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May 19, 1932 j> 'JMcCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMlCK. SOUTH GAROLINA r f’AGE NUMBER EIGHT S*#; - L- Ik POLITICAL CARDS For Supervisor I hereby announce my candidacy for Supervisor of McCormick County, subject to the rules ^ind regulations of the Democratic pri mary. I shall highly appreciate your support and influence and promise to faithfully perform the duties of the office if elected J. P. TALp: Plum Branch, S. C. For Supervisor . ■■i.— I hereby announce my candidacy for re-election as Supervisor of Mc Cormick County, subject to the rules and regulations of the Demo cratic primary. Your support and Influence shall be highly appre ciated. I promise, if re-elected, to continue to render honest and efficient service and give due con sideration to the needs and re- quirments of the county. W. O. GRAVES. Scene of the Kidnapping of the Lindbergh Baby ms mmm m mm twsii nil pi fe SSI » ii hi i in BRITAIN CLAIMS FASTEST PLANES Kaval Fighting Cfaft Have Elaborate Equipment. H ii ii !l ■■■■■:>&<£,* Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., 20 months old, was stolen from the new home of his parents at Hopewell, N- J. A rough ladder was placed at the window of the baby’s sleeping room, marked “A” in the picture, and the infant taken from his crib. The ladder was later found at "B” while footprints were discovered at the point “C.” , For Supervisor I hereby announce my candidacy for Supervisor of McCormick Coun ty, subject to the rules and regula tions of the Democratic primary. I promise, if elected, to render hon est and efficient service and give due consideration to the needs and acquirements of each section of the county. Your support and influ ence shall be highly appreciated. G. H. McCAIN. Linjdbergh Baby’s Dead Body Found Close Parents’ Home For Magistrate I hereby announce my candidacy for magistrate of the McCormick Magisterial District, subject to the rules and regulations Qf the Demo cratic party, I shall highly appre ciate all support and influence I ^receive in the coming primary. J. B. HOLLOWAY. For Magistrate I hereby announce my candidacy for re-election to the office of Mag- ' istrate of the McCormick Magis terial District, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary, and ahall highly appreciate the support and influence of the voters of this district. H. C. WALKER. For Magistrate I announce myself as a candidate for Magistrate of McCormick Mag isterial District, and pledge myself to abide by the rules and regula tions of the Democratic party. I respectfully appeal to the voters for their support and influence and shall highly appreciate the same. E. H. MILLER. County Commissioner r . I hereby announce my candidacy for re-election to the office of County Commissioner of McCor mick County, subject to the rules and regulations of the Democratic primary. Your support shall be highly appreciated. R. N. EDMUNDS. NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLE MENT AND DISCHARGE On June the tenth, 1932, at ten o’clock a. m., I will make a final settlement as administrator of the estate of F. L. Moragne, in the Probate Judge’s office in McCor mick and ask for a final discharge. All persons holding claims should present them properly attested be fore that date, all;persons indebted to same shotild make settlement with ^he undersigned. J. E. MORAGNE, Administrator. May 13th, 1932.—4t. ( Tax Notice /ill taxes unpaid Juns 1st will go ir‘ * execution with 7 per cent pen alty and costs added. T. J. PRICE, County Treasurer. The baby son of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh was found dead on Thursday, May 12. The child had been murdered very likely soon af ter he was taken from his little crib. The body lying face down in a depression and partly covered with dead leaves was discovered by a Negro truck driver in a patch of woods in the Sourland Mountains less than five miles from the Lind bergh home near Hopewell N. J. The discovery was made by acci dent when the driver walking into the woods from the road, found what he thought was a child’s foot sticking out of the ground and notified the police. The identifica tion followed quickly. The news instantly aroused the sympathy and the indignation of the whol? world. President Hoover Announced that all of the forces of the United States government would be directed toward the dis covery and arrest