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V A HT THE OFTICIAL NEWSPAPER OF BARNWELL COUNTY,-^ ConsoliJated June 1, 1925. Barnwell People-Sentinel ‘Jua»t Like* a Member of the Family" Largest County Circulation. VOLUME LIX. BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JULY 16TH, 1936. NUMBER 44. Former Barnwell Man Stoney and Harlee | Miss Whittle Named Flies to Sea Rescue Are Loudly Heckled Legion Beauty Queen Col. James Tillinghast Moore Brings Byrnes, Champion of the New Deal, Blackville Girl Chosen in Final Con- Ashore Captain Whose Throat Had Been Cut. San Juan, P. R., July 11.—A United and Man in the White House Receive Ovation. test Held Friday Night by Williston Post. Greenville, July 11.—Amid a storm Williston, July 11.—Mjiss Margaret States marine airplane, piloted by of heckling, South Carolina’s United Whittle, of Blackville, wa s chosen Col. James Tillinghast Moore, son of States senatoiial candidates continued beauty queen of the Williston Post of the late AcJjt. Gen. W. W. Moore, of the debate over the merits and de- the American Legion in the final con- Barnwell, S. C., flew 200 mile s out to merits of Fianklin D. Roosevelt and test held last night in the Williston- sea today to bring ashore the captain the New Deal here today. . Elko high school auditorium. She will of a passenger liner who had been Thomas P. Stoney, of Charleston, represent the post at the State con- stabbed in the throat by a member of and Col. Wm. C. Harllee, of Dillon, the crew. | were taigets for hostile demonstra- Weak from the loss of blood caused tions among the crowd of 300 or 400 by a four-inch gash in his neck, Cap- gathered at City park to hear the can- night’s finals, Misses Margaret Whit tain Teirence Burrows, skipper of the oidates. Byrnes was given an ova- tie, Marie Still and Emma Boylston, A. H. Bull steamship company’s liner tion upon his defense of the New of Blackville, and Misse s Ethel Wood- S. S. Catherine, was transferred from Deal and the man in the White House, ward, Era Givens and Ruth Benson, his ship to a Douglass amphibian plane j Colonel Harlee spoke fiist and when Williston. These six giyls were In treacherous rolling seas. [shouts of “Back to Dillon” and “Sit chosen in preliminary contests held in A three-way diama of radio com- down and let Byrnes speak” made it the two towns when 30 girl s competed munication was carried out for two impossible fcr him to proceed-, the > n Williston June 27, and 16 in Black- hours a s the marine plane dispatched g r i m old marine told his baiters to viI!e Jul y 3 - venticn in Chaileston August 9, 10 and 11. There were six contestants in last Goldfish Serves as Lure for Its Owner Swainsboro, Ga., Man's Story Chicken-Eating Trout Brings Many Tall Tales. of Books of Enrollment Will Close July 28 Cosmetic Salesman Left in Lurch Here Secretary of Executive Committee, Crippled Traveling Man Befriends Urges All Voters to Enroll for August Primary. from St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, sought to find the Catherine before her skipper bled to death. “Bark light along, it seem s perfectly natural to you.” Miss Whittle is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Whittle, of Blackville. Chairman Dennis Leatherwood at- She completed her fieshman year at From ship to shore, and back to to re store quiet but Harllee *be University of South Carolina this rescue plane, sped messages of en- couiagement to the captain of changes of position of the speecing vessel, and of frantic directions to the lescue plane. Smoke Barrage Laid. At fiist unable to locate the Cath erine, Colonel Moore of the United State, marine porps, who had taken off for the 165-mile flight to sea to the Catherine and back 200 miles to San Juan, instructed the ship to lay down a heavy smoke barage. By the trail of smoke he located the ship. Acccmpaning Colonel Moore were Lieut. Lard Dickey, also of the ma rine corps, and United State Public Health Physician Dr. T. R. Boling, who volunteered for the flight when a j style frantic radio message pleading for help was picked up by the marine radio station at the Virgin Islanch. The plane scoured the sea for an hour and a half, communicating with Lieut. Jose Cabanillos, at the United shouted to his heareis, “This is not summer. the first rough bunch I’ve been in. | Last year Miss Whittle w’as beauty I’ve been where the guns barked and queen of the local post and placed 8th the bullet s whizzed and I dicta’t run in the Legion’s State wide beauty con- then and I’m not going to run now.” Harllee flayed the national adminis tration and called Postmaster General Farley “the ring mas:er of the Ro- ! man holiday show which is squander- ^ ing