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; Santbrrg Ijmlii j * ^ $2.00 Per Year in Adavance. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1922. Established in 1891. || January Term of Criminal Court Ends i % ' ? The January term of the court of .general sessions for Bamberg county ended here last Friday with the com "rap- -' ? pletion of the case of the state against R. O. Williamson charged with murder. % The doings of the first few days of the court were related in last week's v issue of The Herald. And last Wednesday as The Herald went to press the case of the state against Warren Oharlton, negro, charged with the murder of Ruby Watkins, also ? a negro, at a hot supper in the lower part of the county, was in progress. The jury re& turned to its room on this case short ' 1& before the dinner recess hour; in a & few hours, one of the jurors, Thomas Beard, received word from his wife oAvoral miloc in Hia nmintrv that aha k had been suddenly and very critically c > stricken ill and if possible to come ajt once with a doctor. The judge asked foreman of the jury if he thought ? they could agree in the next few minutes, and the reply was in the negaX tive; the jury had already had the case under consideration about four hours. So Judge De Vore said he felt \ it his duty under the circumstances n onH allnw \fr I ' 'W utuci a ? ???? <???w.. U Beard to hurry to his ill wife. This '*V was done, and thus the case will be ' held over until another term of court. Charlton's case has been hangEl Jng for quite a while and he was at : ; once granted bail by Judge DeVore. At the conclusion of this case another old murder case was tak a up >. ..... .. ^ f and quickly completed. That was against a young negro named Pat * Tick Loadholt from the lower part of the county. He was indicted for killing another negro by the name of Jesse Folk at one of these free for all frolicks in his section a few years * -arfcirrh n?iiaHv rftsnlt in one or ? two funerals. The one in question ? was the occasion for two because at f; ihe same time Loadholt killed Folk another negro, Jesse Padgett, was also shot and killed by Folk. How* ever, it seemed to be a case of self i * defease for Loadholt who offered no testimony whatever, and the court directed a verdict of acquittal on the state's case alone. He was found fe guilty of carrying concealed weapons though and fined $50 or sentenced to serve 30 days on the gang. The Williamson case was the next |Mv.? . and last one tried. The facts of this case have been reviewed before in The Herald, . and are pretty ^ "well known to Bamberg county people. It will be remfemjberedi that Williamson and his wife hailed W. ? Ham Brabham, a prominent Ehrhardt man, on the street in front of V V ' Williamson's home in Ebrhardt, a short argument ensued and Williamson shot Brabham to death. The tragedy occurred Blaster Sunday A nm'1 Ofl+K 1Q1Q Tha mia mvi U1U5, Ayill ttWA&y XV X UV VWV " > - ;WM once before tried, the defendant ; being convicted of manslaughter with recommendation to'mercy, and Speeial Judge Charles Carroll Simms, of Barnwell, imposed a sentence of ten years at (hard labor upon him, probably a record sentence for such a verdict. Upon appeal the supreme court sent the case hack for anomer ' >?**?* ^ *V* ^ trial on another point involved. And IW? M after remaining out about four hours the jury this time returned identically the same verdict as the other jury, ? and the court cut the sentence half in two. Williamson getting five vears. It is understood that no appeal will be taken and that the prisoner has already entered upon his sentence on ? ' the Bamberg county chain gang. Thus ends this celebrated case. Solicitor Gunter is still sick in Aiken, and B. W. Miley, of the local bar, conducted the prosecutions for the state during the entire week of court. ? m hi m Watches Him Cut It. She was a very sweet young bride, who: had already found what looks like a nice piece of meat in the shop often seems to have gone through a private transformation scene when it arrives home. "How is it?" she inquired eagerly, T17V1 an nld marriail f rion rl n uvu uu v/xu mux a iwu ai av/Aau v??v\a ^ upon her, "that you always manage to have such delicious beef." "It's very simple," replied the elder woman. "I first select a good, honest butcher, and then I stand by him." "Oh, I see! You give him all your orders, you mean?" said the innocent young bride. "No" answered her companion, grimly: "I stand by him while he is cutting the meat." * *m> ? ' The ancient "City of Refuge" on the island of Hilo, Hawaii, was built in the 11th century. NT ' ii m V, - . HOUSE PASSES DYER MEASURE. A nti-Lynching Bill Sent to the Senate, j Fight by Democrats. Washington, Jan. 26.?The house today declared itself in favor of the federal government exerting its au1 ? -? ?? -t* 1 a- rt mn All t inoruy 111 aii euon to uui, lynching, passing by a vote of 230 to 119 the Dyer anti-lynching bill. Seventeen Republicans joined 102 Democrats in voting in the opposition, while eight Democrats and one