of the murderers. He said: “I have directed the law enforce ment agencies and the several se cret services of the Federal Gov ernment to make the kidnaping and murder of the Lindbergh baby a live and never-to-be-forgotten case, never to be relaxed until these criminals are implacably brought to justice.” The New Jersey State police and the numerous detective agencies which had been engaged in the search for the missing baby boy had been forced to move cautious ly because of the fear that the kid napers would kill the infant if they found themselves hard pressed. But as soon as it was certain that the worst had happened there was an instant tightening of the lines and the most determined man-hunt in American history was begun. It was apparent that the child had been killed soon after he was stolen from his crib in the nursery on the night of March 1. Whether he had been killed with calculat ing purpose by criminals who found it advantageous to them to get rid jf the child or whether he had been thrown there by kidnapers ’Iceing in panic was not determin ed. m m A \ .x vm London.—Britain’s aircraft carriers, “Furious" and “Courageous,” now house what are claimed to be the fast ed airplane fighters of any of the world's great navies. Known as Hawker “Nimrods” these new machines fly .at 200 miles an hour and climb to great heights at rocket like speed. They are replacing ob solete craft in the fleet equipment. Certain components in the new planes are strengthened to withstand the shocks imposed by the use of a catapult which can send a* machine from stationery to 00 miles an hour in three seconds. They are land planes with wheels and no seaplane floats, but in order to protect them against the worst results of an emer gency landing on water, flotation bags fill the after portion of the fuselage and flotation boxes are placed between the ribs and spars inside the wings. They are fitted with more elaborate navigational equipment than their predecessors and carr.v wireless and additional lighting equipment for the purpose of assisting the pilot to find the carrier after a flight in haze or cloud. The “Nimrods” are powered with single Rolls-Royce “Kestrel”’ motors, similar in construction to the 2,300 horse power and'2,600 horse power racing engines fitted to Britain's rec ord-breaking Schneider Trophy en gines, but of only 480 horse power. Thos. J. Minor Died Thursday . — SUCCUMBS TO ILLNESS AT HSS HOME IN CAMBRIDGE SECTION :<xS=e$ Mill.,, CHARLES A LINDBERGH, JR. tion and size of the skull, the num ber and formation of the teeth and the peculiarly twisted toes identical with those of the Lindbergh child. Though the search had extended up and down the Atlantic coast, had stretched from one border of the United States to the other, and even had included m&ny cities in Europe, the child had been lying all those weeks near thie home from which he had been stolen, and on ly a little more than a mile from Hopewell, N. J., the centre of much of the activity surrounding the case. The place where the body was found is on the downward slope of a hill directly across the valley from the Lindbergh home. Before Colonel Lindbergh’s new home was built, he and Mrs. Lindbergh lived for a time within a mile of the place wfcere their child was to meet his death. Col. Lindbergh was away from home when the body of his son was found. He had been for several days on a yacht, searching for an other yacht on which, he had been informed, the little boy was held prisoner. Mrs. Lindbergh and her mother, Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow, were at home. Mrs. Lindbergh will The body showed the marks of be a mother again in August, it was FOR SALE—Cabbage, Tomato and Bermuda Onion Plants, $1.00 per 1000. Pepper, Sweet Potato and Egg Plants $1.50 per 1000. Prompt ' shipment. DORRIS PLANT CO., [^yaldosta, Ga. _ wo fractures of the skull oho on "he left side and the other on the right. The latter was a hole a half inch in diameter. “Unquestionably it was a brutal murder,” said Dr. Charles H. Mit chell, County Physician of Mercer County, after he had completed an autopsy. The condition of the body indi cated that the child had been dead at least two months, and there was a strong possibility that he had been killed on the very night of the kidnaping. Positive identification of the baby’s body was furnished by Bet ty Gow, the nursemaid, about whom so much interest in the case centered