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U. S. PLANS LIBRARY of crime Records X BiggeBt Undertaking of Kindi Ever Attempted. Wnshlngton.—The most ambitious and far-reaching program of scientific criminal Mont Miration ever undertak en is being quietly pressed here by the bureau of investigation of the United States Department of Justice. Under a new division of identificat ion and Information of the bureau, a nation wide campaign. In which 4,000 police departments and other agencies are co-operating, Is under way to build up In Washington an exhaustive na tional library of finger-print records and other crime data. Already finger-prints of 1,750,000 male and female lawbreakers have heen secured, classified and filed, and 1,700 cards are being added every day. Over 8,500,000 cards containing names and aliases of criminals already have been collected. Against this unprecedented assem bly of crime records Scotland Yard is said to have only 500,000 sets of fingerprints. Under the , new plan, wherever an Infraction of the law oc curs In the United States, even though • minor offense Is Involved, duplicate fingerprints, with accompanying data, are Immediately sent on to Washing ton by the local police. There search of the files Is made to - determine whether identical prints are already on file under the same name, or some alias. So efficient Is the classifying and filing system that the average search requires but from three to five minutes. Often the offender Is discovered to have committed a crime In another part of the country. Out of every 100 sets of prints sent to Washington pre vious records are found In 37 cases and data on the offender's past life la rejatried hack to the local aitthor- itloa within AS hours. Beginning July 1 all applicants for United States government Jobs will be required to submit to fingerprinting. Out of I.OfO applicants for Christmas * |K>stul jobs the government found that 14 bad criminal records, ns revealed by the fingerprint division. The army has found 55 criminals out of l.tNHt mMsted men. • Giant Airship, Sister of Akron, Taking Shape Akron. Ohio.—A giant, gaunt skele ton of framework is rapidly sliaplnt; up Into what will be the |T. S. S. Macon, sister ship of the I'. S. S. Ak ron. world's largewt airship. Workmen are swiftly proceding on the duralumin skeleton which has at- talned a length of more than 350 feet. The sixth tuajn frame has been raised Into position and crews are now en gaged In constructing the giant fins to which will l»e attached (he mn\ahle control surfaces. Crews are making faster progress on the Ma<-on than was achieved on the Akron because of their previ ous experience. Both design and con BtnM'tion are Identical on the two The point of procedure, how ever, Is different. Construction work on the Akron was cafrled forward from nmldship to the prow first, tin the Macon, crews are proceeding from amldsliip to the stern (adore construct ing the forward part of the ship. The Macon will have three keels. <?r "‘gangways,” which are being Installed as work progresses on the hull. • One keel lies along the bottom center line of the airship; the other two, on each aide In a line with the engines. Vet WanU Compensation for Corns War Gave Him New OrleanA—Claiming that rigor ous wartime drilling gave him "Incur able corns" on the bottom of his feet, Willie I.ee Johnson. World war vet eran. appeared In Federal court here and asked full disability payment un der provisions of the war risk insur ance act. Johnson, a railway brake- man by trade, said he had been un able to follow his profession since ills discharge. * LIGHTS > of NEW YORK Preaches in Overalls Weatherford, Texas.—In order that the working man with limited means may feel at home In his church. Uev. Paul Clifton, pastor of the Funda mentalist Baptist church here, wears overalls while delivering his sermons. Cross of 1,000 Pieces Brockton, Mass.—A'^carved cross, two feet high and containing 1.000 separate pieces of wood, was made by Daniel St It Ills. No twine, pegs, glue or nails were used. ■M- »,r Statistics Refute “Weaker Sex” Idea Washington.—The "weakpr sex" idea has heen overthrown, offi cially. - - ' ' Public health records show, that: • Girls have a lower piortaiity rate at birth and during child hood. They begin to walk at .six weeks to two months Vfore their sup posedly stronger brothers. They begin to talk from two to ^Kree indfinii' eaHfef'Tfl IW^finn the boys. Women can stand more pain than men. J The statistics came from numer ous searchers and hospital tests recorded In the health service end :r-; ^ —» A welt known New York newspaper woman, who lived on Perry street, owns a cat by the name of Moljle. I*erry street is a homelike neighborhood, and MollieL roamed at large, known and ttked by oil. Frequently she would go out walking In the evening and re turn escorted by twp or three gentle men friends. But recently the news paper woman and her family moved uptown. Not only