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THE SUMTER DAILY ITEM WEATHER Fair and somewhat colder fair warmer Wednesday Full Associated Press Leased Wire Full NEA Feature Service And Watchman and Southron FIVE CENTS A COPY FORTY-FIRST YEAR VOICE OF THE QAMT3HOCK CITY FIRST WITH VUE NEWS THE DAILY ITEM ESTABLISHED CN 1894 YP4TCHM4N 4ND RorTHKON IN 1850 SUMTER TUESDAY AFTERNOON JANUARY 15 1935 NEW GOVERNOR Name Is Brought Into Trial Of German ELEVEN MORE CRIMINALS ARE TURNED ILOOSE Blackwood Exercises Pardon and Parole Power as Final Gesture of Inglorious Term LEADERS MAP OUT PROGRAM OF PRESIDENT White House to Submit Social Security Plans to Congress Next Thursday Olin Johnston Is Inaugurated As New Governor Promises End of in State School Teachers Are Promised Square Deal Huge Crowd Witnesses Ceremonies Brother and Two Sisters of Man Hauptmann Claims Gave Him Ransom Money Arrive From Germany to Testify Expert Still on Stand Columbia Jan 15 (AP) Olin Johnston 38-year old Spartanburg- lawyer took office shorlty after noon today as governor of South Carolina amid the applause of approximately 15000 spectators The new governor concluded the 4 inaugural exercises with his address in which he declared his inauguration marked end of ring and asserted that am opposed to sending our school teachers to the kitchen door for scraps while we prepare a sumptuous feast with all its trimmings for the highway Columbia Jan 15 UP) Washington Jan 15 G43) Administration arguments for constitutionality of another New Deal highspot NRA went to the supreme court today as congressional leaders mapped out the job of translating into law President "new social security program Thursday was the day set by the White House for submitting to congress plans fpr unemployment insurance old age pensions and medical-aid systems Already Senator Wagner (D Y) and Representative Lewis (D Md) were busy drafting the necessary legislation The supreme court whose nine justices are deliberating the action halting gold payments on both private and public contracts received a government brief today contending NRA and its blue eagle codes were a constitutional exercise of congressional power over interstate commerce It asked the high bench to overturn a lower court ruling that the law was Invalid in a case Columbia Jan 15 tP) As a final gesture to rectify at the South Carolina penitentiary Governor Blackwood extended 11 clemencies today before the inauguration of his successor Those receiving the eleventh-hour grace were: Oscar Mahaffey and McLeod convicted April 1932 in York -of manslaughter and sentenced to three years paroled Pat Wilburn convicted April 1931 in Spartanburg of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment commuted to six years Rebert Dean convicted in Spartanburg in July 1930 of murder pardoned after service of five years Will Johnson convicted in Oconee of murder in 1926 and sentenced to life commuted to eight years Mack Thompson convicted in Lexington in 1920 of assault with intent to ravish and sentenced to death paroled after a commutation and service of 15 years Mrs Mae Qpick sentenced in Marlboro to Three years for involuntary manslaughter In (September 1931 paroled Ik Poole" Sentenced in Ander- By WILLIAM A KINNEY (Copyright 1935 by The Associated Press) Flemington Jan 15 The dead Isador Fisch came inferentiaTy into the murder trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann again today as his brother and two sisters arrived from Germany to combat insinuations against him Pincus Hannah and Czerna nmmiTxr Fisch and a nurse described as GREAT BRITAIN Minna arrived on the lie PROPOSES ARMS PACT de France with the New York de- I tective Arthur Johnson 1 Hauptmann on trial for his life as the accused kidnaper and murdered of Baby Charles A Lindbergh Jr has claimed that Fisch gave him for safekeeping the Lindbergh ransom money which was found in his Bronx garage While these witnesses were arriving in New York John Tyrrell a Milwaukee handwriting expert was being cross-examined on the possibility that handwriting might have been imitated in the Lindbergh ransom notes by another person Tyrrell was the third expert to identify handwriting as that of the notes Would Concede Abrogation of Military Clauses of Versailles Treaty (Copyright 1935 by the Associated Press) London Jan 14 UP) Great Britain is willing to enter a swapping deal with Germany the abrogation of the military clauses of the Versailles treaty in return for Germany's whole-hearted participation in a general pact for the limitation of armament This announcement came from an authoritative source after the British cabinet met today and Following are some of the highlights Johnston smiled ironically as he of the inaugurai address of Olin Johnston: In connection with the personnel of the highway commission permit me to say that reorganization of this body was a major issue in the campaign I contend that elections are won on issues and not on personalities And the people have spoken in eloquent fashion through the ballot I have no personal animosity against any of the qommis highway get hearers shouted amid applause as Johnston charged assuming the role of in the affairs of our Four huge loudspeakers carried message to the crowds Beginning at 1212 the governor