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NEWS OF THE SOUTHLAND TOLD IN SNAPPY PARAGRAPHS
ALABAMA
BIRMINGHAM.—AIabama Power
company pays $53,000 for lot 140 by
' 190 leet, at corner of Sixth a venue
and Eighteenth street, on which it
will erect 20-story building at cost of
$1,250,000.
’ FLORENCE. Large gasoline
freighter Margaret, owned by \V. J.
- Cox, of Florence, and operated on
Tennessee river between here and
Clifton, Tenn., is destroyed by fire.
MONTGOMERY.—Over 50 pub
Ushers submit bids to state textbool;
commission. Commission will render
decision Maj’ 8.~
"■* GADSDEN. —Members of Camp
Sumner A. Cunningham and Children
of Confederacy unveil marble slab
which marks place where Emma San-
Bom, Alabama girl heroine, piloted
General N. B. Forrest across Black
creek during his pursuit of Genera*
W. D. Straight, federal raider.
HUNTSVILLE. —Quintis Watson,
12, son of Deputy Sheriff R. S. Wat
son, dies of fractured skull from be
ing struck by oil truck.
BIRMINGHAM.—Nat Beasley, 43,
driver, is killed, and Pat Carroll, 3a,
and J. A. Moncrief, 66, are seriously
injured when truck on which they
are riding is struck by Southern
train.
MOBILE. —Thirty-five young men
and women from Daphne State Nor
mal school, have narow escape on
launch ride on Mobile bay when boat
■trikes snag and turns over.
•- GOODWATER.—Arthur Shurett,
taxicab driver, and passenger, jump
from swiftly moving car when it
catches on fire and escape without
being injured.
HUNTSVILLE. —More than 150
, Knights, representing 35 command
eries attend sixty-fourth annual con
vention of grand commanders,
Knights Templar of Alabama, here.
Next year’s conversion goes to 1 roy.
MONTGOMERY— Following will
represent Alabarpa at ninth woil
convention of Sunday schools, at
Glasgow, Scotland, June 18-26. Dr.
J. 11. Chapman. Re-fc V. W. Hamner,
Miss A. L. Williams, Mrs. T G.
Bush, Allen G. Locher, all of Bir
mingham; Miss Nannie Baker, Mo
bile; Rev. M. L. Turner, Sheffield,
Miss Annie Williams. Ensley; Mr.
and Mrs. John D. Wyker, Decatur
J. Z. Schultz, Stevenson; Rev. and
Mrs. L. C. Brascomb, Anniston; Mrs.
.Tert Teny and Mrs. F. B. Murphy,
Huntsville; Mrs. George Gantt and
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Johnson lus
eumbia; Dr. and Mrs.' Charles Pratt,
Montgomery. __
ROCK SPRINGS.—M. V. Maley,
eighty-three, Confederate veteran,
formerly tax collector of Chambers
county, is dead.
OPELIKA.— Opelika Heading Mill
Is destroyed by fire of undetermined
origin, at loss of $30,000, partly in
sured.
, WHITESBURG—Back waters of
Tennessee river wash away large
bridge on Florida Short Route high
way between, here and New Hope.
TUSCALOOSA. Many notices
tacked to trees in rural sections near
here, signed “The Great Black
Cross,” warn negroes to leave when
crops are laid by.” We are worse
than Ku Klux, so look out, notices
sa V-
/ MONTGOMERY. All officers of
Alabama Council Religious Educa
tion are re-elected at annual meet
ing here. Dr. J. E. Dillard, of Bir
mingham, is president.
BIRMINGHAM.—R. W. Hughes,
of Tennessee Lumber and Manufac
turing company, while confined m
. local hospital ends life by slashing
throat from ear to ear with razor.
Despondency over ill health is coto
ner’s verdict. l
BIRMINGHAM. —' Despondency
over ill health causes Mrs. Clara
Puttman, thrity-four, of I-airfield, to
fire bullet into her temple, causing
instant death.
MONTGOMERY. Commencing
Mav 16, Alabama Farm Bureau T ed
eration will make thorough study, of
tax situation in Alabama.
BIRMINGHAM.—J. G. Whitfield,
Sringfield, Tenn., will erect >3a0.000
department store building, at Fourth
avenue and Eighteenth street.
GADSDEN. Tom Worthington,
convicted of distilling, goes to state
enitentiary for three years with pa
role petition in his pocket. This pe
tition was secured some time ago in
expectancy of conviction.
COLUMBIANA.— Judge E. S. Ly
mart "postpones spring term of cir
cuit court untl September as farm
ers are behind 2*2?j2_ wor ' < ’
. MONTGOMERY. By arrest of
sight persons, officers say local nai
cotic drug smuggling ring is broken
up. About $3,500 worth of cocaine
and morphine is- seized.
