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One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG-, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1914. Established 1891. \?
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COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around the
' County and Elsewhere.
Ehrhardt Etchings. s
Ehrhardt, June 22.?Think the
farmers have very promising crops
this year. Heard several say that the
prospects are better than last year.
Cotton blooms have been plentiful
for twelve or fifteen days.
Mr. M. A. Kinard, one of our prosperous
farmers, brought a bloom in
some time since, but owe him an apol*
TVia UaroM
Ogy ior qui senuiiife il> iu iuc jliviu'u,
but my negligence did not stop Mr.
Kinard's crops from being fine.
Mise Mamie Cline, of Newberry, is
spending some time with her sister,
Mrs. Jacob Ehrhardt.
The dedication of the Baptist
church at Ehrhardt was the feature
of the day Sunday.
Miss Dorothy Taylor came home
with her sister, Mrs. Herbert Ehrhardt,
to spend a while in our fresh
air.
The fish warden has about scari
ed the fishermen out from trapping,
I shooting, and giggipg fish from our
streams. The hooks and lines are
much used now.
Had a run away from an auto yesterday.
Three darkies driving two
mules to a turnout was frightened
by an auto. One mule tore loose and
went to eating grass;' the other, as
soon as the tongue was broken, stopped
short. No damage done, otherwise,
to the vehicle. The darkies under
;the influence of fire water took it
quiet uhtil they get another pole;,
then they went on to the church and
soon reiurnea?gou men- icugiuu
quick.
Denmark Personals.
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Denmark, June 20.?Misses Ruth
and Frances Guess are visiting their
Bister, Mrs. H. W. Matthews, in Birmingham,
Ala.
Mrs. P. A. Bethea, of Darlington,
is the guests of her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. G. H. Guess.
The Rev. H. G. Hardin has returned
from a short visit to Cokesbury.
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Miss Annie Stokes is visiting her
sister, Mrs. R. K. Goolsby.
Mrs. J. W. Wyman and Miss Clara
Wyman are visiting relatives in
Charleston.
Fairfax Fancies.
Fairfax, June 22.?Mrf and Mrs.
Marion Jennings (bride and groom)
are now "at home" at the Comhiercial*
Hotel.
/ Mrs. Janie Barker, of Allendale,
was here this week visiting her moth
er,'Mrs. Till.
Mr. and Mrs. Moprer have returned
from their bridal trip, and are "at
v home" with Mrs. Martin Lightsey.
Mrs. Moorer contemplates a visit to
St. George soon to see the parents of
her husband.
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Miss Maude Barber has returned
from a pleasant visit to Columbia.
Mrs. L. O. Browning and daughter
are visiting Mrs. C. M. Davis.
Dr. J. B. Stokes, of Charleston, was
a recent visitor here.
Mrs. Julia Harter visited Allendale
*- Tuesday.
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?toi. lt. kj. waison is me guesi 01
G. D. Sanders. ,
Miss Lily Weekley, of Ulmer, ;is
with Mrs. Otis Deer. i
Mrs. G. S. O'Neal has returned
from a pleasant visit to Delray, Fla.,
where several of her sons are residing.
A crowd is expected here next week
when the Luthern Sunday-school
normal meets. All denominations!
will take part, and will assist in en-1
tertaining.
Miss Iris Kearse is visiting her sis- j
ter, Mrs. Dan Hartman, at Waycross. j
Ga.
Eloise Garrick has returned to I
Norway, after spending some time i
with relatives here.
Mrs. Purdie Ayer, of Olar, and!
Mrs. L. W. Clayton, of Bamberg, were
recent visitors here.
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A miscellaneous shower was given
to Miss Mell Kearse on Friday at
Bamberg by Mrs. John Jones. Many
useful gifts were bestowed by her
many friends there. Miss Kearse is
to wed Mr. George DuPre Sanders on
the 30th instant.
Mr. Robbie Johnson, of Augusta, I
visited Mrs. C. F. Hiers this week. <
Meva Hiers is spending some time
in Augusta with relatives.
James Connelly, of Waycross. Ga.,
visited the family of C. F. Hiers this
week.
G. D. Sanders visited Bamberg on
Thursday.
i . Sam Jenkins, of Birmingham, Ala., |
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OYER LOSES SEAT.
Republican Congressman From Missouri
Unseated. !
Washington, June 19.?L. C. Dyer,
of St. Louis, Republican, representing
the 12th Missouri district, was unseated
by the House late to-day by a
vote 147 to 98. His election was
contested by M. J. Gill, Democrat.
On the vote to declare Gill elected,
31 Democrats voted with the solid
Republican minority against him.
