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LARGEST RATION . the Soviet Union of Rumda But * , Few Realize Its Size. Tht. recent visit of the Soviet 'Commissioner of Foreign Affairs, Muxim litvinoff, to discuss tho resumption f diplomatic relations between the United States and the Union of aLjet Socialist Republics (the modern name for "Russia") has focused ttention on the 'Soviet Union, whose Astern most territory is separated by only a few miles of sen water from American soil in Alaska. "Few people other than students of foreign affairs realize the huge size n(j extent of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics," says a bullotin from the Washington, D. C. headquarters of tho National Geographic Society. "JPhe' Soviet Union is. in fact, the world's largest continuous country covering about one-seventh the land area of tho world. It is second only to the British Empire among the world's landowners, 'and its HU.000,000 people probably comprise about oneVbwelfth of tho population of the earth. The Soviet Union possesses three Limes as much. territory as tho United States, and it stretches across two continents (Europe and Asia) a distance of more than 5,000 miles?a Lound trip from Washington to San Francisco, The Soviet Union of today, however, is smaller than prekvar Russia. Latvia, Estonia, Ith- ' Lariia, Finland, and parts of Poland, Romania, Turkey were all carried from the Empire after the close of he World war. The present territory >f the U. S. S. R. is about 03 per tent of Tsarist Russia. " "To outsiders tho Soviet Union is tome what of a geographic and racial , jigsaw puzzle. As its name implies he nation Ls not a simpe unit, but a { olleetions of 'Republics' and 'Areas'( vhich might be compared loosely to J ,ur states and territories. Americans vho can name the states of our own I' Jnion. and perhaps the nations of ^ Antral and South America, would be >erplexed if asked to give the seven ! hief or constituent republics of tho soviet Union. "These seven political divisions , with their capitals in parentheses) 1 ire: Russian Socialist Federal Soviet lepublic (Moscow); Ukrainian S. S. I I Kharkov); White Russian S. S. R. Minsk); TrascaucaSian S. F. S. R. Tiflis): Uzbek S. S. R. (Tashkent);!; 'urkmen S. S. R. (Ashhabad); and adzhik S. S. R. (Stalinabad). 'Tn addition, there'are .*W3 autono-, ions or sVi.n-independent republics ml areas within the seven main divisions which have forms of govern- ' u-r.* h?-=t suited for certain regions r i;a ia! groups. In the Soviet Union Iso one finds to-day 182 different I atloralities speaking 140 different < .nguaces and dialects. Imagine our wn !;Ticulties if a Georgian could Dt n ad, write or speak a word that < Vc-rmonter understood, and if neithr of them could, communicate direct-/ ' with a Californian. This, on a 1 nail scale, illustrates the present tiguistic problem of the U. S. S. R. i "While 'Russia' is a handy label to i j ;<? for the Soviet Union it is seldom j ?ard there today except in reference m the old Tsarist regime. The major j.j visior of the Union is known as the u>siu:. Socialist Federal Soviet Re- ; lb];*, to bo sure, but the whole un- < if]!. 'itle is employed when it is . er.: 1, or perhaps the word 'Rus- j j ar." ' howed by the initials of the . s' ' wordsy, < "T dominant unit of tho Union < 1; s. F. S. R.) embraces most i < an Russia and nearly all of ' be- It includes 2(5 of the autono- < "u publics and areas of the r: . With a population about 1 |ua. . that of France and its pos- 1 ? ?? sessions, and an area twice that of Canada, it includes the Union's biggest and most important cities, its chief - railroad lines, seaports, and canals, and much of its natural resources. "The Ukrainian S. S. It. includes oijly two per cent of the total area of the Union but it contains nearly 20 per cent \>f its, population. It is the most densely populated of the constituent republics. Mostly steppeland, it Ls^the chief wheat-raising section?the 'bread box' of the couhtry. The White Russian S. S. It., directly north of the Ukraine, is the smallest of the seven republics, yet is has an area about equal to that of Louisiana. "In the southern part of the vast central Asia area once known as | Russian Turkestan, the three republics of Uzbek, Turkmen, and Tadzhik have been set up. These are destined to play important roles' us cotton, tobacco, silk, and fruit-raising regions. Many important minerals also are being mined in these areas, and extensive irrigation works, are under construction. The Transcaucasaan S. F. S. R. is composed of the three 'states of Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia, with a combined area slightly less than twice that of New York state. Oil, minerals, and cotton are their chief resources. "The development of Imperial Russia began more than 1,000 years ago when the country was divided into small parcels, each under the control of a local prince. In the 15th century the first of the Tsar.s began to pull these scattered fragments together into a great empire. Ivan the Third, the most famous imperialist, thus earne<t"the title 'Gatherer of Russian Earth.' Peter rthe Great, Catherine the