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kA iRornimj WEATHER ESTABLISHED 1894 DAILY AND SUNDAY DAILY AND SUNDAY LORENCE TUESDAY MORNING APRIL 18 1983 Safe Cracking to Aid Law Did You Ever WARNS AGAINST ALSE ECONOMY Make Additional in me norei suite at cuuclu Hassel beer czars were put on the spot and shot to death recently On information as to the ramifications of the illicit beer traffic Daniels Makes Good Impression In Mexico GOVERNOR VETOES or Sentiment Re versed 3 CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX al of (OwnW uto to tnteto'kiA CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO sffi1 STOP TO THINK 4 1 The Radical and Radical Socia list Party Is one of the largest of political parties in rance SOUTH Generally fair Tuesday and Wednesday lit tie change in temperature Graham Released In Auto Death Beer On Sale In the Capitol ant Resisms As Bank Examiner Change of Heart Nob ed tn His Recep tion As Amhassad Steam Driven Airplane Is Demonstrated to allot a substantial part of their cash allowance for the benefit of their families and dependents He stated further that those 'who are not qualified under the present conditions need not apply at this time To what extent reforestation will be made in South Carolina has not been made public stated Mr Mc Millan but a conference in Wash ington today of a number of states including South Carolina will de termine the quota of men and the extent of the work In the state It is certain that some plan will be arranged and made public In the hear future SENATORS SPLIT ON SILVER BILL WASHINGTON April 17 Senators from the Car olinas split on the Wheeler sil ver amendment to the farm bill which was rejected by the senate today Smith of South Carolina and Reynolds of Nprth Carolina voted for the amendment while Bailey of North Carolina and Byrnes of South Carolina vot ed against the proposal ire at the farm of Olin Jef fords near Hoffmeyer Cross Roads Suriday night destroyed a bam burned to death two mules and a goat along with a large quantity of com and hav Three cows in the bam escaped unharmed it was reported th when Mr Jeffords was awakened he and the rest of the family rushed out to fight the flames but heat from the burning building forced them back An attempt to rescue the stock was in vain for the flames had gained too much headway The loss was estimated at around 1750 No insurance was carried REE SILVER VOTED DOWN Was Submitted On April 4 Office Abolished Now program in long steps An outright revolt 1 against the Democratic house leadership was instig Care Should Be Taken As to uture Generations Mrs Roosevelt PATvrfriE MAM 5H? PIP RAKE ME tfiteK Pf PIS ptrT PEM f4e JES' Aim' up To RoYAA PUtfpj am o' I Senate Gives Approfr al to ive Day Work Week Men Register Here or orestry Work General Atkinson added he was sure shall meet In 1934 President Roosevelt's administration will have things in good shape by that time and I have no doubts whatever that we shall be able to meet WASHINGTON April 17 () ree silver was voted down in the senate today by a ten vote margin the administration's will prevailing over strong inflation sentiment With that vote and with approv al by the house 252 to 110 of a resolution to place in President hands power to prohi bit shipment of arms and muni tions the executives congress moved two ahead As the legislators COLUMBIA April A conference to determine the financial fate of the common schools will be held in Governor Blackwood's office Thursday at 3:30 it was announced to day Coates secretary of' tho South Carolina Education Asso ciation said the conference was to that the schools do not suffer too much in this economic crisis" Governor Blackwood called the meeting at tho request of Coates inviting State Treasurer II Scarborough Comptroller General A Beattie Hope State Superintendent of Education: Spea Mules Burned In arm ire snarpenea lor vUv Army iwo to three thousand officers and twelve to fifteen thousand men probably will be withdrawn from the present strength of 12000 and 117000 respectively to save $90 000000 The sertate Inflation vote was 43 to 33 on the effort of Senator Wheeler (D Mont) to attach the old Bryan 16 to 1 plan for remon etizing silver' at a fixed ratio of value to gold to Ahe pending farm price raising and mortgage refin ancing bill Though It' was not the last of he inflatipreny' amendments of fered the margin of strength for the administration was expected by leaders to show the way for speed ier action on the farm plan which has been languishing in senatorial debate ive Day Work BUI Earlier the senate had cleared off another delaying obstacle by refusing 52 to 32 to reconsider the five day work week bill it pass ed many days ago This had been kept from