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THE NEWBERRY SUN
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FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1941
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PARITY EFFORTS
UPS STAPLE PRICES
New Orleans, March 28. — Reports
of a strong movement for a record
breaking appropriation for farm pari
ty payments and favorable interpre
tations of war news were influential
in sending cotton futures here today
to the highest levels since the early
part of January, 1940.
The highest prices were reached in
the early dealings when all positions
crossed the 11-cent mark.
Traders on Buying Side
Both foreign and domestic traders
were on the buying side. Their en
thusiasm was helped by reports from
Washington that the senate approved
a bill carrying $1,340,000,000 appro
priations, by persistent talk of high
er loans on the new crop and unfav
orable weather reports from the belt.
Offerings increased in the second
half of the session, however, and
early buyers took profits just at a
time when buying orders were at
their lowest ebb and prices reacted
moderately downward.
Closing quotations were steady 17
to 18 points net higher with July at
11.08-09; October at 10.99; December
at 10.96 and March at 10.93.
LARGEST IN HISTORY
Washington, March 28. —Acting
with the same speed used on defense
billions, the senate appropriations
committee today stamped approval on
a $1,340,610,744 farm bill, largest in
history.
Senator Russell (D-Ga.) who will
act as floor manager for the appro
priation in the senate Monday, said
there was “not any question” about
.senate passage.
House .May Fight It
He and other farm-minded sena
tors agreed that a fight, if any, would
come when the measure was sent
back to the house which previously
had voted only $890,000,000 for the
administration’s agricultural pro
gram.
As reported to the senate the an
nual bill supplying funds for mil
lions of farmers and their families
was $449,786,707 above the house to
tal, $444,858,773 higher than Presi
dent Roosevelt’s budget recommend
ations, and $303,651,822 above last
year’s appropriations.
As usual the bulk of funds will be
used for benefit payments to farm
ers cooperating in the administra
tion’s attempts to balance production
with, demand.
Senate Upped Figures
The house had provided $500,000,-
000 for “soil conserving payments”
and $212,000,000 for “parity pay
ments.” Senators approved the
$500,000,000 but raised the “parity”
item to $450,000,000, and then direct
ed that $150,000,000 of it be paid out
this year to cotton, wheat, com, to
bacco and rice growers complying
with the farm acts.
PART DUE THIS YEAR
Washington, March 28.—Senator
Russell (D-Ga.) disclosed today the
enactment of a committee-approved
increase in the appropriation for
parity payments would make $152,-
000,000 available for these benefits
to cotton farmers this year.
The appropriations committee ac
cepted an amendment by the Geor
gia senator increasing this year’s
parity fund to $362,000,000 and next
year’s to $300,000,000.
Congress appropriated $212,000,-
000 last year for parity payments
in 1941. A similar amount was
provided in direct appropriations and
contractual authority for next year
FOREIGN AGENTS MUST
REGISTER WITH U. S.
More thnn 75,000 pieces of foreign
propaganda have been branded as
“nonmailable” arid have been confis
cated by U. S. postal authorities in
the last 2 months.
Most of the material came from
Germany and Russia by way of the
Pacific and some was sent from Jap
an. Small amounts came from Italy
and England.
On the grounds that the mail en-
volved from agents of foreign coun
tries, Postmaster General F. C. Wal
ker has ruled that those agents liv
ing abroad must register with the
State Department. Then when the
agents have properly made, them selves
know to the U. S. government, their
messages to the people heie will be
forwarded.
U. S. IMPOUNDS HUGE SUM
A total of $4,369,000,000 of funds
in the United States has been njade
unavailable to the Hitler government
as the result of the U. S. move to
impound assets of ten invaded Eu
ropean countries. The assets are
under the control of the treasury and
neither the ten governments nor citi
zens of those countries may obtain
any part of their holdings without
special permission.
