1926-06-12 Greenville Piedmont

Read the Buyer's Guide on Page 5 Today THE PIEDMONT Member of the Associated Press and Newspaper Enterprise Association. WEATHER Fair tonight and Sunday Temperature at noon today: Weather Bureau - 90 Main Street [cut off] Local Cotton: Quoted at 16.00 Volume 95 - No. 132. Published afternoons except Sunday Greenville, S. C., Saturday Afternoon, June 12, 1926. Entered as mail of the second class. Price Five Cents

HARRISON CASE IS READY FOR JURY PRICE WILL RENEW MOTION TO STRIKE OUT SOME COUNTS

Court to Rule on the Matter After Conclusion of Arguments

Anderson, S.C., June 12. - (AP) - Conclusion of the trial of Bayliss W. Harrison, Alonzo B. Rivers, Kenneth D. Gilmore and Robert G. McCaulay indicted on charges of using the United States mails for fraudulent purposes and conspiracy, was reached in District Court at 10:05 this morning when the reply of the government was [illegible].

The trial has been in progress for over five days and it is the hope of the court that the case will be finally disposed of this afternoon or tonight in order that adjournment may be reached before Sunday.

Arguments to the jury were begun at 10:30 o'clock after a conference between counsel for the defense and prosecution had been held. Nine arguments are to be made. The defense announced that it would have five arguments while the government will have four.

Judge Watkins expects to deliver his charge to the jury immediately after the opening of the afternoon session at 2:30 o'clock. It was indicated that the case will be turned over to the jury shortly after 3 o'clock, or perhaps earlier.

Prior to the beginning of arguments this morning, the court heard a motion by Kurtz P. Smith who with Thomas Allen, represents the defendant A. B. Rivers. The counsel sought a direct verdict of not guilty as to Rivers, butr Judge Watkins advised the attorneys that he would prefer that all of the arguments be made to the jury before he ruled on this matter.

It is understood that James H. Price, whose firm is representing Harrison and Gilmore will renew their motion, made at the beginning of the trial, to strike out all but three counts of the voluminous indictment. The defense holds that all but the three mentioned, namely, by the first eighth and tenth [illegible] [illegible] oft he chief charges. The court will doubtless rule on this matter after the conclusion of arguments to the jury.

JUDGE LINDSEY COMING TO CITY

Noted Denver Juvenile Worker Will Speak Here in the Spring

Judge [Ben?] Lindsey, of Denver, will speak in Greenville in the spring, it was learned Saturday morning.

Judge Lindsey has a national reputation and no doubt a great number of Greenville people will take advantage of his presence here to listen to his views on juvenile courts. He is an expert along this line, his rulings on the Denver bench having made him famous thruout the nation.

Judge Lindsey was a great friend of the late Luther Burbank and was one of the orators at his burial in California.

It has not been possible to bring Judge Lindsey here before spring, because of his numerous speaking and other engagements thruout the nation.

It is understood Roger Huntington is one of the group instrumental in persuading Mr. Lindsey to visit this city.

SHOWERS LATTER PART NEXT WEEK IS FORECAST

Washington, June 12. - (API-- Weather outlook for the week beginning Monday: South Atlantic states: [illegible] first half and a period of local [illegible] showers during the latter half; moderately warm.

And Now Meet Merlindy, Heroine of the Stories [drawing of elderly lady wearing a hat and skirt, carrying an umbrella]

Merlindy was the "shrinking violet" down on the old farm back in the days of '91 and the sweetheart of Ancy. As Ancy is the hero, Merlindy is the heroine of the stories W.B. Broyles is going to start telling soon in The Piedmont.

Merlindy was redheaded and the reigning belle of her time, just as Salome, Cleopatra or Gloria Swanson. Being red headed Merlindy was "confined T.N.T." and Ancy often had the most terrible time imaginable getting in the last word. Sometimes he almost failed, but always the result was funny, as funny as why Lady Domminecker laid a duck egg. You remember that was because her husband was parrot toed.

Anyway you will like Merlindy, for all of her red hair; you'll like Apey and Pute too [document is cut off here]

[top, second column, article extends into third column] May Transfer Columbia Games to Greenville

Five Thousand Women Here Hold Jobs, City Directory Discloses For Estimate

Total of 2,500 Married Women Work While Estimate Is That Majority of the 3,000 Widows Also in Gainful Occupation

Not less than 2,500 married women in Greenville work at gainful occupations and there are approximately 3,000 widows in Greenville the majority of whom, as far as is known must work.

This was among other things which a Greenville business man recently discovered when he made a close inspection of the city directory, which inspection required more than two weeks time.

The man was willing to discuss his discoveries but when it came to mentioning his name in connection therewith he backed down, firmly, quickly. "What kind of a mess would I be in?' he asked, "If I got all the women in town down on me, or at least 2,500 married women who hold jobs and 3,000 widoes." Perhaps he was right.

"For a long time," he continued, "I have wondered how young married men around this town were able to make ends meet. Just recently I have seen numbers of them blossom out in brand new automobiles costing no less thatn $1,600. How on earth do they do it?", I thought.

