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I Camden Lady Saw King Assassination tm K. C. von Tresckow of Camf d#n! this state, the former Miss Sadie Kennedy, whose husband is United States consul at Zagreb, Yugoslavia, wW in the capital, Belgrade, when King Alexander and the French premier, Barthou, were assixsiuated in jUrseill?8? and for 14 days afterward. The State is privileged to reproduce in part a letter Mrs. Von Tresckow has written to relatives in |. jjouth Carolina describing her experiences and observations during that stirring fornighti "On October 8 1 had gone to Belgrade to visit the wife of the America consul and expected during my four days' stay to meet the foremost Serbian clubwomen and get information concerning the woman's work of the country for our federation of I clubs in Europe. Owing to tragic events my stay lengthened to 14 days and had trouble getting home then, r on account of the enormoua crowds I visiting Belgrade. * "October 9, at 6 o'clock, we were at a large bridge party, quite international; when the wife of a Hungarian journalist got a telephone call from her husband, who had just caught the tragic news over the radio from London. The King of Jugoslavia and , Barthou had been assassinated just ten minutes after the king and party had set foot on French soil. The woman said a hurried goodbye to her hostess seized <her hat and cloak and with blanched face, left to join (her husband. We all sat stunned a minute, then each one called some one over the phone to have the awful news confirmed. Some ministries ... said they had heard nothing of it, but our American minister replied that he had heard it, but the facts were not certain. Some gave out that the king was seriously wounded. Sadly we went home through the deserted streets only the tramp of soldiers being heard, all public places were closed and a silence of the grave followed?a nation stabbed to the heart. ? "The next day the city was combed for any undesirables, the tramp of troops was like war-days, airplanes hovered over the city, which was draped in black, even some of the huge platp glass windows were painted black; thousands of pictures of the king suddenly appeared often surrounded by an altar and burning candles. One shop window showed a snow scene, a ginning skull, an arm and a half buried war-helmet with two stuffed ravens picking at the eyes and bones, most gruesome and significant. Others pictures of battlefields drew crowds of spectators. The lights were swathed in crape, black flags flew from trams and buildings, the bells tolled every hour, the heavens wept in sympathy, and the people wailed and clad themselves in black. Rumors flew like magic, papers were censored and the city only brightened a moment when the red, white and blue flag of the country welcomed the poor little king. Nine hundred thousand people wended 'their way into the city from the furthermost Albania to the Hungarian border and every national costume waa in evidence. "Official mourning was declared for six months, every place of amusement closed for two weeks, no music allowed. A well known American reporter who has lived in the Balkans told the following. He was walking on the street and thoughtlessly whistling when a policeman touched him on tne arm and said, .'No music, please,' whereupon Ke answered, 'But 1 was just whistling.' Reply, 'Well, that is music.' 'Thank you, you flatter me,' said bhe astonished reporter. "After terribly stormy voyage, the king's remains arrival at Split on the Bubrovnik and began the long, sad journey to Belgrade, stopping at Zagreb, where thousands from Croatia and Slovenia came to pay last respects. The train had the front of the engine covered with crepe and the coat of arms of Yugoslavia and the la*t words of bhe king: 'Save (or jfuard) Yugoslavia.' "It was met at Belgrade by thousands of loyal subjects who knelt in aM the rairt and mud and wept io unrestrainingly that their Wailing w*B like the waves of the sea?quite oriental. S* "The body lay in state in the cathedral for three days, 12,000 wreaths wo-e =enl and the peasants brought flowers from all over the country. One wreath was five feet high. The flueen's wreath of red roses was said to have been made by herself. The funeral was one of the most impressive and colorful and yet mournful that Europe has pver witnessed. Most ?f the notables of Europe were preset or sent substitutes. I never saw so many crowned heads or former! crowned or going to be. order bedecked, but more than serious. Brit?h, French, Gifcek (looking like ballet dancers in their little full white tarts), Turkish, Czech, and YttgoT , Avian troops and bluejackets fol*?^d the coffhreff tfw rktftg* a simple of oak as smaD as a child's - <&*ped in the oolora with a wreath of EFT " ' ~^. 