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THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF BARNWELL COUNTY.* CMMUd»tc4 Jqm L 1>2S. Barnwell People-Sentinel 'Ju«t Like a M«mb«r of th« Family" VOLUME LVL BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, MAY 25TH, 1^3 NUMBER SflL Hilda School Finals Thursday and Friday Operetta to Be Presented by Gram- A Little Senae and Nonsense About Seen and Heard Here During the Past Week mar School.—Graduating Exer cises Friday Evening. The Hilda high school finals will be held this week, with a two-act People You Know and Others You Don’t Know. From “Listenin’ ’N” in the Caro lina Free Press: “Barnwell County Local High School - to Present Pageant Commencement Exercises to Be Held , at Fuller Field This (Thursday) Evening, 8 O’clock. operetta, “What’s the Matter With; has again set the pace in South Caro Sally?” to be presented by the gram mar school this (Thursday) evening and the graduating exercises tomor row (Friday) evening, at which time the Hon. Wyndham M. Manning, of Sumter, will deliver the address to the senior class. The program of the operetta, which is under the direction of Miss Kate Cantey and Mrs. Lucy C. Hartzog, with Miss Dorothy Hightower as pianist, is as follows: Cast of Characters. SaUyT a rich little girl—Dorothy ^IcLeod. Miss Celia Jefferies, a teacher at St. Thomas' Orphanage—Edith Hart zog. Mrs. Donnelly, matron at the or phanage—Mary Dyches. Mrs. Blount, Sally’s mother—Mil dred Still. J Orphans—Prudence, Dewise Delk; Agnes, Mary Smith; Betsy, Nora Hartzog; Peter, Lowell Jones. Chorus. Place.—Both acts take place in the schoolroom of St. Thomas’ Orphan age. 7i me .—Act 1: End of afternoon session on a spring day, darkening to twilight at the ckse of the act. Act 2: After school hour* on a day two weeks later. Graduating Exercises. Processional—Mis* Dorothy II gh- tower. * Invocation—Rev. W. R. Davis. President’s Address—Lets Hartzog. Class History—Thelma Delk. Class Prophecy—Mary Black. Class Song—Senior Class. Introduction if Speaker: M. Mann.mr. of DirIonia*— Address—W. Presentat.on Herndon. The excrv st at 8:30 o’clocl gin each K r! evening Two Young Men Lose Lives Near Denmark UohiniHin and Gregorie. of Granite- ville, Kdlrd h% Southern Train on l'ro—*ing. 18.—Two >\ ung going home from Denmark. M«y Aiken County met a dance at Bamberg were instantly kii.ed at 2:tt0 n. in. this morning when their car collided head-on with a Southern tailway freight tram at a crossing two miles w^*st of here and a quarter of a mile fr. m Lees. They were Johnnie Robinson, 28, and Har old #regorie, 21, of Graniteville. ^ The train was ^'VfcoSlriffig*'Tor an old fashioned tttkpn'atmaT d nm^i u^tieT hpwfn Dr.' J. S. Matthew's, wh ' pronounced them both lifeless. They were badly crushed, he sa;d. The crossing L bn State highway 78, the road running parallel t6 the tracks except fer this short turn. The opinion is expressed heie that the young men thought the train an approaching automobile so close to- -ge‘herme The road and tracks. R' ldnson’^l^idv wd^thrbwn .'lb or 40 feet by the impact, but Gregory's was found folded, .up in the car. The tiain was No. 56 from Au gusta to Branchvlle, and there were no witnesses to the accident except the members of the crew. Youth Fatally Injured. I M. B. Grubbs, IS-year old son of Jim Grubbs, who lives near Barn well, was fatally injured Thursday afternoon when he fell under the wheels of a truck. The accident oc curred on the Barnwell-Allendate highway, about three miles south of this city. Young Grubbs was riding on the bumper of the truck and the driver was slowing the machine for the youth to get inside. Boiling’ lina. This time the county delega tion writes a-supply bill for twelve months beginning July 1 and running to Juune 30 of next year. That is good sense. Barnwell is well represented in the General Assembly. With Ed gar A. Brown in the senate and Sol Blatt and Winchester Smith, Jr., in the house Barnwell not only has its own affairs looked after in an ac ceptable manner but contributes a great deal to the handling of State matters.” . . . And a picture in The State showing Miss Lilia Bush, daughter of Representative Marcel- lus F. Bush, of Ellenton, standing beside a 118-pound tarpon that the young lady caught off the coast of Florida while visiting an uncle at Sarasota. The huge fish was as large as its captor and put up