Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE H. !>. NILK8. . Kdttor and Publiaher Published every Friday at No. 110? i Broad Street and entered at the Camden, South Carolina poutoffic? aa second ulaaa mail matter. Price per annum $2.00, payable in advance. Friday, May 20, 1 The Preen Still Sorvew. The American public found itself grctttly excited Monday because of the widespread broadcasting of rumors and reports of various sorts concerning the Lindbergh kidnapingmurder case. The public found out, by delhging the newspapers with telephone calls, that most of what it had heard by radio was not only nut so at all, but also without any really good excuse for being disseminated. .y Kadio may be an excellent medium for disseminating information about matters of public interest, but the newspapers appear to be a{>le still to Hervo a useful field in eTSaBling the public to find out what is really true and what is merely a wild, unfounded and unwarranted rumor.?Greenville News. " Monday, the head of the New Jersey stute pdTice asked, the secretary of the treasury to send out nnoj^er , letter to all recipients of the list of bills included in the $50,000 (<ol. Lindbergh paid the abductors of his baby asking everybody to keep a renewed sharp lookout for the bills and report any found by telegraph. Also came authentic information that Col. Lindbergh had spent $200,000 on the search for his^joii. And a report of a radio, station that Betty (low, the baby's nurse had committed suicide was laughingly but emphatically denied by that young woman at Nopewell. The roast guard service had Hung such a guard line along the Atlantic coast, that no vessel of the description of the one used by the kidnapers can reach a landing without being discovered. This Murder Business -v-In-looking overMhe newspaper reports, from time to tTlne, of t.he docketed homicidal cases, it reminds of old." Romft!^ palmy murder days. The latest booking appears in The Greenville News, for that county, with 10 on the list. Richland is about as bad. Charleston, Horry, Georgetown, Berkeley and many others, ticserve no sympathy. It is a disgraceful record. One sad feature is the not infrequent transplanting of the big city slum crime of husbands killing wives and wives husbands, in the " South. Taking whites and blacks together, Calhoun county is a paradise, compared to most of the others. This is true, even if reports are to bo believed, that a mishap or two, pronounced an "accident," were not accidents. With whites against whites,< Calhoun sits alone on the pinnacle. If responsible "Boo/eland" citizens, how?-ver.fehavc any cinch on fortune telling, oil' record of Caucasian peace may be broken any time.?Calhoun Times. The Lindbergh case is solved at last, and the baby given back to his parents a mangled corpse instead of ' ?the- bo*ty. rosy-cheeked youngster ? that was put to bed on the evening of 1 March 1st. A crime has been per- ' pctrated which exceeds in fiendish ness anything that the mind enn con- * ceivc of, as accustomed as the peoplo of America have grown to a reign of i lawlessness all over the land. That 1 crime would dare strike where it t struck in this instance would have N been inconceivable before this kid- 1 r.aping and murder occurred, and I there may be more reason to hope 1 becau-e <>f :his fact that the people of America will rise in their wrath 1 when '.'tie gu:!ty pa-ties are discov-I t i ini an I laki definite and corn lu-iv e | * Si-natov Arthur Capper, of!4' hi" a-, n i -erent article, made the'' a' i ' ' at ' w . ''. ni - a: ii k a inap '' . . - I. s i.a > Wiic . inmi' ted . . .a : >? a > a?-d "'.it ..t" : : .. ., . ; . .\ t -a n > - \?y . I , r, \ a . : i" >!a'a of . .,g oy t :ii , rga:. /.at tor. of an j [1 out:..gi.: . t.i/en-h.p. ;!nd >?-etn- ' l.ke the time fa.-t coming when, tlie oc'.ay-. and tne technicalities of ;1 the court that play in#- the hands h (if cr.me are going to have to be replaced for the time Innng at least l" by a ill ffcrent and more positive sort 1 n of dealing with these outlaws.?Chester Repo-ter.. ? P H(K?ver Aroused f Washington, May 14. ? President Hoover today directed the law en- \ forcement agencies and secret ser- <1 vice of the federal government tc o set cut upon a hunt for the murder- " ers of the Lindbergh baby, "never tc. ti relax until those criminals arc im- il placably brought to justice." % General News Notes Director# of the Ne-w York Central railroad at their meeting Wednesday omitted a dividend on the stock for the iirst time since the company was organized in 1870. flight sailors, leaders of a Communistic naval mutiny in Callao harbor, Peru, last Sunday, were found guilty by court martial and were executed by a tiring squad. Sales of ears by the General Motors company totaled 78,850 during April as compared with 50,600 in March of this April of last A