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THE INDEX-JOURNAL The Leading Newspaper of Western South Carolina rTHE WEATHER: S. Ntws Dbpatcfcei of Tha Associated Press. Tba Leading Features and Comics. fair tonight and Friday, gentle to moderate easterly winds. VOL.

XII. NO. 1S2. Published Fvry Afternoon With Burnta? Morning Kditioo. AIM Yrt-WMkljr BVlHMm.

GREENWOOD, S. C. THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 18, 15)31. Rnter As ona Otaaa Matur At TH PoSteMloe Dr.mroo4. Undr TIM Art Of Mtnab 1(1.

PRICE: FIVE CENTO em-Walsh Doubts Hwika's'Bim Realization HUGHES AT BROWN EXERCISES MAP CAPONE PROSECUTION LOWELL MASON OFI EDERAL AGENTS REPORTOFPLOT WALSH ASKS DATA HBO! HABDIFJG PROBLEM CUTE in fe i.l 11 i sin uifcuJJ a .4 i -(vV'V''-'A i i iUHtald eru ui Kipre entntlTeo of romblnrd foree cf the- f.xleral gr-vernment met In Cbk-STO Plan the proceration of "Hearfare Al" Capnne for alleged mti.mr Ux rvasb.n and 'liquor law vi tieattd are fleorge G. Q. Charles Evahs llurhea left; chief Jniie tf the United BtatsN, re. turncJ Brown anlversity, Providence, U. IW the 183rd rem.

mencement exercise and th 60th nanl.n cf hi cIsm. He as shown as he appeared just prior to th tradltkntl prtce-sica to the Flret BaptM meeting hoase, Juhruxn (left), dinlrkt attorney, intelllgenc; unit fcr Chleago. Standing Frank WllK.n, federal epert. Capone May Lose Palatial Home In Florida And Serve Term In Prison 3 Men Die In Auto-Truck Crash Near Summerton; 5 Badly Hurt SUMTER. S.

June 18-(AP) An automobile craaned Into a truck near Summerton, S. 20 mileg aouth LherVte killinir three men and injurinir five others, four of them furiously. MI AM June 18 (AP) Alphonsa Capone faced ioHs of the furnishings in hi Palm Inland a well as a prison term for violating the GIRD FOR DRIVE ACAIMEKET July 15 Set As Date Jo Begin Drive Against Leaders Of, Crime WASHINGTON, June IS. The aero hour for the biggest sua talned offensive in prohibition his tory against leaders of the Illicit Uquor Industry was aet for July IB today by federal official. Exactly 15 dayi before thai data.

Prohibition Director Woodcock said, a corps of 350 new dry agent will be concentrated In a tfoaen cltiea spread from coast to coast for an intenalva two-weeks' training course, Added to the preaent foroa of more than 1,500 to makt the biggest and best trained federal dry army in hlstary, lit said, they will be tov structed apeatfleally to concentrate on the large scale commercial viola tors and the higher-ups of th li quor gangs, leaving the speueasy and small-time bootlegger principally to local enforcement. New Mew la FteM Woodcock acknowledged that for the past two or thrw months his office had been "bending every effort" toward the date when these new men, relected from among thci- tandi of applicants, could be thrown into the field, i 'If we don't make more and bet ter case: with our force Increased by nearly, a third," lie said, "then some thing is wrong with our farce, And there Is no denying that our effort will be stronger. The result should rpeak for themselves. The federal dry chief made clear. however, that the new offensive should not be considered as "drive" in the sense that it would be a spee-tacular effort eonflned to any one period.

He stressed his Idea of "keeping a steady pressure" against the men he seeks to convict. Already 150 of the new agent au tiicrlzcd by congress have been thrown against the Volstead law breakers. Woodcock held out for this number against the criticism, if the Wickershatn commission and recommendation to President Hoover and to congress that his fig ure be doubled. The federal dry chief was enthu siastic about the ealtbre of the force that will carry on the campaign to wipe out the leaders of the liquor gangs. "A corps of Investigators has made extensive Inquiry into the records of each man.

Inquiring among other things whether he hiss ever served a prison sentence and whether be himself ever liquor. "If a man at some time In his past has taken liquor and then stopped using It we do not hold this a- gainst him, but every man in the wervice now must be a total abstainer. He cannot properly enforce the law and drink 1 Mull Added To List Of Victims Of Feud MORO ANTON, N. June Another name that of 10-year-old Wood row Mull was added to the lUt of victims attributed to a fierce family feud smouldering for many months In Burke county. Mull died last night In a Mor- Kanton hospital from wounds he re-J celved In a light last Sunday.

