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V - i ' ' • ^ \ THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF BARNWELL COUNTY. - V ■\ 1 ;"■ ,-*^- , .‘:'3 r | i ■ , *dA ».» ■; CmmMi^ Jim L l>2ft. •A •« Ju»t Llk« a M«mb«r of th« Famlly ,# VOLUME. LVIIL « BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, JANUARY* 3, 1935. NUMBER 18. LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE MAKES RECOMMENDATIONS Seen and Heard Her£ During the Past Week Judge T. M. Boulware Wins Praise of Bar TO SUBMIT TENTATIVE AGENDA TO CONVENTION. Farmers’ and Taxpayers’ League Would Have State Government Reorganized. Commended for Fair, Impartial and Capable Manner in Which He Presided at .Aiken. ' Survivors of Crash Saved by Woodsmen Four Despairing Victims of Airplane Wreck Fcjund Shaking frc*m Cold and Exhaustion. , A Little Sense and Nonsense 'About People You Know and Others You Don’t Know. The Farmers’ arui Taxpayers’ League will hold its annual State con vention in the Hotel Columbia, Mon day, January 7th, beginning at eleven o’clock. Reports from many county presidents promise a large attendance, it was stated at League headquar ters. ■ The Legislaive Committee of the League prepared the agencla for dis cussion and submitted it to the region al conferences in Charleston, Orange burg, Bennnettsville, Newberry and Spartanburg. The agenda was ap proved in the form now to be submit ted to the convention, and is as fol lows: 1. • Remove the 5 mill State general property tax. (If additional yield or bird in a Main Street yard New Year’s better collections will permit; or a morning. . . An invitation to the repeal contingent on such a condition.) editor to 1 attend a barbecue at Man- 2. Reorganize the State govern ment: A native wondering if it would ever stop raining and being assured that “it always has.” . . . J. Austin Lati mer, of Washington, D. C., leaving his card at The People-Sentinel office with this notation penciled thereon: “Sorry I missed you. Regards.” . . The 1935 Ford V-8'on display in the show room of the B. and B. Motors, local dealers. It’s a “snappy looking job” and will doubtless win many new friends. . . College girls and boys returning to their respective schools, delighted (?) that the holidays are ended. . . . The New Year being ushered in with the firing of guns and firecrackers and) the ringing of a church bell. ... A beautiful red ^The following news' item from the Aiken Journal and Review will be read with much interest by the many Barnwell County friends of the Hon. -Thos. M. Boulware of this city, who recently presided as Special Judge at a term cf the Cotirt of Common Pleas in Aiken: Morehouseville, N. Y v Dec. ' 31.— Four despairing men, catapulted from the skies last Friday when their plane crashed in a night storm, were snatch ed from threatened death in a moun tainous wilderness today. .Half fro zen • in the 50 degrees below zero weather, without food for two days, (a) Concentrating all agricultural activities either UHdBTrdemsmr-GoL lege or the State Deparment of Agri culture. (b) Bring into one office all license collections especially as now attended to by the Highway Department, De partment cf Agriculture, Tax Com mission, Game Warden’s office, Board of Fisheries. (c) Concentrate all field enforce ment service into a State Police Sys tem, particularly State constabulaiy, traffic police (both of which now serve in various police functions), inspec tors of weights, measures, oil, gaso line, hotels, seeds, feeds, etc. Since all this is non-technlcal, one or two. technical men might be in- xinded7^This~?©ncefifrsTTbh should The three weeks special term of 1 their meager fire almost dead, and all the Court of Common Pleas with Hon. suffering from injuries received in Thomas. M. Boulware, of Barnwell, the crash, the crew and passengers of presiding as Special Judge, came to the American Airlines plane were a close on Wednesdlay afternoon at brought back, to civilization by woods- the close of the case of Smith against men who fought nature at its worst Seigler. Just before the close of the to save them. Court, Judge Boulware invited Mr. Eight native!