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NEWS OF THE SOUTHLAND TOLD IN SNAPPY PARAGRAPHS
ALABAMA
HALEYVILLE.—Mass meeting of
citizens denounces editorial in Ha
leyville Advertiser attacking Ford's
offer for Muscle Shoals. Resolutions
indorsing Ford's offer are unani
mously adopted.
. CORDOVA.— Superintendent C. I.
. Haggers, two other white men and
twb negroes, are badly burned in
big gas explosion at Ruby mines,
near"here. At time of explosion en-
VnJrocC mine was being cut where
gas was confined for past 15 years,
-i HUNTSVILLE.—Mrs. William J.
Mastin, of Huntsville, dies at home
of daughter, Mrs. W. Fenn Crockett,
in Nashville, Tenn.
( LINEVILLE—R. O. Overton,
father of John W. Overton, of Wed
owee. state senator, dies of paraly-
. sis after several weeks' illness.
CASTLEBERRY. Movement of
this year's crop of strawberries to
•* northern and eastern markets com
mences. Indications are crop will
■; be about normal.
MONTGOMERY.—More than 400
physicians from various sections of
• Alabama attend fifty-seventh annual
conventoin of Alabama Medical as
. ‘ sociation here.
BIRMINGHAM—GeneraI Edmond
Winchester Rucker. S 3, well-known
capitalist and Confederate veteran,
is dead.
JASPER. —W. C. Palmer, drug
gist, dies while having tonsils re
moved.
CULLMAN—Mr. and Mrs. Charles
William's 4-year-old son is seriously
burned front matches, while playing
smoking pipe.
BIRMINGHAM.— Report of state
mine inspector, just released, shows
21,000,000 tons of coal mined in Ala
bama in 1923. Present operations
indicate that high record will be
surpassed this year.
EUFAULA. —Mrs. Willa Ether
idge Barron, 60, dies following
stroke of paralysis.
FAYETTE.—Prof. B. L. Balch,
principal of high school, raises S4OO
with which to purchase books for
school library.
MONTGOMERY. All arrange
ments are completed for Alabama
State Sunday school convention here
•< April 21-23.
MONROEVILLE—For first time
In several years prospects are bright
for peach crop in Monroe county.
About 1,000 acres of trees are in full
bloom.
MOBILE.—State-owned docks to
be built here will accommodate larg
est ocean-going ships. Many acres
of swamp lands will be converted
into a center of commerce.
MONTGOMERY?— Reforesftation in
Alabama draws particular praise
from Albert R. Israel, publicity man
ager of Southern Pine association,
who declares Alabama forestry laws
are among best in United States.
WETUMPKA.—Dr? J. A. Howie
resigns as warden of state peniten
tiary, located here. He still holds
position as physician and sanitary
officer.
MA RLE VIL I ?E.—N inet eo n f reigh t
t C( are derailed between here and
•’ Fox. on Southern railroad. No one
is in.?: but traffic is delayed 24
hours.
* MONTGOME'IY.— Raise in tax on
oysters, and several other changes
in exist? state laws governing in
dustry, are provided in 1923 acts of
state legislature which become ef
fective Maj' 1.
MOBlLE.—Laying plans which
will rival Georgia’s peach carnival
at Fort Valley, Mobile will hold
satsuma blossom festival in May.
ANDALUSIA. Congressman J.
Lister Hill advises that plans for
*■' new postoffice building here are ap
” proved by treasury department.
1” IENIX C1TY?=?1? G. Barber, 69.
well-known citizen, is dead.
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THE ATLANTA TRIWEEKLY JOURNAL
EUTAW. Calvin Coolidge for
president; jbliver D. Street, of Gun
tersville. for national committee
man, and J. M. Adkins, of Heflin,
state chairman, are indorsed by
Sixth district Republican meeting
here.
BAY M INETTE. Work com
mences on Little River-Stockton
state highway, passing through
here.
OPP. —Hotel Covington, Opp's
new hotel, opens doors to public.
HARTSELLE.— Hartselle expect s
to get free city mail delivery by July
1. Receipts for first quarter lack
only $122 of amount necessary to
permit free delivery.
FLORENCE?—Akij? James Mor
gan, 90. for many years editor of
Florence Herald, is dead.
MONTGO MERt.-A 11 of $7,000,-
000 bonds for Alabama state high
ways are forwarded to National
Park bank at New York to be dis
tributed to purchasers.
BAY" MlNETTE?=Louisville and
Nashville railroad is installing block
system between Montgomery and
Mobile, and gang of men -are at
work here.
ALEXANDER ClTY—Receipts of
: Selma, postoffice for first quarter of
year break all previous records, to
tal being over $27,000.
BIR MI NG HA M.—Bi rm in gham and
Atlanta. Ga., capitalists will com
mence erection of 14-story hotel at
cost of $1,250,000, June 1. Lots are
purchased at corner of Fifth avenue
and Twenty-first street, north.
