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Nobody's Business tauten for The Chronicle by Gee McGve, Copyright. 1928. 'WASHINGTON, D. C., THE |K)LIWIAN'S PARAMSK it wt?? ??y Pl?asure? lf pl*??u it ^ht be celled to apend 10 -hours 4 dollars in Washington one day * t week. 1 was surprised to ftnd hst'ths gold-leaf on the Capitol dome ^ las still intact, and none qt the tombstones bad been removed from any of L public buildings, meaning the marble buildings, of course. I noticed that Mr. Hoover was hav, J' the White House repainted. Mr. JLevelt ought to appreciate his thoughtfulness. I couldn't under8und it, but it was being painted white: after the prosperity wave that has been waving for 2 years, I think it might have been better if the color * had been changed to blue. i I understand now why we have a deficit of about $2,500,000,000.00, not counting the many concealed obligations. The subway and the garages for the congressmen and senators had j little something to do with our troubles. There are already enough large office buildings in Washington to take care of England, France, Great Britain, Sicily, Europe, Germany and Italy, yet....they are preparing to spend a billion dollars more - for, office buildings. ?> The boys are rasing about 100 good buildings so's they can have plenty room to erect about 100 more build1 ings that they don't need. If they would cut out 50 per cent of the red . tape used in matters of government, 65 per cent of the federal employees could be sent home and put to work. It takes 3 different men to lick a postage stamp up there, and the services of 3 stenographers and 2 clerks are required to help a boss to sneeze. ? ' V> ..A man told me that they^yvere going to build a 1O-million-dollar interstate commerce building... .as if "* there was any more commerce of any kind left. All the I. <C. C. has done ' so far has been to hold up freight rates and passenger fares so's the trucks and buses would get all the business. ~ :;The building for the Forked Tail Tadpole Commission will cost in the , neighborhood of 3 million dollars. The building to house the (Bureau for -the Relief of Blind June Bug? will relieve the taxpayers of only about > $750,000.00. The structure that will be occupied by the Commission on Food and Drink for the Colorado Chipmunks will be erected at less (possibly) than $3,455,636.77. All forms of wiltj life will have bureaus at their backs, and the said bureaus will sit in nice, ifrarble houses. You can actually smell waste, extrava^ gance, idleness, and pin-headed politicians when you get within 42 miles of Washington, D. G. RE-INTRODUCING THE HOOVER OVERALLS ..The new "Hoover" overalls are blue (naturally), and they have no pockets: you don't need any pockets, as you have nothing to put in 'em except your hands and as they have no suspenders, you'll need your hands to hold your overalls up with. ..One of the most striking features ibout these "HIIVER" overalls is.... they have a strap near the waisthand suitable for carrying a 24-pound sack of Red Cross flour, and furtherroore'they are made slightly stronger in Ihe seat so's park (benches won't w?ar them out too quickly. I Another thing, these overalls have robber draw-strings on them so that they will fit you when you are full |nd fit you when you are empty. In other words if the wearer thereof T"e to stumble upon a square meal "= *ouio not have to bother about his stummiok expansion: they are made that-a-way. An extra flap will be found attached ? the apron-portion # of these j Hoover" overalls. This piece of ma-1 :a' to be used in patching your ^nnent from time to time. The left, *? is longer than the right leg: this J aTangement became operative when Jtt investigation was made amongst niployf.ri and it was found that j 1 ? stood longer on their right legs ' on their left legs waiting for * gates to open to try to get a - thus forcing the right legs to down or shrink up. oy ' ^as been found (also) that these J^alls make nice shrouds. If you j, jj starve to death and your fam^ 1 ^ can be located) is not able u y a hlack shroud to lay you a** 'n' iURt put the overalls on .corpse backwards, and he will a'l r,ght in same. Borne of them rmade long enough to be pulled 0V r feet".... if you have no Kindly beg for, long ones you beg. ! ^ * Public Fleeced of $300,000,000 Chicago, Sept. 24.?Corporation Securities Company and Insoll Utility Investment*, Inc., the two Irowll investment'.1 trusts in which the public had $300,000,000 invested, were adjudged bankrupt today by Federal Judge Walter C. Lindley. The decrees, which Judge Lindley had indicated last night he would sign, were filed with the clerk of the United States district court during Judge Lindley's absence in Danville, his home. C . Tarheel