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Page No. 6 RUM SCANDAL 1 BEATS RECORD Full Story of How Public Officers Were Much Involved There are fe^ stories of municipal and judicial corruption in American politics that surpass the recent revelations regarding conditions in Gary, Ind., bared to the public eye in the sensational trials of 05 persons in Indianapolis, 55 of whom were con victea 01 conspiracy to violate trie Volstead Act. The. mayor, the city judge, prosecuting attorney of Lake County; sheriff, three police officers, former prosecutor, former sheriff, former justice of the peace, three well-known attorneys, more than a score of bootleggers and rum runners, and a number of dive keepers were among those found guilty. Only seven of those arrested were acquitted. Those found guilty may t)e sentenced from one day to two years in the penitentiary, or a maximum fine of $10,000, or both, at the discretion of the court. One hundred and seventy-five witnesses were summoned by the government in these cases, representing at least 15 different nationalities. The cases were tried by United States District Attorney Homer Elliott, of Indiana, who deemed it necessarv to housp And nrnfprt his witness es, with armed guards. Three men were instructed to sh^ot if any of the witnesses were tampered with or molested by opposition. These guards were placed when on March 12th, Gaspare Monti, king of the underworld of Gary and the chief informer of the Government, who was to be the star witness against Gary officials, was shot down in broad laylight on one of the principal side streets of the city. About a year ago, Judge Dunn of the Gary police court, one of those convicted at Indianapolis, sent Monti away for six months for liquor selling. Monti was angry. He declared that those whom he had paid for protection had double-crossed him, and threatened to get even with them when he was released from jail. He made good his threat, revealing the inside workings of the Gary police court, charging the city government with graft and corruption. This was the beginning of the expose. As a result of an investigation a number of public officials were indicted at the January sitting of the Federal district court at Indianapolis. It was an astounding story of graft and corruption, involving: men of standing: in politics and the business life of Gary; also judges and lawyers who, up to that time, had enjoyed good reputations. Close on the heels of Monti's visit to the United States district attorney, another undesirable citizen of Gary called and added new and additional details to the amazing charges. This informer, Daniel Melloy, was a member of the liquor squad in Gary, but his itching palm got him into trouble. Coupling the stories of Monti and Melloy with what he had. learned from the defendants and witnesses in other rum cases, together what the other prohibition enforcement officers knew of Gary and Lake County conditions, District Attorney Elliott felt that he had a good case against all the defendants. In outlining the cases to the court and jury, District Attorney Elliott said that the conspiracy began back in 1919, in a small way. involving rum runners, constables, justices of the peace, deputv prosecuting officers and police. "White mule" and red whiskey were transported over the road from Chicago. South Bend and Detroit to Gary. At the trial Federal dry agents told ot ou or more places where liquor was openly sold in Gary and no questions asked. Some of the whiskey, wine and beer that the dry agents purchased at Gary was offered as evidence before the jury. ?o BEWARE OF ADULTERATION Olemson College.?Farmers are airain cautioned to be very careful in purchasing calcium arsenate in 192,3, unless they buy from, well-known people who handle the brands of reliable manufacturers, says Prof. A. F. Conradi, Entomologist, in calling attention once more to thp fact that calcium arsenate for poisoning the boll weevil must meet the requirements of the State and Federal laws. The specifications for calcium arsenate for boll weevil control required >?v the South Carolina State laws are the same as those recommended by the Federal government. Calcium arsenate for boll weevil sliouM contain not less than 40 per cent 0f arsenic pentovid; not over .75 (seventv live one hundredths) of one per cent Khali he water soluble; and the density shall not be less than 80 nor more than 100 cubic inches per pound. Calcium arsenate on the market conforming to these specifications is a light. flufTy, white powder that resembles air-slaked lime or flour. Whenever the material has .a yellow color, or any color but white, farmers should demand that this color be explained. It seems