PIEDMONT. lce factory build
ing here is completed and machinery
is being placed.
L TUSCALOOSA. Speaking'before
Chamber of Commerce, C. B. Verner,
member of state legislature, declares
Alabama needs new constitution.
ANNISTON. Odd Fellows, of
Anniston, celebrate one hundred ami
fifth anniversary of founding of or
der with open meeting.
BUTLER. —Twelve whites and 10
negroes take state school examina
tions here. .
ANNISTON—Mrs. Sarah Eliza
beth Shirley, 85, is dead at home
near here.
GADSDEN. — Mrs. Mary Gilliland.
73, is dead after brief illness.
WINDHAM SPRINGS. George
ißarrison, 92, dies at home here
after protracted illness.
HURTSBORO. Dr. George D.
PasChal, until recently prominent -
Im
Aspirin
Say “Bayer Aspirin
INSIST! Unless you see the
“Bayer Cross” on tablets you
are not getting the genuine
Bayer Aspirin proved safe by
millions and prescribed by phy
sicians for 24 years.
A, Acce P. t onl - v *
jßaver package
whichcontains proven directions
Handy “Bayer” boxes of 12 tablets
Also bottles of 24 and 100 —Druggists
Asrtriß Is the trade mark of Bsyer Mson
■ictare of Mcnoaceticacidrater of Sallcylicacid
THE ATLANTA TRT-WEEKLY JOURNAL
physician of this place, dies in hos
pital at Tuscaloosa.
THROSBY. —Strawberries are be
ginning to move to market in
small quantities. Fruit Growers'
association will commence loading
cars soon.
BIRMINGHAM.—WaIIace Donald
son, 14, is instantly killed, William
Burke, 17, and Leslie Thompson, 14,
are seriously injured when Donald
son touches match to bottle sup
posed to contain nitro-glycerine and
explodes with loud report. Bottle
was found by boys in woods.
GUNTERSVILLE.—Ona May Me
' Lendon, under indictment for killing
Jeff Love, is given change of venue
to Albertville, and trial is set for
July.
. GADSDEN. - Governor Brandon
will deliver commencement address
at Glencoe High school May 8.
MONTGOMERY. Thirty - one
groups of girls from various sections
of Alabama enter state clothing con
test here.
AUBURN.—Dr. C. A. Cary, state
veterinarian of Alabama, quaran
tines against movement of domestic
animals and articles that may
transmit foot and mouth diseases,
from California.
GADSDEN—Mack Waldrop, as
sistant fire chief, is painfully injured
when he falls from roof of burning
building.
MONROVIA. —Andrew Hilliard. 57,
prominent* farmer, is dead, third ot
family to succumb to pneumonia in
recent weeks.
MOBlLE.—Liquor seized by fed
eral agents here will be tested to de
termine if it contains poison, and if
poison is found prosecutions will be
entered against sellers under state
statute.
ALBANY. —T. B. Hale, manager
of local water company, invents and
patents device to prevent waste of
oil by automobiles.
LEIGHTON.—Mrs. Cliff King, of
near here, dies in Tuscumbia from
effect of having tooth extracted.
ANNISTON.—GoaI of 10,000 boys
Kt Fourth corps area Citizens’ mili
tary training camp at Camp McClel
lan, beginning June 14, is set, ac
cording to General William P.
Screws.
ARITON. —New school to cost $25,-
000 Is to be built here soon.
TUSCUMBIA. First National
Bank of Sheffield is placing new safe
in vaults of new $75J)00 building.
LUVERNE. New government
highway through Crenshaw county,
making nearer route to Florida
points, is nearing completion.
SELMA.—Miss Elizabeth Conrad,
graduate nurse of Vaughan Memorial
hospital, goes to Dothan, May L to
assume charge of Dr. Albert Fra
zier’s private hospital.
MOBILE. —Dr. J. B. Marshall,
president of Shearer Marshall Real
ty company, resident of Mobile for
32 years, is dead after short illness.
NORTH CAROLINA
GOLDSBORO. Rocky Mount is
selected as site for Eastern Carolina
industrial school, authorized by last
general assembly to do work which
Jackson training school is doing in
western part of state.
NEW BERN. Body of Daniel
Gatling, negro, missing for several
wfeeks, is found in Neuse river and
is sent to Raleigh where physicians
will attempt to determine whether
he was drowned.
WILMINGTON. Due to heavy
inroads upon passenger traffic by
motor busses and private cars, some
railroads operating In state are con
templating discontinuing some local
short-haul passenger trains, says W.