squared his shoulders before the stand His reviewed the European outlook in OLIN JOHNSTON said it dictator the voice rang out resonantly 1 and steadily until he concluded at 101 God help us to accomplish these The ceremonies preceded by a military procession and several sioners But as governor I am asking that the mandate of the people brought by the recovery adminis-be obeyed and I am today calling tratlon against William Belch Station Is Held Up By Two Men Near Eastover Verdict Of $800 Is Awarded Plaintiff By Civil Court Jury er an Alabama lumber producer who paid less than code wages The house was not in session Lieutenant Tee Hutto of the State highway patrol reported today that a Mrs Howe proprietor A jury in common pleas court this morning returned a verdict for $800 for the plaintiff in the New York Jan 15 (A3) Two sisters and a brother of Isador Fisch from whom Bruno Richard Hauptmann claims he received the Lindbergh ransom money found In his home arrived today on the liner lie de France to testify at trial for the murder of the Lindbergh baby They were accompanied by a nurse listed with immigration authorities as Minna Stegnitiz 42 years old The witnesses as listed by Immigration officials were Pincus Fisch 25 Czerna Fisch 33 and Hannah Fisch 32 upon each and every member of the commission to tender his resignation forthwith so that the undelayed and orderly reorganization of today but the senate met with the the department can proceed I re- hoary world court issue again be-ands were conducted on the por- peat the people have spoken! It is fore it Opening the battle for capito1 wider gray my duty as your governor to re- I American adherence Senator Rob- es a tbe least Slim- Spect and carry out their wishes i inson the Democratic leader said 5 which were so pronounced in the action would involve the United a the parade headed by last primary election I trust that I States in no foreign entangle- Governo hand of Union and shaU be favored with these resig- ments but would demonstrate co- ters comnanv of thp mth nations Immediately During the operation in an effort to when she hurt her ankle on a of Columbia marched un to the campaign I promised that the chief law for anarchy in international wooden marker placed by the Columbia marched up to the highvy commissioner Mr Ben highway department on Manning Sawyer would be removed if you The banking committee Avenue The plaintiff was repre-elected me your chief executive I approved the nominations of the sented by McLeod and Shore of shall carry out that promise It is members-of the securities commis-earnestly hoped that it will be ac- sion including that of Joseph capitol The governor-elect wear ing a simple brown business suit and overcoat was escorted by a Spartanburg unit of Legionnaires Just as noon struck Johnston' case of Annie Laurie Garner against the South Carolina State Highway Department The suit for $4000 for personal in- juries sustained by the planitiff by McLeod and Sumter and Peoples and Anderson of Columbia the 'of a filling station and store near Eastover had been held up and roVbed by two men of approxl-was mately $70 in cash and a small quantity of merchandise shortly after 11 this morning Lieutenant Hutto investigated the case early this afternoon but so far np clue to the Identity of the two men and a Woman believed to have been implicated has been uncovered Mrs Howe said the woman came to her store shortly before 11 anci purchased a pack- defendant by Purdy of Sumter and Assistant Attorney General Ivey Humphries of Columbia preceded by the senate sergeant at arms descended the stairs from the the l'ght of the improved atmos-son to five years for manslaughter phere resulting from the Franco-in May 1931 commuted to five German agreement of Rome last years month and plebiscite Otis Bradham Of Barnwell by which it was conceded the whose three-year sentence of May Saar Basin territory voted for 1934 for manslaughter was com- reunion with Germany muted to one year yesterday was! With these indications of amity suspended today as a guidepost the British laid William Carr Jr sentenced in plans to revive Great ef-Dorchester to life for murder in forts to bring Germany back into October 1932 commuted to 12 the fold at Geneva years in January of last year par- It was understood tonight that doned 1 as an initial step the British cab- William Blalock sentenced to inet decided the League council 20 years for manslaughter in should make all possible haste in Edgefield in March 1930 paroled returning the Saar to Germany as a result of what is supposed to be an overwhelming vote in the Saar in favor of that return It was indicated that the cabinet hopes this territory may be reunited with the reich within the next few days if possible Although under the Treaty of Versailles the League has thc right to split up the Saar retaining districts which give a majority of their votes in favor of the or even giving districts to France if any voted that way It was stated officially that the cabinet would oppose such division as (Regarding assignment of the territory the Versailles treaty says: League of Nations shall decjde on the sovereignty under which the territory shall be placed taking 'into account the wishes of the inhaibtants as expressed by the voting) Sir John