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4 i t % ' ' JllrCartnirit ill csscnact* • TRUK TO OURSELVES, OUR NEIGHBORS, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD. g ... \ Thirty-First Year , Established June 5, 1902 McCORMICK, S. C. . Thursday, June 23, 1932 8 Pages - All Home Print Number 3 Sessions Court Convened Monday CIVIL COURT OPEN*™ WEDNES DAY MORNING / The June term of court of gen eral sessions for McCormick Coun ty convened here Monday morning with Hon. C. J. Ramage, of Saluda, judge of this circuit, presiding, and all officers of the court at their posts of duty. No cases were tried except jail cases, and sessions court lasted only one day. Civil court, which convened yesterday morning, will very likely run two or three days. Cases in sessions court were disposed of as follows: The State vs. George Martin, col ored, charge, disposing of property under lien. Nol pressed. The State vs. Frank Haskell, col ored, charge, larceny. Not hand ed to grand jury. The State vs. B. Belcher, colored, charge, house breaking and larceny. Pleads guilty and sentenced to one year in penitentiary. The State vs. Walter Taggart and Rube Martin, colored, charge, mur der. True bill. Continued. The State vs. John Wesley Tur man and James (Jack) Washing ton, colored, charge, murder. John Wesley Turman found guilty of manslaughter, and sentenced to 2 years in reformatory. James (Jack) Washington, received directed ver dict of not guilty by the court. The State vs. Kelley Quarles, col ored, charge, assault and battery. 'True bill found. Continued. The State vs. Thomas (T.) Tal bert, colored, charge, assault and battery with intent to kill. Pleads guilty and sentenced to peniten tiary for 9 months. The State vs. Charlie Gay, col ored, charge, house breaking and larceny. Pleads guilty and is sen tenced to 2 1-2 years in peniten tiary. The State vs. Grady and Willie Freeman, colored, charge, house breaking and larceny at night time. Plead guilty and sentenced to 2 1-2 years each on chaim gang. The State vs. Thomas Tompkins, colored, charge, violation of prohi bition law. Notr handed to grand jury- The State vs. Rosco Gaddy, white, charge, possession of still. Not handed to grand jury. The State vs. John Freeman, Tim Freeman, John Wiggleton, Norwood Wells and John Mac Gilchrist, col ored, charge, house breaking and larceny at night time. True bill as to all. Continued. The State VS. Sam'(Cripple) Lee, colored, charge, assault and battery with intent to kill. Not handed to grand jury. The State vs. Paul Jones, colored, charge, assault and battery with intent to kill. Not handed to grand jury- • *Hae State vs. Willie Marshall, colored, charge, housebreaking and larceny. Pleads guilty and sen tenced to 3 months on chain gang. The State vs. Ben Matthis, col ored, charge, assault and battery of high and aggravated nature with intent to kilh Nol prossed. r x i A landscape expert explains that pine trees are naturally large, and therefore are not adapted to grow close to a house or for hedges. Report Of The Grand Jury STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of McCormick. To His Honor, Judge C. J. Ram age, presiding judge in June term of court for McCormick County, South Carolina: We, the Grand Jury, beg to make the following report: We have passed on all bills and matters handed to us by the court. Our Committee on Magistrates has examined books of all Mag istrates of the County and find the same neatly kept and in order and all .fines have been accounted for in the Treasurer’s Office. The other various Committees ap pointed at the February term of court will make their report at the October term. We wish to thank his Honor and all Court Officials for their court esies. J. L. BRACKNELL, Foreman. This the 20th day of June, 1932. txi Eight McCormick s At Ft. Moultrie * . 