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THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF BARNWELL COUNTY. CmaoHtfatctf ?«m I* IMS. 'Just Like a Member of the Family” VOLUME LY. BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25. 1932 . v *' NUMBER 26. Good Progress Made by Court This Week Court of General Sessions Convened Here Monday Morning With Judge Dennis Presiding. V$ry good progress in the trial of criminal ca*es was made here this week by th e Court of General Sessions, which convened Monday morning with Judge E. C. Dennis, of Darlington^ presiding. Probably re flecting the ^financial stringency was the fact that the defendants in tw T o cases were not represented by law yers, convictions resulting in each instance. The first of these was the trial of John Humbler and Adger Mills, white, charged with the larceny of an automobile frcm 0. W. Harley ■•at Dunbarton. They were found guil ty and each received a sentence of one year at hard labor on the county chain gang# or in the State peniten tiary. The other trial was that of Jim Walker, colored, charged with the crime of incest on the person of his 13-year old daughter, Cloie Wal ker. Having been convicted, he was sentenced to pay a fine of $1,000 or serve three years at hard labor on the chain gang or in the State peni tentiary. It is understood that this is Walker’s second conviction for this .crime, he having previously serv ed a sentence cf two years. Other cases disposed of at the present term are as follows: St. Claire Odom pleaded guilty to the charge of house-breaking and larceny (store of N. Blatt in Black- ville) and was seijteneed to serve five months at hard labor. Arthur Jenkins pleaded guilty to the charge of violating the prohibition law and was sentenced to serve one year at hard labor, 9 months of the sentence to be suspended upon service of three months. Jenkins admitted having been before the Court on previous occasions for violating the prohibition law. A mistrial was ordered in the case of Alberta Sanders, colored, charged with the murder of Cecil White, also Seen and Heard Here During the Past Week A Little Sense and Nonsense About People You Know and Others You Don’t Know. A handsome portrait, in colors of George Washington, sent to The POople-Sentinel by Congressman But ler B. Hare. . . An item in The Bamberg Herald to the effect that “Lawyer Friday was in court Mon day.’’ . . . Plenty of rain during the past several days. . . A large American flag in fiont of the local post office on G. Washington’s birth day. . . . C. M. Turner, of Four Mile township, attending to his duties as foreman of the grand jury. ^ . . A local man celebrating hi? birth day along with George Washington and friend wife remarking 1 that the cnly difference between the two cele brants is that George couldn’t tell a lie and hubby can’t tell the truth. . . Numerous complaints of the cold and otherwise inclement weatheri of the past week*. . . A few scattering returns on early shipments cf aspara gus.- * Senate Will Take Up Money Bill This Week * Extended Debate Is Expected on Meas ure That Was Raised $1,000,000 in Committee. '—Columbia, Feb. 21.—The appropria tions bill will demand major atten tion this week of the general assem bly. The measure, tfs re-written by the senate finance committee, will b e re ceived Tuesday when the lawmakers begin their seventh fteek. Extended debate over the measure wa? in pros pect, since the senate committee was understood to have amended the bill, calling for an outlay of approximately $10,000,000. An appropriation of $8,565,000 was Statement Is Issued Produces 12 Bales of by F. and T. League Cotton on Five Acres Congressman Hare Fights for Refund Says PropcFed Senate Increase liaises Achievement of State-wide Contest Introduces Joint Resolution to Recover Question, “Where Will the Money Come From?” In commenting on the report that' Result of Careful Study of Every Factor. The acheivement of J. O. Taylor, Tax cn Cotton During the Con- TeaeraW-mr^ the State appropriation bill for 1932 ^of Mount Crc^han, Chesterfield Coun will carry a total cf $9,800,000 as adopted’ by the Senate Finance Com mittee, the officials of the Farmers and Taxpayers League issued this statement: “The piopg>sal of the Senate Finance Committee to appropriate $9,800,000 must have come as a shock to all who read the news yesterday. It ceitain- ly raises the question, ‘Where will the money come from?’ It is one thing to appropriate, and another to find ty, in producing twelve bales of cot ton on five acres to win the State wide five-acre cotton contest for 1931 A new approach cn the problem of securing for Southern States a re fund of taxes collected by the Federal government cn raw cotton in 1866, 67 and 68 is pew being advanced by conducted by Clemscn College, was ; Representative Butler B. Hare, of the result of careful study on Mr. Taylor’s part of every factor and would help in producing a high yield of cotton. Modern methods and ef ficiency scored heavily in his victory. Announcement that Mr. Taylor had wen first place in the contest was made by R. W. Hamilton, agronomist the second South Carolina district. It has been the cherished goal of Plan of Liquidation . Is Approved by Court Judge Dennis Holds in Abeysnce De cision on Reorganizatiori Plan — cf Defunct Batik. Following a hearing here yester day (Wednesday) in the matter of the Bank of Western Carolina, which closed October 15th, Judge E. C. Den nis held in abeyance his decision on the plan cf reorganization a 8 submit ted at a meeting in Aiken last week, pending the appraisal of the assetv the money with which to pay the > of the agricultural extension service appropriation. This .amount cannot | of (^lemson College, in charge of the be paid without increasing the tax collections, now that we have the five million deficit to take care of. “By-the-way, it is understood this bill does not carry the $200,000 and more required to pay the interest on the deficit. That will have to be paid and increases the amount to ten mil lion. “Even if the indirect taxes this year reach the high figure of $8,000,- 000 estimated by some, it will take in addition all the State five mill property levy to get, the $2,000,000 more that is necessary to make up the ten million. “What then is to become of this de ficit of five million ddHars? South Carolina cannot refuse to take care of the deficit. The Legislature pass ed a law last year authorizing the loan .that now carries it, and solemn ly pledged the taxes to meet it, yet these taxes have been collected and spent for other purposes, so th e notes cannot be met as the law required and as our agreement provided. The holders cf the notes want their money. contest. His official yield was given as 5,970 pounds of lint cotton on the five acres. ' Stressing efficiency from the 'very beginning, Mr. Taylor had the seed bed in the five-acre.contest plot given thorough preparation. A thousand pounds per acre of 10-4-4 fertilizer frcm the )li*fcest quality materials was applied and mixed with the soil before planting. Coker’s latest de velopment of Cleveland 5 strain 3 of seed were planted in a sufficient quan tity to assure a thick stand. Four hundred pounds per acre of Chilean nitrate of soda was applied as a side dresser, a light ' application being ‘made after first chopping and two additional applications made' at in tervals of two weeks each. Mr. Taylor left his rows about 33 inches apart and two ^talks per foot in the drill. He used only sweetened poison to control the weevil. While his five-acre prize plot netted him more money, excluding the prize money, than the other acres on his farm, Mr. Taylor says he shows a hundreds of Southern ^Congressmen I d e f unc t institution by the re- since the Civil War to secure passage ce ’ ver > R, G. Tarver, of Augusta, Ga., cf a bill returning to the States the | w '^ instructions to s ubmit the ap praisal to. the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for th e purpose of ascer- mcney collected by the Federal, gov ernment on the cotton tax which it is contended was in violation of the Federal Constitution. Score 4 of bills on the subject have been introduced in both Houses of Congress directing a refund of the tax which if authorized would place in the South Carolina State Treas ury $4,172,420.16. Representative Hare, approaching taining whether or not a sufficient amount of money can be borrowed 1 therein to perfect reorganization un der this or some other plan that will permit reopening by making available at least 25 per cent, of the deposits. Judge Dennis approved the proposed plan of liquidation whereby the bank’s assets wiR be appraised and sold to th e depositors in settlement of their When they were told a few weeks ago j good profit on all of his 1931 cotton Jthat they cbnnot get their money crop, valuing his cotton at 6(4 cents when due, it was suggested to them a pound and seed at $15 a ton. He that some arrangement would be produced a total of 237 bale? of cotton called for in the measure passed by j made so that they can be sur e of get- j averaging 500 pounds each on 215 colored, the jury being unable to t ^ le house. Most °f the senate in- j ting it soon. This plan the House of ^ acres. This crop was worked with agree on a verdict. 