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NEWS OE THE SOUTHLAND TOLD IN SNAPPY PARAGRAPHS
ALABAMA
DECATUR. —Alabama Power com
pany will construct 44,000-volt trans
mission line from Hapgood, near
Muscle Shoals, to Decatur.
MOBILE.—First of number of
barges being built here for Tennes
see Coal, Iron and Railroad com
pany, of Birmingham, is ready to
be launched.
BIRMINGHAM. Rev. T, W.
Crossee, 77, highly respected Mea***
preacher, is killed instantly by street
car in East Birmingham.
ALBANY—J. H. Horton is shot
five times and instantly killed, on
one of Albany’s business streets by
Y. S. Grubbs, Louisville and Nash
ville railroad watchman. Grubbs Is
arrested. Cause of shooting un
known.
BAY MINETTE?—R. B. Vail, well
known newspaper man of this place,
w’ho owns chain of weekly news
papers in sout- Alabama, may an
nounce as candidate for secretary of
state, he says.
MONTGOMERY.'—State and city
officers capture 250-gallon still in
heart of business district. E. N.
Wilson is arrested as he enters build
ing where still is located. Fifteen
gallons of whisky is also captured.
BAY MlNETTE?—Baldwin coun
ty’s Irish potato crop this year was
double last year’s crop. One farm
er produced 200 bushels on ten acres.
SHEFFIELD Congressman
Charles A. Christopher, of Sioux
Falls, S. D., and Congressman Wil
liam Williamson and Mrs. William
son, of Oacoma, S. D„ visit Muscle
Shoals as guests of Congressman Ed
B. Almon, of Tuscumbia.
HUNTSVILLE. —Lincoln mills are
breaking ground for third mill to
cost $3,000,000.
MONTGOMERY-—Hicks Mercan
tile company, of Luverne, purchase
bankrupt stock of Tullis Hardware
company for $70,500. Stock invoiced
SBO,OOO.
AUBURN.—Theta Chi fraternity
will build chapter house here to cost
$25,000. Contract will be let July 8
for building Erskine Ramsey Engi
neering hall for college.
ROBERTSDALE. Milton O.
Ostlund, rural mail carrier, pleads
guilty in United States court at Mo
bile to embezzling postoffice money
and is given six months in Baldwin
county jail.
TALLADEGA. Mrs. Florence
Emery
daughter, Mrs. Rice Woodward,
after residence of twenty years here.
BIRMINGHAM. S. R. Batson,
member of board of revenue of Jef
ferson county, advocates extending
five trunk highways entering Birm
ingham, five miles further out.
ATTALLA. —Forty-three citizens
file injunction against $177,000 bond
paving issue for Attalla, claiming
issue is unconstitutional because
bonds were sold for less than par.
ALABAMA "CITY.—Bob Tatum
barely escapes from fire which de
stroys home, leaving clothes and
weekly pay check in burning build
ing. . \
GADSDEN. —Emory Rodgers, 70
one of best known citizens of this
county, is deack
MOBILE. —After 43 years’ service
as teacher in public schols. Miss
Mary B. Prichard is retired on pen
sion.
UPPER TALLAHASSEE. Ala
bama Power company completes ne.w
hydro-electric project on Tallapoosa
river here, giving additional 7.80 C
horsepower at cost, of $500,000.
GOODWATER. Citizens of this
county will celebrate completion of
three-way state highway leading into
Goodwater and new concrete street
through town, July 4-5.
SELMA. —State hgihway engin
eers are making survey of 14 miles
of Planterville road, which is to be
graveled.
MOULTON.—RuraI Ferguson, 18,
is held in county jail here charged
with shooting and seriously injuring
Delbert Osborne, near here. Os
borne is in hospital at Albany.
RUSSELLVILLE? Foy Guinn
fGiles suit against L. L. Jackson,
editor of Franklin County Times,
for $5,000, alleging cartoons and edi
torial printed in newspaper injured
him politically.
PHL CAMPBELL.—I. W. Garner
dies suddenly after returning home
from fishing trip. Heart trouble is
believed cause.
MONTGOMERY. Warning to
ice cream manufacturers that they
must comply with state laws re
quiring 8 per cent butter fat for ice
cream, is given by H. M. Rorbert
son, supervisor of division of agri
cultural chemistry.
GADSDEN. Thirty-four candi
dates qualify for municipal primary
on June 24. Mrs. Annie Coats and
Mrs. Helen Hopkins are among can
didates for aldermanic places.
REFORM.—Work is nearing com
pletion on state highway from Tusca
loosa county line to Sumter county
line via Gordo, Reform and Carroll
ton.
DEMOPOLIS.—Rev. W. D. Brat
ton, rector of Trinity Episcopal
church, and Rev. A. A. Hutto, pas
tor of First Baptist church, each
tender their resignations to their
congregations.
COALING. —Robert L. Edwards,
Sr., 65. Birmingham traveling sales
man, is killed when his auto is
struck by Alabama Great Southern
nailroad train here.
BIRMINGHAM.—H. H. K. Jef
ferson resigns as vice president of
American Trust and Savings bank
and will devote time to private busi
ness. Successor is not yet named.