a 40-minute battle before being landed “Bud" Halford remarking that, when it comes to having an easy time, next to a “nigger” pteacher he’d rather be a ball player. . . Col. Solomon Blatt correcting The People-Sentinel on the statement in last week's issue that he was one of the representa tives who 1ft Columbia early Saturday night. May 13, under the impression tha: the legislature would adjourn sine die by midnight. The Colonel was among those piesent until it was seen that * ne die adjournment that night was impossible. . . A drug store discussion as to whether Gray or Gross was the winning pitcher in the game with Sylvania FiiJay. The circumstances were laid before Billy Laval, ciwirh at the University of South Carolina, via. long distance phone, who said Gross was entitled *>o the honor. . . C. G. Fuller, who flew to Augusta Saturday in his plane to witness the Augusta-Graniteville game, return.ng to Barnwell with the score before local fans could get the desired inf, imation by phone from an Augusts newspaper. Everybody hoping for a refresh ing shower and saying each day that the *Vuke" crop would be ruined un- le.-s la n came in the next-day or two. . . L. R. Fr.nntng. :t tttirtntte, who ••aid that two tar* of cucumber* were loaded at that point Saturday and that thiev or four were expected Monday. Prices ranged from $1.25 to $2 pe: hamper.. . And shortly after the fir>t tent, me of this paragraph was written a very light shower (just about oiough to wvt a handker- thiefi fulling, and a weather observer remarking that it was a bad sign in dty weather. . . Anti a rainbow in the Fa.-t with its promise that “it ain’t gonna rain no more.” . . Perrv The commencement exercises’of the Barnwell high school will be held this (Thursday) evening at Fuller Field, beginning at eight o’clock. The ex ercises this year will be a drastic de parture from the usual program and will feature the presentation of a pageant, “Hail Barnwell," in which a large cast ^ of characters will take past. The complete program was pub lished in l^st week’s issue of The at People-Sentinel and attractive sou venir programs will be given those who attend this evening. The members of the graduating class are as follows: Diploma graduates in order of clasj standing:^ Edith Mahaffey, Murriel Norris, Emily Ellis, Emily Black, Lois Sanders, Hilda Martin, Lloyd Moody, Essie Davis, Rodman Lemon, Hayne Creech, Lawson Holland, Mazie Sanders, Robert Sanders, Paul Bolen, Marion Holly, Willie Best Gruber and Virginia Morris. Certificate giaduates: Pearle Beas ley, Lucy Braxton. Hazel Dyches, Ruth Hogg, Dora Dee Ray, Robert Ray and Mary Ellen Still Barnwell Takes Lead in G-C Pennant Race Barnwell Defeats Bamberg While Graniteville-Sylvania Tilt Was Rained Out. Standing of the Clubs. ciub^ Won Lost Pet. Barnwell .... 9 2 ' .818 Graniteville .... 8 2 .800: Augusta 5 5 .500 Sylvania 3 6 .333 Bamberg .... 3 8 .273 Thomson 3 8 .273 Closing Exercises ^ of Blackville High Twelve Young Ladies and Gentlemen Receive Diplomas Friday Even ing.—Enjoyable Program. Future Games. May 25th.—Barnwell at Thomson; Graniteville at Bamberg; Augusta at Sylvania. May 26th.—Graniteville at Barn well; Augusta at Bamberg; Sylvania at Thomson. May 30th.—Barnwell at Augusta; Thomson at Graniteville; Bamberg at Sylvania. 1933 Legislature Passed 661 Bills South Carolina Lawmakers Intro duced Almost Three Times That Many in Longest Session. Jupiter Pluvius took a hand in the Georgia-C'arolina league pennant race Tuesday afternoon, the Graniteville- Sylvania tilt being rained out w’hile Barnwell was defeating Bamberg 8 to 4 to put the Carpenters out in front Bertha Carroll, j by the slight margin of half a game, w’hile the Wolves again went into a tie with the Thomson cellarites. Bamwvll got off to a two-run lead in the first inning of Tuesday’s game, but the Wolves got tD Miller, making his fust appearance for the locals, in the third and scored four runs. Busbee w as going good and it looked like a geed bail game had gone wrong, hut Barnwell knotted the tally in the 5th and drove Busbee to the showeis in the sixth when the Carpenters went safely aheai with three more scales. Another was add ed for g^od measure in the eighth. Gray relieved Miller in the third only one out. Columbia, May 19.