immediately after the oa- by’s disappearance. The garments found on the body were taken to he Lindbergh home and examined oy Miss Gow there. She positively identified the shirt and the waist band as those of the baby whom she had taken care of and to whom she was devoted. The sleeping suit which the baby wore when he was •stolen was missing. Col. Lind bergh also identified the body. Dr. Van Nigen of New York, the child’s physician, found the meas urements of the body, the forma- stated by her family. was warped. In the nursery on a cedar chest, just beneath the window, the kid napers left a note, the exact con tents of which had been kept care fully secret. It had been reported .and .not denied, however, that missive promised the child would be cared for and demanded a ran som of $50,000. While the entire nation, from President Hoover down, was shock ed by the crime and assurances of co-ordinated vigilance came from every branch of Federal, State and local law-enforcing agencies, the first few days of the anguished hunt brought forth nothing but a flood of wild rumors, false leads and crank letters. On April 2 Colonel Lindbergh paid $50,000 in small notes in a lonely spot in the Bronx to a man who had convinced him he was in touch with the kidnapers, but the baby was not returned. X Many Hawks Beneficial The saying, “the only good hawk is a dead hawk,” has been proven false by modern biological studies. Some hawks, of course, prey at times on poultry and valuable The kidnaping of Charles Au- game birds. Many, however, live gustus Lindbergh, Jr., 20-month- mainly on rodents, insects, and old son of Colonel Lindbergh and other destructive forms of wild life, the former Anne Morrow, from the It is not easy to distinguish be- isolated Lindbergh home on Sour- tween the harmful and harmless land Mountain, near Hopewell, N. species of hawks, that in itself be- J., occurred between 8:30 and 10 ing good reason for erring, if at all o’clock on the evening of Tuesday, on the side of protection. In gen- March 1. In the days and hours eral, say biologists of the United which elapsed before the solution States Department of Agriculture, of the mystery virtually the entire harmless hawks have broad wings civilized world followed every de- and wide, fan-shaped tails, and the velopment with unparalleled con- harmful ones have relatively long cern. jt. ils and rounded wings. Study While the search was spreading ci the appearance and habits of throughout North America and the hawks in any section should then to Europe and South America,’ 0 a ble farmers and sportsmen tc with ships being searched on both <l( * which are likely to visit the the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, c iC ken yard and which will con- the child’s body was lying within i:rie themselves largely to feeding five miles of his crib. i c 1 injurious animals. The discovery that the baby was Wanton destruction of all hawks Draw Up Rules for Air Flights in the Orient Washington.—New regulations gov erning foreign flights in Japan and China have been passed following the Herndon-Pangborn difficulty, which led to a “minor” diplomatic issue. The Department of Commerce has been advised that permission for flight over Japanese territory must be ob tained in advance for each flight, as well as instructions outlining the route to be followed. Instructions must also be obtained in advance for each place of landing and taking off. In China details of proposed flights must be given to the Chinese govern ment one month in advance, and per mission of the Chinese government awaited. Besides obtaining the Chinese gov ernment’s approval one month in ad vance, airmen desiring to fly foreign airplanes into China must also inform the ministry of foreign affairs at Nan king five days prior to entering Chit- nese territory. Permission to carry arms and muni tions for self-defense may be given if? reasons are stated. Thomas J. Minor, 73-year-old: far mer of the Cambridge section, dL:Kl i at 10 o’clock yesterday morning af ter an illness of two weeks; vas; a very successful farmer and his: community feels a deep loss euvst' his passing. Besides his widow, who was MLss. Emma Bullock, of Ninety Six. he; is survived by two daugiitecs,- Mrs.. G. R. Bevan, of Bayonne, N. J.; and Miss Mamie Lee Minor, of Sanford,. Florida. Also three sons: T. G_ * Minor, R. H. Minor and R. C. Min or, all of Ninety Six. One brother; Rufus Minor,* of Batesburg. and a. sister, Mrs. Will Stewart, of Ninety Six, also survive. The funeral services were hefcf this afternoon at 4 o’clock at thee Ninety Six cemetery, conducted by the Rev. W. S. Porter, of Ninety: Six.