The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, June 01, 1928, Image 1
- The Camden Chronicle
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?????_?? ? SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JUNE l. 1928 ^^===ra==aaBa=aaE!e!!,=?=asBs?Rse5? *
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' Young Men
>ld For Car Theft
young white ' men?Charles
l( John Humphries, Bill Penny
ier Kelley. w ere arrested here
night at ? ho?r *>y ofn
Smyrl. having in iheir pos#
stolen Chevrolet touring
eir agea are said to range
to 26 years. yr
wn and Humphries are siid
stolen the car at Johnaon
nn., on Saturday night. They
j w?y of Laurinburg, N. C.,
, picked up Penny and Kel>ping
at Bethune, where they
a private garage and stole a
drained the owners gas tank
ceeded to Camden where they
ken .in charge. All admitted
ilt except Penny. 1They were
0 Bethune on Monday and i
n, Humphries and Kelley were
4 hy Magistrate-. C. C* Pate
[thirty days for the theft of
and gasoline.
got in communic*tioat,with
City authorities and learned
1 car belonged to A. C. Puttraveling
salesman from AnS.
C., who had his car parktint
of a hotel in the Tennesmmmmm_
y _t' _
mien Methodist Chi^rch
ton Street, near Hampton
leorge Pierce Watson, pastor.
June 3rd?Bible School at
, with classes for all grades
?. Epworth League at 7:I5
) which all the young people
ted. Public worship 'at 11:16
3d 8 p. m. conducted by Jhe
Morning theme: "Commun;h
God." At the conclusion
termon the Holy Communion
celebrated. Evening theme:
unity and Obligation." Midrayer
service, Wednesday at
The public is most cordially
to all the services of this
! Seats free. Delightful music.
1 singing. Biblical
firing. Coma and
i.
Church Notes
onal .meeting Sunsrs.
S. W. Hogue,
W. D. MdDowall
ns. - .
the church is comurch
will be used
iy. We are grate*
i for the improve*
tch and the organ,
for attendanceH at
i women are three
ie men. There are
rs yet to decide the
unday ths.r attendhese
there were 27
is. The men have
'inter but now the
, June 3, our con1
to raise "$170 as
i Presbyterian Colduring
next eesiU
be provided and
ested to come' pre'ontribution
to this
resbytety regards
e most vital re*
mbent upon the
hurch have recentSunday
School song
r Sunday School
oh Sunday School
Endeavor Sunday
; Junior Christlah
ifternoon* 5 o'clock;
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cordial invitation
Mc to all services.
Kershaw Era ?- ?
"? and MibJofm
* Oak Ridge comied
Saturday, May
f Rev. J. M. Naal,
; ceremony. * 7
family have re."uma,
wagR
13 bccn transferred
atee poatofBce daPostofftce
gt S?rhe
had been a
ostofflce force for
^roxton and her
of Washing, a
Washington to Kerr
* visit to that?
or., Mrs. W. L.
and Leroy C**cthia
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Postal Employe?
Gets Year anil a Day\
Travis Deschamps Goodale, postal
clerk of this city, pleaded guilty in
the federal court at Churleston Tuesday
to charges of rifling mail and extracting
money and was sentenced by
Judge Cochran to serve a year and i
a. day in the Atlanta federal prison.
Goodale had taken not more than
one hundred dollars and this he made
good, the evidence showed, and he alto
had made over his pension fund
to cov?r_.stbfiT losses ..which .might he
traced to him, j, Mendel L. Smith,
Camden attorney, appeared at the
trial to ask clemency for the young
man, not as an attorney, he said, but
as a friend. A group of Camden
had asked him to appear, ha
said. /
Goodale had an excellent record
heretofore, Smith declared, and was
confidered one of the most dependable
young men in this city until the
thefts came out. The defendant is
said to have wept as Mr. Smith made
mention of his wife and children.
Judge Cochran told the prisoner
that at one time a man who had
Berved in the penitentiary was thenceforth
an outcast but that nowadays
jlL'J?*?. possible for a man to work
.himself back into a place of trust in
society after a prison sentence.'
Death of Miss Farrelly.