Under the usual custom Mr. Dyer
keeps his salary up to-day and gets
"noe exceeding" $2,000 for expenses
of the contest on his side. This was
Mr. Dyer's second term in Congress.
By a vote of 126 to 108, a resolu- ^
dftolorinor dill 1 dcro 11 tr
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was adopted. Mr. Gill immediately
took the oath of office.
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Woman Changing Into a Man.
Paris, June 14.?The professors
and surgeons of the French Academy
of Sciences have been confronted with
a remarkable case of what is known
as "virilism."
Professor Tuffer, an eminent Parisian
surgeon, has presented a woman
of 62 "years whose face and hands
have become those of a man.
When she was 40 years old the
woman was attacked with an extraordinary
hypertrophy of certain
glands and since then her whole being
has changed. Her biceps have
attained the strength of a healthy ,
man's biceps , her shoulders have
broadened and she has become peculiarly
muscular.
Most" extraordinary of all, she has
grown bald and at the same time has
developed a long black beard which
reaches her waist.?Baltimore Sun
Dispatch.
Black Hander Executed.
Ossining, N. Y., June 22.?Peter
Rebacci, a 19-year-old Italian, a tool
of a black hand "murder syndicate"
in Westchester county, was today
put to death in the electric chair at
Sine Sine prison for the murder of
Tony Murro, of White Plains. Rebacci
had figured in several other
crimes.
To Regulate Insurace.
Washington, .Tune 20.?Congressman
James F. Byrnes today introduced
a bill to deny the use of the
mails to- insurance companies for the
purpose of soliciting new business or
collecting premiums on old business
unless such companies are licensed
in the State in which they attempt
to conduct business. Mr. Byrnes
says that this bill would not only
checkmate the wild cat insurance
schemes which have fleeced so much
money out of the people,-but in addition
would prevent a company from
coming into a State, complying with
its laws and securing its license for
a year or two, and then when it had
written a large number of policies
withdrawing its deposits from the
State, forfeiting its license and yet
continuing to collect annual premiums
out of the State.
St. John's News.
St. John's June 16.?Mrs. Rosa
"'* "V. ? Lee
Roberts, of the Hickory Grove :
section^ spent a few days with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Connelly.
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Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Connelly gave
a turkey dinner on the 13th instant,
and had as their guests their children,
grandchildren, and a few friends. A
most enjoyable day was spent.
is here now with relatives. j
Mesdames Thos. Warren and Ellen
Hiers, of Allendale, visited Mrs. S. L. :
Sanders Wednesday. i
J. G. Crawford, of Latta, was here
this week.
Misses Ida Compton and Lylele
Wilson are visiting friends in Orangeburg.
Our community has been much sad- .
defied by the death of Mrs. Jones ;
Lane, which occurred on Tuesday,
and the funeral was preached next
day at Bethlehem church by Rev.
Wm. Simpson. She and her sister, :
Miss Joella Padgett, had both been :
extremely ill for several weeks, and <
the latter is still too dangerously <
sick to be apprised of her sister's ?
death. Much sorrow is expressed in
sympathy with this bereaved family, 1
and all feel that a useful, working
Christian woman has been called from
her earthly labors to higher joys ;
above. The missionary and aid societies
brought lovely wreaths and
laid them tenderly on her grave.
Rev. and Mrs. Paul Brown, of Estill,
daughter and grandson, were
guests of Mrs. S. L. Sanders
this week.
IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading?Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.
M. D. Earnest was given a verdict
for $1,000 in Greenville on Saturday
against the Judson cotton mill for
the loss of two fingere in a machine
in the mill.
The State Dental Association, which
met in Greenville last week, decided
to meet in Columbia next year. Dr.
P. D. Brooker, of Columbia, was elected
president.
Tuesday night, on the farm of J. A.
Barber, York county, a negro killed
his wife with a hammer, set his home
on fire and then blew his own head
off with a gun. He and his wife had
had a row.
William Landis, an aged carpenter,
was run down by an automobile in
Spartanburg Saturday, at the corner
of Main and Church streets, and was
killed. The machine was being run
by a young man named Rupert Alverson.
Robert Hendsley was arrested in
Greenville on Saturday and held for
trial *bn the charge of violating the
white slave act in forcing Rosa May
Wilson, aged 15, to live with him,
having brought her there from another
State.
Tom McLeod, a young man from
North Carolina, was arrested in Union
on Thursday on the charge of
bigamy. Three weeks ago he was married
to a young woman at the Monarch
mills, and.it came out afterward
that he had a wife already.
