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NO FAMINE OR
PLAGUE IN SOUTH
STATE HEALTH OFFICIALS HOLD
CONFERENCE IN WASHINGTON.
Worse in Some States
Need For Educational Methods to
Combat Spread?No Worse Than
aii a ui iuci x cars.
Washington, Aug. 6?Differences of
opinion as to the severity of the prevalence
of pellagra in the south
cropped out Friday among health
officials of 12 southern states at the
closing session of their two-day conferences
here with Surgeon General
, Cumming, of the Public Health Ser'
vice.
Half of the state officers; in
adopting a report of conditions
contended a clause should be included
that the situation was in no way
more serious than during the last several
years. Others, among them Drs.
" Olin West, of Tennessee, and C. W.
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\xarrisuu, ui ArKansas, neiu, uuwcvci,
that, while there was no cause for
alarm, pellagra was more prevalent
than in the past, and succeeded in
having the statement they objected to
eliminated.
Those who scouted the contention
that the situation was more
serious than in former years included
Drs. W. S. Leathers, of Mississ;opi;
.A. C. McCormack, of Kentucky;
James A. Hayne, of South Carolina,
anj C, W. Welch, of Alabama.
All the state commissioners, however,
were agreed that there was no
condition "approaching a famine or
plague in the south." The Health
Service was criticised for spreading
'"erroneous and misleading reports."
AliUbiiCi V/iauoc tuab wu^i v 10 uu
occasion for extending charitable
measures for the relief of the conditions
so far as any state is concerned
where pellagra is prevalent"
also was stricken out. Dr. W. S.
Rankin, Jiealth officer of North Carolina,
contended that it would be a reflection
on the south to make any
reference to the possibility of charitable
relief. ? %
The report emphasized the necessity
o? affording federal, state and local
health agencies sufficient funds to
cope with health conditions generally.
As adopted, the text of the report
was as follows:
"State health officers of the southern
states, in conference at the request
of the surgeon general of the
United States Public Health Service,
deplore the fact than an impression
. had been created that famine condi
tions exist in tne soutn, ana as a result
that pellagra has increased to
an alarming extent.
"After making an investigation and
using all information available, we
do not believe the situation warrants
or should occasion any undue alarm.
The indications are that there will be
an increase in pellagra this year in
localities in certain states where the
disease has been epidemic, but data
in hand shows in an unmistakable
way that the number of cases and
deaths from pellagra during 1921 will
\ still be less than the annual everage
during the period of 1914 to 1921.
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"in otner wurus, n. ia iunj ouustantiated
by facts in hand that pellagra
has steadily decreased in the
southern states during previous years.
In drawing conclusions relative to
the actual control of any disease comparative
statistics are valueless unless
an analysis is made for a period
of years, not less than five, and preferably
ten.
"There is no condition approaching
a famine or plague in the south. It is
obvious that this is a clear case of
misinterpretation of terms, an incorrect
analysis, and as a result statements
have been made that are erroneous
and misleading to the public.
"We realize that pellagra requires
scientific and aggressive consideration
and that the solution of the pellagra
problem depends upon sane
educational methods. The whole question
is one that should be approached
as a public health problem and dealt
with by a well defined plan.
"There can be no doubt but that
there will be an increase in the prevalence
of tuberculosis, pellagra and
other diseases during the next few
few years as a result of the economic
depression throughout the entire
country unless federal, state and local
health departments are given adequate
financial support and co-operation
in directing intensive public
public health education and in the establishment
and maintenance of local
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TAXI DRIVER SLAIX.
Three Columbians in Augusta Jail
Confess to Killing.
Augusta, Ga? Aug. 8.?F. J. Kirby,
C. 0. Fox and Jessie Gappins, three
white men of Columbia, at 11 o'clock
tonight confessed to the brutal murder
of William Brazell, 19 year old
taxi driver of Columbia. The con-,
fessidn was made to Sheriff J. T.
Plunkett, of Richmond county, in the
local jail, where the men were lodged
shortly after the arrest 20 miles south
of here this morning.
According to the confession, Brazell
was killed early Monday morning
at a point in Lexington county,
Twwppn T.pesville and Gilbert. He
was blackjacked by the three men
and stabbed in the heart with a
pocket knife and the body then
dragged to a secluded spot near the
highway, the confession stated.
