The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, February 05, 1920, Image 1
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FOUR STILLS OUT
BY REVENUE OFFICERS
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^Making Things Some Better ]
Jjpr Section Near Tabor,
North Carolina
ONLY ONE AFFAIR
RECENTLY REPORTED ;
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Prohibition Does Some Good
Even in the Darkest Section
of the County.
Troubles in the neighborhood of
Tabor, North Carolina, near the State
Line from that Town, have not been ,
discontinued entirely, although there
seems to be less crime going on in
that section since prohibition went on
in full force. About a fortnight ago
revenue officers broke up four whiskey
stills about four miles from Tabor.
The Herald heard of no cutting
or shooting affairs in that neighborhood
for some time until recently Jerome
Arnett applied to Magistrate
"W. H. Chestnut for a warrant of arrest
for Garfield Grainger, swearing
in his warrant that Grainger had com
mitted an assault upon him with intent
to kill, and this was the latte1*
part of December.
? According to the defendant there
is nothing in the charge that has
been brought against him, as he says
be was out hunting that afternoon
I when Arnett passed by him driving
at a rapid rate and that Arnett had
passed him and was gone about two
hundred yards when he, Grainger,
ehot al a bird. It is not alleged in
the warrant that Arnett was hit and
in the preliminary the defendant
gave bo.u! for his appearance at the
"February term of the Court of Gen0
eral Sessions.
Since that time there has 1 cen
?ov\e difficulty about the same aff
fair when Amelt threatened to shoot
Grainger, while at the house of a
neighbor. Tt is also stated that there
is a negro in the community who tcld
that he had been hired to waylay
Grainger and actually waited o i the
road on a certain evening when
Grainger did not appear.
The discontinuance of the moonshine
liquor stills in that section of
the country will do a great deal toward
bringing the people to a realization
of the effect that such conduct
bas oilr community.
N w'l. II O
J. H. Marsh is now in full charge
of the Farm Implement Company's
business in one of the Buck Stores on
3rd Avenue. He was formerly with
the Richardson Cypress Lumber &
ci.: p i?.. . a r>
111n.: \./uiii}ianjr, at uutitspu? t, o. v.,
and has had many years of business
experience.
HOUSE IS WORKING
v HARDONCALENDAR
With a prolonged session staring
* them in the face because of the delay
in Jetting to financial legislation, the
housfe of representatives is working
^V'ith a vim to accomplish its work
and clear its calendar of important
and extraneous measures so that
there will be a clear field toward the
end of the session to give mature con
k sideration to the appropriation meai
vies and the proposed improved high
Hvoy bill.
r In former years the house while:!
away its time during the fore part of
the session, so that when the end was
approaching it was crowded and had
to work incessantly to accomplish
something. This clogged the legisla- '
i vc \vi-.cois and prevented mature deli
beiAion of important measures.
It Appears now that the general
assembly will run its allotted 40 days
and will exceed it, unless there is re1
\arkable speed made on the general
a pnropriations bill and the county
rupply measures. The ways and
i \bc\r.3 committee is now considering
the Ludget report, section by section.
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MILITARY MEASURE
CAUSES CONCERN
Washington.?Ono of the most important
bills which has ever touched
the future career of many young men
in th<? South?1 h? pnmiillluitfxr mililni't.
?>?V/ vvfia?|/M?ov& J IIIIIIVM & (Y
training bill?is soon to come to a test
vote in the senate and there is a very
wide difference of opinion concerning
the merits of this measure.
A poll of Southern senators indicates
that there will bo leather u
sparse vote in behalf of this bill when
it comes to a vote from the men of
that section.
mexicoTowfacTng
COMMERCIAL CRISIS
Mexico City?Mexico is passing
through a bitter commercial crisis as
u result of the shortage of change.
Leading commercial houses in the
capital, instead of experiencing the
usual 33 per cent, holiday increases
in business during December, reported
sales 15 per cent less than No
vember.
