The Item from Sumter, South Carolina • 2

THE SUMTER DTfTLY ITEM SUMTER Saturday March 6 1937 PAGE TWO II xr FLAPPER FANNY To Question Youths In Death Of Girl By Sylvia -0 8Y NEA SERVICE INC REG PAT OFF- Side Glances by George Clark i 11 frN JT" i- -A And Variety HRS MARION ZBMP: PHONE 485-L mjj jjlm tiuMk iirl Thought For The Day I ik A WALLED GARDEN Here is the city's proud voice hushed today And the tall towers of men's business stand Dark silent sentinels beside the way Of spring- that" walks again throughout the land Here have I come Lord to lift my eyes Where singing spires do praise Thee to the skies And wait a little quietly to find Thine ancient promise like a strong refrain Athrob in leaf and branch that all mankind May And Thee in Thy garden once again Anne New II 4-Year-Old Battered Body Found ill Vermont Windsor Vt March 6 (A) Police Chief John Edmonds said today a "gang of young hellions" would be questioned for information in connection with the slaying of four-year old Beverly Ann Page of Claremont whose battered body was found last night in a mill pond Edmonds said residents of this little town on the Connecticut river had told him of a group of boys much than Beverly Ann who practiced cruelties on younger children One of their customs ho said was to hold others under water until they came up gasping The chief half of police department did not identify the group further Meanwhile State Pathologist Charles Whitney prepared to conduct an autopsy Preliminary examination disclosed States At- torney Albion Parker said that the child met death by violence At Claremont general hospital about 10 miles away nurses shielded the mother who gave birth to a daughter only last Monday from news of her ony other fate Rolativcu asked that hospital radio be shut off to prevent news reaching her through that medium Volunteers summoned by a riot call sounded by Chief Edmonds found her body caught in a small inlet of the pond It would have gone downstream Edmonds said if a rock had not shagged it LEARNS REAL IDENTITY RIDGE TOURNAMENT The American Legion Auxiliary will sponsor a Bridge Tournament to be held at March 17th 4 A prize will be given each table to one holding high score The Flower and Gift Shop has kindly presented the Snmter unit with a very handsome gift which will be given to the one drawing the lucky card This tournament is not confined strictly to bridge as any other game may be played The Auxiliary contributes each year to schools for underprivileged children Milk Fund A and many other worthy causes the dues per member being only $100 a year makes it necessary for us to raise funds to carry on this worthwhile work Please get up your tables early Phone Mrs Dunn Mrs Brunson or Miss Isadore Teicher bring- your score pads and cards Tables will be furnished and refreshments served by the Auxiliary Mrs Kirkland Publicity Chairman Wife On Strike For Her Alimony Rochester March 6 (A) His sit-down striker wife may stay there as long as she likes hut Howard Agness today closed his window shade manufacturing and dry cleaning shop indefinitely Agness and his 35-year-old estranged wife Mildred met today for the first time since she began her siege last Wednesday to collect alimony she claims is due her As he entered with his attorney Maurice Lynn his wife buried her head in her arms and did not look up or speak until he left Afterward she said lie could continue to stay unless her doctor oidered her to bed She is suffering from a cold and has asked her physician to come to see her "If he does tell me to give this up I don't know where go" she said "I stay with my sister any longer She afford to keep me" The son Robert 4 is staying with his aunt The husband visited the shop just before noon On leaving he told reporters: "I am completely unable to meet her demands ITnder the law I suppose she can throw me in the clink but I have no more money to ive Officials Discuss Monetary Problem Washington March 6 (jP) Secretary Murgenthau conferred today with French and British representatives on the French monetary program The treasury chief talked with Georges Bonnet new French ambassador and A Mallet councilor of the British embassy The conferees declined to discuss the meeting other than to say the Blum new program for establishment of a free gold market and budgetary reforms was under discussion POOI FOB THOUGHT: He sows courtesy reaps friendship and he who plants kindness gathers love Basil Better not sit up lor us Fanny be out awfully maybe till nine INC REG PAT OFF 1 1937 BY NEA SEI TO CYPRESS GARDENS Mr Cogdell Hay was a visitor to Cypress Gardens on Friday she has been reading those biographies of great people she is losing respect for ONE CENT A FOR To business couple or men two bedrooms beautifully furnished with bath shower and tub in furnace heated modern attractive home three blocks from business center Phone 989-L TUOMEY HOSPITAL AUXILIARY A very important meeting of the Tuomey Hospital Auxiliary will be held Tuesday morning at 11:00 