the house bv an attempt In the senate to submit imports to the same working time limit the bill imposes on domestic products The impending Army personnel cut became known after Secretary Dern and Lewis Douglas direc tor of the budget had conferred with the president Dern is to sub mit his completed economy plan at the White House By that time the president ex pects also to send up to congress the new appropriation bill for the independent offices cut to $560 000000 from the $1050 000000 fig ure that President Hoover vetoed The reduction is centralized in the big benefits slash already effected The preparations went CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX MEXICO CITY April (AP) Ambassador Jeaephus rDanM was formally received by foreign minister Puig Casauranc today af ter some of the unofficial crlVes of his appointment had publicly in dicated a change of heart Mr Daniels chatted for forty five minutes with the foreign min A much longer time than usually is allotted oa new envoy Within a few days he will tie re ceived by President Rodrigues El National printed interviews with student leaders in which they said that the new first remarks in Mexico had creat ed a good impression and had started a reversal of the opinion of him previously held by students Criticism of the Daniels ap pointment particularly by students was based on the fact that he was the Secretary of the Navy at the time of the occupation of Vera Crux first acts of the distin guished Journalist have created magnificent impression in student said Guillermo Secretary of the National Student ederation This organisation had attacked the appointment Mr Daniels was accompanied to the foreign ministry by Arthur Bliss Lane counselor to the em bassy After he end Dr Puig had completed their chat they were photographed to gether They discussed general topics of interest to the two nations and Mr Daniels enthusiastically des cribed his trip to Mexico and his CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO PRICE IVE CENTS A ker Gibson Jefferies of Colleton 'Senate Education com mittee chairman Bush of Allenton House Education com mittee chairman: and John Williams of Aiken Speaker pro tempore of the senate The question to come before the conference' those interested said is whether the state school system can survive present conditions and what woulcT be necessary to its continuation Governor Blackwood in a recent message advocated either a salesax or a "school from May 1 tq about January 1 1934 COLUMBIA April 17 Governor Blackwood today announced acceptance of the re signation of Albert 8 Pant chief State Bank Examiner which had been submitted to him April 4 Since then the Office has been abolished by legislative enactment Under the act conferring duties of the Bank office up on the Governor and the Board of Bank Control hiring of an auditor or Examiner Is authorized but ant said he would not be a can didate for this position No action has been taken to fill the post "I have always ant's letter said "That so weighty a responsibility as the supervision of our state banking system should not be borne by one man but should be held by some such group as you have recently formed I have continued in the position of State Bank Examiner for the past two years in the hope that some constructive measure would be evolved to place the banking situa tion on a 'sounder basis although by continuance in the position has been at some personal sacrifice of my personal ant whose home is at Belton became chief examiner in 1926 His office was investigated by a com mittee of th notise in 1932 follow ng the closing o' the Peoples State Bank of Soutn Carolina and other bonks President program 1 Jam In Congress Shows Signs of Re laxing Now 1 JHAT Charges made against Gen Charles Summerall president of The Citadel on the senate floor last week were called founded in in a formal statement issued by the board of visitors last night after an investigation Sen ator Edgar A Brown of Barnwell had criticised The Citadel president asserting that two cadets had been to trial for leged offenses EMERSON Ga April 17 Three persons were killed and one was missing tonight in the wreck of the lamingo fast Louisville and Nashville train in the Allatoona mountains 12 miles south of Cartersville Ga The dead: A Giles 45 fireman of Etowah Tenn Two unidentified hoboes Evans of Atlanta the engineer was missing and train men believod he had been kill ea out tnmr nu body although ths wreckage had been searched An unidentified hobo was cri tically hurt Conductor Butcher of Knoxville Tenn said he had found no Injured passengers The train a limited running between lorida and the mid dle west was running at be tween 40 and 50 miles an hour trainmen said