* of this rough country T. G. Tarver, President of the Bank j n northern New York’s Adirondack of Aiken, who happened to be in the state park left their homes in Hoff court room, to come up and sit with I nreister yesterday even before a fleet him on the Bench. The Judge spoke | 0 f searching planes had) located the of the spelndid work Mr. Tarver had done for this section of the State in winding up the affairs of the Bank of Western Carolina at a time when I no one knew the value of a dollar or wreck on the side of Wilder moun tain. Fire Almost Gone. Ploughing through waist-deep snow ning nex Wednesday, given by Claren- don County supporters and non-sup- supporters of Governor-elect Olin D. Jchnston for the purpose of enabling the next Chief Executive and the mem bers of the Fourth Estate to become better acquainted. . . Renewal subscriptions from .C. C. Lancaster, Blackville route 2; Mrs. R. M. Gribbin, Blaekville; Miledge Black, Blackville lYoute 2; F. U. Green, Milwaukee, Wis.; Ben N. Armstrong, Manning; Dr. A. Neit'Lemon, Philadelphia, Pa. (Thanks, friends.) 1934 Lynching Record. According to "the records compiled in the Deprtment cf Records and Re search of the Tuskegee Institute, there were i5 persons lynched in.1934. This is 13 less than the number'28 fbrT933; 7 more than the number 8 for 1932; 2 the value of any property, and 1 during on snowshoes, they found the victims, the most distressing period that this alnmst shrived of hope, about 10 p. m. county has ever witnessed. He com- *We saw four figures huddled plimented him on the way he did his around a fire,^’ said Lester Fertello, work without hurting or oppressing l ea der of the Hoffm^ister heroes whom anyone and wishes him success in the the survivors later credited with, sav- establishment of the new Bank of | their lives. Aiken. “The fire was almost enough for Before Judge Boulware left for his an insect’s mucge. It was the fire home in Barnwell, the Bar presented the men kept burning. They him with suitable and appropriate we,e shaking violently from cold and re^pjuticns expressing their ’thanks I exhaustion. They were almost too and appreciation of the people of weak, to walk, and didn’t think they Aiken County for serving as special could last 2 hours longer. We built up Judge during this term, and for the the fire and gave the men swallows of fair, impartial and capame manner liquor and wine. I want to tell you in which he presided over the court, those men had courage.” These resolutions were engrossed byr Cheered .by the help and by the the clerk in the minutes of the Court, steady drone of planes flying in relays Several of the attorneys also spoke above the spot, the survivors were and made many complimentary re-1 shepherded along the eight miles to PRESIDENT SAYS VETS ARE WRONG IN BONUS DEMANDS - m Barnwell Vets Would Get Nearly $250,000 Payment of Adjusted Service Certifi cates Would Bring $234,534^50 Into County. CLAIMS CASH PAYMENT WILL NOT SPEED RECOVERY. m of Immediate payment of the adjusted service certificates cf World War Vet erans would bring $21,533,112.98 to South Carolina, of which amount Barnwell County ex-service men would receive $234,534.50, according to fig ures prepared by Representative veterans legislation, with assistance vterans legislation, with the assistance of Legion authorities. Half of the face value of the certificates already has been paid by the government. The first certificates were issued in 1925 and all mature 20 yearf from date of issuance. Many newspapers are freely pre dicting the passage of legislation to pay the so-called bonus some ten years before the due date, with suffi cient strength in Congress to pass it ever a possible Presidential veto. President Roosevelt, who has been op- t a reft yin Aiif nf* i HAnua nf tHisn tv jjci y iiitrui vfx vitx_ uvuvio a v, viiio time, is said to be striving for com promise legislation. The prediction of immedidte payment has revived talk of currency inflation, with consequent higher prices for everything. Benefits to other counties in this section of the State include the follow ing: Aiken, $523,897.96; Allendale, $146,925.29; Bamberg, $214,519.32; Hampton, $190,569.64; Orangeburg, $705,824.93. * Ex-service Men Reply With Clai Enough Votes to Overide the _ Presidential Veto. Washington, Dec. 31.