1 creases were said to have involved Representatives is trying to arrange wage hands at 50 cents per day. Grand Jury Presentment. The members of the Grand Jury completed their work Monday after noon and made the following Present ment: “To th e Honorable E. C. Dennis, Pre siding Judge: > “The Grand Jury begs leave to re port as follows: “1. We have passed upen all bills of indictment that have been refer red to us by the Solicitor and have retumed them to the Court: “2. We have appointed from our educational institutions. Another split between the two branches, such as occurred last year, may follow if the house considers the senate amendments too high. Several house members already have express ed themselves as opposed to an ap propriation bill of more than $9,- 000,000. ' 4 r Bills proposing leduetion of teach ers’ salaries 15 per cent and another to alter the 6-0-1 school law are still before the senate’s education commit tee. Piotests against the salary re-. in the bill it passed and sent to the Senate, and which is now in Free, Conference Committee. This bill Labor saving machinery was used in every operation. Mr. Taylor says that his two-horse body four committees to investigate Auctions were lodged by teachers last th e different branches of the county | Thursday at a committee hearing, government its institutions and af- j A report is expected from the house fairs; these committees will make, judiciary committee on the bill pro- detailed reports and recommendations P os * n R regulation of South Carolina at our next meeting. [electric power companies. The meas- “We thank the presiding Judge and ure wee k was given a favorable ether Court officials for the courtesies re P 0, t by a sub-committee, extended to us during our delibera- — A joint resolution to extend the tions.” t‘ me f° r P a ymen't of property taxes Alex Owens, colored, charged with, has been set for special order Tues- the murder of Spencer Braxton, also 1 day* June 1st is proposed as the date colored, was found gqilty of man- 1 ^ or P a y ments * j ^ • slaughter with recommendation tot Regulation’Ulltl Ifiialiuii of motor uses all or part of the Stat e five mill cultivators helped to cut down the levy to take care of the deficit over a period of years. *The Finance Com mittee now comes with a 1932 ap propriation bill that will take up all of this five mills. “If South Carolina ^should so far dose its sense of obligation as to be •willing to disregard these notes, which is unthinkable, what would be the price of the default? The price would be such loss of standing that the credit of the State, its counties, school districts, cities and all other agencies could not be restored for many years. “As we need all, or a large part, of the five mill s for the deficit, where are we to get money for a ten million dol lar appropriation bill? Either last years taxes must be increased or the bill must be reduced. The people of South Carolina are lookiijg~-for re- Muction—not increase of taxes, mercy and sentenced to three years transport carriers stiljl ar e to be at hard labor. j dealt with. Last week the house In th e case °f Joe Hoover and wa y s and means committee reported Henry Hoover,, charged tvith larceny unfavorably on five measures offered and receiving stolen goods, the lat- by the roads, bridges and ferries corn ier was acquitted on both charges mrttee. and the former was convicted of re- Wide interest centers about a bill ceiving stolen goods, Judge Dennis to give the State control of local imposing a sentence of two years at i bond issues,, now being considered for and repaid this spring want their money. To meet these necessities the bill must be cut over two million dollars.” OLAR GOES IN BIG IN ONION BUSINESS The Olar community, pioneer this ?ection of the State in onion pro expense and that his labor secured better cultivation with these imple ments. When a'ked if he thought cotton could be grown at 614 cents per pound and leave any margin of profit for the land-owner, he replied that by planting cotton on good land, fertilizing judiciously, using ^"good seed and labor-saving machinery, he had been able to show a satisfactory profit this year and hoped to repeat this experience another year even if prices continued low. Mr. Taylor thinks every farmer Should grow all cf the food and feed crops necessary to supply his farm. the problem from a diffeient angle, has deposits, and under this plan in- introduced in the Hou? e a oint resolu- structed the rec eiv e r to borrow on the t.on proposing to consent that certain assets whatever amount is possible in States in which the cotton and