ALBANY. —Old plantation home
i cently bought for country chib will
be remodeled at cost of about $20,-
000.
WETUMPKA. Six negroes,
charged, with stealing number of
autos are being held here.
ANNISTON.—Baptist Y’oupg Peo
ple's Union of Eastern Alabhma dis
trist holds two days session here.
GADSDEN. —1 New Christian
church, just completed here at cost
of $40,000, is dedicated by Rc '.
Grant K. Lewis, of St. Louis, M >.
GADSDEN. Following p .
nary trial, Bascomb and Parish Gil
bert are. held under $1,500 bonds
each, charged with killing Walter
Gilbert at Grove Oak, some days
ago. Newell Gilbert, Hurbert Hul
gan. Nathan White, Ollie Yancy and
H. Lamunyon, also arrested in this
case, are freed for lack of evidence.
ONEONTA.—On A|ay 1, Oneonta
will stage monster sale for benefit
of school building fund. Many ar
ticles will be offered at this- sale,
from settings of eggs to 80-acre tract
of land.
HARTSELLE. Asphalt rock
found near here in large quantities
is pronounced excellent by experts.
BERRY.—Due to shortage of
funds, all rural schools and gram
mar school her- close for term.
BIRMINGHAM. Twenty-seven
women |re to face trial in federal
court here, on charge of violating
prohibition laws.
MONTGOMERY? Validity of
$750,000 bond issue at Dothan, for
erecting power plant, is! upheld by
Alabama supreme court.'
HARTSELLE.—Prof. W. P. Tiller,
late head of county high school of
Geneva county, succeeds Prof. J. H.
Riddle as superintendent of county
high school here.
MONTGOMERY?—Su m of $22,900
will be awarded to Alabama from
Jttlius Rosewald fund for 192 1-25,
which money goes towards erection
of 29 negro schools. " -
FALKVILLE.—Contract is let for
erection of $30,000 schoolhouse here.
MADISON.— First National bank
of Madison is chaptered with capital
stock of $25,000.
GUNTERSVILLE.— Miss Ona Mc-
Clendon, 18, is indicted by grand
jury for second degree murder, in
connection with slaying of Jeff
Love. Albertville merchant.
I?ES sE M E R.—M rs ?M all i p Staple
ton, 53, prominent Bessemer wom
an, is dead.
NORTH CAROLINA
GASTONIA.— Joe Orr, of Char
lotte, and Ransom Killian, of Lin
colnton, are declared not guilty by
jui’y in Gaston county superior court
after trial on charges of murder
growing out of killing of John Ford,
qf Lincolnton, near here three years
ago. rhe\- were accused of complic
ity in crime l>y Arthur Crowder, re
cently arrested in Alabama, who
pleaded guilty_ to manslaughter.
CHAPEL HILL.—D. R. Hodgin.
of Burlington, is awarded modal
given by Julian S. Carr after being
adjudged winner in junior oratorical
contest of North Carolina univer
sity s two literary societies.
CHAPEL HI LL. —President Chase,
of University of North Carolina, ad
dressing conference of Southern Fed
eration of College Students, declares
student government has been proven
efficient at. university and superior to
faculty control
ASHEVILLE.—Division of Vance
Parenl-Teaeher association into two
factions attacking and defending C.
B. Anderson, principal of M est Ashe
ville school, results in school board
reuuestii'g dissolution of association,
claiming its period of usefulness has
passed. Mrs. R. Al. Wells, president,
says clash developed from disagree
ment over location of pictures.
KINSTON. —“The ‘notorious’ in
vestigations under way at Washing
ton are of honorable and non-partisan
origin," says Senator Pat Harrison,
Democrat, of Mississippi, in addr ss
at annual meeting of Eastern Caro
lina chamber of commerce. Inquiries
wtii be continued, will expose guilty
and courts “will do the rest," ho
says.
i’ll A RLOTTE~\j is. W. R. Mur
ray. 52. wife of superintendent of
terminals of Southern railway here,
dies alter extended illness, she was
mother of George Murray, pitcher,
member of Boston Ameiican league
baseball team,
RALEIGH Reserve officers corps
has 54S members in state, according
to Major Lopez, executive officer of
321st Infantry. Number includes
two brigadier generals.
S\LlSßL'RY~Al?oreh. ad City is
chosen as place for second annual
summer meeting of North Carolina
Press association' at meeting of ex
ecutive committee. Dates selected
are June 11-13
GREENVILI?E?=P lav 1n g w h
matches- results in William Cox.
aged four, son of Mr. .and Mrs, Jchn
W. co*, living nt ir ht re, bein g f ■
tally burned before aid could reach
him after clothing caught fire.
