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TBITS TO OOBSELVSS, OUR NEIGHBORS. OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD.
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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.
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Makes Appeal
For Funds
McCORMICK IS ONE OF COUV-
TIES WHICH HAD NO PAT
IENTS IN SANATORIUM AS
RECORDS WERE STUDIED
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.