other or d e r to pay an early dividend if the direct taxes were collected may sue reor g an j za tj on pi ans f a ji. jj e w jth- the United States to recover the held his approval cf the advisory money collected. committee selected at the Aiken meet- Hare’s re?olution' provides “that ing. i the United States consents that Mr. Tarver expressed a serious suits to recover taxes hereafter men- doubt as to the possibility and feasi- tioned may be brought against it and bility of reorganization and stated heard and determined in the Supreme after the meeting that he will pro- Court in any district court.” ceed with the plan of liquidation. Hare recently said that he is going During the course of an argument to wage a determined fight to return by W. M. Smoak, Aiken attorney, in to the States the money " that was which he attacked the personnel of taken from citizens in violation of the advisory committee and loans the Constitution by such legislation I made to directors, exception to hia as the cotton tax. The resolution has remarks about the Ellenton branch been referred to the House Judiciary I was taken by H. M. Cassels, of that committee.—Anderson Independent, j place, who branded Smoak’s state ment an “a lie,” ’and for a time it Former Officer of I appea ' ed that ’ • i* r?onal encounter between the two men might result. Bamberg Sentenced The incident passed off, however, without further trouble developing. W. D. Rcwell Pleaded Guilty tprCharge | of Official Misconduct and Breach of .Trust. Judge Dennis, who was slightly in disposed yesterday, stated just ba- for e leaving for bin home that he will sign his orde': in the bank within the next day or two. th Bamberg, Feb. 18.—Just before | i e court of general sessions, Judge FINDS MONEY HIDDEN SEVERAL YEARS AGO S6cial and Personal News from Williston Williston, Feb. 20.—Miss Margaret Thompson, New Brookland, spent wtww -Lmnad fwa million to he the week-end with her mother, M/'s. Susan Thompson. Miss Maiy Harvey Newsom^“of Swansea, ?p*nt the week-end /n&re with her parents, Mr. and MHV J. E. Newsom. Miss Mayo Rountree was the wcek- ^ end guest of Dr. and Mrs. T. T. Quat- j n [ tlebaum in Columbia. Among those Who attended Pade- hard labor. Following the completion revision by the ways and means com- | duction, is going more heavily this rew 'ki’s performance in Columbia last cf thi s cas k Tuesday afternoon, all' mittee. Neville Bennett, of Marl-! y^aj. ^an ever into this business. An'^ aturda y evening were Q. A. Ken- petit jurors were excused for the boro, during debate on the measure, on j on association has been formed on ned y* Sr., Mr. and Mrs. Q. A. Ken- term. J. Dixon Green;. Williston, Feb. 2 3.—J.-. Dixon Greene, 66, died at his home in the Pleasant Hill section near Williston Sunday, after an illness of only about 30 minutes. Mr. Greene was reared in this sec* tion, and his sudden death was a source of regret to his many relatives and friends. Funeral services were held at the Old Field cemetery Monday after noon, where interment wa s made. « said th e total debt bf State, counties, municipalities and local districts was approximately $186,000,000. Republicans to Meet. a cooperative basis, and planters in ned y» J r *» Misses Adelene Rainey, this community last week received a Puerifoy Stenvenson and Mayo Roun- E. C. Denni? presiding, was adjourn ed sine die at 10 o’clock last night, sentence was passed cn W. D. Rowell, I The depression came to a sudden former auditor and superintendent of I end as far as Marie Ulmer, of Den- education of Bamberg County. Mr. mark, is concerned when • he recently Rowell had pleaded guilty to two found a purse of money that Had been charges, official miiccnduct and hidden for many years. According to breach of trust, the solicitor nol I Marie, back in 1925 her husband, pressing the charge of forgery upon Israel Ulmer, alarmed over the many the guilty plea being entered on the bank failures in the State, withdrew other two charges. his money from a local bank, depoait- For official misconduct, Jddge Den- ed it in a tin can and hid it in the nis sentenced Rowell to pay a fine of ground. Still feeling that hh money $50 and serve one year, and on the was unsafe, he decided to change the breach of trust plea, the sentence was hiding place and hid it in an oot- three years. Rowell was given the building on the premises probably in preference of serving on the county tending to tell Marie where it chain gang or in the penitentiary at I hidden, but about that time ha ba- such work as he may be able to per- came ill and died without revealing form. .Rowell has been in poor to her the hiding