HEFLIN.— Mrs. Allen Wright, of
Heflin, dies in hospital at Birming
ham. Remains are interred here.
MONTGOMERY.—Miss Madeline
Truitt. 60. secretary to Dr. B. F.
Jflckson. is struck by large motor
truck and skull fractured and leg
broken.
MOBILE. —George Gordon Craw
ford, of Birmingham, is endorsed by
Gen. W. L. Sibert for place on wa
terways corporation board.
TROY.—Roy “Goat” Walker, star
pitcher with State Normal school
for past two seasons! goes with Bir
mingham Barons, of Southed
league. _
ALBANY.—"Howdy Day" is cele
brated ty all merchants of Albany,
on which occasion farmers and all
others are given free entertainment
«t local theater.
SYLACAUGA.—Henry and An
drew Ward, convicted some time
ago of terrorizing citizens of Big-
Wills Valley, near Attalla, and who
escaped from Etowah county chain
gang last December, are captured
in old barn near here while asleep.
Snod
dy, Walker bounty coal operator,
must serve 20 years terms in state
prison tor killing Joe Carter, accord
ing to decision of supreme court.
BESSEMER.—Ordinance is intro
duced in city council on first read
ing to raise gas rates to $1.25 per
1,000 cubic feet.
THE ATLANTA TKLWEEKLI JOURNAL
' JASPER.—W. F. Kitchens is
commissioned by Secretary of State
Blan to succeed J. Carl Shepphard,
resigned, as judge of Jasper city
court.
TUSCALOOSA. Among those
scheduled to speak at state meet
ing of American Legion here, July
4, are: Gov. W. W. Brandon, Gen.
R L. Bullard, Congressman W. B.
Oliver, Congressman Lamar Jeffers
and Congressman J. Lister Hill.
77AZLEGRASS. Postoffice and
two sp**"*. of I. H. Lowe and C. S.
Lowe are w-Jbed of over SSOO worth
of merchandise, and several dollars
in cash taken from postoffice.
BERLIN.—Mrs. Margaret * Reese,
87. is stricken with paralysis and
taken to hispital at Selma.
MONTGOMERY,”— Sidney J.
Knighton, accused of murdering
Jerome Fannin at Grady, in fight
between two sets of brothers, is
bound over to grand jury under $!.,•
000 bond.
FLORENCE. —Colonel Spaulding,
commander of government reserva
tion at Wilson Dam, issues orders
that Alabama's blue laws will be
rigidly enforced on reservation, and
that baseball and all other Sunday
amusements will be discontinued.
FLORENCE. —Chamber of com
merce decides to keep up its fight in
interest of Henry Ford for Muscle
Shoals project, and organization at
Washington, D. C., will be mian
taired.
BESSEMER.—Promoters of $1 ,-
000,000 plant are considering lo
cating in Bessemer, according to
Secretary A. E. Ausman, of chamber
of commerce, who stated he had no
details to give out at this time.
JONESBORO. —Contract for build
ing $40,000 Methodist church is given
to Dillard & Reeves, of Bessemer,
who will commence works soon.
CULLMAN.—State officers say
whisky runners are transporting
whisky from near here in wagons,
and that wagon tracks are being
plowed up to destroy trail.
GUNTERSVILLE.—Due' to heavy
rains in east Tennessee, Tennessee
river rises rapidly and growing crops
in river bottoms are threatened.
TUSCUMBIA. —Alabama and Mis
sissippi lumber companies receive
orders from federal government for
607,000 feet of lumber, aggregating
$16,754.40, for use in construction
work at Wilson.jlam.
CAMP MCLELLAN. Clemson
college, S. C., with 170 representa
tives, has largest number of students
enrolled at Reserve Officers training
camp here. Emory university, At
lanta, Ga., has 48; Georgia Tech has
38; Alabama Polytechnic institute at
Auburn, has 37; Alabama university
has 28; University of Georgia, 25:
North Georgia Aggies, 11; Georgia
Military College. 20; Georgia Military
academy, 14. Many other southern
colleges have students enrolled.
Course lasts six weeks.
ANNISTON. —Remains of Onnie
Bramlett, 11, killed by train at Con
nellsville, Pa., are interred here.
GUNTERSVILLE. Strawberry
crop here is cut short by excessive
rains, but in spite of this nine cars
are shipped, which average $1,500
per car to growers.
GADSDEN.—Ira Bell, wanted
murder of Paul Long in DeKalb
countk in 1921, and who escaped jail
at Jasper, Tenn., is arrested while,
operating 100-gallon still, just across
the Alabama state line in Tennessee.
MONTGOMERY.—AII officers of
Alabama Farm Bureau Cotton asso
ciation are re-elected at annual meet
ing of directors here. 4ohn S. Ker
nachan is president.
NORTH CAROLINA
KINSTON.— Mrs. Jack Skinner,
wife of young business man, is pain
fully injured by automobile driven
by man named Husdon, who was
speeding to hospital, where he. was
carrying his wiffe, stricken with sud
den illness.
ASHEVILLE.—James Van Brown.
•Tr., young World war veteran, is
dead tn Panama, where he was em
ployed as civil engineer, according
to cablegram to parents, Mr. ' and J
Mrs. C. W. Brown. Body will be 1
brought here.