Within the last few days news has
come, to Camden of the death of Miss
Marie Farrelly, of Rye, New York.
No details of her illness are- known
except that the death was rather1
sudden and not at all expected. Miss
-Farrelly was a visitor here two seaons
ago, being the guest of her mothers-Mrs.
Stephen Farrelly, and her
daughter, .Mrs. Elizabeth Farrelly, at
their cottage pn Hampton Avenue.
The FartteUys hove -resided here three
successive Winters* and ha\te a great
"pf friends here who will be
grieved to team of the sorrow that
has come into Mrs. Farrelly's life.
-Pur ^?fi^lSit.'aympathy is -with the
family. Miss Marie Farrelly's remains
were buried in the family plot i
in New Yprfc. r*? j
Southern Train Derailed.
Kershaw, May 2ft,?Southern train! I
No. 118, Charlotte -to Columbia,, with
Engineer McNair and Conductor
Harksdale, -was derailed here z. Mom j
day, due, it is said, to sand on the
tracks. Only the engine left the rails j
after running on the ties for. nearly a
block. No one was injured, passengers
being shaken ujp as the engine
left the track. The speed of the train
was fortunately slower than usual.
An extra traip was sent bare to take
wrecked train, as well as a wrecking
crew to clear the line.*
1 Bar Association To Meet
The Kershaw County Bar Association-will
meet at the Court House on
Saturday, June 2nd., at 10 a. m., for
the purpose of arranging the roster
for the June term of Court of Common
Fleas, ^
Banks Close Monday .
The three banks of Camden will I
close on (Monday, June 4th, being a|
holiday observed commemorating the!
anniversary of the birthday of Jefferson
Davis.
Funeral of Mrs. Cornell
. Funeral services for Mrs. Luther
Cornell, whose death occurred at a
Ideal hospital Monday, were held at
Beaver Dam Baptist church, near this
city Tuesday. The services were conducted
by Rev. George Pierce Watson,
of the Camden Methodist Church.
The passing of. Mrs. Cornell followed
an illness of ten days. She is
survived; by her husband: and one
child of nineteen months.
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Charles Harris, Jr., Dies
The many friends of Judge Charles
: Hnrris, who occupied the Hay home
on Fair street* will be shocked at the
news of the deatVof his son, Charles
Harris, Jr. The little chap was much
, 4?n about town sund was a most
promising lad. As far as present information
goes, it seems that boon
after the Harris family returned
north, Charles was taken ill with what
Was diagnosed as sleeping sickness.
!Dc grew gradually weaker and his
death came on the twenty-first day
of May. The deep sympathy of this
community goes from us to. Judge
Harris and his family in the great
to? that has com* to them. Tha
funeral was from the Harris reek
deaca, Greenbrier, Hunting ton, long
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Al Smith la Safe
Says M. L. Smith
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Governor Alfred E. Smith will receive
the Democratic nomination for
the Preeidency on the third ballot
at Houston* Mendel L. Smith, who
spent the day in Charleston yesterday,
says. Mr. *Smith was recently
elected both temporary and permanent
president of the "dry" South
Carolina Democratic" convention at
Columbia. *
"1 think the state delegations will
vote for the favorite sons on tEe
first ballot," Mr. Smith, a former
circuit court judge but now a practicing
attorney at Camden, said.
"On the second ballot, a few of the
more zealous states will continue to
show-their love and dlvotlon to the
favorite sons. - And on the third ballot,
A. Smith, I think, will be nominated."
Mr. Smith was asked what effect
the instructions issued at the convention
that the delegation support
a "dry" candidate would have 011 Al
Smith's chances.
"X can't asiy about that," he replied.
"The delegation will have to
settle that themselves."
"But I feel quite sure that He
Democrat in (South Carolina will bolt
the party, if Smith is nominated*"
While here, Mr. Smith appeared
in federal court to speak in behalf of
a Camden man who pleaded guilty to
rifling the mails while employed as a
postal clerk. Mr. Smith was in the
city on other business, but had been
requested by a body of Camden citizens
to ask the court for leniency,,
since he had to come to Charleston
anyway. He expected to leave yesterday
afternoon.?'Wednesday's News]
and Courier.
