOUR BAKING conics out RIGHT U’l ith DAVIS BAKING POWDER Three Killed in A. C. L. Smash-Up. Newark. N. J. Three railroad em ployes wtTe killed and ?hout 40 pas sengers were injured, a few seriously, in a rear end collision between two passenger trains at Manhattan Trans fer. A local traip ffom New York to Philadelphia, crashed into the Atlantic Uoast Line Express, from New- York | dulent use of the mails and was sen ! writing new matter into the bill was 1 tenced in Federal court to a term in sustained. Ihe ruling had been de- Plymouth jail. He has now been tried bated for three days and was on a ■ ln» Die State courts three times on In- point of order raised by Senator Nor- dictmentg arising fronj his financial r ' s ' republican, Nebraska, who 4s j operation. * : leading the fight for government own- Millionaire Accused in Plot, San Francisco.— Richard M. Hotal ing, millionaire clubman, actor and landholder, is expected to face the grand jury to refute statements by Ralph P. King, former city jailer, of Hilo and ! Louis Madison. thTTC Iul in* pil ed ership * v -’ Party lines were completely sub merged in the vote, republicans and democrats alike dividing almost equal* ly. Tewtny-tliree, republicans yoted to sustained Senator Cummings 'bn the appea Itafken by Senator Underwood , democrat, Alabama, author of the ticularly against me but against the ! south." It is struck at me becausa I am a northern man " Declaring that he had been unfairly treated Mr. Borglum asserted that the record of the past nine years would show "that a crime has been commit ted.” i Mr. Borglum reached Atlanta from Washington and went to Stone Moun tain immediately after the meeting of the executive committee which dis- | charged hint as sculptor. With his su- j perintendent. J. G Tucker, h** assumed direction of the workmen engaged in removing granite from around the equstl'an figures which will form the central group of the Confederate me morial. He did not attend the meeting Ttmiiun. supposed j eas j n g measure all( j 24 republicans ^^ ^ 1 Mountain in company with Mr. Tucker acy to murder his. sist^in-laft'.JDs.i T he division at Frederick C. Hotaling. beCai&Wf ' a wa9 wider 20 V( to Washington and the south. The dead arc: Joseph Petrie, Jersey City, and George Huther, Newark, both coupling Inspectors, anj L. E. third man, Al Reels, also a supposed {W() f arm Johnson, negro^dining cook, Jamaica, Runman, also is involved as a conspir and v;hjp ator and is being sought. among the democrats of- the committee but left for Stone Mountain ami sum It: gr.^anee against hej. i <■ wwtg and Madison were arrested. A ruling and 17 casting their ballots in favor of th£ Underwbcul appeal. The nators, Johnson pported the ruling. me i naerwo •Xlabor ser stead, suppe N Y. - Tho inspestors were preparing to couple an engine to the express: The ninejear train was th.own forward into the engine by the collision, and they were crushed. Pennsylvania railroad officials attrl King made a statement that Hotal ing proposed, in Lakeport, Calif., last September, that King take the life of Mrs. Frederick Hotaling and he agreed to do so. Coming to San Francisco, he.gol in touch with Madison and brake failure." As the dining car turned over its his wife how the weapon should be ;! Reels and they agreed for a considera-1 use(1 The third 4ime hft pulled the trigger the revbTv&r fired and' Mrs Later they included in their plot plan to murder Frederick Hotaling; b uted the accident to “Man failure or tion of $3.30o'to kill the rich matron. A'cnabl*:—ownct-——Hia . . ,, mountain. Immediately after its ses- itlng to support the a , , in . ^Asians were concluded. Mr Venable, who is a member of the executive committee, attended the meeting but left before the vote was taken'. He declared later that the memorial can not he completed with in the next three ye^rs.as stipulated in the contract and-Rhat he would not cede further space on the mountain for carving or additional ground around the mountain as long as the present auministration relalns control of the memorial association. PEM FoKOUGHSftCOLDS When You Catch CoM Rqb on Musterole Musterole is easy to apply and it get* in its good work right away. Often it prevents a cold from turning into “flu” or pneumonia. Just apply Musterole with the fingers. It does all the good work of grandmother’s mustard plaster without the blister. Musterole is a clean, white ointment, made of oil of mustard and other home simples. It is recommended by many doctors and nurses. Try Musterole for sore throat, cold bn the chest, rheuma tism. lumbago, pleurisy, stiff neck, bran- sprains, sore muscles, bruises, chilblain frosted feet—colds of all sorts. To Mothers: Mustsrolsis also mads In mildar form for babios and small children* Ask for Children's Musterole. 