A white baby girl, about 12 hours
old, was found in Greenville county
Saturday in a field where it, had been
thrown. The doctors who examined
it say it lived after being born, and
the supposition is that it was eithe^
killed or left exposed to die. There
have been no arrests.
Uncle Abner.
Mrs. Amry Tibbs has been divorced
so often that she now has a
nharee account with her attornev and
pays him a little now and then when
she can.
A woman finds' out how her husband
likes her hair done up best and
then does it up some other way.
Anse Frisby, ouriocal banker, who
is somewhat of a cornersewer, says
that the only things he doesn't like
about grand opera are the words and
music.
Lem Higgins says the fellers who
made the calendar ought to have allowed
more time between the Christmas
presents and the Easter bonnets.
Mr. Lem Higgins has bought so
many appliances for his oatmobile
that there isn't room for all of them
on the car at the same time. It
takes so much power to run the appliances
that there ain't any left to
run the oatmobile.
Everything is divided equally in
this world. The rich drive the automobile
and the poor dodge 'em.
A fellow who is paying alimony to
two or tneree ex-wives can De pardoned
for indulging in a bit of pessimism
occasionally.
Miss Pansy Tibbitts got into her
tight skirt the other day and couldn't
get out, and they had to cut it up the
back from the hem to the waistband.
There are times when even a lodge
button doesn't guarantee you that a
feller .is going to give you a square
deal.
Many a fellow is judged by the cigars
that are named after him.
Hank Tumms and Hod Peters are
such bitter enemies that they vote
different tickets every four years just
to knock each other out.
There are a lot of book critics in
this country who couldn't get one of
their own published on a bet.
Job must have been some long on
patience, but he never had to hookand-eye
his wife up the back five
minutes before tneatre time, or ne
would have lost his reputation.
This country seems to be divided
into two classes. One class would
rather have a house and lot than an
oatmobile, and the other would rather
have an oatmobile than a house
and lot.
It is estimated that nearly one per
?ent of the genuine Havana cigars are
made in Havana.
The feller who kin keep steam up
all the time may make more money,
but he won't live so long.
Faith and Works.
"Do you believe in a minimum
wage for girls?"
"Sure. I pay it."?Detroit Free
Press.
MAN IS LOST IN WHEAT FIELD. ^
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Grain so Tall That Farmer Nearly
Starved Before He Got Out. I
La Crosse, Wis., June 18.?Lost
in a 1,200 acre wheat field, with the ^
wheat extending above his head so
that he could not get his bearings,
Daniel Erni, a Ruch county farmer,
^wandered all afternoon and far into
the night before his shouts for help
brought him relief.
The story was brought to La Crosse *
today by Frank Wesley, a ranchman ^
of Ruch county. He explained that t
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the wheat stands more than five feet k
tail and it is easy for a man to lose
himself in a field.
"Erni is not a very tall man, and t
the wheat extended above his head," *
said Wesley. "He lives in Bison and 1
drove out into the country to take
a look at his wheat. Leaving the *
car at the side of the road he enter- *
ed the wheat, penetrating some dis- c
tance, closely looking for traces of 8
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Hessian fly or rust. He wanaerea an
afternoon, going in what he thought
was a straight line, expecting to strike
the opposite side of the field, but he
evidently was moving in circles. The
darkness came and he was still in the
denseness of the wheat. This particular
field included nearly 1,200 acres
and adjoined other fields not separated
by fences, so a man could go for
miles without leaving the wheat thicket.
"It was about 10 o'clock at night
that his car was discovered and
searchers went into the wheat suspecting
that someone was lost. They
heard the faint cries of the almost exhausted
man and finally discovered
him."?Kansas City Star.
INSPIRATION FROM BEES.
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Thomas A. Edison Evolves New Idea
For an Airship. ?
