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FRANCE, JAPAN AT ODDS OVER ISLES Entirely Uninhabited and of No Real Value. , Paris.?"Button button, who's got the Islands?" Sir tittle coral dots in the South Ohlioi hoh are' causing much* ado in diplomatic circles and the question Is: are they French or ure they Japanese? Ahout midway between the Island of Borneo and French Indo Plilua this little group of Islands stick their noses up out of the sea. According to both sides, they are entirely uninhabited nd have been for mole than ten years. Japan's clulms lie In the fact that one of their nationals had established phosphate works on the Islands sevoral years ffgo ami had spent more than a million yen In the construction of warehouses and claim that 120 uien died there due to the "Impossible climate," but tltey still want the place. France's answer to tho Japs is simple: "If,, the Japanese wanted the islands. why didn't they etay there? These insignificant little coral formations have been a serious menace to traffic for years. French commercial lines to Indo-(TUna are endangered by them. There should and must be llght"" bouses erected there. We are going to build them. . "We see no reugon why we should not take over these Islands, which are admittedly unlttjpblted and of little or no value, and take the necessary measures to protect our shipping Interests." 0 Recently Charge d'Atfalres Sawada, of the Japanese embassy, called at the French foreign office and. according to Sawada himself, protested French sovereignty over the gg^up, stating that ? ?Japan was about to proclaim them a9 Nipponese possessions. 1 The foreign office presented an entirely different version of the Sawada visit, claiming that Sawada merely dropped In to inquire as to whether Japanese commercial interests would be carefully safeguarded by the French. The Qunl d'Orsay spokesman stated that* Mr. Sawada was assured that France would make it its duty to see that Japanese property on the Islands would be respected and that Mr. Sawada left evidently quite satlsffed. . u In the meantime, who ownp the Islands? v Yellowstone Park Has , Greatest Animal Show Yellowstone Park, Wyo.?The "greatest wild animal show In a natural setting" is the claim made by Yellowstone I'ark officials for'the nightly parade of 50 Rocky mountain grizzly bears In Yellowstone canon. r?he giant sliver tips, bringing wives, cuhs and yearlings, make a prompt appearance each evening soon after food remnants from the canon hotel and lodge have been placed on a concrete feeding platform. Visitors, protected by a high steel - wire fence and an alert ranger armed with a high powered rifle, may watch the grizzlies from the time they start down from surrounding hills until they leave for their homes once more. Mothers with one, two or three cubs meander In. keeping close watch over the youngsters. Yearlings hungrily snatch morsels overlooked by the male rulers of the tribe, who in turn eat warily as they watch rivals. The sight Is without parallel anywhere else In the world, park officials say. $15,000,000 Atlantic t! 'Phone Cable Is Planned London.?Plans are^ ready for the laying of a new Atlantic cable, which would cost $15,000,000, for the estab llshment of an untappable "on-detwind" telephone service between' Brit? nfn and America. The scheme Is the cable companies' direct challenge to the radlo-telephona system. (\ ^ Everything Is ready tdfc'tackle the job?one of the biggest ln'tlife history of ocean cables?and the only difficulty Is that of finance. It Is understood that American financiers are prepared to collaborate with British Interests once certain difficulties are removed. . Whisky Hill Kaep. It. Name Salem, Ore.?Prohibition may be voted In and out again, but Whisky Hill remains the same forever. A recent attempt to change the name of Whisky Hill school, near here, to something less suggestive' was voted down at a special election. The vote was 12 to 10. r ' i Non-Bobbing Barber Quits After 50 Years, Bostou.?t'/oncord. cupltal of New Hampshire, has a barber whose resolution Is as hard and enduring as the rock for which the Oranlte state Is named. Retiring at the age of seventy-nine after a half century of work, he proudly boasts that never has he cut a woman's hair. Women have begged, threatened. argued and laughed, but no one could move his Immutable de- > termination. His reply, with numerous variations. hah been. MWhat was d enough for Hod Almighty ought Ho be good enough for them.