that in some instances calcium arsenate has been offered to farmers at a low rate with the explanation that "it is just a little below the specifications required by the government." Such material is illegal when sold for boll weevil control purposes. o Get your circulars printed on the -finest grade of colored poster that is kept for that purpose at The Herald We are ready to get busy on jetr copy today. ONE SHERIFF I IS ACCUSED News from Florence says: A warrant was sworn out for Dave Williams, former magistrate's constable at Timmonsville and at present a special deputy sheriff for Florence county, on the charge of having and operating a moonshine ?tjlf on his place rear Timmonsville. Williams was not arrested hut stated that he would appear in Florence and give bond for his appearance in Federal court. The raid was headed by General Prohibition Agent P. J. Coleman, assisted by W. C. Eichelberger, State constable, Deputy Sheriff S. O. Simms and Federal Officers Stacy and Baskin. The still was of copper, holding 75 gallons and showed all the signs of having seen lengthy service. In addition to the still, 100 gallons of mash and a gallon of "moonshine" were seized at the place and destroyed. The raid came as a distinct surprise to the neighborhood, as Williams was considered one of the best local officers in that section. Up until the first of the year he was constable to the magistrate, special deputy sheriff for that locality. He was commissioned about a year ago, but Sheriff Burch stated that he has taken away his commission. In a raid in Sumter county several days ago, Constable Eichelberger and Federal officers raided a huge 400gallon stlil and arrested three persons. In addition to the still the officers seized and destroyed at the place 12 gallons of corn beer, 21 fermenters and a large number of other articles that go to make up a modern up-tothe-minute still. TAKING KINKS FROM PASTURE The particular old pasture in. question was just like thousands of brothers and cousins it then had and now has through the country. It was not entirely worthless but certainly was not 50 per cent efficient. Gullies brush, weedy spots, broomsedge briers and loose stones were all there in abundance. As is generally the. case with such pastures the fence around it was not good, but the income from such a pasture land would not pay for how to make this land pay for erecting a good fence around it, pay taxes on it and a reasonable return on its money value. As the pasturing season was on us when the work of improvements began, tlje first thing to be done was to patch up and improve the fence so it would turn stock. It was too much to build an all-round new and first .class fence when so much other work had to be done and when the income from the field enclosed was not great, but enough work had to be done to keep stock in it and other people's stock out. Small trees that had grown up were cut off, firewood saved, smaller brush were cut off under the ground with axe or grubbed up, briers were mown off, and all the resulting brush were thrown into gullies. Loose stones were gathered up and piled on top of J the brush to hold them in place when I flnnrl Vnmp iinH tr? o#?t riH of the stones at the same time. Some gullies were plowed in to partially level the land. Old decaying stumps were removed and pieces of old tree branches were picked up and the whole surface of the land was cleaned up so that on the smooth parts a mower could be run. On bare places made bv levelling and by grubbing the brush, as well as on other partially bare places, stable manure was scattered lightly in which acid prosphate had been mixed at the ivite of about 40 pounds to the load. Then these places were disked lightly and lespedeza was scattered at the rate of 12 pounds to the acre. Where summer washing was likely to occur 10 to 15 pounds of Soudan grass per acre was sown to hold the land through the summer. All of this work made the old pasture look much better and as weeds, broomsedge and brush came on the mower was used on smoother parts to cut them down. The pasture was mowed twice, once in July and once in September. Along the sides of the gullies, among1 stumps and solid rocks, the weed blade was used to cut sprouts and weeds. The young cattle and sheep on the pasture helped to keep the weed, brush and wild grass down and to gave the scattering bluegraas, white clover and lespedeza a chance. After the pasture was mowed in September, winter oats, alsike clover, white clover and red top were sown. The oats were sown ahead' of the disk ynd the small seeds after it and then the land was lightly harrowed. More manure was used on the thin places to encourage growth of fall seeding of