three^^ytbtton carnival opened at Memphis, Tenn., Wednesday, the second annual* atfair of the kind tt> pay tribute to King Cotton, "the white gold of the delta. The bond for Gaston H. Means, hold under indictment' in Washington on a charge of embezzlement, has been reduced from the $100,000 at first demanded, to $50,000, Chairman'Stone of the farm boaid, says that an advance in the price of wheat of 10 cents a Jmrfhel is justified by the estimate of the crop made pub-1 lie Tuesday, which estimate ia^fov ?i 440,781,000 bushel crop of winter wheat. Secretary of Agriculture Hyde told the Tennessee Republican convention at Nashville- on Tuesday that congross has displayed ' amazing iowardice, loaderless stupidity anil demngoguery as has never been witnessed." According to figures compiled by the National Eire Protective association, tire 1< ssos in the United States^ last year totaled $452,017,020. This was a decrease of nearly $50,000,000 as compared with 1080. Two Chicago political pals of A1 Capone have been convicted of con- 1 spiring to allow Chicago merchants to^ got" by with short weights and robbing their customers of millions of dollars. They winked at such violations of the laws. In less than an hour after Herbert Meeker had confessed at Wooster, Ohio, Wednesday that Harold Young, a relative had fired the shot that killed Meeker's young wife on Monday, Young committed suicide by shooting himself with a shot gun. An airplane carrying thirteen passengers from Pari? to Croydon, England, was struck by lightning Monday. The airplane was damaged and four passengers were injured by the bolt, but the pilot made a safe landing. Albert Francois Le Brun was on Tuesday elected president of France to succeed the late resident Paul Doumer, who was assassinated last week. Le Brun is GO and an old hand at the game of politics. He has been president of the French senate. Dr. Bolivar .1. Lloyd, medical director of the United States public health service, proposed to the American. Medical association .at New Orleans, j :hat condemned criminals be used for j experimentation in vaccine for the i prevention of yellow fever. Dr. .L McDowell Richards, of j rhomasyille, Ga., honor graduate of Davidson college, 1022, has been Reeled president of Golumbia Theoogical seminary at Decatur, Ga. Dr. tichards is a former Princeton stulent and also a Rhodes scholar at )xford. William J. Turner, 23, New York jangstor, who played solitaire while lis trial was in progress, and declared hat he "wanted to burn," was con icted Tuesday on a charge of murler during a holdup. He will get ns wish and will 1h> sentenced May b to the chair at Sing Sing. , Ohio's preferential primary gave he 52 votes of that state in the naional Democratic convention to Gov nor White of that state as its ho.ee for the presidency. Through- : .-.it tin -tale anti-prohibition candi-D la'c- gcnera!!\ defeated by eundi* , late- of tile we', e.eiiient. Ivx'.io t :en:*t- demanded tn.'l! U.i.V- , ' Ne\:iir. merchant of Trinity. 1 V .1 . ; a>- S a* ' ' -a.. an-1 : -w.; ". a I'e a".r daily paper. a. . ; w a :. u-o.l i ; a, a.- :-em ' > _ I H I. I .... : ? ,t-i !- Wanramakcr. ; : :,u p...?? n.a-ter at Anir-or. arid -1 an.'i date 1- : trie n ace permanent.y, , .t a hotel clerk liierc !a>t weeK is ; e:r.g investigated hy the civil service, i PMiiiianim, a dispatch from Wash- t agton says, and will be an item in a is.examination grade. r W. A Clark, III. son of the former r upper magnate, and .lack Lynch, for- t nor co-pilot of Colonel Lindbergh, j .ere killed in an airplane crash north < f Clemenceau, Arizona, Sunday. The i lane fell from an altitude of 2.000 t eel. r Rev. John Haynes Holmes, of New t 'ork, told his congregation on Sun- c ay that Mayor Walker's beer parade , T f the day before wa- the mayor's <i latest trick to divert public attenion from the waste and debauchery, he iYiCofnpetenoo and corruption of j t te city administration." J % Railway Tax Cow About Gone Dry By J. Z. Green Tax gatherer* and tax conaymers are now faced with rapidly diminishing revenues as county and town government* take over farm* and homes for delinquent taxes, but other forms of taxable wealth are also destined to become "government property," thereby removing billions of dollars worth of privately owned property a* taxable assets and sources of revenue. Railroad corporations, have heretofore been by far the biggest contributors to tax revenues in local school districts, in towns and cities and in the State. Under previous conditions and before state governments built a system of hard-surfaced roads, at a cost, to the taxpayers, of thirty thousand dollars a mile and turned them over to corporations operating motor trucks and passenger buses without investment of a penny in the "capital stock" as represented by the hard surfaced highways, railroads were paying their taxes