> He put ttie hair on rtjefr heads as a.crownIng tlory.. No bobs or shingles ever win he executed In thftt^tfUllfeL"' HEART of CANADA One of Toronto's Busy Streets. Prepared by National aeoRraphlo Society. Wnahtn*tou. 1>- C.-WNU Bervl^e. ONE-NINTH of the area/of all . Canada and one-third of the Dominion's population are included in Ontario's borders. And Ontario, like a colossal motor, is the heart of Canada. Exceeded by, other provinces in forestry and fisheries only, Ontario takes first place in farming, trapping, mining, electric power, banking, and manufacturing. Not only that; she is dominant in many cultural ways. And while Quebec, New Brunswick, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia share the common frontier with us, all our relations?social, financial, and economic?are closest with Ontario. Toronto papers reveal our kinship in thought and behavior. On the map you see Ontario shaped roughly like a tilted bust, its face against Hudson bay, measuring about 1,000 miles up and down. It lies above the Great Lakes and sou,th of Hudson bay; roughly, also, Quebec is east of It and Manitoba on the west. Its organized districts include Nlplssing, Cochrane, Tiraiskaming, Sudbury, Algoma, Thunder bay, Rainy river, and Kenora. Patricia district, still largely unexplored and uninhabited, is a wild area, comprising nearly two fifths of the whole province. < Though Quebpc was French, It was English-speaking people who first colonized what Is now Lower Ontario, ( while It was yet under the governor at Quebec. To make life easier for French-speaking subjects, the British (by the Quebec act of 1774) left French civil law in force, although English criminal law was. decreed. 4 ? At once language troubles and other J problems came to irk the English- ; speaking colonists, now drifting up the St. Lawrence valley beyond the French settlements. Among other things, they wanted to own lands under the English freehold system, and not to pay yearly tithes to deignlors, as bfr French custom. -, Creation of the Province. To this Great Britain agreed In 1791. So a new province, called Upper Cani ada (now Ontario), was . established. It embraced all land west of the Ottawa river, which still separates Quebec from Ontario. Even today the language changes as you cross this . * o You cannot find a "typical Ontario face" any more than you can identify a home-town mind In America. When CoL John Graves Simcoe, first nontenant governor, set up his new capital at Niagara village In 1792 and offered free land to all comers ready to servo the king, a stream of Immlgratlon began which was to form the character of the new province. For years a steady flow came from the United States. Some were German Lutherans and Mennonites; many were United Empire Loyalists; but from Scotland, England and Ireland came another stream. Immigration has never stopped. Toronto today has IS Side" as polyglot as New York's, though not so named. Incidentally, perhaps 50,000 of its residents were born in the United States. Of late years the French from Quehec, with their language, faith, habits, and newspapers, are drifting steadily west, in north Ontario. Finns, Russians, Poles, .Germans, and Chinese pack the mines and lumber camps. - Greeks, Syrians, and Ttnl lans are here, engaged as cooks, wait era, barbers, bootblacks, gardeners, dry-cleaners, peddlers. hucksters niany growing rich. Just as in the States In one coiiniry town hotel one may Identify five (Afferent races among the help. In mining towns like Sudbury. group after group may pass you , tn the Saturday night parade, their talk a lingual riddle such as fell on ancient Babylon. \ 1 Yet. pick the census reports to | pieces and you see how completely British Ontario Is, how predominantly | English-speaking. 1 Your train, as you reach Ottawa. ' baits almost in the lobby of a vast, chatcaullke hotel. Only a few paces. 1 by subway. *nd you step urM?x|^cdedly_L Tnto crowds" of Englishman smoking pip*.. sMIIdlntlng Krench politic!.