WARRENTON B B V. 11 tins
• pn sident of Nort h Cai
Farm Loan associations at oraar. • i
tion meeting at Columbia, S C. Vi e
prt siden t is C. J Smith, of '
secretary Frank D. Hackett, of
North Wilkesboro
RALEIGH. —North Carolina Vi.- ii
c.al society convenes in seventy-first
annual three-day session. Programs
include threescore addresses bv
prominent physicians of this an I
other states. Dr. Royal S Copeland,
tn.bd S’.i.os s- n :tor. of New York,
s on program for address.
SALISBURY. —Score of addresses
are heard at three-day Sunday school
convention for western North Caro
lina region, meeting in First Meth
odist church.
CONCORD.—Rev J. R. Pentuff
and wife vouch for accuracy of claim
of daughter, Odoredo, that, her pet
pullet, “Miss Twitty,” laid 72 eggs
in 23 days and in first seven days of
April laid 17 eggs. Many of eggs
wore laid in house on pillows, Mrs.
Pen tuff says.
A.SIIEVI LI ,E.— City commission
ers announce that bond issues
amounting to $1,933,000 will be is
sued during present administration
to finance extensive improvemerits,
of which SBOO,OOO will be issued this
year.
1 CHARLOTTE—SamueI S. Corn
| well, who’ lost leg in automobile ac
cident, enters Democratic primary
I for nomination for Mecklenburg
I county treasurer against. J. W. Stin
son, incumbent, also one-legged.
NEW BERN. —Dillard Goodman,
negro, is sentenced in superior court
to 20 years in prison for slaying sev
eral weeks ago of ‘William Case,
young white man of Fort Barnwell,
and is taken -to Raleigh by detach
ment of troops.
GOLDSBORO~\\? T. Hollowell,
grand keeper of records and seals of
grand lodge of Knights of Pythias
in this state, dies after year of de
clining health.
LENOlß.—Construction of great
hydro-electric project at Rhodhiss by
Southern Power company will ne
cessitate raising of bridge over Ca
tawba river between Lenoir and Con
nelly Springs.
CH AR LOTTE.—Plasterers at work
on Johnston building, IS stories, de
mand increase in pay from sl2 to
$?4 per day. Empliyeits say plas
terers in many cases arc- being paid
about SIOO per week.i including over
time. in addition to board being pro
vided.
CHART.OTTE. —City commission
ers authorize, laying of 14 miles of
paving, work to be paid for from
proceeds of bond issue.
RALEIGH.— Daily cash income of
thousands of landless farmers in
state is scarcely more than ten cents,
according to report of tenantry corft
mission named by state board of ag
riculture to make investigation .ex
tending over period of eighteen
months.
MOUNT AIRY. —Seven Republic
ans and three Democrats are seek
ing appointment to post mastership.
S P E N C ER.—Burglars ransack
homes of C. W. McCarn and E. P.
Deal and in Deal home boldly par
take of hearty meal at dining table.
DURHAM.—Leroy ’Williams and
Cecil Poe, of Durham, who ran away
from home with intention of going to
Cincinnati, are returned home after
arriving at Creedmoor, N. C.
DURHAM.—Cornerstone of East
Durham Baptist church is laid.
BURGAW.—Mayor J. D. Davis ex
presses opinion that fire which de
stroyed block of buildings “did town
a lot of good” as it removed unsight
ly buildings and made room for new
structures.
‘WELDON.—PistoI duel follows en
trance of unidentified man into store
of Walter Coker, in Northampion
count?', which also is postoffice, and
would-be robber sleep without press
ing demand for money 'order blanks
and cash
BOONE. —Riley Greer celebrates
103rd birthday, crowd of 70<> persons
attending celebration. Greer tells
guests he has chewed tobacco 90
•years. ,
SALISBURY. —Reports of severe
damage in this section to peach crop
by recent frosts and cold waves arc
received.
ASIIE\'!LLE?~Fr?nk L. Whit
man announces decision to resign as
secretary of chamber As commerce.
GASTONIA.—Ce-il Mooney, Hay
wood county boy at'State Orthopoe
dic hospital, invites President Cool
idge ami Congressman B.ilwinkle, of
Gastonia, tc> hunting trip in western
part of state, offering to lend presi
dent. his gun.
WAVN E S VI L??E?^Hay wood cou n -
tv chaingang' proves too expensive
and county commissioners sell 20
mules and equipment used by gangs.
ASHEVILLE~TI?eodore Roberts,
nephew of Mrs. Willia mdu Pont
and grandnephew of late Jacob Rog
ers, millionaire manufacturer of loco
motives, returns to face charges in
superior court of abandoning his
wife. , 1 "
LEXINGTON.—HeId on charges
of bigamy preferred by Danvilb 1 .
Ya., woman who claimed nttirriage
eight years ago, L. Thacker, of
Erlanger, X. obtains release on
SI,OOO bond when girl he recently
married comes to his aid.
W TLMI NG TON. lnspection trip
of W. D. Faucette, of Norfolk, Ya.,
chief engineer of Seaboard Air Line
railway, is reported connected with
plan of company to make extensive
iniprovenwnts on local terminals.