14 Alfred Emanuel Smith Boys WILL RECEIVE FOUR WEEKS TRAINING AT HISTORIC FORT ■SS: ■'•■•vWii -sV**- Launching his political career as a clerk in the offices of the Commissioner oi Jurors in N. City, 1895, he rose steadily. Member N. Y. Assembly, 1903; Democratic Assembly Leader, 1911; Speaker, 1913; Sheriff, X. Y County, 1915; President, Board of Aldermen, 1917; Four times Governor of New York, 1919 to 1928, and Democratic candidate for president, 1928. Born N. Y. City, Dec, 30, 1873; Married, Catherine Dunn, N. Y., 1900; The New Tax, Effective June 21st -IXt- Ncbraskan To Paris Mary Virginia Louis, Omaha, Neb.. is now in Paris, sent by Gov. Bryan to assist in dedication of . Pershing Memorial this month, r Eight local youths are attending the Citizens Military Training Camp at Fort Moultrie, S. C. They are William J. Britt, Welbourn M. Schumpert, Emory R. Bentley, Mil- ton E. Walker, John T. McGrath, James A. Lyon, Eddie W. Callison, and John Sullivan. The local youths are members of a contingent of approximately 750 trainees from South Carolina and Georgia who will receive four weeks training at historic Fort Moultrie. Immediately upon arrival at camp'the trainees were given a rigid medical examination to de termine their fitness for the course of instruction. Following this they were issued uniforms, great care be ing taken to see that the shoes und other apparel fit perfectly so as to present a neat appearance. After the oath had been admin istered and the trainees formally welcomed to Fort Moultrie by Col onel G. M. Allen, 8th Infantry, Tuesday they were assigned to vari ous companies and organized into squads and platoons with leaders selected from the more advanced course members. A balanced .interesting and pro fitable schedule has been arranged in the court of instruction which the trainees will undergo. Formal instruction in physical develop ment, citizenship, studies, hygiene and sanitation, military drill and rifle practice is given five hours each day. The remainder of the day will be devoted to organized athletics and entertainment. Spec ial officers have been detailed to have charge of the athletics. These officers will organize baseball and other ’eagues and plan company and inter-company competition. In addition to baseball; swiinming, volley ball, rowing, tennis, track and field events, riding, boxing and wrestling will be participated in by the trainees. The finest features of Citizens’ Military Training Camps has been declared by civilian and military leaders alike to be the spirit of typical American Democracy which does not prevail in the average summer camp. The instructors at Moultrie are especially selected regular army and reserve officers. No fear need be felt, however, that militaristic ideas will be implanted in the training of these youths, it is declared. Thirty-two reserve officers of the 323d Infantry, who were carefully Cameras pay a 10 per cent tax un selected from a standpoint of cap- der the new law. ability, character and fitness will; The automobile tax of three per have charge of the training for the cent will make a difference of $30 first two weeks of camp. Colonel in a thousand dollar car. Tires will Thomas J. Wyrick of Knoxville, carry a 2 1-4 per cent tax, so that Tenn., and Majors Chester C. if this tax is passed on, the dealer Staples and Jno. H. Wiggs of Chat- selling a tire that has been priced tanooga, Tenn., head the officers $10 should not charge more than list. Officers of the 8th Infantry twenty-five cents advance. But will have charge of the final two there is also a tax of four cents a weeks of camp. . , . pound on tires and inner tubes. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 20.— Probably what the average man v/ants to know most about what Congress has already completed is: Hew does it affect me individual ly? Well, the new tax bill affects ev erybody. In theory, some of the manufacturers’ taxes are supposed to be absorbed by the trade, but in practice, all taxes are passed on to the ultimate consumer. There is a tax on soft drinks, for example, and the consumer is going to pay it whenever he buys even a bottle of soda pop, perhaps not by paying more, but maybe by getting less for his 'nickle. Every time anybody buys a watch or a piece of jewelry or any kind of sporting goods, he is going to pay more for them. Those taxes and many of the oth ers are effective as of June 21st of this year. The average citizen is going to pay some of them in his monthly electric light bill, which Will carry a 3 per cent tax. On every long distance telephone mes sage costing more than fifty cents he will pay ten cents or more, ac cording to the distance. Tele grams now cost us all five per cent more. If your local