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r. Eleven Now in Death
House in Columbia
Columbia, March 28.?Four men,
two whites and two negroes, were
v brought to the penitentiary yesterday
- under death sentences imposed by the
court of general sessions at Greenville.
This was one of the few times
when as many as four men were
?toto nrisnn at. anV
'Drougm tu iuc r-? - ?.
^ one time to be electrocuted, especially
?/ four men from one county.
? ' The men were: T. Jeff Chandler,
white; Cliff Hawkins, white; Will
Hood, negro; Otto Sullivan, negro.
All lour men were convicted of murder
and are now under death sent
ence for their crimes.
i Cliff Hawkins and Will Hood are
under sentence for April 7, while
* 'Chandler and Sullivan are sentenced
to die on April 21. Abraham Wilh
Hams, Branchville negro, is also unI
/ der death sentence for April 7, this
(bringing the number to three for one
Jj day. Hawkins has already been be'
-; lore the supreme court and was de^
- nied a new trial, but further mo
| tions are Said to be contemplated.
Abraham Williams, was first sent^
enced to die last October, but he has
r been reprieved three or four times
h by the governor, and another stay
may be granted before April 7 as the
pardon board has not as yet anpA
nounced a report on the case.
4^ An appeal is also to be taken in the
| Chandler case, it is understood, and
^ . a year or two may elapse before final
disposition is made of his sentence,
k It is not known whether or not an
F appeal will be taken by Sullivan's attorneys.
| The penitentiary is becoming more
-crowded every day and prisoners are
coming in from different sections in
.groups. Even the death house is
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^ crowded, in tact, 10 SUCH au c-a.com, j
that it will not hold all the prison(
ers under death sentence and some
are kept in the main building.
Among those now in the penitenS.
tiary for electrocution may be listed
the following: Cliff Hawkins, Otto
^ Sullivan, Will Hood, T. Jeff Chandler,
Edmund O. Bigham, Jesse Gapins,
C. O. Pox, S. J. Kirby, El Culbreath,
f v Abraham Williams, and William
I Thompson. In addition to these J. C.
[ Wallace, of Sumter, a white man, is
t under death sentence. He is in SumL
ter. |
B The four prisoners from Greenville
, -were brought down yesterday morn-i
p . ing, by Greenville officers, reaching
jg the penitentiary shortly after the
V noon hoar.
I ' HEADQUARTERS AT RICHMOND.
? Orderly
Marketing of Tobacco
Planned by Growers.
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I Richmond, Va., March 25.?Richly
mond will be the executive, financial
R and selling headquarters for the Tobacco
Growers' Cooperative AssociaI
tion of Virginia, North Carolina and
k v South Carolina, with Oliver J. Sands, I
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B?' vsT*; %
president of the American National
I Bank, of Richmond, in charge as the
y \ temporary executive manager.
! Official headquarters of the genL
eral manager and other important
W officials, who are yet to be named,
f w will be in Raleigh, N. C.
w More than 80,000 of the 100,000
\ tobacco growers in Virginia, North
m Carolina and South Carolina, have
entered into a five-year binding con|
tract by which they agree to deliver
1 their entire crops to the association
|C to be marketed by merchandising
methods instead of just "dumped" as
S has been the custom in past years.
Jr The 130 wholesale tobacco wareL
houses in the three States will be
taken over by the association, the
H contract already signed oj me luj
bacco growers of the three states
r mean that approximately 400,000,BeLt:
7 000 pounds of tobacco at an estimated
i?v value of $100,000,000 will be marL
heted througSh the cooperative plan.
I At the request of the district diL
rectors the Virginia branch of the
fek f | Tobacco Growers' Cooperative Assom
ciatioa of Virginia, North Carolina
k- and South Carolina, Governor Trihkle
Br appointed Oliver J. Sands as the state
director to represent the people of
B&. the commonwealth, in the associam
tion. The governor of North CaroR
. lina named Col. Grimes, of Raleigh,
v as the director for that state, and the
f governor of South Carolina named
I E. I. Epps as the South Carolina state
ill director.
f * The fact that she lives thirty miles
I from the nearest moving picture the
ater does not deter Mrs. Nancy K.