Faucette confers with Major O. O.
Kuentz, United States army dis
trict engineer.
LEXINGTON.—PIans are being
made for erection of OjiOO school
building.
RALElGH—Members of North
Carolina Cotton Growers' associa
tion. numbering 35.000, meet in local
headquarters April 16 and elect dele
gates to county conventions to be
held April 26.
” HOMAS VILLE.—E. T. Kearns,
of Thomasville, is named chief of
police to succeed, L. C. Jenkins, held
in Lexington jail charged with mur
der here of Mrs. Elizabeth Jones.
RCCKY MOUNT.—Argument over
25 cents while engaged in crap game
costs Will Young, negro, his life,
Josh Cooper, another gamester,
shooting him.
RALElGH.—Yeggmen obtain $5Ol
when they blow safes at offices of
Standard Oil company and Texas Oil
company.
RALUIGH. —Lignell Hood, convert
nt Ham-Ramsey revival, walks into
superior court, pleads guilty to three
liquor <l.urges, turns state's witness
and Shortly afterwards one co-de
fendant receives two-year sentence
and another is declared to have skip
ped SJ9O bond.
MADISC N. —John Hit
er, is found dead in corn crib at home
in Ayersville section of Rockingham
county, shotgun containing empty
shells being found by his side.
'.RALEIGH—Di? _ B. W. Kilgore,
director of North Carolina agricul
tural experiment station ami dean
of .'.griculture at State college, is ap
pointed to represent Unit-, d
at n eeting of Jniernntiqr ' Institute
of Agriculture at Rome, Italy, in
M - y.
of edi
ble tish is reported at almost all
South Atlantic ports, due to depre
dations of cannib&l fish.
HIGH rOINT~Nick Sexton,
white. feund five-gallon can of
wai-ky too heavy handicap in foot
> ace with pcliceirnn and is arrested
RALEIGH.—N ri Carolina Tu
free tuberculosis clinics have been
t hold in state under association's
1 auspices
RALEIGH. —Lawrence Gatling,
son of former Portmaster B. M. Gat
ling, charged with murder of his
wife and her companion, Owerj Stev
-1 eiis, pleaded ; cilty to manslaughter
as to slaying of Stevens and nolle
; contendve to second degree murder
in Wake county superior court,
’ which accepts pleas hud judge or
' de.K bearing to determine punish
ment.
’ GASTONIA.—Judge Stack, in su-
perior c rit declare. - , “vile perjury”
L wa - committed by witnesses for de
fuse at (rial of Ransom Killian and
• Joe Orr, charged with complicity in
murder of John Ford, expresses opin
ion that “Killian and the two girls,
companions of the defendants, are
’ moral lepers and ought to be run
, out of the community.” He then sen
’ fences .Arthur Crowder, who pleaded
guilty to manslaughter in connection
with killing, to two years in prison,
’ “much against iyy w’sh.” Others de-
• dared not guilty by jury.
CHARLOTTE?^?L. Baxter, for
mer Lincoln county deputy sheriff,
. who faces charge of killing Fred
Allison, of Charlotte, near Lincoln-
I ton on Christmas eve, 1922, pleads
1 gudty to three charges of violating
. prohibition laws.
WAYNESVILLE.—Mrs. Howell,
74, wife- of Captain Alden Howell,
dies suddenly at home of daughter,
M s. Walter G. Chandler, at Los An
. geles.
GREENSBORO.—T. L. West, for
’ mer municipal court clerk, enters
plea of guilty to charges involving
improper handling of court funds and
. other official irregularities, and is
> sentenced to four months in jail.
. Judge Brown instructs jury to return
[ verdict of not guilty on embezzle-
• ment charge.
CHAPEL HlLL.—Wilson defeats
Durham and wins Aycock memorial
- cup in finale twelfth annual high
- i school debating contest, held at Uni-
■ j versjty of North Carolina, which in
ivolveci participation of 1,000 students.
• ’ Winnirig team is composed of Miss
I Catherine M are and Fred Carr; sec
,ond team, Miss Lucille Mulholl and
■ [ Everett Weatherspoon.
? GREENSBORO.—Jake Samet, ot
1 Mount Airy, is arrested on charge of
. causing death of child, aged seven,
son of Charles Kirkman, or Surry
county, run down by car driven by
' l Samet.
WINSTON-SALEM. Frank ,T.
i Woodworth, 46, traveling salesman
; representing Bluefield, W. Ya., firm,
i dies at hospital of injuries sustained
March 24, when he jumped from
[ j moving train at Bald Mountain
! quarry after having misjudged speed
, of train. Body is taken to Chicago.
I KINSTON.—Miss Mary Alice
| Smith, brunette, of Ayden, wins first
; ‘ honors over 20 competitors at east
' ern Carolina exposition’s contest to
select section’s most beautiful girl.