that, but they moved to a fifteenth floor apartment, where there was a doorman and elevator boys in uniform. The old, care-frtje at mosphere was left behind, Mollie moped. The new surroundings did not stilt her at all. There were none of her race with whom to exchange gos siping miaows. She had risen fifteen floors above her former admirers. But once a flirt, always a flirt. The other day, Moille’s mistress found her perched on the sill of the-open living room window. Five stories below, in another window, sati a hn*ge gentle man cat, singing to Mollie in a throaty yowl—a perfect trouba<>our. Mollie was giving him one of those looks. For the first time since occupying her new quarters, she npi>eared to be con tented again. • • • Many of those now prominent in the theatrical and moving picture world did other things before taking up their present occupations. Among New York producers, for example. George Gohan was once a hoy violinist; Sam Harris, before he managed Terry Mc Govern, ran a laundry; Morris Guest was a ticket speculator; Bill Brady was a manager of puglllstA. Wln- chell Smith, the playwright, was a grain salesman. Al \V«hk1 was In the spectacle business. I’harles Dilling ham whs a hotel clerk, and a boxer. Joe and Nick Schenck were druggists. \ * * * The Ciiptaln of ItelllMrys In a big Florida hotel *hus aspirations as a dramatist. His name Is Henry True- heart, which would appear to be a good name for his hero. At any ralf, every time John Golden g<»e* South. Henry lias new ideas for a play. He tells them nil to Mr. Gtdden who. It Henry ever writes the piny. omboiM- edly should In* his producer. . iwx . . • • One of the extremely few Inhabi tants of Andros, that Island of the western ItuhnAias where flamingo* still are found in large flocks. Is Percy Cnvlll. a |»erfect type of tfte gentleman of fortune. He has heen all over the world hut came originally from Aus tralia. His brother. Tom Cnvlll. wa* a swimming champion and Is credited with being the originator of the Aus tralian crawl stroke. They tell me It was known originally as the “Cayll^ stroked • • • Clark Grifllth. owner of the Wash ington huschnll chili, told me that Sam West of Mule. Texas, not only was his best outfielder, hut one of the best he had ever seen. 'IVxtpj appears to lx* a state which turns out good outfield ers. Witness, for Instance, Mr. Trls S|ieiiker. • • • As a matter of fact. Texas appears to turn out major league players for all iMisitions. There Is Rogers* Horns by front Winters; Gus Mancuso from Galveston; G«4irge Watkins from Palestine; Art Whitney from San An tonio; Lloyd Brown from Beevllle; Pat Caraway from Gordon; Tex Carletoa from Comanche; Sam Gray from Van Alstine; Fred Marlierry from Street- man. and several more. Tex Rtcknnt always used to take pleasure In re counting to me the number of athletes Texas had produced. • • • New York never will cease to miss Tex Rickard. Broadway has seen many colorful personages, hut no one ever brought more color with him than Tex. And, ns a promoter. New York never will see his equal. * t®. 1)32. Bell Syndicate.)—WNUBervie*. Wild Geese Prove to Be Excellent Movie Actors Ithaca, N. Y.—Wild geese make good movie actors In the opinion of Prof. A. A. Allen. Cornell university. Taking a position- in a cornfield, Al len made sound movies of a flock of geese feeding nearby. , “They acted just as If they knew they were having their pictures taken.” Allen said. ‘‘They rose and settled down right In front of the camera. One of them even came up and hissed at the lens.”' Birch Grows From Pinq Bethel, Maine.—A largo birch tree grows from the stump of an old pine tree here. .Circulates Dollar Hoarded 25 Years Findlay, Ohio.—Hoarded since 1!M)7, a silver dollar 'which had lain hidden in a clock in a Find lay home lias heen put back into circulation. The "hoarded dollar” was given to a Findlay man *J6 years ago hy his grandmother to buy a (Hirist- mas presentT hut lnstead it was hidden In the clock. At the be hest of the chaml»er of commerce In Jts antj-hoardlny campaign, ths dollar was started on a round business places, appropriately tagged so it would signify to what purpose it was pnt '* — ^ U. S. LEADS WORLD IN USE OF PHONES More Than Half of Total Is Found in America. Waslilngton.