Florence Morning News from Florence, South Carolina • Page 9

VOL. XXXII. No. 308. FLORENCE, S.

SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 21, 1926. PRICE FIVE CENTS. Did Ton Ever Stop To I Bj A. ZK10LER rpHAT--Harold Wheeler remains at large, a. menace to his community.

The A. C. L. is forced to order all fast passenger trains to slow up when they pass the Cades section for fear of further at- tempts to wreck their trains. Where is the large A.

C. L. special police force; where are the officers of the law that allow this man to stay free without any apparent effort to arrest him. fTHAT--Manley, the chief bank wrecker of them all, having 86 banks to tumble in upon his proven mismanagement, must serve ten years for his carelessness. Money is losing some of its saving power.

Mr. Manley perhaps is safer behind thick prison walls than free among the thousands he has fleeced. THAT--We thought things were too quiet at the U. D. C.

convention. One of their members had her picture published in a bathing suit and the fireworks commenced. We admire the nerve of the members. from Georgia who 'reminded the lady from South Carolina that the convention was making itself ridiculous. fHAT--Bishop made bold to state near the close of the Methodist conference at Bennettsville yesterday, that "I would like to put the Democrats of the North on notice, that it' they nominate a wet candidate they will hear from Dixie on the issue," which means in i 's east-side dialect, "You get me Al." 'THAT--A sharp advance in the price of sugar marked the simple statement of the Cuban president, that he would issue a decree reducing next year's sugar beet crop.

Cotton remains low in spite of a thousand decrees on reduction of next year's cotton acreage. Perhaps Wall Street doesn't believe the cotton farmer will obey the decrees. fHAT--Senator Smith has just returned from a conference with President Coolidge. He has a plan wherein the government will bear interest and storage cost. If this bill passes the farmers will then hold their cotton sure enough, and Wall Street will sit up and take notice.

SENATOR SMITH TO DEMAND ACTION BY CONGRESS; PLAN WOULD RELIEVE HOLDING COST Great Drawback to Storage Is Heavy Charge of Interest; Prices Would Have to Sharply Advance to Benefit Captain Barnwell Gets His Quota "While we have all the recruits we -need for the oiganiza- tion Of Battery A of the Coast Artillery, nevertheless any young man between the ages of 18 and 24 years who wants to loin the battery i invited to attend the first meeting of he company he armory on the third floor of the Palmetto Bank am i Trust Company Building Monday night at 8 Frank H. Barowell who ia in charge of the niffht. Mr. Barm'ell Several physicians -wiWd present to hoM the final physical examinations of the men under tn- liftmant, After Monday, he poiirted out a year elapw 1 before new men can in tfca WASHINGTON, Nov. --Demand that Confcrese take steps to relieve cotton farmers will be made at the opening of the session in December, Senator Smith, (D) South Carolina, declared today after a conference with administration lead- eis.

The national welfare, Tie said, is at stake by the- serious ocon- omic in the cotton belt and it is a duty of the government to take a hand. He declared he had -uggestcd a plan to President Coolidge that would mean a saving of to cotton farmers and would, make it practical for thetn to store the bale surplus until profitable prices prevail. Hi plan would call for the issuance of Fedeial Keerve notes against a percentage of the value of cotton that Would bo placed in Fedeial warehouses with the govcinmcnl storage ami interest tates and charging only for the cost of the service. Tthe great diawback to storage of cotton now, lie said, is the charges of interest, storage and credit. Farmers are afiaid to store their cotton unde present condition because these charges thi eaten any advantage might be gained unlesi the market should make a sharp advance.

Under this plan, ho asserted, the farmers would be permitted to use ready cash without charge and there woul be little difficulty In inducing farmers to hold their crop. With thtt surplus held off the market and the reduction of acreage next year the problems of the Southern farmer would bo solved. "Tiro senate will bo put on record either for or against the plan," I he said Senator Viiit. Here. Senator 1C.