—A total of 1,- 677 bills were introduced in the gen eral assembly for the record-breaking 1933 session, 661 of which have been with two men on ami ratified into acts, recor«h of the en-' He struck out the next two batters grossing department show. Twelve of and had the viaitors completely at his the acts ha\e n t been signed by mercy the remainder of the game. Governor Blackwood. | Fitch led the locals in hitting, get- The senate t-ponsored Cl l bills, 227 , tin >f tree 001 o{ five tre8 ' whi,e cf which were enacted into law, while Jenkins, Stewsrt, Gray and Bo.den the house had before it a total of 1.- got two hits. 066, 434 of which were ratified into | Score by inings: acts. A total of 245 of the house bills | R H E were introduced by delegations, 754 Bamberg 004 000 000—4 7 1 by individuals, and 66 were ccmmittee Barnwell 200 (>23 Oix—8 12 1 Busbee, Sox and Coble; Miller,Gray and Greer. I'mr're, Le^. Barnwell (defeats Augusta. All reams retained their relative ’“jtn , #gparllla sody water.” . . (And Perry was a strong advocate of thtee point two.) . . Com selling for 00 cents to $1 a bushel as cemparei with 25 and 30 cents last Fall. . . One of the largest crowd# of bathers of the sea-i. n at the new swimming pool Sunday afternoon, many of them from a distance. . . A truck carrying a .--pare rear axle. . . Some'iody re marking that his idea of a I'es.-imist •uspenaers B. Moore, r<■ unty stTpcrintentient of education, diiving “Bully” Harley's truck. Reports of beneficial>showers from measures. The number of acts ratified this year Is greatly in excess of the aver- age number for State legislatures all over the United Sta*es, a survey made public by the American Legis- J standing in Georgia-Carolina league lators’ association recently shews. j a s a result of Thursday’s games. Other States Off. ! though Bamberg moved up a notch in The average legislature which met percentage column while Thom- in regular session this year passed! son slid a little deeper in the cellar, abnut 260 hill# in its entire session Thursday’s games resulted a* fcl- as compated with 291 passed by the lows: Barnwell 11, Augusta 7; Gran same legislatures in 1931, and 331 iteville 7, Thomson 2; Bamberg 17, .passed in 1929. Altogether the legis-1 Sylvania 4. latures which have already adjourned' 'The game at Barnwell was a yer:t,a- nwi-fH-nj-rrr r,000 laws or Me barrage of hits, m which the focah r.MPMi » ■safe _TftWTgir.. Augusta toqfc The commencement exercses of the Blackville high school were held Friday evening, at w’hich time diplomas were awarded to twelve young ladies and gentlemen, as follows: Percy Eugene Beasley, Henry Lloyd Bodiford, Lewis Weston Delk, George Hamel Hair, James Kearse Hall, Allen Hightower, Charlie Oneal Jowers, Carlton Lan caster, Rosalie Mathis, Sarah Eleanor Ninestein, Bernard Poliakoff and Leah Wengrow. The following program was greatly enjoyed by a large audience: Invocation—Rev. John A. Pinckney. “America the Beautiful.” Salutatory—Bernard Poliakoff. Music—Miss Rosalie Mathis. Address—Dr. Edgar Long. Music—Mrs. G- Frank Posey. 2 Announcements. Delivery of Certificates and Diplo mas. • Valedictory—Carlton Lancaster. “Alma Mater.” Benediction—Rev. John A. Pinck- ney ' , f t » Retirement of Land Feature of Farm Act Would Take Forty Million Acre* from Production of Major Crops to Boost Prices. Criminal Court > After 1-Day Session Three Cases Disposed of at Brief ^ Term.—Grand Jury Commends “Wonderful Improvements.” Clem-on College, May 22.—The plans to restore normal buying power to farm products through the Emer gency Agricultural Act involve, in addition to contiolled inflation, the retirement of around 40 million acres of land in the United States from the production of certain major cash crops—cotton, tobacro, wheat, rice, com, hogs, milk and its products, says D. W. Watkins, extension agri cultural economist. Widespread in terest is evident in the plans being mapped out by Washingtcn authori ties in th s and other features of the Act. The three means by which this re tirement of acreage in cash crops may be -*ecured under the Act are stated thus by Mr. Watkins; (TT The allotment plan under which a processing tax will be collec ted from licensed manufacturers and processors cn each unit of product handled for human consumption in this country. Funds so collected will be used by the Secretary of Agricul ture in making benefit payments to farmers who contract with the gov ernment to reduce production. These benefit payments are to be made only to those farmers who perform their coiiling to the survey. South Carolina, with 1,677, is in the nineteenth place in the number of the lejid in the initial Ihning when Fleming’s first erreor cf the season paved the way for the score. Barn- legislathe proposals made. Many ' V( dl went ahead in the second after mere legislative proposals have been i throwing away a fine chance to score made this year in some States than ^ >n the fiist on amateurish base run- in others. PiT.D-y.vama-y New -York and Cali- ning, scored three more in the third arid tucked away the game safely in the fifth when they nicked the visitors Blackville, May 24.