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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE H. D. NILB8. .Editor PuWiwhe*! tltxTwriAMi at N?. 1109 , Broad Street end dfctered et the (^Ml< . den, South Caroline postoffice ae eeoond class mail matter. Price per 1 annum $2.00, payable in adrar/w. Friday, August 28, 1931 Seven-Cent Cat* Tax! Florida now has the distinction of enjoying the highest ga* tax in the United State* ?seven cents a gallon. The National Automobile Chamber of Commerce has just published figure* to show that motor vehicle taxation has reached a point where it ha* become such a burden to many people that it is causing curtailment in use of automobiles. The 1930 peak of automobile and gas taxe> ),< presented >o great u cost that at | least 134,000 owners failed to register their cars. Registrations fell off ir. j 20 states, notably among those wilh the highest automobile tux. Florida, with un average tax tf $53.74 per vehicle, lost IK,000 regis- ' trations. Oregon, with a peak average tax of $02.73, showed u decrease , <>f 17,000. Decline* in registrati >n < ranging from 15,000 to 30,000 vehicles were reported by Kentucky, Georgia, < Vermont, Arkansas, South Carolina, I-ouisiuna and North Carolina. ^ According to the tuxation committee-of the American Automobile As* sociation, the 20,523,779 automobiles in the United States, valued at $5,400.716,020, putd taxes of $1,000,388,270 in 1930, which tax wus nearly IK.3 per cent of the valuation of the cars. "A tax of nearly 20 per cent on any form of property is almost prohibitive," .said the committee. 'I he North Carolina bothering of truck.- trom South Carolina is stopped by the promulgation of a new order by the Tarheel state highway commission. Thi- provide-, that trucks o|H'rate<i by .the owner or hi.s agent .had be exempt from license law-, it duly licensed by their home state. The license tax remain* <>n trucks doing a commercial freight business and making more than 30 trips a year, unless they confine their travel to within 75 miles of their home port, and if they are operated for hire. Hut there is no immunity for motor vehicles carrying a gasoline tank in addition to the one put on when it was made. The chairman of the Turheel commission is authorized to change or withdraw all these p - <? visions. _ afre- ten days notice, from trucks corning from any .state which fails to extend like immunities to truck- and Citizens of North Carolina. Fierce Forest Fires Spokane, Wash.. Aug. 18. Western M. >n tana. Northern Idaho, and Kastorn Washington were red with uncounted fore-?t and grass fires today. Fanned by winds, the flames wefv sweeping over timber and farms and menacing towns. Hourly reports of new fires, some <5f them raging uncontrolled through vast stands of timber, came in here. Most were lightning set. but many, forest officials said, obviously were incendiary. Thousands of fighters were on the t ronts and probably 4 good many more were being recruited or were -trugglmg over difficult mountain trails to reach the flames. Human J ? c casualties nave not oeen rrpmvif, but at least three men were una. counted for. Many farm animals were destroyed. In a half dozen places fanner- ' were fleeing from tnei- homes. South Carolina has ten ex-governliving >et. They are: John C. She p pa rd. issr,, then and now of Kdgefield; John Gary KVans, 1895, r,t Aiken, now of Spartanbu-g; Duncan C. Heyward. I9U3, of Colleton county. now in Columbia; Martin F An->el. I'.mm'i, of Oconee county, no .v oiur.'.y judge at Greens tile; Cole I.. Ibea -e. I'.Ml. <>!' Ni whi r \, r.ow pra. living law (' > ,!imb:a; Richard I. Manning. 1 C 1 >' Sutntci. now af limb I! : \ ( ,.,.p,r. IPC'. : w at I >? tv. . ral - Ma a '. a11.1,1 a '< - . Wa-hington; \5 11 II.. 1 v i \. 1922. ,,f Charles' 'it. r w an I'.-ararni man in C ?im'nia. Th<>m*?a G. M l.eod. 1922, of Mishopv ; io, now in insurance in Columbia: I hu (i. Richards, 1926, of l.iberty Hill. South Carolina has had 11 governors sonce 1900, of whom were lawyers, five were farmers, one an editor, one a banker and one a business man. J??hr. "Iron Fist" Scaccio, lieutenant of I>egs Diamond, New York beer baron, has begun serving a sentence of 15 years in a New York prison for attacking a Greene county truckman. Harry "Skunky" Klein, another follower of Diamond, pleading guilty to the theft of an automobile, was sentenced to serve two and a half to five years. Bessie McCoy, widow of the famous war correspondent. Richard Harding Davis, died Sunday in a hospital at Bayonne, France. General News Notes ( / cob Ht< Sch^ff, New York, finan- J flw philanthropist, who die<$ in HHiO,left an estate of $34,385,156, acLording to a transfer tax appraisal. 