when it left the track in a deep cut The en gine overturned and the mall car and two day coaches piled up AU the cars were of steel construction and were not de molished Machinery for enroUing unem ployed in the citizens conservation corps authorised in one of the spe cial Roosevelt proposals approved by congress recently has begun ac cording to a statement given out by Raymond McMillan director of the ederal Employment Bureau for South Carolina He stated that 10b applications had been received through his office since Saturday Additional personnel has been added to the lorence office in the city hall to handle registration for I the work Mr McMillan stated yesterdaythat at present consideration of I applicants is restricted to unmar ried men 18 to 25 years of age with dependants who are willing Galls Conference On uture Of Schools Program Moves orward 4s Economies Take Shape Die sewing machine idea Howe was bandied to and fro across the Atlantic before it grip ped the imagination and became a commercial reality One Member of Council to Be Selected In Second Primary WASHINGTON April 17 (SV In the same house restau rant where real beer last was sold 30 yeors ago thirsty con gressmen their guests and sec retaries today downed 720 bot tles of the new 32 beverage But unlike the scene 30 years when men lined up at the the new beer was sold only at tables Promptly at 12 noon it went on sale The first to be on hand were Representatives De laney and Boylan of New York Berlin of Pennsylvania and ernandez of Louisiana And from the time they clinked and cried and un til the stock of 30 cases finally gave out there was a stream of searchers for the foamy brew Many of the buyers were not congressmen for the beer was served as weU In the section of the restaurant that is open to the public But whoever drank it the beer was all gone in about four hours STATE GETS IRST REVENUE ROM BEER COLUMBIA April 17 The first revenue from the South Carolina beer tax was received into the coffers of the state today Check from Char leston Meggett and Rock Hill totalled $8113 The payments were made in accordance with orders of the tax commission that until stamps can be furnished deal ers keep an accurate record or sales Roy A Little director of the license division explained Stamps denoting payment of the tax will be supplied as soon as possible Die South Carolina tax is paid on 'the first sale in the state WASHINGTON April 17 CAP) its opposition to the ap pointment of Miss rances Pr Kins as secretary of Labor the American ederation of Labor was slated definitely tonight to have its legislative representative Edward Named to a high labor department post McGrady probably will become an assistant secretary but the ex act position has not yet been de termined Simultaneously It disclosed on high authority today that Guy Helvering a former representa tive from Kansas is to be named to the important position of com missioner of internal revenue It was stated that his appoint ment hag been definitely decided upon and is expected to be trans mitted to the senate within a wek Other nominations to strategic pods also are imminent Jincent Dallman of Springfield HL appears certain to be assistant Secretary of the Treasury Harry Mitchel of Great Mont was said informed circles to have an excellent chance of becoming an assistant Secretary of Interior There Las been no change In plans to name of Los Angeles comptrol ler of the currency Speculation also centered about IhtnanK of A a mem ber of the ederal lesf rve Board for appointment' aagcvwmor cf the board it wm stressed how ever that no decision been reached Miller is a dose friend of Presedent Roosevelt Robert Gore of Chicago and lorida who was in the running for commissioner of Internal Rev enue will be offered another Im portant pest decision has been With friends of both candidates working indications last night point ed to a heavy vote in today's sec ond primary between Ellerbe and Reed The total regis tration is 1214 In the first pri mary 1100 votes were cast The polls will open at 8 a and close at 8 Persons who wish to veto must present city registration certificates and pdl tax receipts for 1932 The following are the poling places and the managers of Ward 1 Vote at urni ture Co 220 East Evans St Man agers Buchheit Mrs Lucy Penney Mrs Clyde Gardner Ward 2 Vote at Ga rage comer Cheves and Church streets Managers Taylor Mrs rancis Eaddy Mrs Blanche Johnson Mrs Wallie Bryant Ward 3 Vote at Ga rage South Colt St Managers Dixon 8 A Campbell Mrs Mae Powell Ward 4 Vote at Drug Store Managers Singleton Mrs I Tobin Mrs A Harper Johnson Three Killed In Railroad Wreck OAKLAND Calif April 17 W) public demonstration of a steam powered airplane was given here today by its