J. Craig, passenger traffic manager
of Atlantic Coast. lane.
WILMINGTON. New Hanover
county commissioners are convinced
. obody wants jail when meeting to
open bids for razing and removing
jail to make way for new court
house annex, they found no bid pre
sented.
CHARLOTTE. Liquor which
Arthur C. Adams claimed he bought
from Clyde Travis was so vile that
it put Adams in bed and rendered
him unable to work, he" reports to
police.
GASTONIA. Perry McAlister,
70, of South Gastonia, dies of injur
ies sustained when his wagon is
struck by automobile driven by W.
R. Cochran, of Loray, S. C.
STATESVILLE? Chap Bur
roughs. charged with sending poison
ed candy through mails from Hick
ory, N C., to Miss Bessie Hargrove,
of Cottondale, Ala., divorced wife, Is
sentemed to four years in Atlanta
federal prison after conviction. Judge
Webb instructs court clerk to re
quest prison authorities to test
Burroughs' sanity.
ASHEVILLE?—“Dr. Joseph Hyde
Pratt, former head of North Caro
lina geological survey, leaves for
Washington where he expects to urge
senate committee to refuse to accept
otter for Muscle Shoals properties
which does not require operation
under provisions of federal water
power act.
CHARLOTTE.—James B. Wiliam,
son. ninety-two, . one of the oldest
Confederate veterans in this section,
dies at Matthews, N, C., home few
lays after suffering stroke of pa
alysis. He was twice wounded and
spent fifteen months in federal
prison.
DURHAM.—Joe Carlton, of local
high school, wins fourteenth annual
interscholastic declamation contest,
held at Trinity College, defeating
thirty-five opponents.
WINSTON-SALEM?—J. F. Watts
is given preliminary hearing on
charge of shooting A. J. Hauser.
I following argument over automobile
| accident and is bound over for trial
i in superior court.
NEW BERN.—Connor Rouse, of
I Polloekville, falls two stories, land-
I mg on top of Elks’ Home elevator
I and is gravely injured but probably
' will recover.
RALEIGH. —Extradition papers
1 for Carl Weigand, Chapel Hill attor
! ney, charged at Columbus, Ohio,
I with non-support of child by di-
I voreed wife, are held up by Governor
; Morrison following hearing on pa-
I pers issued by Governor Donahey.
Another hearing may be held when
Ohio officials will present their evi-
I dence.
HIGH POlNT.—James F. Jones,
’ forty-eight, farmer, drops dead while
driving wagon on street in business
j section.
' GREENSBORO.—J. E. Turner. of
] High Point, brick mason, aged thir
| ty-four, is fatally injured when he
. falls 30 feet while at work, head be
i ing crushed when he strikes on pip-
I ing.
RALEIGH.—North Carolina Den
' tai society, in annual convention,
elect Dr. H. O. Lineberger, of Rrl
eigh, president. Dr. J. R. Meadow,
nf Reidsville, is expelled from mem-
I bership on charges of unethical prac
| tice.
| HIGH POINT.—A. F. Thomas, of
i Greensboro, N. C., is perhaps fatally
i injured when Automobile he is driv
ing is struck by passenger train at
Lake. He “is brought to local hos
pital.
CHARLOTTE. Airedale dog,
owned by E. Guggenheim, which dis
appeared December 21, 1922, returns
horns. Owner is unable to explain
absence and belated return.
RALEIGH.—HoIding discounts al
lowed for early payment of taxes ap
ply only to taxes paid county sher
iffs. state supreme court holds
perfect uniformity and equality of
takation is “baseless dream,” when
rendering decision on appeal of Nor
folk Southern railroad in suit for
refund of $35,000 in taxes.
CHARLOTTE. —For second time
within week, death enters family of
W. B. Stuart, manager of Postal
Telegraph company’s local office,
who is advised of death at Atlanta,
Ga., of brother, J. C. Stuart, 62.
LEXlNGTON.—Confederate vet
erans of Davidson county hold an
nual reunion here May 10.
CHARLOTTE.—Seven prominen t
business men and former police offi
cer are arrested when officers raid
bachelor apartment and seize quan
tity of fine whisky on tables. They
are L. M. Lesesne, cotton broker; j.
S. Rust, auto dealer; Gordon Watt,
cotton broker; S. B. Tanner, Jr., tex
tile manufacturer; W. M. and J. W.
Laßbuise, cotton brokers, and W.
W. McGraw, former policeman.
ASHEVILLE. Sunday school
training school for leaders, under
general Sunday school board, will be
held at Lake Junaluska, summer as
sembly grounds of Southern Meth
odist church, first period, July 15-29;
second period, July 30 to August
13; third period. August 14-28.