'T T ~r: T roses thereon. "Then hundreds of Orthodox bishops and priests, in their midst the gorgeously appareled Patriach, the sun shining on their oriental'Tobes of all colors of magnificent brocade and their gold and silver mitres and staffs. "The Sokols, hundreds strong, in their gray and red costumes, with falcon feather on caps, the same uniform the little King Peter wore as he bravely marched along with his Spartan mother, wondering what it all meant. The ihorse of the king, stirrups crossed upon saddle, led by grooms in royal livery, 20 trucks laden with wreaths, military bands and p native Gipsy band with its weird music made an impressive sight. "French airplanes flaunted the tricolor in the air and swooped low with the Yugoslavia planes in formation as they dropped flowers at the tomb. "The bells tolled, the lights flickered and went out and the poor fcing Alexander was gathered, to his fathers, at rest for the first time in his short life, so sad and busy and struggling for peace in his own land and the world. "He rests in one of the most unusual and beautiful churches in the world, the mosaic mausoleum at Topale, about 50.miles from Belgrade, which he built for the royal family of Karadeorgevich, as this is the birthplace of the dynasty. "The outside is of white marble with a copper dome high up on an isolated hill, the interior is of .1,200 different colored mosiacs, all native to Yugoslavia, the color of blue predominating. "So beloved was the king in Serbia that added to the thousands in the city 15 miles from the station to bhe church were thick with peasants kneeling and weeping and throwing flowers as the coffin of their martyred king passed by. | 41 Sleep well, we will guard Yugoslavia," was the legend on the arch to the entrance to Topola, bhe little Serbian village, and they will keep the oath." Colonel Von Tresckow, formerly in law practice at Camden, whfre he was also interested in newspaper work and real estate development, entered the United States foreign service as a consul on examination in June, 1921, and has had assignments to Africa, Chile, Berlin and Rotterdam, before going to his present post. Bom at Mamaroneck, N. Y., in 1873, he was educated in part in Austria and took his law degree at the University of South Carolina. Ho was a major in the -South Carolina National Guard when it was called to Mexican border duty in 1916. He served overseas in that grade during the World* war and' is now lieutenant colonel of the infantry reserve. He has made ap excellent record in the foreign service and won several promotiona?Tuesday's State. Housing Has Started Things To Rolling New York, Nov, 12?4*roof that tho National Housing Act has started things moving in the long quiet building industry has been submitted by another targe American corporation. Inquiries from home owners about the installment plan of repairing liave increased ?'i00 per cent since the loan provision of the National Housing Act became effective in August, l/ewis H. Brown, president of the Johns- Nanville Corporation, announced. Mr. Brown's statement that impetus for the construction industry, I where millions are unemployed, was to be expected soon followed closely 1 a similar statement from Clarence M. Woolley, chairman of the Am?ri-| can Radiator and Standard Sanitary! Corporation, that the Housing Act had given his corporation a 40 per | cent upturn in sixty days. Industrialists are throwing their full weight behind this move to give employment where so many of the Nation's idle are found today. Cotton Ed and Cotton Growers Senator "Cotton Ed" Smith of South Carolina ups and says he will demand the repeal of the Bankhead law in the next congress because it has been a "heartbreaking disappointment.*' Senator Smith has ibeen engaged himself in this business of saving the cotton farmers of the South for many 1 years, eloquently endorsing pretty much any movement or organization that came along looking to their redemption, but, somehow or other, as good as they aimed, none of them over achieved what was originally intend-1 ed in the way of getting the cotton raiser on top of the pack. And the more important point of it all is, if Senator Smith finds that the I Bankhead bill is a mess, what substitute does he propose in order to keep the farmers of the South from making two or thre^ times more cotton than the world wants every year they go to the fields, and in the fall take the punishment for such folly by selling at a price that does not reimburse them for expenses.?Charlotte Observer. Taken Oft Relief Rolls And Helped Nearly 100,000 families have been taken from relief rolLs and helped toward economic independence in the Ural seven month* of the FMRA rural rehabilitation program, These families now are raising the bulk of their food and in many instances are exchanging home-grown products for other necessities. In Alabama a number of families formerly destitute already have repaid more than Italf of the advances made them under the program, and similarly encouraging reports are coming from other States. In Ohio, 1100 families have been removed from relief rolls through the rural rehabilitation program and more than 6,000 other families have been assisted with capital goods and supplies. Under the Ohio program, 40,000 families will receive vegetables growaJn 16,148 family gardens and 1,281 acres of community gurdens. Oeorgia reports that out of 1,140 families included in the rural rehabilitation program August 1st, some repayment has been made by 00 per