-* I from Quebec, find animated wofheo i Scrolling toward a ballroom where mine- i . ,3 . : ' I' / . ft s:U. -tr ' - rr ""z.'jr'r1'- ; ^ ' ' i lng manikins sway to music In newmodel coats. and gowns. American Industries There. Peer out of your train window as you reach Toronto or Hamilton. I/>ok at tho famlllnr names on factory signboards. There seems .hardly any wellknown United States product that Is not also made In Canada under the same trade-name. Scattered over all southern Ontario you see factories making farm and other machines, motor cars and parts, chemicals, electrical/goods, foods, Items of rubber and glass. Familiar advertisements run In the papers; window displays are the same as one might see In Pittsburgh or Minneapolis. The reasonB for this migration of American Industries are plain; prox- , lmtty, common language, similar tastdA and living standards, and particularly the Import tafifT; also, many American Arms too small to finance a factory In far-away Europe or the Orient have here only to move across the line. ' "What share of all the things yon sell Is made In Canada?" one asks at a sporting goods shop. "About 80 per cent now." says the clerk; "and it's growing each year. All these bicycles, sweaters, fishing tackle, bats and balls, boots and socks ?they are all Canada-made." ' You think of Bret Harte's "Roaring Camp" when you see KIrkland Lake's gold . camp on Saturday night. In crowded, crooked streets a dozen men to every woman; stores open till mldnlght-*?even the hardware and furniture stores. Finns and Chinese wearing 20-dollar gold pieces as watch charms; a crowded movie showing "Ten Nights in a Barroom"; brawny Russian miners sprawled . In barber chairs, getting an over-Sunday polish; the smell of fresh-cut pine and the noise of saws and hammers, as bohunks work by floodlight on a new "hotel"; young engineers in caps, sweaters, and high-laced boots, socially playing cards In a crowded lobby, snapping the cards down noisily. <> Outside a kilted bagpipe band goes whining by, on its way to a Legion party; motor cars file past, bringing a shift of miners, tin lunch boxes In hand, from a mine which some days yielded $122,000 worth of gold. For, be It known, 78 per cent of, Canada's gold Is found In the 30-odd. fields of Ontario. And this boom town of KIrkland Lake?with Its TeckHughes. its Lake Shore, KIrkland and Wrlght-ITargreav^a mines, where men bore holes 4,000 feet deep?Is one of the greatest,gold centers. Ontario's Nickel. (Jo to SudbUry, home of the great International Nickel company and of tho Frood mine, and the rush and roar Is the same. Here still more Finns, a "Flnnlandla" cafe, and Finns buying talking machine records of Finnish songs, and Finns squatting about shoe shops and cigar stands, playing more Finnish tunes on mandolins and singing boisterous Finnish songs In a "beverage bar." - _? How dramatic th/ story of Ontario nickel, first found Hy-accident! gome odd-looking "red mud" drew the attention of a worker, In building the Canadian Pacific railway, during 1883. The red mud was nlckql ore. Then the world used only 200 or 300 tons a year. However, a Olasgow engineer. James Riley. In 1880, found how to harden steel with nickel. Soon the United States navy began _ to use nickel-steel In armor plates, and other. navies quickly -followed. The World war kept Canada digging nickel day and night. After peace, when the Washington disarmament conference reduced battleship building and cut the demand for nickel, the International and the Mend Nickel companies, now consoll- -> dated, ncted with courage and resourcefulness. "By technical research they found new uses for nickel," says Thomas W. Olbtton, depnty minister of mines. "Now It Is shown to he as useful In the arts of peace as In the shock of ^ar; and the mines of Sudbury supply 85 to 00 per cent of the world's consumption." Tn 1011 Ontario mined only about |42,000 worth of-gold. la EB1 mora than $43,000.000 worfli > was recovered. From only about $2,. 