The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, March 10, 1921, Image 1
VOLUME XXXV. _____
PROCEEDINGS IN
CRIMINAL CASES
Disposed of at March Term
Beginning Last Monday
Morning .
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COURT MAKES TIME
AND DOES WORK
No Cases of Unusual Interest
Among Large Number
on Docket.
The Court of General Sessions
convened on Monday morning with
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ton, presiding. Contrary to the practice
of the past several years, the
court was convened in the forenoon
and not in the afternoon.
At the opening of the term Judge |
Memminger delivered an able charge t
to the grand jury, this being the first
term in the year at which the present
grand jury, as a body, is acting.!
Tie went over the general outlines of
their duties and the rules under which
they are to conduct their work; he
spoke of the times he had been here
before, since he bec;yne a judge, and
stated that while he saw there was
a great number of criminal cases to
i be heard, and that therefore there!
was crime being committed in the
county, yet he found much good here, i
and that great improvements had
taken place since the times when he;
was here before; that on each occa-j
sion when he had come here he had I
been cordially received, showing the
hospitality and open-heartedness of j
i the people. He hoped that the time I
would come when there would
be no high crimes nor petty violations
of the law in this county, and
lie used an apt illustration which impressed
those in the court room at
the time.
The grand jury then retired to consider
bills of indictment and the docket
of cases held over from the last
term was called.
There were many cases called and
investigated by the grand jury, but
i none of great public interest.
m Th? court made good time and disposed
of cases quickly in most instances.
The State vs. D. J. Richardson, Jr.,
was nolle prossed at the request of
the prosecutor.
The State vs. John Johnson, malicious
mischief, was nolle prossed.
The State vs. M. Conner, on similar
charge, nolle prossed.
The State vs. Jim Jordan, similar
charge, nolle prossed.
The/ State vs. Sam Creel, for bastardy,
was dismissed.
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The .M.'ito vs. Mim oneney, cnai-jruu |
wijth seduction, was called on Monday
evening. The defendant was found
not guilty.
Tuesday.
The case of the State vs. Frank
Davis, charged with striking W. B. i
Graham at the cot,ton gin here in Oc-j
Itoher, 1910, which blow made in the;
head with a pitchfork, made a dan-j
gerous wound, from which it was i
thought the prosecutor might die. The '
defendant was a negro and the testi- j
mony showed that he had tried to |
drive into the gin ahead of his time]
and this brought on the difficulty. It.
was not proved that W. B. Graham j
had anything to do in causing the dif-1
ficulty. The jury found Davis guilty
Of assault and battery of a high and
aggravated nature.
1 The State vs. Waterman Graham
and P. I. Graham, charged with assault
and battery with intent to kill,
f was next tried, resulting in a verdict
Iof guilty of assault and battery of a
high and aggravated nature. Defendants
were sentenced to six months
each in the public works or penitentiary.
The Court sentenced Frank Davis,
who was convicted of the crime of assault
and battery of a high and aggravated
nature, to six months in
the state penitentiary, or a like
period on the public works of Horry
county.
The next case taken up was that
against Ben Bessent for breaking into
the warehouse of W. H. Stone at
I Little River some time ago. He was
convicted of the crime as charged.
Wednesday.
On Wednesday morning the court
'did not take up the trial of Morgan
Todd, charged with murder, although
this case had been set for that time.
It seemed to be understood that it
would come up later in the week.
The case of the State vs. Ben Besaent
was called foi< the purpose of
sentencing the defendant. He was
placed on the public works without
the alternative of a fine. He was
convicted of stealing three sacks of
jjjirf?,*vp',dy flour from the warehouse
of W. H. Stone, at Little River, some
time ago.
The court next went into the trial
of the case of slander against Greely
Strickland, charged with having uttered
a statement about one of the
school teachers in this county.
This case had not been disposed of
when this issue of the Herald went to
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TO THE TEACHERS
OF HORRY COUNTY
Announcement of Field Day and
School Fair has been mailed out.
Please read this carefully and enter
your pupils in as many of the contests
as possible. We especially urge
that you and all of your pupils take
part in the parade, even if you cannot
enter any of the contests. The name,
age, grade and subject of each pupil
who wishes to take part in any contest
should be sent to Mrs. M. J. Bullock
not later than April 2nd.