After the murder the men made
their way south in an automobile
and were arrested near Waynesboro,
Ga., this morning by Richmond county
officers after they had had some
tire trouble. They were first suspected
by a mechanic named Roberts,
who is employed in work on
McBean creek, one of the men having
made a partial confession to
him, it was stated. Their arrest followed.
Sheriff Plunkett and othet county
officers will leave here tomorrow
morning for Leesville, where they
will ioin Sheriff T. J. Heise, of Rich
land county, and Sheriff Roof, of Lexington,
in a search for the body of
Brazell. One or more of the prisoners
will be taken along to point
out where the body was disposed of.
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TO DOOR AND KILLED.
Wife of Dead Man Causes Arrest of
Two Suspects.
Greenville, Aug .4.?-Ned B. Metcalf,
thirty-five, a farmer of the River
Falls section of the county, was shot
dead in front of his home about 10
o'clock last night, after he had been
called from the house by a man who
gave his name as Hunt. Leroy Harden
and Carl Austin, white men of this
city, were arrested and lodged in the
county jail today oy deputies ionowing
the inquest this morning, and are
held in connection with the shooting.
Both men disclaim knowledge of the
affair.
Mrs. Ned B. -Metcalf, wife of the
dead man, testified at the coroner's
inquest that somebody knocked at her
door between 9 and 10 o'clock, giving
his name as Hunt She declared, however,
that she recognized the voice as
! that of Leroy Harden, one of the men
arrested. She further stated that
there was someone with Harden, and
the two, with her husband, wenfdown
the road in front of the house. Several
minutes had passed when she
heard three shots, she said. Metcalf
was found with a bullet hole through
his head and one in his side.
Both Mrs. Metcalf and her elevenyear-old
son testified at the inquest
that her husband was to have paid
Harden five gallons of liquor for a
service he had rendered Metcalf. They
both said that Harden had come for
the liquor once before and was told
that he could get the liquor August 4.
The boy testified tfiat Harden told hiip
on the first visit that he would have
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time.
Metcalf is the father of seven children,
all living.
Before the United States army is
cut to a minimum of 150,000, as authorized
by congress, all surplus men
with three-year enlistments must be
paid their full allowance.
health organizations which are fundamental
in the prevention and control
of all disease and the promotion of
the public health."
The health officers were evenly divided
as to the advisability of going
on record that the pellagra situation
was no worse at the present time than
during recent years. Dr. West declared
that while he "resented from
the end of his toes to the top of his
head charges that a veritable condition
of famine existed in the south,"
heatlh authorities should realize
the seriousness of the situation. Dr.
C. W. Garrison, of Arakansas, took a
similar position, while Dr. James A.
Hayne, of South Carolina, was among
those who contended that the situation
was no worse than in previous
years.
Dr. L. L. Lundsmen, in charge of
rural sanitation for the Public Health
Service, held that the situation was
serious and said that a statement that
it was not worse than in recent years!
was "untrue." }
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11 BASE
BAMBERG DECLARED WINNER.
Springfield Declines to Play Contested
Games Over and Loses.
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The second half of the Tri-County
base ball league season closed with;
the games last Friday. With the
standing of the clubs at the close of!
the season, Springfield had won the
second half of the season, but, as wasj
announced during the game here be-!
tween*Bamberg and Springfield, Bam- j
berg played this game under protest, I
on the ground that Springfield had
violated the rules by employing an;
ineligible pitcher.
Tuesday morning a meeting of the'
various club managers was called to
be held in Bamberg. At this meet-i
ing, the protest of Bamberg was
heard, and also a similar protest from |
the Barnwell club. A majority of |
the Managers-voted to tnrow out tnej
two protested games, and also ordered
the Springfield-Ehrhardt game:
to be played over. This game was
Interrupted in the third inning by
rain, but Springfield maintained that
the games could not be played over
as the season had closed. The ruling
was made, however, that there had,
been no time limit set for.the season.'
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the rules prescribing that ten games
should be played.
The Springfield manager stated, it
is said, that his team had become:
scattered and that Springfield could
not play the games over unless given;
rrmsirierahle timp to get together. It!
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was decided that this could not be
granted, as it would put the post-1
season series too far into the bus?
period, whereupon the Springfield
manager forfeited the contested
games, thereby putting Br/mberg in
the lead for the second half.
