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SULPHUR INDUSTRY DEVELOPS RAPIDLY Makft Great Strides in U. S. in Thirty Years. A Washington.—Thirty years ago the sulphur industry in the United States was in its swaddling clothes. In 1901 oil drillers discovered large deposits In Texas. From this and other de posits sulphur production has devel oped until today, domestic mines give up about 80 per cent of the world’s supply. “Perhaps, to the average layman, sulphur is known only as a mineral used In the manufacture of matches, an ingredient of Vila and liquids fill ing drug store pelves, or a yellow substance that is^Mfned to fumigate sick rooms,’’ says a bulletin f^om the National Geographic society. * V “But to many chemists and manu facturers it is a far more important mineral,’’ continues the bulletin. “It hides in many products and aids in the manufacture of others. "Manufacturers of alcohol, alum, ar tificial fertilizers and silk; beltings, binders and bleaching agents; cellu loid. cements and chemicals; dye*, ebonite, elastics and explosives; fire extinguishers, fireworks, preserved food, and fumigants; glass, glue and glycerin; leather, liquid fuel, live stock food and lubricants; medicine and mov ing picture films; paints, papei^, photo graphic supplies and polsonji; refrig erators, rodent exterminators, and rub ber; shoe polish, soap, soda, pickled steel, storage batteries, sugar, and textiles, are all good customers of the sulphur producer. And this Is only a partial list of the users of the min eral. i / Texas Is Sulphur Stats. “Nature was no respecter of world regions when she scattered sulphur through the earth's rocky crust Ap parently, however, she was more gen erous with some regions than others. Wherever there are volcanoes there Is sulphur, but lava-spoutlng craters were not nature’s only beneficiaries, for the coastal plains of Texas now are the world’s greatest source of the yellow mineral. “In 1903 about 95 per cent of the world’s supply of sulphur was dug out of the hills of Sicily where It had been produced for several centuries. Although sulphur now is the leading Italian mineral, Italy is the second largest producer. Japan, Chile. Spain, Austria, Ecuador. France. Greece, China and Mexico also have ‘workings’ but the total output of all of them. Including Italy, Is only about one-fifth of the amount taken from United States de(»oslts today. ^ “Texas, with its numerous sulphur properties, Is the ‘Sulphur State’ of the United States. It supplies about 99 per cent of American sulphur. Tjie other 1 per cent comes in normaf times from Nevada. Utah, liouislanu, Colorado, and New Mexico. The I.one Star state produces more than 2,000,- 000 tons a year. “Many deposits, particularly those In Sicily, are worked In much the same way as coal mines. In Texas, a sul phur-producing area resembles an oil field, with lofty derricks dotting the landscape and a network of pipes cov ering th<* ground. “When drillers reach sulphur, they sink steel piping, force super-heated •team into the deposit, and pump thu melted mineral through pipes to a huge wooden vat. As the vat Is filled. Its sides are built higher. The sulphur solidifies—it is almost pure sulphur. “Then the wooden sides of the vat are removed and the mountainous block of sulphur—about 1,000,000 tons —Is exposed. A chnracterlsUc sight In the Texas sulphur country are the towering yellow blocks, gleaming In the sun. Some of the vats In which the sulphur is molded are 8<¥) feet long. 300 feet wide, and from 40 to 50 feet high. Railroad spurs are laid beside the blocks, and as sulphur com panies receive orders, explosives break down the masses and the mineral Is conveyed to cars by steamshovels and belt conveyors.’’ New York.—In Greenwich village, I saw a battered old truck that seemed to be conveying a colored picnic some where. A colored man was at the wheel with a colored woman, evidently hia wife, at his side, while the body of the truck seemed to fairly swarm with children of assorted ages and sizes, but all of the same shade. Tony, the garageman, explained that It was not a picnic. Tony was born and raised in Greenwich village. He has never lived anywhere else. So he knows the village and Its people. The truck, he said, Is a business enterprise. Its pas sengers constitute one family. The family carries on the business. So the number of children instead of be ing a detriment in the struggle for ex istence, is really an assistance. In fact, the more children, the greater the gross Income. 