Most satisfying to the democracies
is the inability of the nazis to touch
any part of this sum, despite their
successful conquest of the nations in
volved.
RED CROSS NURSING NEEDS
10,000 NEW 1ENROLLEES
While the need of men and war ma
terials is stressed in publicity rela
tive to the armament program of the
United States .adequate nursing
staffs will be just as important if
this country ever becomes involved in
war. For this reason the American
Red Cross nursing service has em
barked upon a drive for 10,000 new
enrollments, a goal it hopes to reach
by June 30 of this year.
The organization had 18,000 mem
bers enrolled at the first of the year.
Between 3,000 and 4,000 of these
nurses will be called for active duty
by June 30. For this reason, the
nursing service must have an addi
tional 10,000 enrollees by that time
if it is to be in position to meet the
possible army and navy demands and
at the same time continue normal ser
vice to civilians.
THAT SEVEN BILLION IS A HUGE
SUM OF MONEY
Here are a few figures to help il
lustrate just how big seven billion
dollars—the initial lend-lease appro
priation is: , •
You could buy 120 Empire State
buildings for that sum; or the same
number of first-class battelships;
four-motored bombing planes cost
around $250,000 apiece—yet for 7 bil
lion you could buy 28,000 of these
giants! Look at it another way:
That money would pay all the costs
of education in the United States for
three years or it would buy a $50
bond for every man, woman and child
in the nation. Or, if you broke it up
into $10 mills and laid ’em end to end
they’d reach 67,622 miles—or two and
a half times around the equator.
ERNEST SCHUMPERT
Ernest Merchant Shumpert, 64,
died late Wednesday at the Newber
ry county hospital after several
weeks’ illness. Mr. Schumpert was
well-known, haying been in the mov
ing van business for a i number of
years.
Funeral services were held Friday
afternoon at 3 o’clock at the late
residence on College street, conducted
by the Rev. H. O. Chambers, assisted
by the Rev. E. Bryan Keisler. Inter
ment followed in Rosemont cemetery.
Surviving are three sons and two
daughters, Frank Schumpert, John H.
Schumpert, Claire Schumpert, Miss
Elizabeth Schumpert and Mrs. Hend
rix Monts, all of Newberry; three
sisters, Mrs. D. J. Taylor, Newberry;
Mrs. Arthur Werts, Silverstreet, and
Mrs. R. B. Bouknight, Saluda; two
brothers, Hugh Schumprt, McCor
mick, and L. E. Schumpert of Ander
son.
ST. PAUL’S PARISH, POM ARIA
J. Emmett Roof, Pastor
Holy Week services for the Parish
will begin Monday April 7 and con
tinue through Friday 11, 8 p. m. each
evening at Bachman’s Chapel.
Our subjects are some of the ans
wers which Pastor E. W. Schramm
has given to the Question: “What
Shall I Do With Jesus?”
Monday: “Shall I Betray Him?”
Tuesday: “Shall I Deny Him?”
Wednesday: “Shall I Condemn
Him?”
Thursday: “Shall I Compromise
Him ?”
Friday: “Shall I Mock Him?”
in the house-approved version of the
current agriculture department ap
propriation bill. Russell’s amendment
would increase this amount to $450,-
000,000, with $150,000,00 to become
immediately available and the re
mainder to be paid to farmers next
year.
How Funds Appropriated
With only $212,000,000 available
this year, Russell said cotton farm
ers would receive about $89,000,000.
DESERT SLAYING
REMAINS MYSTERY
Thin Clues Fad* in Frome Case—
Voluminous Files Reflect
Thoroughness
El Paso, March 29. — The most
baffling crime in Southwest history is
three years old March 30 % and- desert
wastelands still hold the secret of the
enigma—the sensational Frome case.
Investigators are little nearer a
solution of the slayings than they
were when the mutilated bodies of
Mrs. Weston G. Frome and her beau
tiful daughter, Nancy, prominent
Berkeley, Cal., socialites, were found
on an arid West Texas desert.