cent. Approximately $100,000 has been repaid in labor on public works projects by 6,000 Alabama families who wore advanced $620,000. The average advance per family in th*\t state was $111.00, of which more than half represented work animals, implements, feeds and fertilizers. iFERA files are replete with "case histories" of families aided by this program. Throughout them all runs one dominant note?the desire of the average American family to be selfsustaining without the aid of charity. One of these case histories, selected at random, follows: Crawford county, Arkansas: Family of three. Were in destitute circumstances without clothing or food. Advances were made for food, clothing, shelter. Total value of capital goods advanced, $125.00, which included one work mare and plow tools. Subsistence to the amount of $93.08 advanced. This loan was paid in full by canned fruits and vegetables processed by the v client and his family. Program has made them self-sustaining. Despite drought, this client produced meat, fruit, and vegetables sufficient to feed his family this winter. He also produced 50 per cent enough fr>ed to take care of his wo.vk stock and dairy cows. In South Carolina and in Kershaw county, rural rehabilitation plays a large part in the FERA. In Kershaw county there are today, 40 families, on rural rehabilitation. These families are allowed to repay the loan advanced them under this program by working on work or production projects, repayment made from produce raised in clients garden, etc. In examining the case histories of these 40 families, let us pick out at random from our county. On June 1st of this year, there was u%}this county a family of 7 who had for the past several years vainly struggled for mere existence. The land was actually barren; hardly fit for the raising of peas. The morale of this family was at a low ebb; their hope for the future was broken. A loan was made to these unfortunate people; their land was cultivated and at the present time, most of this loan has been repaid by the work of several members of the family on work and production projects. In fact, enough corn has been raised to feed his stock throughout this year and the i next. A total of. $280.61 was advanced to this family of which $116.35 has been repaid. In the past several months, a total of $2,527.21 has been advanced to families under the rural rehabilitation program in Kershaw county of which a total of $590.70 has been repaid by work on public work projects and by produce raised and canned by the r. r. client. B. P. DeLoache, county supervisor of the rural rehabilitation program has set a goal of 7*5 families to be placed on r. r. by the first of January. Tkla A. 1 X. (if Jk Lt AMI? WV/VALKA Kivau lliOt Oil UlSJLtS lies have been taken off of relief rolls and placed in a position of self-supporting and self- sustaining people. Mr. DdLoache is ably assisted in this work by Mrs. Eva Irby. DePriest Loses To A. W. Mitchell . Chicago, Nov. 6.?Arthur W. Mitchell, negro .Democrat and eloquent advocate of the new deal, appeared to have replaced the veteran negro congressman, Oscar De Priest, on the basis of early returnes from todays election. Holding a huge lead over the only member of his race to sit in the national house in recent years, Mitchell counted 11,117 votes in his fa rot against 8,106 for his Republican opponent when 37 of the 47 precincti of the first Illinois district had x*. ported.. .^T_r . . . . < Patrick Nash, national Democratic committeemen from Illinois, claimec the seat for Mitchell in a telegram to National Chairman Farley. "*"** . .. _ ?">,rrjL>0- - ? i*? ? / dp Duck Scarcity ? Appears Certain A. A. Ku'httrtlbon, chief k?hu- warden of South Carolina, yesterday called attention to the regulation providing for the opening of the duck hunting season November 8. Thursday, and appealed to sportstufpi "not to kill any more than they cau use" in view of the anticipated scarcity in this species of game this year. "From reports that I have from the coastal section of the state the flight of djucks seems to be rather spotted, \ In some places the reports are that the ducka are plentiful, in others that they are scarce. The report from the , breeding areas of the ducks seems to J be conclusive that there will be a j short crop of ducks and though there may be good flight of ducks in (South 1 Carolina, they are going to 1>? short in other (sections of the United States," the official said. "I am urging the sportsmen to conserve their kill of ducks as much , as possible, not to kill any more than ; they can use and especially urge them to shoot only at ducks that are ip( good range. There is no use to wound ; a duck and keep it from going back to its breeding grounds. . "If the sportsman cannot accept 1 this recommendation from a sportsman's standpoint, then I call attention that he had best consider this proposition from a selfish point. It is a certainty that if a good flight of ducks do not go back to the breeding grounds that next year the government will put on an entire closed season on the shooting of ducks, so it behooves every one interested in duck shooting to do his part in not unnecessarily wounding or destroying ducks." Death Of Oscar Haley Oscar Raley, age about 4b, died Friday night, November 2, at 10 o'clock. His death occurred at the Veteran's Hospital, Columbia. His home was Bethune, Houte 1. He was a World War veteran and his death was in part due to injuries received while in service. His death occurred after an illness of three weeks. Surviving are the mother and several sisters and brothers. He had never married. Funeral services were held 'at the Bethany Methodist church Sunday at 11 o'clock.?Bishopville Messenger. Meteors flash through the air at more than 100 miles a second. ?