I shall be glad to furnish a soil
survey map of Horry county, which :
can be used as a guide by any school |
that wishes to exhibit a county map.
We hope that many schools will exhibit
reconstructed maps of Europe.
We realize the difficulties under
which our teachers have been working
since they have been unable to draw
their pay, and we appreciate their
sacrifices. We believe that the state
appropriation will be sufficient to run
our Equalizing? Schools seven months
if we comply with requirements: As
soon as we hear definitely from the
appropriation 1 shall do all in my
power to make financial arrangements
to take care? of your claims.
Lot mo remind you that the a vera pre
attendance must he kept above 15
each month for each teacher if your
school is to receive equalizing aid.
There is no way to get around this
requirement. Average attendance
cannot he transferred from one teacher
to another or from one month to
another. However, pupils, with all of
their work, may he transferred to another
teacher, if this will help keep
an average attendance of 15 in each
room.
The Teachers' Meeting will he held
March 19th. Final plans for Field
Day will then he discussed. Supt.
Wall, of Marion, will he on the program.
Be sure to come.
?M. J. Bullock,
Co. Supt. of Education.
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NAVY RESERVES
Will Bring Submarine Chaser
to Be Stationed at
Conway.
The secretary of the Chamber of
commerce has received the following
letter:
"Dear Sir?The Commandant highly
appreciates the interest of the
Chamber of Commerce in the organization
of the reserves of your city.
There is no doubt that a live naval
unit in your section will he a valuable
asset to your city. We are making
an effort to secure a submarine
chaser to be stationed permanently
at Conway, and there will be others
along the coast. We hope to assemble
these from time to time at the
various ports along the coast.
We will encourage the men to organize
pulling and sail-boat crews,
and at your next county fair we could
probably arrange for a series of races
as a part of your attractions.
"As there is but small Remand on
the time of the men, and on assurance
that their civilian pursuits will not
be interferred with, it is believed that
every point on the waterfront will
eventually have a unit of reserves
in fine working order, keen to win
and hold some of the various trophies
that will be offered.
"Thanking you again for your interest
in the matter, I am,
"Yours very sincerely,
"W. W. Thompson,
"Lieutenant U. S. N. R. F., Personnel <
Officer." I
Rev. J. M. Lemmon, who has been
confined to his bed for some time,
was able to be out again the first of
the week. He left Tuesday to spend
a few days at Florence, S. C.
CHICKENS NOT ALLOWED TO
RUN AT LARGE IN TOWN
At the last meeting of the town
council the Domestic Animal Ordinance
was amended so as to make it
a misdemeanor, subject to a fine, for
owners of fowls to allow them to run
at large. There has been a pood deal
of complaint made about pardon and
flower seed being destroyed by chickens.
It is earnestly hoped that owners
of chickens will have proper regard
for other people and keep their
fowls properly confined.
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PITTTIMP. IN W ATKR
The city water is being run into
the two Buck buildings, now being
refurnished for the Winstead Furniture
Company. Workmen have been
busy for the past several weeks putting
in new fronts and installing new
show windows.
press, and the result of the case will
be reported in the issue of next week.
This case drew a crowd of people
from the Green Sea section of the
county. Many of them were school
patrons and had heard of the difficulty
about which the warrant was
taken out.
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HORRY COUN1
STOCK I
The amendment intrc
to extend the free range i
til December 31st, next,
ence just as the Legislatu
The county is now ui
general stock law passed ;
the stoclc law has come t(
OFFICER MUST
HAVE WARRANT
Searching Private Home Without
Search Warrant for
Liquors
ISIIPRFMP rmiRT
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DECIDES A CASE
Even With Search Warrant
Officer Must Know Beforehand
Necessary Facts.
Since the enactment of the Volstead
law, many (|uestions have arisen
not only as affccting the provisions
of the law itself but as to the fundamental
rights of a free people. There
is no citizen who does not appreciate
the benefits that have followed since
it has been hard to obtain intoxicating
drinks in the small towns and rural
districts if not in the larire cities.