O'Brien, of Osceola, Wis., driving her
kt car that distance in one night to see
Qfl^. a show.
Welcome to Gov. Cox
Extended in Aiken
Aiken, March 27.?Speaking to approximately
2,000 people here this afternoon
former Gov. James M. Cox,
of Ohio, appealed to his audience to
be true and steadfast to the principles
of Jeffersonian Democracy and await
with confidence the final outcome of
democratic principles.
Henry S. Johnson, president of the
Aiken chamber of commerce, presided
over the meeting and introduced
Mayor D. W. Gatson, Jr., who welcomed
the visitors and in turn introduced
Governor Cooper. Governor
Cooper paid a tribute to Governor
Oox and introduced him as one who
was "as triumphant in defeat as he
was in victory."
Governor Cooper began his address
with a tribute to the beauty of Aiken
and if a nnssibilities. He referred to
the work of William C. Whitney and
to the "diversified efforts" of iMr. and
Mrs. Thomas H. Hitchcock in laying
the foundation of Aiken as a winter
resort.
He discussed the agricultural conditions
as he had observed them and
encouraged the farmers to grow more
hogs and to practice diversification.
He referred to the campaign now on
in South Carolina for the cooperative
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marketing of cotton on a business basis.
Denmark was cited as an example
of cooperative marketing.
Roads and schools, he said, go hand
in hand. South Carolina can build
roads much cheaper than Ohio because
of climatic conditions, he said.
| Governor Cox sai'd that he had the
annual reports of every state officer
in South Carolina and he congratulated
South Carolina on having its
state government run with such efficiency
and economy.
Paying :his respects to the republican
party and especially to one Henry
Cabot Lodge, he refeifcd to the four
pact treaty as a "bob tail league" and
expressed the hope that the United
States might some day under wiser
leadership win a berth in the "inter-1
national league."
Governor Cox closed with a tribute
to Woodrow Wilson, "that silent soldier
who will not dramatize his
wounds." His prayef was that God
would grant unto Woodrow Wilson
the joy of living to see his policies
vindicated. As the speaker closed
his address the band broke into the
stirring strains of "Dixie" and the
vast audience sprang to its feet and
gave prolonged cheers. As the audience
stood silent, Mr. Johnson,
chairman, tihanked Governor Cox for
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tne inspiration ui uis auuicsa auu
asked that he take back with him the
thought that here in South Carolina,
men and women were standing with
eager hearts and willing hands anxious
to take their place and part in
international affairs.
Governor Cox is leaving Aiken
Tuesday for Birmingham where he
speaks at the launching of the million
dollar drive for Alabama State
College of Agriculture. From Birmingham
he goes to Jackson, Miss.,
for an address before the general assembly.
FORGOT HER MARRIAGE.
Husband Fails in Effort to Live With
Her.
Winchester, Va., March 26.?Although
she was married to Harrison
L. Hillyard and lived with him for
three days, Mrs. Sarah Ruth Hillyard
testified in municipal court
Saturday night that she did not remember
anything about it, and the
first thing she knew to bring it to
her attention was when ghe awoke
up in bed, found Hillyard there and
asked him to explain his presence.
Hillyard told her they had been married
three days. She testified she
left him at once and declared She
would not live with him further. I
Hillyard was before the court, charged
with a felonious attack upon his
wife as she left a moving picture
theater with her father. He denied
he intended to strike his wife or injure
her, but merely desired to say a
few words to her about living with
him again, and took her by the arm
to get her attention. He told the
court the girl's father hit him in the
face with a couple of cans of evaporated
milk while he was asking her
to "be reasonable." Hillyard was
I
required by the court to give a peace
bond.
More than half of the stockholders
of the American Telephone and Telegraph
company stock are women, of
which more than 25,000 ate employes
of the company.