oats, clovers and grass and the grasses already established. Through the winter the brush and rocks in the gullies, the oats fed by the coat of manure, the Soudan grass roots and the litter of mown grass, the main result of the winter rains was to fill ud the deeDer washes and to improve rather than damage the field. Tn the spring: following the growth of bluegrass, which had greatly increased, the white clover, the red top and winter oats, and later on the lespede7*a were a sight good for sore eyes. Nature was responding to the little things heing done to help her in her work of restoration. The number of stock the field would carry were twice that it would take care be/ore the work of improving it began, and it would make the larger number fatter than the old pasture would the smaller number. Prom this time on the work of car THE HORRY HERALD, <.ir . j.Li L' BILL BOOSTER SAYS as how i oovrf WPEer TO UVC MORE *tV*AM A COOPtC Of HVJMORftO N A*S UDUOeR, AHO COU$\Oe*lUG AU nue *TW\U<*S i wtiWr xd01 DO, \ PlGcfcER t AJMtf GOT A MlUVJTE TO WAVre KMOCKlMCr <3cROkAPtMGr AUO WOLFING ABOVJrr TUiEtfiC % nnur ??uei NEGRO MIGRATION HAS EFFECT ON LABOR Washington.? The general movement of southern negro farmers to northern industrial centers, shown by a recent survey of the department of agriculture, will if continued, have a marked effect both upon the labor supply in the south and upon the negro race itself, in the opinion of officials of the census bureau. An analysis by the bureau of the negro population statistics of the 11)20 census shows marked tendencies toward interstate migration and concentration in cities, the movement receiving its first impetus in the demand? for unskilled labor during the world war. During the decade nearly 235,000 negroes removed to cities in the South Atlantic States, and nearly the same number to cities in the East North Central States. The increase in these cities, averaging nearly fifty per cent, affords a vivid statistical picture, in the opinion of census officials, of a systematic effort in industry and commerce to supply with the negro workers the unskilled labor needs largely met by immigration before that was checked by act of congress. "Were foreign immigration to be resumed in the future on a scale commensurate with immigration from I.S90 to 1900, or during the period immediately preceding the war," the census bureau analysis says, "it is reasonable to suppose that the negro, less in demand because of the greater labor supply, would tend to drift back to his former environment. Rut immigration for the first time in federal history has been restricted, and if this restriction continues, and unskilled labor in prosperous times becomes again at a premium, is the negro to respond to the demand ns during the war and continue to increase in urban centers during the present and subsequent decades at rai*? resembling those shown for the war period? Should'this prove to be the case, the effect upon the labor supply in the south and upon the negro race j itself will be very marked. "In every one of the northern states negro deaths in the five years, 1015-1019, outnumbered births in the southern states in general the conditions are reversed. Throughout the north and in the cities of the south, negro deaths are more numerous than negro births, in fact southern cities are even more unfavorable than those ofthe north to natural increase. In 1920, for the fust time the proportion of white! children to white women exceeded that of negro children to negro wo- j men, the difference being 42 per 1,000. At the present time the proportionate of children to women among southern negroes is only about fivesixths of what it is among southern whites. These changes will doubtless prove to be closely connected with the rapid urbanization of negroes between 1010 and 1020. The rural negro population decreased in that decade by nearly one fourth of a million, or 3.4 per cent; while the urban negro population increased by seven-eigths of a million or 32.7 per cent. Under these conditions the swarming of negroes into cities north and south and the sharp falling in the increase of all American negroes are related almost as cause and effect. "If the rate of increase between ing for the pasture waft a matter of using mowing machine to cut v*?eds, brush and wild grass as often as seemed necessary, to use weed scythe \ull o i'r* f Un ,J ' 1 uic iuu*vci couKi noi ue used, to touch up the thin places with an application of manure each years as a reasonable amount could be spared and to apply some acid phosphate to thin places along with the manure. Then, as this was a soil where paid, its application was the filial thin# to do for the pasture, spreading