—On the eve of the convening of congress, Presi dent Roosevelt today again opposed immediate payment of the bonus and drew from war veterans a challenge for a finish fight. In a letter to a Texas American Legionnaire, Mr. Roosevelt cited the huge outlays of cash that- would be Necessary and denied that the release of more than $2,000,000,000 to former soldiers would speed recovery. The Veterans of Foreign Wars through thejr national commander, James E. van Zandt, retorted that the president’s statement would be a “keen disappointment” to veterans and asserted: “While we respect the views of President Roosevelt on this and sftiy other matters of policy, we believe that congress will be the final arbiter of this issue.” Veterans’ leaders contended pri vately that more than enough votes were pledged in the senate and house to pass a bonus bill and override a result in economies through the elemi- natron - of present "excessive number of {more than the -number 13 for 1931; employees who collect salaries, per diem expenses and mileage for simple and non-technical services. The growing audacity anc' resource fulness of robbers makes it necessary to have a mobile force that can quick- Ty go in pursuit without hindrance of county lines. The present Highway police force can be quickly mobilized in an emeigency. Furthermore, the simple duties of inspection can quick ly be learned by men who iare also capable of protecting life and proper ty. (d) Eliminate the Board of Banlfc -Control. It has served its purpose. (e) Eliminate State Aucltor and give Budget C’cmmissroner’s office his duties. > • (f) Reduce Bank Examiner’s force and require air State Banks to take out Federal Deposit Insurance. (g) Abolish State Cotton Ware house System. (h) Consolidate all State official testing laboratories—Clemson College —toxicology, Clemson College ferti lizer, Department of Health, Depart ment of Agriculture and Highway De partment and require that all drink- and 6 less than the number 21 for 1930. Eight of the persons lynched weie in the hands of the law; 3 were taken frem jails and 5 from officers of (he law outside of jails. There were 51 instances in which officers of the law prevented lynch- ings. Seven of these were in North ern and Western States and 44 in Southern States. In 46 of the instan ces the prisoners were removed or the guards augmented or other precau tions taken. In the 5 other instances, armed force was used to repel the would be lynchers. A total of 74 persons, 14 white men; 57 negrq men and 3 negro women, were thus saved from death at the hands of mobs. Of the 15 persons lynched, all were negroes. The offenses charged were: attempted rape, 4; rape, 2; murder, 2; wounding man in altercation, 1; as sociating with white woman, 1; strik ing man, 1; waiting insulting letter, 1; talking disrespectfully, 1; insult ing woman, 1; implicating others in a charge of stealing turpentine and bootlegging it, 1. The States in .which lynchings oc curred and the number in each State marks as to the efficient manner in and of the Jucige’s rulings which showed his profound knowledge of the law. Morehouseville. Ernest Rryer, pilot of the big Cur- plane, came-cn & tohag- AMERICAN LEGION POST IS REORGANIZED AT BARNWELL Benjamin F. Thomas. TBT Ihttir fig.lMtytqa •by the aie ■» fulluwB. Alabama, If-Florida, — Xhief-State-Chemist. 3. Create Btidget Commission, Com missioner, Auditor and Clerk as total force. Among the duties of Budget Com- misslon: (a) Price control for all State de partment and institutional services. (b) Auditing State institution^ (c) Budget control. (d) Direct and constant survey of actual needs instead of fictitious de mands of boards and commissions. v- e) Take over functions of present Joint Committee on Printing and (f) Functions of Present Budget Commission. (g) Personal director of State (subject to requisition of service.) 4. To includle. county roads in State Highway System; or to allocate funds for their maintenance by High way forces in agreement with local authorities, as- recepits may make * feasable without impairmentuif State credit. The Highway department now main tains a capable force and adequate machinery in each county. Our pres ent plan is a. wasteful duplication of effort. This measure should save five to fifteen mills. (This, of course, as soon as- gasoline receipts and administra- Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Hale announce the birth of a daughter, Friday, De- ’cember 28th, at'en Augusta hospital. The little lady has been hameqj Rebec ca Carolyn. Mrs. Hale if^the former Miss Elizabeth Easterling. 2; Georgia, *1; Kentucky, 1; Louisiana, 2; Mississippi, 6; Tennessee, 1, and Texas/U 1 . w: — ♦ ♦ ♦ Announce Birth of Daughter. tive economies permit.) 5. Reconstitute the State Sinking Fund Commission, having it composed of the Governor, Comptroller General, State Treasurer, Attorney General and Bank Examiner. » 6. To hold all appropriations with in tfye present limits enc) to use the surplus for the payment of the State debts. . 