The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, September 07, 1911, Image 4
WHAT WAS DONE
Caayaip Pledpa Rcrfctacd ia Foil by
lie Deaacratic Party.
EXAMPLE TO THE PARTY
Speaker Champ Clark, in Reviewing
the Work Done Ry Congress, Says
the Democrats in the House and in
the Senate Have Set a Good Example
to the Party at Ijarge.
Champ Clark, speaker of the house
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of representatives, in a review ui me
work done by the Sixty second congress,
declared that the Democratic
party set a good example for Democrats
everywhere, and that the party
had redeemed every promise it made
in the campaign of 1910, when the
Democrats wrested control of the
house from the Republicans.
"At this session, the Democrats
have made a record which has surprised
our friends and dumbfounded
our enemies," said Speaker Clark.
It has put heart and hope into Democrats
everywhere. The ertra session
was extraordinary, not only in
the sense being a special session
called by the president, but also in
the amount and the quality of the
work done in the house by the combined
Democrats and insurgents amg
" nnniMnoH Firminnrn t a and IteTillb
Lilt? 1/UlliUiiivu ,
lican insurgents in the senate, and
especially by the unanimity of action
developed by the house Democrats.
"It was predicted freely, vociferously,
enthusiastically and confidently
by the 'standpat' press and orators
that we woud go to pieces. On
that account and by reasons of that
hope, they rejoiced that the extra
session of Congress was called, so
that we might go to pieces at the
earliest possible date. But we have
sorely disappointed all their expectations.
They even set the date when
we woud go to pieces, which was the
day of the Democratic causcus on
January 19, but unfortunately for
them in that case, everything was
done unanimously.
They then said surely we would go
to pieces as soon as we reached the
tariff question, but again they were
doomed to disappointment, and we
did not go to pieces at all. We are
more thoroughly united in the house
at the end of the session, if possiDie,
than at the beginning.
"We have set a good example to
Democrats evrywhere Sneered at
for years as a party of negation and
as being utterly lacking in ability for
constructive statesmanship, we passed
through the house more constructive
legislation, and better, than has
passed through any house in the
same length of time in 20 years. We
have have set the pace in that regard
for future houses.
"We redeemed every promise made
in order to carry the elections In
1910. We have economized, we
passed the reciprocity bill, the wool
tariff bill, the free list bill, the cotton
bill with the senate amendments,
which included the iron and steel
schedule and the chemical schedule;
we submitted for ratification a constitutional
amendment providing for
popular election of United States
senators; we passed a bill for the
publication of campaign expenses before
the election; we liberalized the
rules, making the committees elective
by the house, we passed a resoution
to admit New Mexico and Arizoa,
and we passed a large number of
other bills of more or less importannce.
It is a record of which we
may well be proud and on which we
will sweep the country in 1912.
"To show how completely the
stand-pat' Republicans are demoralized,
it is only necessary to quote
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the newspapers' statement uun mcu
was great rejoicing and congratulation
at the White House, because we
failed by a scratch vote to get the
two-thirds majority to override the
president's vetoes although we have
only 63 majority in the house. Te
this completion has come at last
that the president, who rode intc
power by a huge majority is glad te
escape the humiliation of having hii
vetoes overridden in a house con
taining a majority of only 63. Smal
favors are thankfully received by tin
administration.
"Notwithstanding the fact tha
four cabinet members were on th
floor of the house lobbying in favo
of the veto, all their power, allure
ments and patronage of the adminis
tration to help them influence votes
22 insurgent Republicans had th
courage and manhood to override th
president's vetoes. What's writ 1
writ, and whatever the future ma
have in store, the honor of havin
perfect unanimity among the Den
ocrats and of achieving an extraord
nary amount of constructive statei
manship at this extraordinary eei
sion can never be taken from us. Ei
ery Democrat in the house and ever
insurgnt Republican who stood u
to the rack is entitled to bis fu
share of credit.