Republican Candidate Arrested Raleigh, Sept. 23.?'Requisition* papers asking that Bbone D. Tillett, of Charlotte, Republican nominee as lieutenant governor of North Carolina, be turned over to Fulton county Georgia, officers to face charges of a "misdemeanor" were honored today by Governor O. Max Gardner. The papers set forth that Tillett issued two checks, .payable to the American Newspaper Union and the Western Newspaper Union, when he had insufficient funds in the American Trust Company in Charlotte, on which the cheeks were drawn, and that both checks were turned down by the bank. The amount involved is $123. Negro Acquitted Of Manslaughter Clarence Davis, Kershaw negro, was acquitted on a charge of killing Sonny Hilton, another colored man, at Kershaw in November of last year Tuesday. Davis claimed self-defense saying that Hilton was endeavoring to get a stick away from him and that the deceased grappled with him although he pleaded to be released. This negro then said he shot the deceased once but failed to get released so that he shot two times more. Hilton died almost immediately as the result of the three shots. Davis said that he saw Hilton enter his home which was but a short distance |rom the Kershaw Oil Mill where the defendant works. Upon investigation he found1 that the deceased had gone into his home and the doors of the house were locked when he arrived? ?here. Sheriff Dabney- said that the negro told him that he killed the Hilton negro because the latter had been intimate with his wife but- in court Davis ipleaded self-defense. Gregory & Gregory appeared for the defendant while Solicitor Finley prosecuted. The jury was out about an hour before bringing in a verdict of not guilty. Solicitor Finley asked for a verdict of manslaughter, although the indictment was for murder.?'Lancaster News. Tornado Hits Warehouse Florence, Sept. 22.?Dipping down from a black cloud, a tornado struck the large brick warehouse of the Planters Produce and Storage company here at noon today and tore away its entire front. The twister took to the air again and did no other damage in this section, so far as could be learned. .Serious damage was done to the stock of machinery, calcium, grain and other items in the building. The stock was valued' at $10,000 and the building at $15,000. Water from a wrecked sprinkler system did most of the damage. The loss was1 partially covered by insurance. There is little improvement to be noted in the condition of Major General John A. LeJune, superintendent of Virginia Military Institute at Lex-; ington, who is in a critical condition on account of a fractured skull and a broken arm sustained in a fall on the school campus. uainesviiie, Ga., has secured a io&n of $30,000 from the Reconstruction Finance corporation for emergency relief work there. ..There are no buttons on the "Hoover" overalls. As you can never own but one pair and must wear that pair all the time, day and nighU buttons are not needed as you won have to take 'em off and put 'em on ....as you will have 'em on all the time or be in the nude. You wi 1 find a little hole near your left shoulder to hang your thumb in while hitch-hiking and not giving signals. ..The price of a pair of those overalls is 2 bags of government Hour or anything else that you might hare paid for. If the depression has got your shirt, you can get some of these overalls with the sun-back feature and that will make it unnecessary for you to have a shirt. If you cant obtain any of these things from your nearest Salvation Army -your congressman (who helped to bust our country) and tell him to the farm board to supply you. mmmmmmtmmm ?fmm I II . ' I -1-1j General News Notes The Spanish transport Eapana Fifth sailed from Spain Wednesday night carrying a passenger list of 38 monarchists who are being deported j to Rio 1>? Oro, Spanish colony in West Africa. The hobbies of Mrs. Mellicont Dorcas Honeycutt, 97, of Mooresville, N. C., are fishing and talking politics. She is planning to vote in the | coming November election. Two unemployed World war veterans committed! suicide Wednesday at Ottawa, Ontario, by jumping into a canal. <Six others were prevented from suiciding by the police, who clare that it was a "mass suicide" attempt. Ada Wright, the negro, woman who has been touring European countries, has be?i deported from Sofia, Bulgaria, because of increased Comlnunists activities since she arrived there a week before. Up to the present the Italian salI vage ship Artiglio II has salvaged a total of $4,350,000 in gold from the sunken liner Egypt, sunk off the coast of France in 1922, The last cargo of gold landed' at Plymouth, England, totaled $450,000. I Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania, I pleading for a. loan of $10,000,000 to his state for relief funds, wired PresI ident Hoover that he looked to him to make good in Pennsylvania his J "guarantee that no one shall starve in this country." I The J. H. Curtis Boat^uid Engine I corporation of Norfolk, Va., formerly hdfcded by John H. Curtis, who was convicted of a charge of obstructing justice in' the Lindbergh kidnaping case, has gone into voluntary bankruptcy. Governor Rolph of California has approved the extradition of Nathan and Roy Settlemeyer from Riverside, Cal., to Orangeburg, S. C., to answer for the murder of Thomas E. Watson in November, 1930. | The negro janitor of the Robert E. Lee high school at Jacksonville Fla., was abducted and beaten by a band of men a few days ago, and other negro > school employes have been warned to quit their jobs. Frank Mann, 12, threatened to kill himself rather than go to school at Elizabethtown, Tenn. His dead body was found Tuesday morning wjth a big hole in his side. He had used a shot gun,. A powerful dynamite bomb was exploded before the home of John P" McGoorty, former chief of justice of the Chicago municipal court, Tuesday night. McGoorty has been a militant foe of organized Crime in Chicago. He narrowly missed death. - Vice President Curtis opened the | Republican presidential campaign at Knoxville, Tenn., on Wednesday night, giving a review of the administration's dealings with. economic conditions' of the country and emphasized .the work of the Reconstruction Finance corporation. Leo W. Wellhouse, of Richmond, Va., who was the driver of the car in the wfeck of which William Plaxico, of Blacksburg, was killed, died in a Columbia hospital on Wednesday,! from injuries received in the accident, when, the automobile hit a telephone pole. He was a traveling salesman for a paper, company. | Charles A. Jones,_ treasurer of Berkeley county, is ordered by Governor Blackwood to appear today and show cause why he should not be removed from office, on charges of misconduct in tfffice and1 persistent neglect of duty, besides lack of capacity to attend to his duties as county treasurer. One specific chargers that the treasurer deposited $50,000 of county funds in a bank under an agreement to leave it there one year without security, and another ts misappropriating a large suiti of money, for which his bondsmen have been sued. ? - _ Gnffney is converting its old courthouse into a caravansary for rovers of the highways to be operated by the Salvation Army. It has an office, a kitchen, a dining room and two large sleeping rooms down stairs, and upstairs has sleeping quarters for women, where learned judges and wise juries used to do their duty. The building is not heated, and an oxira supply of bed covering is being gathered. Plain meals of soup, beans, bread and eoffeo will be served transients and will cost the inn about five cents a meal. : Paul Hemphill, of Chester, was named as Democratic elector from this fifth district at the meeting o the state executive committee this week. Those from the state at large are Chairman Claud N. Sapp, of Columbia, and state Senator Edgar A. Brown, of Barnwell. The entire list of six frorfi the half diozen districts in South Carolina i?: First district, Dr Joepeh Maybank, Charleston; second, Gen. Willie Jones, Columbia, veteran treasurer of the party; third, Dr. G. A. Neoffer, Abbeville; fourth, J. D. Poag, GreenviHe; fifth, Paul HdfaphiU, Cheater; adxth, J. W. P<**rln, Florence. Florence men have organised a new bank with a $20,000 capital uiul $7,500 surplus. Washington political ^Iwervers are mutch puzzled over the setback of the LaFollette party in Wisconsin, as the I?aFoJlottea have for years been the leaders of the liberal party in that state. The man who has defeated LasFollette for governor is classed as u conservative in politics. He is a newspaper editor. The first legal battle over the tenure of office was won by Mayor Joseph V. McKee in New York on Tuesday,. when the court ruled that the mgjJbr0would hold office until January 1, lfMU. Tamn(?ny forces wanted to force a special election for mayor to succeed James J. Walker, resigned, in November. The LaFollette faction, dominant in politics of Wisconsin for 40 years-, got a real setback in Tuesday's Republican primary. Governor Philip F, LaFollette was defeated by Walter J. Kohler by about 100,000 votes, and Senator John J. Blaine, a LaFollette >benoficiary, was defeated for nomination by,John Q. Ohatpple, by upwaid of 26,000 votes. Rhea Clyman, 28, woman newspaper writer of Toronto, Canada, has been ordered out of Russia because the Soviet^ do not like the newspaper articles she has been writing for the London Daily Express, purporting to disclose methods of the secret police, and which the^.Russian authorities say are false. ? - New