7. Shall we tax our people to pro vide relief? “ The League'opposes all new taxes or the increase of exisiting taxes. It opposes *11 new bond issues. The League has urged during three years that all s^j^cifis^lhall be fixed by statute and that all expense ac counts which are camouflaged increas es of salary should be cut off. It re news that recommendation. The Richardson-Walsh Post of the American Legion was reorganized at a meeting of local ex-service men heL in the office of Blatt and Fales Fri day night of last week, at which time officers were elected for* the ensuing year. It was also decided "to meet in the future on the first Tuesday night of each month. Those present enjoy ed an oyster supper after the business session. The following is a list of the offi cers elected: " • H. G. Boylston, Post Commander; Dr. P. W. Stevens, 1st Vice-Comman der; Perry B. Bush, 2nd Vice-Com mander; Ira Fale§, Adjutant; E. J. Sanders, Chaplain; W. L. Gleaton, Sergent-at-Arms; Perry A. Price, Fi nance Officer; C. O. Jones, Historian; Dr. H. P. Hanna, Service Officer, and G. N^-Pope, Assistant Service Officer. I F ’ • I four trees w-ent down with us. had only two light blankets.” gan, his ribs broken, his feet and hands frozen. Hi? brother, Dale, cb- pilot, also of Cleveland, had a broken jaw. He too had been thrown agtinst the instrument board as the plane sheared down through the hardwood trees of the mountain side. He'was on his feet. 1 ; • Their passengers, J. H. Brown, of Boston, an aviator too, end R. W. Hambrook, attached to the federal t education bureau in Washington, were suffering frem exposure, hunger and bruises. Brown traveled on a tobog gan but Hambrook insisted on walk ing. “I can walk alone,” he told all of fers of aid. Defiant of the weather and confi dent of aviation, he promptly an nounced he felt fine and would “fly to Washington tonight.” “Before we crashed^” he said “our carburetor Went bad, one of our en gines went out, and static ruinecl our radio reception. Tha pilot’s skill saved us when we crashed. Three or We Fairfax, Dec. 31.—Benjamin F. Thomas, 60 died Saturday afternoon after an illness of about six months. He was president of the Fairfax Hard ware and Furniture company, deacon of the Baptist church for 30 years, a Mason, mayor of the town for several years, a -former member ot-the- legist lature frqm Allendale county. * He leaves besides his widow, the following daughters and sons, Mrs. L. H. Rickenbaker, of St. Matthews, Misses Miriam, Julia, Annie Lee, Adrian and Merylin Thomas, of Fair fax and B. F., Jr., Robert and Joseph Thomas, of Fairfax; one sister, Miss Annie Thomas, of Columbia; four b&others, Joe, Jessie and William Thomas, of Fairfax, and J. M. Thomas, of Allendale. Funeral services were held at the Fairfax cemetery at 3:45 Sunday af ternoon, the Rev. James Neal, pastor of the Fairfax Baptist church, assist ed by the Rev. W. P. Way, of the Methoddst church and the Rev. O. S. Ulmer, of the Hampton Baptist church, conducting thb services. presidential veto. Compromise Rumored. . On Captiol Hill congressional chiefs urged an early voting on the question to clear the legislative pathways for less controversial issues. At the same time new reports were heard that the administration would propose-a com promise. Those who have assayed the strength of administration and pro bonus forces predicted the bonus vote would be extremely close. These comments were typical: Senator King, Democrat, Utah: “I have-always voted against payment of the bonus and unless some other reason arise than given heretofore for its payment; TXhilt Vote Tigirnst it Mrs. W. T. Still. Mrs. Lina Still, wife -of—W. T. Still, died Saturday at her home in Snelling aftei; a. short ilhiefe of pneu- monia. Her body was laid to rest Sun day afternoon in the Mt. Olivet church yard, Dr. W. M. Jones, of Barnwell, conducting the funeral services in (he presence of a large number of sorrow ing relatives and sympathetic friends. Besides her husband, Mrs. Still is survived by two sons and five daugh- ters, as follows: Charlie Still, of Snelling; Mrs. Clyde Bright, of North Carolina; Mrs. J. W. San ders, Mrs. Rufus Sanders, Mrs. Annie Strickling and Mrs. Carlisle Morris, all of Bamwelf County. Another daughter, Mrs. J. Allen Hill, preceded her to the grave only ti month ago. She also* leaves a number of grand children. The sincere sympathy of many friends is extended the bereaved family in their dark hour of grief. No Warm Clohing. The Blg 'shTp iTarted"frOm Bdrtbn to' Cleveland last Friday,'" was