Simon foreign secre-retary who returned from Geneva Young: Woman Killed In Dillon Dillon Jan 15 UP) Miss Es- ther Morris 24 of Dillon county I was killed instantly and four per- sons injured one critically early today in a collision of an automobile and a truck on Second avenue here Cameron Blackman 45 of Marlboro county was the most seriously hurt He suffered head injuries and fractures of both legs and hospital attaches said his recovery was doubtful The others injured were Livingston Moody of Dillon driver of the car whose head was injured and arm broken Miss Dolly Morris 21 cut and bruised and A Dicker-son of Washington head Injury Dickerson was the driver of the truck which I complished immediately without my calling into use the full force main entrance and power vested in me as yoUr Governor Blackwood and went to governor I recommend that the their seats in a red white and blue number of Highway commissioners decorated stand on the landing be- be to 1 tists might study it after he is dead tween the two flights of steps lead- contend that fourteen carpenters mg up the capitol Also In the be required to build a house mechanically safe and stand were the Rev and Mrs but fourteen are not needed to put sound Camaki -Of Canton" Acting on thc back steps Particularly if the friends and relatives of the fourteen carpenters are called in at the expense of the house owner and added to his burden of cost During my administration they Chief Justice John Stabler of the state supreme court and members of the family Both houses of the general assembly met briefly and adjourned It is my opinion that the five mill tax levy should be gradu- reduced and eliminated entirely as soon as possible This does not mean that counties will cease to make appropriate levies on resi- The case of Hayes against age of cigarettes tendering a $20 the Williams Novelty Company bill in payment Mrs Howe said was taken up by court today The she gave the woman her change suit is for $15000 for personal in- from a small bag of money and juries allegedly sustained by Haye3 the woman left on foot A short while working for the defendant time -later two men walked in and company Hayes is represented by held her up with pistols They Jennings and the defendant filled their pockets with merchan-ally T0L kl 11 4- IjlRCKWOOCI VOlIGClS dise she declared and then de manded her bag of money She turned the money over to them she said and they left warning was hauling vegetables to Washington He said the truck Just before the cabinet session and will be selected for their special dent and non-resident land owners qualifications and before any com- but is intended merely as a step her not to move for ten minutes Mrs Howe was unable to tell whether the men had a car or walked up to her store One of thc men was described as being large and the other small Both wore overcoats Extra Pay As One Of His Last Acts for the inaugural ceremonies the house to meet at 10 a tomorrow and the senate at 11 Senators and other high state officials sat on the high buttresses level with the inaugural stand and members of the house were grouped on the next landing below Massed bands played Stars and Stripes Immediately following the ceremonies at the capitol Lieut Governor-elect Harley was administered the oath of office at a local hospital following an illness from which he had not completely recovered He wore his robe of office a vuc Uiuce missioner is appointed he must satisfy your governor in the following particulars: 1 That he favors rigid economy and elimination of waste and extravagance 2 That all firms in this state will be given equal opportunity to par ticipate in and enjoy the business of the highway department consistent with quality and price in a spirit of absolute fairness devoid of deceptive tactics and trickery 3 That highway funds shall be Escaped Convict Eludes Officers was parked on the right side of the street with proper lights displayed and the car crashed into its rear An inquest was called I and sat In a wheel chair during the e(lualIy allocated to all sections of ceremony the state 4 That the regulations requiring Columbia Jan 15 UP) Pre- that 25 per cent of federal aid shall ceded by a military parade and be applied to school bus and post By WILLIAM A KINNEY (Copyright 1935 by the Associated Press) Flemington Jan 15 A third state expert identifying Bruno Richard handwriting as that of the 14 Lindbergh ransom notes declared today Hauptmann failed In an effort to disguise his hand in either the notes or in specimens which had been dictated to him by police The witness was John Tyrrell of Milwaukee Adding his opinion to that already given by two other experts Albert Osborn Sr and Eldbridge Stein he said he found that sections of dictated writings were pictorially dissimilar to other sections and added: is pictorially a greater difference between specimens of these dictated writings than there is between the ransom writings and some of the dictated Earlier in his testimony he told the court where Hauptmann Is on trial for his life as the accused kidnaper and murderer of Baby Charles A Lindbergh Jr that in disguised writing cannot always duplicate his own figures" He intimated Hauptmann tripped himself by attempting to maintain a disguised handwriting throughout