Mystery Of Girl's
Death Unsolved
Yptm'gsiown, Ohio, , May 28.?The
s&rfrch for ten-year-old Beatrice Rosenbaum,
who disappeared from her
home here two wfeeks figo, was at an
end today with the finding of the
girl's body, but authorities, were still
at a loss to explain the circumstances
of her death.
Coroner M. E. Hayes and his assistant,
Dr. P. W. McNamara, said,
after an autopsy, that the girl had
died from starvation and exposure
and probably had been dead four or
five days. The body, found late yesterday
in a wooded ravine near Salem,
Ohio, 16 miles from Youhgs-town,
was brought here for the autopsy.
Coroner Hayes said there were
no .marks of violence or indications
that tfte girl had been assiulted. The
girl-Bacl "been withouf food for day?
and her feet were swollen and cracked
as if exposed to water, he said. .
Smith To Address Class
Forlner Judge M. L. Smith will go
to Cowards, in Florence county, on
Monday evening, June 4th, where he
will deliver the address before thegraduating
class of the J. C. Lynch
high school ?
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Guilty of Murdering Sons, ~'-yValparaiso,
Ind., May 28.?George
Allen Chjjsholm, 35, today pleaded
guilty to the murder of his two sons,
Edgar, 7, and George, 9, whom he
dtowned in a canal at East Chicago.
His attorneys introduced evidence of
insanity After1 they had asked Judge
Grant Grumbacker to-mitigate his
punishment. ".v
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Child Killed By Lightning.
Spartanburg, May 28.?Lois Cooper,
11*. daughter of B. D. Cooper, of
near Foley Springs, was struck by
Hghtning wWe seated nt the break- :
fast-table today. Other raembera of
the family were Severely- shocked but
not seriously injured.
,. Rogers'Store
Joins In - i .
Sl L' ShClamer, manager, of the
local branch of the Rogers Chain store
system, tells us that while he did not
sign the petition for Closing on Thursday
afternoon, his company readily
agreed for their store to join in with
other Camden firms. ShOlamer, also
was very enthusiastic on last Thursifefcr;
afternoon in getting business
houses to live up to their agreement
to start to cloeing on Thursday, May
24th, instead of June 7th, and nearly
all of the business houses h did
close commencing Thursday of last
greatly appreciate and enjoy these
half holidays which will continue uuMliAugust
30th.
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Gets Bridge Contract
, Over Twenty Creek
Th?- Kvrshaw County Bridge building
Department, under M. H. Deal,
was the successful bidder Tuesday at
a meeting of the highway department
at the letting of the now bridge to
be built over Twenty Creek in West
Wateree known as the Isbell Bridge.
There will be eleven spans of this
bridge of creosoted timber and the
length is 181 feet. There were more
than eight bjddem.?iid JLhu county'a
bid Was $5,661.19 as compared to the
highest bid of W. B. Boyle & Company,
of Sumter, whose bid was $8,724.88.
Aside from a considerable
aaving to the state highway department
the county of Kershaw will
make a considerable amount out of
this bridge which will go to the i
credit of the county roads not under
the highway system.
Slayer of Toledo
Child Minu Tooth
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Tolfdo, Ohio, May 29.?The Blayer
of 7-year-old Dorothy Sielagowski,
who was stolen from her bed and
mutilated early today, lacked a front
tooth, and that may be the means of
tracing fifth Coroner Frank G. Kreft
reyedleA tonight.
During a postmortem conducted by
the eoroner, Dr. "Edmund A. Apuliski,
a dentist, made a chart of teeth marks
found on the girl's body. The chart,
which has been turned over to the
: police, showed that one tooth was
missing, Dr. Kreft said.
A young man taken into custody today,
on suspicion that he whs the
slayer who attacked Dorothy and
[threw her body upon the porch of an
uncle living across from her home,
will undergo further examination to
determine whether the chart compares
with his teeth, police said.
An automobile, believed to be the
ono in which the killer carried Dor-!
othy away has been recovered. On
the di&t covered window was the imprint
of a child's hand and on the rear
seat 4pd upholstering were fresh
blood stains. ?