creators William and George Beslcr sons of Besler chairman of the board of the New Jersey Central Rail road Piloted by William Besler the plane flew for about five minutes then performed various trips I in landing and taking off One of the features shown was the abil ity to come to a quick stop after landing by reversing the motor and running the propeller backward Landing at 50 miles an hour it was able to' stop in that manner within about 100 feet Another feature of the plane was its silence lying 100 feet above a group of spectators William Bes ler leaned out of the cockpit and shouted He ww heard plainly on the ground He said the plane would travel 100 miles on about 40 cents worth of fuel oil and wu capable of a cruising speed of 100 miles an hour The pilot sold the plane was cap able of flying two mlnutea after firing up the boiler and that the only engine control in the cockpit was tne tnrotue EDWARD IHH SLATED ffl POST Labor Representative May Be Appointed Assistant to Mrs Perkins DARLINGTON ACT Says Clause In County Sup ply Bill Makes It Un constitutional COLUMBIA April '17 Blackwood toay 'Veto ed two acts of the 1933 legislature one of them the Darlington coun ty supply act and the other a mea sure to provide an election upon the form of municipal government in Spartanbunr In forwarding his vetoes to the clerks of senate and house the governor attached messages saying both acts were unconstitutional in his opinion The governor cited an opinion of Attorney General John Dapiel in holding that a section of the Darlington county act which gave the legislataive delegation author ity to reduce salaries and expendi tures at any time to keep within revenue contravened a constitu tional clause directing pavment of deficits the year after they occur Because of the section the entire bill bad to be refected it was said at his office His message said the plan "is apparently in conflict with the scheme of preventing deficits outlined by the The second act by Senator Burnett of Spartanburg was held unconstitutional by the gover nor upon authority of a state su preme court decision Provisions of the measure to have a special election upon the adop tion of a "commission form of government in Spartan burg the governor held conflicted with a constitutional clause saving that no municipal corporation "shall have any power or be subject to any restrictions other than all cor porations of the same The governor explained that only city that has or can have an election under this bill to estab the commission a manager Spartanburg This violates the language of the constitution quoted A two thirds vote of those pre sent in senate and house be required to override the vtn Tii? house however has recessed to April 25 tached But the application was In VT conflict with the statutes and was fjr New Tax Question fAs Conferees Labor House Rests While Sj! Upper Body aces 1 There will be no re 1 union for the United Con federate veterans In 1933 In making' this announcement General Homer Atkinson Commander Chief said financial conditions have made it impossible for any southern city on state to en tertain the survivors ffom the gray ranks which stood as their defenders in the six ties Oscar Graham recently brought back to lorence from ort Ben ning Georgia on a warrant charg ing him with being an accessory after the fact in connection with the death of Thaddeus Knight struck down and killed by an au tomobile on the night of April 3 was released from the charge Sat urday morning in a preliminary hearing before Magistrate James Johnson Graham it was learned was pick ed up by Lonnie McAllister who admitted driving the death car and was accompanied by John Mel ton Graham is still being held under bond a a material wit ness Melton and Graham members of the United States army were ar rested at ort Benning Georgia i wher their outfits are stationed lish on evidence given by Lonnie Me form of government is the City of Allister admitted driver of tne car Officers stated that the men said they thought they had struck a cow the night of tne accident Melton and McAllister are both at liberty under bond Melton being charged aa an accessory to the fact and McAllister on a charge of murder The case is expected to be brought up lii the next term of the Court of General sessions for lorence county i COLUMBIA 8 April 17 that manufacture of beer legal the office of the secretary of state want anyone to spring any practical Jokes on It such as was tried back in 1918 Attaches of the office looking back over old records got a laugh out of the 1918 incident which oc cqrred shortly after prohibition became effective tv A concern giving its name as S3 the "Charleston Alco Pill Manu 'tM factoring Company" applied for a charter rne