ASHEVILLE.—Governor Morri
son plans to spend August in Ashe
ville on vacation.
ASHEVILLE. James Walter
Griffith, 46, for 17 years principal
of elementary and junior high
schools of Savannah, Ga., | s elected
principal of Asheville high school,
to succeed A. J. Hutchins, resigned.
RALEIGH. Apportionment of
federal fund for highway construc
tion indicates North Carolina will
receive $1,697,246.16 for work to be
done in 1925, according to informa
tion received from Washington by
state highway commission.
DI RHAM.—-After efforts of police
judge to influence Will Shields, mid
dle-aged Durham white man, to
cease trespassing on propertv of
Southern Railway had failed, he is
given thirty days in jail despite his
vigorous contention at trial that he
' owns railway.
CHAPEL HlLL.—Honorary de
grees are awarded to group of no
table men of this and other states
by University of North Carolina,
recipients including William Jack-'
son Adams, associate justice of stat®
supreme court, and Charles. Upham,
chief engineer of North Carolina
highway commission.
KI NS I ON.—Local politicians say
Lindsay Warren, 34. representative
of First district, recently rominated,
will be youngest man to represent
' state in lower house of congress.
I He lives at Washington, N. C.
CHARLOTTE.—WiII of late Wal
ter S. Alexander, prominent business
man. who recently died at Battle
: Creek. Mich., after extended illness,
jis probated in Mecklenburg county
superior court, and disposes of es
tate estimated at SBOO,OOO. Monthly
■ income of SSOO is left to w-dow. Mrs.
. Lillian F. Alexander.
WINSTON-SALEM. Health de
' partment officials announce add:-
, tional $2,000 is needed for milk and
; ice fund, if service, already planned
! to r< "sf of undernourished children
I hi schools, as well as needy babies, is
jto be continued during summer
months.
CHARLOTTE?^—-Si D. Gray. 25.
express messenger, steps from taxi
cab, enters express office and at
tempts to carry out suicide threat.
, shooting himself three times. He
just previously had tried to cut his
throat. M. R. Dunn, taxi driver and
friend, succeeding in taking knife
from I im. Physicians say Grav mev
recover.
INSTON-SALEM. Janies Wil
liani Schouler, 70, associated with
. ons. of Bolton, is found wandering
of large department store, dies after
long period of ill health.
WILMINGTON. Missing since
early in May. James Franklin Ly
ons .of Bolton, isc found wanderin®
in park at I .os Angeles. Cal., his
mind gone, according to telegraphic
advices from Los Angeles police
chief to Wilmington chief, which in
dicates Lyons does not know how he
made trip to far west. •
FA definite
action toward construction of new
city hall, cost of which remains to be
determined, is taken when city gov
ernment authorizes employment of
architect to draw plans of building,
on which work is expected to be
started within few months,
CONCORD.—,L Harvey Dorton. 56,
prominent btvsiness man and poli
tician, dies at Morganton, where he
had been under treatment for two
weeks after long period of declining
health.
RALEIGH. —Labor conditions, ex
cept on farms, are showing steady
improvement, and several cities re
port surpluses of carpenters and
bricklayers, while demand and sup
ply of unskilled labor in cities con
tinues about equal, according to
state department of labor.
G REENSBORO.—J. C. Goode, 68,
of Asheville, dies at home of daugh
ter, Mrs. Creighton A. Bray, after
iliness beginning three months ago.
and which prevented his returning
home after he came here on visit.
G REENSBORO.—Address of Leon
Cash, grand master of North Caro
lina Masonic grand lodge, is feature
of nineteenth annual meeting of
North Carolina grand chapter, Order
of Eastern Star.
CHAPEL HlLL.—Twelve classes
of University of North Carolina, at
tending joint reunion, vote favorably
on proposal to purchase $.1,000,000
twenty-year endowment insurance
policy for university, which fund
will be available rtn institution’s one
hundred and fiftieth anniversary,
plan being that each member of alum
ni association take out, payable to
university, S2OO endowment policy.
CHAPEL HlLL.—University of
North Carolina, at one hundred and
twenty-ninth commencement, awards
degrees to 283 graduates and hears
address by C. S. Hamlin, former sec
retary of federal treasury and mem
ber of federal reserve board.
ASHEVILLE.— Everett Schooler,
19, escaped convict and whisky run
ner, is lodged in Buncombe county
jail, charged with murder of Depu
ty Sheriff E. K. Henshley, 46, shot
to death near Schooler’s home at
Skyland. While officers prepared to
dynamite house in whidh Schooler
barricaded himself. Police Judge
Sullivan influenced him to surrender.
RALEIGH.—Program of State
College summer school includes ad
dresses by Dr. Frederick G. Bonser,
professor of industrial education,
Teachers’ College. Columbia Uni
versity. New York city, this being
first of series of lectures by widely
known educators.
DURHAM.—“What Methodism
Is” is subject of Bishop E. G. Mon
zon, of Methodist Episcopal church,
South, who addresses 200 ministers
attending pastors’ school at Trinity
college.
GOLDSBORO.—Masons of sixth
North Carolina district 'hold educa
tional meeting at Pikeville, called
by District Deputy Grand Master
C. B. McCandless, when Dr. W. c.
Wicker, educational grand secre
tary, delivers illustrated lecture.