"We honestly and persistently ei
deavored to relieve the people <
some of their burden of taxation, bi
the president would not have it. T
use a sporting phrase 'he blocked th
game/ On these issues, we appeal 1
the country* feeling absolutely ce
tain that as we have stood manful]
for the best Interests of the peopl
PROUD OF DEMOCRATS
SENATOR TILLMAN PRAISES THE
WORK OF PARTY.
They Have Not Made Mistakes and
Have Fine Chance to Elect Next
President.
"I am proud of the way the Democrats
conducted themselves," said
Senator Den jam! n Ryan Tillman at
Columbia Wednesday morning in
speaking of the session of Congress
just ended. Senator Tillman came to
Columbia from Trenton, and immediately
boarded another train for
Liberty Hill in Kershaw county,
where he goes to spend a few days
with Railroad Commissioner John G.
Richards. The Senator was accompanied
by 'Mrs. Tillman.
When asked about the the Democrats
at this session, the Senator said
that he was proud of his colleagues
and the way in which they had conducted
themselves, not having made
any serious mistakes. The Senator
had not been present at this session
owing to tho condition of his health,
1 O r. I>nnn oHvtanrl t f? rn main at
iiu uaviiib uwu uvi.iuv.. ww -
home in Trenton on the farm. He
was paired on all matters, and gave
his colleagues notice that if he were
needed at any time they should wire
fo; him.
Senator Tillman was asked If the
situation as to the Democratic nominee
possibility for President had clarified
any, or if there were still that
"o*)arasment dee riches," about
which he spoke the last time he stopped
over in Columbia. The Senator
simply replied: "No, I cannot say
that the situation is any clearer
r.ow." The Senator says that the
Democrats have such good material
from which to select a Democratic
nominee for the Presidency. The
Senator has made known his belief
that the Democrats have a fine
chancd at the coming election.
In view of the visit of the old Veterans
to this city, Senator Tillman
was asked whether he thought the
South should accept at the hands of
Congress a monument to the Confederate
navy, a bill for which has been
introduced into Congresss. There la
in the Vicksburg National Park a I
monument to the Federal navy. This
monument will soon be dedicated.
The dedication has been postponed
owing to the introduction of the bill'
as to a Confederate navy monument.
Some of the Southern Senators and
Representatives objected to the use
of Federal funds for a Confederate
monuwent.
On this point Senator Tillman said,
"Yes, I would favor the erection of
such a monument. I cannot see why
we should not take anything from
the Congress that will show that the
North is willing to do a little justice
to the South. I cannot see why a
monument should be be refused when
we have accepted the gravestones.
In the park where the monument
would oe erected are "markers" on
pvavps of Confederates showing
the rank of the deceased soldiers. It
was to these gravestones that Senator
Tillman referred.
Of State politics Senator Tillman
did not talk, for there was little opportunity.
He and Dr. Babcock
spoke for a few moments of the work
done by Commissioner Watson in his
crusado against spoiled grain, especially
corn meal, and the Senator appeared
to be very much interested,
i Dr. Babcock said that much of the
meal was in very bad shape. This
led to a brief discussion of pellagra
ard of its relation to the spoiled
grain.
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MILLS SHUT DOWN.
Two in Anderson County Stopped
Because Water Is I-ow.
? Two of the largest cotton mills in
. unner Carolina, the Anderson and
; Orr plants of Anderson, were forced
5 to sihnt down Thursday afternoon be?
cause of the very low stage of water
? in the river there. Reports from sev>
eral parts of the Piedmont district ol
, South Carolina indicate that the
j drought and resulting fall off in the
> water stage in several rivers ane
3 streams are forcing manufacturer!
- to run on half time. Power plants
1 on tho Savannah and Tugaloo rivers
e are now producing only 4,00 0 horse
power?just half the normal, ane
t unless conditions improve it Is sale
e they may close altogether.
r iCreeks and wells in the vicinit;
of Anderson have failed so that tin
i. authorities are now facing the prob
5) lem of keeping up tho drinking wat
e or supply,
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8 Endorsed I>r. Wiley.
y A resolution commending Dr. Wil
8 ey for his work in connection wit
J" the pure food and drug laws wa
adopted Thursday by the State Cor
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j veil i inn w i i lit- x nv> >v?tv v>v..
of America, in annual session.