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Cvtton Production
Drops 80 Per Cent.
The final ginning fifures for the
cotton crop of 1921 have just been
issued by the census bureau, and
shows a decrease in cotton production
in Bamberg county of approximately
80 per cent, from the produc
tion or iyzu, ana a decrease ui approximately
95 per cent, from the
county's highest production in any
single year. Not a single county in
the state shows as great production
as in the previous year, except Beaufort.
All of the counties in the lower
portion of the state show approximately
the same decrease, while the
production increased as one would
travel north. Following are the figures
of fhe counties of the state of
the crops of 1921 and 1920, the state
figures being, 1921, 786,029; 1920,
1,652,277:
? County 1921 1920
V Abbeville 17,233 34,070
Aiken 13,979 44,197
! Allendale 4,580 13,615
Anderson 63,393 88,502
Bamberg 4,154 21,147
Barnwell 8,031 28,477
Beaufort 458 346
Berkeley 1,111 8,970
Calhoun 5,484 43,571
Charleston 361 1,561
Cherokee 15,196 20,898
Chester 26,599 37,583
Chesterfield 26,919 41,577
Clarendon 8,295 49,580
Colleton 2,071 6,869
Darlington 22,866 59,028
Dillon 34,699 45,544
Dorchester 1,690 10,028
Edgefield .... .... 7,674 25,708
Fairfield X10,379 30,677
Florence 21,815 49,382
Georgetown 543 4,476
Greenville 44,987 53,637
Greenwood 14,145 ,41,337
Hampton 3,053 ' 7,156
Horrv 3,983 12,586
Jasper 712 923
' Kershaw ?12,933 42,215
Lancaster 16,505 26,707
T anranc 3 5.8 ?>9 64.9 <8
JLW.U1 ^ JLX ^7 - - --- * ? ' - '
Lee 19,806 55,866
j Lexington 9,529 35,945
McCormick 4,392 16,416
Marion 12,041 23,558
v Marlboro 50,762 79,793
\ Newberry 19,222 47,136%
Oconee 22,105 25,897
Orangeburg 18,916 98,728
Pickens- - 22,790 23,072
Ridhland ? .... 8,485 37,504
Saluda 9,675 31,300
Spartanburg 72,738 89,675
Sumter 18,788 63?24o
Union 17,518 25,251
t Williamsburg .... 7,612 35,153
York 42,143 48,398
bottle found on beach.
May Be Key to the Cyclops Mystery
of 1917.
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Beaufort, N. C., 'March. 25.?A bottle
containing a note purporting to be
signed by an engineer aboard the
navy collier Cyclops, which disappeared
at sea in 1917, was picked up
today northeast of Cape Lookout
lighthouse. The note stated that
a German ' submarine was close
by, that all hands had been ordered
on board the U-boat and that
the ship was then to be torpedoed.
The note was smirched with grease
and the bottle was stopped with a
rubber stopper and was covered with
sea urau.
The Cyclops was bound from a.
Chilean port for the United States
with a cargo of nitrates when she
disappeared. An extensive search was
conducted for her but no trace ever
was found. It had been generally
believed that she went down suddenly
off the Atlantic coast in a iheavy
squall or storm, although no nearby
ports reported any disturbance at the
time and no wireless message was received
from the vessel indicating any
trouble.
ESCAPE FROM GANG.
Convict Holds Guard at Point of
Pistol.
Florence, March 22.?Six members
of the eity chain gang made their es
I cape this afternoon when Hamby
1 Harris, a convict, held the guard at
the point of a pistol. Harris ihad taken
the guard by surprise and disarmed
him. Tho of th"e convicts have
been recaptured. One decided not to
run and gave himself up. The gang
was working on the outskirts of the
city when the negroes made the
-break for liberty.
