The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 05, 1929, Image 4
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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,
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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.
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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(
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"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?
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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. C. 40 tf
'RADIO BARGAIN?.Have just traded
in a model 37, all electric lamp
socket model Atwater Kent radio
set. Will take $50 for this outfit,
which includes everything. Only
used about one year and in good
' condition. If interested see W. O.
j Hay, local Atwater Kent dealer,
w Camden, S. C. ?-? 13sb.
.FOR SALE AT HALF PRICE?A
Bohn Syphon refrigerator, practically
new; porcelain lined inside,
porcelain outside; capacity 100
pounds. Bargain. Apply F. M.
Zemp, at Zt-mp & DePass, Camden,
S. C. 15-16-sb
THE GENERAL ELECTRIC Re
frigerator automatically maintains
a temperature that is always belowi
50 degrees, scientifically correct
for the preservation of food. Camj
den Furniture Co. 2 tf.
for ?al?~4?#
Ion; many outbuilding;
fenced; good aandy loa*
million feet timber; loal^^B
National Highway about*
uoutheaat of Camden; ?
bargain to aettle estate; o?W^H
500; liberal terraa For funb^l
formation writ? 11. Mzeoot^^H
Montgptnery Hoad, Cincinnati,
FOR SALR?Nuratyr one n^l; :
ber two pine shingle* for
ply^to McCaskill & I<olll?, (JB;
THE GENERAL ELECTRIC?
frigerator requires no oiling J
moving pert runs in a per*3
bsth of oil. Camden ftirnitu^H
PASTURAGE?Cattle will JW
cepted for pasturage at GuitB
Farm. Excellent river pigS
For rates apply to W. p, mB
Ranger, phone 148, Camden, &B
WANTED -No. 1 pine log,. HiM
cash prices paid; year rou&JB
raand. Sumter Planing MilU fl
Lumber Co., Attention E. 8. g^B
Sumter, S. C. TS
DOMESTIC SCIENCE EXP J
women well-versed in the pS
arrangement of food in a refrigB
tor, worked with engineered?
the General Electric RefrigeiS
Camden Furniture Co. |
THE GENERAL ELECTRIC B
frigerator' is easy to clean igfl
keep clean. Rounded cornerfjB
no place for dust or dirt to |B
Camden Furniture Co.
FOR SALE?-Have on hand pB
ftico potato plants. Orders |B
for any quantity. $2.25 per tfcfl
and. Apply to McCaskill & jB
-Camden, S. C. ;fl
THE GENERAL ELECTRIC I
frigerator may be purchased ftfl
percent down with two yetifl
pay the baldhce. Camden pB
tqre Co. ' h
CARPENTERING?John S) *B
phone 268, 812 Church Stfl
Camden, S. C., will give B;
factory service to all for allB
of carpenter work. BuiB
general repairs, screening,
making and repairing fur^B
My workmanship is my reftB
I solicit your patronage, ifl
- -ing you in Advance. rir:
FOR RENT?Four room cottfl
Broad Street. Apply to L. B
kowsky, Camden, S. C.
GENERAL ELECTRIC RefrijB
monthly payments, in raaifl
stances,' are ~less than whrffl
would actually spend for ice. fl
den Furniture Co. I
WANTED?Yourvg married muB
sires position as salesman or ifl
driver. Can furnish refers!
Write to "Salesman, "care offl
Camden Chronicle. 13-lfl
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on
MODERN-CONSTRUCTED
HOMES
and
CENTRALLY-LOCATED
BUSINESS PROPERTY
No Appraisal Charge
ADDRESS INQUIRIES
P.O. Box 164, Camden, S. C.
r '
Fruits and Vegetables
FRESH daily :t
Come here for your fruits and vegetables, for here
you will find the most select varieties and the best
values in town. ' v
S. S. HENSLEY
| 920 Broad Street Camden, S. C.
^/hen the summer sun is
piayinq tricks with the mercury
"\t7"HEN the summer sun is playing tricks
* * with the mercury, and your home is I
the coolest place to be found?then yOu'H
; doubly appreciate a telephone of your own. I
Friends often neglected during the hot M
summer months can be reached without leav- j
ing the comfort of your home?delightful |
vacation clings can be planned?invitations j
given?all\arrangements made ? by telephone.
Safe hom the rays of the sun, with
the telephone in arm's reach, the day's rrur- '
keting and shopping takes but a few moments.
I
This warm weather friend costs only I I
few cents a day, and there is a class of set" I
vice to fit every need and*income. Just oil _ j
the telephone business office, or if you prefer,
any telephone employee will gladly
your order for service.
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and Telcobadh Company i