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ITALY AND ABYSSINIA Threatened Trouble Hii Been Long In the Making Trouble between Abyssinia hm<I Italy was early presaged when, In J>?'<'Hjnh?'r> iD2o, Great Hrlt Ian and Italy uKreed without consulting Abys alula, that they would support eftch other to secqro for the British the right to build a (lain at Lake Titanh, the source of the Blue Nile for the irrigation of the Sudan, and for Italy the right to build a railway between Eritrea and Jtallun Hon.ialllund. Ethiopia protested to the league of narlona in 11)20 and when the two couutrlea reiterated thut no encroachment wan Intended the matter wuh dropped. Although Ethiopia and Italy gave out mutual assurances of friendship and non-aggruealon an late as September, 11)34, rumors that Italy covets the rich territory of Abyssinia aa an udditioti to her colonial poHaeHHlona continue to circulate along with one that Ethiopia, surrounded by the colonlea of Italy, France and Great Brltlan, Iuim uHplratIons for an outlet to the sen. This imprcHHion has gained credence through the border clashes between Abyssinian troops and the Italian forcea in Italian Somalllafid which begun last December. Moreover, It is no secret thai Italy feels the need of colonial expansion to maintain her economic security. Ethiopia has great natural resources of gold, platinum, Iron, cogl and potash. The principle commodity, however is raw cotton. Italy sees in Ethiopia a vast fertile land to grow cotton to reduce her need for American raw cotton. Therefore. the concentration of Italian and Abyssinian troops on the East African frontier has been watched with growing alarm.- Philadelphia Inquirer. Predicts World Conflict Salem, 111., July 23.? Italy and Ethiopia will set off the spark that will draw every other nation into world conflict, (Jen. Srnedley L). Butler, former I*. S. marines commundant, predicted In it it uddress here today. Willed Race Horse Miami, Flu., July 23.?An estate valued at $(>3,241, including the sensational race horse Human Soldier, was left to relatives by William Sachsenmaier, Ventnor, N. J., sportsman, who died at his winter home here February DO VOU KNOW THAT More than four million farina in j this country are located on unimproved roads. The undent Kgyptians taxed the rich buek In 7oo It. (' , Moit- than 10,000 Communist *glta| torn and young radicals have been expelled from CCC camps. I Two-thirds of all drownings In the I'nited Hiatus occur during the swim' tiling MeuHon ? May, June, July and j Artgust. j Mont French wines are now made ( * from grapes grown on vinea derived. from Atnerlcan, root a lock, i Charlotte, N. C,, has a city ordl-1 nance which makes It illegal to wash , horHCH on the streets. I No one known the origin of chess. 1 Kggs are about 65 per cent water. I Home unbreakable buttons are made from blood. | The total coat of accidenth In 1934 : in estimated at $:t,600,000,000. | Home people will believe anything. Cornerstone laying in an ancient , cuHtom, dating buck to (Jr, the ancient iclty of the Chuldees.?The Pathfinder. i Power?But Where Is The Pulley? I The Santee-Cooper datu project, after a long light, seems assured. There is a Buzzard Hoost scheme in the tip country. A huge dam was recently completed, on the Saluda river In Lexington county, and now in opera. lion. The Catawba river has been harnessed by the Duke Interests, and , their plant Is supplying tjie two Care; Unas with much electric energy and money to charitable institutions. The Broad River l'ower plant above Co1 lumbia has been in the same business I for years. It looks good and sounds big. The potentialities are immense. I What is the prospect as a result of these many millions of expenditure? We hear of no Industrial enterprises springing up. I'pon what meat will they feed? i Is It a case of Mieawber looking for j something to turn up? If feasible, the j Santee experiment will be a great blessing, if It can promote manufacturing in the low country, where so sadly needed. Truly a big gamble. May it succeed, and the others along with It, is to he devoutly wished.?Calhoun Times. I The air is so rare at the top oT j Mount Kverest that in breaths are required for every step taken. News of Interest In And Near Bethune. Bethune, July 23,r-MlBHe? Carrie' Yu Through and Stella Hot hunt* are spending u week in the mountains of \V cittern North Carolina. Mrs. Ixiriug Mavis has uh her guest, her slater, Mrs. Louise Clyburu, oI Kershaw. Mrs. M. L. Watts is visiting her daughter. Mrs. J. II. Hood, lu Wolftown, Va. Mr. and Mrs. 1. K. Gardner and small son, of Ashevllle, N. C., are spending the week here with tInformers parents. Miss Lulu Morton Is vlaitlnK Mrs. H. H. McCaaklll in Florence. Miss Hetty YarbrouKh, of Hartsville. Is the guest of her grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. I). L. Yarbrough. Miss Lizzie Kate Davis entertained her contract bridge club lttHt Wednesday evening, at the home of her sister, Mrs. L. M. Heat. After cards a delicious salad course was served hy the hostess, assisted by Mrs. Best Mra. M. O. Ward !b spending this week in Chesterfield, visiting her daughter, Mrs, Charles V. Rivera. Mr. and Mrs. L>. D. Clyburn had as their dinner guests Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Porter and Miss Willie Porter, of Camden; Mrs. C. C. Mc* Gulrt, of Cassatt, and Miss Louise Tiller. Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Foster, of White Stone, are visiting the former's brother, Mr. J. C. Foster. Miss Rachel Williams spent several days last week at Furnian University, attending the State H. Y. P, U. convention and visiting h<-r brother, John Kdwln Williams, who Is a student t here. Mrs. C. M. Wilson and children. Ruth and Hlllie, of Columbia, are visiting Mrs. M. L. Kelly. Klizabeth West and Joe West, Nellie Copeland, Roy Copeland and Martha Copeland, of Savannah, Ga.. it re visiting their grandfather, Iv L. Copeland near Bethune. James William McCasland, tin.- first sheriff of Greenwood county, and long a prominent citizen, there, died, aged 71 years, after a long Illness. He was a faithful Presbyterian for many years. For the last Beveral years he was a coal merchant, but formerly owned a handkerchief and overall factory which did a large business. The annual Jolly street picnic in Newberry county will be held on August x. This is strictly a political affair hy which the promoters acquire sonic coin hy selling meals. Governor Talmadge, of Georgia, Governor Johnston. former Senator Hlease and oilier politicians arc invited to address the i meeting. CHANGE OF OWNERSHIP ?SALE* The stock of THE LEADER, Inc., having recently been purchased by us; our plan is to move the entire stock to make room for new Fall Merchandise coming in shortly and will be placed on sale beginning FRIDAY, JULY 2 6th This stock, consisting of Clothing, Shoes, Ladies' and Mens' Wear, will be sold during this Sale at prices which will not take cost into consideration. Piece Goods and Mens' Clothing, which items we wish to discontinue, will be marked down to half price. In our Clothing Stock you will find such well-known brands as Curlee, Gold Seal and Hopkins and if you can find your size among them you will get a real bargain. A FEW OF THE BARGAINS WE WILL HAVE TO OFFER II Ladies'Wash Dresses VOILES and PRINTS Formerly sold at 98e and $1.-18. Reduced to 87c i Only about two dozen of this lot. bt> they will move fast ) ANOTHER LOT OF Ladies' Print Dresses Assorted patterns, all sizes. | 16 to 46, some 98e quality, but mostly 89c dresses, will be closed out at 77c Another Lot 47c Boy's Overalls Sizes -1 to 1(> Special, 47c ONE LOT OF Men's Work Pants Specially Priced: 79c MEN'S and BOYS' HARVEST HATS All Sizes 5c each Men's Fast Color j Broadcloth Shirts I All colors. Formerly sold at || 75c and 98c. Specially j Priced at 67c ONE LOT OF Ladies' Print Dresses Also a few SILK DRESSES soiled a little. Priced to move fast: 25c each Space will not permit us to mention all the bargains offered at this Price-Slashing Event. Take it from us and don't miss it, (Look for the newly painted Yellow Front Store) WAL LN AU'S Formerly THE LEADER, INC. JL. L. WALLNAU, Proprietor 1022 Broad St, Camden, S. C. _________________ - -.-V: ; ? 1 1; ; - ?_ . A' - ' ? - ?? ABANDONED FORT IS NATIONAL MONUMENT Fort Jefferson, Off Florida, Has Glamorous History. Washington. ? Fort J offer hod. an abandoned fortress on one of the tiny Dry Tortugas Isles off Florida, recently turned over by the United States navy to (be National I'ark service, hua j a history tbat la "at once glamorous, tragic, and futile,'' suys the National Geographic society, "The Dry Toriugas lie eouie sixty miles to the west of Key West, like an afterthought to the main Florida Keys," continues the bulletin, "These Isolated Isles are nothing more than sevet^ low bars of wind-swept shell and coral sand, sparsely covered with small bay cedars and palms, encircled by dangerous reefs, and uninhabited? except for a few faithful lighthouse keepers, and thousands upon thousands of nesting sooty and noddy terns. "The fully bastloned brick and stone walls of Fort Jefferson, on Garden Key, once earned for It the nickname 'Gibraltar of America.' Kong obsolete as a means of defense, the hoary stronghold now has become a national monument by Presidential order. Futile Military f-tlstory. "Despite Its resounding nickname, however, the dismantled and decaying Fort Jefferson has played a futile part ; In military history. Built In I84fl. It was supposed to guard the ship lanes between Cuba and Florida, but even before It was completed the vast citadel was agreed to he a military mistake. It was garrisoned, however, early during the OJvl! war and held by federal forces throughout the conflict, serving as a prison after 1863. "No enemy gun ever poured shot and shell inro Its barracks. A Confederate gunboat sailed cautiously within range In 18(51. but it was frightened away when the commander of the fort trained upon the warship his full complement of guns?scarcely n dozen of which were loaded! "Although It never figured In n military action, the grim old stronghold Is no stranger to horror and death. Within its moated walls yellow fever suddenly appeared In August. 