. j Miss Elizabeth White, of Granville,
j wins second place; Miss Aileen Jones,
i of Snow Ball, third.
I MARlON.—Joseph C. Brown, 89,
veteran of Civil war, dies after long
illness.
CHARLOTTE.—Asa. Pruett, elder
ly' white man, characterized by Fed
eral Judge Webb as “daddy rabbit”
of Cleveland county bootleggers, is
convicted in federal court of violat
ing prohibition laws and is sen
tenced to two-year term in Atlanta
prison.
ASHEYILLE. —Eleven of
group of thespians. booked to enter
tain patrons at local theater for next
three months, contribute $833 to
school fund pn.l lose 250 quarts of
choice liquors brought from Florida,
after beieg convicted in city court.
GREENSBORO?-W. S. Whiting,
lumber manufacturer of Shulls Mills,
Wautauga -county, files voluntary
bankruptcy petition in federal dis
trict court, listing liabilities as sl,-
1176.339 and assets is $805,8 14.
bV ebb at Charlotte signs order nam
iiig Isaac. T.'Avery, of Morganton,
referee, and sets May 3 as date for
hearing at Boone.
AEAV BERN.—W. J. Donaldson,
I guardian, reports to Sheriff J. D.
V illi.'irs theft of $2,200, property of
minor chi.d, from Donaldson home
near Dover, no clues being found.
SOUTH CAROLINA
< OLI MBTA. Disbarment cases
against Cornelius Otts, of Spartan
burg: Andrew 11. Miller and Marvin
| R. Reese, of Greenville coiinty, and
| M. M. Johnson, of Camden, are heard
I by supreme court.
CAMDEN.—Jack Reeves, of Bisll
ojMlle, loses arm and suffers other
injuries, when car in which he and
three others were riding is struck
by Seaboard Air Line train.
, < ’II A NGEBU RG.—Major Andrew
C. .Dibble, prominent citizen, dies
| here.
ANDERSON.—PIans are announc
ed for state convention of Elks, to
be held in Anderson, May 22-23.
CHESTER.—Rev. George W. Belk
I is chosen as president state Chris
; tian Endeavor union at closing ses
i sion of convention here.
COLUMBIA. Greatest Shrine
I convention ever held in state is joint
ceremonial here iof Hejaz and Omar
| Shrine temples, with hundreds of
nobles from all parts of state attend
i
< OLI MBIA.—“Wo are going for
, ward with the investigation in
I Washington until every dishonest
j man in office is cleaned out,” de
i dares Senator Copeland, of New
York, candidate for presidenev, in
I address here.
CHARLESTON. White MeKin-
■ sey, seventeen, is instantly killed
I when bullet from .22 rifle which he is
: handling pierces his brain.
State Senator Hutson announces
candidacy for congress against Con
gressman H. I'. Fulmer.
TW( > SOUTH W EEK LY—
raw’- -j—riw mm.i 1
ORANGEBURG.—Dr. William A.
Pu.-ey. of Chicago, president Ameri
< can Medi< al association; Dr. J. C.
Bloodgood, of Baltimore, .and Dr. W.
H. Higgins, of Richmond, are chief i
, speaks rs on program of state medical |
society convention here.
Stops Pyorrhea in Ten Days
Thousands Now I sing New Success
ful Treatment at Home.
If you suffer from Pyorrhea, bleed- ■
mg or ulcerated gums, abscesses, :
gum boils, loosening of the teeth, j
etc., send your name to the Martin :
Chemb-al Co.. Dept. 7<'2 Independ- i
i ence, Mo . and they will send you a •
full size dollar hottie of Pyrokur on !
• free trial. If it cures, you are to j
send them sl. Otherwise your re- i
1 port cancels the charge. You pay :
■ nothing until you are satisfied.
This remarkable treatment is
meeting with wonderful success and I
;is relieving thousands of people ■
Many who think they hava loose or j
aching teeth find that the trouble is ]
in the gums and after a few days 1
1 of Pyrokur th e * pain disappears, i
| the teeth become more solid and j
: ’he foul breath is g«n».
(Ad- ertisemenf.' j
I I
NORTH.—W. D. Bates, former
resident here, is killed in auto acci
dent at Ways, Ga.
FLORENCE. —Grand lodge ot
South Carolina Odd Fellows an
nounced for Florence, May 14.
CHARLESTON.—State Prohibition
Officers Poppenheim and Harrington
return from two-day expedition into
Awensdaw section of county with
two stills and quantity of mash,
whisky and beer, total valued at $4,-
200.
SUMTER.—After ten days absence
nothing has been learned of where
abouts of R. D. Reynolds, market
proprietor, who left here, ostensibly
for Rock Hill, leaving family here.
LATTA.—Four generations par
ticipate in birthday party of Mrs.
Mary Ellen Berry, head of their fam
ily, aged 79. Fifty children, grand
children and great-grandchildren
attend festivities,
ALLENDALE.—W? H. Bennett,
81, Confederate veteran, dies in Co
lumbia.