Thomas A. Edison arrived in the s
city to-day to attend the convention c
of the National Electric Light Asso- i
ciation. As the inventor and his wife I
were on their way to this city from s
New York by automobile to-day they 4
passed through a shady glen. * Flitting
among the trees was a bumble 4
"Do you know," said Mr. Edison,
"as I watched that bee I realized that
a real plane, a heavier-than-air ma- t
chine of great weight, can be built 1
as soon as we obtain something that a
beats the air at the rate of 200 times t
a second. .. i
"That bumble bee was one inch t
long, three-eighths of an inch in di- I
ameter, with a wing one-quarter inch c
wide and five-eighths of an inch long, t
The wings weighed a milligram. That a
bee weighed 7,000 times more than s
his wings. If we can only get to
that, get to that?the greatest thing
for the smallest wing?that is the t
thing. The bee's wings beat the air I
300 times a second. I
"A bee works on sound waves. Re- I
member, the air is rigid as steel if
the pressure is only sudden enough, f
Give us something that beats the t
air 200 times a second and we will i
have a real plane."?Philadelphia dis- I
patch to the New York American. a
\ Crossed Wires. ^
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The girl with the debutante slouch ;
gasped a little. "Why the idea!" she j
said. "There must be some mistake. cHe
was coming to see at once when he c
got back! At least, that was the last t
thing I told him. Morgan is so shy t
that one has to bring him out. He T
must have been ill or something"? e
"No, his health has been excel- c
lent," said the other girl. c
"Well," snapped the girl with the e
debutantee slouch, "since you seem to f
know so much about Morgan Spillings |n
perhaps you can tell me just why I
haven't known a thing about his get- ^
ting back or why he hasn't been to a
see me"? c
"I am sure I don't know," said the
brisk young woman with a faint C
smile, "unless it's because he has
been so busy with me. We're to be "
married in June. I'm having such
a lot of clothes made that I've got to,
hurry along this minute or miss my
fittings. Goodbye." ** *
"Well, I always said Morgan was ^
queer!" said the girl with the debu- s
tantee slouch. "I'm sure you'll be ^
very happy together!"?Chicago d
News. ^
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Bennettsville's New Postoffice. o
Washington, June 20.?Congress- ?
man Ragsdale was notified to-day by $
the treasury department that the con- a
tract has been signed with the Die- p
trich-Richardson Company, of Richmond,
Va., for the construction of
the postoffice building at Bennetts- ^
ville. The bid of the contractors was o
$37,838. H
SUPPORT IS WITHDRAWN
IEQITSITIOX FOR S. C. MILITIA
REJECTED.
Yar Department Withholds Aid
Pending Adjustment of Claims
for Lost Property.
Columbia, June 24.?Yesterday
here was received at the office of
he adjutant general the following
etter from Gen. A. L. Mills, chief of
he division of militia affairs, United
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states war department.: iu mc
Adjutant General of South Carolina:
"In a letter dated June 16, 1914,
he secretary of war advises the
jovernor of South Carolina as folows:
"Referring to your requisition of
Jay 11, 1914, for ordnance and quarermaster
supplies for the use of the
>rganized militia of your State, I'regret
to inform you that in view of the
ailure of the authorities of South
Carolina to comply with the federal
aws which govern the care, accountibility
and disposition of government
sroperty in the possession of the orjhnized
militia, the war department
s obliged to suspend further issues
>f government property and funds to
he organized militia of South Caroina,
and to withhold authority for
he expenditure of government funds
>y the militia of S. C. until the
lelinquent matters are taken up by
he State and brought to a satisfacory
settlement.
" 'When the organized miliitia of
South Carolina is placed on a satisactory
basis, the war department
vill consider the withdrawal of the
estrictions of which you are inform;d
in this communication and which
ire effective on and after this date.'
"Requisitions for quartermaster
;upplies submitted on April 24 and
day 11, 1914, and ordance supplies
;ubmitted May 11, 1914, are, in ac:ordance
with the action of the sec etary
of war noted in the foregoing
>aragraph, returned herewith. The
iupplies asked for will not be issued.
'By direction of the secretary of war.
A. L. MILLS.
'Brigadier General, General Staff,
Chief of Division, For the Chief of
Staff."
Col. 0. W. Babb, assistant adju?
ant general, was asked last night
low, in his opinion, the shortage
trose to which reference was made in
he letter of Gen. Mills and whether
n recent years any effort to reduce
his shortage had been made. Col.
3abb said he could not speak for
>ther administrations. Regarding
he policy pursued since he has been
issistant adjutant general, Col. Babb
;aid;. "The
shortage of property mention;d
in the letter of Gen. Mills has
>een accumulating for years and the
iresent administration has made re
)eated efforts to collect the obsolete
>roperty.
"During 1912 about 1,2-00 old riles,
a lot of bayonets, bayonet scab>ards,
gun slings and other appurtelances
were collected and shipped to
lock . Island arsenal. During 1913
ibout 400 old rifles and carbines, a
ot of old cartridge belts, cartridge
>oxes, bayonets, bayonet scabbards,
arbine scabbards and cavalry sabres
vere collected and shipped to Rock
sland arsenal. .There is a great
leal of this old property in the hands
>f some one now and it should be
urned into the State armory, so that
he State may receive credit for it. I
vill state also, that during the presmt
administration a great number
if the old blue uniforms have been
ollected. As stated above, repeated
fforts have been made to recover this
iroperty and with some success. The
iulk of this loss occurred prior to the
Bsue of the new Springfield rifle and
he olive drab uniform about 1908
nd 1909, although some loss has ocurred
since."
