Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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V &r THE OrnCTAL NEWSPAPER of barn well uuCntt.‘ CMMUdf^ Jam 1. 192ft. Barnwell People-Sentinel V 'Ju«t Like a Member of the Family” VOLUME LV1I. BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1933 V NUMBER 2. i Bridge at Burton’s ~ Ferry Appears Sure Project Estimated to Cost $300,000.— Will Open New Short Route ^ to Florida. Allendale, Sept. 15.—The end of a long fight for a bridge over the Savan nah river at Burton’s Ferry, 10 miles from here, appeared' as a strong pos sibility tonight with announcement by State Senator Robert P. Searson that the South Carolina highway commis sion had given its official sanction to the bridge project in this State’s pub lic works program. The commision, Senator Searson said, today adopted a resolution guar anteeing one-half of the deficiency in amortization payments, planned to come from toll receipts at the inter state bridge, should the lean be ap proved by the public works adnvnis- tration at Washington. This action by the South Carolina commission follows closely on the heels of approval by the Georgia State highway board. It was generally un derstood, also. Senator Searson said, that the public works advisory boards of both States have approved Opens Short Route. the W Seen and Heard Here During the Past Week A Little Sense and Nonsense About l People You Know and Others You Don’t Know. J. MIKE CLARK Humorist Enters Mike In Race for Governor Former “Kurriner" of Anderson Cotin- e ty Ready to Meet “Kitties. Kats K low ns." pi ojecl. Anderson, Sep/t. 18.—Gee McGee, noted humorist who writes for hun- The bridge, located l*etween Allen-] < ^ 1 P aD eis, ha< decided that Mike dale and Sylvania, Ga., would open a * lark, ifd., his chaiacter in "No- new short route for traffic toured via. 1 body’s BustaeM," shall enter th? race Columbia to and from Florida. It j ^ ,r g" v emoiv Mr. McGee reached would be operated as a toll bridge I thi, ‘ decision after learning that until such time as the loan may In*; Mountain Kitty Sloan, self-styled repaid. favorite son of Gieenville, was going S uth Carolina State highway No. ■ 1 i* already cohstfucted to the swamp line, the Allendale senator said, and this State is prepares) to finish the road ftom the swamp line favorite to run. Mike Clark, rfd., f rmer "Jiurrinfr’* of Anderson County' today announced his platform, and like Senator Sloan, he i« tunning on the economy ticket. to the bridge, while Georgia has a-1 However, Mike prt mi«e 9 that he will gi«ed to finish the load on that aide j •djoum the legislature in three to the bridge. J weeks, and will not allow any of his “Eventually," said Senator Searson.!* 1 > on * or 28 *«*ndchildren to work “South Carolina will pave the read j ^° r highway drpaitment or "tail* firm Allendale to the b.idge, connect- i ,om,i <’°«"'"b.h ” ing here with three other peved high-^ Mike'a platform foil w»: ways. It will not be long before this"! rock, s. C., 9-8-31. is done. This would afford us an-' to the voter B of s. C.: other direct route through the rent to accommodate r State Highway Patrolman Rogers with a new motorcycle capable of a top-speed cf 120 miles an hour. . . Two cotton market letters, one claim- mg that the August consumption of cotton, approximately 588,000 bales, wa s muqh larger than the trade had expected and contributed to the ad vance in prices that^day, while the ether said that the figures were 18,- 000 bales smaller than anticipated and caused the market to ease off. . . . Many farmer? holding their cotton for an anticipated rise in price. . . . Everybody complaining about the ex- tieme heat, which has been several degrees higher than normal this month. . . A farmer friend who ha s always managed to make a gtod living taking “time out" to watch some of the local R. F. C. laborers at work (?