the taxpayers’ rqpney.” This, however, only brought shout 8 of "Hur- , iah for Farley” from hi g tormentors. Stoney, the former Charleston' mayor, was especially the target for the articulate friends of Deal. He was met with a roar of | more or less good-natured ridicule, but ! it wa s met by him in characteristic test held during the convention in Greenville. Judges for last night were Julien S. Wolfe, attorney of Orangeburg; Frank Ayer, of Hampton, commander of the Hampton post, and Mrs. William Pee ples, also of Hampton, president of Hampton post ladies auxiliary. Preceding the contest Bert Ber tram and hia entertainers from Au- Ne w Kusta, presented a variety program of music, singing and dancing. FULMER VOICES PROTEST ABOUT PURCHASE OF JUTE “Let me tell you fellow s something,” shouted the candidate. “I paid good Objection to the purchase of 1.600. money to get into this race an* I have oOO pounds of jute twine for use in no apologies to make for my appear-' tyin|C United Buteg milU wa# voiwJ ence here. I am going to speak, too.! recent |y by Congressman H. P. Fui- and no man or set of men in this rner< Orangeburg, in a letter to Sutes naval station at San Juan, who crowd or anywhere else can prevent j* me s a. Farley, postmaster general. in which he scored the post office de- was in communication with the Gath- me from doing s o. erine. Messages from ship to plane Stoney attacked Byrnes’ record *t p artment for request.ng b,„, Ln the and from plane to ship were relayed Washington and called him the “coat- Jute twin* through Lieutenant Cabanillos. tail swinging little Jimmie Byrnes who I Once the ship was reached. Dr. Bob hasn’t the courage to face me on the* ing administered first aid to Captain stump in South Carolina. Burrows, who had lain for six hours without adequate attention, and was i weak fiom los* of blooo. Little- was known of the attack on Burrows, except that an altercation Byrnes did not appear until Stoney i ha u finished and the former Oiarles- ton mayor took note of this saying that “even in Charleston recently, the home city of little Jimmie, he didn’t had occurred between the officer and have the courage to stay in the audi- f a fireman who suddenly seized a knife nad cut an inch deep gash four in ches long in the left side of Burrow’s neck. T. J. Ready. ence while 1 wa g speaking and he wouldn’t do it at Spartanburg his adopted city, yesterday. He knows the truth about this gang and he (jare 8 not deny it.” | Stoney attacked Byrnes’ record in “1 am surprised,” the Congressman wrote, “under a Democratic adminis- tiation which believes in America for Americans that the post office depart ment will refuse to bny cotton t'V'ne !<• tie the mails and give its o _ dei for jute twir.r, a product of India.” He said the go\em7e*u had had i mcr g plo * under 4,Ui)G/>>0 bales of cotton costii.g the go->'nment mil- I-on.* of doilais. “Wherein arc we saving money when we nay mil!ion* t<- Blew under cotton and save only a .’cw thuitaanri annual!/ in buying jute twine instead oif cottun t'»inc be- Bamwell County lost one of its old- regard to latter and lead a letter dat- c>use tbe price of the toieign product ed April 25, 1934, from George Googe, grown by pauper labor is a little est citizens Fricfcy morning at 9:20 ^ Southein representative of the Ameri- cheaper that the Americon t roduct?. he asked. Congressman Fulmer asked Mr. Farley whether it was fair to cotton o’clock, when ‘Thomas Jefferson [ can Federation of Labor, which at (“Jeff”) Ready, 89, died at his home tacked Byrnes, in the Siloam section of Barnwell | “You gonner vote for Lancion? County. He was well known through- heckler called out. mills which manufacture the South’s out the county and for many years , “I was born a Democrat, reared one, gre atest money crop, cotton, to have had been actively ehgaged in farming, am one, shall die one and any man tQ cur t a ji operation while India is Mr. Ready was a vetran of the War ( who says I am a Republicn or have thriving on the sale of jute twine to Between the States and hi s passing Republican support is an ordinary the United States. He added that it leave s only one other veteran li\ing liar. 