promptly. It is truo that these taxes were passed on to consumers in bill of lading&'and passenger charges, just as nearly all taxes paid by big corporations in normal times were passed on to consumers. But it may be assumed that before the "depression" destroyed most of the net incomes of farmers and everybody else (except the depression proof political salaried classes, three millions in number, who are living with hands in the pockets of tho taxpayers) few people objected to paying the direct and indirect taxes levied against corporations, which they in turn were passing on to con <ume rs. Referring to the railroads as agencies from which taxes have been diawn to sypport local units of government, including special tax school districts with bond issues for buildings, and towns and cities for paving, extension of sewer lines and other public improvements, the Paim Beach Times makes the following editorial comment: "The railroads in 11)30 paid approximately a million dollars a day taxes. Many counties are almost wholly tiependent upon railway taxes for the support of their schools and other governmental agencies. There tire counties where the railroads pay as high as K2 per cent of the entire tax bill. Without these railroad taxes they could not keep their schools (>pen, continue their courts, or buildjor maintain their highways or brides. If the railroads are hot prosperous enough to continue their high tax payments, the burden of taxation must be shifted to other enterprises and individuals." It is well known that in Union county boundaries of special school districts have In-cn laid off with the purpose of including as much railroad mileage as possible within the boundaries. At least one special tax j district has been deriving a large per cent of its support from railway taxes. The same governmental agencies that have been drawing tax support, from investments in railroad' property are now permitting owners of motor trucks and buses, from which practically no tax revenue is derived, to absorb most of the freight and passenger traffic operated over highways constructed with tax money and maintained at enormous cost to taxpayers. Is it any wonder that railroads are rapidly going into the hands of receivers on account*of lack .if traffic, resulting in unemployment for about a half million people formerly employed in transportation and ffiliated industries? Within the last year or two in the mall town of Marshville a railway ;ompany that is already ir. the hands >f receivers has had to reduce its layroi', a month on account of ach or truffle, due in p?i't to the op- j vat:.m of ni freight t? i k end | i-.ig-' . n the tax supported) g'lway- an i in part t > general <le- ' * v. and > i t the ! !.i- a-e a- h.gh or ' an !.? , - ,.f a : -e-vice. \t Mor.r- e trie rn rtthly radway my" ii r.:i- beer, cut approximately ?t? a month. Kverybody with any sense of fair day and justice is conscious of this riaringly unjust and unfair compotiion. A colossal blunder was made ind is still being made in the refusal if the corporation commission to pernit railroads to operate all motor rucks and buses on highways which " iarallel railroad lines. If it isn't ( lone the time is near at hand when ailroud property will become nonaxable government property and, ( nany tax consumers wiff either have ] o get off the necks of the taxpayers ; >r look elsewhere for a tax revenue ^ low amounting to nearly a million x lobars a day.?Monroe F.r.qutrer. "j i Seventeen cases of firearms were 1 ecently unloaded at Arlca, Chile, safd ~ destined for Bolivia. The arrival cere shipped from Kurope. " \ Leicefitar, ' Mass., will be without tttrect lighting for three months tieginning June 1st. This will save the city $1,600 and enable t'he city to keep within its, appropriation for sired lighting. The Osseratore Romano; unofficial organ of the Vatican at Rome, in an editorial Friday, makes demand for swift punishment for the murderers of the Lindbergh baby . Chinese newspapers on Friday gave most of their front pages to telling the story o? the finding of the Lindbergh baby, some of them printing pictures of the child. A. Coleman Dillard, mechanic of (iustonia, N. C., was killed Friday night when his automobile was hit by a fast northbound Southern pas-! senger train a few miles west of Gas- | tonia. ! '. William S. Vare, Republican leader of Pennsylvania, who a few years tn;o \vas kept out of a seat in the United (States senate, ""will lead the Pennsylvania delegation at the national Republican convention at Chicago next month. RESOLUTION S Whereas, we, through the mercies of our Heavenly Father, have been blessed wi:h the leadership of this, our worthy President Emeritus, Sister A. O. Williams,'and, Whereas, she has labored faithfully, unselfishly and untiringly for the past twenty-nine years, and, Whereas, she has seen fit