The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, October 13, 1932, Image 8
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News Review of Current
Events the World Over
President Hoover Speaks to Farmers-—Roosevelt and
Smith Bury the Hatchet—Insull Brothers Indicted—
Japan Ignores Lytton Report. * . ’
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By EDWARD W. PICKARD
H. H. Lehman
B OTH Republicans and Democrat*
derived Kreat encournKement
from developments of the week, and
seemingly with the best of reason.
The former hailed
with glee the warm
reception given Pres
ident Hoover In Iowa.
Before enthusiastic
thousands the Chief
Executive delivered
In Des Moines his
first speech In his
campaign for re-elec
tion. addressing him-
self especially to the
corn and hog raisers
who have been show
ing such decided dis
content that their shift to the Demo
crats was freely predicted He de
clared the program offered by his
rival would mean ruin to American
agriculture *and laid down one of his
own that Included the maintenance
of high protective tariffs on farm
products, the amelioration of the
farm mortgage sliuatlon and the use
of annual payments on the foreign
debt to advance foreign markets for
American farm products.
Both Air. Hoover and Mrs. Hoover,
who accompanied him on the trip, are
natives of Iowa, and the people of
the state gave them a cordial wel
come. The President was so encour
aged that on the way back to Wash
ington he made back platform
speeches In ten towns in Indiana,
Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Democracy's glee was caused by the
reconciliation between Franklin D.
Roosevelt, its Presidential candidate,
and Al Smith, who had been holding
rather aloof In the campaign. The
tiatchet was burled In the New York
state Democratic convention where
both Roosevelt and Smith were fight
ing to bring about the nomination of
Herbert H. Lehman for governor
against the stubb*rti opposition of
Tammany Mall leaders. Going to the
platform to place Lehman In nomina
tion. Smith grnsptd the hand of his
old friend with a smiling “Hello,
Frank." and the governor responded
with cordiality as the cameras of the
press photographers clicked madly
and the crowd yelled approval.
Roosevelt said:
“Al. this is from the heart."
And AI replied:
“Frank, that goes with me, too.”
Tammany Hall was utterly defeat
ed and Lehman was nominated, with
W. M. Bray of Utica for lieutenant
governor. Senator Robert F. Wag
ner was accorded a ronoinination.
The Republican New York conven
tion nominated Col. William J. (“Wild
Bill") Donovan for governor; F. Tru-
hee Davison, assistant secretary of
war. for lieutenant governor, and
George Z. Medalie for United States
seiwtor. At the notification cere
monies Colonel Donovan dec In ml
himself In favor of repeal of the
Eignteenth amendment.
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Sec’y Stimson
der Chinese sovereignty. The details
of Us status are to be agreed upon
at an advisory SI no-Japanese confer
ence following the recommendations
of the league and with the league
council sitting as arbiter.
It holds up practically* to ridicule the
Mukden incident of September 18,
1931, over which Japan Jumped off to
the occupation of Manchuria. It In
timates the whole thing was planned.
“But even in Japan,* says the re
port In a tart passage, “appropriate
means must be found for attainment
of every end.”
1 HE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA
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THURSDAY. OCTOBER 13.
R ESTED by their long summer va
cation, the venerable members of
the United States Supreme court re
sumed their labors and one of the
first masters to come before them was
of great Importance to all states along
the Great Lakes, Including New York.
Attorney General Gilbert Bettman of
Ohio, acting ‘on behalf of Ohio. Wis
consin, Minnesota and Michigan, pre
sented an application for the appoint
ment of a receiver, commissioner or
United States marshal to run the Chi
cago sanitary district and carry out
and make effective the decree entered
by the court In April, 1930, restrict
ing the withdrawal of water from
Lake Michigan by the drainage canal.
The purpose Is to force Chicago to
hasten the building of sewage disposal
plants and thus reduce the diversion
of water. Instead of the eight years
allowed for building the works before
the diversion is cut to 1,500 feet In
1938 it will require 37 years at the
present rate of construction, the ap
plicants’ brief declared.
