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THECANDENCHRONKLE L P. N?LM. .MU>> mm* P?MUIm Published every^Friday at Ho, 1109 Broad Btraat and tntortw at tha Camden, South Carolina postotftca aa second claaa oaail Matter. Price par annum 92.00, payable in advance. Camden, S. C., Friday, July ft, 1929, IT v: 1\ ! ?' Sound eat reason joined bands with the justice and mercy of Judge Town* aend's criminal court sessions hero this week when upon the recommendation -of Solicitor A. Fietcher Spigner all cases act for the recent term of court, except those iu jail awaiting trial, were continued until the next term 'bf court. Growing and hopeful crops, through the court's indulgence, will continue without labor interruption and while gr?M in the cotton refuses to wait for any man it's relatively certain that the toads and bridges in every quarter can profit, then as now, through the efforts of those whose criminal inclinations lead them to do penance where the boll weevil is the least of their worries. The two young men who recently bought the Columbia Record, Spartanburg paper* and Augusta Chronicle and thereby started a congressional investigation of a big power company's activities., have fallen out as partners and gone to court against each other. Hall got a temporary injunction preventing La Varre from proceeding to control their property, and it he court appointed Thomas J. Hamilton, editor of the Augusta Chronicle, temporary receiver for all the papers in the chain. Hall asks that the partnership be dissolved and he be given his share of the stock in the papers involved, alleged that La Varre was running the papers independent of Hall, although | La Varre knows nothing about newspapering. The qpmpluint alleged that La Varre is refusing to turn over to : * the power company the stock pledged j to it for the money used to buy the papers. The court will hold a hearing next Tuesday in Augusta. WOMAN PAYROLL BANDIT. t Topeka, Kansas, Cashier Held Up and Robbed of $14,000. Topeka, Kan., June 28.?A woman today held up W. L. Stalons, cashier of the Security Benefit Association here, and escaped with the association's payroll estimuted at approximately $14,000, after kidnapping A. J. Perlich, Kansas City, and forcing him to drive her to the scene of the holdup. Stalons, accompanied by Louis Streit, an employe, just had returned to the association offices from the Central National Bank. When stalons stepped trom^^.jijs motor car, carrying the money in .a satchel, he was accosted by a woman holding a handkerchief over hi-r face. Believing sho was a patient of the issociation hospital, Stalons stopped to talk to her. She pointed a revolver at the cashier with the command: "I>rop that package, or I'll blow your insides out." Stalons attempted to throw the satchel to .Streit but the woman caught it. She turned to re-enter Perlich's motor car in which she had ordered him to wait at the curb, but he had driven to police headquarters to report the robbery. The woman then fled on foot. She entered an apartment house a block away and there police found a smock, hat and other articles of clothing she apparently had discarded. The revolver the woman was believed to ha ve used was found in the street near the apartment. Police said she ran through the apartment and out the back door where she disappeared. Streit described the robber as being between 2."> and 27 years of age. IV-lich told police he was sitting in his car in front of a hotel when the woman opened the door and got in. l>e-ide him. He said she held a revi.iver against his side while he drove to the Security Benefit Association building about six blocks distant. Speeches are made after dinner because when men have eaten plenty they are too torpid to resent old jokes. THE DE80LATBD LANDS Id letter printed today Dr. T. H. Dreher, of St. Matthews, draws * picture of the depression in land values in South Carolina that should have the attention of the legislators. Much the same thing has been said by The i News and Courier time and again in the hist year or two. The better class of farm lands, as a rule, fetches prices not only lower than in 1919 and 1920, but lower than in 1906. Millions of acres of the poorer lands are idle and have no present value. Owners p,.y the taxes upon them in the hope that some day their value will come back, otherwise they would cheerfully allow them to be sold for taxes by the state. We have learned in the last eight years that it is possible to raise rev- ! cnue* by indirect -taxation -sales j taxes on soft drinks, tobacco and gasoline. These are taxes on consumption. Why should not the