WILMINGTON.—For third suc
cessive year waters of Topsoil sound
are again filled with dead fish and
crabs while shore from Topsail in
let to Elmore's inlet is strewn with
tons of dead fish washed ashore.
Government experts are unable to
offer explanation.
WILMINGTON. —North Carolina
Plumbers’ association, in annual
session, adopt resolution declaring
favor Morrison’s state
owned ship line and port terminals
proposal.
CHARLOTTE.—FuneraI services
are conducted here by World war
veterans for Lieutenant John N.“
Wilson, United States army air
service, killed at Selfridge field.
Mount Clemens, Mich., when he was
testing airplane, which went into
tail spin and crashed from altitude
of 1.000 feet.
CHARLOTTE.—Dr. Luther little,
pastor of First Baptist church, is
chosen chairman of a central 1 com
mittee arranging for presentation of
pageant at sesquicentennial of sign
ing of Mecklenburg declaration of
independence. May 20,~ 1.925. Thom
as Woods Stevens, of Pittsburg,
noted pageant writer, is invited to
confer with committee on selection
of author of pageant.
WINSTON-SALEM. W. A.
Goodson is re-elected president of
Winston Tobacco association.
MOREHEAD CITY. H. Galt
Braxton, publisher of Kinston Free
Press, is unanimously elected presi
dent of State Press association in
summer meeting.
WILMINGTON. —Thomas 1-7. Coop
er, brother of Lieutennat Governor
W. B. Cooper, is indicted by New
Hanover county superior court grand
jury on charge of misapplying $47,-
000 of funds of defunct Liberty Sav
ings bank, of Wilmington. Brothers
were’ tried recently in federal court
on similar charges growing out of
failure of Commercial National bank,
of Wilmington, mistrial resulting.
WILMINGTON. —President Kenly
says Atlantic Coast Line will have
nothing to say regarding order of
interstate commerce commission per
mitting Coast Line and Louisville &
Nashville to lease Carolina. Clinch
field and Ohio railroad until board of
directors of both leasing lines pass
upon conditions, which involve large
financial obligations.
CHAR LOTTE.—Severe hail and
wind storms sweeping Piedmont sec
tion of state devastate hundreds of
acres of crops, and houses are re
ported damaged at Mooresville, Da
vidson and other small towns. No
loss of life is reported.
CHARLOTTE?-G? R. Clements,
54. part owner and manager of Pied
mont hotel, widely known as former
traveling salesman, died st ddenly of
heart trouble. Body is sent to Hen
derson for interment
HENDERSON?—O? B. Redfern. 22.
of Chesterfield. S. C., dies in local
hospital of burns received when he
came in contact -with high voltage
power line at Franklinton, where he
was employed on power line con
struction job.
W. Belk.
42, grocer, is fatally injtned when
auto is struck by switching engine
of Southern railway, which ap
proached crossing immediately after
passing of freight train on another
track.
CHARLOTTE?—WiII ia-i W. Dan
ner. 67, dies after three-year illness
GASTONIA.—Robert Ingram, 17
dies of injuries received week pre
viously when lung was punctured by
; vicious hog. He had gone to Dallas
to buy hogs from Jim Rhyne, and
was attacked when he entered hog
pen.
CHARLOTTE. Within few days
after graduation from University of
Washington, at Seattle. Norman R.
Strickland. 24. of Middlesex. N. C.,
is drowned in lake near university
campus, according to telegram re
ceived by brother, A. C. Strickland.
He is son of Mr. and Mrs. A. T.
Strickland, of Middlesex.
HICKORY. —Spring- ceremonial ot
Oasis temple of Shrine is held, fea
ture being parade led by 13 negro
boys leading 13 black cats tied to
13 black ribbons._
RALEIGH—First sign of fight
on Governor Morrison’s proposal for
state-owned ship line and port ter
minals develops when Lindsay War
ren, nominee to national house of
representatives, through manager of
recent campaign, who says he will
sit in special session of legislature,
of which he is member, and fight
to have proposal submitted in en
tirety to vote by people.
ASHEVILLE. —In pursuance of
plan “to make. Asheville art capital
of America.” Chronicle House, Inc..,
purchases 70 acres of land on river
near Asheville, where Chronicle
Town will be built and thrown open
June 1, 1925, for occupancy by
“master artists,” their students and
followers. Glenna S. Tinnin and
Katherine S. Brown, formerly of
New York, are founders of move
ment.
RALEIGH North Carolina
Knights of Pythias grand lodge se
lects Winston-Salem for next annual
meeting and adjourns. W. M.
Lyles, of CWarlotte, grand keeper of
records and seals, announces $16,000
of needed $20,000 for dormitory for
boys at Pythian orphanage at Clay
ton has been pledged.
| RALEIGH.— Raleigh school com
mittee awards contract for construe
lion of first unit of Hugh Morson
Junior High school to cost about
$200,000, as first step in carrying
out plan to spenj $1,000,000 for de
velopment of city’s school system.
RALEIGH. —T. E. Browne, di
rector of North Carolina department
of vocational education, announces
.state, with profit of $337,000, leads
southern states in total profit in
1923 on agricultural projects sos
tered by educational departments.