Without paper currency, tlie
country depends on gold and silver
coin and the high price of silver has
caused an acute shortage of small
change, due to illicit exportation and
operations of speculators. Money
changers are now charging as high
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silver, anil it is reported that gold
also is growing scarce. Some business
houses who tried to use postal
and documentary stamps for changt?
found themselves breaking the law.
Thus far no method of facilitating
small purchases has been discovered
\nd, according to semi official statements,
the country, will be forced to
wait for the price of silver to decline
to secure relief. The silver content
of the lower coinage has been cut
once during the last six* months but
even the new coins are being hoarded
for speculation or exported. While
the mint has been working overtime
Tor months, it has been found impossible
to keep up with demand.
PMISINSilFE
ENDED SY FLAMES
Mrs. George Cannon is Burned
to Death When Clothes
Caught on Fire
FRIENDS AND RELATIVES
MOURN HER DEATH
Scarcely Twenty Years of Age.
She is Cut Off in Young
Womanhood.
On January 10th, 1920, while Mis.
Leitha Cannon was about the regular
duties of her home, she reached down
for a bowl or basin near the fire
place, having her back to the fire,
and her clothes took fire behind her.
She tried tb extinguish the flames
but to no avail, then ran out to the
house of one Mrs. Ivy; but in a shoit
time, her clothing was all burne?
from her body.
She was rushed at once to the Emergency
Hospital where she lived a
few hours short of two weeks, representing
one of the most deplorable
scenes of intense suffering that people
around here had ever witnessed.
Her body was literally cooked by tho
flames.
She was a young woman, probably
under twenty years old. Her father
was Mr. Richard Bellamy of Lorls,
and he was called at once. She was
married about a year ago to Mr.
George Cannon, formerly of this
County, and the young couple made
their home at McColl, S. C.
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all people who knew her, not only
sympathize with those immediately
concerned but are all one in mourning:
her awful death. She was a beautiful
woman possessed with that
winning quality, making her eve;
popular and beloved.
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CONWAY, S. 0., THURSDAY,
OBTAIN WHISKEY
THROUGH PERMITS
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Announces Rules With
Warning Frqm Roper.
Washington.?Methods by which
intoxicating liquors may be obtained
for medical purposes and detailed
regulations governing their saie were
made public by the bureau of internal
revenue. Announcement also wa.<
made that the bureau had compiled
a system of permits, providing
a definite, and fixed channel through
which all intoxicating liquors must
move, and by which hereafter the
government will know the location .of
f very gallon of distilled liquor within
the nation's boundaries except that
stored in private home.
In settting forth the ways in which
liquor may be procured, commissioner
Roper took occasion to issue warning
against profiteering in its sale. The
commissioner declared that exorbitant
charges for liquor for medicinal
purpose "certainly places the dispensers
thereof in the class with profiteers
and they will be investigated."
Mr. Roper also announced that all
liquor seized under federal law prior
to last October 28, unless claimed under
the 60 day ruling, would be sold
by order of the court under the jurisdiction
of which it is held. It must
be sold, however, to a holder of permit
to use it whether for medicinal
or jion bevel age pui pose.
Two Permits Needed.
Both the physician who prescribes
ni.d the phaimacist who sells liquor,
*he regulations provide, must have a
permit which may lie obtained from
the federal prohibition director. Other
detaills of the method by which
liquor for medicinal purposes may be
purchased follow.
"Any physician duly licensed to
practice general medicine and actively
engaged in the practice of such
profession may obtain a permit to
prescribe intoxicating liquor and may
then issue prescriptions for ditilled
i pints, wines or certain alcoholic
medicinal preparations for medicinal
purpose for persons upon whom he is
in attendance in cases where he believes
that the use of liquor as a
medicine is necessary. In no case
may spirituous liquor be prescribed
hy one or more physicians in excess
of one pint for the same person within
any period of ten days.