The crime has led hundreds of of
ficers, county, state, and federal, to
carry on investigations in two for
eign countries and in almost every
state in the nation. Still the killings
remain shrouded fn mystery.
Miss Frame, twenty-three, was tor
tured. Her right hand had been burn
ed seven times with a cigar or cigaret.
She had been jumped on, apparently
while she lay on her stomach, with
such violance that her diaphram was
ruptured.
Mrs. Frome, forty-six, had a chunk
of flesh bitten from her right fore
arm, leaving a hole larger than a dol
lar.
Both Victims {shot
Both women had been shot, the
daughter wiith a .32 caliber bullet
through the left temple and the moth
er with a more powerful bullet, prob
ably a .45, which went through her
head.
Discovery of the nearly nude bod
ies of the couple was made four days
after their murder when a sheriff’s
party stumbled on them in mesqurter
strewn wastelands near the little
West Texas town of Van Horn.
Most of the clothing had been rip
ped from their bodies as they evident
ly struggled with their murderers.
The mother and daughter lay side by
side, face downward, half a mile
south of U. S. highway 80.
Positions of the bodies indicated |
that the girl died afer the murderers
left the scene. The mother, appar
ently was killed instantly.
Agonized Death Indicated
That Miss FVome died a slow, ago
nized death was indicated by the earth
which had been ground from under
neath her feet and the fact that of
ficers found her fingers were rubbed
raw where she had clawed into the
soil, evidently as she lay writhing In
a death struggle.
The mother’s clothing except a
girdle and her shoes and stockings
had been removed. The daughter was
clad only in stepins and her shoes
and stockings.
The possibility of an attack was
never established. Both bodies were
decomposed when the searching party
found them.
No motive could be advanced for
the slaying, for although all of the
women’s baggage and clothing had
been taken, a $500 watch on Mrs.
Frome’s wrist was untouched.
Before their tragic deaths tin. two
were en route from Berkeley, to Par
ris Island, S. C., where they planned
to visit relatives. They had spent
five days in El Paso visiting friends,
while their new sedan was under re
pair.
Auto ,Found First
First indication of something
wrong was given when their aban
doned automobile was noticed April
1. It was identified the next day, and
a posse under Sheriff Albert Ander
son of Culberson county began search
ing on the desert country around Van
Horn. They stumbled upon the grue
some scene on April 3, 1938.
As soon as word of the killings
was spread, local and county officers
in almost every section of the South
west began maintaining a twenty-
four hour-a-day vigil for suspects.
Citizens of the Southwest, parti
cularly of West Texas, were shocked
and outraged.
The numerous investigations that
were launched were finally centralized
in the office of Sheriff Chris P. Fox
of El Paso, and his office was made a
clearing house for all information
pertaining to the case.
If the case breaks, it probably will
be through Fox’s office. The veteran
Texas officer has been at work on the
crime since the day the bodies were
discovered.
Sheriff .Not Giving Up
He believes that some day the puz
zle may be solved, but three years of
intensive search and investigation
have offered little encouragement.
Meanwhile, he tracks down every
tip and clew, however insignificant it
may seem. He has had plenty of them
in the past three years.
Fox’s numerous travels in his tire
less search for the killers have taken
him thousands of miles over many
states, and he has questioned hund
reds of suspects personally.
Voluminous files on the case offer
mute evidence of the thoroughness
of the mystery has been conducted.
“The Frome case has presented
and intensity with which investigation
one of the most difficult problems in
Southwest crime history”, Fox said.
“To begin with there was never
any worthwhile evidence, and what
clews and leads that were discovered
always led investigators in a circle—
right back to their starting point”.
But even though disheartened many
times over a period of three years in
his search. Fox—and many other offi
cers quietly at work on the baffling
case in other parts of the country—
pledged to keep on seeking the murd
erers.
Figuring Finances . . .