—There were 35,336,407 telephones in the entire world on Jan uary 1, 11)31, according to statistics recently compiled J>y £he American Tel- ephdhe and Telegraph company. It taken some time to secure authoyitu- tlve data from the more remote Conn- Iries, and January 1, 11)33. Is the lat est date for which Comparable infor mation |g available in full. The United States then had ‘JO.liOL- 570 telephones, or more than half of tho'world’s total. The United States phones In the world Increased hy 8C5,- 7^1) during that year. The increase of 133,553 telephones In the United States during the year exceeded that in any other country. Private Phone Companies. Privately owned systems operate more than two-thirds of the world's telephones. In the United States all telephones are 0|»eratM hy private companies. Tills country Is not only equip|>ed with more telephones than all the rest of the world put together, hut It Is likewise outstanding in the numlier of its telephones relative to population. With 10.4 telephones for each 100 iwople, the relative prevalence of tele phones in the United States is more than eight times that in Kunqie. I'am . adit, with 14 telephones |>er 100 |ieo- ple is the only country whose tele phone facilities in pro|iortlon to |H>p- ulution uppro»<-h those of the Unit^i States. New Zealand take* tiling plare with 10.1! telephone per BN) |>eople, followed hy lletimark. with 9.0; Swed en, with 8.7, and Australia with 8.1 telephom** |mt .Joi people; Most of the telephone* in ImiIIi Canada and iVninark are onerated hy private com panies. Argentina Leads in S. A. Germany rank* second to the Unitt-d States in absolute number of tele phones, hit has only live telephones |ht BN) |»eop!e. Great Krilaih has 4.3 and France only ‘J.3. In all three of I ci-e these countries the government o|»er- * 1 * * ales the telephone system. Argent ins. with i!.fl telephone* |**r BN) p4»ople, has nearly one-half of all the telephones in South America. J^pan and tie Union of South Africa, each with only 1.4 telephones |»er BN) (teople, lead In telephone development in Asia and Africa. res|tectlvely. * The small towns and rural section* of America are notably well provided with telephone facilities. Communi ties in this country with less than 50,(NN) population each have at their dispostil an average of l‘J.2 telephone* for each BN) inhabitant*. In Kurope even the larger cities are for the most part less adequately supplied with tel ephones than the?e small American communities. Frcie Chest Clinics for Negroes. */■ Tuberculosis is curable if discover ed early. It may b e discovered in its early stage only through examination by a doctor. » The most common symptoms of tuberculosis ate cough, aftefnoon tem- ptqj^«f5>itiss of weight, a tired run down fe?Hng>s4i^t these symptom- usually do not app«r till the disease has reached a fairly advanced stage. At thi s stage complete r«covery is not so certain. # The negro race i* more susceptible than the white race. Any colored per son who has any of the above symp toms, who has had tuberculosis in his family, or who has been in close and Canada together had more than contac t with this disease should visit twice as many telephones as the whole -lhe free chest clinic which the South of Kurope. Thirty |>er cent of the world's total telephones were in Ku rope and 1) per cent were scattered widely about the globe. Adverse busi ness conditions slowed down the rate of telephone growth in U!30 and even caused a few- countries to lose tele phones. The total ’♦number of tele- Carolina Tuberculosis Association will hold in the Barnwell Court House on Thursday, Jun e 9th. Dr. J. I. Waring, of Charleston,, will examine patients from 9:30 in the morning till 3:00 in the afternoon. Local physi- ciapavfill help as it is convenient for them to be present. All colored people in the county who havf any reason to suspect they might have tuberculosis ar e invited to come and be examined. 6 6 6 LIQUID - TABLETS - SALVE 666 Liquid or Tablets used internally and 666 Salve externally, make a Colds. _ ... - MOST SPEEDY REMEDIES KNO\VN Capudine best for I It gW« relief by soothing nerve* — not de^ng . them. Conteins no opiates. * Won’t upset stomach. • • a Being liquid, it acts quicker than pills or powders. . Sold at drug stores in single dose, or 10c, 30c, 60c sixes. CANDIDATES’ CARDS. Barnwell Municipal Primary Electior* Of Interest to .Teacher*. In rrder to meet_ the emergency caused by failure of County Superin tendents of Education to distribute the State Notes to South Carolina teach ers promptly, Furman Summer School authorities have arranged to allow,* all teachers due such notes to register at the beginning cf the term this “Week and pay their summer school hilD when the State N< tfs are dis-! trihuted Thi< announcement applies, to 4he ! Furman Summer S<ho 1 in fuM, in-[ eluding the Seashore and M untaini Biology ('amps un ier the* direction of Dr. S. A. Ives. j ‘"In order t«> accommodate teachers] who r.*ad this ann uncemetv! U*er j thi* w.