IIT'IIEN Samuel Insull, former pub-
lie utilities magnate, and his
brother Martin Ignored the request
of State’s Attorney Swanson In Chi
cago that they return from France
and Canada, respectively, to asflst in )
the untangling of the affairs of the
numerous corporations with which
they had been connected. Mr. Swan
son became Indignant and promptly
presented his cases against them to
the grand Jury. Within a few days
that body returned three indictments
charging embezzlement, larceny by*
bailee and larceny. Capiases for the
arrest of the brothers were Issued
and steps to bring about their extra
dition were taken.
The first Indictment names Martin
Insull alone. It charges that he ab
stracted by means of embezzlement,r
larceny^ r.nd larceny as bailee $377,720
from the treasury of the Middle West
Utilities company and used t'.e money
to protect liis personal brokerage ac
counts.
The second Indictment'charges Sam
uel Insull and Martin Insull Jointly
with using $00,000 of the funds of the
Middle West Utilities company to pro
tect brokerage accounts carried in the
name of Washington Flexner. presi
dent of the Lincoln Printing company.
The third Indictment names the
brothers Jointly on a charge of ab
stracting $104,222 from the treasury
of the Mississippi Valley Utilities In
vestment company for the same pur
pose.
Samuel Insull In Paris and Martin
In Canada both refused to comment
on the news from Chicago.
D OWN In Medicine Lodge, Kansas,
there was an interesting three-
day celebration in commemoration of
the signing of a treaty in October,
1807. The pact was between the Unit
ed States and the Kiowa, Comanche,
Cheyenne, Arapahoe and Apache
tribes, and It ended bloody warfare
and permitted the unmolested con
struction of railroads and wagon roads
to the Pacific coast. In return the In
dians were allotted reservations on
which they have made their homes
ever since.
M EXICO’S government and the
Catholic church are again at
each other’s throats. In a recent en
cyclical Pope Pius discussed what he
called “the new and
legal persecution" of
the church and Catho
lics In Mexico and an
nounced a policy of
“formal co-operation”
without renouncing
principles or with
drawing past denun
ciations. President
Abelardo L. Rodriguez
countered with a dec
laration that all the
Catholic churches in
Mexico would be
closed to religious use
if the Catholic church’s attitude, “as
shown in the encyclical’’ should con
tinue. This attitude he called insolent
and defiant.
Archbishop Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores,
papal legate to Mexico, took part in
the controversy and the chamber of
deputies unanimously voted to ask
President Rodriguez to deport him. The
president immediately complied and
the legate was put aboard a plane and
shipped to Sun Antonio, Texas.
President
Rodriguez
EUELY a diary of n fortnight's
Journey through Manchuria"
was the way Minister of War Sadao
Araki characterized the.report of (he
Lytton commission to
the'League of Na
tions when the Jap
anese cabinet met to
consider it. Othei
ministers agreed thni
it was unWorthy of
Japan’s serious ntton
tion, and the cabinet
then made this curt
announcement:
“The government
has decided tha’t the
Lytton report does
not constitute cause
to alter its Manchurian policy."
Various responsible leaders in Ja
pan gave notice that their country
would continue its dominatim of
Mnnchukuo, and the world wonders
just what the League of Nations can
and will do about it. The Japanese
war office issued a statement declaring
that if the league acts in the spirit
of the Lytton report. Japan will have
no alternative but to withdraw from
the league and oppose its action with
the firmest determinatibn. France
has shown decided sympathy with
Japan in the controversy and Great
Britain has been rather lukewarm in
her friendship for China. The Unit
ed States, though not in the league,
is a most Important factor in the af
fair, and Japan insists that Secretary
of State Stimson has again displayed
his animosity toward Japan and is a
menace to the good relations between
Japan and America. This is because
Mr. Stimson in an address before the
Philadelphia Union League club said
President Hoover had formulated a
successful policy of nonrecognition for
territorial gains made by force of
arms, add added that the “open door"
policy was necessary to preserve
Chios’s territorial and administrative
Integrity.
The Lytton report. Insisting "less
oa the responsibility for past actions
than on the necessity for finding
nmrns to prevent their repetition."
calls for the establishment ofanoatoo
•mous demilitarized Manchuria oil
P RESIDENT DE VALERA of the
Irish Free State has brought about
the dismissal of James McNeill as
governor general, and it is reported
in Dublin that he will
not nominate a suc
cessor. either taking
the position himself or
cutting the Fr " State J
entirely away from
the British common
wealth. When tie de
cided that * McNeill
should go tin British
government had no
alternative to acced
ing to the demand.