'was unfair to textile workers of the in Bacnwell County—B. M. Jenkins, | At this point a spectator called out South> many of whom are out of work Sr., of Kline. He never lost his in- ( for “Senator Harllee to go back to and many otherg who are working part terest in military affairs and 1 for Dillon or sit down.” Harllee was time. many years wa s a member of the standing on the platform and shouted j n c i os j ng he said, “I am hoping Barnwell Guards of the State militia “I’m standing here just to look you that you win see t ‘ he j’ ustice and ^ and attended the annual encampments, over and see what brand of cattle you 0my that j am speaking about in con _ His health was considered good for are. I nection with thi s important matter, a man of his many years until Chairman Leatheiwooa uraereu me and that you wi „ see to it that the Monday at noon, when he suffered a crowd to desist in it s heckling, but order for twine is given to the cotton stroke. He remained in a semi-con- Stoney demurred in the admonition, m ju s G f the South ” scious condition until his death assuring the speaker that “I can take several days later. He had been a life care of myself and especially in such long member of the Methodist Church a crowd as this.” and was held in high esteem by those Byme s made his usual defense of who knew him. I the New Deal and Presicfent Roosevelt. Funeral services- were conducted at He said that only„ five o’clock Saturday afternoon by his Democrats, Republicans and Republi- Buford’s Bridge Reunion. Swainsboro, Ga., July 9.—Will Mc Millan, fish pond owner said today the recent story that a fish in his pond had attacked a frying-size chicken brought him scoies of letter s and vis its from folks he never saw before. Swainsboro i s on one of the routes between the Middle West and the East and Florida, and McMillan says numerous folks have come to talk to lim about the fish that snagged a chicken, wading in shallow- w-ater. Some of hi s correspondents make odd suggestions: There ts the man who wrote from Columbia, S. C., who offered McMil lan the help of a remarkable goldfish owned by “a fiiend of mine in Red Bank, N. J.” The Columbia man, who signed himself Charlie Hooper, wrote that the New Jersey friend “puts the fish into a special little harness, at tached to a line, and drops it into the water, indicating on hi s fingers the number of fish he wants. Smart Fish. “The goldfish understands, and goe 8 looking for trout or bass, pike or picket el. The ferocious game fish, seeing the glittering morsel, gulps it clown—but not quite, for the goldfish, getting into the gullet of the game fish, nimbly slithers out through one gill, thus threading the fish on his line. Then he proceeds on his wsy, stiinging one fish sfter another, until he has the right number. Then he swims around the whole line of Ash and with the slack of the line ties a knot. . . . Having tied the knot (which keeps the goldfish from being drawn back through the gills of the other flah) the goldflsh lets up a few air bubbles, which ate a signal to his master, who proceeds to haul in his catch. “If you are anxious to exterminate these chicken thieves B. P. Davies, secretary of the Barn well County Democratic executive Hitch-Hiker, Who Leaves With Car and Cosmetics. A hitch-hiking led flagged H. C. Wade on a South Carolina highway committee, calls attention to the fact 1 six weeks ago. Wade, about 50, a that persons who are not enrolled or who have met enrollment require- ment g since 1934 will have to enroll at the proper precinct to be eligible to vote in the August primary election in Barnwell County. Persons who did not enroll in 1934, who have moved into town since then or who have reached the age limit since then will have to enroll this year. Persons who enrolled in 1934 and have changed' their voting pre cinct since then will also have to re enroll. The voter s of Barnwell Xounty this year'will cast their ballot s for candi dates for the United States senate, congress, State senate, house of rep resentatives, sheriff, clerk of court, master in equity, coroner and magis trate. Books of enrollment were opened Tuesday, June 2nd, and will close on Tuesday, July 28th. They are opened daily in the various precincts through out the county. DRIVES MILLION MILES WITHOUT AN OCCIDENT West Virginia traveling salesman in the cosmetic line and the father of 8 children, stopped to pick Kim up. Finding that the boy was going to Baltimore, but that he did not have much of an idea what he was going to do when he got there, Wade, partly crippled, offered to let the boy travel around with him. Wade told the boy that he would give him a commission on what cos metics he could sell and thus he could earn his board and price of hotel room. The boy accepted the proposition and for five week 9 the two traveled to gether. Apparently adept as a sales man, the boy sold; enough of the cos metics to earn his keep and to do such things a g go to the show in the town in which they stopped at night. Wade accepted the boy as an honest friend and began to lose what natural suspicions he would have held toward a hitch-hiker. So much ao that when they reached Barnwell Wednesday night (of last week) he accepted the