"All prescriptions for intoxicating
liquor are required to be written on
blanks prescribed by the bureau except
that in emergency cases physicians
may use their regular pre crip;ion
blanks.
Through Regular Channels.
"Prescriptions for intoxicating liquor
may be filled only by regitered
pharmacists who hold p rem its authorizing
them to do so, or who are
employed by retail druggists holding
such permits. Pharmacists and druggists
holding such permits will procure
their supplies of intoxicating liquor
from manufacturers or other
persons holding permits authorizing
them to sell liquor.
"Persons to whom prescriptions for
intoxicating liquor are issued by physicians
may procure liquor prescribed
through pharmacists or drug-gists
holding permits without obtaining
permits.
"Physician# may also obtain per
mits entitling them to procure not
more than six quarts of distilled spirits,
wines br certain alcoholic preparations
during any calendar year for
administration to their patients in
emergency cases where delay in procuring
liquor on a prescription]
through a pharmacist might have serious
consequences to the patient.
"Provisions is also made in the
regulations for issuing permits to
lv spitals and sanatoriums to enable
them to procure intoxicating liquor
to be administered for medical purr
pose to patients at such institutions
and also for issuing permits to manufacturing,
industrial and other establishments
maintaining first aid stations,
authorizing them to procure
such liquor for administration to
their employees for medical purpose^
;n emergency ca.;cs."
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, FEBRUARY 5, 1920.
MEXICAN GENERAL ~"f
HOLDS TWO AIRMEN
Davis and Grimes Taken to
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Monterey by Order of j
Governor. ,
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Laredo, Texas.?Lieuts. E. F. Da- (
vis and G. E. Grimes, United States
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army aviators, who made a forced ^
landing: near Guerrero, Mexico, Wed- (
nesday, because of an exhausted sup
ply of gasoline, are on their way to *
Monterey, Mexico, under military escort,
to be examined by Mexican mil- (
itary authorities "as to their reasons
for landing on Mexican soil." They
ore due to reach Nucvo Laredo, opposite
this city, at midnight, and proceed
to Monterey tomorrow, according
to informttion received here.
Disruption of plans for the return
of Lieutenants Grimes and Davis to
Ameiican soil came suddenly late today
in orders from Governor Gon- <
zales of the state of Nuevo Leon that
they be removed from jurisdiction of
local civil authorities who had prepared
to permit tse aviators to return
to the United States, and taken to
Monterey immediately for "examination"
by Gen. Francisco Murguia.
Randolph Robertson, American con
KUl at Nuevo Laredo, who sent word |
of Gonzales' action in a telephone
message from Guerrero, said he was
accompanying the flyers to Nuevo
Laredo. The party is travelling by
automobile on the Mexican side of
the border, under escort of a number
of Carranza officers, he said. Consul
Robertson, who went to Guerrero
Thursday to aid in negotiating for
the return of the aviators, gave, no
further details concerning Governor
Gonzales' oder.
Lieutenants Davis and Grimes,
while on a flight Wednesday morning
in Zapata county, Texas, became confused
in a fog, and instead of proceeding
along the Rio Grande, fol|
lewed the River Solado 30 miles with
in Mexican territory. Here they were
forced to land because their fuel was
exhausted. Since Wednesday the/
had been stopping at a hotel at Gue
rero, under surveillance of civil authororities,
awaiting the arrival of
expected oil and gasoline for theiv
airplane.
Brownsville, Texas.?The action of
j Maj. Gen. Francisco Murguia, commander
of Mexican military forces
in the northern zone, in taking out of
the hands of Gen. Fortunato Zuazus,
military commander in Tamau'ipas, i
the situation relative to Lieuts. E. F.
Davis and G. E. Grimes at Guerrero,
Mexico, and in ordering them taken
to Monterey for military oxamina
tion, came as a surprise to Unite:!
States amy officers here, who considered
the return of the offices to
American soil all but accomplished.