D. Smith, Smith mid Mi fc Anna Rrunson motored to Florence yesterday fioin Lynchbuig and spent the afternoon with friends. Senator has just returned from Washington whore he wns called in an important conference. He is arranging his affaiis at iicsent to leave for Washing. th first of December thi congress convening on the ith of next month.

The senator is looking well and is anticipating busv session of the senate Mattti Dr. F. H. Martin Leads Campaign flnrp.0 Importance are to come up and he is anxious to be on the Klounti Senator Smith because of his ability and his semoiity wields a large influence in Uie nppci body the United States Congress. Mrs.

Smith and Miss Brunson will accompany the Senator to Washington. The Smiths have secured delightful home in the Capital city. Misses Anna and Isohelle Smith are at present at collofte and will not fro to Washington until fhe Christmas holidays HOLD WHEELER IS STILLT Sheriff Gamble Is Resting Easier at an Early Hour This Morning MOTHER PROMISES TO GIVE UP SON Sheriff Barnes of Florence County returned late yesterday afternoon from the home of J. T. Wheeler where he was called cntrjy yesterday unbllninir following reports that Harold Wheelei- had barricaded himself in after shooting Sheriff Henry S.

Bimblc of Kingstiee who was 1 ttempting: to serve a warrant on him for four seperate attempts to wreck A- C. L. Passenger trains. Sheriff Barnes found the mother swooping out the back yard and was met in the front yard by the father of the crazed man. Both of them denied the reports of neighbors nnd others that their 30 year old; son Hni'old had en- teiiMl their home and defied arrest late yeM'erdfty They admitted asking the poatc to withdraw from the house, so he cou)d come home- Both of the aged parents assured Sheriff Barnci that they would send their son to the Florence County Jail for keeping soon as they could In Dr.

Fiit-man H. Martin "How I can help ipy church" will be the- nubjeot of an address which Dr. P. H. Martin, pastor First Baptist church will deliver tomorrow night before the Business men's Christian club at its regular meeting at the Y.

M. A. This will be the first of a series of talks by the ministers of the city preliminary to the campaign which the club fcVauEurate in January tw get all the men, women and children of the city into the church. President Willis' of the club stated last night thut extensive- preparations were making for the drive to interest more people in the great of the church and that further announcements -would be made the plans later. For t'he meeting 1 tomoirow night musical program will be rendered by tho choir of the First Baptist church.

Four hundred letters were mailed to individual men yes-ti-i- day inviting them to the meeting The public at laige is cor-, lly invited, however, and all' fhe men of the city will be warmly welcomed. Di. Martin who is to make the address too well known and too geneially loved here for any special mention to be made of tho fact that he is to speak. He been pastor of thp First Baptist church here for nearly years a "tl uivder his pastorate (he church hag shown great growth Tf there ever was a food man that man is Dr. Mai- in," is the way most people talk of him, and in addition he it a ireacher of great force.

It may be interesting to note here that the past year the Florence first church ha contributed more to all causes than ever Jeforc in its history, and with he exception of one banner has shown a larger increaso accessions. EQUSTHTU5 Like States of United States Wealth Won't Constitute Power LONDON, Nov 20-- British Emphe today entered a new epoch, with the mother country and the dominions officially King recorded as equal in -status within George's woildj wide realm Like the states of the United States, no member, of. the British common wealth of nations is subordinate to any other. England and London, icmsua the center of ihe ISmpirr by tiadition, and common allegiance to the crown, but each self-governing member of the Cmplie is master of its own destiny. The principle ot the autonomy of the Dominions has been admitted hitheilo, but never wa3 formally outlined until today, the committee oi Premieia, "who have shrouded a month' 0 deliberations with secrecy, made their report on intei-imperial lations- By it, the demand of the Dominions which Premier Hertzog of South Africa, so stiongly voiced in London last have fully realized.

