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DEATH DIARY BARES
HINDU GANG SECRETS
Found in Effects of Slain
University Student
San Francisco.—Liko a roving spirit
of the mystic Hast, whence he came,
Sant Ram I*amle, slain University of
California sluilent, lias returned from
the dead to point the finger of accu
sation at his murderers.
He came hack in the text of a little
red book of hand^ pocket size, - a diary,
ip which tie kept a minute record of
his last month of life. .
^ Found by accident among soiled
laundry and personal effects lie left
. with n friend the night before he van
ished. the blood red book was bailed
by Sheriff Charles .1. McCoy of Yuba
county as the possible solution to the
university student's mysterious slay
ing.
May Solve Fourteen Murders.
•YilU if it solves Ramie's death "Tt
may go far toward unraveling th"
fourteen other, murders of. bis couu-
ifjrmwt-that have haftled state, county,
am! city peace officers 'for months.
Sheriff McCoy believes.
Beginning January 1. Ilktl, it con
tains a daily record of Ramie's com
ings and goings and mimes some of
those he feared. The name of Nukmi
Singh, held in jail in Sacramenfo for
the student's mprder, .appears promi
nently. the slieritT said
So highly do Die authorities prize
♦hese last writings ot the slnlti man,
they retii>ed to divulge details'of its
'Contents.- It is being rhe-ely goarded,-
and will lie until men named in it me
captured. M<Coy declared.
's Relentless Pursuers.
. Thai Ramie was close on the heels
of ti e Hindu murder_ring. authorities
are Convinced. It, was his relentless
juirsi.it of the stayers that prompted
them le kidnap him and throw lii s
uendb-ss body into Cache slough, near
Itio Vista, chained to a tractor wheel,
according to t'larem-e-S. Morrlll,' < vTiief-
of the state bureau of criminal id<*n-
m
t ifit at ion. .. . •
Coincident with (lie fimliug of tlie
diary, McCoy also learned oT a [dot
to kidnap l*elip Singh, president of the
Fast India corporalibn. Shortly titter
m e oVI...ia.tlte morning, reeently. a
ii'ndti attemj>ted to lure Dellp Singli
.from hN eahin on the pretext of need
ing help to gel his stalled automobile
started. I>elip refused to go* .McCoy
'■aid investigation indicated tho un
known Hindu was trying to coax him
into a trap.
Indian Artists to Vic
for Exhibition Prize
New York.—A competition among
the artists of the American Indian
tribes for -tip* best design suitable for
use as a poster and catalogue cover
is announced by the exposition of In
dian tribal arts.
John Sloan, president of the organ"
Cation, said that “there are many
very talented artists among the In
dians who have recently started paint
ing in water colors. The Kiowa, Hop!
and Rueblo Indians are pat^irularly
copipetetrt. We■ are asking ffient to
submit designs. Kxnniplc* of their
painting*, as well as the pottery, bas
ketry. jewelry, textiles, hcadwork.
etc., of .10 Indian trll»es will he shown
at the exposition."
The winning design pill be award
ed $100. The design will he used not
only as a poster advertising,the expo
sition. but as a cover for the catalog,
to be edited by I>r. H .1. Spinden of
the Brooklyn museum. F. M. Hodge of
the Museum of the American Indian,
and Oliver I.a Farge, autlmr.
Burning the Woods
may have abused the privilege by Monday, the 1st day of June, 1931,
failing to adopt some systematic this being Salesday in said moth, the
method of setting these fires when following described real estate:
By E. B. FERRIS.
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they would d6 the
growing timber.
least harm to' Seventy (70) acres of land knowp
as Templeton place, bounded a s fol
lows: North by lands of. Mrs. Ross;
East by lands of Mrs. Emma Black;
South by lands of Mrs. Mary Laneas-
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Having lived many years ^n South
Mississippi in a strictly long-leaf
pine region, we soon became accus-'
tomed to the annual firing of the for- j
ests and thought little about it.
Then came the time when fpiesters
began to, agitate methods of complete
fire protection which some felt were
not always entirely practical in
their application. Those who have
had most experience, evidently be-
HO POCATRUC
By G. Chalmers McDermid.
C. M. Turner; east by land* of H. P.
Bailey; sooth by lands of H. P. Bailey,
and west by lands of C. M. Turner.
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Terms of sale: Cash. Purchaser
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to pay for pupeis and stamps. Pro
vided further, that the successful bid
der or bidders be required-to deposit
ter, and Wjes-t by lands of Lawrence j*® 11 P er cen L °T thp amount of his or
Miles,
ALSO:
facesi (That is, the samo kind of a
lieve there is .“ome viitue in burning; smile I mentioned in the first para-
the woeds at some time during the; graph.) These ca'bbuge* growers are
The asparagus season is finished |
and most of the growers are wearing fifty (50) acres, more or less,
a smile that only good prices can bounded as follows: North by lands
bring. - ' j °f Sallie Ross; East and South by
The cabbage season is also fwi^ed, k 1 ™ 1 * » f George Bodiford, and West
but the smile i 8 lacking on most l an dg of J.' M. Farrell.