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H-D COLUMN
By ETHEL L. COUNTS
Now that it is time to plant a gar
den and plan for the requirements for
man and beast we may need to review
the food guide for one person for a
year: 80 gallons of milk, 25 lbs. but
ter, 25 lbs. fat meat and lard, 50 lbs.
lean pork, 20 lbs. poultry, 24 doz.
eggs, 155 lbs. Potatoes, sweet or Ir
ish, 18 lbs. dried peas, beans, peanuts,
soybeans, 90 lbs. tomatoes, 80 lbs.
greens, collards and cabbage, 20 lbs.
string beans, 145 lbs. turnips, onfons,
carrots, corn, okra, butterbeans, beets,
cucumbers, 145 lbs. fruits, 3 gals, sy
rup and honey, 30 lbs. sugar, 9o lbs.
commeal, grits, rice, 90 lbs. wheat,
flour oatmeal.
It would cost not less than $100 to
purchase this food for each person'.
The family growing this food will be
sure of an adequate diet and can
have the money for other purposes.
Unless we do plan to raise this food
we are not living at home. We all
want to have a part in National de
fense a d certainly there is no better
way to help our country than by be
ing strong healthy well-fed citizens.
Join the band of those who are en
rolled in the Better Farm Living Pro
gram.
This is also a good time to make
needed improvements abopt the home
—in other words have a “Fix <ip—
Clean Up” campaign. We are so in
clined to put off these distasteful
jobs—but there is nothing like set
ting a time and getting the task off
of hand—What a good feeling we
have after it is done.
Here are a few suggestions: Clean
up yards—nail up loose boards on
houses or barns, repair porches and
doorsteps, new screens added or
screens repaired, kitchen sink with
running water installed, home grounds
beautified, electrical conveniences add
ed and last but not least house paint
ed.
SENATOR’S SON RECEIVES
LIEUTENANCY
James Abrams of Whitmire, son of
Senator Marvin E. Abrams, who is a
member of Battery C, 107th Separate
Battalion, Coast Artillery, Anti-Air
craft, now stationed at Camp Stewart,
Georgia, was promoted to the position
of second lieutenant last week. He re
ceived the promotion after making
the highest average in a competitive
examination, open to members of the
battery.
HOME FROM WINTHROP
Misses Pauline Summer, Agnes and
Nancy Mayes, Carrie Lee McSwain,
Helen Clary, and Julia Smith, were
among the Winthrop college students
spending the spring holidays with
their parents in the city.
Rev. C. A. Calcote, Theron B. Bunt
ing, and Miss Doris Armfield were
dinner guests in the home of Rev. and
Mrs. John Aruthur Flannagan in
Whitmire Saturday evening.
Miss Caroline McCrackin, student
at Interment College in Bristol Vir-
gina. spent spring holidays at her
parents home on College street.
Near Coudersport. Pa., is a strange
ice mine. On the hottest days, the
fissures of this cave are hung with
icicles. When cold weather comes the
ice melts.
That metal horns can concentrate
certain types of radio waves along a
path just as they concentrate and di
rect sound waves has been demon
strated.
Miss Jean Copeland, freshman at
Shorter college, in Rome, Goorgia, is
home for spring holidays with her
mother, Mrs. O. O. Copeland and
brother, Oswald Copeland.
Among the Clemson Cadets return
ing to college Wednesday after holi
days were Walter Goggans, Tom Dav
is, Callie Boyd Parr, Oscar Summer,
Marvin Beacham, and Arthur Maybin,
Jr.
Keitt Purcell, King Boyd, Jim Todd,
Robert Houseal, and Cam Wallace re
turned to the Citadel Sunday after a
week of spring holidays.
Rev. J. M. Rasnake of Atlanta, Ga.,
will preach at Clayton Memorial
Universalist Church Sunday morn
ing, April 6, at 11 o’clock. You are
cordially invited to attend this ser
vice.
