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BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY. JUNE 20TH, 192*.
DePriest Incident ~
Offends the South
Hoover Loses Popularity in Both Par
ties.—Congressmen Express
Regret and Fear.
Washington, Jure 16.—The special
recognition of the negro wife of Oscar
DePriest, the negro representative
from the First Illinois district, at the
White House, has dimmed the Hoover
popularity in, the South and made it
most embarrassing for such public
men as Senator Simmons of North
Carolina, Senator Hefflin, cf Alabama,
Bishop James Cannon, Jr., of Virginia
and others who bolted Governor Al
fred E. Smith in the last campaign.
Southern congressmen generally,
Republicans as well as Democrats,
think that the president and Mrs.
Hoover have made a great and irre
parable mistake. They see in the in
cident the question of social equality,
one issue that will always unite the
white people of the South.
Asked today of the president would
comment on. the outburst of antagon
ism in the South, the White House
answered in the negative.
t *‘The reception of the wife of Cor*
t*ssman DePriest,” said Serator
mmors, ore of the irreconcilab’e an
ti-Smith Democrats, “was exceeding
ly unfortunate ard much to be regret
ted.”
“It is a great blow to the social
stability of the South,” said Senator
Lee S. Overman, of North- Carolina.
*1 regret the incident beyond meas
ure,” declared Serator Morris Shejl-
hard, of Texas. “1^ is recognition of
social equality between the white and
black races and is fraught with in
finite danger to our white civiliza
tion”
“I deplore it very much; it was a
mistake,” Senator Heflin said.
Congressioral social circles are
stirred up over the prominence given
DePriest’s wife by the Hoovers. Many
women ofthat set are miietly an-
nourring that they will have no fur
ther part in Hoover social functions.
One leading Southern senator, who is
corsidered conservative, declared:
“Why, I do not know what to ex
pect. If I attend the Hoover recep-'
tions, I may be asked to go to the
table with DePriest’s wife, or my wife
may be asked to go with Represents-'
live DePriest. The easiest way is to
play safe ard remain away. That is
what we will have to do.”
Already there is a DePriest set ‘ml
ar. anti-DePriest set m Washington
society. DePriest has felt the lash of
racial criticism and resents it. Last
fall, aoor after he was elected, it
became known that Mrs. Vestal, wife
of Representative Albert A. Vestal,
(Republican) of Indiam, had intro
duced a resolution to charge the con
stitution of the Congressional club, 1
^^mposed of wives and daughters of
^^^gressmen, so as to enable the
inembers to bar undesirable persons.
This, it was asserted at the time,'
was aimed at DePriest’s wife. Repre- 1
sentative George M. Pritchard (Repub- |
lican) of North* Carolina, refused to
have a room in the house office build
ing alongside of DePriest’s room.
DePriest will give a reception June
21st, at the Washington auditorium,
for ’the benefit of the National Asso
ciation for the Advancement of Col
ored People. AH Republican members
of congress, except Vestal and Pritch
ard, are invited.
BREAKS OWN RECORD
Sam Behr of the University of
Wisconsin made a record shot put of
4? feet 7V& Inches in the preliminaries
of the Western Conference cham
pionships si Dyche stadium, Evans
ton; and nex; day oettered this mark
by throwing the 16-pound weight 48
feet 8 Inches.
First Bale Brings
$1,211 in New York
Spirited Bidding Forces Price to $3.00
Per Pound.—Sent from Texas in
An Airplane.
New York, June 17.—The first bale
of cotton of the 1929 crop, brought
here by airplare from Texas, was
auctioned off today on the floor of the
New York Cotton exchange.
It brought $1,211, half of which
goes to the Salvation Army at Corpus
Christ!, Texas. The purchaser was
William S. Dowell, representing a
cotton syndicate of cotton exchange
Arms, and the auctioneer wss Gardiner
H. Miller, president of the exchange.
The sale was witnessed by Miss
Fren H el sober, represent! rg the Cor
pus Christi chamber of commerce,
Lieut. Governor Herbert H. Lehman,
of New York, and E. C. Bowe, pilot
of the plane, which brought the bale
here in 19V4 hours.
