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SMS** I V TBITS TO OOBSELVSS, OUR NEIGHBORS. OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD. T * * Thirtieth Year Established June 5, 1902 McCORMICK, S. C. Thursday, July 9, 1931 8 Pages — All Home Print Number 6 S. C. Power And Rate Investigating Committee At Work No Tree or Fence in Sight By Albert T. Reid MEMBERS SAY ALL INVESTIGA TIONS WILL BE THOROUGH, ' FAIR AND IMPARTIAL COLUMBIA. July 7.—Last week The South Carolina Power Rate Investigating Committee completed its initial organization and its technical division already has as sembled a great deal of data and records and has begun to correlate and study them, according to a statement by W. J. Comiack, ex ecutive secretary of the committee. The committee, composed of Tom B. Pearce, of Columbia, C. W/ Coker, of Hartsville, B. H. Peace, cf Greenville, H. Klugh Purdy, of Ridgeland, and E. P. Vandiver, of Anderson, recently was appointed by Governor Ibra C. Blackwood, and at its first meeting Mr. Pearce was chosen as its chairman. At its second meeting Mr. Cormack of Columbia was elected executive secretary. Major Arthur R. Well- wood of Columbia chief engineer, and S. P. Darlington of Edgefield, Major Wellwcod’s assistant. Of fices were opened at 1325 Main Street, this city. The committee emphatically stated that all investigations will be thorough, fair and impartial. Its general policy, adopted last week, provides for an investigation of both power and domestic rates to determine their fairness and uniformity and of the capital structures of the companies in volved; also to determine the con nection between power producing companies and theh* distributing agents, and the physical values of all properties coming within the scope of the enquiry. Regulatory laws will be examined to ascertain their effect upon consumers and distributors of power. An analysis will be made of the taxes imposed by the State and its political sub divisions to find whether or not they are excessive or unreasonable. The Committee included in its gen eral policies the decision to strike a comparison between the power generated and consumed within the State, and to ascertain whether ‘•dump” power is ever cut off or interrupted to discourage its use. *\HCWU>S«> 5ST Of JVUWMENj X A f. B. Association Makes Appeal For Funds McCORMICK IS ONE OF COUV- TIES WHICH HAD NO PAT IENTS IN SANATORIUM AS RECORDS WERE STUDIED AOToC^. S T« Mrs. Kennedy Dowtin Succumbs To Illness We mourn the untimely death of Mrs. Nell Coleman Dowtin who died at her home near Troy, S. C., on July 2nd, and was interred at Troy Cemetery. Troy, S. C.. July 3rd, Rev. J. H. Buzhardt officiating. Mrs. Dowtin was a member of 3 very prominent family of Fairfield County where .she lived and receiv ed her high school education. She was graduated frem Winthrop Col lege in June 1910, and afterwords successfully taught in Fairfield Lee, Newberry and McCormick Counties. She was married to Mr Kennedy Dowtin cf near Troy, S. C., on February 10th, 1916. Mrs. Dowtin was very active in civic and religious affairs, having been president of Farm Women’s Coun cil for McCormick County unti’ her death, and also very active in Red Cross and community work within her county. Her domestic life was exemplary, beautiful and happy; and she was a very devoted lovely and accomplished Christian wife with unusual ability and busi ness judgment; as a teacher she trained many pupils who attained high honors in the educational line. Mrs. Dowtin was a very de vout member of the Presbyterian church and was, at all times, very r<tive in church affairs. Besides her husband, Mr. Ken- n< dy Dowtir of Troy, S. C., the de ceased is survived by three sisters, Misses Carrie, Edith and Sarah Coleman of Shelton, S. C. x Direct sunlight injures leather of certain types. Keep leather-bound books, leather-upholstered . furni ture, and other leather articles destined for long service out of di rect sunlight. - < E. L.*Hollingsworth Died Early Monday ' Funeral services for Ernest Holl- i ingsworth, Sr., were held at the Bethany Baptist church Tuesday j morning at 10 o’clock, Rev. Leon T. j Pressly of the A. R. P. church of ficiating. Interment with Masonic rites followed in the churchyard. Mr. Hollingsworth died at his home near Bethany early Monday morning following a long illness. He recently had been at an Au gusta sanitarium and upon his re turn it was thought that his con dition was very much improved. During the past several weeks, however, he has steadily declined. He was a merchant-planter and one of the leading citizens of the county. Besides his widow, Mrs. Mattie Hollingsworth, he is survived by one son, Ernest Hollingsworth, Mc Cormick, and five daughters, Mrs. W. E. Zenker, Lexington, and Misses Elizabeth, Kathleen, Fran ces and Estelle Hollingsworth,' all of McCormick; one brother, W. C. -Hollingsworth, MeCormick, also survives. Pallbearers were Messrs. M. C. White, L. G. Bell, Hamp 'Miner, Wallace V/hite, I. C. Reams and Tom Mayson. J. S. Strom’s service in charge. Robinson Named On Probe Group COLUMBIA, July 7.—Frank C. Robinson, of McCormick and Co lumbia, a member of the state tax commission, today was named by W. G. Query, chairman, to rep resent that body on the new motor transportation investigating com mittee. , Robinson’s selection brings the personnel of the commission to three of its five members. John H. Nance and J. E. Beureguard were appointed last week to repre sent the railroad commission. Two members of the highway commis sion are yet to be named. The investigators are to inquire into rates, income and expenses, of transportation companies and re port to the 1932 general assembly. The question of taxation of such companies was widely discussed during the past session of the leg islature. - WASHINCTON BY RADFORD. MOBUPY (Special to The Messenger.) Burning the midnight oil is more expensive than it once was. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 7.— (Autocaster)—The weeks that have elapsed since President Hoover made his notable suggestion for a debt moratorium to the European governments have served only to strengthen his position. When a week later he backed it up by a suggestion to the Federal Farm Board that it withhold its surplus of wheat until the domestic price had gained a satisfactory level, he only added to his prestige. In both moves he has dohe what the country has been demanding of him; assume active leadership. Mr. Hoover has never been accused of acking force, but many observers had come to wonder whether his lifetime habit of proceeding as the head of a big business was not handicapping him as far as results were concerned. Acting as head cf a concern staffed with politicians is far different from initiating the policies of a private business con cern, and his attempt to adapt his old methods is said by many here to have been the cause for many of his decisions that have aroused criticism. Twice within a month he has broken through red tape, each time his action being met with such a storm of approval that it will undoubtedly hearten him to similar actions. As Will Rogers, one of the most astute of all commen tators on public officials, says, the coming campaign is almost certain to be a contest between Hoover and Curtis, on one side, and Gov. Roosevelt and some running mate on the other. The strong tide that is setting in in favor of Vice President Curtis’ renomination threatens to over turn one political precedent—that no vice president ever succeeds himself. In the 150 years of this government there has always been a different vice president every four years and Curtis, if he is re-elected, will hold a unique hon or. His choice is by no means sure, as political trades for votes for the head of the ticket at next summer’s convention may return him to his Kansas prairies. John J. Raskob, the executive head of the Democratic Party who has just ’ returned frem a three months’ trip to Europe, has no thing but praise for President Hoover’s debt proposal, but de clares it has nothing to dc with the coming campaign, which will be fought on the old familiar lines of Prohibition and the tariff. What he does not say, however, is that the President has unquestionably won votes by his display of emin ent statesmanship and his evident desire to give the country the lead ership it had a right to expect from a man of his known ability. Foreign newspapers fiankly ex plain that the debt proposal means less in actual financial relief than in its psychological aspects. The first announcement resulted in a healthier tone in all business lines, including the big exchanges where the greatest sensitiveness is always shown to political moves. Stocks have kept climbing and both wholesale and retail business in this country and abroad, have shown marked improvement. No body expected an overnight return to the prosperity of 1928 so there is no feeling that the plan is mere ly ! a political gesture instead of a practical project for releasing \,he restrictions on capital, which all concede is the real cause of the present hard times, along witf drought and overproduction. The President’s attitude to wards helping out the South American republics in a financial way is another thing that is add ing to his popularity. South. America is a market that must al ways be fought for by this country Europe being actually nearer to i in sailing time than New York besides being closer in blood tier and culture. By initiating plans for financial help Mr. Hoover has made a strong bid for friendship that should result in substantial gains in trade, observers assert. The importance of such markets is best shown by the recent good will trip of the Prince of Wales to all the leading countries of South America. The need of somehting to offset the effects of his visit has been met by the President, it is considered here by government ad visers. Sam McKelvie, who recently re tired as a member of the Federal Farm Board, took occasion, on pre senting his formal resignation to the President, to outline the work the Board has accomplished in the past year. He points cut that the McCormick is one of five counties m the state which had no patients at the State Sanatorium on June 11th when the South Carolina Tu berculosis Association made a study of the records of the Sanatorium to find out which counties were successfully lining up early cases for treatment. At the time of the study there were 24 empty beds for ambulant patients at the sana torium. In the five counties hav ing no representation at the sana torium there were estimated to be nearly 600 active cases of tuber culosis. The estimate was based upon the 1930 death records which showed that 64 persons in these counties had died from tubercul osis. None of the five counties has a county nurse or any organized fight against disease. No tuber culosis clinics have been held in them this year. These counties are a part of the territory of 31 counties having no tuberculosis as sociation in which the South Caro lina