—The Davie-Lee Chapter, U. D. C., will unveil an arch in honor of the Confederate end Woild War Veteerans at Blackville cemetery on May 30th at 4:30 P. M. The public is cordially invited to at tend, especially Veteran*, Women of part of the.rentract, the purpose be-Khe-Sixties, U. D. C., Chapters end ing to reward them, for auLng ..in fornia legislators were presented frith the largest number of hills. The for four runs. . _ total of 4,450 bills in Pennsylvania I The feature of the game wa* the 'Dodson Still wearing a belt anil was almost matched with the 47440! hitting of Tie proposals in New York. Vermont and Utah Last. various sections of the county. Magnolia tree# in bloom. California is in third place with less than 3,000 bills introduced to Blackville Auction Shed Opens. Blackville, May 24.—Of interest to the farmers of Barnwell and adjoin ing counties is the announcement that the Blackville Auction Shed will be opened for business today (Wednes day). This is a new venture and is desea ving of encouragement from everyone who has the best interest of the community at heart. ' ’RarnwcTt got four out of four times at bat, giving him—a^- total of seven h.ts in two games and a percentage of 1.000. He also scoied three af the locals’ 11 date. -The two legislatures which! runs Thursday. Bolden came next were confronted with the fewest bills | with three hits out of five tries, in their regular sessions this year w’hile Sizemore and Davis of Augusta were Vermont, with 390, and Utah, 1 got two each. Hogrefe Mitchell, Au- with 400, the report shows. i gusta backstop, played a splendid The South Carolina general assem- game behind the bat, drawing ap- bly had a number of bob-tail or plause from the crowd several times transformed bill before it in the last with snags of foul tips against the few weeks. In the senate fifteen grand stand, such measures were enacted into law, Score by innings: w’hile forty-seven were* ratified in the • R H E house. A total of 76 measures were Augusta _. 100 310 200- ratified last Saturday, the larggst, Barnwell __ 023 040 20x—11 18 number any one day in the session. Representative J. E. Leppard, of With the operation of this venture water from the~radiator caused the >» expected that Blackville will Chesterfield, with fifty-two proposals, young man to leap hurriedly to the I continue as the center of many major holds the individual championship for ground and he fell beneath the wheels I to™ products. At this season, cu-1 sponsoring legislative measures in of the truck, which passed over his cumbers will hold the center of the | the 1933 assembly. Representative body, causing injuries from which he *lied in about two houra. Grubbs is Survived by his parents and several brothers and sisters. Senator Edgar A. Brown was call ed to Washington. D. C.. on pro fessional busines last week. stage, and it is expected that hun-, Calhoun Thomas, of Beaufort; Ran- dreds of cars of “cukes” will be sold \ dolph Lee, of Dorchester and Richard lin the next few weeks. Many buyers I. Lane, of Richland, introduced 24 from all parts of the country will be measures each. here and a professional licensed auc-! Seventeen members of this year’s tioneer has been engaged. From legislature did not introduce a single all indications splendid prices will measure, while nineteen offered only prevail cte proposal each. Batteries: Padget and Tucker, Gross and Greer. Reese. Mitchell; Umpire: Barnwell Snags Another Gsme. . While the locals were maintaining their position in second place in the Georgia-Carolina League Friday af ternoon by defeating Sylvania 6 to 5 in a 12-inning game, the Thomson McDuffs pulled Bamberg down into the cellar with them in a 10-inning reducing making the purchasing power of their commodities equal to