Morning News (Newspaper) - July 4, 1936, Florence, South Carolina WEATHER SOUTH ly cloudy Saturday and day scattered afternoon K Read The Ads LEARN WHERE TO BUY AND WHERE TO SAVE 1894 DAILY AND SUNDAY FLORENCE S C SATURDAY MORNING JULY 4 1936 DAILY AND SUNDAY PRICE FIVE CENTS BRIGHT BELT WEED MARKETS OPEN AUGUST 13 Did You Ever Stop To THINK? along with thousands of other cities these great United States II celebrate today the of the III of Independence the eatest document from an standpoint that has er been written in the pages history no set gram has been arranged the observance of In- Day it will be ob- ved here generally ss will be suspended and 2 people will go forth for loliday which they will ate in their own way was lar day in Florence It s just like a Saturday reets were crowded and remained open until e at night Business was od here yesterday Flood Toll Grows As River Crests Rolls Toward Sea Ravages Crops and perty In Its Two Wide Path LIST MOUNTS TO 26 Thousands of Head of Livestock Drown Acres Inundated CUERO Tex Flood Swollen river seward tonight ravaging crops and property in its wide path as lowland families amply warned of the onrushing waters fled to the safety of higher ground Twenty-six were known dead some still missing cotton and corn crops battered to the earth and an estimated damage done as the Guadalupe spent itself near the coastal region Two hundred families in the toria region evacuated lowland homes as the river over rich farming land An estimated 100 houses were in its path Three persons still were missing A coast guard plane equipped with two-way radio cruised over the Thomaston area in search of Bob Murphree a Thomaston farmer who went into flooded fields 48 hours ago to bring out a tractor He was believed stranded on a bridge Unconfirmed reports said either Oscar or August inent ranchman was missing and a negro tenant had been drowned I The death list mounted to 26 JULY BIRTHDAY OF THE NATION Americans the nation over will pause today to commemorate the Declaration of Independence 160 years ago by courageous representatives of the 13 colonies Their action made vivid by John historic painting reproduced here brought a freedom that is the Statute of Liberty also shown and often expressed in the form of parades as pictured above Associated Press Photo France Moves To Halt Trouble In African Colonies tobacco kets in South Carolina and 2 North Carolina border will open on August for the auction sale of the ed The market opening is e because of the late crop this state Indications are crop will be short and s should mean that the ces should be higher of sons will expose ves to danger today in ir quest for fun and Few of them will heed i words of caution that ve been spoken and The hope is that good will follow the seekers of the nation Morning News will take a holiday today ng with all the other s interests Of course the aer will appear Sunday its usual volume of news the business office will closed until late in the friends of George W Laughlin will interested in learning that has been re-elected first grand chief en- eer of the National of Locomotive Continued on Page Official N C Vigilantes Is Marking Time future status of Farley was not ned yesterday in his con- with President t The big chance is r that Farley will continue his job as national itic Committeeman U S MILITARY AND NAVAL GUNS TO ROAR WASHINGTON July booming of 48 erun ill echo tomorrow from coast i coast and far out to sea as ell At every military post a 48 Jn salute will be fired at noon as the Salute to the Un- n this salute is fired only on ic anniversary of the signing the declaration of shot is for each state i the union Under navy regulations all lins not under way will be in ill dress from 8 A M until it On each ship a 21 gun ite will be fired at noon Solicitor Burney N o Committal Goes Deep Sea Fishing WILMINGTON N C July today indicated of- investigation of reported gings by night-riding vigilantes in Columbus county was marking time over the week-end Solicitor John J Burney refused to discuss his plans for carrying out his announced war to the death against the masked law and der band and went deep sea ing Sheriff John W Hall who with one deputy makes up the law en- forcement machinery of Columbus county was reported by his wife to be campaigning in connection with North Carolina's run-off democratic primary tomorrow Meantime local postal officials awaited word from their ton superiors who were sent a copy of a purported confession by a member of the accused of whipping at least four women and two men be- cause tUey considered their victims undesirable representatives of Clarendon community In the statement the maker was on Page Six I Lewis Ouster Seen Survey WASHINGTON July division in the ican Federation of Labor's tive council in favor of ousting John L Lewis from the federation was indicated today in a survey just completed by a prominent labor leader I Whether this division will prevail when the union sue comes up for discussion has been questioned Some observers have expressed the view the council