ITresolution
was also passed favorin
p a law to restrict immigration.
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the people will stand by us."
i- The four cabinet officers to whoi
>f the Speaker referred as having bee
it on the floor of the house when tli
'o tariff revision vetoes were pendin
le in that body were Attorney Oeneri
jo Wickerffham, Postmaster Generi
r- Hitchcock, Secretary of War Stin
ly son and Secretary of Commerce an
e, Labor Nagel.
| WANTS REFORM
Cabai Petplc See Gavenweit Rn Entirely
By Graft.
ANOTHER INTERVENTION
May Be Mad? Necessary by the United
States If the Cuban Government
Does Not Reform.?Cuba
Knows That this Means Final Occupation
of the Island.
If TTnif pH Af ntPR IntprvpriPfl in
Cuba again, it will be because of the
continuance of the grafting practices
of the Cuban ofiicials. A wave of
political unrest is sweeping over
Cuba. So great is the discontent
throughout the island, that the people
are loath to wait for political
relief until the coming elections.
Cuba is tired of graft. Instead of
having $3 0,000,000 in the treasury,
as it had at the beginning of the
Gomez regime, the government now
owes over $50,000,000, which is a
considerable sum to be on the wrong
side of* the balance sheet of a country
so small as Cuba. The people,
and they are expressing themselves
more vehemently daily, put this great
deficit down to political graft.
The people, today, in speeches, in
cafe talks, in communications to certain
advanced papers, the editors of
which are beitog hounded by the
government, repeat that they cannot
and will not stand much more of this
wholesale graft, which is putting the
country so far in debt it will take
years of economy to pull it out of
the hole.
Grafting of a very coarse and unrefined
character permeates all Cuban
officialdom to such an ertent that
In order to get a bill paid of $300
owed by the government for a small
engineering job, the American contractor
had to pay $66. When a
Cuban speaks of graft, he never fails
to mention President Gomez. He
asks these questions:
"How has President Gomez, on a
small salary, put away in his own
name several million dollars? How
is President Gomez able to build a
$500,000 home on the Prado? How
is it that two cabinet officers have
resigned after becoming Independently
wealthy in a short time in office?
How is it that all foreign business is
more or less held up by the officials,
who demand and receive graft therefrom?"
Such questions as above are constantly
on the tongues of the decent
people of Cuba. So grave has the
situation become, that, if decency in
governmental circles does not soon
assert itself, trouble will ensue. The
right-thinking citizens of Cuba realize
fully that, if the United States
steps in to settle Cuban matters
agaJn, the United States will stay on
the island.
The Cubans reason that the United
States will not consent to spend 20
or 30 millions every few years to set
Cuba about face. Realizing this, the
people today are extremely anxious
to oust the Gomez party and to get
the republic on a sound basis, before
intervention is necessary.
The government has just voted
$33,000,000 to improve Havana harbor
and to build much needed docks,
so that lighterage will be no longer
necessary. The people of Cuba see
ill this move a chance for millions
of the Gomez type of graft and that,
under the existing government, the
Havana improvements will cost nearer
$60,000,000 til an $33,000,000.
Cuba is not a poor country. Its
revenues are fairly large. The porl
I of Havana produces daily about $65,000
in customs duties alone. Th<
national lottery produces over $250,000
a month. The tonnage of th<
[ port of Havana amounts to over ?
1 million dollars a year.
These are just a few of the sources
of income in Havana alone, anc
. there are other smaller ports when
I millions of dollars a year are takoi
? in customs and tonnage dues. Th<
? total income of the Cuban govern
1 ment last month was $3,67 7,4 89.3 2
3 the total expenses for the same montl
3 $3,685,94 6.63; making a deficit o
3 $8,457.31.
