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Fridjf^ May 15, 1935
AMERICA'S RUINED ROADS
Thia season, an unusual amount of
attention Is being directed to the road
damage caused by heavy trucks. Re*
ports from all over the country cbron*
icle the tremendous repair bills the
public must meet to recondition Its
highways.
Here, for example, lu an excerpt
from an editorial In the Hlnghampton,
New York, Press: "What the overland
trucks did to the second-class
highways of this and other counties
over, which they were routed in detouring
high water ... is disclosed
in a highly significant survey .by
Iiroomo County highway officials. The
county and towns will pay a repair
bill of approximately $35,000 because
trucks weighing as much as twentytwo
tons were routed over macadam
and combination roads still heaving
with the spring thaw. Three bridges
must be replaced in hue town; scores
of culverts were broken by the heavy
loads; the state's new fann-to-m&rket
road between Hast Maine and Endwell
is practically ruined .... The
taxpayers of this state will foot the
bill."
Comparable damage in many states
could be oited, resulting from abnormal
use of public roads by commercial
carriers. Trucks and buses have a
logical place in the nation's transportation
system but they should pay
for extraordinary destruction they
cause to the roads.
Modern trucks are almost as large
as railroad freight cars and normal
public highways are not built to carry
such weight. It is unfulr to force the
general taxpayer and automobile owner
to provide and maintain roads for
such ooramercl&l traffic. Over-burdened
taxpayers will demand a more
equitable adjustment of this situation.
?Industrial News Review.
SIX TEAMS JOIN UP
IN PEE DEE LEAGUE
Oatos, May 9.?At a meeting held
hero the Pee Doe League for 1936 was
orgaulzed.
Members of the league are Bethuno,
Lamar, Oatos, St. Charles, Florence
and Tlmmonsville. Florence and
TlmnionsvlUe being new-comers In
the league.
It. It. Oaten was again elected president
and Cecil Oates, secretary; directors
aro: Carrol King, Lamar; E.
Y. Matthews, St. Charles; L. M.
Hallos, Florence; H. II. Gregory, of
Tiinmonsvillo; John Bethune, of Bethuno,
and Carl Thomas, of Oates.
A schedule of 20 games was adopted
with ten games In each hftlf.
The season will open Wednesday,
Juno 3, and games will be played on
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of
each week.
Indications are that all clubs will
have good teams and some fast ball
Is expected.
At Bamberg, at the 60th annual
commemoration of the stand made by
?Confederate troops against Sherman
at the rlvor bridge. President-elect J.
Kion McKissick, of the state university.
as the principal speaker, told
his large audience that the Confederate
soldiers are being more and more
vindicated in their conduct, character
and principles. He. said one evidence
of (his Is Heen in the new postage
stamps hearing likenesses of Robert
h\ Leo and Sonowali Jackson, and the
strongest evidence of the patriotism
of the modern South is in Its contribution
to the Spanish war and the
World war, where they fought gloriously.
MOTHER'? DAY TERMED
RACKET EV CLERGYMAN
Now York, May 10.?Wblle telegrams,
candy containers and flower
boxes were being opened In millions
of home* today, a mlnUter walked
Into bla pulpit bore and said Mother's
day whh a racket aud a disgrace to
America.
The Kev. (,'harloM Francis Potter,
founder and leader of the First HumaniHt
society of New York, outlined
a plan to abolish Mother's day. His
first suggestion was that Mrs. J. R.
Hmlth?chosen by the Golden Rule
foundation as the "typical American
mother of 193$"?be put aboard the
dirigible Hlndenburg and sent to Germany.
At the time Potter was making
his remarks, Mrs. Smith, a kindly,
whltehalred woman from California,
was being feted and photographed a
few blocks away.
"This alleged typical American
mother of 1936," Potter said, "Is only
35 years old but wears her snowwhite
hair iu a bun on the nape of
her neck and does' not think ideals
have changed since grandmother was
a girl, She lives in a small town,
makes her own clothes aud those of
her children and believes iu spanking
with a hair-brush. 8ho refuses to discuss
politics, loves cooking and does
not smoke, drink or sing. And they
call her the typical mother of 1936.
They should have said 1906 or 1886.
"The sentiments expressed on Mother's
day cards are so cloyingly saccharine
that I should think any normal
mother would feel insulted by
such super-sweetneiss. Identical cards
are printed and sold by tile hundreds
of thousands, reading, "You are the
best mother any son ever had.' Could
any ^ane woman with a sense of
humor and proportion feel flattered
by receiving such a stereotyped and
fatuous message?
"Note that the 'typical American
mother of 1936' has for her main in-1
terests church, children and cooking.