COLUMBIA. —State department of
education distributes $758,579 of
high school aid, appropriated by re
cent legislature, to guarantee sal
aries of teachers.
GREENW’OOD.—Rev. Fred T. Mc-
Gill goes to Lake Wales, Fla,, to at
tend Associate Reformed Presby
terian synod of south, there to hear
action on home mission board of de
nomination for appropriation of $30,-
000 for new church here.
COLUMBIA.—A. T. Stratton, for
mer local and state Y. M. C. A. of
ficial. well known throughout state,
dies here after brief illness,
FORT MILL.—W. R. Brandford
succeeds Arthur C. Lytle as mayor.
CHESTERFIELD. —Fou rt h and
GIRL WHO SACRIFICED NAME
TO SAVE THAW’S LIFE AGAIN
IS CENTER OF BITTER FIGHT
Evelyn Nesbit Tolerated Only
So Long as Could Help
Him, Just as His Insanity
Pleas Are
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BY ROBERT T. SMALL
(Special Leased Wire to The Journal.)
(Copyright, 1924.)
PHILADELPHIA, April 17.—They
have come to grips again—the two
women in the case—and any one con
versant with the life history of Harry
Kendall Thaw must wonder as to
which is his better friend, the paint
ed lady of the cabarets who was once
his wife, or the devoted, haughty,
proud old mother who is willing that
lie shall go forth in the world again,
perhaps eventually to meet the fate
which money so long has shielded
him form. The painted lady would
like to keep Thaw in the asylum.
Once Mie saved him from the elec
tric cmair. Perhaps today she re
grets the sacrifices she made to that
end. She fears that he may yet do
her some bodily harm. She, seeks
to get some of the Thaw money for
her son—the son which Thaw denies.
Mrs. Mary Copley Thaw, the moth
er, is aged ami decrepit. Mostly she
walks with a cane. The grief of
eighteen long years, however, has
not bowed her head. Still she feels
she must not die with one of her off
spring under the stigma of insanity.
She brushes aside the fact that it
was her own petition which put Thaw
in his present asylum. That was
when the law was after him again,
when he had cruelly beaten a young
boy m a New York hotel and when
a long stretch up the river awaited
him. Preferably tfie asylum to the
felon’s cell. It is the Th iw complex
that Harry is insane when he com
mits i crime. He is sane ;is soon ns
the family feels the crime is for
gotten.
“Experts” Always at Hand
The necessary expert testimony Io
“prove” this theory always seems to
be at hand. , \ • 5
Evelyn Nesbit today, as she was
in 1907 and 1908, is the alluring fig
ure in the Thaw case. But what a
far different Evelyn today. There is
no longer any mystery, any look of
girlish wonderment in those big dark
eyes which once were so liquid and
dreamy. \
They tjre lack-luster eyes today,
dimmed ’with tear-bought wisdom.
'I ho eyes of dead ashes. The once
tender month—the lips that caught
the fancy of the great artists of her
etirl.v days—are curled today in a
cynical hardness. The deep brown
velvety hair which used to mass it
self about .a small head in waving
plentitude, has lost all its gloss. Jt
is bobbed now and bristly and has
that burnout look that goes with
too much curling on the Irons.
Evelyn Nesbit was a lonely little
figure at the first Thaw trials. She
sat with the family then, but they
tolerated her with ill and uneasy
grace. They tolerated her because
she was the only human factor
which could save the scion of a
proud Pittsburg family from being
“burnt up the river,” from the fate
of the common murderer. During
the two great trials, which were read
around the world as no other murder
cases ever have been. Evelyn, who
still calls herself as if the first
syllable was spelled “Eva," stuck to
the ship, stin k to the most dramatic
story of a girl's ruin which ever has
been told in court.
Her Soul Bought His Life
It w.tg a confession which should
have been heard in some cloister.
Rut it was given to the world that
Harry Thaw might not die in the
chair for any act of mad jealousy—
the slaying of Stanford White that
summer night on the Madison
Square roof. J
Evelyn contends that after she had
paid and paid and paid at the trials. :
she was cast adrift by the Thaws, j
They gave her no money. They I
thought thej- needed her no longer, i
And so today Evelyn sits again a '
lonely figure in the vault-like court- j
room where Thaw money is fighting I
again for Thaw liberty. As one looks I
at the mature woman who was once I
the 16-year old sweetheart of the j
great architect, there rush back the '
memories of the room of the mirrors, ;
the forest room, the big velvet swing
where Stanford M’hite would swing
ner higher and higher until at last i
she could kick l.~r pointed toes
through a Japanese parasol attached
to thp ceiling; thp great room in thp
Madison Square tower studio whot-p
the parties wore given for th° rich
x-oung men about town and th» cho
rus girls and Evelyn emerged one
nigh' from a papier mache pie, a
glorious throbbing young creature,
an artist's study in the nude.