7 • • • The battered old truck Is the official waste remover of the village. A num ber of apartment house owners are /also willing to make small contribu tions. With a wife and a flock of chil dren, the truck owner doesn’t nee<i any assistants. Thus he has no pay roll The trash is taken to the family home, which Is a Morton street cellar. There It Is sorted. Practically all of It Is salable In one form or another. Much furniture, in various states of repair, is collected. That which is salable Is trucked up to Harlem and sold there either to Individuals or to dealers. .The papers are baled and sold, the market for old paper being decidedly bullish at present. The stuff that can’t be sold either is trucked to dumps or Is used to supply heat. And after Tony had told me that, I agreed that It wasn’t any picnic. • • • Speaking of junk, there Is the old German, an ex-member of the navy of hla country and a Jeweler by trade, who has a shack up on the Hudson near the shack colony known as Hoo ver city, which Riverside drive resi dents tried hard to eliminate but which is stYlt very much .In existence. Near the shack of the German a sail boat is moored. It is only a small craft which he constructed In spare time with whatever materials came to hand. Hut It furnishes him a living. In the little boat, during the summer, he cruised up and down the Hudson, sometimes going ns far up ns Albany. While cruising, he keeps a sharp look out for junk ashore, his specialty be ing brass. And because of the little boat and through Ids industry, he now has no fears for the winter even thotigh lie isn’t aide to find work at his trade. • • • Mention of Riverside drive causes me to recall that the woman who feeds the pigeons at One Hundred Fourth street and the drive is not deterred by weathei*. No matter how hard the rain may he falling, she comes out w'ith rice and wheat and spreads a banquet for the hirda. TKq* pigeons do not seem to mind the rain, either, as they collect In great flocks and wait patiently until their benefactor ap pears. They arc so tame and lazy .they won’t get out of the way until actually forced—by the feet of Irate I>edestrians. I’ve been told, or read somewhere, that otticiully all the pig eons In a city, not privately owned, are the property of the mayor. Rut I’ve never seen Mayor O’Brieu feeding pigeons, though City Hall park has one of the largest colonies In the city. • * • Leaning over the wall of the obser vatory at Inspiration point, I watched a long string of barges being she|>- herded down the Hudson by two small tugs. One of the captains waved and Immediately the .old desire to he a barge captain arose within me. Soon there will be barge colonies at Coen- ties slip and elsewhere and the cap tains won’t have anything to do ex cept keep ship and sit around and yarn until spring. VKSILANTES TRAIN TO BALK HOLDUPS 4? Michigan Organization Ready for Ariy Crime. Urges Early Fight on Boll Weevils By WILLIAM BRUCKART Washington.—The Department of Agriculture has already started its fight on next year’s crop of cotton boll weevils. It Is urging all cot ton farmers with whom It can come in contact to destroy the stalks of this year’s cotton crop because it is In those stalks that next year’s boll weevils are now hibernating. "Early destruction In the fall of the stalks prevents the develop ment of a multitude of weevils." the department experts explained. “Plowing the stalks under or graz ing the land destroys the weevils in Immature stages, and destroys the places in which they may grow next year. Destruction of the hi bernating places also may cause mainy weevils, now In adult stage, to starve to death before cold weather arrives, while others will be In a weakened condition from lack of food anu will not survive the hibernating period." The department Is asking that the fight on the weevils may be de veloped into community affairs. It was pointed ont that, while every cotton farmer onght to act Individ* nally, the efforts qf all when joined together will be much greater for whole areas then can ba made reasonably free from the Mexican Indians Will Cut Gold Nuggel Price Monroe, La,—Three young Monroe adventurers have a sure-fire recipe for how to “get rich quick." Returning recently from a sojourn in Mexico in quest of placer gold de posits, the trio, Anthony Gibbon, Frank Morgan and Robert Stowell, said that, in the state of Slnola, In dians who had “washed out", gold nuggets were willing to barter them for $1^ an ounce. With a little capital, one could buy the nuggets from the Indians at $15 an ounee, > return to Unde Sam’s mints, and receive $21 an ounce, the current i>rice for gold. The only drawback, they said, was because of the presence of bandits in the sec tion. \> They declared they planned to re turn to “do a little business with the Indians" when the rainy season, with its accompanying Severs, is over. New Instrument Measures ionth of an Inch Leipzig.