President Miller said the shipment
marked an era in the transportation
of the South’s greatest crop. It was
not only the flrst time cotton had
been sent ^ ere by air, he said, but
also the first time the staple had
been sold on the floor of the exchange
within about 48 hours of picking.
The offering of the bale brought
some spirited bidding. The first ten
der was $2 a pound, and the price ad
vanced in units of 5 and 10 cents until
it reached $3.00.
Ike Weiner Injured
in Accident Monday
Legs Badly Bruised Against Wall of
"Garage When He Cranked His
Ike Weiner, local merchant, was
painfully injured in an unusual auto
mobile - accident Monday, morning.
When he went to his garage to get
his car he found that the self-starter
refused to work. Inadvertently leaving
the car in gear, he attempted to crank
the engine by hand, with the result
that the heavy machine pinned him
against the wall of the garage. He
called for help and was soon released
^4tom his dangerous predicament.
medical examination disclosed the
Tact that while both legs were badly
braised, no bones were broken and
Mr. Weiner’s many friends hope that
that he will soon be out again.
“MANHATTAN COCKTAIL”
IS SPECIAL ATTRACTION
Will Be Offered on Bill for “Family
Night” This Week.
R. G. Herndon, manager of the
Vamp Theatre, announces very at
tractive programs for Thursday and
Friday nights of this week. For to
night (Thursday) Mr. Herndon has
secured a return of “Lilac Time,”a war
time picture featuring Colleen Moore
and Gary Cooper, which will be shown
at the usual prices. y \
Friday night will again be “Family
Night” at the Vamp, the whole family
regardless of the number of meim
Ten Candidates May
Offer for Governor
Balance of Power, Heretofore in Pied
mont Section^ May Shift to the
Coastal Section.
ADVERTISE in The
bers, being admitted for 60 certs. For
this occasion Mr. Herndon announces
“Manhattan Cocktail,” one of Para
mount’s latest specials, featuring
Nancy Carroll and Charles (Buddy)
Rogers.
Mr. Herndon has requested The
People-Sentirel to explain that the
reason the picture advertised for last
Friday night was not shown was due
to an unavoidable delay in "its de
livery, the films not reaching Barn
well until Saturday.
Word has just been received from
the Baptist Hospital in Columbia to
the effect that Jenkins Jones had urv
dergone his fifth operation and that
are now entertained for his
Columbia.—Announcement of the
possible oardidacy of Dr. Olin Sawyer,
of Georgetown', to succeed Governor
Richards, adds a new angle to South
Carolina politics and brings the poten
tial list of candidates to ten, one more
than the 1926 campaign. That Dr.
Sawyer’s entrance in the race will
change the entire complex of the
situation in 1930 is apparent. The
balance of power, which heretofore
has been in the Piedmont section' of
the State, will shift to the Coastal
section for the first, primary, and pos
sibly will remain; there for the second
primary by reason of the fact that
two favorit sons from that section
will rally to their support, a vote
which may be anticipated to outnum
ber the total vote in the textile area,
which will be divided between five
favorite sons.
Since the election of Duncan C.
Heyward, Coastal South Carolina
counties have furnished orly one chief
executive, Wilson G. Harvey, who
succeeded Robert A. Cooper, when
the latter resigned to take a place on
the federal farm loan board.
Jefferies Counted In.
While he has not yet made formal
announcement of his candidacy, it is
practically assured that State Serator
R. M. Jefferies, of Walterboro, will
seek election. Two candidates from
the Coastal section may serve to
muddy the political waters of the
eight counties which feel the swell of
the tide from the Atlantic ocean twice
daily, and a dozen or more bordering
counties
On.the other hand Senator Jefferies
is a native of Gaffney, and through
family cotmectiors and other contacts,
will register a good vote in the county
which will furnish another candidate
for governor in the person, of Lieut.