The exact words of the report, as adopted by the conference iare: "The position and mutual tela- tions of the gi ouj) of Self-governing communities composed of Great Biitiim and the Dominions may be readily defined. They are autonomous communities the British Empire, equal in status in no way subordinate one to the other in any aspect of their domestic or external affairs though united by a common allegiance to the crown and fiee- ly associated at, jnembers of the British commonwealth of iwtioiiii COMMITS SUICIDE JUMPS FROM MONUMENT Washington, Nov. extia piccautions to pre- ent suicidt'-i at Washington mon- imeiit, Henry Aiulieson, mi innate of the soldiers' home hero, himself by crawling tlnough Popular Police Officer Lost Life in Performance of Duty Johnson, Florence police officer who lost hit, life the dischaige of bis duty, will be buried in Florence this' afternoon and unusual honors will be accorded him not only by his and acquaintances but by the several 01 tiers of which he Was an esteemed member. The funeral services will be held 't o'clock at Immanuel Baptist church will be conducted by tho Rev. R.

I. Cor- bettf, pastor, assisted by the Rev. W. S. Poynor, rector of St.

John's Episcopal church. Thf 1 body will be placed at rest in Mount Hope cemetery. Active pall bearers will be members of the Florence Police Department while the honorary pall beaters will be the of the tw 0 Florence lodges of the Masons all of whom are requested to avertible the residence at 208 South Ravenel at 2:45 o'clock this afternoon. The Ku Klux Klan will act a an cort of honor, The body of Mr. Johnson was taken to his Iftte home yesterday morning and viewed by large numbers of friends.

It Is ex- pected thnt the funeral this aft- erhnon will bo largely attended, 2 FIRES IN CITY The residence on Rough Fork street owned by Cornelia Thompson was destroyed by fire yesterday. The owner of the house Uses in New York and it was occupied by a daughter. The house wan a 2-story frame building Wfls insured for $2,500, The furniture waft' insured for $600. Another serious fire loSi Ww re- lorted yenterday morning, W- T. Pcarce his home on tin 1 outskirts of nhe city.

All of the i warf burned. The fire starlet! from defective flue in tho kitchen. Mr. Penrce had no iisurancc. U.

0. C. OVER SUIT Would Expel Member for Having Her Picture Published So Clad RICHMOND, yp)--A storm Vn. Nov. bioke out of clear sky on the floor of the annual convention of the United Daughters of the Confederacy today, and after it had subsided delegates fouiul themselves on afci -regretting; thnt they were unable under the oigunwu- tion'j, by-laws to discipline .1 member who had her picture to bo printed newspaper.

The affair caused the the amity local biggest much hud the the at- sought by officials and which maiked the proceedings of convention up to the time tention of the delegates ed to the picture by Mrs. Norman V. Randolph of Richmond, former president-general and now honoraiy piesulent. The picture was that of Mrs. Samuel BuHeigh Milton, president of the Boauregard chapter, U.

D. of District of Columbia, and showed Mrs, Milton in a bathing 1 suit, surrounded by cups and other awards for life and wcai ing the 3on- Medul Bfti for HENRY STEVENS ON STAND TO PROVE ALIBI; OTHERS HIM BEAR OUT FISH STORY A Changed Man Saving life on the high undeilme declared thnt Mrs. Tli lithe iron crntinif llju pof the ihiift and leaping jmvpment iioie than 600 feet below. ANDREWS WANTS CONGRESS TO AUTHORIZE WHISKEY COMPANY TO MAKE 3 MILLION GALLONS High School Player Has Kidney Removed GREENWOOD, S. Nov 20 --()--Clark Curry, 17, member if the Greenwooa High School 'ootball team, underwent an operation nt a local hospital today for removal of his left kidney injuries received in a 1 same Thursday.