Since then whole crowds of workmen
cannot be incapacitated by the introduction
of a sudden flow of whiskey
ordered from some other State or
purchased at the Town itself under
high license or a dispensary but if
they get any now it is only a small
quantity which cost them very high
and which they know will be seized,
confiscated or even stolen if anybody
knows they have it, consequently
they do not use it as they once did
and they do more work and lead more
useful lives. Now one serious question
in the minds of many people has
been asked as to the right of a prohibition
enforcement official or any
orther official of the law acting under
him; has he the right to enter the home
of a citizen, or his place of business,
and search for illicit liquor without
having a search warrant; is he justified
in so acting unless he knows beI
fore hand that the liquor is stored
there and for unlawful purposes,
and it is actually found by means of
his search.
No good citizen wishes to see the
law violated. Each one wants peace
and quietness in the community. At
the same time no man or woman
wants their rights violated without
due process of law. It has not been
long since that prohibition officers
passed through the Red Bluff district
making wholesale searches of peoples
houses, tearing up stills where they
found them and seizing different
brands of moonshine. They searched
houses, where nothing of this kind
was found. They had no search warrants
to give them authority, they
were in a dark corner of the County
and they may have had suspicions of
the presence of whiskey. We thought
at the time that they violated the law,
which placed them in the same class
with those who stilled the liquors contrary
to the Volstead Act, still there
may have been some doubt about it
in the minds of many of the officials.
There cannot be any doubt now because
the question has gone to the
Supreme Court in the case of Lawrence
Amos whose house was searched
in his absence with the consent of his
wife, who could not prevent it, and
two quarts of moonshine was found
and some more in his store. At the
trial before Judge H. A. M. Smith, at
the Federal District Court Amos was
convicted regardless of his defense
that his house was searched regardless
of law without a search warrant
and not even justified by the alleged
consent of his wife, who could not
have .successfully resisted the search.
His attorneys appealed and took the
case to the Supreme Court and that
Court, which is the highest tribunal
in the United States, reversed the
decision of Judge Smith and Lawrence
Amos is cleared. Regardless of
what the dry officials may want and
regardless of how had we all would
like to see prohibition carried out
none of us could uphold such action
on the part of officials at any time as
the homo of a man is his castle and
it should not bo violated except as
provided by law. Whenever it becomes
possible in the United States
for an official t$ search a citizen's
home without a search warrant procured
from a competent official, as
the law requires, then this country
can no longer be called a land of free'
dom.
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.AW FOREVER :
)duc.ed by Senator Smith
n a part of this county unwas
killed in free confer- J
re died late last week.
ider the regulations of the
at the session of 1920, and
) stay for all time.
LAST CHANCE TO
VOTE FOR OT TEEN
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Get Busy Now in Behalf of1
Your Candidate or Forever ;
Hold Your Peace
CONTEEST CLOSES
OiM MARCH 12TH
No Votes Counted Coming' Into
Herald Office After 5:30
Saturday Afternoon.
The contost for candidates for
Queen of Palmafesta, from Horry
county, will close at the appointed
time, on next Saturday afternoon at j
5:30 o'clock. After that time there,
will he no more votes counted or ac-'
cepted. At the hour of 5:30 the
votes will be cast up finally and the
winner will he announced in our issue
of March 17th.
The winning of this contest will i
mean much for the young lady who is
fortunate to be counted the most I
i popular in Horrv c.ount.v Tim Uof ?rl
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candidates will be found elsewhere in I
this issue with the number of votes!
now held by each. Look this up and
see who you want to vote for. A paid
in advance subscription to this paper
counts 100 votes. Every inch of advertising
counts five votes. Remember
that you must say when paying
the money just who you want to vote,
for if you want to vote for any of the j
young ladies. Don't pay the money j
without announcing your vote, and
then come in later and claim you
intended to vote for some of them,
i This would not do.
i We predict that this contest will
i grow warm vet before it is over.
Remember there is no more time
after the hour above appointed for
announcing the final count of ballots.
If you want your candidate to go she
! or you one, or maybe both, will have
to get busy.
; STOCK LAW~~AT
OLD LAKE SWAMP
The stock law is our choice; fences
we don't want.
Behold how good and how pleasant
it. is for stock to live together in pas!
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Walter Mishoe is our legislator.