Governor T. B. Butler. An adjoining
county, Spartanburg, is also repres-
ented in the Hat of counties which will
furnish potential candidates. Ira C.
Blackwood, having already announced
his candidacy.
Moving or to Greenwood, rumor
has It that a favorite son, R. E. Me-
Caslan, chairman of the ways and
means committee, will make the race,
but he has made no arnourcement to
this effect. It is also said that McCas-
lan may offer for leutenant governor.
In Laurens County, Carroll D. Nance
is a possible candidate although, he
had announced that he is “through”
with politics.
Stewart Said Certain.
Over m Lancaster County, it is re
garded as a certainty that Roach S.
Stewart will seek the gubernatorial
toga. C. E. Jones, chairman of the
state highway commission, a citizen of
Lexirqrton County, will not make the
race. “Cip” as he. is known through
out the Skate, doesn’t need the
money and is rot anxious for the
honor. He regards the opportunity to
complete the State system of hard
surfacing roads as greater than that
offered in the governor’s office.
From present indications, Columbia
will furnish two candidates, A. F.
Lever, former congressman, and Clint
T. Graydon, close friend of Senator
Blease ard Governor Richards.
Reports which drifted into the capi
tal city during the past week were to
the effect that Mr. Blackwood might
make the race for congress against
the incumbent, John J. McSwain. If
the report is true, it will be a three-
cornered race in the fourth* district, as
Olin D. Johnson, member of the Spar
tanburg delegation in the general as
sembly, is reported to be in the rur*>
Barnwell Boys Leave
For Distant Climes
Henry Killingsworth Goes to Schenec
tady, N. Y., ai^ Lewis Bla c k
Sails for Europe.
The germ of wanderlust has affect
ed a trio of Barnwell boys.
Friday of last week Lewis Black,
son of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Black, of
this city, and a student at Clemson
College, left for Sumter to join a
classmate on the first leg of a trans-
Atlantic journey. * After a visit to
friends in Cor.way, the two young
men went to Baltimore, from which
port they sailed this week on an ocean
liner on which* they have secured em
ployment. The ship will touch at
several European ports before its re
turn to the United States. —
Henry Killingsv/orth, son of Mrs.
Lessie B. Easterlirg, left Monday for
Schenectady, N. Y., where he has ac
cepted a position with* the General
Electric Company. Young Killings
worth was graduated two weeks ago
from Clemson College, having taken
a course in electrical engineering.
Madison Woodward, son of Mr. and
Mrs. E. F. Woodward, and also a
Clemson graduate this year, will sail
from New Orleans on July 6th for
Kinston Jamaica, where he has ac
cepted a position as civil engineer
with the United States Fruit Company.
Young Woodward has signed a three-
year cortract and expects to be away
from home 18 mouths before he it
granted a vacation of six weeks.
The best wishes of many friends ac
company these three Barnwell boys.
NEGRO WOMAN AT
WHITE HOUSE TEA
Washington, June IS.-r-Mn. Hoover
had as a guest at tea at the White
House yesterday the wife of Oscar
DePriest, wife of the negro congress
man from Chicago. The other guests
at the small party were Mrs. Attorney
General Mitchell, Mrs. Secretary of
War Good, Mrs. Arthur M. Free, wife
of the Califorria congressman; Mrs.
Clyde Kelly, wife of the Pennsylvania
congressman and Mrs. Grace Burton,
niece of the Ohio senator, and about
twenty others. »
The Httle social note caused more
commotion at the Capital than the
defeat of the president on rational
origins..
Senator Caraway, of Arkansas, had
the newspaper account of the tea read
trio the Congressional Record.
There has not been an incident of
the sort since President Roosevelt had
Brooker T. Washington to dinner.
The tea party, though the South*
is much excited about it, was a routine
social affair, for the president’s wife
is entertaining all of the congressional
women in groups, and the negro
woman came along in her regular or
der.
'Hie Congressional Woman’s club
met the difficulty some time ago by
devising a blackball system, which
while no specifications of race or
color were mentioned arswered the
purpose, the woman did not apply for
membershp.