as a whole would not want to split the ation by ejecting Lewis his Uni- ted Mine Union and the 11 other unions affiliated with him in the industrial union campaign without the unanimous backing of the craft unionists Other said a few craft union ers were so bitterly opposed to tho Lewis group's plans for organizing workers in each industry into a single union they would push the issue to a showdown vote The labof leader who made the decline to permit use i of his the view A F of L Council would postpone action indefinitely The American Iron and Steel stand against the Lewis groups steel organization campaign would tend to heal the wounds between the Craft and Industrial groups he argued against the view of Lewis land his associates that all the workers in each big industry should be organized into one big union the Craft undisputed con- trol of the all ers should be organized by craft That is the carpenters in any in- dustry should belong to the penters union for example Algeria Appears to Be Powder Key of Colonial Possessions PARIS July leftist invoked colonial measures to halt conflicts in its North African territories tonight while farmers commanded attention at home of anti-Semitic rioting in Tunisia coincided with a between leftists and ists over responsibility for the dis- which included strike dis- orders in Governor General Le Beau of Continued on Page Six Jobless Board On The Job Tuesday COLUMBIA S C July 3 state sation board back from a week at Washington planned today to sume its official duties Tuesday Members said the board was recognized by federal officials but that the national social security board had to give formal approval of the South Carolina act Tuesday for it to function fully Chairman A Malcolm ough said our work has been tentative and unofficial so far but we will meet Tuesday Scarborough said at least two would be lent the state agency to set up Its major divisions ah employment office and the administrative staff for unemployment compensation The compensation division will be financed entirely by federal grants he explained but the em- ployment division got a state appropriation effective July 1 and is to have it matched by the employment division of the national department of labor Senator Henry Sims of burg sponsor of the security and Commissioners E C Lewis of Anderson and A J field of Sumter attended ington conferences with Praises Husbandry At Shenandoah Dedication Deficit Arises To Give Britain Taste Of Arms Expense By OSCAR LEIDING LONDON 3 UP chancellor of the quer Neville CBR-mberlain gave the country a foretaste of the cost of rearmament today Ke announced in commons a get deficit in view of British de- fense plans is practically tain Optimistically however the man Continued on Page Six Florence Youth Drowns In Surf At St Augustine ST AUGUSTINE Fla July Craven son of Mr and E C Craven of Florence S C was drowned and his brother and a girl companion narrowly escaped when they got out beyond their depth in the surf here today Divers began searching for the body The lad's companions his brother Tommy 15 and Marie man 17 of Charleston S C were rescued by Clarinda Jackson Duke University student her brother Thousands Hear Roosevelt Extoll Praises Over Park Program to Build And Aid The Idle BIG MEADOWS Va July Roosevelt dedicated the rolling reaches of Shenandoah tional Park to this and ing generations tor day and in so doing called for more such recreational developments as the product of the joint dry of our human resources and our natural resources In a natural mountain amphithea ter with thousands of listeners grouped before in by the curving peaks of the Blue Mr Roosevelt praised the national park program as de- signed to provide work for the idle and conserve the beauty ol tho American forests Continued on Page Six Americans to Celebrate Their Independence In Many Different Ways Fresh Rains Bring Hopes to Drought Stricken Sections Dixie Generally Bathed With Rains Showers Skip Part of West CHICAGO July 3 for dropping crops revived in many seared areas of the drought belt tonight with a weather bureau pre- diction of more and wider ed showers Rains already had bathed ering fields in Dixie portions of the and some farm belt tions but they missed North ta one of the states most severely stricken by the drought as well as other badly hit regions The new predictions however included the northeastern section of that state which continued to bake in temperatures as high as 96 at In neighboring South Dakota Pierre and Mobridge sweltered in 104 degree heat At Pierre WPA and relief heads ta start had made in putting ed at in the Montana Continued on Page Six Rampaging Salon Calms Down Eyes Governor's Seat Dies At Sailers Continued on Page Eight MRS ALEX BRUNSON LOSES HER MOTHER Friends of Mrs Alex Brunson will regret to of the death of her mother Mrs C L Foster at her Westminister home Friday The funeral services will be held at Westminister this afternoon at 4 o'clock Mrs Foster had been in failing health over a year TWO weeks ago her condition became serious and Mrs Brunson