In the Btaff room All members are urged to be present as important business is to be discussed WORD Classy Jurist Receives Extortion Note Greenville Youth Victim Of Amnesia ADVERTISING PARTY GIVEN Misses Doris Koib Maude Mellette Corine Windham entertained a number of their friends on last Wednesday at eight at the hptme of Mrs Jackson As fTtjec-to: 'arrived they were met toy the hostess Miss Kolb During ib t'pmg a number of games were played after which delicious refreshments -were served Wf FROM YEMASSEE DIAMOND RUSH STARTED a TERMS CASH 25 words or less 25c each insertion 6 times for $125 More than 25 -erds one cent per word each insertion 6 times for price of 5 Mrs 'E McTeer and son Alec of -Yemassee are visiting relatives in Sumter Baltimore March 6 lP) Police placed a guard today at the home of Christian Richter 71-year old Republican election judge of the eighth ward after he reported he had received an extortion note Carrying the signature of "The Black Legion Gang" the note which Richter produced demanded $25 weekly and threatened death if the police were summoned He said the note was pushed under his door Richter lives alone He retired from active business several years ago Georgetown British Guiana March 6 -'-OP) A diamond reported to weigh 203 carats found by a negro laborer 100 miles in the jungle has precipitated a rush said wireless advices received here today Stampeding fortune seekers were said to have found one 18 carat stone and several smaller ones HEROINE OF FIRE Strike Paralyzes Port In France RETURNS TO SUMTER Mrs Sam Sanders who has been visiting in Camden has returned to -Sutnter Jackson Miss March (A) A youth declared an amnesia victim by doctors was identified from army fingerprints today police said as Hugh Avent Jr of Greenville He was waiting at the city jail for the arrival of his father expected during the afternoon "It will be interesting to meet my father" the woung man said when informed that his identity had been established and that his father was coming for him trying to get a mental jtic-ture of Police Inspector A Crawford said identification had been made postfve by the fingerprints He said Avent enlisted in the army at Fort Moultrie last March The Pacific coast line of the United States is 1366 miles long Call POSTAL TELEGRAPH Phone 123 and they will send for your classified advertisement NO EXTRA CHARGE VOR THIS SERVICE FOR RENT Lower floor four-room and bath furnished apartment Private front and back entrance Garage centrally located in best residental section Address Box 714 FOR RENT Two apartments furnished or unfurnished one upr stairs four rooms and bath one downstairs two rooms bath and private entrance Also two furnished rooms Immediate possession 321 Hampton Telephone 236 FOR RENT Hatching space in incubators Setting every Monday and Thursday No order too small to receive our special care Hatchery 224 W- Liberty St FOR SALE FOR SALE1 Four drawer hand operated National Cash register in perfect 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Talbot Fox She also knew that she has two sisters and two brothers one of them Fontaine Fox the cartoonist 'and that at least part of the family will be united here next week for the first time Mrs MacDougald socially prominent and the wife of a successful attorney here said one of the sis-trs Mrs A Reutlinger of Louisville wrote her the truth 5 Pastor Accused Of Killing1 Wife Beckley Va March 6 police accused the Rev Ball a 35-year old pastor today of fatally shooting his wife with a shotgun Mrs Ball 29 died yesterday Prosecutor A Thorndall and Lieut Crawford of the state police said the minister pastor of Rock Creek Methodist Episcopal Church told conflicting stories of the shooting They said the minister first asserted he found his wife dead in their house where she had gone to get a gun to shoot a hawk Later the officers reported he told them his wife was accidentally shot while he was getting the gun ready to return it to a neighbor COMPANY HELD LIABLE Danville Va March 6 (Pi-Trapped by fire bn the second floor of a house Mrs Mary Gurten handed down the two babies of Mr and Mrs Luther Brooks to their father who stood on a windowsill Mrs Gurten was asleep with the infants in a second-floor room when the blaze broke out yesterday The babies were safe in their arms when firemen arrived and lifted a ladder to take down Mrs Gurten Reaching the ground she FROM HENDERSONVILLE Mrs Eugene Drew of Hender-sorivllie is the guest of Mrs Arnold Sanders MEETING POSTPONED Business Circle of TVitllty Methodist Church has postponed their meeting scheduled foi Monday until Monday week March 15th oh accouht of Bishop engagement Monday March 8th GUEST FROM i Arlington Mrs Russ on Kendrick Stfieet has as her guest Miss Elizabeth San sherry of Darlington One photinia serrulate at least five feet tall by 4 to 5 ft wide Oak Lawn Nurseries Mayesville WANTED Work as cook or house- cleaning- 204 Purdy St WANTED Female help Women earn good money mailing our i free