it first on the thinner parts and finally over the entire field.?Selected. o Habitual Constipation Cured In 14 *o 21 Days "LAX-FOS WITH PEPSIN" is a specially prepared Syrup Tonic-Lay ative for Habitual Constipation. It relieves promptly but should be take* iggularly for 14 to 21 day* to induce regular action. It Stimulates and Regulates. Very Pleasant to Take 60c bottle. CONWAT^C, MAY 3, 1923 EACH MAN IN NEED OF AID That Which Can be Rendered by Helping Each ! , Other 600PERATI0N IS WANTED Having to Feed Weevils From Other Pln.ntn.tir?riR nf Community By N. L. Willet. In plant life the technical name for living together is called symboisis. The tree with its shade is a great help to certain plant types but this same over-shadowing tree acts in quite ,a harmful way to cotton or corn as planted beside it. In human life the key to symbiosis is the Golden Rule. One-half of our agricultural troubles, for example would be wholly done away with if the members of agriculture, leaders, followers and cooperators were practiced in the art of living together. A Farmer Said. A farmer recently said to me: "I made forty-five Uales of cotton this year on fifty acres. I did it largely by following two rules: First, I turned under earlv in October my cotton stalks; second, I poisoned the bud weevil in the spring. In this way I practically annihilated my winter weevils." "But, my neighbors followed neither of these rules. They bred winter and spring weevils 011 their farm and then turned most disastrously upon my crop at migration times. My neighbors acted, in fact, as community weevil breeders. It nviy have been ignorance, laziness or indifference but this lack of neighborliness has cost me for the past two years fifteen hundred dollars a year. If my neighbors were neighborly I could plant more acres ?nd could pick out more cotton per acres. The JNegro ftxodusu "As to the negro exodus, none of my negroes," said he, "have left me. I have taught them how to grow cotton and how to grow all necessary farm food products. I give them livable homes and I look after their wants. My neighbors, unfortunately, have not done these things. Throug-h their neglect our whole community is suffering today and will continue to suffer through labor shortage." Forest*. Then he told me of his pet and his pride, a seven or eight hundred acre forest and how that for two generations it had yielded an annual jncomc. A saw mill had been working all the while but it had beer, only cutting matured trees. "My forest," said he. "through its lumber, has boon a continual blessing-. too. to the whole community and it will continue to be so. As I see it, the forest annihilation now going on on part of my neighbors will j prove an unthinkable loss to all of our community. It is an unneighborly act. My forests have always been projected from fires and- it is a great ; pleasure to me to watch the rapid and continuous seedling growth, which make for forest renewal, that is forever going on in my forest." Blue Quail. I regarded it as an act of good fellowship when some months ago I took orders for the importation of Mexican .Hlue Quail. These are beautiful birds, hardy, and productive and were widely distributed over the whole country last year and with the finest results. We have in our forests and fields here no bird so beautiful as this one and so able to take cure rf himself and to reproduce himself. My orders came from all over South Carolina and Georgia. Nobody wanted these birds until the arrival of the closed season and so it was on March the first from all over the United States there flocked to the Mexican border a howt of buyers and importers. The Mexican government ber>omo alai'iriah aiwl frt vioi' autti bird? forbade for this season all exporting. They actually confiscated and turned loose all the birds that had been collected but not exported. My own exporter from whom I was buying: at Brownsville had thousands of birds in Mexico carralled by him which were turned loose. It w.'ts a tremendous financial loss to himself. I am, therefore,, regretfully forced to return the monies that were sent to me. It is within the range of possibility that I something can be done next fall. 1900 and 1920 be projected through the rest of the century without change, it would yield at its close about !K),500,000 as the maximum limit of negro population. It also seems reasonable to expect that the negroes who in 1907 were over 19 per cent or nearly one-fifth of the population of the country, now are about one tenth are likely that by the end of the /\ h a rvt ava VII V) l/U uu 1UI IIIUIC l/JIClll UIICtwentieth." ? o Drinking cups that are the best for carrying your advertising. Get these at The Herald