RALElGH.—Secretary C. E. Mad
dry reports about SBOO,OOO raised by
April 30 of $2,000,000 quota of state
for Baptist benevolences of all
kinds.
CHARLOTTE. —Work of planting
12,000,000 bass and brem in Mam
moth lAke, formed by Mountain Is
land fiydro-electric development, is
now in progress.
ASHEVILLE. Construction of
first unit of blanket factory will he
started at Swannanoa within 60
days by Beaaon Manufacturing Co.,
of Providence, R. I.
RALEIGH.—PouItry depart ment
of state college ships educational
exhibition to world’s poultry con
gress, to be held at Barcelona,
Spain, week of May 10.
MARION.—Miss Helen Parton is
seriously injured when automobile
turns over.
WINSTON,SALEM?—R. H. Smith
is shot in chest while working on
his overturned automobile near here
and J. F. Watts is placed in jail,
charged with shooting, which Watts
denies.
LENOIR. —Main building of Pat
terson industrial school for boy's is
destroyed by fire.
CHARLOTTE.—Three North Caro
lina women, one widow and two
young sisters, are desirous of ob
taining husbands, Mayor J. O. Walk
er writes J. V. Bare, of Tekemah,
Neb., who recently appealed to
Walker to assist him in finding
wife.
ASHEVILLE. —Body of man found
near Marshall in French Broad river
is identified as that of Emory Pen
land, of Asheville, drowned January
18.
CHARLOTTE.—WiIIiam L. Kerr,
seventy-one, grocer, dies after short
illness.
GREENSBORO. —Because “unhap
py differences” arose between O. W.
Duke, magistrate, and wife, Mrs.
Martha. Duke, they intend “to live
apart from each other during the re
mainder of their natural lives,” says
deed of separation filed at court
house.
RALElGH.—Eastern North Caro
lina members of Co-operative Tobac
co Growers’ association will divide
another million dollars in cash not j
later than June 15; other members of I
association will receive additional
cash payments about May 15.
WILMINGTON. Randolph Sey
mette, fifteen, cook on schooner, na
tive of Tnaugua island, in West In
dies, sees first automobile, street ear !
and movie show on arrival at this
port.
MONROE—Ray Armstrong, su
perintendent of Kinston schools, is j
elected superintendent of Monroe
schools.
KINSTON. Within next five
years 48 counties in eastern North ’
Carolina will spend nearly “SIOO.- ■
000.00 C on schools, roads, public I
buildings.” according to eastern Car- .
nlina Chamber of Commerce esti
mate.
WILMINGTON. ■ — Members of
Cape Fear, Hanover and Wilming
ton lodges of Odd Fellows celebrate
on April 25, 105th anniversary of
founding of order In America.
CH ARLOTTE.—TweIve pure-bred i
Jersey calves, costing $1,212, are re
ceived from Spartanburg, S. C., Jer
sey breeder and are distributed to
members of recently organized Jun
ior Jersey Cattle club.
CHAPEL HlLL—University of
North Carolina student body, in an
nual election, chooses W. J. Cooke,
of Asheville, as president; J. E. Haw
kins, of Raleigh, editor of Carolina
Magazine; Homer Coltrane, of High
Point, president of Y. M. C. A.; C. C.
Fordham, of Greensboro, president
of athletic association; W. M. Saun
ders, ot Roanoke Rapids, president
of publications’ union.
GREENSBORO?—WaIter R. Dow
dy, of Asheboro; wife, and son, aged
six. are seriously injured, boy's skull
being fractured, when their small
car and heavy truck meet in colli
sion.
SHELBY.—Rev. J? Frank Weath
ers, fifty-four, well-known Baptist
minister, dies at home at Caesar of
pneumonia, following measles. He
gained newspaper notoriety last
summer, when he baptized in her
home bed-ridden woman, aged 101
years, for whom portable pool was
made.
Stops Pyorrhea in Ten Days
Thousands Now Using New Success
ful Treatment at Home.
If you suffer from Pyorrhea, bleed
ing or ulcerated gums, abscesses,
gum boils, loosening of the teeth,
etc., send your name to the Martin
Chemical Co., Dept. 702 Independ
ence. Mo., and they will send you a
full size dollar bottle of Pyrokur on
free trial. If it cures, you are to
send them sl. Otherwise your re
port cancels the charge. You pay
nothing until you are satisfied.
This remarkable treatment is
meeting with wonderful success and
is relieving thousands of people.
Many who think they have loose or
aching teeth find that the trouble is
in the gums and after a few days
use of Pyrokur the Pain disappears,
the teeth become more solid and
the foul breath is gon°.
(Advertisement.)
