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T"1 ' ? THr New Ileal I# Hrr?-<?o^ Be I'rtited! At last *?'? have a re*) leader in Washington? unafraid, clear-headed, a great personality. Arid he ik doing things with a heavy hand! Action and more action- its naiitation almost make# ua .dizzy. We are all demanding revviutionary change* and we are getting them. Our slow-moving. elephanCsne | legislator# have Ue# energized and galvanized. Heretofore they appeared to have Veen etherized. Much of our aanctimortiou* fawat-J *al prohibition law w?? wiped out iaj a few daya. Kof many year* rotvsci- J entioua official# have been trying to j annul this ugly source of racketeering. But the New Deal, W7th strong handa and a heavy trewd, has mowed down the dry rewetance in steamroiler fashion, TV*s depression has been given a ledge-hammer wallop#, mighty, staggeririg bkrw#, and maybe*?who knows??the final knockout may be, clove at hand. Anyway,, we are all j hoping and helping the new "Wash-, ingtoii gladiator in the terrific bat- ) tie# he is now calmly and effectively; waging. We are with him* all of u#^, ?a few straggling bedraggled dry* excepted. The dictatorial power# placed in j his hand* have been used forcefully j arid intelligently. And with this mighty weapon to destroy the un- ; thinking and a', times fanatical opposition. the battle for an economical.* and forceful government is well under way. Ou- r,i w i? aiU-r has a.ready prosed, himself n.a?r:;}i entiy Ixdd. ?ourag.eoyv, s.;,ga i?u-. .. r.d e.ous.y >ap, a b??-. Bef<ir?- r,?- took th?- rrrni at Wa-oingti.r. confidence wai everywherc lack.r.g Hopele-.- r.e-. heiple.--n* had paaNzed th? . people. Our bankw'-'c t-itt'-r.?ig a.) of them Ix?ng lines r.f f|ejv?:tors were ?f?*frtftnd:f:g thc.r money. But a new force inter-.eric:, "j' new Brv.-ident came into power Hesaw hi* duty with a clearness of vision difficult to comprehend, and revolutionary. unheard-of measure# were quickly inaugurated. Our government became human j overnight. Weighty problem#, terrify- . ing emergencies, heretofore! ignored,! or-met by talk and more talk, were effectively attacked. And a miraculous change "was; wrought in the public everywhere.' The financial storm, the.chaos with which we had been threatened, gradually aba fed and confidence again appeared?peering at us out of the gloom and despair in which we were all engulfed.. And <me glance was encouraging, and now it (confidence) is strutting forth here and there and everywhere, j (iod-given confidence, that invaluable factor so essential to remedy our , woe#, is on the way?-is here. Self- , assert'ivenesK, belief in ourselves, in . our national future?that is the divine force that will electrify our disorganized nation. May this beneficent force soon j reign supreme in the hearts and souls , of our people everywhere?Bemarr ; MacFadden, in Liberty Magazine. Only Signs. Conductor: "Can't you see the sign' 'No smoking ?' " Sailor: "Sure mate, that's plain t enough. But there are so many dippy j signs here. Ixioka there erne says,' 'Wear Nemo Corsets.' I ain't paying attention to any of them." economic highlight* The ?g*i?* <WvT?*ton c<m*\ limw* A: this*writing le**Ut>oii affecting tMr raihoad* and the inwance of ?*curux* j* being pushed KigW restriction* will be pi**** over security i?#Oet. Kaiiruad iauon wdl be de?*T>wJ to g*v? ?* rail* better opportunity to compete with truck*, waterway# and other carrier*. 4fld to efftet economy ?n operation. It - believed that a -federal coordinator of railroad*" will be t>V pomted by the President, with au^ thorny to direct the elimination of waiKiul practkea and aimleea cowpetition among- carrier*. Tht* plan has the backing of the security owntr% and the institutional investor* j group and of New York aavingaj bank*. There ha? been no official announcement aa to whom the rail coordinator wiU be. but the rame of Cart Cray, president of the Union Pacific System, i* besng put forward ?nrf h?. ?