Levied upon and gold to satisfy the
above Execution and Costs.
tfONClL H. DYCHES,
her bid with the Master, as evidence
of good faith and in case the said
successful bidder should fail so toifr*
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the said Master is authorized aad
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directed to re-sell tho said property
during the legal hour* of sale apoa
the same or some subsequent conven
ient salesday at the risk of the
defaulting bidder.
■- 1 G m. GREENE,
Master for Barnwell County.
Master’s office, May. 12, H>31.
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the best sport^ nr^the whole world,
and they smile, no matter what hap
pens.
Man^ farmers in the Coastal Coun
ties are wondering what the cukes
the average South Mississippian be- look like in the Blackville, Barnwell', State of South^Carolina,
lieve? that burning the woods mhkes and Williston areas; and 1 was plied
year, otherwise the practice would
never have become so general. The
opinions cf large numbers of people
aie nearly always worth considering
and certainly it may be said that
Sheriff, B. C.
Barnwell, S. C., 12 day of May, 1931.
SHERIFF’S SALE.*
the gras s better for his cattle
sheep.
and
County of Barnwell.
THE STATE
vs.
J. McBEAN
with many questions when I returned
from a trip to those areas last F'ri-
Some nine year? ago, the .Coastal
Plain Experiment Station at McNeil: ‘ Here’s my observation oh the situa-
began an experiment to determine ^°n: Most of the cukes in Beaufort
the effects <;f buring the woods, j a J}^ Charleston Counties are at least
both, on the reproduction of long-leaf T days ahead of the most advanced in ^ ^ up; . n ^ win ^ to
pine trees and the growing of grass Hatnwell and Llackvrlle sections, al-
for cattle. The land used, about half G* 0 there are a good many cukes ip
a section, was so divided as to com.- I°wer ( oastal plain section that
pare burned and unburned areas that a, t * s ‘* j U!i * the same stage as
those in the upper sections.
Under- and by virtue of a Tax Exe
cution to me directed by J.* J. Bell,
I Treasurer of Barnwelj County, I have
IS THE TIME TO FERTILIZE AS
PARAGUS. A TON OR MORE OF
7-5-r» PER ACRE PUT ON THE
TWO
CROP IN TWO APPLICATIONS,
AND FOLLOWED BY A JUNE AP
PLICATION OF AT LEAST 50#
POUNDS OF 20 PER CENT KA1N1T
WILL GIVE YOU BEST RESULTS.
Plenty of POTASH means more
COLOSSAL grass next season
1 underhand that a small shipnrent;
were pastured with similar lands bn-
Trastared. Not having seen the ex-
perirnent for a number of yerff-s, we i harleston. Saturday morning of
were pleased to look it over recently, ^ a?: ^ week—7 hampers.
after the effects had accumulated for The first Irish potatoes Iffft South
almost a decade ' I Carolina on Wednesday. This week
.... 'should see a. I**g-move.tn.ent—and hope
One thing was apparent to the . rr
, T , . . , , ■ at least for good prices,
eye. Unburned areas not pastured , ,
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had. during this time, accumulated “ ' .
day:—“When is the l»est time to put
soy beans or eowpeas in an aspara
gus middle?”
such a mass of roughage under the
young timWi that fire- by accident or
design would have destroyed practic
ally every young tree, especially if it
happened when conditions were fav- ...
, , . i i < * nut. keep it clean by cultivation, and
orable io its spread. In fact, small m ’ K .
My answer:—-Ix-t your asparagus
make a good stalk and start to nps.h
the highest bidder for cash, between
the legal hours of sale in front of the
(Court House at Barnwell, 3. C., oh
I Monday, the 1st day of June. 1931,|
| this being’' Salesday in said month,
the following described real estate:
Two lots and 1 building in the I
Town of Blackville, bounded as fol
lows: North by J. A. Maloney, East
by J. A. Maloney, South by Railroad
Avenue and West by Laitigue Street
Levied upon and sold to satisfy the
above Fixeoution and Costs.
BONCIL H. DYCHES,
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Barnwell,‘S. C., 11 day of May, h93t. I
aryas bad recently been puiposely
burned a? a part of the experiment,
under controlled - and uncontrolled
conditions, and wheir^ tFiis burning had
then put your soy lieans or eowpeas
in the middles, either one or 'two
rows to each middle. Am I right or
wrong? Criticize me on that recom
mendation and give me your .expori-
And Cuke
£>ide
Dressings?