"Then time came when I found it necessary to go thru the city directory and inspect each name for business purposes. It was a difficult job and required the greater part of three week' time.

"It was during this perusal that I learned, to my great astonishment the number of married women who are working, helping to "carry on." When I discovered this I could well see how this man or that was able to "step out" in a new automobile.

"One trend of thought along this line is very beautiful It is that cooperation is perfect between husband and wife. They are pulling together to carry the burden of life over the hill to happiness. She sacrifices her life at home in order that they both amy enjoy a few of the luxuries of life and perhaps have sone on the side.

"Another trend of thought is not so beautiful. Two thousand five hundred married women in a city the size of Greenville is a goodly, at least, appreciable percentage. Therefore the question arises, "Is the woman leaving the home for the paths of commerce? Is she neglecting her home and allowing her children to grow up without maternal care and the teaching which every mother who is a home-mother gives?

"It is easy to see," continued the statistician, "Why a job would be alluring to a young energetic woman who was trying to get along on her husband's salary of say, $150 a month. They can barely make ends meet with this. the wife almost never has a new dress and the husband's serge gets slick and shiny. So the girl decides that she'll get a job. Perhaps it is a correspondence course in business that makes her a stenographer. Maybe she attends business college for a while and then looks for a job. Or probably she finds employment behind a counter. Anyway is a means of making a little money to add to the scant family treasury. Into business she plunges, braving its dangers and not mindful of the consequences.

"Perhaps there will be no consequences, but" said the business man in conclusion, "I wonder."

CROWN PRINCE OF SWEDEN CALLS ON INJURED OFFICER

Policeman is Hurt in New York While Escorting Car

New York. June 12 - (AP) - Motorcycle Policeman George H. Plate, slightly injured by the automobile of Crown Princess Louise of Sweden, has royal assurance from the future king of Sweden that his seven months old daughter is a very remarkable child.

Crown Prince Gustavus Adolphus paid a call that was not on his social calendar to learn of Plate's condition.

The royal limousine drove up to the policeman's home in Jamaica, Long Island, last night stared at by all the neighbors, and Plate was surprised on opening the door to see his highness with outstretched hand.

"This is my wife," said Policeman Plate, after he had greeted the future King of Sweden, whom he had been helping to escort during his New York visit.

"Madeline, meet the Crown Prince of Sweden."

The Crown Prince shook hands with Mrs. Plate, with her mother, Mrs. Mary Van [?], and with seven months old Jean Florence Plate, whom he praised as a very remarkable baby. While dignitaries and officials of his suite waited at the door, the royal visitors remained a quarter of an hour at Plate's invitation to get acquainted with the family.

The officer was thrown from his machine and knocked unconscious when he stopped suddenly in front of the crown princess' auto to avoid running into a crippled youth who was crossing the street. He was escorting her highness' machine to the Brooklyn museum.

NICKELS DEFENSE RESTS ITS CASE

Sanford, Fla., June 12 -(AP)- Defense in the trial of Aubrey L. Nickels former South Carolina youth charged with criminal assault, rested its case late this morning.

The defense action was announced after the defendant had been subjected to a grilling cross examination by State's Attorney Millard B. Smith.

"I don't remember" was the only answer the State's attorney was able to secure when he asked Nickels if he had ever mentioned the woman's name to the attorney who took his confession in Jacksonville in 1921. The question was intended to prove the State's contention that Nickels did not know the woman prior to the day of the attack.

SEABOARD PROTESTS A.C.L. ACQUISITION OF C.N. & L. RAILROAD

Washington, June 12 -(AP)- The Seaboard Air Line Railway filed a brief with the Interstate Commerce Commission today in which it sought dismissal of the application of the Atlantic Coast Line for authority to acquire control of the Columbia, Newberry and Laurent railroad in South Carolina.

It called attention to the existence of an old contract under which both recognized under neutrality the road and declared the purchase behind the application could be [enqually?] accomplished by providing for joint ownership of all the stock by the Seaboard and Coast Lines.

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TWO YALE STUDENTS AND TWO WOMEN ARE KILLED IN A WRECK

Guilford, Conn., June 12 -(AP)- A speeding automobile which crashed into a tree here early today brought death to four persons, two Yale students and their women companions.

The dead are George M. Kopperl, Galveston, Texas, a Yale freshman, driver of the car; William Cushing [Broklinen?], Mass., junior and baseball and letter man; Mrs. Edwin R. [Beesel?, New Haven; Ethel Miller of New Haven.

Cushing was the son of Dr. Harvey D. Cushing, famous brain specialist of the Harvard Medical school. The youth made his major letter last year as a blue outfielder. Kopperl played on the football team.

Summer School Begins

Simpsonville, June 12 0 The annual session of the summer school of the local public schools began on last Monday. About [35?] pupils were enrolled. Prof. J.A. Gathings and B.A. Moore, Jr., are in charge. The school offers an opportunity for pupils to earn advanced credits and also to remove any conditions they may have brought over from the regular school term.

Flashes

Constantinople - Shades of the [illegible], the former Sultan's palace at [Yldis?], overlooking the Bospherus is to be turned into a gambline casino. The government expects to realize $500,000 a year. The announcement followed recent news that the former Kaiser's palace on the island of Corfu would be used for a like purpose.