>. He report? that some of them were making friendly stabs at nearby bushes while watching co workers tr something of more interest dt a distance. . . C. G. Fu.ler en tertaining a number of visitors with rides in hi s plane. A letter from W. B. Turner, of i Aiken, enclosing check far another year’s subscription to The Pe-'ple-Scn- tm« 1 and staling that he ha« been a j suhst rilter to this paper for 47 years. ... And renewslg a'so fr m J. R. j liumson. of Bai nwell y Mil.edgo Black, ' of Blackville route 3, L. T. Still, of | Olar, and J. H. McD mu'd, of Willis- tcn. . . Ia>nnil* Ca.houn w*ntnig I to know h w far The People-Sentinel cirruUtes, remarking that wherever he goes somebody asks him about that cucumber crate on which he was wont • to sit and give Main Street the once- I over. . . And his brother, Harry D. Calhoun, now of Bamber* say ng I that the older teardentg of his adopted tunty read “Barnwell 50 and 25 deal of m- if the State •>uth traffic. i suppose most of th rth* I the newspaper^ saw m same | where i ha«| a-nounted my feeders of • last week If a» a To ( oat S loe <hm> | candydate for ffovr in»r of tl The hr idge, ettin tatrd to coat $31 *>.- j palmetto atat< * Of R . (’., ami iaiO. will be submit ted a* a pro, ject to! notify them t hat i am in to the pub! ic worki administrate >n in | 1 *1 stated my flatfu urn in m> Wa*hington by Hu itrh Howell, < of , At- nouncement. 1 Hit i desire to IHfltA. Attached to the appl icat on i j following plan ik* to same: will be the resolution of the two high way h> ards and the recommendations ft ’he advtaory hoards </ Geoigia ami ."♦n.rth Caiolina. "We hirer hen working on this pro ject for yeais," said Senato r Sear»on, “ami we are all very much gratified that our dream ia about to be realiz ed. The people of this section of ou” State ami those on the ether side of the Savannah have been for a long time at a disadvantage in the matter of tiuck highway facilities. The con struction of this bridge and the even- ine 1*—l guarantee not to pardon over 5 convicts a day while incarcerated in j the gevetnor 9 cheery and none of them wl'l Iw for nonsupport or steel- ! mg or selling likker. i wont pardon nothing but nturdereis and highway I O i m I . 2.—I promise that j will not let neither one of my six sens or 23 grand-childiens work for the railroad commish or the highway department or the tax cemmish or arty of the pow er compunie* or other copper-rations tual paving of the road? leading to t ^ at mou »fbt expect me to protect it will give us the answer to that i thtm V ,th m >’ vote •»=*oforth. desite. ‘We haven’t had any ribbons pinned *3.—4 allso hereby warrant that i will n\t Uu-ehtfT'ToTtHuby, s. C., ring on u? in the matter of highway favors, j ^ ut a ro l H ‘ a;ou nd my nake ami make but we have-kept at it, feeling that me 1 them everything the state we finally could make our need so > * s h eret0 f 0,t ‘* and the lower part apparent that the authorities would i nought as well get ready to pay some taxes, too, as the peed- mount section can’t keep them up no longer. to share the honor of the achievement! ^ 1e leKKisiature with many others who Hnv^ h*|p»d [ ^ ome * n 8 weeks, if they have not him in his fight for the bridge, notable ‘ their work, i will finnish it among whom was W. T. Riley, Jr., at 0V-n ^ x P ense which will who accompanied the senator on his no ^ ^ over -giv«s the-tuidge. And now we be lieve we are going to have it." Senator Searson said he would have appearance befoie the State highway commission todav. Picks Cotton to Buy Books. Allendale, Sept. 18.:—Little Evelyn <^onnelly, eight-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Connelly, of Bel- dock, has this year purchased her own supply of schcol 6odks with money earned by herself. Despite the heat, she ha? picked enough cotton to do this, and made a record by picking 80 pounds in one day. To take advant age of this opportunity to earn mon ey she had to walk daily the two-mile distance from her home to the cotton field and back, but her determination did not lag. Evelyn is now in the third grade, and after equipping herself with the necessary books she had a balance of 30 cents to put towards the purchase of a dress. ' Mr. and Mrs. Brown Totrle* spent the week-end in Barnwell with rela tives. 5.—will foice all lobbyists to sleep with the leggislators they are trying to influence by the word of mouth or the tingle of the pccket <jr the beading of the fruit jar or other stuff. fi.