A MIXTURE OF 100 POUNDS
OF QUICK NITROGEN AND 100
POUNDS c/ MURIATE OF POTASH
WILL MAKE .YOUR VINES STAY
GREENER. LONGER AND WILL
MAKE YOU A BETTER QUALITY
CUKE.
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SEE YOUR FERTILIZER MAN
TODAY FOR PRIC ES.
NV Potash Export, My.
ATLANTA.
GEORGIA.
SHERIFF’S SALE.
Another question asked the same
been done without control, fully 80
per cent of all timber had been killed <>nce
outright. W’hen the time of burning
had h*» les* favorable to makin* a ■Uy-fWhM i, your ,too,amend.turn
hot fire, a, when the roufthajte was ' 01 aspaiajrus fi rtilization .
slightly damp, no saplings of -any.
My answer:—Frankly, and straight
no
from the shoulder, 1 would put 200
100
size were killed and there was
damage apparent to remaining sap- l ,oun< ^ s ^if^ quick nitrogen am
lines. Annual burnings under eon- 1 ' >oun ' ,1 ‘ " f muri ‘ ,t ' of p ' ,U,sh lat '
trolled conditions where cattle had Ja,u ' al ^ ,,r '' arly p *'l,™aiy-« ton of
grazed at the rate C.f one animal tol'-V 10 ,'" 4wo
ten acres had destroyed practically ! mmed ately all, r lUtting^ is " vu
i ‘ g’* .i. ■_ i ^ .u ^ and then a minimum of 500 pounds
no timber, for the simple ivason that
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there had been so 8 mall an accumu
lation of roughage to' make a
fire.
'Xa-ual observations in looking bver
this experiment would certainly con
vince the non-expert that the best
plan for ie-forestation under existing
circumstance- is in grazing the land
of 20 pel- cent kainit or 200 pounds
of muriate of potash during the mid
dle pari of June. , _
If I had asparagus that i- the way
1 would fertilize it—and I’m talking
from the experience of some* of the
.best growers in the (state
make the above statements.
when I
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as much as possible so a 8 to keep down].' Get a grin from thi* one ^Melvin
any great -oro’.us f gra s, then if Blitch in commenting on my report
of my trip to the Hastings Potato
section last week through this col-
Son of Ex-Sultan May
Get Millions for Letter
Jerusalem.—The existence of a re
markable ancient manuseripi letter,
said to be written on parchment by’
x Mohammedan prophet to the king
of Abyminia. was revealed reeently in
nnnoimeement made by Prince Selim,
eldest son of. the late Sultan Abdul
Hamid.
An American offer of $750,000 has
Iteed turned down for it.v Prince Selim
is at present considering an offer of
$2,500,000 which has been made by
an English society, if the documents
are pro veri-genuine. —
Prince Selim is being risked by
scholars from the east. He received
the letter as a wedding present from
his father, who was presented with
the manuscript by the king of Abys
sinia 50 years ago.
Woman, Sixty, Seeks
to Divorce Mate, Thirty
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Newark, N. J.—Mrs. Esmeralda .M.
Brduwer, wealthy woman who took
a husband thirty years younger than
herself and then repented, has won a
step toward gaining marital freedom.
A master in chancery recommended
that she receive a decree of divorce
from Hugh Evan Brouwer, thirty. Mrs.
Brouwer, sixty, took the witness stand
«nd testified in effect: . .
‘‘Brouwer pursued me and urged me
t-o marry him hut I repulsed his ad
vances. pointing out the disparity in
our ages. Finally*he followed me to
Florida *nnd won my consent. Soon
he began to drink and heat me and
kTeked* me.” »
Brouwer denied all these charges.
advisable, to bu -i ;lv* yearly accumu
lations of gras- end >t’aw at such
time, as to do 4he lea< harm to the i “"in, said:—“Mac, you better change
young trees. In fact, after t bsyiving
the small long-leaf pines pr«.'cnt on
burned and unbumed areas, we found
no material difference in stands, r-On
similar areas that had been pastured,
the effect of annual fires was ftill
less apparent on the young long-leaf
pines. Whether the same thing
would be true in growing other varie
ties of June, we are not prepared to
say. . . • \
M. D. Tage, an adjoining land-
owner to tho experiment station, has
been guided by this experiment and
has placed cattle on a section of land
well stocked with, young long-leaf
saplings. Wheie fire from the rail
road had formerly been a constant
menace in the heavy rough of un :
burned grasses, the cattle, after two
years grazing, have reduced the
rough to a point. where no serious
fire could occur, and the pine straw
could now be. burned off without dan
ger of the loss of trees.
Preliminary figures covering sev
eral years, giving results of graz
ing cattle on burned and unturned
areas in this experiment—show that
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the name of your column to HOPF-
LESS-CA-TRUC.”