Arkansas is second with $235,000,
and Tennessee is third with $224,-
1)00. North Carolina invested in
1923 $240,000 in salaries of agricul
tural teachers.
RALEIGH.—John G. Dawson, ot
Kinston, chairman of state Demo
cratic executive committee, an
nounces J. W. Bailey, of Raleigh,
defeated candidate for Democratic
nomination, will take stump in fall
election campaign for A. W. McLean,
of Lumberton, party nominee.
WILMINGTON?—Party of about
100 business men of Wilmington at
tend meeting, June 19, at Golds
boro under auspices of eastern
Carolina chamber of commerce,
when organization of perfected for
campaign to educate public to state's
reed for lower freight rates and
arouse interest in state-owned ship
line and port terminals proposition.
WILMINGTON?—Not. guilty ver
dicts are returned in New Hanover
superior court by juries in cases
charging G. V. Hardee, merchant,
with arson, and Elder Johnson, of
ficial of Knights of Mystic Clan,
with false pretense.
KINSTON.—William Grady. Dup
lin county farmer, is scheduled to
face trial during week of July 7,
at Kenansville, on charge of kill
ing son, Romulus, aged 19, fatally
cut following altercation with father.
RALEIGH. — Vocational education
in high schools is “tragic and crimi
nal mistake,” says Dr. Hubert M.
Poteat, of Wake Forest college, in
address. He declares that of 700,000
teachers in America 200,000 have
less than high school education,
100.000 are under 20 years of age,
30,000 have no professional train
ing and many thousands are unfit
ted to teach.
CHARLOTTE. Between sobs
Miss Mary Wallace, 17, tells Meck
lenburg court of outrage, committed
upon her by brother-in-law, A. W.
Spurlock, young farmer, who is con
victed and sentenced to five years
in prison.
CHARITITTK?— ~ Four hundred
persons attend reception at Ninth
Avenue Baptist church complimen
tary to Rev. and Mrs. L. R. Pruette,
for thirty years minister here, on
occasion of church's twenty-eighth
anniversary.
LA UR INBURG. —Cariot shipments
oewberries are being made by Scot
land county growers. Growers re
ceive 18 to 25 cents per quart for
fine berries. Carlot shipments is
about 225 crates of 32 quarts each.
SOUTH CAROLINA
SPARTANBURG.—Grand chapter
South Carolina Order of Eastern
Star meets here with Mrs. Mamie M.
Dodd, of Greenville, worthy grand
matron, presiding.
SPARTANBURG?— Clarem e Bla
lock, of Boiling Springs, is indicted
'n connection with killing of his fa
ther, J >hn Blalock, whose head he
almost beat into pulp with stone, fol
lowing altercation. He claims self
defense.
COLUMBIA.—State canal commis
sion meets in Columbia and begins
consideration of .selecting engineer to
develop 500 horsepower in Columbia
canal, for service of state buildings
and institutions in Columbia.
ANDERSON.—CeciI McLesky, 14-
year-old, is saved from drowning by
unknown man who wraps legs about
boy and swims to land with him.
A SHE VlLLE.—Abbeville Cotton
mills install 350 new looms.
SPARTANBURG?-Contract for
new Southern shops here understood
to have been let to Dwight P. Rob
inson company, of New York. Bids
for belt line tracks, which will take
rails out of heart of city, will be
opened in Washington June 25.
SPAR lANBU RG. — Ed Willia ms.
young negro, who had wagon shaft
thrust through body when truck in
which he rode collided with wagon
is reported as worse, with slim pros
pects of life.
ROCK HlLL.—Winthrop college
opens summer school with approxi
mately 1,000 attending.
COLUMBlA.—Committee of bank
ers from two Carolinas, headed by
J- W. Norwood. o f Greenville, S. C..
a ? d W - H - of Charlotte.
N. C., meets here and prepares
brief, to submit to federal reserve
bank in Richmond, showing bank
ing and industrial resources of two
states, on which Richmond bank
will base decision regarding pro
posed establishment of branch bank
at some point in two states.
UNION.—W. W. Johnson. of
1 nion, probate judge of Union
county, is appointed national Dem
ocratic executive committeeman
pro tern, by Committeeman John
Gary Evans, of Spartanburg. Mr
Evans is recuperating from an
operation and will be unable to at
tend the national convention in
New York.
WINNSBORO.—Rev. W. P, Pey
ton, rector of group of Episcopal
churches here, declines call to
church at Greenwood, much to de
light of many friends here, where
he is very popular.
BENNETTS VI LT,E. Congress
man James F. Byrnes, candidate for
■ Senator N. B. Dial’s seat in Unit
; ed States senate, attacks Dial’s vote
: I against bonus as contrary to plank
•j in state Democratic platform of
i ! 1922, which endorsed bonus.
’ WlNNSßOßO.—B'airfield county’s
jail here is empty for first time in
ninety years. All recent prisoners
' got penitentiary sentences. Jail has
■ ! been sold and new one is to be built,
;i by commission headed by W, D.
' j Douglas.