* backinK O* President recently announced that, there wa#. a? yet, nothing about his rail program. A possible; exception .to this is hi* broad project for revolving Federal regulation ,of transportation into a single agency composed of five divisions. each dealing exclusively with railroad*, nighway and waterway earner*, aviation.! radio and telegraphic ar.-d telephonic communication. . ? I The Farm Board will die officiary, on May 27th. units* there is some: unexpected change in the attitude of; ogres*. I>cath-knel! wa.s t^e sigh-; ng of toe l'reaI'ieot'* farm credit] r..<>rK,n.:zaU"n or.k-r. Th? Board started .n June. K?2P. w.th InOO.OOO.- , i >0< i of government money tailed & M-v. vj-g fund. IV* -[K:t ulations :n 'a* m i wnrnodit.e- attracted intern:.t.o.na: novice. Two-third? or more of ,g:nal fund ha- been 'Hi*- Hoard wir! 1*- rej.la-ed by a d."en-nt k: r.d of government farm r^f b?,!v. 1- held doubtful, hnwi f the Administration'6 farm b; ! w i!! apty ex u- n -. veiy ( 1 3 , r-.ps. due to delay in its becoming, law. The bill is frankly an experiment. and if it doe* not succeed it is promised the plan will be abandon^.. and an<ther tried. It was widely ?aid durinjp recent j weeks that the best sign of the hour was upping public confidence. Now we find evidences of recovery begin-( ning to appear in the business ?t? tistica. The index of wholesale prices,; which ha- been dec-lining steadily for months, recently made its first ?us-y Lained rise. Farm products have shown an improved trend. An upturn in car loadings has appeared. There is a substantial increased demand for such household applances as washng machines, of which sales in February were the best in five months. Indications toward the end o ; March were that commercial failures! would be the lowest for that month j since or li#26. j Everyone is agreed that recovery will be gradual?most are likewise) agreed that it will be steady as well i and that there need be no fear o ; important recessions. New money is ( appearing, due largely to the war on. hoarding, and it is providing jobs and stimulating production. Business is writing itself downby enorm<>us figure*, as even a curM)ry glance at current corporation rejMnt# demonstrate*. Millions of dollars are clipped from the figures at which concerns have been valuing themselves. Thwo reductions in asset.*, of course, require a correspond-1 mg decrease in stated liabilities. This is accomplish**! by cutting surplus; or reserves As far as the .stockholder is cor.-; re mod. this does rvot change the real value of his holdings in the least. It _ i.* simply a change in book value! which, in many instances, had r.o connection with real value. It is herald-, ed as a healthy sign for all concerned, j Tax re?hlo?ion remains uppermost. :n the pubhc mind. A definite star, h.,s tx-en ma<le with the cut in veteran-' compensation-". an*I the lo per ,.vr.t ; *-iu, lion of Federal salaries. M.? . < f these- cuts have already U-en r err-- o',v- the recipients more r v., by ine in the co?t of ...r.g. N? x* h c'.erai move i- expect.ira-' r?s 'Tga nixii' ion of . r. ;, . a- : par* mem? to ekm.nate ?v a,^t...t.e^ ar.d U . . T, ?* * t a T. . * | ,. T'i ;i -r y - a - -anpo.r.tn .... f-om tie- new mi.-se*, .. j? lb-vi-r.u'i- to the gove-nrr.er.t fr-.m ?a>- su-h article- a* ma'.b-, and. revolvers .-A- ha-. her. h-;<.-.v the estimat*-. (Jr. the otr.er hand there wa* a substan* al r**ent ga.n r. revenue from th<- automobile tax and the gift tax. Tax losses from other ^.urces were MfT?et by a rise in income tax receipts. This ismothing to be proud of. hcause the rise was due simpiy to higtver individual ux rate*, rather; than to increase<l personal or corpo- ( rate earninga. The firtvt snow in fifty years .fell ovct sections of Okiaboma on Saturday. Children lovr thi? NK^ health ami Mrrnijth builder thai ta^te* iiift like lionet, ! 11 \ Melo-M alt. t h?- new Krvall | >r? h 11 ) t r i h i') pre' loif \ itanun* V. B. I). F and almost '?? |?*r rent h\ \ olunie of a yjjcnallv pr'M c--ri| e\lra< t of mail. f hrre\ "J* iwn rnt I'lirriol ( .<nI I n cr < It I. I * > nut \ ou <.iii t t a -I e 11 < .