>LI) CLOTHES MAN WAS RICH.
Poco" Bennett, Known to All Harvard
Men, Left $100,000.
Some idea of the large extent of
he business carried on by the late
larnard or "Poco" Bennett, known to
everal generations of Harvard stuents
as a buyer and seller of stuents'
castoff clothes and a money
mder, is gained by the inventory of
is estate, niea in tne suhoik rrouaie
ffice. '
His personal estate is valued at
65,699.65, and his real estate at
57,200. Ida Bennett, the widow, is
dministratrix of the estate.?Boston
'ost.
McCormick Mowing Machines and
lepairs. Hay Rakes, Cultivators,
[arrows, and Lawn Mowers.. Paints,
?ils, and Varnishes. HUNTER'S
[ARDWARE STORE.?adv.
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MAN LURED TO SWAMP. H
E. M. TuUis Tied to Log and Severely
Beaten.
Waycross, Ga., June 20.?Because
of a lawsuit he had instituted, E. M.
Tullis, a well-known farmer, whose
home is south of Homerville, in
fMinrh ronntv was? takpn frnm his
house to a swamp nearby and so badly
beaten with leather straps that he is
in a critical condition today. Reports
of the assault have just reached Waycross.
Martin Baldree and Randolph
Jones, white men, have been arrested,
charged with assault and battery. It
is alleged that under pretense of borrowing
grease to rub on a mule the
two men got Tullis' to leave his house,
and grabbed him at the barn, taking
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him to a swamp and tying him to a
log where the beating was administered.
Tullis was then taken home in a
semi-conscious condition. Neighbors
passing 6aw him on the porch and got
medical aid for him. Tullis claims
that from Remarks the men made
while beating him he is positive they
were employed to flog him, and he
proposes to institute prosecution
against more than one as soon as he
is well again.?Atlanta Journal.
ANTS CONQUERED A CITY.
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Living Things in a Jamaica Town
Driven Out or Eaten. .
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The paragraphers throughout the
country are having fun with ihe littie
red ants that Mrs. Morse brought
over in a box from the other side,
and the careless customs officers allowed
to escape. It is obvious that
the jokesmiths knew very little about
red ants. That box of ants may become
a menace to the city ef New
York. The ruins of a splendid city
on the north coast of Jamaica remain
as evidence of the devastation that
red ants are capable of causing. An
army of the insects invaded the city 't
one day and drove away every living ^
creature, animal and human, that v ' M
could escape. Prisoners in the jails,
and bedridden patients in the hospitals
were devoured. Not even a rat
or chinchbug remained alive.
In Liberia and other parts of West
Africa anthills as large as native huts
are found. The large black > ant is
the builder of that sort of home. Such
ant hills are not unknown here in
this country, although they are rarely
so large; but the black ant rarely
invades houses. He is a scavenger,
and is protected by most farmers. At
the northern end of Greenwood Lake
I remember to have seen two such , >
ant communities, with hills six feet \
high. When I asked the manager of
a nearby hotel why he didn't destroy(
the insects, he replied that they were
of value in destroying roaches and in
keeping away many insects?except
rattlers, which are the foes of the
black ants, and feed upon them.?J.Chambers,
in Brooklyn Eagle.
Rides Bucking Cow?
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Washington, Pa., June 15.?Riding
a bicycle, J. F. Welch, of Washington,
started out this morning with the
intention of attending services at the
Hill church, near town, but instead
he was the central figure in a thrill\
ing performance, with a cow in one of
the leading Toles.
A short distance from the borough
line Welch encountered a herd of cattle.
All fled except one obstinate old
cow. Welch, going at a rapid speed,
did not divine her intentions soon
enough to avoid a collision. He was
flung from the wheel and alighted
astride the cow's back.
The cow forgot she was a suffragette,
and, standing up for her rights,
dashed down the road, bellowing and
plunging. Then she. stopped and
gave a demonstration of bucking.
Welch, though clinging to horns and
hide, was tossed into a field. He
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walked home unhurt, except in his
feelings.?New York World Dispatch.
Xame of "Gaillard Cut" Approved.
Washington, June 22.?President
Wilson today approved the suggestion
laid before him by Congressman David
E. Finley, in behalf of the Federation
of Women's Clubs in South Carolina,
which has been working to have
Culebra Cut changed to GaUIard Cut,
in honor of the late Lieut. Col. D. D.
Gaillard, who died from overwork in
achieving this historic triumph. After
his interview with the chief executive,
Mr. Finley said he felt quite
sure the name of this mammoth cut
in the Panama canal would be changed
to honor the distinguished South
Carolinian who dug it.
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