grounded at Syracuse by the storm, and then flew^ hack toward Albany, losing its course and running low on gasoline. One of the Dryers told & simple but graphic stcry of the crash to Hamil ton Chequers, a foreman at the Speculator CCC camp. “We .crashed about midnight Fri day after hanging over Lake Piseco and” Jim I 8 ’ nce 'P' m ‘ smas h e d hard-wood/ The fuselage ripped) and the Cabin was partly crushed. We made a lean-to of the wings, lighted a fire in front of it and got under cover. “It was very cold. ^We had no warm clothing. We suffered a great deal. If the Pertello boys had not got here when they did, we couldn’t have kept a fire going Igst night. We.were too weak.” College Students Leave. The college girls and boys have returned to#their respective schools, aa follows: . \ Misses Emily Black, Jtine Mil hous and Loretta Fletcher to Ander son College. Misses Frances and Elizabeth Man ning to the-Gewgia State Gotteffe for Women. l^iss Anne Scott McNab to Win- throp College. Cadets Billie Davies and Jim Bush to The Citadel. Cadet Elmer W,^ Grubbs to West Point. - Cadets Redman Lemon, McTyr* Calhoun, Brown Easterling and! Ed ward Richardson to Clemson. Hummel Harley, Wilson Sanders and Tommie Hagood to Wofford Col lege. ‘ * David'Woodward and Bob Dicks Bennett to 'Carlisle Fitting School. Ninety-Six Trial Set. again.” Senator Dickinson, Republican, Iowa: “It is my impression that since we have money to spend for everything else, we can also pay for something that does not create any new debts. I am going to vote to pay the bonus.” Mr. Roosevelt’s views were ex pressed in a letter to Commander Garland R. Farmer, of ^he American Legion post in Henderson, Texaa, in reply to one from Farmer asking for information on the bonus .issue , Loans to Business AML Saying it was “quite apparent” that that there was a “general misunder standing” in regard to the govern- men’s obligation, the president con tended that payment under the Uw was not due until 1945, that it would cost $1,620,000,000 above the present certificate value of 42,100,000,000 and $2,300,000,000 more than the original basic adjustment of $1|400,000,000. “I am si?re,” Mr. Roosevelt said “that many of the veterans have not given the question sufficient study to realize the vast sums require^ to meet the demands suggested.” He asserted that ft,000,000,00ft fa loans to veterans on their bonus cer tificates had not stimulated business, that preference had neen given for mer soldiers in employment and that few veterans had any other assets than' their certificates to leave their families and dependents. “I feel, therefore,” Mr. Rdosevelt * saidi “that those who advocate the / payment of these certificates at this > time for the purpose of stimulating business certainly cannot have given the interest of the veterans much thought.” Col. Harley at Home. .4 Services at Friendship. The many friends of Col. J. E. Har ley, lieutenant-governor-elect, will he glad to know that he wsa dismissed from the Columbia hospital Tuesday and returped to his home'’here afternoon, greatly improved in health. There will be preaching services at Cotton Ginning Repcrt. [ the Friendship Baptist Church Sun day afternoon, January 6th, at 3:00 There were 11,966 'bales of cotton | o’clock conducted by the Rev. J. Tarl- ginned in Barnwell County from the ton Sanders,,of Louisville, Ky. Sun- crop of 1934 prior to December 13th, day school will be at 2:30 o’clock. The as compared with 14,492 bales ginned members of the church are requested to the same date in 1933, according to to be present and the public it cor- a report made public last wee^ by F. dially invited io attend these services, W. Delk, speeial agent, sf Blackville. j 'L. A Member. Greenwood, Dec. 31.—Solicitor H. S., Blackwell announced today the trial of Burley Leppard, Howard Webb and Clarence Mayes for murder in connection with the fatal beating in October, 1933, of Bennie Thompscto, a. He hopea to he sufficiently negro, had been set for Thursday. e d the 15th inst. to take tlm Thompson was fatally' beaten after being taken from the Ninety-Six town jail. State Senator Edgar A. Brown, of Barnwell wild represent the de fendants. < . of office at the State House in bin, although it is understood that physician advises against his ing over the Senate during the ing weeks of the session. - Miss Margaret Smith has returned - Miss Hattie Alexander to her home in Langley after a visit t to BarpweU altar _ , to Miss Rachel Carter. (with relative* in Seneca. .