hurried to her bedside while Mr Brunson her there Wednesday Helen Hayes Wins First Venture In Court Role CHICAGO July 3 Hayes diminutive star of stage and screen emerged a victorious ine tonight in a real life drama that cas her as defendant in her first court role on or off the stage A suit that charged her with alienating the affections of her husband Playwright Charles MacArthur from his first wife Carol Frink was dropped in Cook county circuit court before the tiny actress had entered one word of defense Three times the plaintiff ed to drop the case before the de- fense accepted Miss Hayes her attorneys said insisted on fighting on until Arthur's first mate took back all the nasty things she about wisecracks about hocking his dia- mond ring and lying on the beach getting healthy while Miss Frink worked and making love by step- ping on her feet and moving from apartment to apartment because the bed was too small for his feet Not only did Miss Frink through her attorney Sam Golan was sorry for those remarks but she wont further It is Miss Frink's said Attorney Golan there was no malice whatsoever on the part of Helen she became engaged to MacArthur Articles in movie magazines were the sole basis for the heart balm action he went on and Miss Frink had let the suit go to trial without thought of getting a cent but only to get a chance to tell her story to those who thought she was a gold digger In addition to not getting any money Miss Frink lost some Costs of the trial which court clerks sessed against her will run about Miss Hayes still in the same plain blue outfit she wore day waa jubilant at her triumph witnessed by a standing room only audience I wanted it to be clear before Continued on Page Six Special to the Morning KINGSTREE July 3 James W Whitfield 61 died at his home at Salters at 5 o'clock this after- noon after a lingering illness He was born and reared at Salters but lived for several years in Charleston He is survived by his widow the former Miss Lillie Ford of Charleston two sons and two daughters Frank and James field and Misses Kathleen and guerite Whitfield all of Lane ters surviving are Mrs Alice er of Lane Mrs Lewis Funk of Salters Mrs C D Reeder and Miss Ida Whitfield of Columbia The funeral arrangements have not been completed but the burial will probably take place at Union Presbyterian cemetery tomorrow Rules Favorably On Highway Bonds COLUMBIA S C July 3 fP Treasurer E P Miller said today Attorney General John M Daniel hnd rendered a favorable opinion upon a proposed highway bond issue and bids would be asked Immediately Miller said tne bids probably would be opened about July 22 He had asked the attorney eral whether a request of the highway commission that he issue the bonds was In order The legislature vested sole to issue them in the state treasurer The money will be used to match federal funds for a way construction program SEATTLE July man Marian A came home in solemn mood today an- the over and mated he might leave the field of 18 aspirants to his Job to he runs for nor Scarcely a dozen persons saw the madcap congressman as six husky men grabbed him off the train and hustled him to a waiting bile Chester J Chastek avowed for the republican Continued on Page Six HOLIDAY HOURS Today being the Fourth of July Western Union and postal Telegraph companies will ob- serve the following open from 8 a m to n a m and from 4 p m to 7 p m The following holiday hours will be observed at the oost of- general delivery window open from 10 a m to 11 a m One city delivery No rural vice Incoming and outgoing mails to be dispatched as usual with no in special delivery service Banks and public offices of the city will be closed all day State Jobless Law Approval Expected WASHINGTON July unemployment compensation iaw enacted by the Lost session of the South Carolina legislature probably will toe placed before the social curity board next Tuesday for con- sideration A prediction the board woud prove the statute came from M G Murray chief of the legislative di- vision of the buseau of on- employment compensation who is studying provisions to determine whether they meet federal require- ments Contir ed On Page Eight MORGAN REPORTED TO BE IMPROVING NEW YORK July P Morgan the financier ill with ritis was said late today by sons In touch with the Morgan tate at East Island to be doing Messages of sympathy con- to pour in but there were no visitors Old Traditions to Find Place In Annual of Declaration PRESIDENT SPEAKS JEFFERSON'S HOME Fourth Will Be Generally Observed As A Holiday In Florence By The Associated Press In every town and county of their vast country Americans went forth today to commemorate the anniversary of the declaration of independence They will celebrate in a hundred ways handed down in old traditions which find firecrackers popping in a long crescendo in the north while fried chicken is spread in the shady places of the rural south With it all some 450 will die if careful life ance actuarial estimates of by Travelers Insurance Co Continued on Page Eight Rumania's Carol Confronted