GATESVILLE.—Mrs. Elizabeth A
Roberts, seventy-set'en, widow of
late General W. P. Roberts, dies aft
er extended illness.
WARRENTON.—FIaying bigots in
general, including “religious rogues’
gallery, consisting of that noxious
pest, William Jennings Bryan; that
pompous .windjammer, John Roach
Straton; that pestilential mountbank.
Frank Norris,” Dr. Hubert McNeill
Poteat, of Wake Forest college, de
clares intolerance is growing steadily
and stronger through America.
HENDERSON. Vance County
League of Women Voters is organiz
ed under direction of Mrs. Mary O.
Cowper, of Durham, executive sec
retary of state league.
ASHEVILLE. —Transfer of all ne
gro patients is requested of Veter
ans’ bureau in petition signed by 250
World war veterans, patients at
Oteen hospital. Colonel Miller, com
manding. says hospital is caring for
1.000 white veterans and twenty
nine negroes.
FA YET T E VIL L E. —Jos ephust Da n -
iels, Raleigh publisher, will be 'prin
cipal speaker at memorial exercises
May 10 under auspices of J. E. B.
Stuart chapter, Daughters of Con
federacy.
WILMINGTON. Three-year-old
child of Roy Burnett is taken to
hospital for treatment of serious in
juries after being run down by mo
tor car driven by T. E. Murrell.
RALEIGH. —Physicians sdyJames
Shepherd, Henderson county negro,
is not badly hurt and will live. Shep
herd fell from eighth floor down ele
vator shaft while working on Odd
Fellows’ building.
SOUTH CAROLINA
GAFFNEY.—Mr. and Mrs. Ed
Phillips. L. B. Blanton and Mrs.
Rosa Huffman are bound over to
circuit court on charge of perjury
in connection with statements to ef
fect that Agnes Blanton, recently
licensed to marry Airey Phillips, was
of marriageable age.
WALAHALLA. —Fred. Henry and
George Corbin are brought here
from Fairfield, Ala., after losing
fight against extradition, to face
charge of robbing Enterprise bank
on March 26, when they took SBOO in
silver, largely in pennies.
GEORGETOWN' Yawhannah
bridge commission, Hugh W. Fraser,
chairman, arranges with state high
way commission to take care of ap
parent deficit of $90,000, due to in
creased costs, and make possible
carrying out of program for bridg
ing Pee Dee river.
W’ILLISTON. Asparagus ship-1
ments from here are several car- '
loads ahead of year's shipments <
to same date.
COLUMBIA.—City buys from Sea- ■
grave company, of Columbus, 0., I
two new fire engines, paying $22,- |
500.
COLUMBIA.—Thomas H. Peeples, j
for six years attorney general, serv
ing from 1913 to 1919, announces
candidacy for this office again.
COLUMBIA. .Extradition of
James D. Miller, wanted in Laurens
on charge of breach of trust with
fraudulent intent and grand larceny,
is asked by Governor McLeod of
Governor Al Smith, of New York,
under arrest in New York. Miller is
wanted for misappropriating funds
of Odd Fellows lodge, of which he
was secretary.
COLUMBIA.—A. C. Flora, prin
cipal Columbia High school, is elected
president state high school league
at closing session of “High School
Week” program here.
COLUMBIA.—John K. Aull resigns
as court stenographer here, due to
bad health.
AIKEN.—Fred H. Post, polo play
er, is attacked by negro who jumps
at him from ambush as he is running
to fire, but Post, heats negro off and
escapes with injures which he will
survive.
SPARTANBURG.—More Ilian two
hundred members of Travelers Pro
tective association attend state con
vention here, featured by addresses
by Congressman James F. Byrnes
and J. Y. Williams, of St. Louis,
president of national T. P. A.
AIKEN.—Fire of unknown origin
destroys large stables of Thomas
Hitchcock estate here
SUMTER.—Governor McLeod is
announced as speaker for state Sun
day school convention here, May 6.
SPA RTA NB U RG. —Mist ria 1 results
in case of O. S. Lindler, chief of po
lice at Clinton, Laurens county,
charged with murder of George
Tucker, of lower section of Spartan
burg county, last November.
CO L U M BI A.—G o ver nor McLeod
confers with Rion McKissick, of
Greenville, president Citizens’ Edu
cation association, and announces he
will at early date appoint members
of commission, authorized by recent
legislature, to make educational sur
vey of state.
COLUMBIA.—Two” drivers foi
large, taxi concern argue as to merits
of their cars; and to prove superior
ity go to paved highway in county
and stage race for many miles. Rural
policemen arrest them and magis
trate sends them to chaingang. War
rant is sworn out by employer.