< t t lfe?e pre< totjh \ 11 a m iii" t < ?<la \ ! ^ MELO-MALT full pint J* QQ 20 oz. av. | DeKalb Pharmacy f'hone 9.r? We Deliver Akron Was To Have Undergone Repairs Ukiehurit, N. J , Aprti 13.?The | framed U. S. S. Akron, a naval court of inquiry learned yettorday, took off I on iu lafrt flight after plana had bean made to trengthen it a. atn>c,ture at the very point arhere one of tBe three Mirv Ivor a wmw a girder buckle, a? the ship took ita dive to deatmctiok The testimony came from Lieutenant Ooamender Ed* in F. Cochrane, aaaembly and repair officer at the naval air station here, and was eubaequently corroborated by T^omaa L. Blakemore, the station'* aeronautical engineer. The work wan to have been done between April 7 and 18, and when the dirigible waa to have been given a general overhauling. The strengthening alterations,. Cochrane told the court, were among the nine repair items decided upon prior to the flight in a conference betweeei I Commander F. C. McCord, the ship's j skipper, its first lieutenant, ita en; gineer and Cochrane. The aherai tions, Cochrane related, called for the reinforcement by cross-bracing of ! intermediate frames in the middle third of the ship, or between main frames 57.5 and 147.5, covering bays : 5, 6 and 7. General News Notes l>r. I^turens S. Fuller, prominent re?.denl of I^aurens, died at his h"pie there aged ?4 years. He was born; an 1 reared in that county and gr.td- j uated .n medicine at Baltimore, hut: Sfxm gave up medicine for merchan d>.ng. and after oj>erat:ng several' he was for the last 30 years] agent for a large milling com- ' party. He had beer\.an active church j la> mar. for 50 years "and had served j a* deacon and Sunday school super-, mtendent >n the F;r*i Baptist church! having held the former office forty j years. . Mrs. Theodore Elliott W anruimaker. wife of I>r. T. E. Wannamaker and member of a prominent Cheraw family, died suddenly in the reception room of her nephew, Dr. E. J. Wannamaker, Jr.. at Charlotte, where she went to confer about the health of her husband, just taken home in an ambulance, seriously sick. She was Miss Harriet Eleanor Harrington, a daughter of Henry Wildall Harrington and Mrs. Rebecca Pegues Harrington. and was married 56 years ' ago to I>r. Wannamaker, who -went from Orangeburg to Cheraw to live, i She was a hatf-sister of the Late W. P. Pollock, candidate for United States senator from South Carolina. Besides her husband, she leaves two daughters, four sons, 17 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. I When three men entered a bank at ! Norwich, Conn., Saturday and told Miss Ruth Allen, assistant cashier_to hold up her hands, instead of doing 1 ?o she stepped on a trigger that re! leased a cartridge of tear gas. The I three men with their drawn revolvers got out in a hurry. The North Carolina house of representatives Tuesday night voted 56 to 28 for a tax on electric power. The legislature of West Virginia 1 has given its approval to the legalizaI ti--n of the sale of beer in that state. Overflowing waters of the Mississippi river had covered GO.OOO acres ! in Tallahatchie ami Leflore counties ' ,,f Mississippi on Wednesday. | Governor Miller and the senate of Alabama have agreed upon a 2 per ! cent sales tax and estimate that the tax will bring $2,000,000 in revenues. Four men died in a "hobo jungle near Covington, Ky., Wednesday from the effects of drinking poisoned alcohol. A fifth man is not expected to live. Four negroes have been arrested at Savannah, (la? on suspicion of having murdered a negro merchant Saturday night and stole $600. A man and his woman assistant are ) held by the police of Ix>s Angeles, j Cal., on suspicion of murder after the; death of Mrs. Aline Fanium, -whom they had given a "fnoe-rejuvenatir.g" ' treatment. \ "l.'r.Ce" George Gully. former **;Hve, celebrated his 1 iKlth birthday . an p. : v or-.a- y at Drew, Miss.. this week He is still able to do pome work and claims he was "pusenal friend-' of Jeffe--on Davis. The-e 1T. < > greeted member** <?f the. Oklahoma