The schedule for the post-season
games has not yet been arranged, but
the games will be played within the
next week or two, and the winner of
three out of the five games will be
declared the pennant winner of the
Tri-County league.
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Augusta Wins Exhibition Game.
Denmark, August 9. ? The
Augusta and Charleston clubs I
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of the South Atlantic league playedan
exhibition game here Monday aft-1
ernoon before a crowa estimaiea ai,
1,008. Augusta won the game by a>
score of 7 to 1. A ^reat nranv peo-i
pie came from nearby towns to witness
the affair expecting to see a
real game, but it was listless and one
sided and offered very few thrills.
The umpiring of "Steamboat" Johnson
was the outstanding feature of
the game and it was a great pity that
he could not share some of his pep
with the players of the two teams.
"Rabbit" Ramsey, who played with
?laoorno I
UHU.Llld.1 tv 111 U1C lll'vjuuubi uu
last season, and who is now playing
right field for the Augusta club, was
given a warm welcome by his hiany
friends here who are glad to know
that he has made good in the South
Atlantic league. N
Bamberg Trims Denmark.
In a game featured by the hitting
and loose fielding by both teams
Bamberg defeated Denmark on the!
local diamond last Friday afternoon
by a score of 4 to 3. With the score
standing 4 to 4 in the last half of
the eighth inning the game had to be
called on account of rain, and as Denmark
had,scored one run in her half
and there were no outs for Bamberg
in her half, the game was called back
to the seventh inning, leaving the
score 4 to 3. *
Large, the first man to face Coten,
hit for a home run, the ball going
into the pond in right field. Batteries:
Bamberg, Whiteside and
Large; Denmark, Coten and Able.
E. F. COCHRAN SWORN IN.
New Attorney for Western District of
South Carolina.
Greenville, Aug. 4.?Ernest F.
Cochran, of Anderson, was sworn in
here today as United States attorney!
for the western district of South Carolina,
in the presence of William J.
Thurmond, the retiring attorney, and
other court officials. Mr. Cochran announced
that there would be no immediate
change in his assistants. J.
E. Marshall. Democrat, is assistant
attorney. Mr, Cochran served as district
attorney under Roosevelt and
Taft.
Read The Herald, $2.00 per year.
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BALL Jj
SPRINGFIELD TRIUMPHS.
Won Game From Bamberg on Local
Diamond Last Friday.
Springfield won from the locals last
Wednesday at Rhoad park before
one of the largest crowds of the
season. The feature of the game was
the heavy hitting of the visitors and
the great pitching of Gillam for
Springfield, he allowing Bamberg,
only seven hits which were wildy
scattered.
Radcliffe started off in the box for
the locals, but after pitching to only
three or four batters and allowing as
many hits, he was yanked in favor of
Whitesides, who finished the game,
although he apparently had no control
over the ball, being his off day.
Bamberg played the game under
protest, claiming that one of the
Springfield players was inelligible,
having played professional ball, which
is clearly against the'rules of the TriCounty
league.
Gillam for Springfield struck out
11 men, and also secured a three
bagger which could easily have been
stretched into a home run, but he
seemed tc be winded when he reachthird*
and sat down to take a rest.
Score:
Springfield 9 15 0
Bamberg .1 7 3
Batteries: Springfield, Gillam and
Boland; Bamberg, Radcliffe, Whiteside,
Bamberg and Cooner.
Note:?The above game was
thrown out at the meeting of managers
here Tuesday on account of
Gillam, who pitched the game for
Springfield, being a professional, and
was forfeited to Bamberg by Springfield,
they refusing to play it over.
"Was Trimming Springfield.
Ehrhardt, Aug. 9.?Ehrhardt ai?d
Springfield were playing the final
game of the season between these
teams last Friday afternoon, when,
fortunately for Springfield her prayers
were answered in the third inning
and the game had to be called.
Ehrhardt had the visitors outclassed
in every department and the whole
team was playing unbeatable ball
when the deluge descended, with the
score standing 3 to 0 against Springfield.
In a very short time the diamond
and outfield on which these
two teams were making base ball history
presented the appearance of a
beautiful lake in which, no doubt,
fish were chasing themselves from
first to home plate, and the streets
and sidewalks of the town were raging
rivers which could be navigated
onlv bv individuals of Parnellian di
mensions, or those having canoes or
Fords. It was the opinion of many
that the best game of the season had
been interrupted, and all agreed that
it had been done by one of the largest
rains that had ever fallen in Ehrhardt.