man with the ability to buy and consume be called upon to carry the principal bu--! dens of public affairs? The last hun- | dred years our people have been taxed indirectly by discriminating and unfair tariffs. The notion, fundamentally correct, has been instilled into our people for generations that tariffs should be laid on luxuries in preference to necessaries, but the federal tariff taxes are certainly not confined to luxuries. If the United States shall compel the consumer to pay two prices for a hoe, a coat, a pound of coffee or a pound of sugar, why should the state refrain from imposing taxes on consumption? If a South Carolinian owns 500 acres of land which yield him nothing (many are in precisely that case), the land having a market value of $5 an j acre, and the state, county and school districts collect $50 a year upon the property, they are virtually taking ten acres of the man's land from him. Meanwhile, at 0 percent on the value of the^ tract, he ra~tosing $150 a year besides, so that in 12 years his property will have "eaten itself up." The taxes on land of this character are for the most part being paid by persons who have other sources of revenue, and whether or n^t they would be wiser to surrender the titles to the state is wholly a matter of speculation. The News and Courier would not like to risk an opinion I that the lands now idle in South Carolina will be marketable in the next 20 years. The signs are; to the contrary, that we have entered upon a period of slow industrialization, which means a continuing movement of population from farms to manufacturing and trading centers. Shall the state consent or require j that citizens be penalized if they would hold title to valueless lands? That is the essence of the question. Dr. Dreher's description of the destruction of forests, even scattering clumps of trees, by their owners in order that they may raise a little money is entirely true. . Our people | have in the last eight years, in many ways, dissipated the accumulated savings of generations. That one cannot have his cake and eat his cake is a proverb wholly forgotten. Lands have been mortgaged to the federal banks and the proceeds hav^ I been burned in gasoline and in send- j ing the boys and girls to college. Commodious "modern" schoolhouses have been built at great expense, and the children are learning all kinds of lessons, but they are not learning that a human being cannot spend as much as or more than he earns without selling himself into, slavery. Ninety-nine in a hundred South Carolinians ' are ' thinking about nothing beyond "gas in the tank."? News And Courier. J. Carl Elliott, desk sergeant of police, has been appointed chief of police of Gastonia in place of Chief t Aderholt who was murdered by the I lx>Miev?k j strikers 'here- recently, j Klliott received the u animous vote of the city council and has been on that police force for cighi^Lten years. The -American I^egi^^ost at Gast??n:a has passed resolutions strongly opposing anything which is communistic in its nature, ns the present trouble at Gastonia is stated to be, i pledges its support to the constituted ; authorities, and praises their work for law and order thus far. Peace officers of Nacogdoches, Tex., have branded as false a story to the effect that five young women had I whipped a young white man there "with a bolt because ho had been unfaithful to one of their number. ! Arthur Schrieber, of Portland, Me. who recently crossed the Atlantic L France with the airplane Yellow Hird as a stowaway, reached his home Wednesday. He declares that h< , wants to becomq an aviator. He wa< not given a very glad hand when he ^returned to his home town. I Augustino Sandino, former Nicara guan insurgent leader, has retiree to Yucatan, Mexico, with 26 follow ers, as exiles. Object leeeon To . Southern Industry j j From The Daily News Record, New York, N. Y., Issue of June 24th. "One of the features of tbe week i was the auction sale of the equipment and machinery of the Sharp Manufacturing Co., which proved ^ big disappointment to all concerned. The book value of the plant estimated the machinery at 14,320,136. With real estate listed to the value of 11,742,966. Not e single bid was received for the property and it has been announced that about one quarter of the equipment was dis* posed of at the auction. The receipt* of approximately $100,000 tells in cold figures the present lack of interest in textile machinery." This item appeared on page 15, aectibn 1. On the frdnt page another article quoted the auctioneer as follows: ' "He was of the opinion that the auction speaks for itself and was a serious reflection on the entire Cotton Manufacturing industry. He was surprised, he said, that there were not more southern mill representatives bidding on the equipment. The apathy of New England mill men indicated a set jo us condition he declared, and suggested lack of confidence in the future a? many of the mills in New Bedford and Fall River could have vastly improved their plants at trifling cost by purchasing some of the Sharp Mill equipment." 