When urry tl'opped to hH knees to rcvent the blocking of a forward ass by another player who wja running to catch the ball he was truck in the side and his kidney was ruptured. His condition tot was repoUcd to be satisfac- ory. ouch with him as they were in 'ear of his life should certain par- ies in their section of the county get A chance to shoot him. It is alleged that officers from refused to watch the house Friday night and are not making any concerted effort to earch the house, or the toring swamps foi the fugitive, The community is afraid of what might happen next. They believe lim to be in the neighborhood.

KeportR from the Kingsttee losoftal are that Sheriff Gamble has failed to rally from the shock and that surgeons in charge are deferring operating on him. His chances for recovery arc about even. The A. C. L.

are running very carefully along the of track from take City to Only. 15 Million Gallons on Hand to Fill Prescriptions, Only Enough to Last Five Years; Must Have Time to Age WASHINGTON, Nov. 20--W) --Immediate creation of a priwite corporation to a a medical whiskey and to take over all existing supplies of this liquor of Congress by General Lincoln S. Anderwa, in charge of prohibition enforcement. He said today it was Imperative that the corporation immediately set about the distilling of whiskey lest the present supply of about 15,000,000 gallons be exhausted at the end of five years which time he estimated will be necessary for the new stock to age.

Criticizing the present system of private ownership and distri- of whiskey, Andrews pio- posed that the corporation be un- ier government supervision nnd that it buy all its liquor stock now on hand and assume full responsibility for future distribution of medical whiskey- Secretary Mellon, who joined President Coolldge in vetoing a previous proposal that the govern- take over the supplies of medical liquor has endorsed the new plan. While the Taw now the Internal Revenue Bureau to make provision for replenishment of tho medicinal stock, Andrews asserted "that no thoughtful citizen would want to place upon a government official the embarrassing responsibility of deciding what distilleries shall be authorized to manufacture three million tallons of whiskey to require him )o undertnke to supervise the manufacture." "The one best practical solution remedy all these TM to be that congress shall by enactment set up A private corporation which will be in fact a Wteficicnt on poly, in that it will purchftaei and own all the medicinal in the country and be the aole so of supply from now on for medicinal spirits. "This corporation would provide manufacture for replenishment, and under regulation, dMflbite medicinal ipi- rits direct to the retail druggUt ton is the only woman in United States to receive the mednl of honor Iwice, and that she aUo Awarded the mednl uf Prance for conspicuous service during the World wnr and hnd received medals and for service from the American Red CrOBH. Mrs, Randolph in rolling: the attention to the picture dftUl it was disgrace. Mis.

Lnwson then thanked Mrs. Randolph "for protecting us against this rageous insult." Mrs. Bollniff was the to plead thnt the action suggested wns "too strong" while other tnvmbers thought it was ill-advised nnd suggested thai the or- piobably wan throwing itself open to a libel suit. Heie Mrs. Lawtoti vacated the chair to remark rather heatedly tlial she would "much rnthei be sued than let any division come hew and treat us with nidi disrespect." Mrs.

of Georgia made i caiiit'St plea to the convention to consider carefully the recommendation i thought would do a (float Injustice ami pluce the U. 1). on recoul as "Insulting the forebears of millions." The daughters, she added, wete nitikiiifv theselves s. Benson, of Illinois, asked the convention (o temper me icy with Atueric Railway Express This corporation would buy, for immediate deliveiy in bottles la- belled, sealfd utml cased, all the private owned stocks, and six or eight di3tUlety warehouses suit- nblv located for i i distribution." Methods of finmncinR have not been by Andrews but he does propose (fovcrnjnent He suggests, government fin ncial however, that ihf name the first board of directors of the corporation to bo composed of "outstanding citizens whose Albeit B. Pall, former Secretary of the Interior he this photo being- taken nt 1 Washington week, as he arrived from New Mexico to defend ilmaelf.