Clinton Duckworth, also It, and Theodore Mull, a cousin of 'Woodrow, are held In Jail In connection with the melee. The rffray occurred at the home of Mrs. Essie Lefevers, widow of Tony Laf evert, who was killed sometime atjo by Russell Mull. Three werttir'aap. Ed Mull, a brother cf Russell, was slain.

Bruce Uuckworth. a brother of Clinton Duckworth Is held In jail charged it 11 Ed Mull's slaying. TO OUST REGIME STIRS5PANIARDS Rumor Military Move To Over-J throw Republi-; -can Rule MADRID, June (d reports that a military movement was underway to overthrow the Re publican government and Crown Prince Jaime De Bourbon King of Spain were being traiked down today. A number of newspapers, includ ing iteraldo, said General Martinet Anldo, military governor of Barce lona tinder the monarchy, was on his way to the Province of Navarre to organise an army which would march on' Madrid and place Don Jaime, son of the late pretender, on the throne. Oeneral Anldo, who was vice-pre mier in the cabinet of Oeneral Prima De Rivera and long a captain ger-cral In the army, was orcrd to rrsign bis post when King Alfonso l-sve way to the republic, HI of-firlal acts later were scrutinised by the provisional government with an i ye to prosecution, Cheer Prince rrlnoe Jaime, whose headquarters cit, in Paris, was mindly cheered at a meeting of 30.000 Catholics In Pamplona, capital of Navarre, last Sunday for his sympathy toward 1 1,0 church.

A telegram from him felicitating Catholics in Utelr cause sealnst the government was read at th meeting, r- Shortly, after the fall of the mon archy, Prince Jaime issued a man ifesto to the QpanlMh people assert ing his nehi to tne throne and ting them to support a royalist xovernment which, would-be "re newed, progressive and deoentral ifed," but which would not be headed by Alfmm: Favwr the monarchy "My deslie is to have a king head a federation, a king above said at that time. "A great part of the Spanish people favors the monarchy, even the Republl cans, admit. It Is unjust to sup press the monarchy because on ing did not know how to make the people love him." Don Jaime, 81 years old, Is the great-grandson of the first Carl 1st pietender to the throne and the latest of a long line of Bourbon princes who trace their claim to King Charles IV. They were succeeded ry another branch of th family In the person of King Ferdinand VII ar.d later by Alphonso XII, father of the present fallen monarch. Eight Persons Hurt In Strike Mine Area ST.

CLAIRSVILLE. June 18 tP) Eight men were Injured today in a battle between mine guard and picket of the National Miners' union fct th Florence mine of the Ycughlogheny and Ohio Coal company. The fight started after 300 picket had attempted to march to the mine but were dispersed by tear gas bombs thrown by deputy sheriffs. The trouble at Florence was the most serious of a number of disor ders In the coal strike region today. At the Blaine mine a deputy, sheriff was tacked by two pickets but he arrested them.

When the 300 pickets approached the Florence mine, deputy sheriffs halted them about a quarter of a mile from the workings and told them to disperse. When they refused to do so, tear gas was used. About 15 of the pickets skirted the spot by going over a hill, and thru a They approached the mine from the rear where company guards met them. A pitched battle occurred and eight were Injured. of the picket WOUNDED ey COPS Duke Univ.

Grid Star Sought To-Evade Police After Auto Wreck CHARLOTTE, N. June Lowell Mason, Duke Unlverslt auarterback ant, ton one of Charlotte' best known families, wua shot and. arrioiiklv wounded here today by Folic Captain ar.d Alex West. Pel ice hud cliarged Mason with drunkenness following an automo-lile accident, and Uie shooting occurred as he sought to escape. Mason was taken to Freabyterian lirfcpital here with a wound hrough his pelvis and upprr leg.

Physicians declined to estimate the seriouuiess of tht wouno until af-Mr an tntrrnal Investigation. The shouttnt; ccvurred, according ti imjIU input, alter Mason and two cumpuiuoiis had urefl taken to polite headquarters. Mason was to have leaped out 01 tne polio- cdr and I lt downa tilde street. Filed Into Ground Ed rittmun, thiol of police, said Caplan West was behind some buildings as Mason passed, arid, 1 'faring brottitr officers Crying step him," fired twice into the found without ever seeing the fleeing youth. The shooting occurred at 4 A.

M. Having the youth's name and not knowing tie was wounded, ollee sa'd. they gave up the chase. An tKJur alter officers on patrol found Mason wandering In the nemo district, took him back to the Kintion and did not know he was ouruUd until he told them, they faid. Mason was shortly before 4 A.

when tlio tar in Which he was riding with 3. R. Wilkes, of Charlotte, and P. T. Delilliger, ol Cherryvllle, N.