catalogs from 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large type White Leghorns 100 $795 Heavy mixed 100 $695- COD shipments Prepaid live arrival i guaranteed Hatchery Charlotte BUSINESS NOTICES SUMTER TAXI Service Station I Now ready to render prompt I service Call 561 or 803-L 24- I hour serviee I FOR RENT KOR RENT Down stairs furnish-j od apartment All modern con veniences including lights wa-j tor and garage 26 I larby Ave SUMMONS FOR RELIEF (Complaint Served) STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA County of Sumter I 1 This Curious World SLSET COURT OF COMMON PLEAS mME TWF M61V1F ix A- THE NAME ml i BEGIN HERE TODAY DAPHNE BRETT charming young New York advertising executive rents her deceased Connecticut estate to LARRY SMITH attractive young architect and promptly likes him tremendously Daphne has one sister six years younger JENNIFER who is Just home from col-! lege and at her first job Jennifer resents guidance and proceeds to date whom she pleases including TUCKER AINSLEY playboy and one-time bean Next she learns that Larry is not married and makes a play for his attentions This develops a struggle between the two sisters for the same man One night Larry arranges to date Daphne Jennifer meanwhile announces she Is going to see Tuck again Daphne refuses her permission protesting against sophisticated crowd Then Daphne leaves for the evening with Larry Soon after Jennifer defying her wishes accepts a date with young set It is a crisis in the personal relationship1 of the Brett sisters NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER ARRY SMITH slipped his hand under the great collar of coat and pushed it up around her ears Then he whistled for a taxi It was the tenth taxi he had tried to get An icy wind tore through 53rd street but Daphne feel it she said never get one with this theater crowd My place is only a few 1 think going to let you go home do you? seeing the town young lady Then laughing because they had darted across the slippery pavement to triumphantly capture the prize they continued to laugh been laughing all evening Daphne remembered laughing over nothing talked so long over their knuckles and sauerkraut been late for the theater and the next day neither of them could have told you what hap-j pened at the theater because with their eyes on the stage been aware of nothing but each other Larry found her hand and swallowed it in his own he asked She murmured something that sounded like Rut he knew They both knew something that needed no words They needed nothing but to be together HP HEY went to the most expen-sive night club in town and sat looking into each eyes She heard from him he said as though it was important to explain everything to her from now on because been off on a business trip His uncle in whose firm and whose footsteps he was one day to follow was bidding for construction jobs in a midwest exposition you often go far away for such a long she asked and felt suddenly bereft as though loneliness in the future was already weighing her down be glad to have me away when you realize how much of you I want to Her eyes denied it He said: got to arrange our we going to have a If anyone other than Larry had said that have dismissed the idea immediately But Larry any one person have to discover what plays you want to see And how you feel about winter sports What she wanted! Later Daphne would wrap herself in the warm comfort of what that meant his complete regard for the things that would make her happy Now she was content to listen what about hockey? And the six-day bicycle them she responded promptly But if he had said you like to stand for hours watching men have said it was her favorite pastime do them all begin with a new show on Saturday Sunday if clear we might try skating and later go a Daphne implored laughing Thursday now and Saturday and Sunday are so nearly here you rushing he said twenty-eight years old and up to now my life has been misspent got to make up for those There was wonder in eyes that looked back into his and into the years ahead has never happened to me before Daphne thought I must be careful because anything that can open such doors to my heart this new feeling of coming home can hurt me Later she would straighten it out with herself Now she could sip her drink and give herself to the moment it she said She thought of method of Jennifer! Daphne looked at the watch on wrist It was 10 minutes past 2 I must call Jennifer I told her be home by midnight and she might worry about A first when her number answer Daphne thought that Jennifer was sleeping but when the buzz had been prolonged and repeated she knew that Jennifer had deliberately disobeyed her orders Why Jennifer defied her and said she was going anyway? Daphne would have preferred that to doing it under cover The floor show was on when she came out of the booth The lights were dimmed save for the flood light on the dancing chorus The white light threw greenish shadows on the faces of the guests