Great, Alexander I, and Nicholas I added to Russia's wealth and fame. "Tho present Soviet state dates from 1917, when the Petrograd (now Leningrad) Soviet seized the reins of government and handed them over to the All-Russian congress of Soviets. .I,t is an interesting coincidence that'the Soviet Union celebrated its lGth anniversary on November 7, the date that its first official representative landed in the United States. The constitution of the Soviet Union was adopted on July 18, 1918." SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS . ?In South Carolina in January, 23 persons were killed in automobile accidents, against 21 in the same month of the previous year. The injured last month were 98 against 79 the previous year in January. ?One pawn shop in Spartanburg has been burglarized six times in the last five months, with a total of $350 worth of jewelry stolen, and a plate glass window broken and replaced each time. ?Two men are being held at Spartanburg for shooting a charge from a shortgun into the cab of an engine pulling "the Crescent Limited last Sunday afternoon, hitting both engineer and fireman with a few shot in the neck of each. ?The killing or the New England airplane builder, when he crashed in an experimental racing airplane, by trying to land at too slow speed, was the first real accident to occur at the Spartanburg airport in the several years it has been operated as a port >f big airplane lines. ?Not nil northern people who spend their winters in South Carolina are : wealthy. At Prichardville in Beaufort ! -ounty a colony has been established J composed of persons of moderate j means. These people have neat cot- 1 logos, do their own work and live , comfortably. ) The money value of North C aro Una's tobacco crop of last year is ilaced at $83,553,000. ARE STILL AT WORK s ' ON LINDBERGH CASE I - ] I j Officials Have Hopes of Solving Mystery Soon. New York.?They say they are going to "break" the Lindbergh caso? the major crime mystery of the century, the kidnaping and murder of the baby son of Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh. Vague rumors adrift about police headquarters have It that the solution of the year and a half old case muy e<?jne almost any day now, Twenty picked men of the undercover squad under the personal direction of Inspector John A. I.yon aro working exclusively on the case night and day. In addition, the United States government has its ace Investigator on the Job directing a special staiT of trained men. Then, there's the New Jersey police In whose Jurisdiction the shocking crime occurred, who have never rel luxed their efforts.to break down the criminal or criminals, to say nothing of the thousands of bank clefks throughout the country who are still scanning the bills that pass through their hands in the hopes of spotting one of those In' the $.">(>.000 ransom loot paid by the flying colonel in an ilifnted effort to recover ids stolen child, to say nothing of the tens of thousands of police and detectives on the alert not only In every Amorlcnn city but at every1' civilized spot on t tie globe for any shred of evidence that mfght point to a solution of the mystery. Whispered Reports. Never in history has so much police work been devoted to a single crime. None of those in authority will discuss the case for publication at tills date and certainly no trained Invest!, gator would risk his reputation on - predictions of the time, manner, and place of any solution that may be in prospect. There have been whispered reports here of late, however, that some of the "ransom" bills have been found and one version had it that the search for the long fugitive kidnaper and his pnls, if he had any?had been narrowed down to the Ilnrlem section of Manhattan. Some of the bills arc reported to have made their appearance there, the first of them several weeks ago. Another of the hills is reported to have turned up In a little town Just across the-Connecticut lino from New York. Inspector Lyon, a close mouthed veteran of the service and little given to boasting, litis no hesitancy in saying lie is convinced that the case is going to lie. "cracked wide open"?just when he does not say. Predicts Clean Up. "We are going to break this case," he said the other day. "The other side has been getting the breaks, so f.-ir. but onr time is coining and we shall eventually solve the case?clean it up. More police work has been done on the Lindbergh case to date than any other criminal case In history, so far as I know. - But we are not through yet!" Police headquarters In New-York Is the clearing house for the investigation by the three units, the New York police, the New Jersey state police, and the Department of Justice. It is here that countless clews are sifted and discussed and plans laid for the future. The progress of the investigation, which is proceeding night and day, is of necessity being kept qnlot, but'the Investigators have reason to believe that the case will he solved and that before not many more weeks ?or days?have passed. Literally thousands of clews have been investigated since that fateful night of March 1. 