The little girl was sleeping with
| her sisters, Stella, 15, Leona, 5, and
Carolina, 2, when the man stole into
her bedroom after entering the
house with a skeleton key.
Taxi-Driver Confesses
Toledo, Ohio,-May 30.?Charles J.
Hoppe, 26, a Toledo taxi-driver, with
a wife and one-year-old child, confessed
to police today that it was he
who kidnaped 7-year-old Dorothy
Sielagowski from her home and slew
her early Tuesday mtfrning.
He was inflamed with drink, which
he obtained at the -wedding of neighbors,
ami was unable to assign any
reason for the killing, according to
his signed statement.
Suspicion attached to the taxi driver
because he and" his wife formerly
roorrted at the hon\e of Alex Sielagowski,
tne father of the slain girl, and
because he fitted the description that
police compiled of the "man dressed
in black with a missing front tooth."
Early this afternoon detectives recovered
from a freshly-dug hole in
the rear of the man's home the dark
suit and shirt, which he worn when
he strangled the little girl to death.
The clothing was marked with> bloodstains.
/ -Confronted with this apparel and
with a plaster cast of his own teeth,,
which fitted exactly into the teeth
marks he made on the body of his
young victim, Hoppe confessed after
a. lengthy grilling. , <
Kershaw High School
Graduates Large Class
,
The closing exercises of the Kershaw
High School commenced Sunday
night, May 27th, with a sermon to the
graduating crass delivered fiy Rev. J.
F. Mungo, pastor of the Main Street
Methodist Church of Colombia, and on
Tuesday evening the final exercises
took place. The commencement address
.was delivered by Dr. D. M.
Douglas, president of the University
of South Carolina. 1
The senior class is composed of
thirty-two members, which is said to
hiri^ far-tWe^tsrp^Tlass^to'finish
in Kershaw in the history of the
school. A list of the senior class includes:
Cecil Barfleld, Frank TLowry
Belk, Minnie Bell Bowers, Iva Lee
Carson, Beulah Marjory Catoe, Ferris
E. Catoe, Edna Mary Clyburn,
Anna Mae Coats, Jean Reynolds Cul ern,
Frank L. Elder, Juanita Alma
Faile, Frohn FerguSon, Mary El?i?
Gardner, Fredda Elisabeth pay. Mary
Abigail Gregory, .Mary Alyce Hilton,
Vlrgie Mae Holden, Wttbur Horton,
Nita Annebell Jones, Jaqueline KirkSklBKSBftrtSftS:
gsrst Seswell^WMam
Ariel Shaw, Jr., .fc?je Robert True*
dale, Mary MarW^Ttn?dele, W
Mh T.wssdsli, MaHie
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The New? of Bethune
Told by Correspondent
lfcrthum', May 60.?One of the moat J
successful year a in the history of the
iiethunc school came to a close last :
Friday evening, May 26th, with the:
following program: Processional; I
''The Song and the Breeze," Duorak-j
Wilson, liigh School chorus; invocation,
tne Kev. M. B. Gunter; Vocal
duct, Serenade," Scnubert, Mrs. T. j
}/L. Bethune and Miss Stellu Bethune; |
address, l)r. J. C. Guilds, president.
Columbia college; vocal duet, "Pond
Lilies/' K. R. Poram, Mrs. T. R.: Be- j
ihune and Mrs. J. Cr Foster; Award- (
ing diplomas and annual report; saxaphone
solo, Dr. E. Z. Truesdell; "Star
23 pang led Banner"; benediction, the
Rev. J. B. Hillhouse.
Prof. ?C. C. Foster introduced
county superintendent of Education/
Mr. J. Team Gtttys, who made a few'
remarks complimenting the splendid
program made by the Bethune schools
after which hp introduced to the immense
assemblage Dr. J. C. Guilds,
speaker of the evening. Dr. Guilds
cnose as his subject "Life" and discussed
the deffercnt elements of life
in a simple but strikingly forcelui
manner.