GREENVILLE.—Case of commit
tee of Confederate veterans against
city to prevent removal of monument
from Main street is argued in state
supreme court.
ORANGEBURG. Representative
George W. Ninnicker, Willie Ford,
Lonnie Garrick, Jim Fogle, Luther
Whetstone and George Hutto are
bound over to circuit court on charge
of flogging Alice Tomas, negress,
near Norway, who testifies that the
men made her get out of bed at
night and that she was beaten with
buggy trace until she could hardly
walk.
GREENWOOD. —H. Cooney, young
young white man, convicted in his
absence at last term of criminal
court of transporting whisky, is ar
rested in Augusta, and lodged in
jail here to serve twelve months'
term, unless he can pay fine of sl,-
000.
CLEMSON COLLEGE. Trustees
postpone until July meeting election
of new president to succeed late Dr.
W. M. Riggs.
ANDERSON. —Willie Blount kills
himself after attempting to kill wife
and mother-in-law.
CHARLESTON—Henry N. Wier
mann kills himself with shotgun, leav
ing two notes indicating that his act
was prompted by ill health.
COLUMBIA.—Mrs. Neville Craig,
wife of widely-known young busi
ness man, dies after serious opera
tion. Husband and infant survive.
CHARLESTON. —Charleston doc
tors watch with interest condition of
Ernest Fraser, eighteen. who is
stabbed, knife penetrating his heart,
in which surgeons take four stitches
SUMTER.—Judge C. C. Feathen
stone, of Greenwood, reduces from
$065,000 to $40,000. verdict of Isaac
A. Edwards estate against Atlantic
Coast Line, involv ns damage? a?
result of death of Mr. Edwards in
wreck.
CHARLESTON.—Judge J. Henry
Johnson rules that H. Lee Harvey,
brother of former Governor Harvey,
cannot withdraw plea of guilty to
charge of violating state banking
laws in connection with failure of
Enterprise bank here, which he en
tered when case was called last fall,
and on which he was sentenced to
pay fine of $5,000 and serve one
year in prison. Judge Bowman im
posed sentence.
SUMTER— Mr~Elizabeth L. Clif
ton. widow ot late Senator John H.
Clifton, announces candidacy for
clerk Os court. She will oppose H. |
L. Scarborough, incumbent.
PROSPERIT Taylor, 71, ’
dies at home of brother near here, j
ORANGEBURG. —Investigation of!
the lynching of Luke Adams, negro, ,
near Norway, has failed to bring to
light identity of persons committing >
crime, according to report of State
Constable Dykes, to Governor Mc-
Leod.
BISHOPVILLE. Governor Mc-
Leod attends Democratic club meet
ing here, and announces that he has
not missed club meeting or failed to
vote in primary or general election
since he was twenty-one.
CHA R ree h u ndred
Boy Scouts take part in work of
planting shrubs and flowers on drive
ways across Asheley river.
ASHEVILLE—H. B. Wafers is
re-elected principal of Abbeville High
school.
COLUMBIA. —State pardon board
in report to governor recommends
that no action be taken on petition
for clemency for Jackson Collins,
World war veteran sent to pen from
Greenville on manslaughter convic
tion for killing of another veteran.
Clemency is recommended for twen
ty prisoners.
COLUMBIA. —Bust of-late former i
Governor James H. Hammond, who j
served in ’4o’s, is presented to state
by grandson, James H. Hammond,
of Columbia, and is placed in niche
in capitol.
CHESTER. —New city directory
gi\es Chester's population as 9,278.
CHARLESTON. Woman's Mis-1
sionary soefety, of South Carolina I
Methodist conference, meets in Beth-1
el church here.
UNION.—Body of' Will Oglesby,
negro, who had been missing for six j
weeks, is found in mill pond near I
city. •
UNlON.—Thomas Stepps, 59, of |
Monarch community here, is killed i
by Southern passenger train. He
was deaf and in poor health, and is
believed not to have heard approach-'
ing train.
ROCK HILL.—Dr? R. E. Burton,
of University of Minnesota; .Dr. John
Cooper Powys, of Cambridge, Eng-1
land; Dr. C. U. Clarke, of Yale, and
Dr. Charles Alphonso Smith, of Eng-1
lish department of Annapolis, are I
among prominent men announced for j
program of summer school at Win-1
throp college.
COLUMBIA.—Pickens high school |
wins state high school track meet j
here.
UNION.—Whit Stines and Harvey
Hutcherson, two white men who es-]
caped from Union county jail, are
still at large. They escaped by priz
ing door and bars wi'h iron from
bed.
ANDERSON? —Miss Jeffrie
Mitchell, pretty Anderson girl,
scans with much interest reports
of around-world aviators, for with
party is her brother, Lieutenant
William Mitchell.