—i will cut out graft if i have to do so with a razor, and sepperate the highway department from the offis cf governor and cut their pay so much they will .hafter quit and go to the farm—where they ought to of stayed. frigpeft and fellow-citizens, j am tEefavvorite of flat rock., my home town, and my county is behind me. i will fight for the peeples rights and reduce taxes, and how. i challons anny of the candydates to a jint debate on anny question that they mought want discussed and if they don’t want to meet me on the stump, i will meet them in a prize fight up to 10 endings and whoever excepts this challons to fight should make his will befoar stepping into the ring. yores trulie, * mike Clark,, rfd. , next governor of s. C. I Years Ago" with a great terest. . . A report that a new nickel and dime store will be opened i in Barnwell in the near future. . , • Two small children attiied like Ma- ' Katina Gandhi. . . No let-up in i the plague cf gnats. . . Various I interpretations of the meaning of NRA, a Bamberg hoarding houv* I landlady {’aiming that the letters j mean. “No Relative* Allowed.*' Tho?. II. Peep!e«, former att rney | genet;.!, and Mrs. Peeples, of ( olum- j bia, the former remarking that he Reived six years a« attorney general { and a number of m nth- in the Judir*’ | Advocate* s department of :he U. S. at my with the rank cf major but that ^ he’d rather be called plain “Tom" by j his friends than t» be hailed by any I of those high-sounding titles. . . . j And Mrs. Peeples remarking that she hadn't realized that 25 yeais had passed since she won her diploma at Wmthrop College until she read the item in “Barnwell 50 and 25 Years Ago.” A leport that sixty-odd teachers applied in person for two positions in the Dunbarton school made vacant by recent resignations. . . Many bales of cotton being stored in local ware houses and being held for higher prices. . . Hairy Freeman, former University of South Carolina football star, arriving in Barnwell to assist W. R. Price in coaching the loefil high schqcl squad. . 1 W. L. Wooten, representing the Fedeial Land Bank of Columbia, in the city on business Tuesday. . . Chief of Police Geo. Peeples riding on a load of com and looking very much at home. . . . Notices that “compound taxes" are now due being displayed in conspicu ous places about town. Thi s particu lar tax has been reduced from $3 to $1. NEW COTTON BRINGS TEN CENTS ON LOCAL MARKET For the first time in three years, “new crop cotton’’ sold for ten cents a pound on the 1c cal market during the harvesting season, that price hav ing been paid here Monday for 7-8 inch staple, following the advance of 40 pointg the same day on the New York cotton exchange. True, many baleg cf old cotton sold a few weeks ago for a higher price—some as high as 11 1-4 cents—but the price had de clined below the ten-cent level before local fanners began picking the 1933 ctop. Not Over $4 Will Be Charged for Ginning Winchester C. Smith, Jr., Returns From Hearing at Memphis on Ginners’ Code. Advertise in The People-Sentinel Gotten farmer? in South Carolina will not be called upon to pay as much a s $7.50 per bale for ginhing as originally proposed at the national ginners’ conference at Memphis in July, according to Representative Winchester C. Smith, Jr., of Willis- ten, who was a visitor in Barnwell Friday. Mr. Smith and J- R°y Jones, commissioner of agriculture, returned to their respective homes last week after attending the Southwide hearing on the ginners’ code held at Memphis. While the final code of conditions and prices will not be adopted until some time this week, Mr. Smith said that, in his opinion, the prices in South Carolina would not be in excess of $4 per bale, including bagging and tie s and all ether costs to the farmer, and that there, is a possibility that the price will not exceed $3.50. He and Mr. Jones advocated the adoption of the lattei figure, Mr. Smith said, and waged a strenuous fight against the adoption of a price in excess of $4.t»0. There were alout 1,000 fatmers and ginners at the Memphis hearing, which wn.- the* utgr wth of a con ference hcldK in Washington early in August between Mr. Jones Neville Bennett, of Benncttsviiie. and officials of the agiicultiiral adjustment adm n- iatration, at wh,« h time the South Carolinizus piote«ted vigou-ly against the proposed c de which had been »ub- mitted by the ginnm. Mr. Smith, Mr. Jv-nes, Mr. Bennett and D. B. An derson. of Spartanburg, master of the State Giange, wVre appointed nt a meeting of fnrmerp in Columbia to fight for lower ginning prices. Mr. Smith left for WashingUn, D. C., Saturday, along with ■ number of other South Carolinian*, to urge Piemdrnt Roosevelt to Ax a minimum price of 16 rents a pound for cotton and $25 a ton for rotten seed a" pro vided for in a resolution adopted by a Statewide meetiag of farmers in Columbia last week, which wan vailed to protest against the low price* be ing paid tc Southern farmers for