Diplomas were awarded to twentyone
boys and girls as follows: John
Baker, Olga Brannon, Jacob CatoC,
Boyd Copeland. Willene Estridge,
Rosa Lee Fields, Hlarold Gardner,
Barah Hammond, -Clara Hough, Mildred
King, George Sedley King, Jolm
Edwin King, Charles McCaskill, Rosi
Lee McCaskill, Mary McDonald, -John
Neal McLaurin, Jr., Dorothy Parrott,
Birdie Belle Smfth, Elma Stogner,
Kathryne Truesdell, Louise Gardner.
Class Day exercises were held on
Thursday evening gnd the following
splendid program was given: Music,
| Dr. E. Z. Truesdell and Miss Katheryne
Truesdell; Willene Estridge,
class president presided; introduction
of class officers by president; class
colore, Birdie Belle -Smith; class tlowef,
Louise Gardner; salutatory, Willene
Estridge: statistics, Mrs. R. K.
Tompkins; history, Olga Brannon;
class poem, Dorothy Parrott; piano
numbers, Pier Gynt No. 1 Grieg,
Misfees Dorothy Parrott; Kathryne
Truesdell; Mrs. J. C. Foster, Mary
King; prophecy, Charles McCaskill;
j will, Elmer Stogner; gifts to seniors
I and high school teachers, Rosa Lee
; Fields; class song; valedictory, John
Neal McLaurin. 2 -
Prof. J. C. Foster, who is returning
as superintendent of the Bethune
scnools for the third year has announced
the following list. of teachers
for 1928-29: high school, 'Mrs. R. K.
Tompkins, principal ana teacher of
History; "Mr. R. B. "Parker, Scieqne;
Miss Thelma Stroman, English and
French; Miss Eloise Miller, Mathematics;
Miss Eddie Bradham, Latin
and English; Miss Patty Epps, Home
economics; grammar school, Air. R.
Russell Burns, principal, coach ot jithletics;
Miss Carrie farbrough, English
and Reading; 'Miss - Stella Bethune,
History and Geography; Miss
Marie Hdrtonfdth grade; Miss Mary
C. Grier 3rd grade; Miss, Beulah
Pennington,' 2nd grade; Miss Lillian
Miller, principal, Miss Margie Brock,
assistant. Shamrock grammar school,
Miss Mamie Coker, principal, Miss
Sue Hendrix assistant.
Mrs. R, K. Tompkins entertained
last Wednesday evening in honor
of the lithe grade and high school
teachers. Quantities of pink roses,
the class flower, were used in decorating
the rooms. Miss Louirfe Gardner
won first prize in a series of amusing
contests and Miss Mildred King
was given the booby prize. In the
dining room where refreshments
Were. served pink rosea and eaudles
were used on the prettily appointed
table. Mrs. J. C. Foster served
punch and an Ice course was served
by Nancy Tompkins and Marguerite
faster.
Misses Ruth Watts and Helen Pope
Ward, who have been teaching in the
Rambftrg high school returned-home
last .Monday. ?
Misses Lucile Hilton, Frauces
Severance and Katherine Ward of
Coker; Misses Mary Loutfte McLaurin
and-Lizzie Davis- of Chicory,
Misses Clara Gordon and Gladys
Baker of Limestone: Miss Louise Tiller
of Due West; Miss Claudine Gardner
of Lander; Neal Truesdell of P.
C.; Lavin Severance/find Lee Morgan,
Davidson; Charles Stogner, Furman
University, have come home for the
holidays.
The U. D. C. chapter held the last
meeting of the season at the home of
Mrs. D. M. Mays Tuesday afternoon,
the president- Mrs. R. K. Tompkins,
presiding. Roll call was answered
with the title of some poem t>y a
southern author. After the Ufual
opening exercises and business the
following program was rendered;
"Jackets, ot Grey," Mrs. Margaret
Marion, Author of Di*ie, Mrs. D. M.
Mays; publication, and singing of
Maryland/' Mrs. M. G. King.
- At ? previous meeting it was decided
that the chapter would organize
and Poster a C. C. and Mrs. D?
M. Mays was appointed leader.
Funeral at Liberty HiU Tomorrow
Funeral services for Mrs. Ruth C.