place, health for several months. The In September, 1928, this community sentences run concurrently. was visited by a vevere windstorm Rowell served in office for a num- which uprooted a tree on the Ulmer er of years when the t^TOfftceswere premises, the tree falling on the out- combined, succeeding his father who building and partly demolishing it. held effice for about 30 years. Fol- A short time afterwards Marie began lowing an audit in 1930, Governor tearing down the house by degree* Richards removed W. D. Rowell from for fuel. A few weeks ago she ripped office, appointing Cecil Crum in. his off another board and an old pockat- place until an election could be held, book fell out. She immediately rec- when the office was divided, W. M. ognized the pocketbook as the one in Brabham being elected auditor and which the money was hidden. Upon O. W. Lancaster superintendent of opening it she found the money, bat education. I the long exposure had caused the bills to disintegrate and they crum bled in her hands. She was advised to send these Bank Bill Offered. solid carload of onion sets to b e plant .,tree. Surviving Mr. Greene are his widow, which is published elsewhere in this and two small sons; one brother, W. issu e of The People-Sentinel, extends Columbia, Feb. 18.—Under a bill I pieces to the United States treanury ed. In addition to the carlot, more I ^ r * and Mrs. H. E. Givens have | introduced today by a subcommittee department in Washington to be sets were needed, so a second order recently moved from Williston to °f the banking and insurance com- identified and redeemed, had to be placed. . A total of 832 Springfield. * ! mittee of the house, organization of — ♦»— ■ ( A call for a meeting of the Barnwell bushels of sets has been received. The 1 Mr. and Mu*. P. F. Parker, Jr., cf banks with a 50 per cent of the | School Grounds Improved. County Republican Convention, to be, plantings will aggregate about 175 Aiken, spent Sunday with Mrt and present capital stock would be al held in Barnwell on March 7th, has ^res. ’ Mrs. P. F. Parker, Sr. lowed. I Williston, Feb. 20.—The grammar been made by D. J. Dlxson, chairman, | Farmers in the Olar section have ^ Miss Eunice Salley, of Salley, has) Such banks would be guaranteed by school grounds committee composed and J. K. Ryan, secretary. Two dele-1 b^ growing on j ons f or several returend home after a vi?it of 8 ev- ( provision 8 forbidding them to own of Mrs. Q._ A. Kennedy, Jr. gates and two alternates to the Re-, y- e $»s,. They have met' with a good eral da y s Lahl Givens. I real estate except when obUind by Cecil Greene, Mrs. W. T. Willis, Jr. publican State Convention March 8th [ deai oi-capecess heretufo*^ a^d p/ the ~ Mr * and M*rs. J%i Hutson and son, foreclosure of mortgages held as Mre. J. E. Kennedy, and Mrs. G. J. will be elected and three delegates outlook, fbr onions is vety good this Charles, of Savannah, hfcve returned , seomuty I Hrniting thtir deposits to six Trotti have done much toward beaub- j, easoi)i ^re than usual are being ^me after a visit to Mr. and Mrs. times combined capital and surplus, | fying the grounds of the school th* planted.—The Bambercr Herald. ■ B* L. Mims. and alternates to the District Gonven tion will also be chosen. .The call, J. Greene, of the Dunbarton section, and a sister, Miss Dora Greene, of Barnwell. V Kelly Browning, of Blackville, was a business visitor here Saturday. an invitation to “all who are in ac cord with the principles of the par ty,” and further says that “only reg istered voter s may take part.” Advertise in The People-Sentinel * planted.—The Bamberg Herald. * ♦ j Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Lott an- Quite a large congregation attend- nourice the birth ^df a daughter on ed services Sunday afternoon at the Sunday, Feruary 14. Church of the Holy Apostles, the oc-1 M. M. Player spent Sunday at and fixing the maximum loam to a single person or organization at 15 per cent of the capital plus the sur plus. The bill is designed to allow the past week, haying done a great deal oLjvork, and putting out quite a bit of^hrubbery. 1 * Mordecai M. Mazursky left Sunday casion being the annual visit to this Rembert with Mrs. Wilscn. Mrs., op^ng of small banks to facilitate for Atlanta, where he entered parish cf the Rt. Rev. Albert S. Player, who has been visiting her | b^ness operations in sections Thon^as, D. D., Bishop of the Diocese mother fer two week)?, returned with without such an institution. It of South Carclina. him. . worked out by a subc:mrr.tttee. Veterans’ Hospital for medical ment. His many friends hope foe his early retention to health.