Don’t know whether he referred to
me and my column as “hopeless” or
just to the potato situation.
Popular Excursion
—TO—
WASHINGTON
BALTIMORE
FRIDAY. MAY 29TH. 19.31
FROM BARNWELL, S. C.
-to—
WASHINGTON
BALTIMORE
$15.50
17.50
Good five Mays from date of sale.
Proportionate excursion fares
from otter points. An opportunity
for shcrfR’acation at low cost.
State of South (’arolina,
CHCnfy of Barnwell.
THE STATE
Vs.
_ JOE S. WOOD.
Under and by "virtue of a Tax F’x^-
cution to me directed by J . J. BfclF.
Treasurer of Barnwell County, I have
this day levied upon and will sell to
the highest "bidder for cash, between
the legal hours of sale In front of the
Court House fet Barnwell, S. (’., on
Monday, the 1st day of June, L93J,
this being Salesday in said moth, the
following da-x-ribed real estate:
Sixty-seven acres of land, more or
less, hounded as follows: North by
lands of F. O. Williams,')East by Low-
r e Three Huns, South by' W. P. -Wood
and West by Barker lands. Also 45
acres, moie or less, bounded as fol
low-: North by A. FI. Davis, Flast]
by Lower Three Runs, South by J. L.
Wood and West by Barker lands.
Leviei upon ami sold to satisfy the
above Execution and Costs.
BONCIL H. DYCHES.
Sheriff, B. C.
Barnwell, S. C., 11 day of May, h93t.
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MASTER’S SALE.
State of South Carolina.
County of Barnwell.
Couri of Common Pleas.
T. K. Miller and Mrs. Jule B. Smith,]
Plaintiffs,
Vs. >\.
Samuel J. Bailey, Kate Maude Justus,]
Ethel Peeples, Jennie Miller Thp-
merman, F’lorence Sego, Sarah |
Elizabeth Clifton and the Coe-Mor-|
timer Company,
Defendants.
When buying Soda accept
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mand the orignal and genuine
CHILEAN NITRATE of Soda.
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much better grain s were made from
the burned portion,' possibly due
mote to the fact that grazing was
made easier where there was less
rough and- dead grass to interfere.
At any I'ate, even pine timber grows;
slowly, and if reforestation is to be j
practiced by individuals rather than
Consult Tieke^Agent*
SOUTHERN RALWAY IfYSTEaM
Legal Advertisements
SHERIFF’S SALE.
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School Model of Safety/
Naugatuck. Conn.—All three stories
of,.the Naugatuck public high school
.have ground-floor entrances The
school building, said to. be a inode! of
safety and efficiency, is constructed on
iTSteep hlUsidgL
by the State, such annual income as* State of South Carolina,
may be had from the grazing of cat- 1 County of Barnwell.
tl e seems imperative. Annual taxa-; a THE STATE
tion and loss of income from invested - v vs
capital ■* makes the cost of timber
mount higtr when there is no annual
offset such as may be had from the
grazing of cattle.
So, this experiment would indicate
that the average South Mississippian
has had some reason back of the
general practice of firing the woods
By virtue of a decretal order to me
directed in the above entitled cause, I
will sell at public auction to the high
est bidder for cash, in front of the
Court House at Barnwell, State and
County aforesaid, on Monday, June]
1st, 1931, th e sr
in said month, between the legal
hours of sale, the following described
real property, to-wit:
A1F that*certain tract of land situ
ate in ■Fmrr Mile Township, Barnwell
County, State of South Carolina, con
taining six hundred and sixty-six
acres, more or less, and bounded
north by land s of C. M Turner; east]
by estate* lands nf W. A. Moody;]
south bv 'estate a jfcry» of Mrs. C. J.
Williston Fertz. Works
Williston, S. C.
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estate lands of
Minnie Gave, Sara Falla Cave, Ernest
Cave, Jr., Ethel Cave, Elizabeth
Cave and Augusta Cave.
... lJndec;*nd.by. yirtuearf AJax I^er, ner where hU line corners and turns
cution to' me directed by J. B. Arm
strong, Treas, Barnwell Co., I have
this day levied upon and will sell to
Ashley, and
W. P. Casseb^t^oljng and excepting]
therefrom thirty &cre 8 of the above,
^mentioned tract of lanctJaid off as
follows: Beginning at a point on the
public road leading from th e homo
place of Samuel J. Bailey to the town
of Ellenton and running south to the
first corner of the land of C. M. Tuv-
and rute west, the southern and
northern lines of the said thirty acres
to be the same length and the eastern
the highest bidder for cash, between : and western ar e the same to he lika-
and his insi*tenc e on grazing cattle legal hours of sate in front of the' wise the same length; the boundaries
, and sheep on the-xanges, granting he - ' Co&rt House at Barnwell, S. C., on of which are now north by lands of
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