I GREENWOOD. Commission
composed of representatives of Er-
■ skine college, Due West Woman’s
college and Associate Reformed
I Presbyterian Theological seminary,
j all located at Due West and all com
; trolled by Associate Reformed Pres-
I ; byterian church, meets here find de-
■ ! cides to put three institutions under
' i one governing board.
» I
, SUMTER. —R. Dozier Lee, promi
nent young member of Sumter bar,
I dies at hospital in Charleston.
GREENVILLE. Marvin Haw
kins, 38. merchant, is shot through
‘ brain and instantly killed while
working in garden, wound being in
flicted by stray bullet fired by R. A.
Norris, at target practice, 156 yards
I away.
i COLUMBIA. —Dr. Thornton Whal
' ing, former president of Columbia
Theologica, seminary here, ’.ow mem
ber Louisville, Ky., Theological sem
inary faculty, issues statement re
viewing wor kof historic institution
here and declaring permanent pros
perity of school depends on presi
dent's raising money necessary for
endowment. School is now without
president, and movement to move it
to Richmond and combine it with
Union seminary there, has just been
defeated.
COLUMBIA.—PIans for formation
of state chamber of commerce are
discussed by committee representing
all commerce chambers of state, oom
posed of John L. Mimnaugh, Colum
bia; William Lykes, Columbia, and
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COLUMBIA.—Stare highway com
mission advertises for bids for 1925
auto license plates, these to be green
with white letters.
ROCK HlLL.—Citizens’ Bank
Trust Co., of Rock Hill, increases
capital stock from $50,000 to $200,-
000.
CHESTERFIELD?-Milton Jack
son. colored, shoots wife and then
hacks her head to pieces with ax,
and. placing shotgun on floor, shoots
himself in head, attempting suicide.
Load tears away his chin and
tongue, but he may live.
COLUMBlA.—Approximately 450
tons of calcium arsenate for boll
weevil poison have been sold to farm
ers by state warehouse commission
at cost, says State Warehouse Com
missioner J. Clifton Rivers.
COLUMBIA.—Three hundred ru
ral high school girls from Richland,
Sumter, Newberry and Lexington
county attend “short course” in
home economics and agricultural
methods at Chicora college here, con
ducted by demonstration forces of
district.
KNGS I REE. Jake W’einberg,
Lake City merchant, whose car ran
down Mrs. Koon and her three-year
old daughter, near here on May 27,
killing both, car speedin gon, and
who is held on charge of murder is
released on $6,000 bond. Mrs. A. Hy
man, of Darlington, his sitser go
ing his bond.
COLUMBIA.— Business license tax
nets state $130,000 In May, largest
monthly return since tax was creat
ed, says W. G. Querry, chairman
state tax commission.
CHESTER.— Edgar M. Alexander,
prominent resident, dies at home
here.
SUMTER.—City council votes
unanimously against allowing Sum
ter Telephone company to increase
rates.
McCOßMlCK.—Officers Brown
Norris, Morse and Talbert are ac- 1
quitted of charge of murder, of
Richard Gilchrist, negao, shot at
still near here.
COLUMBIA.^—Summer school for
high school teachers opens at state
university here, attended by 450
teachers, with Major J. D. Fulp.
state high school inspector, in
charge.
FLORENCE.—-Mrs. George Sisk
ron is placed on trial for murder ot
husband, whose body was found in
dying condition at home near Pal
metto, and Mrs. Rosa Lee Barnette.
Mrs. Siskron's sister, is indicted as
accessory.
BETHUNE.—Katie Bell Baker,
age 9, daughter of Will Baker, falls
into 80-foot well on father’s farm in
Cassatt section, and is drowned.
AIKEN.—Jim Redd, 60, for many
years court crier here and one of
best known men of county, dies at
home near here after two days’ ill
ness.
GAFFNEY.—Five hooded men
seize man and woman found in au
tomobile in suburbs and flog- them.
Woman leaves town. Neither’s name
is given.
SUMTER.—Mrs. Rosa V. Hurst,
wife of Sheriff Charles M. Hurst.
die« at local hospital after several
weeks' serious illness, following long
period of bad health.
FORT MILL.—Mrs. George Mer
ritt is struck by automobile driven
by Elliott Potts, and dies from in
juries.
M. Epps, 77.
Confederate veteran, and John S.
Evans, 68, both prominent citizens
of Workman community, die with
in few hours of each other.
ROCK HlLL.—Misses Enna Fish
burne, E'inor Ravenel, Harriett God
frey and Theodora Taylor, Winthrop
students, go to New York to do
work among Italian children on
East side, under Episcopal church.
PICKENS. —Pickens county ships
third carload of poultry this season
j to northern markers.
GREENWOOD. Anthony P.
I Crawford. 18-year-old high school
! hoy, dies from blood poison result
i ing from his scratching boil in
! nose.
! GREENWOOD?-W. R. Spann, of
( Morristown. N. J., one of largest
i importers of cattle in country, is
; announced as speaker for meeting
! of South Carolina Cattle club here
i June 25.
COLUMBIA.—EIijah Parker, sen-
■ fenced in Aiken in October, 1923, to
I 18 months on chaingang for prohi
( bition violation, has remainder ot
term suspended by Governor Mc-
Leod. who acted on recommendation
of state ]>ardon board.