Tuberculosis Association con ducts nursing demonstrations and holds clinics in co-operation with the State Sanatorium for the pur pose of finding early cases of tub erculosis and getting them under medical treatment. One of such cases recently found by Miss Jen nie Me Master, the Association s field nurse, was a boy of nineteen whose father and older brother had died cl tuberculosis the year be fore. Further work in the home resulted in the discovery of another active case, a young man, and one suspect, a sister ten years old. Three smaller children were ex posed to the disease. This is one of several hundred homes reached by the Association’s visiting nurs ing service in the last six months. Due to shortage of funds from the Christmas seal sale the Asso ciation’s nursing service has been temporarily suspended. This month the association is putting out a letter appealing for members in the counties needing this serv ice. ; Since postage funds are short, the association states that it will be greatly appreciated if the limited number who are receiving the letter will respond promptly and generously, and if those who have not been solicited will show their interest and desire to help by joining or contributing through this appeal in the newspapers.> Gifts should be sent to the South Carolina Tuberculosis Association 1213 Senate Street, Columbia. S. C Mr. J. C. Langley Died Here Thursdav Supt. J. B. Branch Dies Suddenly Rev. J. B. Branch, superintendent of De la Howe State School, nine miles west of McCormick, died at his home there at 11:30 o’clock last night. He had been in bad health a number of months, but it was not known that his condition, was serious, and his death comes as a distinct shock to the entire State. Mr. Branch was 49 j/’ears of age and had been superintendent of the school the past fifteen or more years. He is survived by his wife, who, before marriage, was Miss Nora Price of Pollyville, Ky., two daughters, Misses Olive and Eliza beth Branch, and one son, Bennett Branch; one brother, Hariee Branch of Atlanta, Ga., and a half brother, James Branch of Salis bury, N. C. Funeral arrangements had not been made at the time the paper went to press. txt Small Fire Today ‘ Slight damage was done to the dwelling of Mrs. Isabelle Bentley on Main Street about 9 o’clock this morning. The blaze started in a bed room ceiling, but was soon ex tinguished by the fire department, which was called out by the fire siren for the first time since the siren was installed. X — / Burton Reese Charged With Killing Hornsby KILLING OCCURRED AT HORNS BY HOME AT CLARKS HILL LAST SATURDAY RELEASED ON BOND Mr. Joseph C. Langley, aged 33 died at the home of his daughter Mrs. E. N. Creswell, here las: Thursday, following a short illness Funeral services were conductec at Long Cane A. R. P. church Fri day afternoon at 3:30 o’clock er the Rev. Leon T. Pressly, of McCor mick. Besides Mrs. Creswell, six other daughters survive as follows: Mrs Annie E. Dansjpy, Augusta; Mrs. J C. McCoyle, Greer; Mrs. Coke Burch, Greer; Mrs. Frank Reed. Anderson; Mrs. Ira Lawton, Bates- burg, and Mrs. W. D. Friddle, Greenville. A number of grand children and one great-grandchild also survive. J. S. Strom’s service in charge. Government has “undertaken suc cessfully to save the farmer from the immediate price debacle that has always followed previous per iods of economic readjustment.” The Board has eased the condition due to lowering prices in such manner as to lessen the shock to all growers, he says, arid they owe the government a debt of grati tude. Albert Hornsby, 21, of Clarks Hill, is dead and Burton Reese, brotheT- in-lrw of Hornsby, is being held in the McCormick jail as the result of the findings of a corner’s jury charging Reese with the fatal shooting. Sheriff W. T. Strom and Coroner M. L. B. Sturkey were notified and went immediately to the scene of the shooting last Saturday shortly after 11 o’clock a. m. According to testimony given at the inquest, Hornsby and Reese had an argument about 11 o’clock that morning. Mrs. Reese, Horns by’s sister, attempted to separate them and received a lick on the jaw from a stick in the hands of Hornsby, which badly lacerated her face, it was said. Hornsby was striking at Reese when he hit his sister, it was claimed. Immediately thereafter, Reese put his wife in his car to bring her to McCormick to a physician when Hornsby ran out after him .with a big stick and kept advancing on him, it is said. Reese pulled a small calibre revolver and shot him, it was said. Reese and his* family until re cently had resided in Augusta, t \i at the time of the .ratal shooting lived at Clarks Hill, having the same residence as the Hornsbys. On Sunday morning, H. T. Hornsby, Jr., took out a warrant for his father, H. T. Hornsby, £r„ charging assault with intent to kill Albert Hornsby on Saturday morn ing prior to the fatal shooting of Albert by Burton Reese. The elder Hornsby was brought to McCormick Sunday afternoon and released under bond of $390. H. C. Sanders and J. B. Bunch, oT Clarks Hill, were his bondsmen. H. T. Hornsby, Sr., has beet section foreman for the Charles ton & Western Carolina railway company at Clarks Hill for the past 20 years. Reese was released on $l,250.0f bond late Tuesday, the order hav ing been signed by Judge C. C. Featherstone of Greenwood. Bonft was secured through Reese’s at torney, W. K. Charles, of Green wood. It is understood that bail was granted on the testimony at the coroner’s inquest and the fur ther affidavit of Reese.