boy’s plfa that he would like to save monty. Ha granted the boy’s permission to sleep in the car, with $200 worth of cos metics, and thus save a‘hotel bill. Watte slept in the hotel—and when To drive a million miles is some thing that is rarely achieved, except by only a very few persons. To drive, that many miles without a major ac- he Wok * up ,B the roornin *- ^ ««’ cident i 8 even more rare. To drive; wer * * on *- thi 8 distance without even scraping a I s company kept track of hi» fender seems almost an impossibility. • Wa * in th * Yet B. W. Gibbs, a Gulf salesman of W for *> town, Collingswood, New Jersey, ha 8 just m whlch ** wou,d ,U > r for th * ****** completed such a record. During 19 ^' ownB * n present itinerary were years of driving motor vehicles in his ^ r ** nwoo ^> Greenville and Greer, in work for Gulf, Mr. Gibb, has covered th * onl * r n * m * <i - a million miles, over all kintte of 1 c * ,n * to know °f the eom- roada, regardless of surface condition, prictic * tkro *« fc traveling with ’ ;* without a #infle of any kind Wa*. So early on the mohiiag of w 4 . / y I Thi ‘ unu * u * 1 •» the more ^ 9 ' ** r.be pleere ace be and I will have my I k9nmm Gulf tabulat „ „ fnend lo.n you hi. goldfish. Hopper j char|C#iible even ^ mishap* as damaged fencer*. Gulf is deeply interested in safe driving, and is especially active in promoting safety ideals among the f* 11 *"* napping s. T. J. Grubbs, of the Boil mg | motoring public of America. It wants of hia physical wrote. Mrs. T. J. Grubb* Barnwell because handicap. urges upon others, it inlists that all *** went to end collected the $d waiting for Wada. Then with car, cosmetics and $4 he disappeared. Wade, penniless, earless, but Spar tan-like, for all that he had been in hie judgment ef human nature, left his baggage ia in oner to put into practice what it Springs section of Barnwell County, I every motorist to be s safe driver, and died at her home on June 30th. Mrs. Giuhbs, before her marriage, was Miss Marium Hightower, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hightower, of Windsor. She and Mr. Gvubbs re sided in Allenton, Pa., after they were married in 1926 until about two yetrs ago when they returned to hitch-hiked to Coluasbia, employes who operate Gulf vehicles do * i,n P‘ y told otory at highway pa- so carefully and lawfully. tro ( headquarters, and with never a Do your share to reduce the num- w * l ' m P* r or thought of begging, he ber of automobile accident 8 in Bam- wa ^e<i out of the office and hag not well County. Follow the example set ^ )e * n B * en B * DC# - J by Mr. Gibbs. Drive carefully, oh- ^ CBr do^rihed by him to South Cstolina and made their home I serve all traffic laws, and above all, ^ P* tro * m ®*i as being a 1929 gray Whippet sedan. West Virginia license number. The boy was described ag being about five feet, seven inches in height, of medium build, and with blue eyes and curly liht hair. Hia age was in the section where Mr. Grubb* has been engaged in farming. Surviving Mrs. Grubbs are her mother, Mrs. Julie Hightower, and one brother, Juniou 8 Hightower, of Allenton, Pa; one sister, Mrs. Dosa Dicks of Windsor, and a number of cousins. The body was laid 1 to rest the fol lowing day in the Dasien Cemetery with her pastor holding the burial services. Those acting a s pallbearers were Ben, Wayne and Theory Eu banks, cousins, Willie L. Baxley and Aiken Still, uncles and a brother-in- law, Hayne Grubbs. The relatives have the sympathy of a large circle of friends in their be reavement. give the other fellow some considera tion. Lyndhurst Items. Lyndhurst, July 13.—Mrs. 0. Hay and daughter, Mary Olive, of P ro ^*^*y »bout 20. He was Raleigh, N. C., were the guests of “ yeUow and bIue P 0 * 0 shirt - Lyndhurst relatives during the past Officials at the highway patrol of- week | „; flee suspect that he either is in Co- Capt. and Mrs. A. V. Bunson and ,utnbia ’ or e,se that he had gone children of Parris Island, spent the trough Columbia to get on a straight week-end here with friend's. patb to B a lGmore on route 1. Frampton Harper, of McCormick, was the guest of his father, W. H. Harper, on Sunday. Fred H. Gantt and son, John, of Cb- Heat-Crar.ed Negro Kills Man. Florence, July 9.