what it was during the pre-war period. (2) Land-leasing plan under which the government would rent from the farmer the actual land and prevent it being used for growing any of the major cash crops with which the law’ deals. (3) In the case of cotton only, the so-called Smith option plan may Tie used. This allows the cotton gtower who contract? to reduce his °*’ WorH: War^Vetemms sire (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR.) production 30 per cent under that of 1932 an option on the same amount of government-owned cotton to be sold at the grower’s order up to Janu ary 1, 1934. The grower stands a chance of making something on a rise iq, the market in return for re ducing production but is protecteda- gainst loss fom a fall in price. “The direct benefit under these three provisions will go only to growers who enter definite agree ments to reduce production”, Mr. Watkins points out. “Outsiders, or those who do not enter such agree ments, will continue on a world market basis. The more they produce the lower the genenal price, while the greater will be the benefits to in siders. “Regulations governing the exact terms for applying the three gen eral principles are being developed in Washington throngh hearings with various interests, and fall informa tion is to be made available before contracts are offered growers. The Secretary of Agriculture is permit ted wide discretionary powers in the administration of the Act, most cf Davis-Lee Chapter to Unveil Arch of Honor Exerri**s Will Be Held at Blackville Cemetery Wedneeday Afternoon, May 30th, 4:30 O'Clock. .American Lt#uw ri: AwPU*rie*. AH semble at the baseball park. The pno- giam is as follows: Assembly Cal)—Bugler. Salute to the Confederate Flag— United Daughters of the Confederacy. Salute to the United States Flag— World War Veterans. Song. “Dixie”—Assembly. Invocation—Rev. L. G. Payne. Welcome from the City—Prof. G. Frank Poeey. " • ■ 1 - - Welcome from the U. D. C.—Mist Olive Baxley. Greetings fiom the State President, U. D. 43.—Mrs. W. B. Workman. Greetings, District Director, U. D. C.—Mrs. J. F. Williams. Quartet, ‘Tenting Tonight”—Claude Kammer, Virgil Nevils, Cassius Hoff man, Ira Pitts. Presentation of Honor Guedtu by Chapter President—Mrs. B. F. Storne. Presentation of World War Veter ans by Williston Post Ccmmaadar— John Miley. Unveiling—Call to the Colon, Bu gler; for Confederacy, Louise Colima and Sam Lowe, Jr.; for Worid War, Pauline DeWibt and James Still Placing of Memorial Wreathes For Confederate Veterans, S. W. Lowe; for World War Veterans, KeDy Browning. Introduction of Speaker—Solomon Blatt. Address — Lieut.-Gov. James (X Sheppard. War Songs—Ex-Service Mem. Benediction—Rev. W. E. Taps—Bugler. its provisions being than mandatory.* ■ A scheduled one week term of the Court of General Sessions, which con vened here Monday morning *Wflth Judge Hayne F. Rice, of Aiken, pre siding, adjourned sine die Monday afternoon after being in session only a few hours. The grand jury found the following True Bills: Perry Smalls, assault and battery with intent to kill. Horris Davis and Willie Gray, lar- cency. Benson Still, assault and battery with intent to kilL James Parker and Willie Shuler, murder. Thomas H. Rivers, failing and re fusing to stop vehicle and render as sistance after striking person. ^ J. E. Tarrance, Jr., burglary. Cases Disposed of. Only three cases were disposed of, the defendants in each instance pleading guilty, as follows: Geneial Green, charged with the murder of Howard Odom, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sen tenced to serve 12 years a£ hand labor on the chain gang or in the State penitentiary. Perry Smalls, charged with as- s&uut and battery with intent to kill upon the person of Tracy Baxley, pleaded guilty to assault and battery cf a high and aggravated nature and was sentenced to IS months at hard labor. In the case of Willie Shuler and James Parker, charged with the mur der of Mack Stephens, Shuler plead ed guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to two years at hard labor, the indictment against Parker being nol-proesed. The grand jury peseed upon all bills of indictment except in one par ticular case, which it was “deemed advisable to hold over for further mveetigation and conskledetion.'* That body also expressed hearty ap proval of the “wonderful improve ment# that have been made to the Court House."