the many times detectives dictated to him after his arrest Many characteristics of the notes and of the specimens were detailed by Teyrrell In a 1-ong recital In which he explained his reasons for concluding that Hauptmann wrote every one of the ransom notes The recital appeared to bore the defendant and many in the court but not the bereaved fath-eV Colonel Lindbergh The latter was alert listening Intently to every detail The sate wound up its direct examination of Tyrrell with Assistant Attorney General Joseph A Lanigan asking: you say positively who wrote the ransom think Tyrrell replied state writer is identical If Bruno Richard Hauptmann wrote the Hauptmann writings he also wrote the ransom notes" Tyrrell said of disguised writing that cannot always du- plicate his dwn figures" if one intentionally he said is never the same character" A new type of aerial target developed for gunnery practice can be towed by a plane at a speed of 200 miles an hour This target is inflated by the slipstream of the propeller Murray Singleton negro convict who escaped from the chain gang yesterday morning after knocking Guard Muldrow Strange unconscious with a shovel was still at large today A large force of officers and deputies scoured the woods and fields yesterday near where the gang was working when Singleton escaped but the negro managed to escape capture He was reported as having stopped at a negro house seeking something to eat and was said to have fired the rifle he took from the guard in the direction of a man approaching him across a field Mr Strange was reported as getting along nicely at the Tuomey Hospital and is expected to experience a rapid recovery Columbia Jan 15 UP) before leaving office Governor I Blackwood collected $5500 ini back salary today under a recent decision of the state supreme court on constitutional paY The sum was designated as additional salary to bring his pay for his four years ni office to the constitutional figure of $7500 upheld in a case won by Judge Grimball of Charleston i The retiring governor accompanied Governor Johnston to the east portico of the state capitol and there got in an automobile with Mrs Blackwo-od and Mrs Mann his mother-in-law with the announcement would return to their Spartannurg home after lunch One of his last official acts was to sing 11 clemencies before noon Senator Smith Calls For Seed Loans Washington Jan 14 (VP) Chairman Smith of the senate agriculture committee today introduced a bill to continue emergency crop seed loans through 1935 The proposal left the appropriation to be determined in commit-tee but the South Carolina senator indicated he would ask for $50000000 Last seed loan act appro- priated $40000y000 conferred with Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald before the cabinet ministers met is expected to go back to Geneva at the end of the week He also is expected when he arrives in Geneva to engage in further preliminary conversations with officials of France before Premieretienne Flandin and Pierre Laval French foreign minister visits London It was understood following the cabinet meeting that the British cabinet was informed government intended to be more liberal toward Germany and actually stood ready to accept Illegal armament as legal Great Britain likewise was said to be ready to recognize and legalize armament (Under the Treaty of Versailles offensive weapons were forbidden Germany but during recent months both Great Britain and France have accused Germany of acquiring such armaments Calles 111 Flies to Hospital ping stone in my plan to relieve home owners as much as possible Such a removal of thejproperty levy will be equivalent to the state levy exemption advocated by me last summer I have studied the taxation methods in this state for many years From my legislative experiences I am convinced that our present system holds many imperfections that it has numerous inequities and is warped at many points In the interest of brevity I cannot elaborate my observations on this subject but I recommend that our general assembly allow me to name a nonpolitical and thoroughly representative group of nine South Carolina citizens whose duty it shall be to make an exhaustive study of our system of taxation with a view to making desirable improvements therein This committee would report at the next session and a reasonable appropriation should be made to carry forward this work I feel that the state should ex-tend all reasonable cooperation for new industries and it is my hope that during my administration a hundred new industries will come to South Carolina The sentiment of the people in this state is opposed to any general sales tax There has been much apprehension on the part of all the people particularly the merchants and business men that such legislation would eventually be enacted I here and now reiterate my opposition to a general sales tax and declare that any such legislation passed during my administration will be promptly vetoed There are ample indications to warrant my prediction that sufficient revenue is being collected at this time to meet the needs of our state provided we adhere strictly to a rigid program of governmental economy In this connection I earnestly ask members of the general assembly to scrutinize carefully all