0 The weather bureau at Washington 1 promises many hot days front now on * before the summer is over. Moderate d temperatures are predicted for this n week. d Senator McNary, of Oregon, a stai wart dry, announces that he favors F submitting the prohibition question d to the states and will ?o vote if the proposal is introduced in the next # congress. i: James h. O'Neill, the oil man who ' has been abroad ever since the orig- I inal Teapot' Dome investigation, to t avoid service of a subpoena to testify died at Cannes, France, Monday, aged t 51 years. The First National Bank of At- <j lantu and affiliated institutions, has o announced that effective immediate- ^ ly, it will advance HO per cent of^he f market value of cotton to growers in the southeastern states. ,. Wages at the Ford tractor plant at Cork, Ireland, were cut 12 1-2 per cent effective Wednesday. a Mrs. Belle' Case ' LuFoflctte, widow f of the late "Fightin* Bob" UaFollette, t died in Washington on Wednesday, r aged 63 years, following an operation f for an intestinal ailment. i Orville Wright, pioneer of aviation, t celebrated his GOth brithday anniversary at Dayton, <)., Wednesday. t Four men were electrocuted at the . state prison at Bellefonte, Pa., Mon- ' day for a murder they had committed ' in 1928. i( ?] President Hoover continues to hold . to his opinion that there is no need for calling an extra session* of con- 1 gress at this time. i Joseph P. Tumulty, secretary to , Wood row Wilson, predicts "a I)eni.>- , cratic victory next year unparalleled in history." Trucksters are paying about fifty i cents ji bushel for good marketable i peaches at the orchard.- all ?>ver the I Piedmont section of the Mate. James S. Milne. 51, telegrapher j who in 1'JlH sent the famous message of General Haig, "Our hacks are to ' the wall," is dead. < Australian hor-cbreedcrs are find- ( ing an outlet for their animals by i sending them to India for mounts for the English cavalry. Jack Dempsey, ex-prize ehampion, ; has filed a suit for divorce again u ' his wife, Kstelle Taylor. The big i bruiser charges "mentap'tiruelty." Anita Grew, 22, daughter of U. S. Ambassador Grew, Tuesday swam the 1 Bosphorus straits from the Black Sea I to,, the Sea of Marmora. 19 miles. ( An unemployment relief conference is to be held at Memphis, Tenn., Aug| ust 21. An attendance of between 2,000 and .'5,000 delegates is indicated. Captain Frank Ilawkos on Wednesday morning flew from New York to ' Chicago in four hours and four minutes, lowering the record by 1 .'5 min- i utes. ' , A Italeigh. N. C., man is suing a filling station operator who sold him a plug, ,<>f tobacco, as well as the manufacturers of the plug, for $2,999 I damages, alleging that feathers in , the tobacco made him violently ill. . The family of S. N. Gum beck of Oquawka; III., has started out to take 1 a vacation on a fund of $700 accumu- ( lated by the saving of jvennies he received in the course of conducting his 1 grocery business during the past two years. I.umbeck is paying all ex- : penses with pennies* which he carries in sacks, cans and boxes. The interstate* commerce commission has ordered South Carolina rail- : roads to fix the same rates on sand, gravel and stotie when the haul is 1 entirely within this" state as wnvu 177"' crosses a state* line. The state railroad cotpmisiion had approved lower rates for intrastate than for interstate shipments, as help to cheaper road construction in South Carolina. Senator James F. Byrnes said in a speech at Union on Wednesday that the farm Ivoard should be abolished soon as possible and endorsed the cotton price cure plan of Senator Klison D. Smith, which he said has the objection of having the farm board buy cotton, but should hasten the time when the farm, board shall be eliminated. The Spartanburg county delegation refused a number of requests for increase of >a!aries of chief clerk* of county officers. The funeral on Wedne>dav of I Samuel Morgan .lone-, of CheMc.! was a very large one. He wa< ore | of the most important citizen- of that city and county and pre-idenl of the! National Exchangt hank. He died sudden lv on Mondav a ft e* noon of angina pectoris aged 7'"< vears. He \\aborn in Maryland and began hi- career as a clerk for a wholesale dr," goods house in Baltimore, going to ( hestor in ISM, to a department store his employers opened there, which he bought a few years later in partnership with the late M. Machtel. He built it up into one of the biggest stores of the Piedmont and became important in cotton. Jn 1924, he quit merchandising and since then has been president of the bank and a director of the Aragon-Baldwin mills. His wife was Miss Dora John-1 ston Brown of Tirzah, who died in 1919, thirty years after their marriage. Mr. Jones was an elder in Purity Presbyterian church at Chester, and a few years ago furnishe i , the money for remodeling that edifice. He established a $5,000 scholarship at Presbyterian college and gave much money to orphanages and other benevolences. The Dora Jones school building at Chester is on a lot He donated, and he contributed liberally to the Chesto* library. 