500.000 In 1900. Ontario'? output of all petals has Increased enormously. In IMA It was nearly $73,000,000. - ? * i BRITISH WILL FIGHT U. S. FOR CAR TRADE Build New Model* to Meet American Rivalry. London.?Til? keenest competition between American ami British automobile muiumicturois In the export markets of Hi? worUI Is expected during 1934, The British automobile mnhtifactur era have produced in recent years mil lions of clioup, snappy. U|f|^t autoiuo biles, capable of remarkable perforin mice, endurance and high speeds. As the result, they have made serious in roads Into the export markets once almost entirely dominated by American automobile manufacturers. Qot Jump on United States. The Hellish manufacturer gained a beavy advantage over Ills American competitor when Britain wont off the gold standard in 10,'U and the exchange rate of the pound dropped considerably. Willi the abandonment of the gold standard by the United Stutes, however, tliis advantage tO?i the British manufacturers has .been nullified, and the automobile manufacturers of both countries can compete against each .other on level terms again. A warning to the British manufacturers of un Impending attack by American automobile manufacturers to recover their losses In the world export markets In lb,'14 was made by W. 10. Bullock, managing director of Singer & Co., Ltd.. well-known British light-automobile manufacturers. "The political business revolution now In progress In America," W. R. Bullock said, "may he of "serious consequence to the British export trade. It is based almost entirely on a greatly Increased output. Forecasts Big Fight. "The Americans reali/.e that with thp increased output at which they afe aiming, new markets will have to be obtalhed, and we can look forward to the most severe competition during the coming season. "Markets which the British manufacturer has been able to obtain as result of the exchange rates will be In dunger of returning to the Americans unless we can provide unusual attractions In our new models." J That the British manufacturer is fully nllv^ to the situation Is fully , shown by the 1934 models which are now coming Into the Aome market and are far and away ahead of anything they have' hitherto produced. Four-Day Air Trip From Manila to U. S. Planned Manila.? Within two years' time, 62 passengers will be able to board a 4,000 horse power plane In Manila and arrive in Snn Francisco four days later, If present plans of the Pan-American Airways corporation for a passenger-freight service between San Francisco and Hongkong are fully realized, according to MnJ. James H. ("Jlmmie") Doolittle, 4ftmed American speed flyer and test pilot. The schedule of stops, already worked out by Pan-American Airways for the San Francisco-Hongkong service, Major Doolittle said, Includes Honolulu, Wake Island, Guam and Manila. The company estimates cover age of the proposed route In five days, their planes reaching Manila in four. Designs for the powerful machines .necessary for such an undertaking are nearing completion. Outstanding features will be four 1,000 horse power engines In each plane and a carrying . capacity of f>2 pitesengers. The passenger service, according to Doolittle,s would be postponed until flights with only mall and cargo had proved the safety of the transpacific venture. Scientist Brings Home Queer Fish Collection Philadelphia.?Fish with bubbling mouths, fish that swallow victims half their size, and flsh thnt carry Artificial bait to lure prospective dinners to them were among the 40 species of the finny clan recently brought back by the party of Dr. William Beebe, famous deep sea explorer. Shortly after the 105 foot auxiliary ketch, Antnres, docked at Essington, Pa., Doctor Beebe hurried to New York. with several live specimens, which will be placed on exhibit in tl^e aquarium there. The bubbling variety Is known familiarly as the soapflsh, and another variety was described as having a long terrtacle arising from the head and drooping before the mouth. - The collection was gathered off the Perlas Islands In the Gulf of Panama, and in the Chirlgol lagoon, 120 miles west of Cristobal. Hen Lays Three Eggs a Day to Do Her Part Chicago.?Nlra Roosevelt scorned Invitations to sign the national recovery act code, hut Indicated that she is doing her part. Nlra Is a sincle-combed white Leghorn hen and Is competing in the no tlohal egg-laying contest. She has pro duced three eggs In n single day. On two other days abe layed two eggs and In between the we-do-ourpart sessions, she layed on? egg ? day, never missing. Nlra is a member of a hen party with 84 members, the'best In the country in egg-producing, and Is an occupant of one of Harvey O. (Chicken) Wood's egg-laying machines, with all ,, ultramodern devices to iadaco hone to lay. . , ' / * r HUDSON HIDES THE SPARE TIRE The self-contained spar* tire "vestibule" in the 1934 Terxaplanes and Ht/dsons offers a dust-proof, water-proof, theft-proof space for spare tire, tools and parcels. It also adds to the car's beauty and increases the top speed by 5 miles an hour, .......... Novel 1934 HudsonTerraplane Feature Of the many new features in the 11>34, Terraplanes and llmlsons, none will attract wider or more favorable interest than the self-contained spare tire compartment in the renr of the bodies of the sedan, victoria ami coach models, in tho opinion of W.