North Bergen, M. J. -- Here's a ghost from the past in the modern setting. Joseph [Kopeky?] and four companions were arrested for speeding on bicycles. The were found guilty. [remainder of article may be missing as the bottom of the page is cut off]

[Top, extending across 4th and 5th columns] [photograph of house] EVELYN'S NEW BUNGALOW

[caption] This is the $25,000 bungalow at Northfiled, N. J., which Evelyn Nesbit Thaw moved into recently and which it is alleged Harry K. Thaw purchased after their recent reconciliation.

[Headline for article extends across 4th and 5th columns. Article in 5th column] Two Women, Friends, Claim Same Man As Their Husband

Call at Office of Judge of Probate to Get Marriage Certificates

Two women, both the wives of one man met at the Greenville judge of probate's office Friday afternoon to see just what could be done to friend husband, who had married one about nine years ago and the other four years ago. "The women were just as friendly as could be," was the report given. The whole story is as follows:

Wife No. 1 has been a resident of a nearby town for a number of years. Not so long ago her husband, for he really is her husband, was sent to the pentitentiary. The wife while visiting in Greenville, heard rumors that her erring husband had another wife and that she could be located in one of the mill towns of Greenville.

Wife No. 2 was discovered after diligent search by wife No. 1, living with her small daughter and supporting herself by working in the mill. The two women immediately formed a warm friendship. Each showed the other pictures of her children and compared stories of their married life with the same man. No rivalry was felt, and no quarrel started. The decision was that they should wait until the husband had completed his term in prison, and then they would unite in putting him bakc for an additional stay.

"Which one of you wants him and which of you is going to get him?" they were asked. "We don't either one want him," was the answer. "All we want is to put him back in jail.

Wife No. 1 had her marriage certificate and the other one wished to secure one. This was filled out in due form from the records in the judge of probate's office, and the two women left arm in arm, firm in their resolve to remain friends and to punish their husband. Both carried marriage certificates on which appeared the name of the same man.

$40,000,000 HEIR ON SECOND HONEYMOON

New York, June 12 - (AP)- Tanned by a south seas holiday, Wm. B. Leeds, heir to the $40,000,000 tin plate fortune of his late father, started here today with his wife, the Princess Zenia of Russia, a second honeymoon. They laughed at stories of any rift in their marital [illegible].

The couple plan to spend four or five days in Chicago without any definite program except to go to Mundelein, Ills, only to see the preparations for the Eucharistic Congress.

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BIGHAM TRIAL POSTPONED

Conway, S.C., June 12 - (AP) - The Bigham case will not be tried at this term of court for Horry county, it was stated today.

The Bolen Lewis trial for alleged violated of the State banking law will go over into next week, it was indicated and an order continuance was entered in the Bigham case.

FRECKLED FACE MOVIE STAR IS TO MARRY SOON

Wesley Barry Made His Debut in "Don't Ever Marry" Six Years Ago

Newark, N. J. June 12-(AP)- Eighteen year old Wesley Barry, who made his debut as a feckled face star six years ago in the motion picture play "Dont Ever Marry," is to be wed. The girl of his choice is Miss Julia Wood, [23?] a plump, chestnut-haired vaudeville actress and the ceremony has been set for next Monday night.

Miss Wood, who lives here with her parents, met Wesley two years ago when they were appearing on the same vaudeville circuit. Six months ago they met again under similar circumstances in a theatre in Terre Haute, Ind., and became engaged.

The wedding will take place at the bride's home and the pair will leave for Hollywood immediately thereafter.

The consent of Wesley's mother, Mrs. Martha Barry [Syre?], of Los Angeles was required before the license could be obtained. It was given by letter.

But for a keen eyed elevator operator the trip to City Hall yesterday for the license would have gone unnoticed.

License clerks passed the young star with routine courtesy and attention. But the operator saw the freckles, learned they belonged to one Wesley Barry and the story was out.

[article extends over fourth and fifth columns] Distribution of Milk And Ice To City's Poor Starts; Additional Funds Desired

[drawing of two young girls wearing short dresses]

Funds donated to the Daily Piedmont-City Health Department "Milk and Ice Fund" are already being convered into these life-giving necessities for the needy children of Greensville.

Several cases, which had come to the notice of the city nurse and [commissioner] of public health, have been placed on the list for distribution of milk and ice from the fund. Application for milk had been made to other welfare agencies in the city but they had been turned down because of the lack of funds to purchase the milk.

Officials of the City Department of Health will exercise every precaution to prevent the fund being misused and to make the money turned over to it do the greatest possible good. Through their contact with the poor of the city, they already know of the cases of children who are in direst need and are in a position to administer the fund wisely.

The total amount subscribed to the fund is $44.12. Contributions made are as follows: Previously acknowledged - $41.12; anonymous, $2; H.B. Bennett, Simpsonville, $1.

Mr. Bennett's subscription was accompanied by the following note: "I enclose one dollar to be contributed to the milk and

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3000 PERSONS ATTEND BRANDON COMMUNITY DAY