- f i' niinmy^B^ ^ Engineer Proves To Be Swindler j Sunday about mid-day a taxi from North Carolina deposited ut a local tourist homo a man, about 00, a woman ostensibly his wife, and a 10 i year old boy said to bo their aon. j At the tourist homo he gave his name ax Krugg, and stated that ho was a Government engineer ami was here to head a corps, which would arrive the next day, to make estimates for dredging the 1*00 IX'e river, looking toward barge navigation in connection with the inland waterway. The visitors remained in their rooms till night and seemed to have been drinking. Krugg announced that I he and his engineers would remain I at Cheraw at least two months and' he promised several callers jobs in. connection with the work. The man-1 agor of a local grocery store, who happened to drop in, , was given a largo order for groceries to be delivered the next day, the groceries to be used by the engineering party, and generally spread himself. His talk made listeners suspicious, as he was evasive as to where he had ' been at work, though he hinted that j he had done some work for the gov-1 ernment in the mountains of North | Carolina and spoke of his home being California. Monday morning he rented a car from a filling station attendant, stating that he wanted to drive to Rockingham, where he had left his baggage. His wife and son drove away.,, with him. About noon a call came from police in Camden, wanting to know if the car had been stolen in Cheraw as they had arrested the boy on advices from police in Southern Pines, on a charge of passing worthless checks. .Southern Pines officers in the afternoon brought the boy back through Cheraw on the way to North Carolina, but for some reason Krugg and the woman wore allowed to leave Camden with the "rented" car. , The police think that Krugg is an assumed name and that the man has # < a police record. Efforts are being made to get the man and the car, neither of which has been heard from since the Camden advice. After failing to cash checks in Camden and the arrest there" of the boy accompanying the man and woman, they went on to Columbia where they were more successful. Picking up a boy there, the man, still representing himself as a government engineer, went to a store and bought some $60.00 worth of groceries and presented a check for $75.00. The clerk advised him he could not uccept the check unless he could "identify himself." The man then called the Columbia boy in to " identify him. The boy, being known to the clerk, he accepted the identification and the check, giving him the balanace in cash. The parties then drove off, saying a truck would be sent for the groceries. Nothing has been heard from them since, and the father of the boy states that ho believes his boy has been kidnaped.? Cheraw Chronicle. I TAX NOTICE Tax books for the . collection of ?State, County and School Taxes for year 1934 opened October 16, 1964, and will remain open until December 31, 1934, inclusive, without penalty. Please stute school district in whioh you live or own property when inquiring about taxes. Following is a list of total leviea for each School District for School, County and State Taxes: DeKalb Township Mills District No. 1 46 District No. 2 35 District No. 4 38 District No. 6 40 District No. 26 24 District No. 43 24 Buffalo Township District No. 3 3794, District No. 5 21% ' District No. 7 80% District No. 16 21% District No. 20 28% District N<x 22 40 ' District No. 23 28% ~ Distriot No. 27 32% District No. 28 21% District No. 31 29% District No. 40 41% District No. 42 21% Flat Bock Township District No. 8 32% District No. 9 f....... 32% District'No. 10 * 26% District No. 13 24% District No. 19 32% (District No. 30 21% District No. 33 32% [District No. 37 32% [District No. 41 . 32% District No. 40 26% District No, 47 21% Wateree Township District No. 11 24% District No, 12 35% District No. 16 26 District No. 29 27% Distriot No. 38 21% District No. 89 20% Yours respectfully, S. W. HOGUE, Treasurer of Kershaw County, South Carolina I Removal Announcement || IWe announce to all automobile owners in Camden II and this trading area the removal of our || FORD I Sales and Service Departments I from our old location on Broad street to j West DeKalb Street | In building known as Little Building III; Adjacent to our New |i|| I CENTRAL SERVICE- STATION| I This now enables us to offer i I ONE-STOP SERVICE I on all makes of. automobiles / ^ J ; I CALL ON AT OUR NEW LOCATION^ : I Redf earn Motor Company; I II Telephone 140 631 West DeKalb St. II