LEXINCTOx. Coroner’s jury
views body and then adjourns inves
tigation into death of Eugene Clark,
age 10, who died from injuries re
ceived when car his father was
driving, in race with another car,
left road and struck tpee, injuring
both parents and several children.
CHESTER. R. O. Atkinson, J
member of house, announces he will ,
not offer for re-election, on account I
of poor hearing.
CHARLESTON. William J. '
Cronon, who for years has been in- f
structor in woodshop of high school I
here, while instructing two pupils
in use of circular saw, has hand cut
off.
COLUMBIA. —• Lewis I’’. Byars,
who returned to county jail here,
after being at large and wandering
over southeast for several years, is
lodged in state penitentiary to serve
remainder of twenty year sentence
for murder. Governor Blease having
reduced sentence from life to twen
ty years, in 1914.
DARLINGTON?”?- Dr. A. T.
Baird, popular physician, stricken |
with paralysis three years ago, dies. |
JOHNSTON. —'Velma Temples, '
third grade girl, is run over by car |
driven by Norman Cato, of high i
school, as he starts to drive from
school grounds, and little girl’s leg
is broken and other injuries sus
tained.
KINGSTREE. Policeman E.
S. Blackman, who was shot when
attempting to arrest at Lanes Har- !
rison Gray, negro, caught gambling, I
is expected to recover. '
COLUMBIA.?? E. M. Andrews,!
juror, is striken with acute indiges- I
tion in jury room and court orders
mistrial in case of Madeline Wil- |
Hams against Standard Oil com
pany for $250,000 damages, follow
ing explosion of oil lamp, allega
tion being that oil was impure.
FLORIDA
GAINESVILLE. —M. A. Brooker
and P. R. Bishop, representing col
lege of agriculture of Universi' •' yf j
Florida, defeated team from Georgia (
state college of agriculture in debate.
Florida team upheld negative of ques- j
tion. Resolved, That the French are ■
justifiable in their occupation of the i
Ruhr.”
GATNESVVILLE. District Agent
Jenkins and County Agent Graft re
port the entire field of cucumbers in j
Williston district has been completely j
ruined by any' rot. commonly '
called rust. They say crop could
have been saved had condition been
reportc c-~->ner.
TA LLA HASS EE.—Wil lia m G. Mc-
Adoo qualifies as candidate for Flo
rida’s endorsement in June presiden
tial primary.
-ART( -More than 300 ..cresl
in watermelons in this section of i
Polk rn- -*•- promise to yield at least
too cars this year. Crop is reported ;
in best condition in year s. Fifty car-1
lo.'-’s were ■■''d last year.
MACCT.ENNY—Inin L. Rhoden.'
56, prominent merchant, died of j
heart disease. T ' was he-- a Charl
ton countv Ga., but had lived here >
many years.
FORT PIERCE. Surfside beach
property. 236 acres on ocean on* - , is i
sold by Dr. Boothe to Chester Flor
ida Land company for more than I
$250,000. Extensive development'!
are expected £ -~ follow.
L. ELLE.—Wade and Flood of!
t ’--’--j are now busy sh"'ns 5,-1
000 head of cattle to Oklahoma. They!
e g ig s ’ and every
animal has to he dipped and in-;
spected.
DRLANDO. Florida Sta - ® Bank
’■-* a holds two-da' c r,r *
:vention here. Walter W. Hoad, presi
dent of American Bankers' associa
tion. is principal speaker, subject be
ing “We Must Quit Tampering.”
MOORE HAVEN.—John W. Mar
lin speaks here and submits platform
of five planks: 1, Intensive road
FORD CfiSH OS HfflO
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HIS REPORT SHOWS
NEW YORK, April 28.—Cash on
hand of the Ford Motor Company,
Inc., at the end of 1923, totaled $271,-
618,668, the largest of any industrial
corporation in America and nearly
double that of the United States.
Steel corporation, its nearest rival.
This was an increase of $112,012,981
over cash on hand at the beginning
of 1923 and $162,385,936 over 1922. <
The Ford figures, which became
known through the balance sheets
.just filed with the Massachusetts
commissioner of corporations, com
pare with cash on hand of $143,499,-
628 of the United States Steel cor
poration and $47,069,804 cash on
hand of the General Motors corpo
ration, the second largest manufac
turer of automobiles in the world.