Official Standing of Clubs.
The official standing of the clubs as
given out by President Black at the
close of the second half of the TriCounty
league, including the three
games forfeited by Springfield, is as
follows:
W L P.C.
Bamberg 8 2 .800
Barnwell.. :...5 3 .624
Springfield ?.6 4 .600
Denmark 3 5 .375
Williston 2 5 .286
Ehrhaylt 2 7 .223
Bamberg Goes to Orangeburg.
The Bamberg team went to Orangeburg
Wednesday afternoon for
a game with the team of thit city.
Each of these teams has won one
game, and the game this evening will
no doubt be hotly contested.
JAIL COOK TS JAIL.
Sheriff Puts Up Bond Before Dinner
Could Be Served.
Anderson, Aug. 6.?The Anderson
county jail was without a cook Friday.
One of the deputies arrested
the cook and put him in jail on the
charge of storing liquor. A keg of
confiscated whiskey was found in his
shack which is in the jail yard, and
notwithstanding- that it meant no
dinner, the deputy promptly arrested
him and put him in a celL When the
sheriff came, he had a cook in jail
and none in the kitchen. It ^*as necessary
for the sheriff to put up a cash
bond of $100 before the cook could
be back to the kitchen.
WOMAN SLAYS HUSBAND.
Wife Had Been Making Home With
Son.
Williston, Aug. 8.?About 9 o'clock
Monday morning Lee Scott, of the
Shaw's Fork section of Aiken county
was shot to death by his wife, Mrs.
Ada Scott. He was about 60 years
of age and his wife between 50 and
55. There seems to have been difficulties
between Mr. Scott and his
wife for some time and she has had
to leave home to protect herself.
Recently it became necessary for her
to leave and go to the home of her
son, Cohen Scott, who lives at the
Stringfellow mill place near Williston.
On hearing that she was there,
Lee Scott demanded that his son
make her return home. This he refused
to do and Lee Scott then
started upstairs where his wife was,
leaving Cohen Scott in the yard. It
is said he advanced on his wife with
an opeji knife after making certain
threats and that she picked up a
shotgun to hold him off and tried to
cock the gun and it went off, the
load entering Scott's body, piercing
his liver. Dr. Gregg Smith, of Williston,
was summoned, but Scott was
dead before he reached the place. A
coroner's jury brought in a verdict
that deceased came to his death from
gunshot wounds at the hands of Mrs.
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physical condition she could not be
carried to the jail, but bond is being
arranged for her. The. killing occurred
in the edge of Barnwell countty
and officials from both Barnwell
and Aiken counties were on hand.
Barnwell county officials have taken
charge of the case.
MILL PROPERTY VALUED HIGH.
Assessments Reach Total of $54,750,235.
Assessments against South Carolina
cotton mills for the present year total
$34,570,235, according to figures announced
by the South Carolina tax
commission. These figures are the
4 per cent placed by the commission
and represent an increase of a little
over $2,000,000 from 1920.
All mills in the state have been
assessed and the commission has
heard all the representatives who
protested the assessments. In 1920
the assessment against all the mills
was $52,464,905. The increase this
year is derived from new mills and
additions to old plants rather than
actual advances on the same property
of 1920, W. G. Query member of
the commission, said yesterday.
The commission is rapidly completing
the assessments against all
corporations and merchants and the
hearings incident thereto. Only slight
advances are noted in the valuation
for taxation of the fertilizer plants
and cotton seed oil mill companies.
Oil mills in the state were assessed
by the commission at $2,500,435 last
year and the figures announced by
the commission yesterday for 1921
are $2,564,785, only a slight advance
from 1920.
Fertilizer plants were assessed at
$4,054,787 last year and the figures
this year are $4,071,859. Here again
tho inr>rP3S(i is extremelv small.
The commission is investigating
closely all property valuations.
WHITE SLAVE CHARGE.
Dr. J. F. Williams, Prominent Physician,
is Held.
Spartanburg, Aug. 3.?Dr. J. F.
Williams, a prominent physician of
the Roebuck section, was today bound
over by United States Commissioner
D. D. Sanders for violation of the
Mann white slave act. Bond was fixed
at $5,000 and the bond was signed by
Dr. J. L. Jefferies, Dr. S. On Black,
Dr. W. O. Leonard, John L. Lancaster,
I. F. Seay and J. S. Hayes. A
preliminary heariifg was held before
the commissioner, it not being agreeable
to the court for Dr. Williams to
waive the preliminary as he desired
to do.