their product* in spite of the big advance in the price of thing* they have to buy. Taxpayers' Honor Roll The County Treasurer’s book* for the collection of 1933 taxes were opened Friday, the # 15th inst., and in these day s when so many taxpayers complain of their inability to meet their ob ligations to the State and coun ty, the following deserve hon orable mention for having paid their taxe a on the day that the book? were opened: Mrs. V. P. Bonner. Harry D. Calhoun. J. Aiken Cieech. ,Harriscn Gray. W. G. Hill. Mrs. J. J. Hill. W. J. Odom. Mrs. Mary Odom. Jame s Peeples. Williamsburg Wants Federal Aid Stopped Negroes Deserting Fields to -"Draw Government Relief, Farmers ( barge at Fiery Meeting. French Seek Large Purchase of Cotton Three Million Bales Mill He Negotiat* ed for on Credit Terms. It la Reported. New York, Sept. 17.—B. Cate* Nekiecker, American international banker, with headquarterg in Paris, will arrive Wednesday to negotiate put chase by French interests of 3,- 000,000 bale* of cotton. His associates said today he would go directly to Washingtcn to complete the negotiations. The credit arrangements under dis cussion for the cotton deal are based partly on the wheat formula used by Neidecker when he represented a grain cartel in purchasing 50,000,000 bush els of wheat from the federal farm board two year g ago. The basic features of the wheat credit formula were intergovernment al credits and an exchange of foreign commodities fir American wheat. Neidecker, who initiated the Franco- American cotton deal, has beer, prominently identified with inter-gov ernmental commodities negotiations. After serving in the American avia tion force during the war, he be came a member of the United States relief commission to Poland. He founded the Travelers’ bank of Paris in 1921 and Neidecker and Cie in 1926. In succeeding years he has been active n international ttedijt .orporations. His organization activities included the International Commodities Trading corporation, the European grain cartel, the Amsterdam Trading corporation and the American and Foreign Dichount corporation. During his stay in America, Neid ecker plans to make a study of the workings of the NRA. Williamsburg County farmers want fedeial relief among faim labor stop- ! pod, at least temporarily, farmers de- 1 daring in on«» rf the most heited meetings ever held in the Kingstree I court house that their crops are rot ting in the fields while negroes who n their h, jm , burn their wood i n«l expect them to furnish supplies during lean periods sit in the shade lit ing on the 30 cents an hour re- I ceived thiough govefnment relief. , The farmets took the floor in rapid I «ucce*j>ion to place before G. W. Green, county administrator for the | emergency relief, their difficulties. A motion to withdraw R F. C. workers %n the county until December ( 1st was carried almost unanimously, *n,j to this motion was added another | providing that the relief administra- ; tion receive information from the 1 landlords as to the negroes on their : plant at *on» needing aid, and not from ithe negroes themselves. One speaker asked Mr. Green - to make it plain to State headquarters that .“the people of Williamaburg County have stood all they can stand ' and they have no intention of sub- ' mifting to anything else.'' He de- * wribed thi 9 method of relief as “an joutiage on civilization" in handing | out to big strapping negro men and j women “aid” when they ought to be j in the cotton field*. ^ One of the largest cotton planters in the county told how every laborer Ion hi; farm stopped work on Monday , of last week to go to Greeleyville to get their “ticket to woik." Since j their one day’s work, he said, they | had been sitting down while he had ! had to send trucks into Berkeley County and haul pickers by the hun- idred. Today'i Macedonian Call. Mrs. J. A. Kennedy and children, of Williston, spent Sunday with the former’s mother, Mrs. Estelle Patter son. Are we able 1 to answer this call cr are our ears still deaf to the cries of our friend 8 and brothers in the far away lands across the sea who are yearning and pleading for moie knowledge of the Saviour Who died for you and me? It is our duty as Chris tians to send to them the light that will shine forever to brighten their joumey as they travel from time into eternity. Ccme to B. Y. P. U. next Sunday evening at seven o’clock at the Barnwell Baptist Church and let’s find out how each of u 8 may help. The program is as follows: Introduction, “Ccme into Macedo nia and Help Us.”