The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, May 03, 1923, Page Page No. 6, Image 6
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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GEORGE J. HOLLIDAY, ..
D. V. RICHARDSON,
GEORGE J. HOLLIDAY, ...
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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.
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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.
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