C. fetal College hludenU, crashed into a milk truck. LHllnger was convicted thai morning in city recorder's cout of drunk-iiness, and Wilkes is scheduled to be red tomorrow for driving intoxicated. Pclitiiolly Prominent Maatn is a acn of E. L.

Mason, prominent in Chariotie civic, busi- ress and political atrans icr years, (Continued On Page Five) s. c. confederate Veterans in meet FEW OF SURVIVING TftOC-SANDS STATE SENT TO DO BATTLE IN WAB MEET ROCK HILL. S. June 18.

A few survivors of the thousands South Carolina sent into the War Between the States entered into the full swing of their annua! three-day encampment here today, followinz the opening program last night. Various patriotic and civic organizations have turned the city over to the aged veterans. Arthur Gaston, of Chester, state representative, was to be the principal speaker today. Governor Ibra C. Blackwood, who w.scheduled to address the veterans, was Unable to attend.

''One question to be decided is the making this reunion the final one. "Saj. Gen W. D. Craig.

6f Chester-Held, ronimander of the South Carolina division, has advocated this step but It has been received with Romp opposition. Addresses of welcome, entertainment features and a fponson' dance occupied the former, sowiers last nifiht Will ROGERS Beverly Hills, June 17. Just heard Mr. Hcover over the radio at Lincoln's tamo. He is making a monumental tour of the country, visting the 4omlfc of dead Republicans, and, incidentally, to count the live ones left, you'd be rurprised the amount of good Rr publicans dead.

Poor Frankln D. Rroaevelt, hn he launches his campaign, can't find enough LVm-orrratic monuments to gH his police, over. 7 i lit I i Walsh Was Prosecutor In Senate Probe To Disclose Oil 1 Scandals WASHINGTON, Jan question aa to President' Hoover's knowledge of Warre O. Harding' "dim realisation" that aom of hi trusted friends bad be-trvmA tilm. hava fcam directed at the Cbif Emmtlv by Butor Walsh of Montana.

was the democratic prosecutor la th flenat Investigation that disclosed in teapot dome and Elk Kills oil leas scandals of th Harding administration. In which Hoover was secretary of commerce. la a statement throGgh th Democratic National Commltt, Walsh la referring to Hoover's dedication of th Harding memorial said: 1 Int renting History. "That was an interesting bit of history introduced Tuesday by President Hnnmp Into hla aneM'h at Marlon, Ohio, namely that the. realisation of President Hardin that he" had been bet rayed 'by a few of the man whom be had waa a' contributing cans ot his dsath." Coming from the retlabl sourc from which "th fsct I bow given to th public, a number of questions are prompted," Walsh said.

"Of th faithlessness of which particular friend or friends, after ward shown In th courts of the land to have-betrayed the country a well to use th language of the orator" at Marlon did PresWent Harding bsvt knowlwtire Fall, Daugbartr, JVrbes-oe-Jnilerr -CnvMs Albert Fall. PklJ was Secretary of th Interior, and was convicted of accepting a 1100,000 bribe from Edward L. Dohsny. Daugbsrty banded la bla resignation a attorney general at th request of President Coolldg. Forbes became Involved In bis administration of th Veteran Bureau and Millar, likewise as alien property custodian.

Both were imprisoned. Walsh asked If Harding "had such knowlsdg why did he not peremptorily dismiss i tbem from th pirbllo ssrrlc and cans to be instituted those prosecutions to Which they later became subject r' Wa uhm president' mlbrma- tioB," be continued, "that Hardin had a 'dim realisation' of th fact" that h. and, of course, the country a well, had been betrayed acquired before or after the death of Harding? If after, who was hi Informant and, If before, why did he remain inactive, being one of the constitutional advisers of lb president?" Lions Open Session At Myrtle Beach MTRTTX BEACH. S. C.

June IS. -UV-South Carolina Lions open ed their stat convention here Id. osy with a luncheon that preceded a buslne session at which new officers for the 12nd district. Lion international, win be elected. Other matters to come before to day business session will be the report of T.

I Felder, Jr, of Oran geburg, district governor, and C. Summers, of Charleston, district secretary. Judge O. Hr'-Hastinn. of Win- ston Salem, N.

and Henry HiU of Chicago, 111, officer of lions, m- tertaaonaL wu speak at a banquet tonight. Tomorrow, the last day of th meeting, will be given over to a rolf tournament for -delegate and a bridge tournament for their wive. CALDWELL GAINS POINT NASHVILLE, Ttnn, June 18 (JP) The. defense In th trial of Roger Caldwell, financier, charged with fraudulent breach of trust, won a point today with a ruing fay Judge Chester KRart that certain testimony relating to a trust agreemena not delreotly connected with th case on trial would not be admitted. HEAD NEWSPAPER GROCP ASHEVTLLE, N.