—Mrs. R. R. Moore, Jr. Discussion 1.—“The Macedonian Call Today,” by Miss Carey Martin. Discussion 2.—“Answering the Call in Rumania,” by Miss Florence San ders. Discussion 3. — “Answering the Call in Spain,” by Mrs. L. Discussion 4.—“Answering the Call in Jugo-Slavia,” by Miss Marian Bolen. Discussion 5.—“Answering the Call in Hungary,” by Dodson Still. Discussion 6.—“Answering the Call in Russia,” by R. R. Moore, Jr. Discussion 7.—"Answering the Call in Italy,” by Mrs. J. E. Mahaffey. Miss Marian Bolen, Captain in Charge. Southerners Fail to Get President’s Ear Roosevelt Sick and Wallace “Out** When Cotton States Delegates Called in Washington. Washington, Sept. 19.—A delega tion from nine cotton State* tonight authorized Senator Smith of South Carolina to call a nation-wide con ference of agricultural representatives if the 'administration doe 8 not take eaily steps to increase farm prices through currency inflation. A few minutes earlier, the delega tion, after lengthly debate, had been unable to agree upon a resolution call ing 6n the governors of cotton State* to request growers to suspend sale of cotton and cotton seed until the prices are increased to 15 cents a pound and $25 a ton, respectively. The delegation also approved a letter directed to President Roosevelt urging him to consider the resolutions deliveied at the White House earlier jn the day. This resolution, which the delega tion had intended to give to the presi dent, was left with Stephen T. Early, one cf his secretaries, because of the illness of Mr. Roosevelt. Later the group went to the agri culture department, where Early had an appointment for them. Secretary Widlai-e, having a previous appoint ment at the budget bureau, put them in touch with George N. Peek, the farm administrator, who is supervis- ing the farm program. With Peek, the de'egation discussed the proposals they brought calling for removal of the cotton processing tax, a 20 cent price for cotton, $30 a ton for cottonseed and inflation. Some member* of the delegation ac cused Secretary Wallace of “running out on us.” Peek, after listening to the pro posals, suggested that members of the house and senate agriculture com mittees join with the form adminis tration in working out plana for aid ing prices. The letter directed tonight to tho president said “the situation in tho cotton growing States ^ desperate” and asked for "immediate effective action to raise the level of the price of cotton and other farm products.” Claude N. Sapp of Columbia, South Carolina, chairman cf the State Democratic executive committee, pro posed the resolution demanding that the governors of the cotton States declare a moratorium on the sale of cotton and cotton seed and to clone the £1^ until the federal administra tion took steps to increase the price of cotton. This motion was assailed vigorously by Senator Bankhead of Alabama, and Representative Rankin of Mississippi, who called it a direct slap at itha Roosevelt administration. Smith al so supported the Sapp proposal. The resolution, however, was modi fied to read: “Resolved that this convention memoralize the governors of the vari ous cctton growing States to call upon the farmers of their respective States not to sell their cotton or cot ton ?eed until cotton reaches a price of 15 cents a pound and cotton seed $25 a ton.” Through appeals from Representa tive Jeffers of Alabama, Whiting and Rankin of Mississippi, Bankhead and H. K. McKnight and Representative Deicuen, both of Louisiana, action on this resolution was finally puf over until tomorrow. TRY A BUSINESS BUILDER FOB SATISFACTORY' RESULTS Tar Heels Win Series. Two so-called “all-star” teams of the Piedmont and Georgia-Carolina leagues engaged in a three-game series last week, with the Tar Heel aggregation winning two and losing one. The third and last game, a very listlesg and uninteresting affair, was played in Barnwell Friday afternoon before • fairly large crowd, the score being 7 to 4 in favor of the Piedmont leaguers. The brand of baseball dis played was not calculated to encour age fans to attend such “exhibition” contests. Milieu Wins Pennant. By defeating GraniteviUe in a list less game of baseball at Blackville on Wednesday afternoon of last Millen won the league pennant. Of the six son game! played, the four, lest one snd tied <m ®* fj K JL I