General Murgufc, according- to information
received here, was at Piedlas
Negras, opposite Eagle Pass, Tex
as, and it was from there, it is assum ,
ed, that he ordered Davis and Gtimes
taken to Monterey.
The only information received at
Fort Brown here was from General
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Zuazua and Major Floras of Mat a
moras, who went to Guerrero, opposite
Zapata, presumably to facilitate j
the departure of the two American"--, j
General Zuazua's message was to the :
effect that all arrangements were , j
satisfactory and that the return of ]
the two men was imminent, indicating
he knew nothing of the orders of i
I Murguia. Flores, in a message ear- ;
lier in the day, expressed belief that <
| the return would be accomplished ]
i soon, although, he said, final instruc- <
I tions were awaited from General (Murguia.
This was the first intima- <
tion that the matter had gone to Muv
guia.
No direct word has been received
from fViO turn nvi'it/Wo uin.m 1
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first message late Wednesday, report
ing their landing south of Guerrero.
BEATING THE WEEVIL.
Florence.?Farmers throughout the
county are preparing their tobacco
L'ds and their lands for cotton and
am. They are heeding- the admonf:ion
to prepare and plant early to get
ahead of the boll weevil.
raid.
rO REDUCE BANKS
USED BY NATION
Washington.?Drastic reduction in ^
he number of national banks desiglated
as government depositories is
icing made by the treasury deparnent
with the result that less than
100 of the 1,331 such institutions hold
ng federal funds on June 30, 1919 are
expected to survive the pruning knife. c
Changes in the government's finan- *"
ial situation brought about by the
var's fiscal cooperations, it was saici,
ifficially, has made it necessary to
ibolish hundreds of the depositories
rnd revise the plan for distribution o?" C
government moneys among bank
employed since prior to 1912.
FORECAST LOSS FROM
BOLL WEEVIL INJURY ,
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South Carolina Farmers Wili 1
Lose Millions of Dollars i
in 1920. j
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Clemson College, Jan. 30.?An esti- v
mate of the probable loss in 1920 ;
from boll weevil injury in this state, k
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r.v|/?>vM JUI mc rjAw;utsion JSerVlCC
by Prof. A. F. Conradi, of the South
Carolina- Crop Pest Commission, indi- *
cates that the loss will rim into mil- 1
lions of dollars. The possible loss *
runs from 10 per cent in Greenwood *
tc 70 per cent in Beaufort, the expla- 1
nation being made that weather fa- '
vorable to boll weevil activity, name- '
ly, warm winter and wet June, July, 1
and August, would result in maxi- *
mum loss, while the opposite kind of 5
weather would result in less less. *
The figures arc based on the 1910 1
crop and show a total possible loss of A
over $84,000,000 to $89,000,000 in the 4
twenty-four counties most likely to 1
be affected. There may be losses in x
other counties. But even if the (bun- 1
age is only half of that estimate in
the table, there would be a loss of
seventeen to twenty million dollars. 1
Prof. Conradi's estimate of the A
possible loss for Horry County is 40 1
per cent of the 1919 crop. The cot- '
ton production of this county in 1919. 1
according to the Bureau of Crop Es- y
timates, was 9.000 bales, 40 per cent *
of which would be 8,600 bales, result- 1
ing in a probable crop cf 8,400 bales !
in 1920. With cotton at 85 cents per N
pound this would mean a loss of
$680,000, and with cotton at 40 cents *
a loss of $220,000. '
But even if the damage is only half (
of that estimated above, there would !
be a loss to Horry County of $815,00') ^
to $860,000. The Farmers of the e
county should ponder these figures ^
before planting cotton and should
adopt a safe farming program. "Bet J
ter be safe thdn sorry." *
LACK 0FPR00F I
MAY SAVE ALIENS;
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New York.?Fear that some persons ^
held at Ellis Island must be released c
I ocause it will be impossible to prove
I hey are aliens was expressed at EIlir
Island as the result of recent mod- n
ifications of immigration regulations
by the department of labor. By re
fusing to tell where he was born a [
n an arrested on a deportation warrant
may be enabled to stay in th?