A Greenwood dispatch, referring
to Bailey's base ball team this season,
says: "In Radcliff and Cox, Coach
Korman has two of the pitchers of
last year's team, and they will be
ably assisted by Whiteside, who gives
promise of being one of the best preparatory
school pitchers in the state."
Radcliff pitched for tihe Bamberg
team last year, while Whiteside is
a Bamberg boy who is developing
into a pitcher of great promise. Both
are students at Bailey.
Four Billion Dollar
Bonus Passes House
Washington, March 23.?The $4,000,000.000
soldiers' bonus bill was
passed tonight by the house by an
overwhelming majority. It now goes
to the senate, where its fate is regarded
as uncertain.
The vote was 333 to 70, or 64
more than the two-thirds majority
nppMsarv fr?r nassaze of the measure
under the parliamentary procedure |
selected by Republican leaders for
the expressed purpose of preventing
the Democrats 'from offering a motion
to recommit.
Party lines disappeared both in the
general debate and on the final roll
call, 243 Republicans, 90 Democrats
and one Socialist supporting the bill
and 42 Republicans and 28 Democrats
voting against it. As passed by
the house the bonus bill would provide
for immediate cash payments to
veterans whose adjusted service pay
would not exceed $50, and would give
the other veterans the option of these
four plans:
Adjustice service certificates, with
provisions authorizing loans by banks
in the first three years after next
October X, and by the government
thereafter; the certificates to run for
on tTMM on/i trt liavo a fane value at
v jcaio uuu bv um* v ???-? .?
maturity of the amount of the aujusted
service credit at th^rate of $1
a day for domestic service and $1.25
a day for foreign service, increased
by 25 per cent., plus interest at the
rate of 4 1-2 per cent., compounded
annually.
Vocational aid training after January
1, 1923, at the rate of $1.75 a
day, the total payments not to exceed,
however, 40 per cent, of the
adjusted service credit.
Farm and Home Aid.
Farm and home aid under which
verterans may purchase or improve
farms or homes would be paid after
July 1, 1923, a sum equal to their adjusted
service credit increased by 25
per cent.
[ Land settlement under which
lands would be reclaimed under the
supervision of a special board and
farm units established for sale to the
veterans at price fixed by the board,
less the amount of the adjusted service
credit due the purchasers.
In only two important particulars
does this measure differ from the one
passed by the house two years ago
and that was shelved in the senate
last July. The original casih bonus
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OptlOIl was eiimuiaueu axxu iuc uauu
loan provision of the adjusted service
certificate title substituted.
Not since the war days had the
i house galleries been jammed as they
were today from the time 9peaker
Gillett's gavel fell at 11 a. m. until
the last vote had been cast as the
shades of evening gathered. And not
in many years had such scenes been
enacted on the floor, where there frequently
was an uproar with alternate
applause, laughter and tears.
FORD TURNS OYER KILLING MAN.
Paul Drummond Has His Head Fractured
and Neck Broken.
Fountain Inn, March 26.?Paul
Drummond, 25-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. M. M. Drummond, of this
town, was almost instantly killed
about 11 o'clock this morning on the
Laurens-Greenville highway about
j two miles below here, when the Ford
roadster in whidh he was riding with
I Arthur Whitt, turned turtle and
1 pinned him against a bank. Hi3 companion,
who was driving the car at
the time of teh accident, escaped unhurt/
although the automobile was
demolished. Mr. Drummond suffered
I a fractured skull and a broken neck.
WOUNDED IN SHOOTING FRAY;
Attempt to Search for Whiskey is
Alleged Cause. |
! Darlington, March 25.?R. J. Scar-|
borough and Lewis Windham, both
of Lamar, are seriously wounded in,
a Florence hospital tonigiht, follow-)
ing a snooting aiiair wawu ui^uncu.
in Windahom's store in Lamar. Scarborough
is a rural policeman and attempted
to search Wfndham's place
for whiskey, it is alleged, and was
shot. I. D. Fields, a Lamar policeman,
who was assisting Scarborough
in the alleged search, immediately |
firort nn Windham seriously wound-1
ing him. Windham is not expected
to live. Mr. Scarborough's condition
is very serious, but it is expected
that he will recover.