—Greenwood Index-Journal, of 13th instant. New, Machine .Take# Fight Out oi Bulls Corvallis, Ore.—Designed to take the fight, out of -pugnacious dairy bulls, a machine designed by J. J. Van Kleek, Beaverton, Ore., has won the approv al of the Oregon experimental station here. The machine is equipped with a long overhead sweep operated by a mo tor attached to a reversible gear de vice. The bull is led through a half circle, turned around, led back, re turned, with the operation repeated until Mr. Bull becomes completely do cile. Milk and Orange Juice Aid Children’s Weight Sacramento, Calif. — The practice of serving milk to pupils in Sacra mento elementary schools as a mid forenoon “lunch” has been augmented* to include a small’ bottle of pure orange juice. Tins new 7 plan was included in the campaign against malnutrition of children, when , ex periments indicated that the gain in weight of a child taking both orange juice and milk is double that of the child that takes only one or tlie other of the liquids. Popcorn Raising State Boasts of Bumper Crop Washington.—Things are popping out in Iowa. That state leads the country in producing popcorn. Sac county, Iowa, raises more popcorn than any other United States county. Av erage acreage in this product in Iowa, from 1921 to 1930 was 25,684. Ne braska ranks second. Most popcorn is grown on contract, thus making the marketing as important as the grow ing. •') missing was made by Miss Betty ^ cause a few members ol the fam- Gow, 26-year-old Scottish nurse, 1 7 have earned a bad reputation who had put the child to sleep in 1 v a i° vc s a valuable natural check his crib at 8 o’clock. The youngster 011 injurious pests - was sleeping soundly when she looked in at 8:30 o’clock, but the A celery ranch near Stockton, crib was empty when she returned Cal., marketed more than $4,000,- at 10. Muddy footprints were vis- °00 worth of celery in a year. ible on the floor between the crib and a window, the shutter of which Laundries use approximately 52,- could not be fastened because it 000 bales of cotton yearly. Lost City in India Upsets Aryan Belief London.—The old theory that civilization was brought to India by the Aryans lias been upset by the accidental discovery of a lost city dating from 3000 B. C., says Sir Edward A. Gait, chair man of the Royal Society of Arts. It. D. Banerji, of the Indian archeological department, while exploring in the lower Indus val ley, found ruins built on the site of an older settlement. A great variety of ancient re mains were found, including seals with legends in an unknown pie- tographic script resembling A hose found at Susa in Persia. 92 mum. FOR SALE—One 5 gallon MiTyJK Cow, butter in proportion, five years old. Doesn't go dry. Cheap- for ready sale. Mrs. R. E?. Mass, Troy, S. C. fipa. GRAIN CUTTING—I have a trac tor-binder outfit and am in posi tion to cut oats and other graft* for the public. Jamie L. Smith, McCormick, S. C. CERTIFIED “ Porto" Rico Potato Plants ready for shipment, $1.00 per thousand delivered to your mail box. References rum Bradstreet or Baxley State Bank. Lowe & Jarman, Baxley, Ga. LOST—Two year old pointer dog, white with brown spots; name Bob. J. T. McGrath, McCormick. S. C. FOR SALE—Three good Milch Cows, or trade for good mule, or dry cattle. R. A. Buch anan, Parksville, S. C. FOR SALE—Planting. Cotton Seed r Coker No. 5 at 25 cents per bushel at Holley’s Corner, W. C. Hqlley, Plum Branch, S. C. 3tpo_ WANTED—100 Good Milk Cows ex pected to freshen soon, 1st, 2nd, or 3rd calf. Price must be right. Greenwood Packing Greenwood, S. C. AH' Kmds of guns pistols fixed by G. T. BAUGHMAN. repaired apt President Shot! Si ill m Paul Doumcr, President of Frxnoe, who was killed by a Russian 'lunatic. He was 75 years old, son of a railroad' worker, and had been President oertjr cne year. THINGS WORTH KNOWING A fog is a cloud close to the eartti. Some of the wild tulips of are scarcely taller and bigger tharr che crocus. Ancient Chinese documents were re ietimes signed by finger printer ir:pressed into clay seals. :Tuth Carolina ranks second, in t. packing of oysters. Gas and smoke from autotno- biies are seriously damaging many Df the shade trees on city streets.