The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, September 30, 1932, Page PAGE THREE, Image 3
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.
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..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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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, 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
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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.
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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 ^
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