—A high precision Instru ment ,has been Invented of such sensi tiveness that it will measure the one- mllllonth of an Inch. This marvelous advance In the delicacy of measure ment Is made possible by magnifying the slightest movements of the meas uring device and making It visible to the eye bfr • stereoptlcon device on a large screen. It was exhibited at the I/eipzlg fair and checks the ac curacy of measurements to a few tec- nods of tha arc. Plainwell, Mich.—A vigilante organ ization, the members of which are husky, well-armed citizens, is being trained in this village to cope with criminals In Alfegan county. Eleven specially picked residents meet at the village hall one night a month to study the county map, fa-y miliarize themselves with ideal situa tions for crimes, practice the use of firearms, and enact mock holdnps. The Plainwell vigilante group dif fers from others of the familiar Michi gan system of vigilantes in many counties, as the Plainwell men are equipped to meet any criminal emer gency, while most of 'the vigilante groups are on call for bunk holdups only. ' v /'\ The Plainwell men are subject to call from their captain or from the county sheriff, who has deputized the group. In calling theftgroup together all that is necessary for the captain or sheriff Js to notify the Plainwell telephone exchange. Names, telephone numbers, and addresses of all members are on file. Every man Is required to study the map of Allegan county and to learn the location of every state, county, township, and rural highway and its intersections. They are required, too, to learn In detail the distances from important points to the various high ways and their intersections, and to familiarize themselves with the driv ing time from villages and cities in the county to strategic points. At their business meetings the vigi lantes map out holdups and other ma jor crimes and then plan their method of search. They select two or three men to stage the holdup and plan a getaway, and the rest of the organi zation then sets up the'machlnery of the mock search. They mark on the county map the spots where holdups would be likely to occur and In each different plan have outlined their method of search in such a manner that virtually every entrance and exit in the county is guarded. FOOTBALL! .. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17TH 3:00 P. M. BARNWELL HIGH * . H i vs, ^ DENMARK HIGH FULLER FIELD, BARNWELL Late News Briefs. Killed in Crash. Wi'liam K. Vanderbilt, Jr., 26, son of a famous New York family, was killed near Ridgeland, S. C., yesterday, when his automobile, speeding from Miami to New York, struck a parked fruit truck beside the highway. 1 Morgenthau Heads Treasury. Henry Morgenthau, Jr., neighbor, close friend and trusted personal ad viser of ■President Roosevelt, will be- come the acting, if not titular, head of the treasury department Friday morn ing, while Secretary Woodin, whose resignation the chief executive de clined to accept, takes a leave of ab sence and goes West in search of rest and health. w< Full Blooded Redskin Head of Indian School Lawrence, Kan.—For the first time In history a full-blooded Indian is head of the Haskell Indian Institute here. He is Henry Roe Cloud, born In a wigwam “In the month of snows, early in the hungry winter." on the Winne bago reservation in Nebraska. Henry wasn’t the name his father aave him. To that brave his son was Wa-Na-Xl-Lay-Hunka, . which in the Winnebago dialect means War Chief, *2^.government' "hchool, at Gen6a changed* all that His first *day at schabl found conflict and deletion of his name. Wn-Na-Xi-Lay-Ilunka was too long r or the government register, and so he became Henry. After the Genoa Indian school. Cloud went East, finally financing his way through Yale university. He became