8EMINOI.ES ACQUIT THE CHIEF, Jpsie Billie Freed After Trial by Tribe on Charge of Murder Miami, Fla., June 25.?Josie Billie's restoration to the high councils of hi5 tribe apparently was made complete following his murder trial at the annual Green Corn dance of the Senu-nole*i? ? The stolid chieftain not only was unequivocally freed of the charge that I he killed the widowed squaw, NufChe. but within an hour of his acquittal he resumed his place as a tribal medicine man and sat in judgment on Philip Billie, also accused of murder. Josie was instrumental in the acquittal of Philip, who ran afoul tribal law by taking the life of Charlie. Lee. Unanimous opinion that,CharlieAvas "a bad Indian," was of no little aid tov Philip's case. j j The death of Corn Billie wag.- qlfeaf-' ed when Josie Jumper and Kj|tie Toti* my testified he fell from their'canoe" during an alligator hunt in the everglades. The happy conclusion of the three cases was reported today by JOqie | himself, just returned from the secret j rendezvous where the dance and trials were hold. I "Everythin' all right now, everybody satisfied," was Josie's summation. j ___ GENERAL NEWS NOTES Mrs. Phoebe Oomlie of Memphis, Tenn., aviatrix, attained an estimated altitude of 25,400 feet over MQjine, 111., Saturday and claims the altitude record for women, the previous record being 20,800 feet. The chief customs inspector- at ^Windsor, Canada, for the Great Lakes Region, reported Saturday that there has been a decided falling off of liquor exports to the United States from that district within the recent past. Four persons were burned to death and several were seriously injured when a 5 and 10 cents store was set on fire in St. Louis on Saturday; by the accidental ignition of the *fire-' works stock on display for the Fourth of July. * ** Juoge Walsh in Philadelphia, on Saturday, refused to grant an application made by attorneys of "Scarface A! ( apone, Chicago gangster, for a writ of error seeking the release of the gunman from a Pennsylvania prison, where the gangster is s< rving a twi-ive months' sentence for <arrying a concealed weapon. Capon- was not ,n. court for the hearing. Ia.u- Spreekles, 62, one of the founder* the large sugar refining busine.-v ,?f the Spreckles family, died f rmay at Yonkers, N. Y., of heart disease. A ourt at Minsk, Russia, trying 26 defendants on charges of banditry and other crimes, has aentenc.-i-seven of them to death by shooting. - ???_i. - s MH ' "Robert," said the teacher, tq drive ' home the lesson which was on charity kindness, "if I saw a man beating a donkey and stopped h;m from 5 doing so, what yirtue would I be * showing?" 1 : ' Brotherly love." said Bobby j promptly.?Open Road. 1 Paper Late This Week . j The Chronicle ia being publi^ed a 1 day late thia week on account of obi serving the Fourth as a holiday Dual-Life Exposed Death of Theora Mix Columbus, Ohio, Juno 29.?''Still i waters ruu deep." The wisdom of this ancient adage impressed itself upon the minds of the friends of Miss Theora Hix, 26, Ohio State medical student, whose brutally battered body was found on a lonely rifle range near here, as they seek to pierce the mystery of her | double life. ... To her friends she appeared a >*r-! ious-minded, studious girl who neither invited nor imparted confidences and who indulged in a few social .activities. Her dress was modest and she seemed to shun attention. Her "dates" were far from uumerous except for a brief time when aha accepted the attentions of Marion T. Meyers, university extension horticulturist. ^ Theora confessed to her roommates, Alice and Beatrice Bustin, with whom she lived in an attractive apartment across from the campus, that Meyers had asked her to maj*ry him, but added, "I refused to marry him because I don't want to get married now." Closely following word of her death at the hands of a fiend who mutilated j her body beyond recognition, her friends were astounded to learn that she had been intimate with Dr. James J /) j H. Snook, veterinary professor at the school for the past three years. According to his statement to police j Theora had been living with him at a drab rooming house