Air.' De Valera on
his way home from
Geneva conferred with Britishcahinet
members in London and It was agreed
that tlpj Anglo-Irish economic war,
that started over the withholding of
the land annuities due the British gov
ernment, should be settjed by direct
'negotiation. “TJiis wa» a-wlAory for
(he Free State, for the British had
previously Insisted the dispute should
be arbitrated by an empire tribunal.
James McNeill
O NE of the heroes of the British
conquest of the Sudan, Gen. Sir
Rudolph Slatin Pasha, died In Vienna
at the age of seventy-five. Born In
Austria, he enlisted fpr service with
the British army in the Sudan when
he was twenty-one years old. Under
Gen. “Chinese’’ ''Gordon, he led the
Britisli in their bloody war with the
Mahdi, Arab chieftain. It was Sir
Rudolph’s prowess in beating back the
dervish tribesmen in 27 battles which
won him the title of “The Hammer of
the Arabs." in 1SS5 he was taken
prisoner by the Arabs and was held a
slave for twelve years. After bis es
cape he served under Lord Kitchener.
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BEAT BRITAIN took steps
break the disarmament deadlock
caused by Germany’s withdrawal from
the Geneva conference when her de
mand for armament equality was re
fused. The British ambassador to Ber
lin invited the German government to
send repiesentatives to a iour power
conference In London to consider the
German demand and to pave the way
for Germany’s return to the confer
ence. The other three powers would
lie France, Great Britain and Italy,
and the United States vould be in
vited to send an observer. The Ger
man reply "as that it would he use
less to hold the meeting unless Ger
many were first given certain guar
antees hat her demand for equality
would be really fulfilled.
Norman Davis, acting .chief of tiie
American disarmament delegation,
went to Londomto talk about fleet re
ductions proposed by President Hoo
ver. On the way from Geneva he
stopped in Paris to sound oi i the
Frenclt on the Franco-Itnlinn obstacle
to making the London treaty a five-
power pact
I RAQ was admitted to a seat as a
sovereign member of the League
of Nations, the first country In the
Arabian world to reach that status,
and King Feisal Is now an entirely
Independent monarch. Great Britnln
resigned her mandate over Iraq and
was highly praised for her generos
ity by all speakers in the league as
sembly. There was an intimation
that France should follow this exam
ple in regard to Syria, but the French
at Genera wer' noncommittal Iraq
was formed after the WbrTJ war oat
of the former Turkish provinces of
Bagdad. Mosul and Basra. Within ita
boundaries are vast oil fields, and tbf
population U nearly three mllll rN na.
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B RAZIL’S civil war. which had last
ed for nearly three months came
to a close with the unconditional sur
render of the rebels in the state of Sao
Paulo. Military police replaced the
rebel government in Sao Paulo, capital
of the state, and the great coffee port
of Santos was reopened to commerce.'
The’i'evolutlbnary army disbanded and
its leader, Gen. Bertoldo Klinger, and
other officers were held under arrest
at the federal army headquarters at
Cruzeiro.
Jack Frost is expected next month.
The Railroad will get here about
the 1st prox.
It is whbpered that an independent
county ticket will soon appear.
Mr. Aquilla Wooley’s bright little
baby died near the village on Sunday
last.
Defeated candidates are invisible.
Some are .«owing oats—others are
gene up Salt Creelcr -
Dr. T. S. Lafitte, a prominent citi
zen of the county, died a few days ago
near Matthew’s Bluff.
Married, Tuesday, October 3, 1882,
at the residence of Mr. Laurie Groves,
by Rev. A. Buist, Mr/Jeff D. Whittle,
of Edgefield County, to Mrs. Laura A.
Busby, of Barnwell County.