movie theatre charges more than forty cents the tax is one cent on every ten cents above forty cents. If you have a bank account, every check you write will cost you two cents, which will be charged against your ac count by the bank. Beginning on the 6th of July every letter will cost three cents instead of two. The married man with one child with a net income of $3,000 has not had to pay any income tax the last few years. Next year he will have to pay the treasury $4, because his persona] exemption has been re duced from $3500 to $2500. If he cams $4,000 in 1932 his income tax payable next year will be $44 in stead of $16.88 which he paid this year. Almost every state has a gasoline tax, and everybody is used to pay ing it. It runs up to 6 cents a gal lon in some states. But now on top of that the government is going to charge manufacturers of gasoline one cent a gallon. If your family uses cold cream, lipstick or other cosmetics, they will cost 10 per cent mere, but toothpastes and toliet soaps carry only a 5 per cent tax. Two Cattle Clubs Are Progressive Boll Weevil Infestation Heavy CHECK UP BY COUNTY AGENT SHOWS FROM 60 TO 800 WEEVILS PER ACRE A check-up this week by County Agent E. L. Rogers in fields in five different sections of the county shows that boll weevils are present In numbers ranging from 60 to ap proximately 300 per acre. Mr. Rogers says that those who expect to fight the weevil should start before the squares are large -enough to puncture, mopping with the 1-1-1 mixture (1 lb. calcium ar senate,*1 gallon water, 1 gallon mo lasses). This mixture should be applied 2 to 3 times on small cotton, de pending upon infestation, at 5 to 7 day intervals. With weather conditions favor able for weevils, the number we now have is g, serious menace to our crops unless they are killed before many squares form. 1XX Nearly $90,000 Goes To Counties COLLECTIONS ON INSURANCE LICENSE FEES JERSEY AND GUERNSEY CLUBS FOSTER PROGRAM TOUCH ING DAIRY PROBLEMS CLEMSON COLLEGE, June' 18.— The South Carolina Jersey Cattle club and the South Carolina Guernsey Cattle club, through re cent similar reorganization plans, are fostering a program which touches all aspects of the dairy men’s problems, says C. G. Cush man, extension dairy specialist, who states that through the county unit plan of organization sponsor ed by both these organizations, special attention is being paid ta owners of grade cattle which, of course, embraces every dairy farm er. These organizations realize that to breed good grade cattle and particularly to raise the produc tive capacity of grade cattle calls for use of well selected purebred dairy bulls with proven ancestry, thus creating a market for the pro duct of the breeder, as well as a new and more profitable market for grade cows—a great factor in the income of the dairy farmer. The breeders recognize, too, that the dairy farmer is always a potential market for good purebred females, and thus again it is to the inter est of the breeders to promote the well-being of the grade cattle breeder. These association® are directing particular attention also to studies of feed-growing programs and the preparation and feeding of these home-grown feeds. This phase of the dairy farmer’s problems will be attacked through the extension ser vice dairy schools, which deal com prehensively with the growing, pre paration, and uses of home-grown :eeds. Marketing is another project which has been under serious dis cussion by the clubs which fee’ that there are some fundamenta 1 changes imminent in the market ing of dairy products in this state, particularly the marketing of fluid milk in the primary markets, re garding improvement in quality, simplification of distribution and elimination of duplications in dis tribution, adminstraton of the statewide and city milk ordinances, education of the consuming public to the value of dairy products, etc. This may point the way to com modity organization of a more defi nite character which will deal with the major problems of the dairy farmer in a material and beneficial way. XXJ An inquisitive scribe wants to know what they do with all the red flannel that they used to put into petticoats. There’s just this much to it, they don’t put it in more pet ticoats. . Collections on additional