Washington, D. C., has a women's
volunteer traffic corps.
Greenville Man
Sentenced to Die
Greenville, March 24.?After seventeen
minutes' deliberation the jury
in the case of Jeff Chandler, oharged
with killing of his wife and motherin-law
here February 25, returned a
verdict of first degree murder at 3:48
o'clock this afternoon, after which
Judge Frank B. Gary sentenced
Chandler to die in the electric chair
April 21. ?
"It is hoped that God will show
you more mercy than you showed
your victims,* said the Judge in
pronouncing sentence on the man.
"The evfdence shows Chat you took
the lives of your victims in a most
heartless manner. You yet have
time to make peace with your
Maker. May God have mercy on
your soul." v
Only Ghree witnesses were placed
on the stand before the arguments
in the case began today and no
testimony of any great importance
was developed. The case was started
last Tuesday in criminal court
here.
When sentence was passed upon
Chandler, wiho claimed insanity, a
smile lighted his pale face for the
first time since the trial began.
The smile then was faint and of
short duration. Beside ihim stood
his brother, J. Arch Chandler, who
has worked faithfully and stood by
ihim since the trouble started.
NICHOLAS CAL3?BEFORE DEATH,
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Alexandra, However, was Never
Reconciled.
Ekaterinburg, Russia, Jan. 25.-?
Alexandra, the late empress of Rus
sia, never ceased to chafe under her
imprisonment in this city where she
was finally executed but the late
Emperor Nicholas sihowed more calmness
and indifference to his fate.
A little booklet recently issued by
P. Bykoff, former chairman of the
Ekaterinburg Soviet, gives many intimate
glimpses at the imperial family
during the months they were prisoners
of the Bolsheviki in this city
just preceding their execution in July,
1918.
Wlhen the czar and his wife and
part of his family were transferred
from Tobolsk to Ekaterinburg by the
soviet government, a residence in
the center of the city was assigned to
them. It was in the basement of this
building that they were shot. A half
nrison reeime was established wihich
did not interfere with the activities
of the imperial family in their own
quarters.
Before the Romanoffs were permitted
to enter their new quarters the
guards searched them. Alexandra
protested bitterly and offered physical
resistance. The emperor submitted
willingly, but was greatly perturbed.
He paced tthe room while the
searchinig was proceeding and exclaimed,
"The devil knows what it
means! Up to now we have met
courteous people and have had decent
treatment."
According to Bykoff, the soviet offials
made it clear to the Romanoffs
that they were not at Tsarkoe Selo
and threats to isolate the emperor
from his family if he offered criticism
silenced him.
"Nicholas soon realized we were
not joking," says the hook, "and submitted
uncomplainingly to the demands
of the commandant in charge
of the house. He made few efforts to
chat with the guards, but Alexandra
never ceased breaking rules."
The Romanoffs were permitted to
select their own hours for walking in
the garden where all sorts of tools
were available if they cared to take
more vigorous physical exereise. Two
meals a day were supplied to them
from "the best soviet kitchen in
Ekaterinburg" and they were given a
gasoline primus, or stove, upon whidh
I thev could heat their food.
Food packages were forbidden to
tbe imperial family but Bykoff says,
"the sisters in the local convent annoyed
the guards greatly by sending
parcels of biscuits and other delicacies
which were distributed among
iihe soldiers."
On Easter the imperial family asked
permission to attend church. Thi$
request wa3 denied, but a priest was
admitted to their quarters to hold
service and eggs and special cakes
were sent to them by the Soviet officials.