Below, Mr. Full us he aoked before indicted on thd ihargcs of alleged to de- 'rmud the guvcinment in granting nil CORONER'S JURY BLAMES BENTEEY DEATH Officer Shot Monday ers Until Friday; Assailant in State Pen justicp, "You could expect Milton to save i in and shoes," she said. "Don't put a cloud on this wo man." experience fome Will assure proper wholesale druggist preceding year. banker, physician, life insurance executive, etc The purchase price to be paid by the corporation for tho out- otanding linuor, and the sales price to the purchaser drug store, would bo based on prevailing prices during the six months immediately November of tnh Andrews it wns necessary that congross the proposed bill at the approaching short session, "purely a.s a matter of administrative efficiency, -and without regard to the merits of the prohibition law." Because of the family diminishing supplies and because existing law "makes it impossible for us to eonttol distribution, in a way as to prevent diversion of medicinal whiskey to beverage. Andrews estimated his plan, if approved, would save the government about 11,000,000 annually in tho administration of the prohibition law by relieving it of the responsibility of stopping di- verjiion of present medicinal II- iuor to illegal With one corporation to deal with," he ftkid, "such attribution arranged will enable government to purity of the delivered to the drugfbt, and fix blame for any tabtequent adulteration, iquarely upon Mrs.

Mihon To WASHINGTON, Nov. --MM. Samuel Bmlcifrh i president of the Chapter of i Daughter of tire Confederacy, a tonight she would bring 1 suit Ihe organization foi adoption of a resolution disapproving her action in giving licture ol herself in a biUiing suit io tlie Richmond Times-Dispatch. She haid the picture, which "P- peared in this morning's of the newspaper, wai used in connection wth nn article tolling of her accomplishments it swimmer, and in view of this, she coull not se how Its uio wns ill advised. The contemplated fihe asserted, would call upon tho Daughters of the Confederacy to show cause why such resolution was adopted.

She named no amount of money in her statement. Tho suit worn in tlie picture, she said, was Hod Cross regulation bathing uit and that them "nolhing immodt-it" in the incident. Hoyt McAllister Marriesjhe Girl Seduction Sentence Is Automatically Stayed; Mother Gets Name for Baby Coming aj the sequel of cnso in the last criminal court which attracted widespread attention, It wan learned yesterday that Hoyt McAllister hiul mar. ried the young woman whom he convicted of wionginr, with That W. Johnson came io Ins Heath from a Runshol wound the Ininda flf Robert Uentli-y was the verdict relumed by the coroner's jiuy In the iiKMiest hold yes today morniiiff ovet of the deceased plaincltiLbcs office! of the Floit'nee police depai Mi.

was shot Monday a and litiRtui'd i Friday a i wnen he suct'onib- to his hi juries" The woman whom Bentley Is to have stiuck and whose a a for his anest JVlt Johnson was nttempt- uitf to sei ve when ho was shot Juke Kinder, a nojyro suh- pected of hnvitij? handed the pistol to lleiillev, mid I other ne- Hiocs believed to have been implicated, wei i eleascd i i i following tho vtiUlivl of the coro- jiuy. thorough investigation was made, the police officers could not connect them with the Coioner Column last night that petition was in i a tion for a special i of Ihi- criminal court in Florence for the pCM 1 of trying Ucnlloy ch nf murder nml foi trying other 1, IM i-n pending for some time in the According to Air- Coleuuui a ber of signalmen had br-en a i ed ty the petition. Hentley is at present in the 't-it penitential having 01 a i thcie for safekeeping bv Barnes immediately ftci tin 1 shooting of i Johnson. Witnesses Declare He Talked to Defendant at Seashore at 10:30 WAS NOT EXPERT WITH A PISTOL A nn extended t(( her other, A. Liiugluy nt Oriental, N.

Mis. K. Cor- lictt has returned to the city. would now be able li bear name he could loyally claim as own. McAllister was to servo 2 to 4 ycnvs the penitentiary or pay to the (fir! in the ca'o the -sum of )QQ, Porsons Interested in both he younp people thought that mppior solution could ibe found, lowevcr, and glncc coin ftd- iourned have been exorcising influence to that end.