The Cubans are asking where el
1 this money has gone to, and the onl
1 answer they receive is: "Into th
pockets of'the Gomez party." The fl
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y naces or uie country tiro m duvu
o wretched state (that the credit c
- Cuba abroad Is practically wiped out
and the merchants, who are accut
tomed to receive poods on long cred'
are being requested to send mone
with further orders.
The merchants blame the preser
government for the existing state <
h affairs, and are expecting within tli
8 next few months a radical expre
sion of lack of confidence in tt
18 Gomez regime by way of a revon
A tion.
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Arrested After Nine Years.
" After evading arrest since Octobi
22, 1902, on whldh date he Is allege
m to have killed Charles Ellen, In Ha
n nett County, North Carolina, Za<
ie Marks was arrested Thursday In St
g ta Rosa county, Florida, whe?e 1
al sened at one time as riej.uty sherl
al later as postmaster at Gattls, a vi
i* lage named from T. Z. Gattls, hie s
id las. and where also he became
successful naval stores operator.
VISIT WOODROW WILSON
IMPORTANT POLITICAL DISCUSSIONS
WITH HIM.
Upon the Adjournment of Congress
Democratic Statesmen Are Journeying
Toward Jersey Coast.
Has another Woodrow Wilson
boom for the presidential nomination
started in earnest? With the ending
of the extra session of congress there
has been a long procession of Democratic
statesmen headed northward
from Washington in the direction of
tho Jersey coast.
Even the uninitiated have marked !
the flight and have wondered what
it meant. Wondering, they have
come to the conclusion that these migratory
folk have gone up to the
coast for the purpose of resting at
the seashore and getting a whiff of
the sea breezes, with now and then
a swim in the old ocean. But this
Is not the case. Democratic senators
and members of the house like the
Jersey coast Just as other folks do,
but they are not headed there at
this season of the year just for the
sake of enjoying the delights of the
seaside. Careful scouting will reveal
that a lot of these Democratic
congressional folk are headed for
Spring Lake, N. J., which Is much
Hav WnnMrnw Wilson.
Gov. Wilson Is making a point of
spending a good deal of time each
week at the seashore, and he will
meet the Democratic members of congress
who are stopping along the Jersey
coast to rest in the course of their
homeward flight from Washington.
It is hardly necessary to say that
sonif large politics will be played In
these meetings.
It will, of course, be presidential
politics. Senator Stone, of Missouri,
is one of the big Democrats who is
reported to be going home by way
of the Jersey coast. But Senator
Stone is not an avowed Wilson supporter.
With Gov. Folk and Champ
Clark in the the race he can not
well be that. But Gov. Wilson knows
that "Gumshoe Bill" is one of the
ablest and most astute politicians in
the Democratic party.
It is significant of the strength of
the Wilson presidential boom that
the New Jersey Governor is luring
to the Jersey coast some of the
strongest and ablest politicians on
the Democratic side of the house and
Senate. Other Democratic politicians
are finding their way there.
It is well known there that the utmost
effort is being put forward to
lay the foundations of the Wilson
boom in such a manner that it will
be hard work to upset it when the
storms of the coming national convention
period begin to break. This
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is noi an.
The third meeting of the house of
governors, which will 'bring together
governors from all over the country,
will he held at 'Spring Lake September
16. Gov. Wilson will meet the
Governors, put in much time with
them and become better acquainted
with them. Under cover of discussions
of the "twilight zone" between
federal and State power, there doubtless
will be consideration of the 1912
, campaign.
KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK.
I Fatal Accident on the Atlantic Coast
1 Lumber Line.
i
As the result of a wreck on the At>
, lantic Coast Lumber Company train
. 101 at Coopers siding, five miles east
of Kingstree, Monday morning, T
j Blakely, white, of Trio, and Willie
McCrea, a negro were killed out.
right and four others were painfully
> if not seriously injured. The train left
. Andrews early Monday morning with
? the logging and track crew for camj
t No. 2.