office. o To Stop a Cough Quick take JI AYES' HEALING HONEY, a cough medicine which stops the cough by healing the inflamed and irritated tissues. A lx)x of GROVES O-PEN-TRATE SALVE for Chest Colds, Head Colds and Croup is enclosed with every bottle of HAYES' HEALING HONEY. The salve should be rubbed on the chest and throat of children suffering from a Cold or Croup. The healing effect of Haye#' Healing Hooey loskle the throat combined with the heal rag effect of Grove'* O-Pen-Trate 3*1 ve through the pocet of the skin soon Btepeitootogh. uotn reinedte* are peeked in cm carton tM tM ooet'of tit oonbfoed treatment to 96c Just ask your druggist for HAYES' JH EALING HONEY. FINE LETTER PAPER Put away the paper th.at is printed badly and not worthy of the business in which you use it, and get a brand new job of new type and on good writing paper at The Herald shop. It will be a delight every time you take up a sheet to write. o Tell the news to The Horry Herald Thq, Horry Herald tell the world for .you. mi: . CITATION NOTICE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF HORRY. By J. S. Vaught Esquire, Probate Judge. WHEREAS, Mrs. Delia Bell made suit to me, to grant her Letters of Administration of the Estate of and effects of J. L. Bell; THESE ARE THEREFORE to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said J. L. Bell, deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate. to be held at my office, Conway, S. C., on May flth next, after publication hereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to shew cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should not be granted. GIVEN under my Hand, this 24th day of April, Anno Domini, 1923. Published on the 2fith dav of Anril. 1923, in The Herald. J. S. VAUGHT. , Q NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of South Carolina. In the matter of: Thomas Jefferson Bell, Bankrupt. Notice is hereby given that the above named bankrupt has filed a petition for discharge and that a healing has been ordered to be had upon the same on the 3rd day of May, A. D. 1923, before this Court at Charleston. S. C.. at 11 o'clock in the forenoon. at which time n'pro "11 known creditors and other persons in I I.. Ml I ?*f Its U5CO I United St Where to buy US.T S. P. HAWES, GEORGE J. HOLLIDAY, .. D. V. RICHARDSON, GEORGE J. HOLLIDAY, ... RAINS MERCANTILE CO. h ?? i . ^ -:A x. . V r : ' XX Mmw :;.' w^pi' NOTICE OF SALE f " Vi In the matter of N. J. Ferrip, trading: by the name and style of Quality Shop, Bankrupt. Whereas, the undersigned on April 21st, 1923, as advertised before that time .disposed of the stock of poods and merchandise of the said N. J. Ferris, as shown by the inventory, and also all of the store furniture and fixtures and things connected therewith; subject according to law to the con- ^4. formation or disaffiliation of such sale by the Rerefee; And whereas, the \ said sale so made on April 21st, as aforesaid, has not been confirmed by the Court, but has been disaffirmed as to all of the articles sold, excepting one showcase: Notice is hereby given that by vir?i tue of the order of Hon. R. J. KirkA Referee in Bankruptcy, the undersign^ ed as trustee of said bankrupt, will offer for sale at public auction in bulk or in lots, as may be thought best at the time, at the store in Conway, South Carolina, recently occupied by the said N .J. Ferris, at 12 o'clock A. M.r on the 4th day of May, A. D. 1923, the following described personal property, to wit: All and singular the stock of goods and merchandise nf fV?? oo^ w t W ? V? I v- UMIVI Al* U Ferris, as shown by the inventory thereof, to be exhibited at the sale; also all of the store furniture and fixtures and things connected therewith now in the said store or elsewhere* and used in connection therewith and together with all other property of the said bankrupt excepting his store accounts and bills receivable, and excepting one showcase heretofore sold and confirmed by the court. TERMS of sale cash before delivery of propertV. CHARLES R. SCARBOROUGH, Trustee. Dated April 2f)th, A. D. 1923. o interest may appear and show cause, if any they have, why the prayer ojf. the said petitioner should not b?v granted. RICHARD W. HUTSON, Clerk. 3|29 23-4t 1 me Again atesTi res -A ufes Iraat iUuJt I rHE 30x3% "Usco" I is still the fabric I loney's worth of I America. If your dealer I | ries to sell you some- I r [ling else he won't be I urprised if you tell I im "No." I "UscoV' are built by I be same people who I lake Royal Cords* 1 This fact counts, I Ires Conway, S. C. Aynor, S. C. Bucksport, S. C. Jordanville, S. C. Rains, S. C. v vj;' >ider,weavin6w y,succe$sfullv.ja^--r ? i^fEWTlHWT^^ '}? ' A iff ?tv jw:>. .> *. \ *-** <), ri <