1W7. "All officers, including the surgeon, died and for n time direction of medical affairs rested with a prisoner. This was the unfortunate Dr. Samuel A. Mudd. who had been Imprisoned at (tho island fori because, when awakened in fbe dead of night, at bis Maryland home below Washington, he had set lite broken leg of a stranger who turned out to be John Wllkeft Booth, assassin of President Lincoln. Doctor Mudd courageously tended the sick ant] dying until he. too, was taken 111. Fie recovered, and, bemuse of his heroic efforts, was granted a full pardon. Used In War with Spain. "Fort Jefferson was finally abandoned In 1873, although it was temporarily reoccupted by American troops during the Spanish-American war. Since 1900 it has been a ward of the Navy department. As a national monument It will be open to visitors. Already a force of relief workers has cleaned up part of the courtyard and Is installing quarters for those who come by boat or plane and wish to remain overnight Fort Jefferson Is one of the lenst-known bits of American domain, because under navy rule It was closed to all visitors, and not even airplanes were permitted to fly over It. "The Dry Tortugns 'possess a great many attractions for fishermen and naturalists. More than 000 varieties of fish abound In the clear waters off Its enveloping reefs, and Bird Key has long been a national bird and turtle refuge. "The Dry Tortugns owe the last part of their name to Ponce do. Leon, who discovered the islands In June. 1513. Tortugn Is Spanish for turtle. The famous explorer captured 170 of the reptiles there to replenish the larder of his ship. In 1505 that sturdy Elizabethan. Capt. J. Hawkins, homeward bound from a profitable voyage In forbidden Spanish waters, visited the Islands He loaded his pinnace with birds of species that still breed there by thousands. took the flesh nnd eggs of great sen turtles, nnd set down In his log' notes that rend like n page from Robinson Crusoe." Find College Students' Honesty Nearly Perfect Delnw are, Ohio. ? Ohio Wesleyan university students are "almost perfect" In the matter of honesty, believes Charles Hamilton. Y. M. C. A. president. The "Y" has been selling examination books at a cost of one cent each. The books are placed on a table and students asked to drop their pennies In a box nearby. Although several thousand books have been sold, an average of only one in 100 is unaccounted for. Hamilton said. Two-Cylinder Stove Is Invention of Ohio Man Lakeside, Ohio.?Edward Patrick, local barber, has achieved a high rank among lakeside Inventors with his "allweather" stove, recently installed In his shop. The Invention consists of two stoves, s large and small one. Joined in tandem to the same pipe. "In mild weather." Patrick explains. "I lira the small stova, In cold weatbsr tbe large one and In extremely cold weather both of them." No patents hare been applied far. General News Notes Hill Barnes, under sentence of death at Tucker prison farm In Arkansas, lias been refused a commutation to life imprisonment by Governor Futrell. A Pennsylvania flyer struck a truck trailer at a grade crossing at Sandusky, Ohio, and was derailed, injuring 20 persons. The MeCarren bill to eliminate the .">0 per cent profits tax on silver transactions, has been approved by the senate agriculture committee. William Roberts, Sr., 73, has been united with members or his family at DuQuooin, 111., after being separated from them lor 50 years. Every precaution will be used to guard the health of the 35,000 or more Hoy Scouts attending the jamboree in Washington next month. Representative Peterson of Florida, is asking congress for an appropriation of $500,000 for federal participation in the Pan-American exposition to be staged at Tampa in 1939. I'nion bakers and truck drivers on a strike at Des Moines, Iowa, sent 25 men back to St. Louis, Mo., alleging they had been imported to break the strike. President Roosevelt has assured Governor Talmadge of Georgia, that the $19,000,000 of federal road funds allotted to Georgia, will not be adj ministered by an independent state agency, as Talmadge wants it to be. Mrs. Margaret Waley, convicted at Tacoma, Wash., for her alleged part in the kidnaping of the Weyerhauser child, declares herself to be satisfied with the verdict of the jury in her case. Lewis Marion Drake, 67, noted research chemist, died at his home at Daytona Reach, Fla., Wednesday after an illness of three weeks. He had operated an industrial and economic; research laboratory for 30 years. It was testified in the lobby hearing of the senate that a telephone