Bell, whose death occurred at Winter
Park. Fbu, Tuesday will be held at
the Liberty Hill Presbyterian church
Saturday morning at 11 o'clock. Interment
will folio n tn the cwnulery
at Liberty HlH.Mrs.
Bell was a native of thie coupty
but for several years bad beeifc
making her homaln tfceTFlorUa dtpShe
la survived by one sister. Mist
Laura Ma thereon of Liberty Hill, and
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Two Ladies Injured
When Cars Collide
Mi?s Huth Shaw, of Columbia, who
was hero for the week-end on a visit
to her parents, Mr. and 'Mrs. C. C.
Shaw, was badly injured as was her
mother, Mrs. Shaw, while out riding
Saturday night, when her car was hit
by a ear driven by Mr. p. S. Trapp.
The Shaw car was going east on
Laurens street and the Trapp car
was going south on Fair street. The
car -of Mr. Trapp is said to have beau
driven at n rapid rate, and the impact
when it struck the Shaw car
was so greuA that the noise from the
collision*v aroused people within a*
block or mow from the scene of the
accident.
Persons residing nearby who rendered
first aid found Miss Shaw unconscious
and 'her mother badly dazed,
Both were immediately carried
j to the Camden hospital where an examination
showed that- Miss Shaw
was suffering from a broken collar
bone, bruiseB and severe shock. Mrs.
Shaw fared better in that she had a
dislocated collar bone and bruises and
was not so badly hurt. Little Francis
Shaw, baby girl of Mr. Lane C.
Shaw, who was sitting between _the
two ladies, was uninjured. That all
occupants did not meet with more
serious injuries was probably due to
the fact that the force of the blow
from the Trapp car was so great that
it buried its ffont end into the Shaw
car, thereby preventing it from turning
over. The Shaw car was pushed
! clear of the road and put partly on
the sidewalk. The Ford coupe of the *
Shaw's was almost a total wreck,
.while the Overland roadster of Mr.
Trapp was also badly damaged.
Miss SJiaw/as well as Mrs. Shaw,
have returned to their homes on
Hampton avenue, but will probably bo
i under treatment for several weeks.
Miss Shaw is a popular member of
t the insurance of flee staff of Seibels,
>Bruce and company, of Columbia, and
] makes her home on Senate street in T"
i that city, and when news 'of the accident
reached Columbia, many teleI
phone1 calls were received in Camden
asking further particulars as to her ' ;
injuries.
Mr. Trapp was also considerably 'J
bruised as was also a negro passenger
in his car at the time,' described by
Pr. Trapp as his butler;
[Happening at around ten o'clock
when many people were on the streets
or ~In their homes u large crowd of tl
spectators soon gathered! to view the
wrecks.
Ill? ?i j Woman
Aerialist
?? Kitted At Atlanta
Atlanta,. May 27.-?A woman parachute
jumper hurtled 600. feet to her
death hens today wh?e 10,000 spectators
at an amusement park stood
horror-stricken* when the third parachute
in a triple tfifiy taBlfcrto open.
The woman, 'Louise Gardner, of
Boston, Mass., had ascended to an altitude
of 2,000 feet in'a balloon to
make the triple jump. >|Jj
The woman, on reaching an alti- _
tude of 2J000 feet cut loose'froth the.
balloon and dropped about 400 feet,
when she-pulled the rip cord of the
first parachute. Floating downward
another 100 feet the second parachute
was opened.
'Spectators said tfiey saw her trying
to op^r the third parachute
while standing in the harness of the
second. The third parachute^ was not attached
to her body. The big spread
of sitk supporting the woman was
seen to wave, turn to pne side and the
woman came hurtling to earth.
The body fell into a tre? near the
park, then dropped through the roof
of a small building beneath, x
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Dodge Brothers
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New York, May 28,?Directors of
the Chrysler corporation today that
approved a plan to acquire the entire
property of Dodge Brothers corporation,
including Hs subsidiaries in
this country and abroad through an
exchange of stock.
Under the terms of the merger
one share uf Chrysler cum mun stock
will be exchanged for each share of ""-"j!
Dpdge brothers preferred stock and
one gEfafrsl?r$mmon for each
shares of Dodge Brothers class A