-ek,” said Dean E. M. H gh-‘ j smith, ”-uch teacher* wi'l he allowed. I to register as late a* Monday, June j 13. and make up the work missed.” The main registration day f.»r th» j first term is Thutsday. June 9. Exer- marking the final f rmai open ing <f the session will he held Friday, June 10, followed by short class se*- si< ns in all courses. Classe* will meet on full schedule beginnig Saturday, June II. ’ .For Mayor. I hereby announce myself a candi date for reeiettiqn to the office of Mayor of Barnwell subject to the rule* and regulations cf the munici pal Democratic primary e'ection. • B. W. SEXTON/ !3S l ADVERTISE in The People-Sentinel. w ot v m m APPLIANCES ' . LIGHT PLANTS. WATER PUMPS. RADIOS, REPAIR PARTS AND SERVICE. —SEE I S— Kline Trading Co. KLINE, S. C. ANNIVERSARY DAY IS TRAIN TRAVEL DAY ON THEl Southern Railway System June 18,1932, k the Date ONE CENT FOR EACH MILE TRAVELED Father! Mother! Slater! Brother! You cannot af ford to min this great bar gain reduction. Make it a family matter. Get ac quainted with a train ride. Visit relatlvea, friends, go to the city, go to the coun try. go for the simple pleas ure of a train ride! Follow the crowd! Safer than staying at home! RETURN AT YOUR LEISURE ANY TIME PRIOR TO MID NIGHT, JUNE 26, 1932 These tickets will be honored on ah trains (except Crescent Limited) and will be accepted for passage In sleeping and par lor cars upon payment of Pull man charges. This exceptional redaction In fares Is offered in commemern fion of »A* thirty-oighti* anruvor- amry of tha farmotian of tko Southern Railway Company, al so to afford the young folks an^^* opportunity to enjo) the thrill of their first train ride. Buy your Train travel tickets well In advance; It will enable us to provide, extra ears and extra trains for year accommo dation. Remember these tickets will be sold from all Agency SU lion* lo all stations on the Southern Railway System Aho to many points on other lines. • Make your sleeping car reser vations NOW . Consult Pasocn ger Traffic representatives and Ticket Agents for full inform* Uon. FRANK L. JENKINS. Passenger Traffic Manager Southern Railway System ADVERTISE IN The People- Sentinel. Z A f ? V ❖ To Our Customers:- Giant Windmill Towers, Berlin Engineer's Plan Berlin.—Hermann Honrwf. huibb*^ of the giant towers of Germany’s larg est broadcasting station, Koenigswus- terluiusen. ha* develojied an idea for a series of mnmnHdh windmill*, which he Haims, if followed out. would sup- 4 ply enough electric power for all of Germany at a cost of one pfennig per kilowatt hour. Honnef got his Idea during construc tion of the J.Wmeter radio tower. Ar- r cording to his design, a tower 270 me ters high would He built, like a radio, tower. Crossbars at the top would sup|*ort horizontally three giant wind wheels, each with a diameter of 1(50 meters. He declares that (50 such tow ers, strategically placed throughout Germany, could, in connection w’itb the existing water power plants, sup ply the entire country. ❖ Pennsylvania's State Police Conduct School Harrisburg. F’n.—The Pennsylvania state police "keep school" each night on the tri-state policy teletype sys tem. The pupils are the municipal police men in the s{ation houses linked with the teletype transmission system in New Jersey, New York and Pennsyl vania. * _ , The lessens are instruction in crirrr- 1 nSn Inal law and errtninn! procedure, com- | A piled from the source of study given | i the state policemen* in their training i school here^ - " r — No exaiaWUMWMLliire, conducted no £s fire reported to teachers ? Lunaway Tire Crashes Into Store | V West Newton, Mass.—Philip .J. Me- | 4^ it Hugh, twenty-four, was ctlt by flying glass when a tire rolled off a passing automobile, Jumped the curb, and crashed into a drug store window here recently. The People-Sentinel stands ready and willing to meet any reasonable copetition on job printing by out of town printing con cerns, quality and quantity of work considered. All that we ask is that you give us a chance to meet this competition before placing your orders elsewhere. • • Quite often buyers of printing are misled into thinking that our prices are much higher than those of out of town concerns when in m fact they are as cheap or cheaper. For instance, a customer was quoted a price on 2,000 billheads. He then asked us for a quotation on 1,000. Our price was based on Hammermill Bond paper in sin- i • gle thousand lots, whereas the out of town concern quoted a price on a cheaper grade paper in lots of 2,000, plus postage to Barnwell. Naturally, our price for 1,000 billheads on a better grade of paper was higher, but we could have printed 2,000 on the cheaper grade at the price quoted by the out of town concern. ■* . ’ * * a . % * Remember that there are just as many different grades of paper and printing as there are grades of cotton and that the quantity ordered also governs the price. So don’t be misled when you are given x a quotation that seems much lower than ours. And don’t expect us . /:Y to print orders for 1,000 at the same rate per 1,000 based on l0 ^ {y . ^ . * * . . ' ■ y quotations of 2,000 or more. And also rerhpmber that it pays to keep your dollars at home ♦ f V ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ? ? ❖ * ❖ f ? ❖ f ❖ f X x 1 T x x ♦♦♦ t 1 x f T T 4 t t T T T t T T T T ❖ t “otherwise your home printer will not have any money to spend-^ with you. ; Rbvwmatnm Cost* $U>,000,000 London. — IfJieumntlsm, the „ most prevalent disease of civilization, costa Great Britain SIO.OMUMk) a year Among its 49,000 annual victims, 0.000 din ' BARNWELL, * • * ’ i - ■ .