“Yes, my wife attended Mrs.
Hoover’s tea at the White House,”
said DePriest. “She enjoyed the ex-
perierce and the social contacts very
much.
“She was treated excellently,” con
tinued the congressman, “there was
no indication of any sort of a desire
to discriminate in her case.”
ALICE AND PAULINA
Bethune Halford Out Again.
This posed portrait Is the first one
In three years to ho made of Mrs.
Nicholas Longworth, wife of the speak*
er of the house of representatives sod
daughter of late President Roosevelt,
and her young daughter Paulina.
Two Barnwell County
Boys Among Trainees
D. B. Rountree and R. N. Tisdale Go to
Citizens’ Military Training
Camp.
ning.
Richards vs. Blease.
Governor Richards has made r.o of
ficial statement in regard to his poli
tical ambitions. For a time it was
thought that he would oppose Cor*-
gressman W. F. Stevenson in the fifth
district, but citizens residing in the
district who attended recently the
ur.veiling of the boulder that marks
the birthplace of Andrew Jackson in
Lancaster County, expressed the be
lief that the governor had given up
the idea and would seek to displace
Senator Blease.
Governor Richards naturally re
gards his administration as unusually
successful and progressiva, and it is
not thought likely that he will seek an
efflce of tower rank than governor.
His break with Senator Blease during
Friends of Bethune Halford, son of
Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Halford, of this
city, are glad to see him out again.
Young Halford had twu of the verte
brae in» his neck'fractured a couple of
weeks ago when his car turned over
three times on the Barnwell-Elko high*
way. As a result of his injuries, his
neckand shoulders were placed in’a
plaster cast, which he is still wearing.
J. 0. Patterson spent Sunday with
friends in Abbeville.
Charleston, June 18.--June 13th
marked the opening of the anrual
Citisen’s Military Training Camp be
ing conducted at Fort Moultrie, S. C.
The ewrampment this year is predict
ed to be bigger and better than ever
before with some eight hundred train
ees enrolled for duty.
For the flrst time in the history of
the C.M.T.C. officers of the Organised
Reserve are active as iratructors. The
officers at Moultrie are from the
320th Irfantry. Most of thee# civilian
officers, who are Florida business and
professional men, have reported to the
camp and are busy preparing to re
ceive the trainees.
Trains arrivirg in Charleston from
all sections of South Carolina ard
Georgia have been laden with boys
chosen for the four weeks course of
special training.
Upon arrival the trainees are met
at the Union Station by officers and
conducted to Fort Moultrie on special
governmer* boats. At camp these
boys go through the routine of pro
cessing which consists of a thorough
physical examination, drawing of
clothes, and receivirg of equipment.
Then they are paid for their trans
portation to camp ard assigned to
companies. Thus shortly after their
arrival, these lads have adjusted them
selves and have beer inducted to real
camp life.
The surrounding conditions are as
pleasant as possible with special at
tention being paid to prooer feeding
and sleeping of the trainees. The
boys are quartered in large well ven
tilated tents arrl eat in carefully
supervised and well regulated com
pany messes. All forms of recrea
tion, such as swimming, baseball, ten
nis, etc., with all kinds of camp com
petitive athletics give the trainees am
ple oportunity to get rid of their sur
plus energy besides affording them
pleasant amusement.
Among the trainees from Barnwell
Courty ordered to the C. M. T. C.
at Fort Moultrie are: D. B. Rountree
and R. N. Tisdale, of Dunbarton..
The Height of Imagination.
Readers of The People-Sentinel have
noticed that "trucks engaged in. chn-
the 1929 session of the general assem
bly, occasioned by a difference of opin
ion in the matter of the road bond bill,
is more serious than some persons
may think, and the governor is watch
ing the sentaor’s record with the pro
verbial “hawk’s eye.”
Should the governor and the junior
senator parade their views before the
populace in 1910 polities in the State
Skull of Barnwell
Woman Fractured
. and Mrs. J. M. Brabham Injaiud
Whe» Car Tamed Over on Salt-
kehatchie Bridge.