-R. DeLoache, Terraiplano and Hudson dealer in Camden. "This space, which the Hudson engineers have termed the 'vestibule,' is dust-proof and water-proof,." states. Mr. DeLoache, "so the spare tire is protected. This is an important economy item, as is also the fact that it makes the tire virtually theftproof, since the 'vestibule' has a lock identical with that on the car door. Then, too, the tire is not dust and weather grimed when a tiro change is necessary. In addition to the tire, the compartment also provides a convenient place for the tool kit and also sufficient room for several parcels." Possibly the outstanding merit of' this new Hudson feature, Mr. DeLoache points out, is that concealing the tire adds distinctly to the car's beauty. Further, it has been found to increase the car's top speed fully five mikg an hour, due to elimination of rear^nd suction. This, also, is an economy feature. Mountaineers Begin Serving of Sentences Waynesville, N. C., Jan. 5.?Three mountaineers convicted of second degree murder in the slaying of Thomas Price, retired railway executive, on his mountain estate last September, have withdrawn their appeals and begun serving their sentence*, their counsel revealed here today. The defendants are Dewey Potter, sentenced to from 20 to 26 yedrs; Clarence Potter, his brother, two to five years'; and Eric Ledford, a cousin, 10 to 20 years. The state contended the men shot Price be-; cause one of their clan had been indicted for trespassing on his vast mountain estate. The RCA has made it known that; it has purchased over $50,000,000 in gold in foreign lands since the administration began its efforts to boost j commodity prices. Purchases of gdld in the United -States have totaled $24,800,000. , Judge Featherstqn?, at Greenwood, ga^o the grand jury a strong charge against mob law, and it indicted sev- V. eral mob for taking a negro from the jail at Ninety^Six and beating him to death. That was really not mob law, but plain murder, since only a few men took the negro from the unguarded jail, on account of his saying something one of thorn did not like ^?fe\Y hours before. TAX RETURNS Office of Auditor Kershaw County, Camden, S. C., December 15, 1933 Notice is hereby given that the Auditor's Office will be open for receiving Tnx Returns from January 1st, 1934, to March 1st, 1934. All persons owning real estate or personal property must make returns of the same * within said period, as required by law, or be subject to a penalt y of 10 per cent. 'v ' . The Auditor will attehd in person t or by deputy at the following places in the county on the dates indicated for receiving returns: Ira Ellis Btore?January 5th. Kershaw?-^January 9th and 10th. Bethune;?January 11th and 12th. Liberty Hill?January 16th. Blanev?January l?th and 18th. Raley s Mill?January 19th. Westville?January 26th., Rabon's Cross Roads?January 24. All persons between the ages of 21 and 60 years, inclusive, are required to pay a poll tax, and all persons between the ages of 21 and 50 years, 'inclusive, are required to pay a. Road tax, unless excused by law. AH Trustees, Guardians, Executors, Ad. miniBtrators or Agents holding property in charge must return same. Parties sending tax returns by mail must make oath to same before* some officer and fill out the same in proper manner or they will be rejected. B. E. SPAiRROW, Auditor Kershaw County SPECIAL TAX NOTICE ' An Act was passed at last session of Legislature allowing taxpayers in this county ten (10) years to pay . their 1932 and back taxes in instal- ^ nents of ofie-tenth each year provid- ; ... ed they pay current yearns taxes each year before books close March 15 of/ each year. This applies to real estate and personal property only when listed with real estate. Personal property taxes are in hands of Sheriff for collection as heretofore. Yours respectfully, S. W. 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