COLUMBIA. Chamber of com
merce is advised that President Cool
idge has signed act giving to city
'of Columbia 1,192 acres of Camp
| Jackson land to be used for agri
i cultural and industrial purposes.
CHARLESTON.—U. S. S. Utah
| and two of three army bands will
■ be available for program of Thirtieth
division reunion here August 12 and
13.
NEWBERRY?—iTa Sloan, 64. and
Cleve Williams. 42. both colored.
i quarrel over woman and engasre in
J
pistol duel. Both are expected to
live; both are in county jail.
BEAUFORT.—Peter Schwartz, 17-
year-old son of H. P. Schwartz, dies
at home. Had been invalid all his
life, but owing to friendly disposi
tion and strong character was uni
versally popltlar and community
mourns death.
NEW BROOKLAND.—Citizens of
New Brookland and Cayce, Laxfng
ton county towns, have mass meet
ing and vote for election on ques
tion of annexation to Richland coun
ty, of whose county seat, Columbia,
they tye suburbs.
MONETTA.—Emory Williams, re
t red merchant and planter of Wag.
ener section, dies ar. home of daugh
ter, Mrs. G. B. Cato, here.
COLUMBIA—Eugene Mack stages
wild ride through streets of city
with young woman in car, chased by
motorcycle cops at fast speed for
many miles. Recorder imposes three
sentences of SIOO fine each or ninety
days in prison each. Car was stopped
only when officer punctured rear
tires with pistol balls.
GAFFNEY. — William A. Coleman,
of Union, once candidate for gov
ernor, prominent business man, is
in hospital here with broken leg and
bruises, and daughters, Misses Eliza
beth Anne and Evelyn Coleman, are
suffering minor injuries received
when car- turns over as result of
blow-out of rear tire.
CHARLESTON.—W r . Dewer Gor
don returns from New York, where
he went when advised several weeks
ago that som Christopher, commer
cial art student at Columbia univer
sity, had disappeared, young man’s
body having been found washed
ashore at Rockaway Beach, N. Y.
V\ hen last seen alive he was on way
to Coney Island for swim.
HOKE SMITH WARNS GEORGIA
OF MENACE IN AMENDMENT
Federal Child Labor Clause
Invades State Rights and
Thrusts Outside Influence
Into HomeSj He Says
Atlanta Journal Nawa Bureau,
408 Evans Building. \
BY THEODORE TILLER
WASHINGTON, June 21—In ad
vance of the convening of the gen
eral assembly of Georgia, former
Senator Hoke Smith and former gov
ernOr of the state, issued a state
ment here Saturday expressing the
strong hope that the legislature
would not overlook the dangers lurk
ing in the proposed twentieth amend
ment to the constitution and woulc.
be the first to oppose federal regula
tion of child labor.
If Georgia will set the example
and reject the child labor amend
ment as a dangerous invasion of
state’s rights, former Senator Smith
says he believes a sufficient number
cf states will fo\!ow and prevent
ratification.
This amendment to the constitu
tion, if ratified, he says, will fur
nish the most revolutionary inter
ference with the relations of parent
and child and there is no forecasting
tvhat injury it will work in Georgia
and elsewhere.
Former Senator Smith said:
“The Georgia legislature will meet
in a few days. 1 hope one of the
first things done by the legislature
will be to reject the twentieth amend
ment recently proposed by a two
thirds vote of congress.
“This amendment would furnish
the most revolutionary interference
with the relation of parent and child
that has ever taken place in oui
country. The suggested amendment
reads as follows:
“Congress shall have power to
limit, n.gulate an dprohibit the labor
of persons under eighteen years of
age.
Would Invade Homes
“It would place in congress power
to largely take the control away
from parents of all ‘persons’ under
the age of eighteen.
“Congress could preVent girls
from helping their mothers anout
the house; it could prevent boys
from doing any work around the
home or on the farm.
“It would create a new bureau In
Washington which could send agents
from other states throughout Geor
gia, Drying into the conduct of par
ents and children, and utterly de
moraliizng the control by parents of
their children.
“We should not be deluded by the
belief that no legislation going to
the extent suggested will be passed
by congress. The proponents of thia
measure, in a pamphlet entitled
‘Chilcf Labor Facts,' among other
things made this statement:
“ 'The southern states have «
larger percentage of child labor than
any ether section of the country,
because of the predominance of ag
riculture there.’
“Again it stated that:
“‘Those under eighteen years are
worked in the south and are used in
raising cotton.’
“If this amendment is ratified by
three-fourths of the states, it is im
possible to forecast the extent to
which it will be used to interfere
with our local conditions.
House Vote Shows Danger
“You will realize the danger ahead
if this amendment is ratified when
you,know that, in the house of rep
resentati ves, an amendment was
overwhelmingly voted down which
provided:
“‘That no law shall control the
labor of any child in the house er
business or on the premises connect
ed therewith of the parent or
pa rents.’
“Another provision was voted
down which provided that the pro
posed constitutional amendment
should not apply to
“ ‘The labor nf such persons In
the homes and on the farms where
they reside.’
“Another provision was voted
down which confined the authority
of congress to limit, regulate and
prohibit labor in mines, quarries,
mills, workshops, factories or manu
facturing establishments.