With Troublesome Pair Triumvirate Fights kan Nation's Uncrowned Queen Tobacconist Pick Louisville Man As President For 1936 Georgia Markets Will Open Sales On August 4th MULLINS MAN IS ELECTED TO BOARD IL S Tobacco Will tain World Standard Clark Says HOT SPRINGS Va July 3 of the Tobacco sociation of the United States chose O'Brien Jr of ville president today fixed ket opening dates and heard W T Clark of Wilson N C ing president predict an increase in tobacco exports during the re- mainder of 1936 Markets will open Georgia belt August 4 South belt August East lina belt September 1 middle belt September old belt October 5 dark-fired belt November 17 P N Harrison was elected first vice-president James S Ficklen Greenville S C ond vice president andr J W Dunnington Fannville third vice- president The association authorizes the employment of a tary Clark who was elected an orary member of the for life declared in his annual address that while the export bacco trade was suffering on Pege Six VIENNA July F fascinating actors on Europe's stage a woman and a concerned Rumania's King Carol tonight Advices from Bucharest ed the opponent of Mme Magda Lupescu were uniting to make common cause against the woman who bears the brunt of a national anti-Jewish wave And Carol reported pondering the issue of Austrian Hapsburg re- through the Archduke Otto was believed in some quarters to be approaching the of having to take action against Magda's powerful foes or advising his red-haired Continued on Page State Patrol to Be Vigilant Today COLUMBIA S C July 3 fP R Ward assistant chief of highway law enforcement said day the state highway patrol was takine every possible precaution to prevent accidents tomorrow Pointing out heavy traffic on routes leading to beaches and other resorts was expected he said patrolmen would cover as much of the road as possible He said only one fatality red last July 4 and expressed the hope tomorrow would pass without pass without a highway death The officer offered several safety suggestions to drivers including advices that they stop their cars immediately if they become sleepy that they not travel at excessive speeds and that they not permit the driver's seat to be crowded There has been a srong ment in recent years he com- for at home on the Fourth of July Czech Newsman Becomes Martyr To Jewish Cause GENEVA July climaxed tonight a dramatic pistol shot of protest fired in the J sembly of the League of Nations i Stefan Lux ish newspaperman died at 9 p m of the bullet wound he inflicted in the assembly hall today while statesman expounded this proposal and that to ward off European war An internal hemorrhage caused toy the wound just above his heart proved fatal Lux fired the shot into his chest while standing in the gallery ad- joining the of the delegates and slid to the floor He gasped to a colleague I want to die as a public protest to the way Germany is treating Jews I am not sorry My mind Is ly lucid Statesmen jumped to their seats at the sound of the shot fearing an attempt had been made at nation Some of them shouted but Premier Paul Van Zealand ing told Gentlemen let us continue A little later Sweden's haired woman delegate Kirstin Hesselgren representative of ehr sex to address the assembly as a delegate voiced what she called the anguish of the women of all tions Why bear children into a world so and so she asked France through Foreign Minis- ter Yvon Delbos called for speedy league reform to provide for forced regional pacts for measures to assure swift and armed punishment for sion Lux's pistol shot rang out ing the translation of a speech by Augusto Harcia the Spanish foreign minister Standing near him was Helen of New York and Ro- chester N Y who is attached to the American research center here She said she thought at first the explosion was a flashlight Just before he fired Lux cried Continued on Page Six Former Navy Man Found Guilty On Espionage J C 1 Faces 20 Sentence Jury Out 10 Minutes LOS ANGELES July 3 A former Navy yeoman Harry Thomas Thompson was ed speedily today of selling U S Fleet information to a Japanese Secret a case unprecedented in Navy and war department history After he had admitted ing battleships and supplying clippings for a Japanese who paid him about In salaries the curly-haired Thompson was found guilty of conspiracy to com- mit espionage by a federal jury which deliberated ip minutes Thompson whose trial began only yesterday will be brought to court Monday to be maximum of 20 years is possible He was indicted with a man Continued on Page JSix WEST TO SUCCEED MAJOR STEADMAN COLUMBIA S C July 3 General James C zler announced today that Captain Geddes West commander of Com- pany l engineers of Spartanburg had been promoted to the rank of major He succeeds Major John O Steadman of Chester who died this week in command of the National Guard Engineers ment said first lieutenant er L Tongue of Company E would become its captain July 6 that Second Lieutenant Thomas F Bird would be promoted to first lieutenant MEDITATIONS By Alley AIM MOTH IN BUT by Hit M lie