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LETTERS SHOW DRAFTEES
SEEM BEFUDDLED
New York, March 28.—“I am sec-
retely married because my mother-
in-law hates me. I have been classi
fied as 1-A, and have a very low ord
er number. If I keep my marriage
secret I will have to go to camp. If
I announce my marriage I will have
the old lady after me. What do you
advise?”
That was a letter received today
by the city selective service head
quarters. The office released several
others of the type which it said
“brightens our day.”
A few of them:
“How can I find out my draft num
ber? I did not register, so I don’t
know where my local board is. How
does bne go about applying for old-
age pensions?”
“I registered in New York, then re
cently moved to Miami. While pack
ing my trunk I discovered I am pot
of age. That is all.”
“Who has my number? I have in
sulted my local board (SIG) and got
ten very little information.”
FRED JAKE TAYLOR
Fred Jake Taylor, 29, died late
Thursday night at his home near
Prosperity after a long period of ill
health.
He was a native of Prosperity,
but for a number of years had been
engaged in the trucking business at
Charleston and Savannah, Ga.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Be
atrice Henderson Taylor; a son,
Frederick Jacob Taylor; and' his pa
rents, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Taylor of
Prosperity.
Funeral services were held Satur
day afternoon at the graveside in
Prosperity cemetery. The Rev. M.
E. Boozer, assisted by the Rev. V. L.
Fulmer, offic ted.
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Expanding Files
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Typewriter Erasers,
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TAX NOTICE
The tax books will be open for col
lection of 1940 taxes on and after
October 1, 1910.
The following is general levy for
all exceuc special purposes:
Mills
Ordinary County 13
Bonds, Notes and Interest ... 1714
Roads and Bridges 2
Hospital V*
School — State 3
County School 5 Vi
County Board of Education .. 1
State 1
TOTAL 43
The following are the authorized
special levies for the various school
districts of the county:
Dist. No.
Mills
1. Newberry
2. Mt. Bethel-Garmany ..
5
3. Maybin ton
.... 2
4. Long Lane
5. McCullough
5
6. Cromer
0
8. Reagin
9. Deadfall
10. Utopia
11. Hartford
.... 8
12. Johnstone
13. Stony HU1
6
14. Prosperity
15
15. O’Neall
8
18. Fairview
4
19. Midway 4
21. Central 4
22« St. Phillips 8
23. Rutherford 4
24. Broad River 4
25. Neiw Hope-Zion 4
26. Pomaria 12
27. Red Knoll 6
28. Helena 4
29. Mt. Pleasant 8
30. Little Mountain 16V4
31. WheeLand 3
32. Union 6
33. Jolly Street 8
34. St. Paul 2
35. Peak 4
37. Mudlic 6
38. Vauglmvflle 6
39. Chaippels 6
40. Old Town i 10
41. Dominick 8
42. Reedierville 10 Vi
43. Bush River 10 Vi
44. Smyrna . 10Vi
45. Trinity 10
46. Burton 10
47. Tranwood 10 Vi
48. Jalaps* °
49. Kinards 2
50. Tabernacle 8
51. Trilby J
52. Whitmire 1®
53. Mollohon *
54. Beth-Eden ®
55. Fork 8
57. Belfast 8
58. Silverstreet • 14
59. Pressley 4
60. St. John »
There will be a one per cent (1%)
discount on general County taxes
through October 30, 1940.
On and after January 1, 1941, the
Penalties prescribed by law will be
imposed on unpaid taxes.
You are requested to call for yoor
taxes by School Districts in which
property is located. The Treasurer
is not responsible for unpaid taxes not
called for by districts.
Those who had their dogs vaccinat
ed for rabies during the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1940 by one author
ized by law, and expect to be exemp
ted from dog tax will please bnng
their certificates of vaccination when
appearing to pay taxes.
RALPH B. BLACK,
Treasurer Newberry County.
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