insur ance license fees, to the amount of $89,190.30, have been turned over to the state treasurer for distribution among the counties in South Caro lina, it was announced Monday by Sam B. King, state insurance com missioner, says The State of Tues day. The fees are based on prem iums collected by insurance com panies for the semi-annual period which ended December 31, 1931. The funds will be distributed as follows: Abbeville $ 694.11 Aiken 1,732.59 Allendale 296.94 Anderson 4,316.57 Bamberg — 674.25 Barnwell 530.47 Beaufort 611.96 Berkeley 334.67 Calhoun 385.63 Charleston 12,527.36 Cherokee 1,199.94 Chester 1,848.02 Chesterfield 893.02 Clarendon 594.31 Colleton 627.75 Darlington 2,037.68 Dillon' - 803.04 Dorchester 465.43 Edgefield 588175 Fairfield 625.11 Florence 3,798.58 Georgetown 711.83 Greenville 9,198.76 Greenwood 2,482.27 Hampton 592.19 Horry 658.62 Jasper 156.43 Kershaw 1,159.24 Lancaster 1,056.01 Laurens 1.670.78 Lee 570.60 Lexington 1,121.32 McCormick 225.<k Marion 1,149.57 Marlboro 1,130.30 Newberry 1,310.01 Oconee 748.38 Orangeburg — 2,365.If Pickens 851.18 Richland ^10,602.31 Saluda 399.96 Spartanburg 7,392.H Sumter 2,774.73 Union 1,380.1c Williamsburg 709.31 York 2,987.56 Totals $89,190.30 XX* Democratic Executive Committee Called To Meet Here Saturday There will be a meeting of the Democratic Executive Committee at the court house Saturday morning, June 25, at 10 o’clock. All com mitteemen are urged to be present. J. ARCH TALBERT, County Chairman. J. O. PATTERSON, Secretary. Edgefield Legion Post Plans Big Rally BARBECUE WILL BE SERVED AT HOLLINGSWORTH PLAY GROUNDS EDFEFIELD, June 20.—A decided change has been made in the plan:? of Post 30 of the American Legion, for its big rally, Friday, June 24th. Instead of having the barbecue at 2 o’clock, it will be served at 4:3© at Hollingsworth’s Play Groumtv two miles north of Edgefield on the. Dixie Highway. Indications point to a heavy at tendance by Ex-Service men, es pecially in view of the fact, that this meeting will be a “pep” meet ing for the State Convention of Use Legion which meets in Aiken, Jul« 3rd, 4th and 5th. Immediately after the barbecu? to which the public generally is in vited speaking will be held in fcht pavilion on the picnic grounds State Com. Harry M. Arthur of U2>- ion, and Audley H. Ward, Com. at Aiken Post have accepted invita tions to deliver addresses. It is ex pected that Gov. Blackwood wifi al so speak. The Legion Drum Corps of gusta, Ga., will attend the rally and in addition to playing during Use- rally will give a Concert on the public Square in Edgefield aboufc- 7:30 p. m. The Legion men are hard at work on their minstrel which will be pro duced under the direction of a pro fessional trainer. A contract has been signed with Fulcher’s Orches tra of Augusta, Ga., to play durinf the minstrel and for the dance afr terwards. The Edgefield Legion, men are endeavoring to put on this big rally at a minimum cost to Leg ionnaires throughout the Stale- Tickets to the barbecue will be 5* cents for men, and 25 cents Jor ladies and children. The admis^ sion to the minstrel will be 35 ceais for grown people and 25 cents lar children. The price of the dance- will be $1.00. „ This is the third big Legion rai^r which Post 30 has sponsored- Thf- two preceding meetings were at tended by several hundred Ex-Ser vice men, and this year it is ex^ pected that equally as many Ley- ion men will attend as heretofore and also citizens generally are in vited to attend the Legion men wiK probably entertain over five hund red people. As heretofore announced reams- will be provided at the Dixie High way hqtel in Edgefield for the con venience of visitors. There will bfr no charge for this accommcdaticiK. and a committee of Legion men and ladies of the Auxiliary will be pres ent to receive the visitors. JAS. O. SHEPPARD. Chairman Publicity Commille* txs State Democratic Fund Near $2,000 COLUMBIA, June 18.—Approxi mately $1,750 has been collected in South Carolina for the Democratic victory campaign, Senator V. €. Dooper, Jr., secretary of the drive,,. ;aid today. Several counties remain to b? heard from, he said. X— Heads Presbyterians | Dr. Charles W. Kerr, Tulsa, Okfe, who succeeds Dr. L. S. Mudge, Phila delphia, as head of the Presbortenm Church in the U. S.