4 -rowing Dairy Slock Veeds Legume Feeds Clemson ColUf*, August 22.?Lack f size is a great impediment to profit rom many South 'Carolina dairy ows, ?ay? C. G. Cushman, extension uiryman, who think* that we have 10 right to expect high average proluction from uhder-dcveloped cows, >nd that profit from a dairy enterprise is in direct relation to high proluetion per cow. South Carolina," Mr. Cushman tates, "is making creditable progress n breeding work through increasingy greater numbers of sires from roven ancestors, but a great part of he value of this laudable endeavor s lost in failure to grow out properly he young stock. "First of all, our people generally lo not quite appreciate the necessity pf properly handling and feeding th-' rrowing heifer from birth until thH irst lactation period. " 1 he feeding of sufficient legumei oughages to growing stock is a I nost important matter, for minerals rnd vitamins, two vitally important ood elements or properties essenial to proper growth and developnent, are abundantly present in good egume bays but are woefully Jack-, ng In varying degrees in grain ruions and carbonaceous roughages. "It ik very common in herds over he state to see young growing stocK n good physical condition yet not nuking the proper skeleton growth. They are getting sufficient food nurients either in the grain ration or i combination of it with grass hay. orn stover or other carbonaceous oughage to keep them in good body lesh, and we are therefore deceived. I'he ration may be entirely lacking n minerals and vitamins, which are esponsible for the development of arge, rugged-framed animals. "The feeding of good legume hays o growing stock is not so expensive is other methods. Frequently "x es-ive grain rations are fed to this lass of stock to make up for a lack >f the cheaper and better food?legume hay. Ix'gume hay is in fa-, t almost indispensable to profit in the feeding of all classes of dairy animals, but particularly growing stock. The grain ration can be designed to atone partly for the lack of good legume hay in the mattlre producing row's ration, but nothing will take its place with entire satisfaction in feeding growing stock." Cotton Mather, president of a chain af furniture stores in Georgia and Florida, comprising 17 stores, cancelled yesterday orders for $;>0,000 worth of furniture from High Point factories, because of the warfare waged on Georgia trucks in the Tarleel state. He wrote the High ^oint manufacturers that his stores would buy no more furniture from them until North Carolina recognizes the Georgia and Florida license plates. They have bought more than $1,000,3Q0 worth of furniture at High Point since 1017. Patrolmen have beerikarrt*ting trucks fr6m Georgia and Kentucky whenever found without h Tarheel license. There was a hurried meeting in Raleigh yesterday of state officials, and before last night patrolmen had been ordered to stop arresting drivers of trucks without state licenses. Captain Farmer, of the state highway patrol, sam trucks with a license from their home state will not be molested in North Carolina. W ill Rector, white, was found guilty in the Burke county court at Morganton, N. C.f Tuesday, on a charge of assaulting an 11-year-old child, the sister of his wife, and was sentenced to electrocution on October 2. Rectoi admitted his guilt to officers, but excu>ed it by saying that he was drunk at the time. Governor I'inchot, ot Pennsylvania ha- called upon President Hoover t* call a special -e-sion of congress te deal With the unemployment ,-itia t i o n. Hold Motorist For Death of Children Darlington, August 24.?Geo. R. Brown, of Darling-ton, was held here without bond today in connection with a truck collision near here Sat*' urday in which two children were .killed and ten other persons injured, two seriously. Three children, two women and eight men, all residents of Mont* II dare, a few miles from here, woye I riding ih a truck which collided with ja machine driven by Brown. Louise Ard, 4, and (Catherine Ard, were killed in the crash, and Mary. Virginia Kennedy, (i, and King Harrington received serious injuries. The others were only slightly injured. The Kennedy child, her skull fractured, and Harrington were taken to u Florence hospital where doubt was expressed whether the little girl would recover. | Witnesses said Brown's truck drove out of a side road, struck th'i heavily loaded Montclare truck, driven by ((us Kennedy, father of Mary Kennedy, and wrecked it. Brown said he did nojt see the other vehicle. The recent wounding of Senator Boy T. Yates of New Jersey, in the apartment of Ruth Cranmcr in New ? York, and the bringing to light of the fact that