“In the senate, a provision was
overwhelmingly rejected which ex
cluded from the constitutional
amendment, open-air occupation, or
farm labor occupation, of those un
der eighteen years of age.
“From the pamphlet of the pro-
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COLUMBIA. —Edmund D. Bigham,
convicted of murder of brother, and
charged with killing mohter, sister
and sister’s two children, granted
change of venue from Florence coun
ty, will be placed on trial in Conway,
Horry county, in October, prosecut
ing attorney announces.
CLINTON. Several hundred
young people attend conference of
Presbyterian young people held at
Presbyterian college here.
M’CORMICK??fIm Tolbert, negro,
is lodged in jail charged with shoot
ing twelve times Clayton Newby,
white, who was working on top of
house. Negro fired from nearby
woods.
SPARTANBURG??— W. M. Can
trell, 67, well-known farmer of coun
ty, drops dead at Mayor, near here.
COLUMBIA. First cot ton for
county is picked by C. L. Brooks, of
Lykesland, on June 16.
ABBEVILLE.— David IT. Hili, 40.
prominent member of Abbeville bar,
dies here, following operation.
DARINGTON. Henry Burn pleads
guilty to manslaughter, when in
dicted for murder of negro, and is
sentenced to serve two years in
prison.
COLUMBIA. —Governor McLeod is
advised by William A. Barber, New
York lawyer, former South'Carolin
ian. that South Carolinians in New
York are planning entertainment fea
tures for state’s delegates to New
York national Democratic con ven
tion.
COLUMBIA.—SeveraI hundred ne
gro teachers attend state summer
school for negroes at Benedict col
lege here.
COLUMBIA— L. M. Lawson, Dar
lington, is appointed by Governor
McLeod member state board of par
dons succeeding B. F. Pegues
Cheraw.
ponents of this measure, and from
the rejection of the amendments of
fered limiting its effect, we must see
the real spirit of the majority of
both houses •of congress, and we
should not be deceived by the claim
that this constitutional amendment
is to protect persons under eighteen
years of age from confinement in
factories, and in places injurious to
health.
Impractical Theories
“The spirit of those behind the
measure, and the spirit of those
tv ho passed it, influenced by zealous
but impractical theorists, threatens
you with legislation to the full ex
tent I have suggested. By'voting
down provisions which permitted
those under eighteen years of age
to aid parents in their homes, in
their immediate business, and on
their farms, the real purpose of this
legislation was disclosed.
“We have an excellent child la
bor law in Georgia, i had the honor
of appearing before the legislature
and advocating legislation similar to
that which we now have when the
first child labor law was passed in
the state.
believe in our Georgia law, but
the people of each state should be
permitted to regulate this subject
tor themselves.
To put the age at eighteen, and
to let congress prevent boys until
they are eighteen from doing any
work is simply horrible. A boy who
has never done any work untll’eight
een years old is being prepared for
the same place which the sons of
the two millionaires in Chicago now
occupy. Every boy should do a rea
sonable amount of manual labor be
fore he is eighteen years of age; he
is capable on the farm and in the
smaller towns of Georgia of being of
gieat value to his parent', and
when the parents require the boy to
do a reasonable amount of manual
tabor, they are performing a great
service to the boy.
” bOy ‘ at fifteen sixteen
5 ° f af<e ’ has taJ<en care of his
widowed mother, and it has helped
to make a man of him. Long before
HeVrVhr ei K htpp n. the responsibili
t as of life should be seriously con
sidered, and preparation for these
tesponsibilities should he begun
’lf the Georgia legislature will
win'TL iT r /. iect ,his amendment it
will he the fn-st state to act upon It.
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ALBANY, Ga., June 21—Popular
vote and not the county unit will
rule the Democratic primary elec
tion in the Second congressional
district, September 10, according ta
action taken by the district execu
tive committee here Thursday.
The committee, called by its
chairman, S. B. Lippitt, of this city,
to make arrangeemnts for the pri-'
mary, set Se-'* 10 as the date,
the same day as the state primary,
which latter will be conducted
der the county unit rule.
Other rules of the state Dene—
cratic executive committee, with a
few exceptions, were adopted for the
district primary. Entries for the
district nary will close at noon
on Ju’-’- 10.
Septembe 20 was selected as the
date of lhe district convention to
declare the result and name a new
executive committee. This conven
tion will be held in Albany.
So far as known at this time.
Judge Frank Park, of Sylvester,
present congressman, will have only'
one opponent for re-election. Judge
‘•1 22- Cox. nf Camilla. ' .
It will set an example for the other
states, and I confidently believe that
more than one-fourth of the statee
may'be induced to reject the amend
ment.
“Realizing our home conditions,
nearly all of our representatives in
congress voted against this amend
ment. I have no doubt their votes;
were cast in the interest of the pe<A
pie of the state.
“Our system of government, th'
national constitution, was framed I
by our forefathers upon the theory,
that our country would be too large
to allow the national congress to
regulate local matters all over the’ (
Union. These things left to the
states can in most instances be best j
conm lied by the states, and I shud->
der at the thought of what congress
might do, to the injury of the chib J
dren of Georgia, through interfer-1
ence with control of the children by
their parents if the proposed twen-1
tieth amendment to the constitution
is ratified.
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