As it reached Cooper's Siding, run3
ning about 20 to 25 miles an hoiu
\ the engineer saw the open switch
3 ahead. He immediately reversed tin
j engine and jumped. His fireman fol
3 lowed his example. The engine ane
_ cars rushed ito the open Rwitch, ool
I liding with a car of logs that hat
1 been placed there Saturday night,
f Blakely, it is said, was riding oi
the pilot of the engine and was com
1 pletely mangled in the colfision. Mc
y Crea was sitting on one of the of
0 trucks and when the movement of th
[. train was checked was thrown undo
a the trucks and mashed to death. Th
(f engine and cars did not leave th
track. The injured are: J. H. White
,1 general woods foreman; John Smith
It engineer; D. Long, fireman; and J
y J. Bar wick, tie.
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it Cork Leg Nearly Drowns.
>f William Green's cork leg cam
ie very near being the death of him t
* ? r Ti.Ao/lnir nlirht fJrPP
S" Ijyilll, IVlilHS I licovic?j ?>ni>vi
ie got beyond his depth while bathin
J- and his artificial limb was so bouyar
that his other leg flew into the a
and his head was forced under wate
Ho was saved by a college girl wh
9r was out boating with a youag mai
h!
r- Fractured Skull Fatal.
;h After living six days with his sku
r.- fractured in two places and his nec
:e broken, Henry Harrell, who fell fro
ft, an engine at Sanford, Fla., last Wei
il- nesday, died at Waycross, Pa., Tue
il- day. In an effort to save his li
a physicians put his head and shoul
ers in a plaster cast.
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BANK OE
Conwa
t
Has largest capital and surplus of a
than the combined capital and surp
CAPITAL STOCK.. . ,
SURPLUS
LIABILITIES OF STOCK
SECURITY OF PEPOSI1
DIRE(
Robert B. Scarborough,
H. L. Buck,
George J. Holiday,
We offer our customers every aco
will justify, and we i
sobert b. scarborough, d
President.
We continue to pay 5 pel
/first natic
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^ CAPITAL STOCK
? SURPLUS PROFITS
TOTAL ASSESTS
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J. A. McDermott, John C
AV B. G. Collins, H. L. F
jlr M. Burroughs, C. P. Qui
Successor to the Bank of
& Horry County, and a pioneer
ly allied with the recent dev
I /ly Republic. Backed by tbe ?
jX1 United States Bonds, we are p
tomerg any reasonable a coo mi
1 H. A. SI'IVEY,
f Cashier.
ATWOOD CHECKED
AVIATOR LOST HIS WAY AND
WAS FORCED TO LAND.
His Disappearance Caused Disappointment
and Regret Among the
Spectators Along His Route.
Lost with his aeroplane In trying
to fly from Lyons, N. Y., to Auburn
25 miles distant, Harry N. Atwood,
the Boston aviator who is flying
from St. Louis to New York, wandered
about in the air for almost an
hour late Monday afternoon, and finally
was forced to land in an unexpected
spot by the approach of
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darkness, at a point nvtj mnt-a ?*coi
of Syracuse.
The delay had caused a serious
sot hack in the attempt to break the
aviator is making to break the
world's record for cross-country flying.
Atwood ascended at Lyons with
the purpose of flying in an air line
98 miles to Utica before night.
Just after he started he decided
to detour from the course whch he
has followed along the tracks of the
New York Cenrtal railroad and cut
across country to give the crowds at
Auburn a chance to see him.. Rut later
over the farms he lost his bearings
and kept circling about, hoping
to pick out Auburn.
Meanwhile great uneasiness was
felt as to his fate by thousands of
peeple who waited in parks and on
house tops to see him at Syracuse
and Utica. It was 4:24 when Atwood
left Lyons. At 5:20 he suddenly ap
1 peared over Auburn and landed. Atwood
left Auburn at 6:45 p. m., uncertain
as to his destination. Then
' began, another uncertain search for
1 him, extending all the way from Au1
burn to Utica.
