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SMUGGLERS ARE FOUND ARMED WITH ICE PICKS El Paso, Texas, Aug. 5.—A variety of weapons are used by the liquor smuggler, but the ice pick is about as effective as any when it comes to a fight in close quarters, border patrol men claim. A collection of curious types of weapons has been seized by border pa trolmen. They range from nail pullers to ice picks, with a small number of obsolete pistols. Occasionally, howev er, remarkably good firearms are tak en from smugglers and persons seek ing to enter the United States illegal ly. The ice pick is sometimes sharpen ed to a needle’s point. i"I began tak lardui when In sned, run-down n,” writes Mrs. rrit, of Wesson, I took one bot I seemed to im o much that I six bottles. Af ,d taken the six l seemed entire . re I took Car ls nervous, rest ue and out of I felt depressed time. After I ardul, all this arcd. ve my daughter and it helped to Irregular . . ." loin* has been need ir women for over 5# _ _ years. «-«• ^Tah^^edfordTBlaornrauiht I I in Constipation, Indigestion, I ^ and Biliousness. I Say, ffI Saw It in THE WATCHMAN Thank You l ^mm&SSSSgSSSBSSSrn 24 DOOMED SING SING MEN ALL EXPECT TO BE SPARED \ I — Ossining, N. Y., Aug. 5.—Not one of the twenty-four deathhouse pris oners at Sing Sing believes he will go to the chair. Somewhere between the cell and the instrument which will blot them out in 1-720 of one second, they believe there will come a staying hand. A higher court may intervene to give them a new trial. A reprieve may be allowed, to present new evidence. Fin ally, the Governor may find mitiga tion, somewhere in their records, or in their youth, or in the muddled brain that was the cause of their downfall, and grant them commutation. This hope is allowed to linger with them until the night they go to the chair. It makes them, to outward ap pearances, the most content of Sing Sing’s inmates. The records show that until the end of 1929 the average age of the 282 prisoners put to death by the State at Sing Sing was 29 years. Now it has dropped to 27. Exclusive of a man who killed his wife and one "elderly” holdup man, today’s average is 26, and a majority of the men are below that age. Out of 282 convicted murderers in New York State, 114 were married, 28 were widowed and 1 was divorced. Single men numbered 133, a little less than half of the total. Only one was separated from his wife. More than 800 of them attended the prison school, getting the rudiments of an education—reading, writing, arithmetic—during 224 school days last year. Some fifty-two determined characters, fired with ambition, ap plied for and obtained permission to take advanced correspondence school courses. The average prisoner cares little about fiction, and least of all about blood-and-thunder novels, mystery stories, or detective tales, according to prison parsons. Instead, he asks for books on engineering, shon practice and technical work and for informa tion that will help him learn a trade. Given regularity of work, food and clothing, and a few hours a day in which time hangst heavy, they soon turn to books. With the prison sadly overcrowded, with a lack of laundry facilities and sanitation equipment, and with the State providing food for only 2,200— the population is nearly 2,600-S—Sing Sing officials are^worned. ^ ^ Burns Grain Fields And Saves His Money - Joliet, 111., Aug. 5.—"Burn grain fields and save money,” was the thought of Edward Herbert as he set fire to seventy-five acres of oats on his farm today. After harvesting about five acres he found he could get only eleven cents a bushel for the grain which he said cost him forty cents to raise. So the rest went up in smoke to avoid adding four cents more a bushel for harvest ing and thrashing. TRIES TO KILL SELF AFTER LOSING JOB Laundry Solicitor, of Fay etteville, Swallows Poi son Tablets In Hotel. Fayetteville, Aug. 5.—H. M. Snead solicitor for a Fayetteville laundry, took three poison tablets, apparently with suicidal intent in the lobby of a hotel just one hour after losing his po sition. The manager of the hotel sum moned a physician from the Pittman hospital and the young man was car ried there for treatment. The poison was pumped from his system and he was able to go to his home half an hour later. Dr. W. T. Parker, of the hospital staff, stated tonight that he thought Snead would recover. The young man walked into the hotel, where he is ac customed to solicit business, and told the manager, S. B. Prosser, that he was going to "leave this section, and want ed to say good-bye. Prosser thought he was joking until he collapsed. He made no statement as to his motive for taking the poison either to Mr. Prosser or to Dr. Parker. At Snead’s home on Raeford Lane it was said tonight that he was rest ing comfortably. LADYBUGS FIGHT PESTS j Mt. Vernon, Wash., Aug. 5.—* of entomologists. They asked for 800,-i RAIL OFFICIALS . CONFIRM REPORT NO CUT IN WAGES Officials Reduce Own Sal aries In Order To Avoid Wage Scale Slash. Washington, Aug. 5.