to resign from active service, but to work at heart always and help whenever she can for the good of the society; We, the m:\mbers of the Woman's Home Missionary Society of Mt. Moriah Baptist church, do hereby offer the following resolutions: Be it Resolved: That the Lord will strengthen, sustain and bless her for the good that she has done. Be it also Resolved: That t'be Society will always cherish her for her many years of sincere service; and that each member try to emulate her by precept and example.Be it further Resolved: That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the President Emeritus; a copy recorded in the minutes of Che Society and that they be published in the Camden" Chronicle. Respectfully submitted, Lf M. FINCH, ? A. M. RANSOM, S. B. PAYTON, Chmn. She Reduced 38 Pounds the SafeWay "I have been taking Kruschen Salts for 4 months and I think they are wonderful. 1 am 32 years old and 5 ft. 2 in. tall. I was very fat. I weighed 165 lbs. and now I weigh 127 lbs. and feel fine. If I let up taking the Salts one morning I feel lazy and heavy." Mrs. Florence Loftus, Boston. This is just one of hundreds of letters we get every month?Kruschen not only causes you to lose fat but while you are losing it you gain in health?in vivaciousness?you lose fat where fat is most prominent and at'the same time keep stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels functioning naturally. A DeKalb Pharmacy or any. drug store in the world will sell you a jar of Kruschen for a trilling sum?take one-half tenspoonful in a glass of hot water every morning?go light on fatty meats, potatoes and sweets. But for your health's sake demand and g^j 'Kruschen Salts?imitations are fromerus. It's the little daily dose that does it. NOTICE OF SALE Notice is hereby given that under and by virtue of the Decree of the Court of Common Pleas for Kershaw County, -State of South Carolina, in the cause of The Federal Land Bank of Columbia against H. J. Ratcliff, I will sell to the highest bidder or bidders before the Court House door in the Town of Camden, State of South Carolina, during the legal hours of sale on the first Monday in June, 1932, the same being the 6th day of said month, the following described property: All that lot or paicel of land situate, lying and being in the town of Bethuno. County of Kershaw and said State, containing one acre more or less. together with the dwelling thereon and bounded as follows: North by street in said town of Bethune known as Chestnut Street; West by lot of land said to belong to estate of John Copeland; South by land toimerly Smith and En.-t by tot ,,f Rv-ier. Said lot having a floatage of two hundred and ten feet - n. < he tr.u: Stteet and a .fepth of one hunri-od and cnty-.-even feet. The >a:d .<?t ha\ ing been conveyed to II. J. Rati I iff I,, o Johnson. S. A. Newman and others by deeds recorded m tr.e office trie Clerk of Court for Kershaw (Ounty in Book BG at page 731 and at page 732." 'I ho purchase r .-ha 11 pay For the preparation and recording of all papei >, including the requisite revenue stamps. The highest bidder at the sale, other than the plaintiff, and all other persons, except the plaintiff, who may thereafter raise the bid as provided by law, must make, at the time of the acceptance of his bid, a rash deposit of Three (3r/f) per centum of the total indebtedness adjudged to be due the plaintiff, the deposit of the last high bidder to be applied on the bid should there be a compliance with the same, but should there be a failure to comply with the bid without legal excuse then auch deposit shall be paid to the plaintiff as liquidated damages and the premises resold ^ on the next convenient salesday thereafter, and at such bidder's risk.. W. L. DoPASS, JR., j Master for Kershaw County. I Camden. S. C., May 19, 1932 A negro burglar early Sunday killed L. K. Smith, 73, a b? ke?P? at Melbourne, Ma., and ju?t a llttl* later was himself shot to death with a rifle by the aged man's wife. < Announcements POR CONGRIP To the Democratic voters of the Fifth Congrowional .^8Ar^ k?y0U for rwnlina: I desire to thank you the splendid vote you have *here fore given me at eaeh e^Uon^ for ^Congress to? the"'73rd Congress to the Democratic Primary to be held in August and hereby solicit you votes in said primary and continued loyalty to your best inte ^ est and faithful devotion to the need of the District.* ^ gTEVEN SON. For Clerk of Court I hereby announce myself as a condldate for re-election to the> office of Clerk of Court for Kershaw County Subject to rules of Democratic primary. JAMgjg fit, CLYBURN. FOR CLERK OF COURT To the Democratic Voters of Kershaw County: I announce I * ca1V didate for the office of Clerk of Court and solicit yoi\r vote in the coming Democratic For House of Representatives I hereby announce myself a candidate for the House of Representatives from Kershaw county, subject to the rules governing the Vejnocratic primary election. 