country, it is feared. Proof of the
nativity of aliens in deportation proceedings
usually comes from themselves
and is difficult to obtain otli- r
rrwise it was explained. e
Of more than f>00 men and women p
sent to Ellis Island as the result of e
lecent raids on Communists, eight d
have been freed because there was o
no proof that they were Communists*
225, most of whom refused to answer v
nuestions of inspectors, have been re- t
leased on bail and 309 are left at. the f
island. In addition about 60 who a
have been ordered deported arc on t
tne island, their cases not having h
I f>cn romnlf>L?l u/lion -
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?>?|. These include 43 from Detroit. a
Twenty Reds are in the hosfnt^l ?
. Uj colds, Qccordin# to officials. ?
NO] 42.
VOMAN SUFFRAGE
nrTo ruiAi
Utl J FINAL BLUW
enate Kills Christensen Resolution
by 31 to 4
Vote
IOLL WEEVIL REWARD
BILL FAILS IN HOUSE
>ther Measures Introduced
Into Both Houses for
Consideration.
Columbia.?Suffrage got its final
i.ow in the South Carolina legislature
wnen tne i-enate took twe vote.-*
>verwhelmingly against ratification,
rhe senate voted 31 to 4 against Sentor
Christen sen's ratification resoution
and then voted 30 to 4 in favor
>f Senator Williams' resolution to reect
the Susan II. Anthony amendment.
The four senators voting in faver
>l suffrage were Senator Christensew
/ Beaufort, Walker of Georgetown,
^helor of Oconee, and Duncan of
Union.
The joint resolution to give $100,)00
reward to any person diseoverng
and providing remedy for destroying
the boll weevil i
Carolina was killed by the house of
epresentatives today by a vote of
\j to 22. The house of representatives
jy a vote of 29 to 2 passed the
esolution providing1 a referendum
his year on an amendment to the
? ate constitution to change the
date's fiscal year from Jan. t to Jan.
L, to July 1 to June 31. The resolution
vas sent to the senate. The bill pa?*
d the senate to prohibit smoking
n pubilc eating places was killed in
he house Wednesday without a vote
n its favor.
Reported IJufavoraby
The vote on the boll weevil reward
i'.us on the unfavorable report of the
,vays and means committee. There
. as some effort to keep the resolution
alive, but this failed, it was
jointed out that there are already boll
rvcevil remedies, and it was also said
here would be difficulties in dcternining
the winner of the prize. Representative
Morrison of Charleston
vas the author of the bill.
A bill to require chiropractors, oseopaths
and other healers to stand
xanimation before the state board
vf medical examiners before being
icensed to practice in South Carolina
vas introduced in the house of repiqntatives
by Representative Bnrnveil.
The bill prohibits persons under 11
rears old from practicing- medicine,
t crepes a board of examiners nf
nirht members. TIndpr t.hn nr??..?v'
aw of the state chiropractors do not
rass examination at the hand of the
.tate board of medical examiners,
rhe new bill would allow all forms of
tealing but would require them
>e licensed by tho state board. The
ill was prepared by the state medial
association.
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Any kind of t building is worlh.
nore now than formerly.
1ANKERS0FFER
ECONOMIC VIEWS
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Atlanta, Ga.?Diversity of opinio.i
egarding the present financial arid
ncnomic situation is shown in rallies
to questionnaires sent to bankrs
in the Sixth Federal Reserve
listrict by M. B. Wellborn, governor
f the Atlanta Federal bank.
Most of the bankers who replied
irgod more production and greate*
hrift, some advocated organized eforts
to limit buying of non-essentials
ind others thought banks should curail
credit. Others thought present
ligh prices for commodities and labor
vould increase production while sope*
aid time itself wouuld remedy tb-*
Ituation which they said, was nato?*
il sequence to war.