Ten thousand people at Utica
awaiting his approach there until
sundown. Syracuse was kept anxious
until at 7:17 word came that he
landed safely at Belle Island, five
j miles west of Syracuse.
At wood said that in Monday's wanI
derings he had flown at least 7.r
miles, but could claim for his record
only the forty miles between Lyons
and Bell Island. His total flyinj
time was 1 hour and 28 minutes.
T Atwood declared that Monday's ex
perience was the most exciting tha
he had ever had.
Tuesday I will disregard al
e scheduled landing places and will at
/ tempt to fly as far as Albany, 16,'
j' miles by way of Syracuse and Uti
j.' ca," said Atwood.
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PROF. J. AVERY FINGER.
e Educator Succumbs .to Illness ci
lt Short Duration.
n
g Prof. J. Avery Finger, who ha
it been connected with the Charlesto
lr schools for nearly thirty years die
r. in that city Saturday night. He wa
10 recognized as one of the leading ir
structors of that city, with his spher
of iisefullness extending the school
with which he was connected. H
11 did considerable private teaching an
:k his death is a distinct loss to tb
m cause of education and Is general)
d- regretted Mr. Finger was a nati\
s- of Morganton, N. C., a graduate <
fe Wofford and was fifty-six years <
d- age. He is survived by a widow,
daughter and three sons.
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y. S, C. 1
ny bank in Horry county. More t
lus of all other banks in the county*
.. ..960,000 VI
. . 12,609 tJj
[HOLDERS .. .. 60,000 M
ORS ..112,600 jM
:tors fa
D. V. Richardson, 58w
W. A. Johnson, Mjj
Will A. Freeman.
ommodation which their account* |J|
solicit your business. 91
>. V. Richardson, will . freemaji
Vice President. Cashiee
r cent, on yearly deposits. v
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)NAL BANK! |
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..$26,000.00 X
2,600.00 Hy
126,000.00 A 1
TORS: it
\ Spivey, D. T. McNeill, ^
luck, W. R. Lewie, D. Ok ^
ittlebaum, D. A. Spivey.
' Conway, tbe oldest Hank in
in Eastern Carolina. Close- JIf
elopment of the Independent
jovemmeut and secured by
irepared to extend to our cus- it
nodations.
B. G. COLLINS, A
President. ^
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PROFESSION A L CARDS.
H. H. WOODWARD
Attorney and Councelor At Law.
CONWAY, s. a
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WL B. SCARBROUGH
CONWAY, S. C.
Attorney at Law.
A
H. H. BURROUGHS
Physician and Surgeon.
CONWAY, S. C.
B. WOFFORD WAIT.
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Attorney at Lav/,
Bank of Horry Building. ' ]
CONWAY, 8. O.
ME WORLDS GREATEST SEWING MACHINE *
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Ntouttleor a Hlngle Thread [ChainiUUckk /
Bowing Machine write to I
1 IVSfW HOME SIWIN8 MACHINE COMPASS
Orange* Mass.
1 ftsayewtng machines arc made to tell rcKawMeasM'
g?Mtyebut the New llomelsmade toweea '
Oar guaranty never rune ont.
}> (M If Mthorlied dealers ta|Kr 1
- v so* sals as J j
BURROUGHS & COLLINS CO.,
Conway, S. C.
I Five Thousand Men Strike.
Three Thousand workmen were
called out on strike Monday at Chic^
ago by the Associated Building
Trades. Two thousand building
^ trades workmen who have been employed
at the Argo plant of the Corn
^ Products Refining company will not I
return to work also,
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r* Myrtle Reed Found Dead,
d Mrs. Myrtle Reed McCullough, auto
thor, was found dead at her home.
|y Police reports Indicate that death
re was caused by an over dose of sleep>f
lng powders, taken with suicidal in>f
tent. She was thirty-seven years
a old. She left a note and check for
one thousand dollars to her maid.