June 18 C. W. Hlxson, of the Syracuse, N. Post Standard today wa elected president of the International clr-eulaUon eanageri association. Toronto, Canada, was selected a th 1933 convention city.

prohibition law and evading HOP FROM NATAL German Flying Boat Resumes Trip From 1 Old World To The New BAHIA, Brazil, June 18 OF) The Eeaplane Do-X landed here at 12:55 P. M. A. M. E.

8. today, completing a flight from Natal. NATAL, Brazil, June 18 The German flying boat, Do-X, resuming her fligh from the old world to the new, was soaring down the Coast of Brazil today toward Bahia cn the first stage of a trip to Rio De Janeiro. She rose fwm the harbcx at 5:30 A. M.

(3:30 A. M. E. S. T) and set her course due South.

Fifty-five minutes later she was sighted over the city of Parahyba, about 100 miles from here. About 40 minutes After that she circled about Pemambuco. 75 miles further, and turned bacjt on her course At 7:06. She had then flown ncarly-a third of the total distance of ttpproximately 600 miles. Made 1400 Mile Trip The big seaplane, largest In the world, landed- here June 6 with 13 'passengers and under the command of Prledrlch Christiansen.

She had come from the Island of Fernando Noronha, several hundred miles off the 'coast of Brazil after flight across the South Atlantic from the Cape Verde Islands. It marked the climax to an adventure which began in Alter-nrheln, Switzerland In November 1930. At 8:30 A. the big ship land-1 ca un uigoa urande Great Lake) XC0W1PLETES rTM Paola r.U A. P.

chief of special income tax payments. An order dissolving, a temporary injunction prohibiting removal of the fiimlthlngs in connection With a $50,000 suit filed against the gangster by Vincent; O.jOlbHn, local attorney, was handed down yter-day by Circuit Judge W. L. Ft-land. Judge Freeland said Uk 4' junction had been granted solely to i.

Mow Mrs. Cnpnne to file suit assorting her owncrKhlp to the prop-city, but that no xitit had been fil-' d. The order was made effective Monday to give tme for an appeal. Prt perly Of Wife- The injunction was granted June 8 on pi tition of Flank h. pre seating Mrs.

Capore, on the ground that the property was held in her name while Olblln's suit named her huiband a defendant. Deputies sheriff removed a por of the furnishings from the residence before the Injunction was granted last week. Glblin said the popevty removed wus valued at which was insufficient to meet his claim. Olblln's suit charged the was a balance due him as attorney ffes. Giblln wis his law associate, J.

P. Gordon represented Capone and members of his' family In.sev-r r.il legal actions here last year. Mellon Holds Confab With British Banker LONDON, June 18 4P Andrew W. Mellon, secretary of the United States treasury, today had a long talk with Montagu Norman, governor of the Bank of England, and afterward the two wera together at luncheon. There Is a feeling here that the secretary in 1 this Informal visit Is gathering first hand knowledge of European financial affairs and probably going into the issue of reparations and war debts.

He has declined, how- ever, to dlcus his meetings with important men of England and has I mat ne is nere oruy ion luncheon Mr. Mellon we. a to the hou.se of commons for another conference, with Prime Mini'ter Ramsay MarDonald and Arthur Henderson, the foreign secretary. He spent an hour with I i In in in Mr Mar-Donald's office yes- i lerday. later describing the visit as, purely, a social call." I SI K'IDES IN THEATRE CHICAGO, June 18 OPt Several thousand persons watched a movie in the uptown theatre last night.

1 ignorant of the covered body of a suicide in rear seat. Ju.st ss pistol shots broke uponj the sound screen. Christopher Ket- lry, 60, northxide druggist shot him- Two of the dead wer Identified a Frank Cltase, 1000 Manchester street, Baltimore, and T. P. Tutterow, ear of the Salvation Ar my, areentboro, If.

a Tutterow was killed Instantly. Cllaat died in a hospital i no inira man, no died in a hospital here, ha not been definitely identified but he was believed by authcrttie to be a brother of Oil Ham E. Morris, 86, of Turbevllle. who was seriously Injured and unabl to talk, Name ef Injured Lieut. T.