York associates of Alfred E. Smith are looking for him to break his silence on national Democratic politics when the New York state Democratic convention is held on October 3rd. Smith is a delegate to the convention and is (expected to nominate Herbert H. Lehman, now lieutenant governor, for the governorship. After two hours occupied ?in the hearing of Charles A. Jones, treasurer of Berkeley county, before the governor, to show cause why he should not be removed, because of depositing $50,000 in a bank before it busted without security for one year, and other things, the hearing wns continued until next Friday at the request of his attorneys. He denies all the charges strenuously. A woman in Horry county, who fought a' constable with a warrant and bested him, and then shot him through the foot, when he got his handcuffs out of his automobile, was found by. the jury to be guilty of assault and battery with a recommendation for mercy. On his 80th birthday next Sunday, I the Rev. Dr. Rufus Ford will preach | at *a union service at Marion, in the | Methodist church, on The Compensa1 tions of Old Age. The wholo town I will go to pay honor to the venerable divine who is very ppular and highly respected in Marion. He writes a sermonette a column long for The Marion Star every other week. J. G. Jones, a furniture dealer of Spartanburg, has declined the Republican nomination for congress in that fourth district, from lack of time to make the campaign, and Rev. Otho H. Williams, a former dry lecturer, was pamed in his place as the candidate this year, and accepted. Jones is Republican committee chairman of Spartanburg county and member of the congressional district committee. J. E. Qibson, formerly vice-president of a busted bank at Greer, and now operating a Ailing station' in North Carolina, was charged in a warrant issued the other day, with fraud and breach of trust in connection with the bank failure, the amount embezzled being stated as $19,9E7. Gibson has been a member of the city council of Greer and prominent m activities there. The jury disagreed in Bamberg county about convicting a woman of assault and battery who had driven a roadster into a truck parked beside [the road, with two men standing in ; front of it, with th6>result that both I legs of one were amputated, and the 1 legs of the other kept in a plaster , cast for several months. Later, the ; woman separated from her husband married again, and is now living in ; New Jersey, the evidence also dis?closed. ' "T , Governor Blackwood announced | yesterday the appointment of four old* ' and three new members of the state (highway commission of 14 members, for terms of four years. The old | members reappointed are: E. S. ; Booth, Sumter, third judicial circuit; J. Marion Davis, Newberry, eighth circuit; George Bell Timmerman, Lexington, eleventh circuit and W. Fred Lightsey, Hampton, fourteenth cir- j cuit. The new members are Walter ; H. Andrews, lumberman of Georgetown county, to succeed the late J. L?j Wheeler, of Marion; Dr. M. Dacus, Greenville druggist, to succeed W. H.^ Floyd, of the same city, whose term expired; R. J, Ramer. manufacturer, of Anderson, to succeed H. C. Summers, of Pendleton, who has been holding over since his term expired In 1? ' . .. r Jf ' , I ; . 1 4? ' r r" "- . ' " " -4 ' The negro who killed policeman I/Hwrenco M. Stock, at Charleston, was found guilty of murder with recommendation for mercy and got a life sentence, which-began at once, as he >vas taken to Columbia immediately afterward. The automobile license plates foi next year will have black figures arid letters on a white ground and will be three-quarters of an inch longer thrin the 1982 plates, but about the width. "The Iodine Products State" will be on the bottom of the plate and the letters 5. C. at the end above the figures 38. Monday, bureau of fisheries issued a statement containing the information that during thia year of 1932, Uncle Sam has released1 nearly 400,000 .fish in the waters of South Carolina. Over ,half of them were large mouth black bass, nearly 100,000 were sunflsh, over 30,000 were rainbow trout, and nearly 23,000 wore brook trout. In 1931, over 8,000,000 fish were placed in the rivers and the lakes of tho Palmetto state. Palmetto agents had np explanation from the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey of the big cut in gasoline price all over South Carolina, the lkat of the week. The reduced price was 17.8 cents plus tax at Charleston, the receiving point, and generally in this state, although freight added made it slightly higher at some interior points. This is the lowest price for a long time. The Gulf company agents at once said they expected a similar reductoon by .they expected a similar reduction by that