di-, rectory was used at Warren, Pa., toj send telegrams to congressmen and ' j senators protesting againBt the pasI sage of the utility holding company bill. j Indignant over the decision of the court of appeals at Boston declaring ,ul piunoouif, iua nnCCiiolttuttOiial. a group of farmers meeting at Victoria, Texas, considered filing suits attacking the constitutionality of tariff duties. SCIENCE NIBBLES High foreheads do not indicate intelligence, according to Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, of the Smithsonian Institution. The bones of a camel larger than any present-day camel were recently unearthed in Denver. It roamed ' ; through C olorado 20,000 years ago. . A lost Indian tribe which has escapj ed all contact with civilization was recently sighted from the air in ' Colombia. I A prehistoric ax that must have belonged to a giant with a hand seven or eight inches wide has been found in England. , I)r. Bailey Willis, California scien- ' tist. believes the earth is steadily i growing hotter and will some day be- < come a sun. ' Hot-water baths are effective in relieving the pain of a black widow spider bite. The Smithsonian Institution has ob- , tained a photographic copy of the first American medical book. It was . written by two Aztec Indians about 1550. Germans claim the development of ? a new radio wave which can be sent in a straight line and cannot be detected outside that line?Pathfinder. More injuries occur in baseball than 3 in any other sport. I Most lawns are cut too often and ? too short. j Wedgefield To Havel Negroes In Cam! Charleston, July 24.?The eiviii? conservation camp at Effingham w? not be made Into a negro camp, I was announced last night by Cant J George B. IJuell, adjutant of Iligtri? 1, of the CCC, In response to a n| port that the people of Florence *t? agitated over information to this el He said that the white compan| now at Wedgefield, in Sumter cou? ty, is to be sent to a soil congerrl tion camp near Rock Hill, and a negil company substituted for this whit? company. Captain Buell said that original? South Carolina had been allotte| eighteen new CCC camps, but tht| all had to be filled with minor rollees. Recent restrictions, forbl? ding the enrollment of any boy who? parents are not on relief rolls hav^H made it Impossible to secure full tool pany quotas for more than thlrtee? of these camps, so it has been d? cided to take the remainder (rori^| among the negroes. Captain Buell pointed out that til negro population of a community I not increased by these camps, sin? the enrollees come from the imme? late vicinity and the negro cam^l spend the same amount of money I a community as the white companle? so it was thought better to give I community a negro company tb? none at all. SOUTH CAROLINA NEW8 A black carpenter of Columbia b? gradually, but completely turned wh? during the last several years. It ? a skin disease which starts in spo? and gradually extends all over til body, and such cases are well kno*^H to the medical profession. Two mules were killed in a head? collision, near Edgefield, with a as an eye witness. Escaping In? a pasture they ran down a road H j the highway, and there the one abe^H turned suddenly and their heads h? at full speed. Both got up after i?| ing, one died after going a short tance, and the other did in a fe? j hours. They weighed about U?| pounds each. Sheriff J. .G. Wright, of Cberok?; county, died at his home of a bea^H attack, aged 59 years. He was sei^H ing his third term and was very pofHj lar all over the county, with friends elsewhere In this state. H served two terms in the legislato?! 20 years ago. He is survived by widow, 10 children, his mother *flj several brpthers and sisters. i Believe in Signs The following item reprinted the Pueblo (Colo.) Star Journal iU?| [rates the fact that one cannot al**?| believe in signs:' "Much roerri?*^H was created by a sign in front j church which read?Subject of 8?j day Evening's sermon, 'Do Yon Kb?, What Hell Is?' Beneath it in a?*1?! letters was printed?'Come and be?; 5ur organist.' "?The Pathfinder. More Bait Needed I "This is tough luck," said uoumfully, as he leaned out of a low of the Ark. _ <*^^l "What's that kick now?" tP??"? "Why, we've got all this iround us to flsh in," replied ^ and only two fish-worms on Need More Practice " ? Customer?I see you hare jj^l rour store saying "We si? to ; Merchant?Yes. " That's oor^P? Customer?Well, 1 only ""g? loggest that yoa shouM tsks * ?? Ime off fur target partial ' ^1 Now with Standard Oil Co. *? f \ , ^*14. eWU* * I wish to inform the public that I am now in charge of the service station of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey on the corner of Church and DeKalb Streets and invite your patronage. Gasoline and Oils Tires and Accessories Telephone 91 78 s. w. HOGUE ****** j Working with me is Austin Jones, who has had a special course in lubrication of cars j and we guarantee you a good job.