The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 28, 1931, Image 4
THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE
H. D. NILB8. .Editor
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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
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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.
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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. BOYKIN, City Clerk end Treeeurer I
Pearl Brand PEAS, No. 2 can lOw
Tetley's Orange Pekoe TEA, XA lb... 23tl
Sunshine Krispy Crackers, 1 lb. pkg. lfol
Lifebuoy SOAP, cake (hJ
RINSO, 3 pkgs. . ;.. iB
Blue Rose RICE, 5 lbs 2M
Campbell's Tomato SOUP, 3 cans .. 2M
f ? 1? 11' ?1 1. Dr A.\Id 9 iQfH
\jaillpucri o uanuii JltuAiiu, u xv& . . l. -^S
Welch's GRAPE JUICE, pints 2M
GRAPEFRUIT, all brands, 2s .... 15B
Canova COFFEE, lb ."jl
American SARDINES, 2 cans ... ^-rfj
FLOUR SPECIALS |
ti lb Circus .. 20c
12 lb Circus .. 32c
24 lb Circus .. 59c
48 lb Circus . 1.13
12 lb Rogers 37 M
24 lb Rogers 37
48 lb Rogers 37
96 lb Rogers 37 IB
Pink Salmon, T?? Can lOjJ
IN OUR FANCY MARKER
I BEEF
|| (Round Steak 23c
I Stew Beef .... 10c
I Beef Roast 17VfcC
I Beef Liver .... 20c
FAT-BACK
I 8c
PORK
Pork Chops .. 23c
Pork Roast .. 22c
Neck Bone 8 l-3c
Pig Tails .. 12Vsc
PICNIC HAMS
17c
SAUSAGW
Pork Sautef t|
Weiner# ft.
Pimento
Banquet Bw*] !
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