—The Southern Railway system today confirmed re ports that it had no intention of cut ting wages. Accompanying this an nouncement was the statement that the officials of this company had vol untarily reduced their own salaries. The Southern statement said: "This company does not contemplate any movement for the reduction of wage scales covered by contracts with or ganized labor at this time. "The press story to that effect doubtless had its origin in a recent voluntary reduction of salaries by of ficers of which no publicity was in tended.” A Washington newspaper todav said Southern directors had approved a cut in the pay of "white collar” workers above the $2,500 class. It added that organized labor was not involved in the reduction. Southern officials said the major ity of their workers were union mem bers but added it was felt no move should be made to cut the pay of un organized wage earners without in cluding the organized employes. It was explained that wage earn ers were ordinarily classified as those who have an hourly pay scale, but that the voluntary reduction would not apply to salaried men who were not company officials. The amount of the reduction was not announced but it was said the saving would be very little. Officials said that since Southern shopmen were on a five-day week and many other employes were on a part time basis, it was felt the officers should contribute toward the economy pro gram. Published reports that the offices of transportation superintendent at Knoxville, Tenn., and Charlotte, N. C., would be abolished were denied, ■ lthough it was said office forces there 'and at other places might be reduced. Representatives of organized rail road labor in warning yesterday that they would resist any attempt to re ' duce wages, said the question had no part in the freight rate case. -__—--■ ~ ' $1 WEEKLY RENTS London, Aug. J.—Under a bill in troduced by Arthur Greenwood, Min ister of Health, but not yet passed, 40,000 houses would be built in rural England to rent for less than $1 a week. PRAY FOR DELIVERANCE Elk Point, S. D., Aug. S.—More than 1,200 persons of Union county yesterday sought divine help for de liverance from grasshopper hordes which have been ruining th ecrops. They gathered in a special religious service on the same spot where their fathers prayed for help for the same reason sixty years ago. JUDGE, ASSAILANT KILLED Calcutta, India, Aug. J,—Ralph Reynolds Garlick, senior District Judge at Alipore, was shot dead in court today. Police officers immediate ly shot and killed his assailant. MAN SMOTHERS IN DEEP WELL Marion Resident Moans And Cries As Life Ebbs Away and Crowd Stands By Helpless. Marion, Aug. 5.—Moaning and cry ing as poisonous gases choked his life away, Robert Logan, 45, of Marion, was slowly suffocated at the bottom of a 60-foot well here while a horror stricken crowd stood by helpless to avert the tragedy. He had been lowered into the well on the end of a rope so that he could dig it deeper in seeking water. When at the bottom he felt the effect of gas that had gathered in the well, long unused, and called to be lifted out. He got stuck in the shaft when men at the top tried to raise him, and as his strength had ebbed away he was not able to maintain his hold upon the rope. For about an hour his moans con tinued before becoming too weak to be heard at the top of the well. At 1 o’clock Ralph Gardin, young Marion man, went down on a rope and tied another about Logan’s body. When the body was hauled to the top, all life had been smothered from it and at tempts at resuscitation were futile. No inquest will be held, Dr. J. F. Jon as, coroner, declared. FORMER SPENCE SCHOOL HEAD TO WADESBORO Frank R. Richardson Re signs As Marion School Head After Two Years Service. Marion, Aug. 5.—Frank R. Rich ardson, for several years superinten dent of the Spencer schools, and rec ently head of the Marion schools, has resigned this latter position to accept the superintendency of the city schools system of Wades boro. Mr. Richardson was superintendent of the Marion schools for two years and had been re-elected for the 1931-1932 school vear. Mr. Richardson’s action was a big surprise to the people of Marion and to no one, he says, more than to him self. He was called to Wades bore where the school board unanimously elected him to head the city schools. The offer was such a generous one and came in such a way, Mr. Richard son said, that he felt constrained to accept, and thereupon immediately re signed his post here. The enrollment in the four schools comprising the Wadesboro system numbers around 1, 800, with approximately 40 teachers and three principals, it is understood. The compensation offered was very' at tractive, Mr. Richardson said. Coming to Marion in 1929 from Spencer, Mr. Richardson has been prominently identified with local af fairs while conducting the city school. He is a steward in the First Methodist church and has been a teacher in the Sunday School during his residence here. He was a member of the Marion Chamber of Commerce and the Ma rion Lake Club, and has been one of the most active members of the Ki wanis Club. For the past two sum mers he has conducted a camp for boys at Cove Echo, sponsored by the local Kiwanis Club. It is just now closing its second successful year. The son of Rev. N. R. Richardson, a methodist minister, Frank Richard son lived in many parts of the State in his youth, wherever his father’s charge called him. He is a graduate of Duke University, and has', been con nected with State schools since finish ing his education, teaching in some of the best known schools. * ^ . I ■ . ^ “Heat With Co ke, The Clean Efficient FuelM ^ i !■; ■'*?.' , j We offer our congratulations to the new manage ment of The Carolina Watchman and wish for them the utmost success. No community is stronger than its utilities and one of the most important of these is the newspapers. Southern Public Utilities Co. i h A Mn North Carolina Public Service Co. 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