10J-. when the kidnaper st<?ie tho famous liver's little sleeping son friwn iii< cradle on the second floor of the Lindbergh home at Sourland mountain, near Hopewell. N. J., but if any one of them j has brought anything in the way of a promising lead to ultimate solution of the mystery the authorities have not chosen to make public announcement oj. the fact. Pennsylvania Declares Open Season on Beaver Rnrrisburg. Pa.?An open season has bean declared In Pennsylvania this year on beaver in an effort to reduce the estimated annual loss of $20.000 to property owners as a result of . the animals' depredations. Twenty-four pairs of beaver were brouglit into the state in 1020, and the state hoard of game commissioners as- I sorts that now there are 15,000 beaver in the state. What's in a Name? t j A Fortune irt This T'aris. ? A million two hundred /thousand francs is what there was 'in r. name that Just has been sold here. ^ The name that brought this ; amount with the state taxes and expenses is the "i/eon Chundon" champagne mark. The price Is be- I lleved to be the highest pnid for a i trade name In the history of the j champagne business. The firm of Leon Ohandon was created in 1802 and at that time sold annually about 10,000 bottles of champagne. liy 1010 the output had/reached beyond the million-bottle amount, and the new purchts ers of the name are making extensive plans to promote the sale of their wares throughout the world. I I fl?tr. ' * -j?-t* .* 41^ ? General News Notes More than 100 pleas from dog lQvers, rich and poor, made to Justice of the I'eace McGruw, N. Y., to save the lives of four dogs he hud .sentenced to die yesterday for an uttack on a little girl, were turned down. The execution of the caninW was carried out. \ The British cabinet hits decided to proposo a truce in the trade war with franco, instituted Tuesday. Sheriff Lamar Sledge of Jefferson county, Ga.Vvis dead of wounds received in shooting scrape ten days ago near Madison, Fla^ 0. J. Engliall is held for the killing. Deputy Sheriff Arndt was killed in the same affray. Ernest llandley, a lunch stand operator is held for his killing. . Era nee and England are engaged in a bitter trade war of serious proportions. It started because France cut down the quotas of English goods that would bo allowed to go into I France. The English have retaliated 1 by assessing an extra 20 per cent on French goods going to England. A letter posted 10 years ago in Buenos Aires, Argentine, has only re- j centfy reached the addresser." at N'ovara, Italy. The letter informed him that he was the heir to a fortune) of haif a million lire ($41,000) but because of the delay of the letter in reaching him the fortune has passed to others. Three negroes were convicted at Ilernado, Miss., after trial on a charge of assaulting a young white woman. In order to get them to the state prison accompanied by national guardsmen, they were disguised as guardsmen, helmets and all, and. taken on a special train. A determined mob tried to get hold of the negroes! for lynching. Chicago woman was given a divorce when she told the court her husband banged her head (^gainst the bathtub because sh? sang while taking her bath. C. R. Bailey, <12, Asheville, N. C., lawyer, shot himself to death in his automobile Wednesday a couple of blocks from his suburban home". He used a single-barrel shot gun. Lieut. John H. Murrell, U. S. army, was acquitted by a jury at San Antonio, Tex., after triul on charges of assaulting a Birmingham, Ala., divorcee on a government reservation. Wingate Hall, the second building to be erected at Wake Forest college, i North Carolina, was gutted by fire j on Wednesday with an estimated loss1 of $6"),000 with $37,500 insurance. j Two German newspaper eorre- i spomjents sent to Vienna, Austria, to cover the revolutionary activities of Austria, were arrested in a hotel there and one of them was ordered to leave the country at once. 'T' 1 "" - '??? The' .'5,200 residents of Smith's Is- j land and Tangier Island in Chesapeak I bay isolated by the recent cold spell, : wore carried food this week by a ' coast >fuari| cutter. The Civil Works Administration is considering pla'n.s for the early discharge of about 200,000 workers now employed on federal projects located on private lands in the east and south. The lower house of the Virginia general assembly has. killed twin bills \\4ii'ch would have allowed Sunday movies and sporty under local option. TAX RETURNS Office of Auditor Kershaw County, Camden, S. 0., December 15, 1933 Notice is hereby given that the Auditor's Office will be open for receiving Tax Returns from January 1st, 1034, to March 1st, 1034. All persons owning real estate or personal property must make returns of the samo within said period, as required by law, or be subject to a penalty of 10 per cent.' All persons between the ages of 21 and t>0 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. All Trustees, Guardians, Executbtsy Ad. ministrators or Agents holding property in charge must return same. Parties sending tax returns by mail must make oath to same before soma officer and fill out the same in proper manner or they will be rejected. B. E. 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