Socialist, London of New York, voted with 231 Republicans in favor of the measure. The bill provides life imprisonment or lesser penalties for persons who participate in lynchings and for state, county and municipal officials, who fail through negligence to pre vent them. Tne measure aisu stipulates that the county in which mobs form or kill anyone shall forfeit $10,000 to the family of the victim. Democratic opponents of the bill, defeated in attempts to recommit it to the judiciary committee and to strike out the enacting clauses, made no concerted effort to have amendment a/tantari Thev declared "the vicious principle of the bill" could not be changed by amendments but expressed confidence that the measure never would receive senate approval. Except for a few perfecting amendments fffered: by Chairman Volstead of the judiciary committee, amendments proposed by individuals were ^ ^? - v.? T) f iTrn r6J6Ct6CL. Ulie U> ivcyicscuiamc French, Republican, of Idabo, would have eliminated the provision requiring counties to forfeit $10,000 to famt ilies of mob victims. One committee amendment not approved removed from the bill the requirement that couties through which a mob passed should pay a $10,000 penalty. Another one ac * - J f V?mo nr cepieil aeuueu <x muu aa more persons acting together Io take human life illegally. The bill originally defined a mob as five or more persons acting together. During debate, which continued intermitttently for a month, opponents of the measure declared it would be an unconstitutional invasion of state rights and would have a tendency to increase rather than decrease lynctfings. They also charged that Republicans were supporting the proposal for political reasons. Proponents, however, contended that states, especially in the south, had failed to handle the situation and that to afford all races protection guaranteed them under the federal constitution it was necessary for the federal government to take a hand. lts.O0O.000 FOR SODA POP. South Carolina Also Spends Millions For Candy. Columbia, Jan. 21.?The most remarkable increase in business in South Carolina in the past ten years is represented in the mineral and soda water bottling establishments, says Commissioner B. Harris in his annual report made public today. "Ten years ago," says Mr. Harris, "the output of these establishments was valued at $702,000. In 1920 this has increased to approximately $5,000,000. In the subnormal year of 1921 the total output of the bottling works of the state was $3,118,484. "Also, ten years ago the value of the output of confectionery making plants in the state was $21,600. Tr. 1 Q 0 n ffoia >1,0/1 lTJ/TPfl fiprt to ST. 276,569. In 1921 it was but $843,177. Yet, even in this subnormal year the total of these two luxuries, taffy candy and soda pop was approximately $4,000,000, or twothirds the amount of our state debt. And these figures do not include soda water sold at fountains or 'French' candy shipped into the state in boxes. These facts might suggest something to those looking around for new ways of raising revenue." DITPRE HEARS DEATH SENTENCE. Youthful Atlanta Bandit Convicted of Murder Will Be Hanged. A AT i ? Tn? OO A C. A V, ? iviiaiiid, via., odii. i.o.?filter ue jury had returned a verdict of guilty in the case of Frank B. DuPre, youthful bandit charged with the murder of Detective Irby Walker following a jewelry store robbery here last December, Judge Matthews today sent1 J n-.Tl? i. 1 ft Tt lencea uurre tu uaug .viaiuu iu. it was later announced that a motion would be heard for a new trial February 18 at Macon. DuPre was calm when the verdict was returned. X 65 Bales on 6i San Antonio, Texas, January 24.? Lee F. Freeman is a 'general former at Mercedes, in the southern Texas Relt where holl weevils were as num erous in 1921 as at any spot in the entire cotton area; ana to Mr. Freeman's thinking a little more so. In one field of 65 acres he made 65 bales of standard weight cotton, the staple running from one and five-sixteenths to one and threeeights. In another field of 32 acres of approximately the same gross yield in the first crop he made an additional top crop of 12 bales. This is a greater yield than the same land | produced under normal farming conj ditions prior to the advent of the weefviI* And this one practical "dirt farmer" example illustrates what is being done in commercial cotton raising throughout Texas by those ! planters who farm as a business and j not as a play-thing, or as a means ; merely of keeping body and soul together while waiting for Gabriel to blow his trumpet. 