Mrs. J. M. Brabham, of this city,
suffered a fractured skull and her hua>
hand was painfully though not seri
ously injured Tuesday evening when
their car, 4 two-door Hoick sedans
turred over on the Saltkehatchi#
River bridge when Mr. Brabham loet
control of the machine on the hill
just North of the stream. Only the
guard ^rails prevented the car from
falling several feet to the water be
low.
Mr. . and Mrs. Brabham were
brought to Barnwell, where they were
given first aid treatment by a local
physician, Mrs. Brabham being later
carried to an Augusta hospital. Her
injury is described as s severe frac
ture of the skull. Their car was
badly damaged.
Another serious accident occurred
or Highway No. 3 a few miles North
of Blackville Sunday when tWo cars
collided head-on. Mrs. Judson Black,
who lives a few miles from Barnwell,
was severely cut about the face, while
her husband ard son escaped with
minor injuries. It is not known
whether or not the driver of the other
^aid to be a Miss Sharp, was
injured or not. It is understood that
the wreck occurred when the latter at
tempted to pass another car. A num
ber of stitches were required to clout
the #ounds in Mr*. Black’s face.
New Currency Into
Circulation July 10
Isene of New and Smaller Notee WiU
Be Made Gradually.—Lac* IBank
Haa “Samples.”
The row currency adopted by the
government, different in design from
the present bills and smaller in length
and width, will go into circulation on
Wednesday, July 10th.
In making the a nouncement, the
treasurer said the old larger notee
also would continue to be used until
unfit for circulation. After the first
issue of the new currency all orders
for paper morey will be filled by the
treasury with portions of both the
old and new designs.
Declaring that they appreciate the
mcooventorra that would be caused
jby having two sisea of currency in cir
culation at the same time treasury of
ficials urged that the public be patient
and cooperate until the last of the
old bills have been worn out.
The new currency will be six and
five-sixteenths inches wide. It will bn
printed in uniform colors of black
faces and green backs with strikingly
new designs in engraving portraying
faces and scenes familiar to all Ameri
cans, enabling each note to be identi
fied wth a glance.
Each denomination is to have a dis
tinctive portrait, so its value can be
seen at a glance and note raisers
cannot make a ten or a hundred-dollar
bill of a one.* The face of Washington
will be on all dollar bills; face of Jef
ferson or. all twos; Lincoln on all fives,
Hamilton on all the tens; Jackson on
the twenties; Franklin on the hun
dreds; McKinley on the five hundreds;
Cleveland on the thousands; Madison
oil the five thousands; and Chase on
the ten thousand dollar bills.
When first issued bills of denomi
nations from one dollar to $20 will
be put into circulation and will in
clude all kinds except national bank
notes, which with Federal Reserve
notes above $20 and gold certificates,
will be put out at a later date. The
hatlohal bsihk notes win be issued
struction work display a red flag at
the rear end of the machine.' Saturday
aftemon a small boy wag seen here
with a red cloth pinned to the seat of
his trousers and rolling a huge au-
tomobile tire. There was no doubt
ing the fact that he imagined that he
was jL heavy duty truck.
The incident brings to mind a story
of the early days of the motor car.
Faulty construction of gasoline en
gines tr those days caused the horse
less carriages to lAve an unmistake-
able odor in their wake. One day a
man noticed several boys running close
together, while some distance behind
a smaller chap was trailing them. He
asked the totter what they spurs do
ing. “Why,” the boy replied, *Srs art
about July IS and in order of the
charter numbers of banks.
Five kinds of- paper curency now
are used and will be continued in the
new money. These are United States
notes, silver certificates, gold certifi
cates, Federal Reserve notes and
tiorsd bank notes.
The Barnwell branch of the
of Western Carolina has Samples” of
the smaller denominations <**■ display.
Archdeacon Joseph Burton
noonces the followirg schedule of ser
vices H the Church of the Holy Apos
tles for Sunday, June tftd:
Sunday school at 10:39
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