distorted them yet at once Daphne saw Tuck Tinsley She withdrew into the shadows until the lights came up Waiting to see who was with him Waiting to see Jennifer yet not be seen by Jennifer She want to spoil night But Jennifer was not with Tuck It was obvious that he was one of a party of four which did not include Jennifer She quickened her footsteps and returned to her table She sit down got to go now Our telephone answer and worried about He agreed they should leave at once Worry haggled at the back of her mind the lush delight of her happiness dissolved The taxi-ride to her apartment was a silent one you Larry for a grand She gave him her smile but her eyes were still clouded call you in the he said Then he was gone Hours later as the light deepened and the night became morning Daphne pacing the floor to the tempo of her rising fears thought desperately I need him know what to do Four Five Five-thirty Jennifer was gone! Her evening wrap and the white satin frock were gone But where? With whom? Daphne asked herself over and over again and at last fell asleep At first when she heard the imperative knocking at her door she remember what it was (To Be Gontinved) Atlanta March 6 (A3) Director Hal Stanley of the Georgia Industrial relations department announced awards totalling $45148 today in 78 cases growing out of the destruction of the Cooper Pats Factory in thp Gainesville tornado last April 6 He held the Cooper Manufacturing Company and its insurance carrier the Mutual Casualty Company were liable in 26 death and 52 injury cases under the workmen's compensation law when the building collapsed and caught fire Forty persons were killed and 53 finjured in the factory The tornado killed 160 others elswehere in the city In 14 death cases denied compensation Stanley said claimants uni not show the proper relationship to those killed First Lady Carries Pistol When Alone New Orleans March 6 (ft3) Mrs Franklin Roosevelt here on a lecture tour said today she carries a pistol when she rides alone in her motor car and that she use it" "1 am never accompanied by guards in New York or Washington where everybody knows Mrs Roosevelt explained "I go about just as anybody else However when I travel there are usually special guards furnished me but they are not detailed at my you have fear of bodily harm?" she was asked "It never enters my mind" she replied pleasantly Of the pistol the wife said she had the same training "that the New York National Guard "Do you find being the wife of the president a better time than being the wife of the governor of New she was asked look upon it as a good she replied "It is a duty which has to be fulfilled and it Is most interesting but certainly it is not my idea of a time' WAS APPLIED FIRST "TO MOUNT ETNA AND SOME OF THE LIPARI ISLANDS WHICH were: regarded AS SEATS OF VULCAN THE GOD OF FIRE The National Bank of South Caro- lina of Sumter Plaintiff Against Eddie McCoy Defendant To the Defendant Eddie McCoy: You Are Hereby Summoned and required to answer the Complaint in this action of which a copy is herewith served upon you and to serve a copy of your answer to the said complaint on the subscriber at his office in Sumter within twenty days after the service hereof exclusive of the day of such service and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid the plaintiff in this action will apply to the court for the relief demanded in the Complaint Dated February 2Uh 1937 1 1 A IN S( WA 1 1TZ Plaintiffs Attorney To the Defendant above named Eddie McCoy: You Will Please Take Notice That the summons and complaint in this action was duly filed in the office of the clerk of the Court for Sumter County this the 20th day of February 193 7 sciiwautz Attorney LIZARD LOSING ITS ORIGINAL SOAAETIAAES GROWS 7WO NEW TAILS CONSIDERING NEW CAR Value rather than trade allowance you should drive an Oldsmobile (before you buy) John Evans Motor Sales SPECIAL For one more week: Permanents as low as $200 La Ponse Beauty Shop 8 Caldwell i St Phone 588 for appointment $150 Off New 1937 Pontiac Four Door Sedan Biggest bargain in town Don't miss it See it Drive it Huy it Your ear for down payment Balance easy PONTIAC SERVICE CO 14 Main Phone 235 HOG MARKET Every Tuesday Cash paid on all grades 1 cent under quoted price This is not to you We charge no commission Exchange Sumter OFFICE DESKS And swivel chairs Typewriter desks chairs to match Steel letter files In stock for immediate delivery NU-IDEA SALES COMPANY Sumter in CLIMATES THE AVERAGE DAY IS COLDEST AT ABOUT SUNZS 1937 BY NEA SERVICE INC SAVE 20 On Intra-State Messages USE POSTAL TELEGRAPH THE maximum temperature of the day usually occurs toward the middle of the afternoon although the supply of solar heat is greatest aU noon Then the- temperature begins to drop as the atmosphere cools and this cooling process continues until the appearance of the morning sun checks it Li bards are common to all parts of the globe except the polar regions They are especialy numerous in the tropics.