The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, February 23, 1934, Page PAGE SEVEN, Image 7
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
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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.
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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. SPARROW,
Auditor Kershaw County
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