Surely goodness and mercy shall be
his to enjoy for a long time to come,
and if he l)e weary and heavy lr.den
let him come up near Zion, with his '
old friends, and take rest, and surely
we will furnish him plenty of fresh
sweet hams from the green pastures
at any season ho ma/ appear. Behold,
we have a senator by name but
not by works and achievements. We
have the stock law, and we will not
have to be guyed any more by passersby
about those old bramble hedge- j
rows, and we expect to keep the fence I
down or up, just as we like best, but
thanks to all from Little Russ and
Mishoe, all the way up to His Excellency,
Governor Cooper.
Come up and see us and spend a
week, Walter, and we will prepare a
table before you in the presence of
your few enemies, and enjoy good old
sweet ham with you till your mouth
runneth over with the sweetness
thereof, for you have made the first
forward step to successful and progressive
legislation in a number of
years, and we want you to be among
us and make yourself at home any
old time, and remain sound in faith
and defend the right as you have done
in the past. You have good friends
on both sides the immaginary Mason
and Dixon line which was thought
about once in Horry. Thanks Tor
Horry, our legislator, and last but not
least, the stock law.
?The Ladies of Zion.
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PLEADED GUILTY.
Adline Rhodes, the colored woman
tried in Florence last week, the Herald
is informed, pleaded guilty to the
charge lodged against her, and was
fined $200 and costs. D. G. Hinson,
town policeman, who went over as a
witness against the woman, has returned,
and stated that she was able
to pay the fine.
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MERCHANTS' CAMPAIGN
CLOSES WITH THIS ISSUE
The scries of advertising the merchants
of Conway have been running
in the Herald urging everybody to
pay their debts, as far as possible, in
order to get business on a better
financial basis, closes with this issue.
The purpose of these advertisements
have been to try to j2ret all
those who owe accounts to pay them
up, so one man could pay the other,
and pet the money that has been held
back into circulation, and then for all
to live according to their income, buying
as little as possible on credit.
I They believe these ads have reminded
the people of this fact, and caused
them to realize the situation. If so,
the purpose in view has been acconiI
plished, and if the people will pay
I their bills promptly, putting the
| money into circulation, pood times are
! with us, and the country will be on
j a safer financial basis than during
the war.
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Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Gordon, who
i have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. A.
13. McCoy, have returned to their
home at Edenton, N. C.
ALLIES MARCH
TO GERMANY
Negotiations Over Indemnity
Broken Off at London
Conference.
London, March 7?The negotiations
over tho German indemnity were
broken today; action comes tomorrow
with the march of French, British and
Belgian forces into Germany and the
occupation of large sections of her
richest manufacturing country. Even
now the allied troops are on the move,
for a late Berlin dispatch says that
French troops to occupy Duesseldorf
have advanced to within six miles of
that city.
The allied ultimatum was fore#
closed apparently with reluctance by
the British prime minister. The
French do not appear regretful, while
the Germans left Lancaster house,
i where the conferences have been held,
plainly depressed, to take their train
for home.
Two long sittings of the conference
threshed out at the final break before
Marshal Foch and Field Marshal Wilson
wrote telegrams ordering the
commanders at the fornt to execute
the orders already given to them. Dr.
Simons, the German foreign secretarv,
presented an alternate plan whereby
Germany ^grced to pay the annuities
for the first five years demanded in
the Paris plan, and also the equivalent
of the proposed 12 per cent tax
on exports, but clung to the conditions
for the retention of upper
Silicia and world-wide freedom of
German trade.
Mr. Floyd George, delivering judgment;
for the allies said they deeply
deplored the necessity of the decision
while I))1. Simons clung to the last
to the contention that tlie Paris demands
were impossible for Germany
| to fulfill. The allies regarded the
Germany course as strategy for delay
and the latest plan is one whereby
I the whole treaty would have to be reconsidered
and debated after five
l years when Germany might hold a
more favorable position. Dr. Simons
finally asked for further time in
which to consult the German cabinet.
This was denied.
The French army will furnish the
bulk of the forces for the new march
into Germany. Great Britain's contribution
in men will only be large
enough to show her solidarity with
the allies, who wait with the deepest
interest for any sign from Washington
of the American government's at
lii/iuiu iim> ai u cut: iiuv> ciitui irtc?
General feeling in England appears
to be one of relief, without enthusiasm.