5 Climatic Differences Not a Potent Factor. Snme nnp mav sav. "O. well that's in the warm gulf coast country where the cotton is planted in March and picked in August?" So much the worse in dealing with I the weevil, or in raising cotton under boll weevil conditions. My investigations have demonstrat ed that the weevil is much more easily controlled in the northern Texas belt than in the southern, or hot belt. The same will be found true in Georgia. Warm winters naturally carry more weevils through the period of hibernation than cold winters. That is com mon sense. The weevil does not keep account of calendar months. He emerges from hibernation earlier in the hot zones than in the cold zones, as his habits are affected by climatic conditions. That's common sense. Put the two facts together, there-L fore, and what is the conclusion? I That which long years of experience in Texas has proven beyond a question? the weevil becomes a menace in the hot belt earlier than !? ?'> Kolf and + Vi orofnrp in ill LUC W1U UV/i(.r uuu vuvi v>v. ? - ? weevil control, per se, 'the farmer in the warmer cotton zone has no advantage over his brother to the north. Indeed the northern brother hasj the advantage of conditions more conducive to higher weevil mortality in hibernation. I hope that point is clear, and will settle any controversy as to normal climatic conditions. This does not relate, of course, to abnormal climatic conditions such as nndnlv wet and humid spfing and| summer conductive to weevil propagation: or to dry, cold winter conductive to weevil mortality. At any rate, it is just a question of any good, intelligent, industrious farmer shaping his operations to his usual local climatic conditions, and them to the climatic conditions that may develop, if unusual. That is plain How a Texas Farmer Mastered the Weevil. Now let's have Mr. Freeman tell his own story: "Growing cotton successfully under boll weevil conditions is not to be whipped before beginning; not to be discouraged by any unforseen condition; not to stop cultivating when the July picnics begin; not to go to sleep on the job; not to trust worthless, nocount tenants or help, who have nothing but three meals a day at stake, to do the work, without overseeing; not to experiment with untried devices and remedies, not to depart from the old-time honored rules for growing cotton; not to believe that cotton will grow successfully on land too poor for anything else; not to half do anything?but on the contrary, to bend every effort to make more cotton on the same land than the year before; to push it to boling just as fast as is physically practicable; and to work it, and then work it; and not to 'lay-it-by' until the staple is ready to pick. ] "The bulk of our cotton is gathered; in August," said Mr. Freeman. "Wej begin preparing the soil just as early as the season will permit after the holidays. We take especial care in the preparation of our seed beds? care, with well tried system. "We make, as nearly ds practicable, every condition good for the cotton growing and for getting a good stand at the first planting so that no energy may be lost in doing the work > Acres in 1921 over. "Of course, if weather conditions drown us out, or dissipate our first efforts, we go ungrouchingly about the task of rebuilding what is torn down. I am talking, though of rais ing cotton successiuny in spite 01 tne boll weevil under fairly normal conditions. We must assume they will be otherwise. We cannot invite disaster and hope to win. Matter of Fertilizing Up To Soil Conditions. "We get the cotton in in March. So far as the boll weevils are concerned those who plant in April to the north are just as well off, or better, because the weevil's destruction begins when the cotton is about the same age, deonif a apuc ^HlXlCLLH; CUUU1LIUUH. "We use a plenty of fertilizer, but do not try to over-do it. We must practice economy. It does no good to grow cotton at a loss. Better not grow it at all. So we use 200 pounds of nitrate of soda and over 300 pounds of acid phosphate to the acre; or say we use meal. Fertilizing must be determined upon by the individual farmer in keeping with his soil con ditions. Soil should be built up or kept up by crop rotating, and by alternating or crop following with velvet beans, or something equally as profitable in depositing the nitrates that growing cotton consumes. "All right, assuming that every good, intelligent farmer knows his own fertilizing problem I shall proceed with my own method? Push Growing Plant By Intensive Cultivation. "We push the cotton after the stand just as fast as possible by intensive cultivation. We chop it just as we always did without any new fangled ideas as to thin spacing, etc., in order to cope with the weevil. We simply endeavor to make cotton ?and just as much as is physically possible to make by intensive cultivation?just as though there wasn't a boll weevil in a thousand miles of us. "But we know the weevil is here and we prepare in advance for dusting to control him at the proper time, if it becomes necessary. "We know that the cotton, if it is coming along satisfactorily will form 50 to 60 per cent, more squares 4 k AM AAA k A ?Vt WT r\ AT* AA1fAT? lliaii cau uc maiuicu. i?c cuucavui to push maturing bolls to a poim wfcere the weevil will liave plenty of young surplus squares to feed upon at the season when we may expect infestation to become a menace. Along in early June we begin to watch for infestation. If it gets at any time around 100 per cent., or more, we