a few Mocks | from the school, frbm tjme to time, since February. ' After days of grilling by police | Snook confessed he murdered the girl because she had threatened his wife j and child when he attempted to break off his relations with her. Her roommates, the Bustin sistera, declare they never heard her mention j Dr. Snook's name. Alice . Bustin, Theora's classmate, says, "Theora ,-was, to all appearances, a girl of the j highest ideals. She was an excellent student, a deep thinker. People meeting her for the first time were apt to think her queer, but that was only her reticence., .She used to go to dinner about 5:30 o'clock _^hen 1 was on my way to work at the hospital and when I returned about 9 she usually was in our room. I thought she went to the movies or the library in the intervening hours?I never knew of her intimacy with Dr. Snook. The night she was killed was the only rvighl sh^ ever stayed out all night." - During the past six years Theora was separated* from her parents save for brief intervals in the summer, since they lived in Brndenton, Fla., They knew nothing of the detail^, of. the tragedy until they reached Oolufrrbus after the murder. Her father, an educator, sobs as he says, "She was by herself most of the time. She never went out with men and seemingly had no use for them as long as we can remember." Persons who lived at the "love nest" which Dr. Sr.ook maintained for M iss Hix seldom saw her and recalled her as a plain, rather uncommunicative girl who supposedly help; ed her "husband" in his work as a "salt demonstrator." Even the landlady, Mrs. M. M. Smalley, who rented them the little room with its white iron bed, dresser, one rocker, and pink ruffled curtains, declares, "I never had any reason to suspect they were not man and wife. They were quip and nevej? drank." At the university Theora enjoyed the respect of both students and faculty. She worked at campus jobs and lately had been employed in the office of the dean of the graduate school. At various times she had worked for both Meyers and Dr. Snook. Meyers declared he threatened to discharge her if she did not cease receiving the attentions of Snook. ~ Although Snook freely admitted his intimacy with Miss Hix when taken into custody after the murder, his wife, who is the mother of his small daughter, has declared she never heard of Theora Hix. Snook has been removed from the faculty of the university since his admission of the loVe affair. What could have changed the quiet, teelf-sufficient girl into a woman of experience in whom the passions blazed so fiercely that she permitted herself to be drawn into a liasou, which, if discovered, would have meant her dismissal from school and the death of her lifedong ambition? That is the question Theora's pari ents ask as. almost prostrated by their grief, memories of the childhood of the girl for whom they sacrificed that she might have a good education rise to add still further* to their sorrow. They seek some explanation for theii daughter's devotion to a mai> of whose very existence they were ignorant Meyers she mentioned in her letters I hut never Dr. Snook. It eeema injcredfble to them that the girl whe 11 had scorned the attention of male ad jmirers and once boasted that sh( _ - -X : - - "could take care of any man," should; have bad 2-cret love affairs. Still waters which ran deep lad toj the tragic end of the young student and baffled police when they attempt- j pd to solve the mystery of her murder, I As her parents prepare to take the liwwiu Wu/.Lr in fViu familv burial orround at Binghampton, N. Y., student* who know her as a confeientious, unro| mantle associate, gather in hushed group* to ponder over the life which disclosed itself to the world only in death; ' ?~7? . u ^ I The Ashevill* Times of Saturday announced that plana were under way for the formation of a giant merger to include many of the largeat rayon corporations of the country into a combine with a capital stock of $50,-, 000,000. NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS All parties indebted to the estate of G. W. Moseley, deceased, are hereby notified to make payment to the, undersigned, and all parties, if any, shaving claims against the said estate will present them duly attested within the time prescribed by law. R. L. MOSEGEY, Executor, j Camden, S. C., July 3, 1029. Wants?For Sale WANTED?A respectable, healthy, middle-aged woman to live in my home with me. Interview requested. Phone 277-J, Camden, S. C. 15-pd FOR RENT?pTwo farms in Kershaw County. ?$ply to L. A. Wittkowsky, Camden, S. 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