company. The added tax made the price at filling stations 23 cent* Republican state chairman Gardner has issued a statement denying that $15,000 or any other amount has been sent into South Carolina by the national organization, and says that on the contrary Republicans in this state are sending subscriptions to the national committee. The third trial of J. R. Thomas, Honea Path man, for the murder of his 14-year-old son in July 1929, with $33,000 insurance on the life, of the boy, may not occur until early in 1933, but the outgoing solicitor, L. W. Harris, candidate for United States senator, says he will ask his successor to allow him to assit in the prosecutiori, lf it does noTcome in "His own term of office. The first verdict of guilty was reversed by the supreme court, and the second trial was a mistrial. A change of venue now takes the trial to Oconee county, whenever it occurs. The trials already had taken a week each. The funeral of E. Wallace Evans, on Sunday afternoon, had a long procession from Bennettsville to JSociety Hill, where he was buried in the family lot in the old cemetery,, "lie was 69 years old and for many years was one of the largest land owners and richest planters in the Pee Dee section of South Carolina. He was of one of the most prominent families there, the son of Samuel Wise Evans and Alpxina Wallace Evans, of old Society Hill, where he was bom. The funeral services were held in Bennettesville by the rector of St. Paul's Episcopal church and were attended by a large number of notable people of Marlboro county. Mr. Evans was found dead in his automobile fronr nn attack of heart disease, near his home five miles from Bennettsville, and the car had left the road, but was not damaged. Governor Blackwood has asked the big federal R. F. C. for a loan of $6,000,000 with which to build highways in this state, under the new congressional act providing fundB to produce employment. The loan is to be repaid by the federal government making deductions from the annual I payments it gives the state to help highway building. This $5,000,000 loan will be extinguished in several nrgxo ra Ktr tb^ ments from Uncle Sam, and hence will require no state appropriations to pay it off. All this is emphasized by the governor and inspired news stories from Columbia. But they do not mention that to gpt federal aid for roads, withholding of which is to pay this $5,000,000 new debt automatically! the staff of South Caroliha must jjppt^priate and spend an equal amount on highway construction. In order to get this R. F. C. debt paid automatically, the state must spend $5,000,000 of its own money on highways in the next five or six years. It can easily get this other $5,000,000 in cash by issuing $5,000,000 more new highway bonds out of the $65,000,000 authorized some years ago?if it can sell the bonds. In fact, the state will be compelled? next year?to iseue new highway bonds to get credit on the F. C. debt just now arranged by the governor. And then it can be truthfully said that the new bonds are issued only by compulsion, while the powejrs that be seem a bit leary of issuing any more highway bonds regularly out of that famous $66,000,000 authorized. ' - ? r ' ' * - i - - *. * Milk Dumped Out; War on Low Price Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 24.?-Farmer# barricaded a highway with logs near Conyers, Ga., today and dumped GOO gallons of milk enroute to Atlanta as agitation for a better wholesale price for dairy products increased. Officials of the Georgia Milk Producers Federation, Inc., which has declared a holiday on milk shipments to Atlanta 'from 20 counties, said they had no connection with the dumping and: reiterated the federation is opposed to violence. . Meanwhile, municipal . laboratory officials tsaid 000 gallons of milk shipped to an Atlanta plant from Virginia has been ibarred from the city because it did not meet sanitary requirements. A considerable number of counties and town* in .South Carolina are getting in more taxes and having them paid sooner, by giving a discount of 8 per cent, if they are paid by October 15, and. of 2 per cent if paid later, but before December. Three robbers raided the bank at Florence, N. J., and after locking three employees In the vault, escaped with $0,000. Notice to Debtors and Creditors All parties indebted to the estate of JL D. MoLeater are hereby notified to make payment to the undert*. signed, and alt parties, if any;, having claims against the said estate will present them likewise, duly attested, within dhe time prescribed by law. L. E. McLHSTBR, Administrator Estate of J. D. McLester. Camden, .S. C., Sept. 21, 1931 ^ Capudlnc ^PAIN la it rtiwhy I 1 I nerve. ? ***I 1 I. them. 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