Hutto, of th South Car ollna highway patrol, gave th name of the injured a L. W. Doughty and- hi 1VV A. Doughty, driver of the truck, of near Holly Hill, 8. Paul Patrick, 18, of RouU Jackaonvllle, Johnnie Ms this, 46, Sumter, 8.

and Ollluun Morris, 16, of Sumter. Both of Patrick's legs were brok en. L. w. Doughty was badly 1 bruised and lacerated.

Ullm has serious ooay onuses ana Matni waa badly bruised. A. Doughty' Injuries were not serious. Had Delivered Predooe Th Doughty brothers went returning from D. C.

where they had hauled a load of produce for J. B. Bennett, Holly Kill planter. A short distance south of Sum merton, W. A.

Doughty told Lieut. Hutto, the truck collided with alight ceupe in which three men were riding. Doughty said the coupe did not hav any lights. W. W.

Davis, Summerton bank official, who saw the wrecked machines shortly after the accident, said it appeared that the coupe bad pauied the truck and cuf into the trailer, striking it midway, Davis said the road was dusty and Viability poor. The two Morrises and Mathi were riding In the coupe. The Doughty brothers were sitting on tne driver's teat in the truck -while th other were riding the trailer. Ford Demands Probe Of Dole Expenditure DETROIT, June IS tV-The Ford Motor Company today demanded a grand ury investigation of Detroit $1,500,000 monthly municipal dole disbursements, charged the department of public welfare with negligence and accused Mayor Frank Murphy with trying to "draw a red herring across the trial." These demands and charges were contained In a letter sent to Thomas E. Drtan.

superintendent of the city welfar department The letter was In reply to one Superintendent Do-land sent'Edsel Ford Tuesday re- questng that CXpord company assume the rare of the families of 1,300 former Ford workers now drawing municipal doles. Mysterious Snarl Of Facts Balks Detec-tectives In Girl's Death NEW YORK, June De tectives, still balked in their 'at tempt to untangle the mysterious snarl of fact and fancy urroundlng the death of Starr Fafthfull, sought today to question two women re ported to have been with her shortly before she disappeared. They hoped these Witnesses might be able to throw light on why th overwrought, unstable girl of 25 draped frcm sight and turned up dead on Long Beach. One Of the women was reported to have been seen talking with Burr at Grand Central station at 4 30 p. on.

June 4, the day before she disappeared. The second woman was a clerk in a avenue department store, said to have lunched with Starr the next day. Seeking this girl for several days, officers hoped to ques tlon her today. Doubt Driver's Story Meanwhile authorities tended to cast doubt on the story or Henry Goldstein, a chauffeur, who said he saw the girl on the day she disappeared with a "millionaire" for whom he once worked. He knew them, he said, because he once droye them cn an eight-day.

trip in Europe. Stanley E. Falthfull, stepfather of the dead girl, still insisted that the case was one of murder, a theory upon which District Attorney Elvln Edwards of Nassau county has been proceeding. The father's statement that Starr's troubles began when a wealthy man mistreated her in her 'teens was upheld bv other members iff the family. Falthfull.

looking very downcast and discouraged, departed this morning from his home in Greenwich Village, for Mlneola, where he said he planned to offer any possible aid to police Investigating his daughter's -deaths MALES GROW WHISKERS CENTRaLIA, Wasiw, June IS A special city audience ha ordered the entire male population of Centra 11a to grow whiskers between the dates of July 8 and August 13. The purpose, sponsors said today, is to provide realism for the 20th Annual Southwest Washington Pol-neer Picnic on tlie latter date. Mar elo. to be refueled. About halfr)leaMir' her Journey hao Jeen completed.

rr There war. no to a.ssl.s her on her take off at Natal so only enodgh gasoline nad been carried to fly fltree hours. WINS ASCOT TROPHY ASCOT. England. June li-iP General Lambton's Trtmdon today won the Ascot golu cup, blue ribbon event of the Avot racing season.

DENIES RADIO PLEA WASHINGTON. June 18-oPi: The federal radio commission today denied (he application of Station WRBT at Wilmington. for authej-lty to increase its power to The Sin Of Throwing Things Away Sometimes automobiles pass through six or more ownerships before their usefulness is ended. So it is. too, with furniture.

The original owner eventually sells it to another and the second owner after ome years may sell it to a third owner and so on. The same process goes on in the ownership of pianos and other musical instruments in the ownership of books, bric-a-brac, garden tbjol.4, sewing machines, clothing, kitchen utensils, dishes, baby carriages and many other things. Do not throw things away. Sell them for cash through the For Sale ads in The Index-Journal. 1,008 watts and ehange Its fre- quenry 10 1,320 kilocycle.

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