—Albert Howie, Johnson Black. Johnson Black, 89, died at his home in the Reedy Branch section Saturday afternoon, July 4th, after an illness of several weeks. He was a native For about 11 year s the old families of count y and engaged in farm- that settled this community. -lOK-^throughout ihtwkmg and useful lage—Kirklanc's, Kearses, Brabhams and others—have gathered at the old pastor, the Rev. Mr. Shuler, assisted can sympathizers in South Carolina Methoclst Church, Mizpah, hard by by the Rev. J. C. Inabinet, pastor of were attacking the Roosevelt adminis- the intersection of present highway the Barnwell Methodist Church, and tration. No. 33, and the Walterboro and Barn- the Rev. A. F. Ragan, pastor of the He read a lette: from William we il road. Thi s church, which is s till Denmark Methodist Church. Inter- Green, president of the American Fed- infuse, is the only building of the ment was in the Siloam Churchyard, eration stiahory dated July 6, 1936, village that now standfe. Around it, Pallbearer s were J. S. Younger, B. S. to John W. Nates of Spartanburg, many precious memories sleep. president of the South Carolina Fed- Relatives and connections of these eration of Labor in which Green praised Byrnes for his record as a man fair to labor and commended him for re-election in South Carolina. Moore, Jr., Furman, Carroll and Eu gene Davis and Marion Holly, the last five being grandsons of Mr. Ready. He leaves, besithg his widow, who was Mis s Betsy Snelling, six daugh ters, Mrs. J. S. Younger, of Denmark, Mrs. B. S. Moore, Sr., Mrs. A. B. Hol- old familie s (too many to mention all of them) are invited again to assem ble here, with well filled baskets, and renew fellowship on Thursday, July 23rd. A Bamberg choir will render musi- Mrs. W. J. Denman and baby, of ly, Mrs. J. D. Davis, Miss Annie Ready Avenel, N. J., are visiting^ Mr. and cal num bers"and there will be other and Miss Sallie Ready, all of Barn- Mrs. P. W. Price. Mrs. Denman, the attractions, including bathing, at the well; one son, Leland Ready, of On- former Mis s Mildred Moore, of Barn- new concre t e bridge, over the Salt- trio, Oregon, and a number of grand- well, has many friend s here who Rj ver- Contributed. children, to whom is extended the be glad to know of her visit to her . ♦ —— ■.. — , sympathy of a wide circle of wriends. old home. ADVERTISE.in The People-SentineL life. Mr. Black was twice married 1 , his fiist wife being the former Miss Mary Still. Four children by this marriage survive, they being Mrs. J. B. Moiris, Mrs. Sudie Harley, J. S. Black and N. S. Black, ail of Barnwell County. He also leaves a number of grandchildren and) great-grandchil dren. Following his first wife’s dteath, Mr. Black married her sister, Miss Sallie Still, who preceded him to the grave a number of years ago. Funeral services were held Sunday morning, July 5th, at the Reedy Bianch Baptist Church, of which he had long been a member. The Rev. lumbia, spent Sunday at the home of negro whom office! i said literally Mrs. John M. Gantt. , "went crazy with the heat” shot an- Little Miss Margaret Sloan, of other negro to dea‘h here today an4 Lykesland, is spending some time possibly would have shot two tpolioe- here with friends. I men had not the man’s aged mother This section was visited Sunday and knocked the gun upward. Monday by refreshing rains, which J. B. Flemming, negro, was digging may prove of some benefit to the a ditch when Howie shot him. Magis- drought-damaged crops. trate Ben Maynard and Deputy Sher iff E. L. Isenhour went to Howie's place to arrest him and said the ne- a gro tried to shoot them also. The officers bound Howie and Senator Byrnes to Speak. ^yndhurst Crops Backward. E. G. Hay, of Lyndhunt, was visitor here Saturday afternoon and said that crops in his section of the brought him to jail, county *re very poor, due to the pro longed drought. One farmer, he stat ed 1 , planted 50 acres of cotton and has a stand on only about 10 acres. Late The People-Sentinel has been re coin promises a better yield than the quested to announce that Senator Jas. first plantings, he said. ' F. Byrnes will address the voters of ' * * * j thi 3 section of the State at n meet- x " el1 Kaby Cbnic. ing to be held in the Carolina Theatre ' at Orangeburg on Tuesday, July 21st, The Barnwell County Health officer ab n o'clock a. m. Senator Byrnes calls attention to the Well Baby Clinic W as unable to attend the regularly which is held on the third Friday in scheduled campaign meetings in Barn- cach month at the health office in the W ell, Orangeburg and other counties. Court House in Barnwell. Friday, the and thi 8 special meeting will give the Mr. Jernigen officiated and >he body lith inst., is the date for the next clinic voter 8 an opportunity to hear for this county and all mothers are ■ ♦ ^ ♦ ... urged o bring their well babies to Misses Grace and Ann Barker are wa s laid to rest in the adjoining ceme tery. Pallbearer s were Blease Har ley, Clyde Harley, Elmtr Gi’es, Idis this clinic. Excellent results are be- spending some time with their cousia. Black and Bennii Morris. jing obtained fiom these clinics. ( Miss Ann Mabry, at Campobello.