the girl has been drawing pay from the New Jersey treasury because of alleged work done for the state pension commission, will probably be the target for a special investigation by New Jersey authorities. Yates, in a hospital in New York, is in a critical condition from ? the shot received, so the girl says, in a scuffle over a pistol. The trial of Luke Lea and three I (others charged with conspiracy to I defraud an Asheville bank of $1,300,000 was much shortened yesterday when the defense announced that it would submit no evidence. Then arguments to the jury began. Ten lawyers will make speeches, and four , other attorneys in the case will not he heard. . The state elected tQ go to the jury on the misapplication of funds charge. It took several weeks for the state to present its case in I court, the evidence being voluminous and complicated accounts. ' t-/-\ tut diidi ir j IV 1 I 1L. r VDLilV ! Due to the unprecedented decline in the price of cotton I am prompted to reduce the charges for weighing cotton from twenty cents per bale to ! ten cents per bale while the price of (cotton remains at the present low level. However, if the price should advance I shall charge for weighing the same allowed by law. R. A. BRUCK. Public Cotton Weigher,, i August 2*>th, 1931. , . . - \ Notice of Incorporation ' Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday, September 1, 1931. the un-r dersLmed committee will apply to the Secretary of State of South Carolina for a charter of incorporation of The Camden Shrine Club, a proposed social and educational corporation not organized for profit of individual members. I A. SAM KARESH I W. F. NETTLES L. H. SCHLOSBURG August 27, 1931. Wants?For Sale FOR RENT?Six room house on We it I Laurens street. House newly paintI ed inside. Apply Wm. L. Goodak\ | mono i a.j, v airiulc..,* ~ *\ 22 -*:h FOR RENT?'Six room house on Highland Avenue. Newly painted inside and outside. Apply Wm. Li Goodale, Phone 193, Camden, S. C. 22-24sb. FOR SALE?One, Model T Ford coupe. Runs good. Will sell cheap for cash or trade for small ponv horse and buggy. Call on John W. Watkins, Cassatt, S. C., Route 2 1 22-24pd PATENTS ? Sell your invention or patent by exhibiting your model or drawing at the Second International Patent Exposition, Sept. 14 to 27. Chicago. Thousands of manufacturers and patent buyers will ' inspect new devices and patents for 1 marketing. Rates $1 per day for i 14 days, entitling you to 14 feet. If you have no model, drawing or description will do. Send for free pamphlet if you have time. If not, send $14 with descriptions and drawings and we will look after* your patent Interests. 13. Hamilton Edison, Managing Director, International Patent Exposition, Merchandise Mart, Chicago. 22-24sb Say "SEIBERLING" when you want a good tire at Creed's Filling Station. ''OR SALE?Oats for sale or trade for young cattle. Address W. P. McGuirt, Manager at Guignard Farms or telephone No. 143, Camden, S. C. 20-2.'3pd FOR HONEST SERVICE ? When your Sewing Machine or Vacuum Cleaner needs replacing or repairing call at the Singer Sewing Machine store Gil Rutledge street. We Also do Hemstitching and Pecot work. R. A. Purser, Manager. 20-22pd MONl'MENTS?I handle only the best grades of marble and granite. Come to see or write to T. J. McNinch, Camden, .S. C. 19tf F'OR SALE?Several good milk cows. Apply J. H. Burns, Camden, S. C. 17tf WAN! ED?No. 1 pine logsTaU caah prices paid: year roundH mand. Sumter Planing Mil). M Lumber Co., Attention E, 8. BoS Sumter, C. FOR RBNT->-An apartment of rooms and bath. Apply to Burns, Camden, <S. ., SEIBERLING TIRES?Ail sizes J treads. (Sold by Creed's FiUjB Station, Camden, S. C. APARTMENT TO RENT?Two J rooms, hull, kitchenette and |jH furnished. Electric light, hotM cold water included. Also ginfl Phone 284-J or call at 1602 street, Camden, S. ? 20-22 pM CARPENTEKiwii?Jonn S. Mjttl phone 268, 812 Church Strifl Camden, S. C., will give nfl factory service to all for all kifl of carpenter work. BuiUi^B general repairs, screening, cabufl making and repairing furnita^H My workmanship is my refert^^H I solicit your patronage. Tbafl ing you in advance. UH nHMHHHHHnHBHnHHHnHHMHHBBRBBnBHHHnKHBBMHBBBaCBHSHP* I Salesman Wanted j By strong state organization for Camden. Inter! view will be granted applicants who write fully of ! I their experience. | This is opportunity to make money this Fall, j Successful applicant will be given training. I j A lady of refinement and energy could qualify. j ' Address: * j Box 1465, Columbia, S. C. 'v . " pgphi^ r ?* '- .-. ? , ^^ jsj Final Notice! I paving assessments and interest due i APRIL 1st. 19s1. must be paid at once, oth- i euwise the property wide be advertised i i and sold. . I this is a final notice! i CITY COUNCIL I I OF CAMDEN, S. C. I J. C. 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