senate, written on a bla' kiK.ard Monday as they prepares! to debate a beer bill: "The melancholy Liy - have come, the saddest of the year; A little too warm for !:kker ar. 1 a little too coo! for bee-." Ten.l. Honduras, one of the largest barara shipping points, was pra^ti-; r-ilfy destroyed by fire ea'ly last Wednesday morr. ;ng. William Kolb. 12. playing baseball on a sand lot at Seattle. Wash., br-kel his leg sliding to the home plate, but won the game for his slide. A wealthy New York woman lo*t a pearl necklace valued a* $260,000 last ' Wednesday and is offering a reward of $10,000 for ita recovery. A mam recently released frocn an ' insane aaylum, shot hi* wife anci two j children to death and then committed j suicide at South River, N. J. I Barnes* failures for tlje week endjing April 7 in the United State* were 41k,'-aa compared with 437 the prev?. loos week and 607 the same week of )a?t year. <l?erle* K re*i*ned chairman of the board of the National City hank of New York,, will go on trial April 24 on two chance* of income tax evasions in 1929 and 1930. TSe imperial war dead commission of England abowa that England's war dead are Mill being recovered from French battlefields at the rate of 800 per year. Mrs. C. R. Woodin, mother of Secretary of the Treaaury Woodin, died at her home in New York on Thursday, following a paral>kic Mroke on Sunday. The horse Mrs. Frank hn D. Roosevelt was riding in a Washington park Thursday "lipped and threw his rider i into a mud puddle. Mrs. Roosevelt was not injured. The first assistant postmaster general has issued an order banning the employment by any postal employe of immediate members of his family as substitutes on rural delivery route?. Twenty pairs of American bred ?rogs have been shipped to Italy for the purpose of improving the quality of Italian frogs, described as scrawny, tough and unappetizing. James Crawford Biggs, former atWhey of Raleigh. N. C., and a judge of that state, has been named as solicitor general of the United States by President RoosevehA ?mali coil spring, believed to ha\e been swallowed when he was a child, worked out through the cheek of ?'he*ter Wurssbaugh, LaGrar.ge, Ind., farmer, last week. Prem.er K.tmsey MacDonald of England, sailed from Southampton on Saturday for the United States. He is being accompanied by his daughter and four economic experts. A real old style Easter egg rolling for thousands of children was staged on the White Ii.wu.se grounds. Mrs. Roosevelt warmfy welcomed the children. The train on which Ambassador Daniels of North Carolina, was journeying to Mexico, was held up north of Monterey on Friday, because of a broken rail discovered before the train reached it. An Atlanta cab company announced Friday that it would furnish free transportation to Faster services on Sunday to all pdfsonS who through infirmities or age could not otherwise attend the services. A white man and two negroes, all murderers, were electrocuted at the Kentucky state prison at Eddyville on Friday. The white man killed a policeman; one negro murdered his wife and the other murdered a negro man. e A Berlin iron foundry has received an order for 10,000 life-size relief plaques of Chancellor Hitler, to be distributed on,Hitler's birthday, April 30th. The plaques are to be cast in iron, aluminum and bronze. Hasan Aga, a shopkeeper of Kayseri, Turkey, claims to be 110 years old. His wife died 65 years ago and he then locked urp his home and went to live in his shop. He has never re-entered his home. The Pennsylvania legislature has passed a bill providing a cut of 10 per cent in the pay erf school teachers during the next two years beginning July 1st, from the standard rates of pay fixed by existing laws. More than $2,000,000 worth o<f beer were shipped by Milwaukee, Wis., breweries during the first week of legalized beer. More than 1,000 cars were used in the shipments and the freight revenues totaled-over $120,000. Thousands of people from over several states gathered at WinstonSalem. N. C., Sunday morning to witness the 101st sunrise Faster service of the Moravian church. The program incident to the Faster services were begun at 2 o'clock Sun<iay morning. Seven units of the University of Georgia, including the medical college at Augusta, the Georgia Tech school of commerce and five agricultural and mechanical colleges have been ah--],shed by the board of regents of tr.e university at a meeting in Atlanta. The : nter-tate c mmerce rommis-!