expenditures made by the state and to view the disbursement of public money in the same light and with the same discretion that a prudent man exercises in the pursuit of his own business There can be no finer test in my opinion as a former legislator than to ask oneself if the items included in any and every appropriation are essential and would be made if the individual were putting up his own money instead of that belonging to the people I most earnestly appeal to you that the centuries Men earth before Columbus was born of learning knew was round many Almanac: January several bands Olin Johnston 38-year-old Spartanburg lawyer arrived at the state capitol today and was sworn in as governor of South Carolina for four years Johnston wearing a simple brown business suit hat and overcoat ascended through a cheering crowd of 15000 to a stand on the front steps of the capitol at noon a bared his head as the Rev Camack of Canton Cr a personal friend offered the invocation An icy wind blew across the capitol portico and grey clouds shut out the least glimmer of sunlight during the ceremony Johnston moved beside Acting Chief Justice John G- Stabler of St Matthews placed his hand on the little Bible he carried during the World war and was administered the oath of offlce Johnston Chief Justice Stabler the Rev Mr Camak and members of the family from four states sat in a red white and blue decorated stand on the landing between the two massive flights of steps leading up the capital Members of the senate and high officials took places on the huge buttresses on each side of the steps and level with the inaugural stand The house of representatives was grouped on the next landing below The procession headed by a National Guard band of Union and the headquarters company of the 188th Infantry of Columbia marched up to (Continued on Page Two) roads will )e rigidly carried out 5 That promises made by the department shall be regarded as binding and not so much twaddle I recommend to the general assembly that they enact legislation that will give the people of our state $300 automobile license tags for all privately owned and privately operated motor cars This ill in no way interfere with the I licenses collected by the railroad commission on buses and freight trucks As a part of this legislation I recommend that the tags be delivered from the court houses at thc county seats each applicant for I a license plate being required to exhibit a tax receipt showing that the taxes on the automobile applied for were paid by the preceding year The number of state owned automobiles which quite a number of employes use for pleasure and non-official jaunts should be reduced drastically and each car should be painted a distinctive color so when you see one in operation off the job it is instantly detected Unquestionably the taxpayers are paying a large sum each year for the operation and maintenance of many needless automobiles The license law should be revised with an eye to fairness and with a view to making it more than just a revenue measure The purchase of one driver's license per individual should bn sufficient for a given period regardless of how many automobile license plates that individual may purchase The incompetent and physically unfit drivers should be taken from our highways and more time and effort concentrated on requiring drivers to display their ability to operate cars I Office Staff Columbia Jan 15 Roy A Powell secretary of Olin Johnston who becomes governor of South Carolina yesterday announced the personnel of office Miss Clara Yarborough member of Governor present staff will remain Mrs Lucious Melton of Chester formerly Miss Frances Girardeau of Charleston who was secretary at Johnston headquarters in tlie political campaign last summer and Miss Gueynelle Isom of Spartanburg have been named for the other places by Taxicab drivers of New York City received $26000000 in tips during 1930 gentlemen with whom it will be my pleasure to work to be diligent in the handling of the public's pursestrings buying those things which the state can afford to buy meeting its obligations punctually maintaining the financial integrity of our state government There can be no higher duty and no greater aspiration for any public servant during times of financial stress such as these through which wc are now passing than to preserve an equilibrium on all money matters I trust you will maintain the fine spirit of respect and confidence reposed in you by those people back home who have sent you here to represent them and who are paying the bills 1622 MolUe French dramatist horn 17S9BritisK Museum first Coo hat-mo pgessw? A wingless autogiro which can be parked in the same space as an auto was demonstrated recently in Washington The rotor blades may be folded for parking and the plane stored in a garage The Blue Nile in Africa was so called from the dark color of its silt-laden waters An emergency flight by plane brought Gen Plutarco Elias Calles above former president of Mexico from Mazatlan Mex to Los Angeles where he is receiving hospital treatment for a serious abdominal malady His son and three doctors Calles on the trip Since sleeper planes were inaugurated early last summer there has been a steady increase in number of persons using this service.