Laura Jane Libbey, in her palmiest ,
days, never thought of such a plot
or tuch a story as came rippling
from the lips of Evelyn Thaw on the
witness stand. It held the world
spellbound. Ex el n still was inno
cent in those flays, despite her ex
perience .a- 'h® hands of Stanford'
White, despite her experiences ,
SATURDAY. APRIL 19, 1924.
fifth carloads of poultry will be
shipped from this county about first
of .May. according to County Agent
W. J. Tiller.
GREENWOOD. Arrangements
completed for annual oratorical con
test of state to be held at Lander
college here April 18, with all male
colleges of state participating.
WA LI IA LLA.—Sheriff Alexander
md Detective L. P. Whitfield, of
Burns agency, go to Birmingham,
Ala., to --t Harry, George and Fred
Corbin, charged with robbing En
terprise bank here.
COLUMBIA.—Pension money for
Confederate veterans will be pay
able .May 1, according to Pension
Clerk H. F. Jackson.
COLUMBIA. —C. M. Wilson, su
perintendent of Whitmire schools,
is elected secretary State Teachers’
association to assume dpties June
1. He is to receive salary of $3,600.
Heretofore association has not had
paid secretary.
COLUMBIA. —Governor McLeod
issues proclamation to Shriners of
state calling them to attend joint
ceremonies of Hejaz and Omar tem
ples here.
COLI ’MBTA.—Governor McLeod
says educational survey of state,
authorized bv recent legislature, but
for which no appropriation was
made, will be undertaken, SIO,OOO
necessary to finance it, being taken
fro-" state contingent fund.
NEWBERRY.—B. V. Chapman
announces he will make race for
solicitor a- inst H. S. Blackwell, in
cumbent. i
NEWBERRY.—J. C. Poole, in
structor in • agriculture in schools
here, makes investigation and ascer
tains that approximately half of
r J abroad with Harry Thaw, the. nights
!at the “Dead Rat” in Paris, the
) nights of flagellation, the nights ot
' absinthe intoxication. If not inno
cent, at least she wore the mask of
innocence, and it was intensely be
coming.
Evelyn Prospers Again
But much water has flowed undet
the bridge since then. Evelyn has
been adrift. Like Harry Thaw him
self she has once attempted to end
' her life. At another time the body
’ of a lifeless girl was found in the
‘ i Potomac river was thought; to be
1 hers. But Evenly said that when she
1 ; finally committed suicide it would be
‘ {in a more spectacular manner than
! ■ merely flinging herself into some
' dark waters. Evelyn says success
' has come to her at last. By night
’ she dances in the cabaret at Atlantic
I City. By day she comes to the in-
I sanity hearing here. Apparently she
l is prosperous and apparently no long
!er a drug addict. Shq claims she was
: illegally divorced, that she knew
| nothing of the suit until it was all
, ' over. Evelyn lives by the public and
s : for the public.
■ ( Old Mrs. Thaw, however, asks noth-
ing of the public—not even its sym-
. pathy. She looks upon the public-
■ upon the people, as her enemies. She
' remembers that it always has been
i “the people vs. Harry K. Thaw.” The
; pebple demanded her son’s life. Now
they demand his incarceration. Why
should the common people make so
j bold with a Thaw? Those who saw
j Mrs. Thaw at her son’s trialiremem-
1 J her the reluctance with which she
i permitted the insanity plea to be
J made. That was the crushing blow.
; There was no belief that the son had
done wrong. The plea of “dementia
Americana” was music in her ears.
It gave Delphin Michael Delmas his
, ’ hig fee.
Plowing and Planting
Delayed in Georgia
By Cold Rainy Days
; WASHINGTON. April 16.—Crop and
I weather conditioim in southern states dur
j ing the week ending yesterday were sinn
i niarized today by the department of agricul-
I tn re as follows: (
Corn planting made fairly good progress
\ in southern states, and whs begun during
: tlie week northward to North Carolina,
: southern Missouri, and southern Kansas.
Better weather prevailed for germination
of this crop in the south and it was com-
I ing up generally to a good stand.
1 'lhe preparation of cotton land advanced
j actively fn the northern portion of the belt,
I but rains caused Interference in some cen-
I trnl and eastern districts. Planting was
. begun at scattered places in southern Okla
homa. and some cotton was planted in most
sections of Arkansas and in parts of Ten
nessee. Planting wns commenced also on
the coastal plains of North Carolina, It
was too cold fur tiie best germination of
cotton in Louisiana, while rainfall was
rather unfavorable in parts of the south
east. Early planted cotton in Texas shows ]
only fair stands, and the general condition '
of the crop ranges from poor to fair.