1 pledge my best service in interest of every citizen of the county, I will appreciate the votes of nil. m.r?0 WADE II. JONES. For Superintendent of Education To the Voters of Kershaw County: I hereby announce myself as -a candidate for re-election to the office oi Countv Superintendent of Education, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary Very respectfully, (MRS.) KATHLEEN B. WATTS. FOR MAGISTRATE. We hereby announce M. B. Rabon for Magistrate of Upper Division of West Watoree. The Voters. For Magistrate, Upper Wateree I hereby announce myself a candidate for Magistrate for Wateree Township, upper division, in the approaching primary and pledge myself to abide by the rules and regulations of the Democratic party. NICK RAY, JR. I FOR CORONER I hereby announce to the voters of Kershaw county that I am *c*andidate for Coroner of Kershaw county, and will greatly appreciate their favorable support in the coming primary election. Very respectfully, G. R. CLEMENTS i FOR CORONER ] . .. I announce myself as a candidate for the office of Coroner for Kershaw County subject to the rules of the | Democratic primary and will appreciate the support of the voters. Very respectfully, SAM D. HAMMOND. FOR CORONER At the solicitation of friends throughout the county I hereby announce piyself as a candidate for the office bf Coroner for Kershaw County, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. Will appreciate your support. - ? FRED C. MOSELEY. FOR CORONER I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the office of Coroner for Kershaw county subject to the rules of the Democratic primary and will appreciate the votes of the people. Very respectfully, ISAAC F. HOLLAND. FOR CORONER I hereby announce my name as a candidate for the ^pffice of Coroner for Kershaw county in the approaching primary election subject to the rules of the l>emocratic party, and will appreciate the support of the voters. THOMAS J. TURNER. FOR CORONER I hereby announce myself for Coroner of Kershaw county subject to the Democratic primary. Will appfteciate your support. - , I J. H. WILSON. FOR CORONER I hereby announce mysetf a candidate for coroner subject to rules governing Democratic primary election. S. J. WEST. Wants-?For Sale W ANTE I>?To communicate with lady of refinement and social contact, who has confidence of community and who is interested in handling a sales proposition of permanence and earning possibility. No investment bi\t must be able to secure recommendations through local banks, if required. Address W. E. Covington, Sumter, S. C. 7pd CHICKS REDUCED?-Giants nt $7.50 per 100; Rocks and Reds at $6.00 per 100. Around 1,000 from Tuesday's hatch will sell at same, price at hatchery. Address Graves' Hatchery, Pageland, S. C. 7-M FOR SALE?Hay, Fodder and Douthit Seed Corn, for- sale or consider exchange for Cattle or Peas. W. P. MoGtwrt, Manager, Guignard's Plantation. Telephone 148, Cairtdea, S. jC. - v 7tf FOR SALE?100 bushels of unknown peas at T5 cents per bushel. Three to four hundred bushels corn at the barn at 50 cents per bushel Apply to 'B. R. Truesdale, Rt. 3, Camden, S. C. 0-8sb FOR RENT?One -five-room house on Mill street, opposite Court Inn. Now occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas N. Waters. Apply to J. D. Zemp, DeK^lb Pharmacy, Camden, S. C. 6-8sb LOST?One black, white and tan saddle-back hound dog, medium size. Has tip of tail cut. off. Reward for any information for his recovery. Address G. T. Little, Camden, S. C. 6sb CERTIFIED PORTO RICO POTATO PLANTS ? Ready Tor shipment: $1.00 per thousand. Delivered to your mail box. References Dun, Bradstreet or Baxley State Bank. Lowe & Jarman, Baxley, Ga. 6-8sk MONUMENTS?I handle only the best grades of marble and granite. . Come to see or write to T. J. MeNinch, Camden, JS. C. 1W CARPENTKKiinu?jonn S. Myer*i phone 268, 812 Church Street Camden, S. C., will give satisfactory service to all for all kinds of cqrpenter work. Building, general repairs, screening, cabinet making and repairing furniture. My workmanship is my refwsnee. I solicit your patronage. Thawing you in advance. 50 tf. It Costs No More I To Have the Best I iflm Physicians, nurses ami ho*pi. i a I - Had pur ambulance service I ideal. They realize how mueb I promptness means when some, times ,even seconds count. We maintain a 94-hour service that I may be obtained instantly when- I ever and wherever needed. Kornegay I Funeral Home I ;n;, DeKalb Street Phone 103 I Camden, S. C. I WEEK END SPECIALS LEMONS .... per dozen 19c BUTTER . . . . per pound 27c CHEESE .... per pound 15c 8-lb, pail Jewel Lard - T 59c Kingan's Reliable Ham . per lb. 18c MILK?Tall cans . 4 fc^y?5c^ Sauer's Salad Dressing . zpti pint 15c COLONIAL FOOD SHOP BROAD STREET WE DELIVER '