The allegation is that the defendant
furnished the money for a
young woman, the wife of a prominent
man in the county, and the
mother of two children, to go to Asheville,
where they lived as man and
wife. Many witnesses were put on
v,Q Gtanri and much testimony was
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brought out. Dr. Williams was at
one time a candidate for the state
senate, running against Howard B.
Carlisle.
Three hundred and forty-nine municipalities
in the department of
Somme, France, which was damaged,
devastated or destroyed during the
World War, have been awarded the
French war cross.
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CONSISTENT RISE
MADE BY COTTON >
BULGE COMES WITH CONDITION
REPORT.
Under Expectations.
Lowest for Month in Twenty-six Seasons?Carry-over
Also
Lower.
New Orleans, Aug. 7.?The low
price of this last week in the cotton
market were made on the opening
cnaci ATI on/1 + 1 nrV? TwirtAr. r\-v*
uvwuiw A-4 uuu cue UIgU 1^1 t^C3 UU LUC
closing session. From the lowest to
the highest there was a rise of 128
to 146 points. The close was at net
gains of 127 to 136 points. At the
lowest levels the active months were
four points under to five points over
the close of the preceding week and
at the highest they were 127 to 144
points over. October traded down to
11.64, rose to 13.10, and closed at
13.02. In the spot department prices
gained 125 points on middling which
closed'at 12.25 against 36.75 a year
ago.
The opening session of the week
brought a bulge of over a cent a
pound because of the bullish showing
of the government's figures on
the growing crop and much more
favorable annual statistics than expected.
The advance was kept going
by the hot and dry weather in the
belt, especially in the western portions,
and complaints that it was
causing severe deterioration. Hot
winds were complained of at times
In the eastern belt, but during the
last half of the week large areas
east of the Mississippi river received
showers. Extremely hot weather
continued to the end of the week in
the west and the closing session
brought official weather returns
showing temperatures of 100 and
above at many points. Texas reported
temperatures up to 106 de
grees and Oklahoma up to 109.
The foundation for the week's advance
was laid by the government's
report of 64.7 per cent, of normal as
the condition 01 tbe crop on July 25.
This was the lowest percentage of
condition ever returned on that date
and was fully three points under
general expectation. It indicated a
crop of but 8,203,000 bales, and iX
these figures are realized it will mean
j that the south has grown the smallest
crop in 26 seasons.
The outstading feature of the annual
statistics was the carry-over of
9,194,000 bales which was the larg- .
est carry-over on record, was far under
expectation. The trade gener- ,
ally looked for at least 9,500,000
bales and there were estimates of
around 10,000,000 and a few as high
as 10,500,000. The commercial crop
was smaller than expected, 11,377,316
bales against 12,443',180 a year
ago but was offset by the small consumption,
10,500,000 bales against
12,670,000 last year. These figures
i related to the cotton year ended with
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FORESEES BUSINESS REVIVAL.
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Federal Reserve Goveinor Makes
Prediction.
Washington, Aug. 6.?"With the
coming of cold weather business will
revive." This is the unequivocal
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SldlCUUCIU U1 > ? . VI. J. . O" '
ernor of the federal reserve board,
and on economic cpnditions one of
the best informed men in the United
States.
Mr. Harding predicted the cotton
panic and urged the farmers to sell
when their staple was worth 43 cents
in July 1920. His prediction of stimulated
business the coming fall is
regarded in Washington as significant.
A much better prospect for
cotton Mr. Harding also predicts.
"T.oaf fail " hp said, "we had a car
ry-over-crop of 5,000,000 bales and a
new crop of 13,000,000 plus. Europecould
not buy. Home consumption
was curtailed by virtue of a buyers*
strike. Now we have a carry-over
crop of approximately 7,000,000 bales
and a new crop of only 8,000,000. Export
train resuscitates. Home consumption,
with stimulated business
the coming fall, will increase."
Setting it Right.
Kansas Paper?"We wish to apologize
for the manner in which we disgraced
the beautiful wedding last
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"week. Tnrou&n an errux Ui mo IJFDsetter
we were made to say "the roses
were punk." What we should have
said was "the roses were pink."?
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