| sion ha- refu-ed the application of I the Sou - r.om railway that it might ,i-i ?U?y coach ratca to one an.d[, a half cent* per nule. ..n the ground of failure to at the same time reduce I Pullman car rates. Yeggmen blew open the vault of a brewery at fold Surir.gs, Minn., ea-lyi Saturday morning and got away with $10,000 in negotiable securities, me,re tKan $750,000 of non-negotiable securities, $750 in revenue stamps and a small amount of cash. The city of Jerusalem was filled with tens of thousands of pilgrims and visitors the last of the week and aver Easter. The great throngs in.eluded Christians, Jews and Moslems, til observing the rites according to their several religious tenets. The Florida house ha*.voted 72 to 20 in favor of the of 3.2 beer and wine*. Presbyterian Church Services Sunday, April 23. Douglas MeArn. pastor. Church school 10 <l'. m. Morning worship 11:15. Sermon subject, "The C-orners of Thy Field." Junior girls Saturday 4 p. m. Junior boys Saturday 9 a. m. Intermediate Club Saturday 7:30 p. m. Young Peoples' Forum Sunday evenings 7:15. Midweek service Wednesday evenings at 8. The public is cordially invited to these services. ? Play at Browning Home Chapel "Pearly Gates," a musical morality play based upon the Negro Spiritual, depicting the Negro's conception of Heaven and the road leading to it, will be presented by twenty-five voices and a cast of thirty characters at Browning Home chapel Sunday night, April 23, 1933, eight o'clock, under auspices of Second Presbyterian church, 814 Market street, Camden. A silver offering will be taken. You are cordially invited to attend by Rev. W. I. P. Rosebo rough, the pastor. Services at Antioch (Services at Antioch Baptist church will be held on Sun-day, April 23rd, announces the pastor, J. T. Outen: Sunday school at 10 o'clock and preaching at 11 a. m. Services are always held the first and third Sundays of each month in this church, to which the public is most cordially invited. The mayor of Blytheville, Ark., has notified the city council that he will veto any ordinance legalizing the sale of beer there. ! I 1 . J _J P - ~~J Body Found In River After Many Months ' The body of Raymond A. Dalton, 27, who was drowned December 11 when a boat capsized in the Wateree river, was found by Bruce Sanders and Paul Williams about 9 o'clock yesterday morning, near Sumter's landing, about one-fourth mile from where he was drowned. The two men saw the body when they went to the river to take up some trout lines. It was lodged on a tree limb and was partly exposed above the water. When Coroner J. A. Sargeant, of ? Richland county, went to the river to view the body he took with him Dr. P. E. Payne ahd EL D. Sharpe, who ' j were in the boat with Dalton when the drowning occurred. The body j was definitely identified as Dalton'#. Dalton had lived in Columbia for \ the past five years and made his J home at 1606 Brabham avenue. He j was employed by the Southern Rail- J way company for the past 12 year# ^ and was formerly of Dry Fork, Va. Surviving him are his widow, Mrs. J Ethel Lenora Frishby Dalton of Co- I lumbia; one son, Zane HSansel ("Buster") Dalton, otf Ookwhbia; his father,..j W. A. Dalton; three sisters, Mr#. ] Robert Hastings, Mrs, W. T. Goard J and Mrs. Charles Buchanan; and two brothers, N. C. Dalton and William Dalton, all of Dry Fork.?Saturday*# ..j State. t j Louisiana has been, granted a relief loan by the R. F. -C., of $697,621. j Sponsored by tending stylists! 98c and fl .98 | SOLAR I Straws These price range includes' smart Toyoe and Sennit Sai- < lors. 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