Farm women of the Middle West,
1 West and Northwest are organizing
for activity in tie next eongressioal
campaign to support the programme
of the UnHted Farmers' National Bloc. I
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Crime Increases in
South Carolina ]
Columbia, March 25.?A marked h
increase in crime in South Carolina is nS
indicated by the county jail commit- ra
ment statistics just given out by the H
state board of public welfare. For H
the statistical year year ending June
20. 1921. the total number of com- M
mitments to the county jails of the Bj
state was 10,896, an increase of al- &8
most 48 per cent, over the year be- B
fore when the commitments totaled B
only 7,386. B
The population of the county Bj
chain gangs shows a corresponding |a
growth of population. In 1920 on B
the days on which the camps were B
visited by the representative of the 9
board of public welfare the popu- A
lation was 875 negro and 80 white 3
men. In 1921, however, the popu- B
lation showed 1,240 negroes and 200 9
whites, a total growth of approxi- 9
mately 40 per cent. 9
The alarming increase in crime 9
that these figures show may be at- B
tributed, in large part, to the- eco- fl
nomic reverses suffered by the peo- 8
pie of the state. Money can with g
difficulty be obtained by justifiable h
methods so the unprincipled and ^ v] H
needy have oftentime resorted to il- ;
legal means of getting a livelihood. 9
Besides, tihe number of persons ar- 8
rested for violation of the prohibition 8
law has swelled the number of com- 1
This increase, however, does not 9
seem so serious when viewed .in com- 9
parison with the statistics for other .sK
years. In 1916, for example, just 1
five years previous, the commitments 9
totaled approximately 11,743. The commitments
for 1921 are actually 9
7 per cent, less than they were -for 9
1916, even though the 48 per cent. K
increase over those for 1920 is qjiite I
unprecedented. B
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PRESBYTERIAN SUPPLY. |
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Rev. R. S. Woodson Filling Local 3nl? 8
pit Temporarily I
Rev. R. S. Woodson, student of the .
Presbyterian Theological seminary; I
Columbia, is filling the pulpit of the i
local Presbyterian church for the . |
present. The presbytery meets at 8
I Pati'lt In Anril on/I of fViof fima nav- " T-IMI
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manent arrangements for the Bam- |
berg church will probably be made. 1
Mr. Woodson's arrangements have |
been made for the summer months, 1
but :he will probably continue to sup- , 1
ply this church until the seminary |
closes. 1
Rev. Phillip A. Mickel, after a care- |
ful consideration of the matter, has >1
asked the local church to release him i
from returning here as previously J
arranged in June, which leaves this raj
church without a permanent pastor.^ u
Mr. Woodson is a young preacher of w
attractive personality and pulpit 8
ability, and he has many admirers in I
the city. |
Long on Dates. j
A Montreal lawyer employs a guide 9
in the Province of Quebec during the [
deer hunting season. j
"He's a half Indian," the lawyer j
exclaimed, "and I guess the other half ]
is Indian too." j
Last summer a peddler visited the 1
neighborhood where the guide lives - S
and sold him an adjustable dating v
stamp, and in the fall the Montreal I
lawyer received the following letter: j
Quatre Rivieres Oct. 13, 1921. J
Mr. George Hunter, Dear Sir: j
Well, George, I received your letter j
of Oct. 1, 1921, where you say you
will be up as usual round Nov. 1,
1921, but I am sorry to say that I will
not be able to go with you on Nov. 1, ]
1921, as my wife's mother has been
sick ever since Jul. 1, 1921, and died
on Sep. 15, 1921, and we buried her
on Sep. 21, 1921, so I am going to
take my wife to visit her folks in
Saint Omer on Oct. 20, 1921, so I will j
not be back until Nov. 20, 1921. My
wife and I wish you a happy Dec. 25, |
1921. Your friend, j
JOSEPH DELISLE. j
Still Saving.
It is extremely difficult to persuade
the restaurant proprietor that the ne
cessity for food conservation has
passed. j
Recently a customer called the
waiter who had just finished serving
him and pointed indignantly to the .1
dish in front of him.
"I ordered a portion of duck and
green peas," he said. "Where's the
duck?"
The waiter examined the dish critically.
. .
"Why, there it is, sir," he said,
"right behind that other pea."