then go at the dusting process in the plat where that infestation has developed methodically, just as a part of the growing game?just as the tobacco -growers know that it is just as much a part of the pro gramme to fight insects as it is to plant and cultivate. "We use calcium arsenate, as agreed upon by the United States department of agriculture using a light draught machine, and apply it about 6 pounds to the acre, three times, perhaps it may require four applications, about four or five days apart, weather permitting; and we find the infestation is always then sufficiently reduced to admit to a * 1*_ ? e ? #,,11 complete waiuiiLy ui <x tun vunuu crop, other conditions, of course, being equal. Cultivation Always Kept Firmly in Mind. "Bear in mind we do not forget that dusting, if infestation starts in early, will not make cotton of itself. We just make dusting at the proper time a part of the regular programme for successful cotton growIno" nn/J tirfl -fin/1 tro Vl o vo Til n fl WAV Hi?j, ouu no ""U Tf^ u?.v ^ v...*.., from the boll weevil and beat him to it, so much the better. If we do have to dust it is not permitted to interfere with our intensive cultural methods. "We co-ordinate the cultural and the dusting features into a systematized programme to grow cotton, and more cotton and less acreage each year, and to grow' it without getting eypitpd or worried: or without any undue expense, as the dusting part of the game, when understood, is only a negligible expense, and overcome many fold by the excess in production created by intensive cultural methods that we know in reason must be parcticed in order to beat the weevil. "In 1921 we made a twelve-bale top crop on 32 acres, all after the initial crop was off, by keeping the weevil > further controlled by three WOMAN BURN'S TO DEATH. Clotning Becomes Ignited From Can of Kerosene. Greenwood, Jan. 28.?Her clothing becoming ignited while attempting to thaw frozen water pipes under her house with a burning kereosene soak ed sack, Mrs. R. E. Tollison was burntd to death before assistance could reach her late yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Tollison is the wife of R. E. Tollison, bookkeeper for the Greenwood Grocery company. Mrs. Tollison was alone at <her home. She had driven home from down town in her car and was still muffled in her wraps when her cloth/,?> ,i.orV.4- 13 afnr>a t Vl Q flomOQ 1 115 lyd U.'3 11 t U1 JLI^LVi V WiiV AAWflAMVW were extinguished almost all her clothing had burned off. In response to screams for help, J. L. Webb, a next door neighbor, went to the burning woman's assistance. By the time he reached her she was unconscious. A half filled five gallon kerosene can and a handful of matches were found on a box in the yard near her body. 3 MEN HELD OX AIKEX CHARGE. Magistrate Fives Bonds for Men A!-* a ^ . tt m ? n i,o tegea 10 nave r iwi^u duu&". I Aiken, Jan 21.?The hearing before Magistrate Raborn of the trio of men and one woman arrested in Augusta last Sunday morning, charged with duping three Aiken banks through the passage of forged checks, was concluded this morning. Mrs. Sam Padgett, who has been held with her husband and Milton Lyles, and W. C. Westbur?, was given her freedom. Padgett and Westbury, however, were held under bond for appearance before the grand jury on charges of A/\nnm'wnmf i/uuo^/ii a^j . Yesterday Lyles was ordered held under heavy bond, Magistrate Raborn fihis morning fixed bond for Lyles at $^,000, this being $1,000 in each of the cases of alleged forgery, or "uttering a forged instrument." Padgett's bond has been fixed at $1,500 | and Westbury's at $1,000. Newberry county officials also fixed the bond of ! Westbnry at $4,000 for appearance before the grand jury of that county on two charges of forgery. T*Vi? Jioorinp1 W9Q Pflfl I iuc uvu* " v?w weluded this morning with the testimony of Mrs. Walter Duncan, who I was the only witness to appear. Mrs. Duncan testified that one day last week, a day or two before the banks were fleeced, she saw Padgett in Aiken together with two other men. The two had stopped in front of the Aiken Standard office and their conduct attracted her attention. When Mrs. Duncan left tlie stand, Magistrate Raborn announced that he had heard sufficient testimony and direct| d the attorneys to proceed with argu ments as to tihe amount of bonds to be assessed. Alive and Kicking. I Uncle Mose had an affection for his wife that neither age nor the wear and tear of her disposition had destroyed. He seemed to glory in what others described as Aunt Sally's cantankerousness. "How's Aunt Sally getting along, Ano Af < ViQ na{c*fihrvrs askfid IUUOC . UJLAV/ V*. bUV UWAQAAMVAM . upon encountering the old man after lively sounds had been heard from the alley. "I'se been fearin' dis winter's rheumatiz would carry her off," said the veteran, "but she sho' is improvin' dis last spell o' warm weather. Dis mawnin' she stood up, restin' herself on one crutch, and made passes at me wid de oder an' she done made , out to fetch a right smart piece o' skin offen