Warmth and sunshine lite last half nf 1
the week improved the condition of the soil
in the trucking districts of the middle At
lantic coast, area, and the planting of po
tatoes, truck crojis. and gardens was in
progress, although it continued 100 wet in
the interior of Virginia. Early potatoes
i have come up to a good stand in the smith I
I Atlantic coast districts, and harvest prog- I
j ressc.l in the principal producing sections
' of Florida.
Wiiile gardening is still late, consider- i
able early garden crops were planted in 1
tiie central sections of the country, while i
truck and gardens did well generally in the
southern states, although rtlin on several I
days uns unfavorable Ln lowlands of the i
Florida peninsula.
Tomatoes show Improvement In certain ’
, areas of Florida. Tobacco plants were com- ■
ing tip slowly in Kentucky, but beds did well
in Tennessee while the plants were vigor
ous generally in the south Atlantic area. I
Sugar 'ane was coining up well in south
etn Georgia and planting was progressing !
in southern Alabama, but cane made slow I
I>rogres» in Lotiisiana, where it was reported
to be three or four weeks late.
1 astur/ s and meadows show general im
provement throughout tiie southern states.
i • <pe iaily in the southeast, while they
i were greening nicely in interior districts.
Early fruit trees were coming into bloom
; at the close of the week ns far north as)
I north-central Maryland. Citrus trees are
■ in good condition in Florida, with much I
| bloom. Strawberries improved in the aoitth-
I east and were ripening in the extreme low-1
.er Mississippi valley. This crop is late ini
: J ennessce. but plants are now blooming in
some sections.
North Carolina. Raleigh: Generally fa
vorable. though season two weeks backward
and rains latter part ot week delayed work.
i Planting cotton begun on coastal plains,
I but interrupted by rain. Some corn plant
ed in east Tobacco plant beds in good
cond ’ion. Truck reports more favorable.
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CHARLESTON. —Mayor Thomas
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convention of men’s evangelistic
clubs, to be held in Spartanburg
April 26-27. «
COLUMBIA.—Board of trustees
Columbia. Theological Seminary
(Presbyterian) announced for Co
lumbia. May 4, to consider proposal
to move institution to Richmond and
consolidate it there with Union The
ological Seminary.
ORANGEBURG.—State Hospital
association meets here with F. Oli
ver Bates, president, in chair.
CH ARLESTON?—Fi ft y passenger
representatives of I Atlantic Coast
Line railroad attend annual gath
ering here to discuss tourist travel
in south.
COLUMBlA.—Professors Guy A.
Lackey and James M. Reinhart, of
faculty of Chicora college, are asked
by President S. C. Byrd to resign,
and though no statement is made
two ousted faculty members admit
it is result of their belief in evolu
tion as theory of creation, Prof.
Lackey has recently had heated con
troversy in press with Dr. W. M.
McPheeters, of Columbia Theologi
cal Seminary faculty.
CHARLESTON—Thirty-ninth an
nual convention of Huguenot So
ciety of South Carolina held here.
Brig. Gen. E. K. Cole, commander
of Paris island marine station, is
chief speaker.
ROCK 'HILL.—Rock Hill is pre
sented with fragment of old wood
from fort on Paris Island. S. C.,
said to be first fortress ever built
in United States. Gen. E. K. Cole,
Paris Island's commander, makes
presentation.
James David Hammett,
Southern Textile Leader,
Dies of Indigestion
ANDERSON, S, C., April 19.
James D,avid Hammett, fifty-seven,
prominent in southern textile circles,
formerly president of the American
Cotton Manufacturers’ association
and head of the South Carolina Man
ufacturers’ association, died at 2
o’clock this morning at his home
here. He suffered an attack of hcute
indigestion shortly after 10 o'clock
last night.
inoiinlnins and applps beginning to bloom in
central counties. Wheat, clover and Vetch
doing well. Pastures improving.
South Carolina. Columbia: Mostly warm
and favorable growth, but midweek rains
further retarded plowing and planting.
Wlieat, oats, rye, truck and gardens im
proved. Considerable cotton amt corn
planted in central, east, and south portions;
early plantings germinated in coastal plain.
Early potatoes show good stands. Tree
fruits in good condition.
Georgia, Atlanta: Cold rains tenth and
eleventh interfered greatly with plowing
and planting and caused poor germination.
Much warmer weather and abundant sun
shine needed. Beginning and close of week
favorable and some corn, cotton, peanuts,
sorghum and rye planted. Some cotton
and much corn up. Transplanting tobacco
and bedding sweet potatoes continued. Pas
tures and truck crops improved. Peanuts,
melons and sugar cline coming up nicely
/in southwest. Appier, in full bloom.
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some localities; melons mostly poor. Toma
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LEBANNON, Tenn., April 16.-
The family of Jack Buchanan, 7
wealthy resident, who rode awa
from his home here last Wedne
day with an unidentified automobi
driver, and has not been heard (
since, has changed its theory froi
murder to kidnaping for a ranson
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$5,000 reward and “no questioi
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father to his home "alive.” Wh?
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