Cash on hand figures of other large
corporations at the end of 1923 fol
low: American Telephone and Tele
graph company, $25,217,710; Ameri
can Tobacco company, $9,570,480;
American Woolen company, $7,117,-
209; Sinclair Consolidated Oil corpora
tion, $7,999,607; United States Rub
ber company, •> *1,654,598 ; Bethlehem
Steel corporation, $17,393,390; Cities
Service company, *13,082,660; E. I.
du Pont deNemours & Co., $18,918,379,
and Westinghouse Electric and Man
ufacturing company. $9,951,922.
\ While many of the Targe railroad
systems have not yet issued their
1923 reports; cash on band of some
of the larger roads at the end of the
year were: Atchison, Topeka, and
Santa, Fe, $25,813,785; Louisville and
Nashville. $17,731,1 OR; Northern Pa
cific. $10,374,362; Pennsylvania rail
road. $18,973,915, and Union Pacific,
$17,272.30L
Leading Citizen Shoots
Spalding County Man
To Death Near Griffin
GRIFFIN, Ga., April 29.—W. B.
Crowder, substantial and highly re
spected citizen of Spalding county,
shot and killed John Huckaby. 24
years of age, at Zetella, near Grif
fin, Saturday evening.
The difficult}’ arose over remarks
alleged to have been made by Mr.
Crowder about Huckaby in connec
tion with the destruction of some
stills in the Mt. Zion district. They
fought with hare hands for fifteen
or twenty minutes when it is said
Huckaby attempted to strike Crow
der with a plank. Mr. Crowder drew
his pistol and fired at Huckaby three
times, two of the shots taking effect.
Huckaby was carried to the Grif
fin hospital where he died Sunday
morning about 6 o’clock. Crowder
surrendered to the sheriff and is in
the county jail.
Funeral services for Mr. Huckaby
were held Monday at Fairview
church in County Line district, con
ducted by Rev. James A. Drewry.
A commitment trial has been ar
ranged by Mr. Crowder’s attorneys,
Judge J. A. Darsey and Messrs.
Cleveland & Goodrich, for Wednes
day morning at 10 o’clock before
Justice Taylor,
British Filer Is Forced
Down in Sandy Waste
Os Sind Desert of India
KARACHI, India, April 28.
Forced down into the sandy wastes
of the Sind desert near Bali, Major
MacLaren today left his British
round-the-world flight plane under
armed guard and returned to Kara
chi in search of a new engine.
The British globe-girdling effort |
probably will be delayed at least a
fortnight by the accident to Mac-
Laven’S machine which interrupted
his eastward flight from Karachi
Saturday.
It is reported the British airman
will find it impossible to obtain the
necessary engine or parts in India,,
and that an engine will have to be
brought from Iraq by steamer.
Major MacLaren’s cumulative fly
ing time from England to Partu, the
desert town at which he descended
Saturday, is 73 hours, 13 minutes.
FRENCH PLANE REACHES
PERSIAN GULF TOWN
PAP.IS, April 28.—Press dispatches
repo/t that Lieutenant Pelletier
Doisy, the French aviator, who is
flying to the far east, reached Bas
sorah on the Persian gulf, from Bag
dad Saturday night and left Sunday
for Karachi.
Hermes of Praxiteles
May Be Seen in U. S.
GENEVA, April 28.—Henry Mor-]
genthau, former American ambassa
dor to Turkey, arrived here Sunday!
cn his way to the United States to!
transmit to the state department an;
offer by Greece to send her greatest
art treasure, the statue of Hermes
by Praxiteles (500 B. C.) on an exhi
bition tour of America. The offer is
made as the tribute of the, "young
est republic to the greatest.”
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CLEVELAND, O„ April 28.—Wil
liam G. McAdoo, with 217 1-2 votes
pledged, is assured a lead on the first
ballot at the Democratic national con
ventica, David L. Rockwell, his na
tions i pre-convention campaign man
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liam Gibbs McAdoo will receive
North Carolina’s twenty-four votes
at the Democratic national conven
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Fruits and Vegetables
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co-operative marketing of fruit and
vegetables in 39 states was outlined
today in the annual report of the
federated fruit and vegetable grow
ers for 1923, the first year of its
operation.
Citing a volume of 35,510 cars of
produce from 39 states marketed in
772 cities and towns, the report,
which is indorsed by the American
farm bureau federation, also points
Io an indicated increase in tonnage
for 1924 of approximately’ 30 per
cent.
11. W. Jeffers, president of the Gar
den State Potato exchange, New Jer
sey. was elected president; Arthur
R. Ule will continue as general man
ager. O. E. Bradfute, president;
Gray Silver, Washington representa
tive of the American Farm Bureau
Federation, and Henry Morgenthau,
Jr., of New York, son of the former
American ambassador to Turkey,
were named to the directorate.
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two and one-half hours, is being
completed near here. The fastest
train takes four hours.
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separate trial on conspiracy charges
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