a teacher and leader of his tribesmen. He made a valiant fight for the freedom of Indians and their wives and children imprisoned at Fort MIL Okla.. after their leader had waged war againdfi the govern ment. He won the fight. loiter he became a field represent ative of the Indian service, anti re cently was appointed superintendent of Haskell institute. Bandits Get Big Loot. Four businesslike bandits armed with machine guns, held up a mail truck in Charlotte, N. C., yesterday and escaped with loot estiated at more than a quarter of a millien dol lars. You be ttae Judge ~OU read th'e newspapers, of course. No doubt yon have noticed how often the telephone is mentione Here you see an item about a fire—not serious, for a te e- phone call brought the fire department in quick time, perhaps it’s the doctor—-or the police—who came prompt y in answer , to a telephoned summons. Consider how many trips a day the telephone would aave — think how easily friends and relatives can reac you—consider} how many ways the telephone will serve you as a convenience, a comfort, a protection and also as a business aid. Then compare these advantages with the small cost (you can have telephone service in your home for about ten cents a day) and you will no doubt agree with the thousands who have found the value of telephone service is so great and the cost so reasonable that it really doesn’t pay to try to do Without, it. Southern Telephone and Telegraph . J ’V. \ t v . V 17 Die in Auto Wrecks. * South Automobile accidents on Carolina highways last month brought a death toll of 17, an increase of five ever the number killed in October, 1932. The 113 accidents bf the month also resulted in injuries to 81, of whom 22 were hurt seriously and 59 slightly. SAYS FARM MEAT SUPPLY IS REAL ECONOMY MOVE Frauds in Bibles Are Revealed by Collector ‘San Francisco.—The experience of John Howell, owner of the finest pri vate collection of Bibles In the west, reveal that even that hook does not es cape being a party to frauds and de ception* * “Every week some one brings In a Bible and tries to seYi it as a valuable copy hundreds of years old. But they are only 00 to 90 years old." Howell said. - "Some of them have been stained by soaking In tea or coffee to give the pages the yellow tinge of centuries. "These stained pages easily can be detected by examining the paper—If you know what to look for. A Bible printed on old paper from plates en graved from a photostatic copy of an original work also can be detected. Most collectors have hound photostntlc copies of every rare edition and even a hurried checkup will reveal a coun terfeit.” , Hoiwell started his collection only seven years ago. Today he has 200 volumes printed In 30 languages. He values it at $50,000. Mrs. Dabbs Laid to Rest. Hubby’s “Butter Dance” Brings on Divorce Suit Evansville, Ind.—A “butter dance" put on by Johii Moore, Avondale, led to a divorce suit tried recently In Su perior court j In listing her reasons for wanting the divorce, Mrs. Moore said that after a family quarrel her husband smeared butter all over the floor and then danced on It Ip another fit of temper. She said, he tore down a stove pipe and poured the soot into the beds. Maquoketa, Iowa.—Bob White qnail will have a 2,344-acre refuge here next year, according to plans recently made b, Jackson county farmers The farm- I was c(fered b R(!Y H era organized, and obtained pennisaion of the state fish and game department to aet aside the land. Columbia, Nov. 4.—The processing fax on hogs now effective is destined raise the cost of meat pur chafed by farmers as well as other con-um- ers, advises J. R. Hawkins, extension animal husbandman, who states that hogs and cattle are sufficiently low in price to make it economical to provide an adequate supply of fresh and cured meat for use on the farm. Asserting that much farm-cured meat is of much lower grade than nece-sary because cf over-salting and lack-of attention, Mr. Hawkins says that the curing of meat is a very defi nite process and both the quantity of salt used and the temperature of the meat must be controlled if the be.