35c and 65c, jars and tubes; hos pital size, $3.00. Bmttsr than a mustard plaster Try Joint-Ease for Rheumatism When rheumatism settles in any of your Joints and causes agony, distress or misery, please remember that Joint- Ease is the l one remedy that brings quick and lasting reUef. It matters not how chronic or aggra vated a case may be—rub on Joint- Ease and relief Is sure to follow. Joint-Ease Is for joint trouble only and Is a clean, penetrating preparation that druggists everywhere are recom mending. Always remember, when Jolnt-Eas# gets in Joint agony gets oat.—quick. Shoots Wife; Exonerated. Buffalo, N. Y.—John Lafferty came upon an old revolver while getting his household effects together prepara tory to moving He demonstrated to a j Lafferty ♦ dropped, fatally wounded load of passengers eating breakfast a j s0> a^vd-hls mot her,. Mrs. Lavina IIo- were hurled into a tangled mass of t a ij ng wreckage, ' in which was the dead negro dining car worker. --Passengers from other cars, considerably shaken, came to the aid of those imprisoned, pulling.them out through broken win dows. The railroad company had five doctors on the scene a few* minutes | after the crash together with police patrol wagons and ambulances from Harrison and Newark. Naw Naval Acadehiy Head. Annapolis, Md.— Rear Admiral Henry Civil War Officer Dies. Washington. — Brigadier G e u e r a 1 Daingerfleld* Parker, retired, Is dead here at .the age of 92. He was a civil Seek Baroness in Richmond. B. Wilson relinquishe<l the superinten- war veteran and was born in New Richmond, Va.—Police authorities dency of the Naival academy to Rear Rochelle, N. Y here were requested to search for Bar- Admiral Louis M.’ Nulton, having oness Frederick Cotta von Cottendorf, reacheXthe retirement age of 64 years who dropped frdfit the sight of friends He has served in the navy 44 years soon after filing divorce proceedings Simple ceremonies marked jthe trans- Urges Tax Reduction. Washington.—A ‘further reduction . of 25 per cent in the tax on personal incomes for 19241>vas proposed in a t J resolution by Representative ..Acker man, republican, New Jersey, Embassy Attache Dies. Paris.—Herbert P. Middleton, specia* disbursing officer of the United States embajrsy in Paris, died at the Ameri can Presbyterian hospital in Constan tinople of pneumonia, the embassy was informed. at The Hague, Holland, in 1916. The baroness was Miss Eleonar Vincent, of Virginia before her marriage. Record Salary For Moviedom Given. Los Angeles, Calc—According to The Los Angeles Examiner competi- fer, of authority from the outging to the incoming Superintendent, in ac cordance with the wishes Japs Launch Cruiser. Tokiu/—The Japanese naval cruiser, Furv.taka, the first of several war craft proposed under the Washington agree ment ,was launched. Taxicab Strikes Down Member. 1 Raleigh —The conditio nof Represen- Aged Harvard Profeitor Quits. —. . } Cambridge,. Mass.—After 45 years of service t cm^th.e Harvard faculty, Le- J Baron Russell Briggs has resigned at tative Christian, of Cumberland, whd was struck by a taxicab, was describ- tion among motion picture producers ed as .* 8 e riou9 , but not critical," at a _ for the services of Gloria Swanson, local hospital, whejre he was rushed the age °* yea’ra He was gradual- screen star, who is ill in Paris, ha* re- following the accident. ed from Harvard in 1875 and was suc- sultedln the signing of a new contract The head nurse at the hospital ^dd j (essi\ely tutor In Greek, instructor, * - I that “nothing definite as to his con- j assistant professor and professor of with Famous Players-Lasky, by which .... ,. . dition could be given. She added that she-Will receive $li,500 a week. This be had suffered a fractured collar boine salary is said to be the highest ever Wever. The Cumberland represW paid a motion picture performer as a tatvIe was hit 5y the cab late *, n the direct salary where no percentage 1> afternoon while crowing & downtown involved. ' .. j l.treet < Knglish. He was made a full pro fessor of Knglith in 1890, dean of the college i nl89l, and dean of the faculty of arts and sciences in 1902. For 20 years he was president of Radcliffe college, resigning In 1922. V~ Shake Hands With Mr. Yi if you should happen to be on the Gtrte d'Azur and should chance to nie£t a young tmm who signs himself Henry Pu Yl, know that you have en countered the erstwhile emperor of" .China who is touring Europe because he has nothing" else to do.—Paris Figaro. . • s Don't Let That Cough Hang on! Hot Springs, N. C.^—"I contrac ted a deep-seated cold, which left me w i t h a short hacking cough that I thought would b e the death of trie. I could not talk for trying to cough. took medicine bat vyas no better. Final ly 1 went to the drug store and ¥ ot a bottle of )r. Pierce’s Gol den Medical Discovery and after tak ing it, found I was a little better, so I Sought three more bottles and took them and all the cough and sore ness left me and I have not taken a dose of medicine, •i^c«; , *— J. G. Roberts. All dealers. -T-*