application saiu uc general nature of the business it proposes to do Is to manufacture from non alcoholic ingredients and sell a pill made from a certain patented process which will when dissolved water pruuuw erage whose taste smell and ap pearance is the same as that of old mild Scotch Three one dollar bills was at Over 20000 People Read The Morning News 1 1 4 mailed back to the address of one VJ'I of those signing it The Charleston post offi wrote that the address was appiximate ly three miles in the Atlantic Ocean The charter application unacted upon is suu in tne secre tary of office MEDITATIONS Slashes COLUMBIA (AP)h The unusual spectacle of the senate at work while the housw'ia in recess will present it self tomorrow when the 15th week of the session of the general anem bly opens With free conferees busy with general appropriations and the senate fating Important bUMttoaa events of the week probably 'Will decide whether South Carolinians will pay any new or added taxea To the free conference commit tee of six which began its sessions tonight behind closed doors has? been entrusted the charting of a financial course to keep the state IxAa fMkAtMl si felt jrum runnuiK Senators will take up the ques MAW In Aftmwttan 5 with a house education bill which carries sharp income tax Increases for school operation aa its flnan cial feature It Is an open secret that anief fbrt will be made poHbly tamer row to replace the? income clause with a general sales tax of CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO Ppnnlp Want Nd: Now a cs va czrDnwT A xx rnirx Uidi ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES 0 A AWW 9 united PRESS ASSOCIATION? WASHINGTON April 17 A warning against "false and budgetary savings now that would harm future generations came from Mrs ranklin Roose velt today as she paused to speak to the press in the midst of a busy day The first lady spoke shortly be fore boarding an airplane for New York to assist tonight In awarding a medal to Cecilia Bow protrait painter the winner of this prize given annually by the Chi Omega committee to some woman outstanding in science literature or art Contemplating no slackening in her busy pace Mrs Roosevelt plans to attend a party tomorrow at her own Todhunter school address a Jewish welfare federation lunch eon Wednesday and attend a Wed nesday afternoon meeting of the Travelers Aid Society before re turning to the capital that night by train Informed by newspaper wopien who talked to her today that sci entific workers in Washington were apprephensive of their fate under the economy bill Mrs Roosevelt re plied she herself had? received "floods of bn the cur tailment of funds for experimen tal and extension work She said she had sent these telegrams on to the budget direc tor but that naturally she did not know what the budget director might feel he must do about it In the desire for economy Mrs Roosevelt added this country must weigh what will do possible harm nnri whnt rftW he rtane wtthMt harm flndhte'C fljUBw genirgiig Conference Comniit tee Scheduled to HEAVY VOTE IS pcuss EXPECTED TODAY Important Matters I SALES TAX IS BEING TALKED TE Amede Gaudin safe expert is pictured aa he drilled into the safe found in the hotel suite at Elizabeth where Max Greenberg and Max Hassel beer czars were put on the spot and shot to death recently On i being opened after 24 hours of drilling the safe yielded documenta Which ederal agents say are of the highest importance revealing much Inside voted the atetf vesterdav in a call President was having the economy UILI ycsixiuuy in a UHl tor a rump caucus of party mem bers do not want to be by the plan to tighten house rule's as a move to prevent the con sideration of legislation not on the program rpHAT Legislation to carry out President Roosevelt's pledge to 'stop with other by revising laws and regulating security sales rap idly neared completion yes terday congressional com mittees Committee appro val at both ends of the Cap itol by the end of the week was prclicted for the ad ministration bill ILL EW BEVTMV HILLS CaBL April 17 Every day juzt shows what a lucky country we 'are We got lota of fleas on us and everybody is scrat ching to get em off but there Is one ineect that bothers most of the world that we are at least free from and that Is newspaper press that is not free Everybody wants to know if the Englishmen in Russia are guilty or fnuned Everybody would love to know the very facts of what is going on In Germany But over here you ran write what ever you wand to the only trouble Is getting somebody that will read It Yours A 1 1 2 a 'vfeg is fl 51 Slid Vs' V4 1 AM WIT nKW iff fl fl ISROg "'I r' I 4 rws ly a ygl.

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