It long time the youns woman could bring herself to 'orgeL the groat wrong the 'ourts declaied hnd been done icr but finftlly eonncntod to nt last ac- were marriage nnd eountx the younf the remit that an attractive Jiving moit happily SOJIERVILLE, N. Nov. Stevens and fellow fisherman fiom f.avallette to-, (bv tdif the trying the Ifall- Mlll thai Lhe a wfia smf custinp on the beach nt allctle the night Milli Inlrt with his brother in-liiw. tho Rev. Ktlward W.

i Stevens is on trial with sister, Mrs, I-'rnnccs Stevens HtfH, ftud biother, Willie Stevens, ed i the miiulei of Mrs For thren the tU'fendnnt- told liis calmly and carefully. He Delated a had he-nvj of the slain wd-' man bcfou- hoi dyiith, knew ijiK of any i i betueeii her' and liih biother in law and iiyt i i pistol in 2G years, although he an expert with Bfhiml Sir-Venn ramp his i Mnyoi Vnn a of letlc, uni i the Stovetta alibi wflicu court ecessed the week end Dui'inf? tho after-' noon, threp other men who were ftRhinc; on the beach tho night o'f, tho double slaying told of Stfc- vens presence there. One, William If. Kgar, said a he left Stevens in his home as K'to aB 10.20 o'clock 1 thi' night of the killing. i Edgar, the only witness 1 tlie day, In getting Into Lhe Ktcord over the Attoinovs, and the court, slfttonu'iit, Uml Ucnry ptftyGtiti told her ho was going to cntch a liljr blueflsh for hor to bake.

in the crowded court day, Justice Charted Porker order- till the i the room and suspended proceedings i the spectators could be lemoved by tho i i i John Biinn. Thn of the c'owd followed Ihi' loudest of irvcral ripjiloiS Hiippiessotl laiiKhtci wlu'cll had tinted slim exchanges the special prosecutor, Alex- Simpson, a defense, counsel, i i i C'lnrenco Case, fellow senate member Llio i'1'osycutoi. i Slovens the witness 'liuid Horni i tin- fourr I i of the wna opcn- L-d lie hnd inl throughout the 'onjr ses a i' scai cely moving in Us seat. Littto that huri twken pUvcc the room to have him. As he look his seat 'or the a i a i he si 1 mud iropnred foi nn experience that vas new for a man who knows nort 1 -about ttshinfr tackle than 'otirt niiu'hinei v.

His composure lid not deseit him ami nd sei-ichiiiR 1 cross uhiatioti did not bihiK in sloiy of fishing. Tho a win opcnmi his testimony with the statement thai bo i testifviiiK his 57th birthday, at the bejjinniii(t his i at PuUfjhkeepsie, N. i i i i tlnoui'h the voufs, he reached his i from active business, a ovci'' period of yenrs by an iirins and a i i company. 11 iy let ire-, nu-nt was in nnd he explain- Ihnt sivifp then much of lime tins been spent in pursuit of the elusive bluefish, and Only once did his voice choko. i emotio'i In cioss i U'e pioseculor he'I asked him'j he i i tjorie to look upon bodv of his brothci in he went t' New lirunswick? aftbr the bodies of the slain couple wer to accompany his sister the buual of her husband in York.

The reply was in tho live and on icdirect exnminationj 1 his own counsel asked him if hnd looked upon hh mother's i her death. Again the rej was in the negative with the exp a i thnt he wished to ber his mother as she had lived 1 1 Tf Deemed a matter of minutes him to recover his composure. A wax imnge of human is brought iiita the cnse for time dminir the trial placed on the witness stand of the defendant as aiked if he thought extraori inntksnnnahip would he to place three bulleU in lead in tho dark and i a voice to direct the aim. Thy ness snld that nn ordirt-cjrv nu might be rble tc do it could see Ihe object. The wnv inure nt the trifll when It was surgeon t3 tion cf bulUt the heiid The (Continued on 1 SPA PERI.