The prine minister explained
the position in the house of commons
in a speech in which there was no
note of jubilation. The majority of
English newspapers have taken the
view that the most important point in
volved was that the allies should
stand together, while the French
press has freely voiced its fears that
Lloyd George might desert France.
All recognized that if M. Briand returned
to Paris tearing the burdens
of a concession to Germany his premiership
was doomed.
The scene of the proposed allied occupation
in Germany which was set
to commence at daybreak Tuesday, is
on the river Rhine in the heart of the
great industrial region of the Ruhr
valley, with Essen, the city of steel
and munitions, the center. The three
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rn,ies Hnnouiifeo Tor occupation are
Duesseldrof, Duisburg and Ruhrort,
lying along the Rhine, commercial
ports into which flow the vast traffic
of the Ruhr irVi region. Those cities
adjoin the British zone of occupation,
Cologne. The American one is at
Coblenz, 7.r> miles further south, and
t he French zone at Mayence, another
75 miles south.
As all three cities are on the Rhine,
the proposed occupation does not involve
marching in land beyond the
Rhine, except in the immense vicinity
of the occupied cities.
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NO. 47.
MUCH INTEREST
IN STOCK LAW
Farmers Came to Conway Last
Saturday to Learn the
Result
ALL SEEMED PLEASED
AT FINAL OUTCOME
Even Free Range Men Were
Opposed to Keeping the
Matter in Uncertainty.
One of the largest crowds that ever
visited Conway preceding: the opening
of court was here last Saturday. They
were interested in the free range and
stock law question. They were anxious
to know what had been the final
result of the bills introduced in the
Legislature. This paper had been
printed and mailed out the middle of
the week, giving all the information
possible to obtain at that time, but
all of it showed that it was extremely
uncertain that free range would succeed
even until the end of December.
Late last Friday afternoon persons
who had been in Columbia from Conway
in the interest of one side or the
other wired to persons here that the
county had the stock law for good
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entirely. This was a great relief to
almost every farmer in the county.
Those who did not hear the news
otherwise came to Conway on Saturday
for the purpose of finding1 out
what had been done in Columbia.
There will be no further free range
in Horry county, because the stock
law regulations which went into effect
under the act of 1921 will
now continue for all time to come.
It is known that the entire state
favors the statewide stock law, which
will confine everybody's stock, and
the whole experience is worth all it
cost in eliminating the trouble and
worry of bad fences. The fences in
Horry county have been going to the
bad for some time until the county
was practically without fences even
before the act of 1920 was passed.
ONLY HOPE IS
LESS ACREAGE
Columbia Conference Last
Week Renders This Decision
on Situation
REPORTS MAHE
NOT FAVORABLE
As Showing Much of A Reduction
by Cotton Planters in
This State
Columbia. March 7.?That the only
hope for tho salvation of tho state
from financial ruin lies in a drastic
cut in the cotton acreage this year,
was the unanimous opinion of the
conference held here last Wednesday
at which were present representatives
of the South Carolina Bankers
Association, the South Carolina Development
Board, the South Carolina
Press Association, the South Carolina
Commercial Secretaries Association,
the South Carolina Automotive Trade
Association and the South Carolina
Division of the American Cotton Association.
The conference was called by the
South Carolina Division of the American
Cotton Association, and Governor
Cooper presided until the selection
of a chairman. Mr. Broght Williamson
was chosen as chairman.
Speakers included Governor Cooper,
Governor K. I. Mananing, R. C. Hamer,
R. B. Stackhouse, J. Skottowe
Wannamaker and others. The one
theme of the meeting was that unless
tV<n 'imwi'i ivn in in tlin
cut to a point where only one-third of
the cultivated lands of the state are
planted in cotton that the state is
facing tho most distresing financial
period in its history. The speakers
pointed out that there is absolutely no
hope for a fair price of cotton unless
only one-half of a crop is raised this
year. The production of over half a
crop this year would mean that cot
tpn woukl bring only about five cents
a pound next fall. It was declared
by some of the speakers that too
gloomy a picture of present conditions
could not 1)0 painted.
Reports at the meeting were not
very favorable as to the prospects
for a reduction in this state. It was
brought out that while some farmers
are planning to reduce others are
not. The situation was threshed out
from every angle and it was decided
that the bankers alone could enforce
an acreage reduction by refusing to
extend loans to those who do not reduce.