The average valuation of land in
this county is $3.86 per acre. At its
last week’s meeting the State Board of
Equalization reduced the assessed val
uation of lands n Barnwell 25 per
cent. V
wisVfcilled by a train cf the S. C>*k
W. one and a half miles from
His body was teiribly mangled, bemi?
cut in two, and his leg.* and arms cut
off. An inquest was held by Tnal
Justice Bellinger. . . ..
At Blackville, on the evening of the
5th instant, while Joseph Knop an
Jes.?e Nevils, youthful clerks m th
employment of Mr. C. E. Gy es, ^ re
playfully boximr the latter received a
blow on the stomach from w 'C e
died in a few minutes. It is supposed
that a blood vessel was ruptured.
v
Capt. A. A. Henderson of Blackville
was in town on Tuesday in the inter
est of the telegraph line.
Sudden Deaths.—Oh the night of
the 2nd instant Mr. Obediah Nevils
The Democrats nominated the fol
lowing county ticket in the primary
elections:
For the LegisMute-W. W. Smith,
H. J. Kearse, M. F. Molony, G. W, M.
Williams, G. Duncan Bellinger.
For Probate Judge—B. T. Rice.
For School Commissioner—Arthur
Buist.
-For A uditor—S. W.. Trotti.
FoG Treasurer—N. F. Kirlcland.
For County Commissioners—H. J-
Croft, J. C. McMillan, W. W. Mat
thews.
C HILE went through another switch
in government when Gen. Bartolme
Blanche, provisional president, was
forced to resign by a revolt against
the military regime. He was succeed
ed by Judge Abraham Oyanedel who
will serve until the election set for
October 30.
Dr. Harmodio Arias was inaugu- i
rated as the fifteenth president of the
republic of Panama, and pledged him- l
self to economy and the payment of
the nation’s foreign financial obliga
tions.
P ARTIAL failure of the five year
plan was admitted by the central i
committee of the Communist party of !
Soviet Russia at its annual meeting to
formulate policies for the coming year.
It decided that quality rather than
quantity should he the watchword for
19J53, and outlined this procedure:
Improvement of the cities’ supplies
of food and other commodities; in
creases in the production of goods for
domestic consumption and elimination
of the speculative spirit by the devel
opment of a system of controlled prices
and the introduction of labels for man
ufactured goods to Improve their
quality.
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T HERE was more trouble in the
Illinois coal fields and detachments
of the National Guard were posted in
several towns to curb the actions of
the striking miners and their pickets.
a strike of high school in Kin
caid because the Chicago school board
rmu XTutti freto n ctunpanj
under the $o wage scale. In
that town (t was reported that a pa
trol of the militia was fired on, though
no one was wounded.
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17 th Anniversary Sale
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Sale Starts Thursday Morning
October 13th at 8:30 O’clock
The Greatest Sale of the Season
Thousands of Dollars Worth of Fall and Winter Merchandise Was
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Purchased for This Phenomenal SALE When Cotton Was 5c. Per
Pound. We Invite You to Attend This Event and Supply Your Needs
AT GREAT SAVINGS.
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COATS
Special for our ANNIVERSARY SALE—One
big group of heavily furred Coats in the newest
fabrics, $35.00 values for—
$24.75
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SILK DRESSES
A Special Purchase of New Silk Dte-ses in all
the newest styles and colors. On sale during our
ANNIVERSARY-SALE—
■ ; • $3.95 '
Silk Hose
Wonderful values in Silk Hose
at Anniversary Sale Price—
37c to $1.65 Pair
Children’s Coats
New shipment of Coats for
children’s style- of dress and
school wear. Anniversary Sale
Price—
$1.95 to $9.95
Swagger Suits
New Swagger Suits in self
tram and fur trim, priced from
$4.95 to $24.75
MEN’S SUITS
On Big Group of Suits for Men and Young
Men.—Special for ANNIVERSARY SALE at—
$6.75
SHOES.
Sensational values in Shoes for
the Whole Family at EfircTs during
OUR ANN1VERSAY SALE.
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Cotton Goods
Visit our Bargain Basement
and see the Low Prices on Cot-
V
ton Goods during our Anniver-
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Blankets
You will find the lowest prices
in years on Blankets here.
Priced from—
95c to $6.95
Silks
New Silk,- and Woolens for
Fall purchased special for our
ANNIVERSARY SALE.
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