-t quality product is secured. "In eastern and southern South Carolina weather conditions are jo uncertain that the use of artificial re- trigeratinn is generally nece-sary to avoid risk and probable loss of pork while in cure,” the Specialist continues. “In many towns ice companies have provided facilitie- for storing meal while in cure. Some of these plants have gone so far as to furnish a man to cut up the carcasses and care for the meat while in cure in addition to the materials for curing the meat and ‘guaranteed weather’ in the curing and storage room. A temperature of 36-40 degrees is most favorable for holding meat while in cure.” For those who live so far from speh storage the advisability is suggested of building an ice-box where meat can be conveniently held at proper tem peratures while in cure. Reports re ceived from those using ice-boxes made to plans furnished by the Exten sion Service last year show that the meat kept without loss and the quali ty of the product was excellent. * Canning is a most convenient means of preserving pork loins, sausage, artd other fresh meat in a fresh palatable form for an indefinite period, and Mr. Hawkins feels that this method of preserving meat deserves—» more general use than it now enjoys. The most important thing is that an adequate supply of meat be pre served in its most palatable condition. f Information to this end is found in Extension Bulletin 77, Pork for Caro lina Farmers, giving directions for cutting and curing meat, and Exten sion Bulletin 94, Canning Meat on the Farm, just off the press, giving direction-! and recipes for canning meat. Both publications are available upon request from the Division of Publications, Clemson College, S. C. the long funeral cortege proceeded to Salem Black River Church in Sumter County, where the funeral’ .«ervices were held. At this time the Rev. G. W. Irby, pastor of the chureji, eulo gized Mrs. Dabbs’ fine character and expressed his high evaluation of her friendship. He was followed by Dr. Howard M. Reeves, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Hartsvil’.e, of which the deceased was a member. Dr. Reaves said that Mrs. Dabbs could be.«t be characterized as one who was blessed because she hungered and thirsted after righteousness, who at tained happines.- through righteous ness, and whose chief purpose in life was to make others happy. Dr. Reaves also paid tribute to Mrs. Dabb-’ interest in her church, it? ac tivities and its training of children. The music at the church was render ed by a choir and a quartet, ail of whom were friends of Mrs. Dabbs. The hymns used, each a favorite of the deceased, were “O Love That Will Not Let Me G>o,” “Immortal Love For ever Full,” and “Holy Spirit Faithful Guide,” these being sung by the choir. Besides these hymns, “Peace, Perfect Peace” was sung by a quartet consist ing of Misses Dorothy Strcud, Cather ine Groverman, Dorothy Drumwright apd Sue Flynn James, students at Coker College. The accompanifrrent- of the choir and the quartet were played by Mrs. M. L. Reynolds, pianist of Hartsville. The body was interred in the beau-, tiful and peaceful cemetery at the Salem Church. At the grave the quartet sang “Abide With Me.” Dr. Reaves read the commitment ritual and offered prayer. The benediction was pronounced by Mr. Irby." The flowers, beautiful and numerous wen placed upon the grave tenderly ami affectionately by Misses Kathleen Tis dale, Nancy Owens, Marian Davis, Fiances Workman and Adelaide Shu mate, student^ cf Coker College. Those serving as pallbearers were George H. Riecks C. E. Schiable, John H. Martin, A. W. Blizzard, W. A. Bar ton, Jr., and Carlyle Campbell. As the sad rites were concluded, shafts of light broke through the evening clouds, to symbolize to those gathered to pay their last respects the beauty of Mrs. Dabbs’ suffering, the brightness and cheer of her life, and her own triumph in the experi ence-^ death*— Trespass Notice All persons are hereby warned against hunting, allowing stock to run at large, starting forest fires, or trespassing in any manner whatso ever on Sumter-Barnwell Co. Planta tion in Big Fork Township, Barnwell County. JAMES J. RAY W- . MANAGER. HartsviMe, Nov. lY.—Simple, beau tiful and politic were the funeral rites for Mrs. James McBride Dabbs on Tuesdajrafternoon. At the home Miss Catherine Groverman, accompanied by Miss Louise Bentz, sang Mark An drews’ musical setting of “Come Ye Disconsolate,” after which brief prayer L. Hoover, rector cf St Bartholmew’s Church of Hartsville. Immediately afterwird Nutrition Experts v. _ . Agree- THAT every child should have at least one quart of PURE FRESH MILK each day. 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