mah shin-bone. Yassah, Ise feelin' pow'ful encouraged." One Was Alive. A doctor making his rounds at the county hospital came to a new patient, who spoke but broken English. "Any of your family alive?" asked the doctor after an ineffectual attempt to elicit a clear history of the case. "Yes," muttered the man. "I am." additional dustings with calcium arsenate?all of this, mind you, after the first crop was off." I promised in this article to give an interview with Dr. Tamquary and Dr. Rinehard, of the Texas cotton station, but will get to that later. I feel the people of Georgia want to >1 f\nr fhp dirt, farmers t.hem I\.UU n XIV ff vww selves?independent of science or "buggology"?are handling this weevil proposition in the southwest, and I shall from time to time, cover various sections with their stories.? Jas. A. Halliman, staff correspondent Atlanta Constitution. i : i ||? E. D. Bigham Loses j Supreme Court Appeal 1 Columbia, Jan. 27.?The supreme | court yesterday handed down an opin* ion dismissing the appeal of Edmund D Riirham anH offirminsr f v>? 1 nirtno ?' ?*"u tuc IV TVT71 court verdict. The court dismissed all the objections raised by defense counsel as to an unfair trial and unjust charging by Judge Memminger. Chief Justice Gary wrote the opinion and Associate Justice Cothran concurred. Justice Fraser wrote a separate concurring opinion. Bigham was convicted of killing his brother, L. Smiley Bigham, the tragedy occurring near Pamblico on January, 15, 1921. ; He was charged with the murder of Smiley Bigham, his sister, Mrs. Margery Black, and Mrs. J Black's two adopted children, Leo and John McCracken. He has never been tried for the killing of any mem* . | hers of the family except L. Smiley Bigham. First Degree Verdict. I Bigham was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to die I April S, 1921. He appealed to the j supreme court and yesterday this court dismissed his appeal. Bigham ? ,has.been in the death house at the ^ penitentiary since a few days following his conviction. oiguaui win ue carried to riorence imsi county at the next term of general sessions court for resentencing. The crime was one of the most revolting in the history of Florence county and great interest has been kept up in the case. The first theory 3 advanced was that Smiley Bigham had killed the members of his fam- ] ily and then committed suicide, but an investigation resulted in the ar- . rest of Edmund Bigham and later his .13 conviction. | After his conviction Bigham went before the supreme court on a habeas corpus proceeding, claiming that he had never been tried, in that the Florence court was unlawful due to the fact that Judge Memminger continued the court longer than the term was s supposed to have run. The supreme J cuun uismi^eu tuis pica, auu joi&uaiu. j then went before the court in regular j appeal at the fall term of 1921. In the opinion handed down by the ' >^9 cuort it is plearly stated that all of the objections raised are without grounds for reversing the circuit court. The refusal to grant a change | of venue was proper, the court says, and adds that Bigham received the benefit in Florence of the prejudice i against Smiley Bigham, who had been tried for a "revolting murder," but I acquitted. v-yiaH Regarding Charging. Edmund Bigham claimed Smiley i Bigham had killed the members of j the family and then committed suicide, and one objection raised was I that Judge Memminger charged im- [ properly on this point as to suicide. j A part of Judge Memminger's j charge, "as to this case," was object- I ed to, but the court says the charge ,J| was absolutely just and was not prejudicial to Bigham. i Probably the most important obt j jection was that Judge Memminger did not charge the jury that Bigham ] was clothed with a presumption of in- 1 nocence, but the court says Judge Memminger did make this clear in. j part of his charge. '-'lljB As to the language used by the *^9 judge to Attorney King the court | says Mr. King did not speak court j language and that Judge Memminger was correct in stopping Mr. King When he did stop him, adding that a judge may lose control of his court i within half a minute if he does not take immediate charge of an situa- 1 tion arising. Hitting Henty. They had had a little tiff?only one of these storms that will burst j upon domestic life when the matri- |j monial sun suffers from sunspots. > He sat with his pipe and his book, 1 while this wife turned a three-yearold dress. The man laid down his book to light his fourth pipeful of tobacco. His wife laid down her sewing, turned to him and said: j? "Henry, when you proposed to me you said that you were not worthy to be the dust under my shoes." "Well," snapped Henry, "you're not sroing to throw that in my face are you?" "No," she answered, "I'm going to give you credit for these words. Whatever else you were, Henry, yon spoke the truth." More than 59,000 people visited the Sequoia and General Grant National . s; ,7 parks this year, the largest number of visitors ever recorded. v " '*1 < ^ ' r'