That Is the Hitler Nazi Medieval type
of Ideal women! It is no longer the
American type. Let her publicity
managers send her to Germany on I
the returning swastika-decorated J
Hlndenburg dirigible. She belongs
there in spirit." I
Potter suggested that children
should honor their mothers every day
rather than wait until the one day
in the year selected for them by someone
else.
"Som echlldren consider their duty
to mother accomplished for the year
by the attentions they shower upon
her Mother's day. They thuB exhibit
the same peculiar psychological attitude
of those Christians whose
church-going Is confined to Easter or
those Jews who are devout only YomJ
Kippur or these citizens who think of
politics only on election day. It is a
modern form of laziness. Uetter a
regular letter every week through the
year than a modern burst of extravagant
attention to mother for one day
only." j
' IMPORTANT NOTICE |
Unless you have signed the Work
Sheet for the Soil Conservation Program
for 1936, please do so by Sat-1
urday, May 23, as this Is the closing
dale for filling out the Work Sheets.
It Is necessary for you to sign the
work sheot if you expect to get any
money In the way of checks from the 1
government this year. In signing the
work sheet you are not obligated in
any way and after your land Is measured
this summer and the committeemen
find that you are entitled to some
of the money you will get it, on the
other hand unless you sign the work
sheet now your land will not be measured
and It will be impossible to get
in later. You may have increased
your cotton acreage some this year
but unless you have planted all of
your base acreage you will bo paid
on the base acreage you didn't plant
to cotton.
Please go to your uearest commit-1
teeinan and talk this over with him j
and sign the work sheet. You have I
something to gain by signing and
nothing to loso.?W. C. McCarley, I
County Agent.
TO FARMERS
Where a producer expect^ tovftpply
for the soil building payment where
Crimson clover, Hur clover, Austrian
Winter poas, vetch, rye, oats, barley,
or any small grain mixtures are turn-1
ed under he should got a receipt for
the seed used on such acreage; stake
off the area turned under in order
that it may be readily identified and
measured; have a neighbor witness
a statement that such acreage was
turned under. The statement should
also include the date of turning under.
The producer should keep this
statement until It Is called for at the
time of chocking performance ?W. C.J
McCarley, County Agent.
The 100th hero of the World war to I
be awarded a Congressional Medal of
Honor, Is 8amuel I. Parker, formerly
of Monroe, N. C., now of Atlanta, and J
a brother of Federal Judge John J. J
Parker, of Charlotte, the medal to be J
presented by President Roosevelt this
week.
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ITEMg or INTEREST FROM
THE LANCASTER NEWS
HI* mile* of cotton roen forced road
will be built on Highway No, 9 with
material furnished by-the government
and the woj-k to be done by the atate
highway department. Steve C. Williams,
resident engineer, says that the
six miles of cotton material will be
used on the stretch of road from the
residence of Rev. Mr. Faile Just on
the other side of the Flat Creek high
school to a point six miles weet toward
Lancaster. * ~r
A bill has been introduced in the
State legislature by the Lancaster delegation
providing for a voting precinct
In this county. This bill would
take In a large part of the present
Primus voting precinct, which cast
166 votes at the first democratic primary
In 1984. With the addition of
Fork Hill there would be thlrty-Jlght
voting precincts in the county. Two
years ago the Bell Town, voting precinct
was added to the couuty boxes,
making it the 37th precinct.
For. the purpose of organizing a
Roosevelt for Reelection Club in
Lancaster county, Chairman; C. Frank
Clybum has named the following committtee
to serve to formulate plane,
arrange fpr speakers, etc., for a
county-wide meeting to be held at a
date to be named by this committee,
at which meeting a permanent organization
will be set up: Mrs. J. Reece
Funderburk, Mrs. Z. L. Weir, Mrs. H.
DeWitt Plyler, Mrs. Ben C. Hough,
Mrs. R. L. Crawford, Mrs. James O.
Cobb, Toy R. Gregory, L. M. Clybum,
Col. Ben C. Hough, E. Clyburn Wilson,
O. Roddy Bell.
Congressman J. P. Richards has announced
that he has requested the
Postoffice Department to order an
I examination with a view to a new
appointment of a postmaster at Lan-.
caster. The term of the present post|
master expires in June.
A bill has been passed by the Lancaster
county delegation providing
for the issuance of $90,000 in bonds
to furnish funds to match federal aid
for the school-building program. The
bill provides that $10,000 in bonds
shall mature in each of the years of
1939, 1940 and 1941, and that $20,000
notes shall mature in 1942, 1943 and
1944. The denomination of the notes
was not specified eb that will be left
to the discretion of the county board
of education.
At the county convention of the
Democratic Club held Monday morning
at the Lancaster court house, C.
Frank Clyburn was reelected Chairman
and E. C. Mackey was reelected
as secretary, while Mrs.. H. R. McManus
was elected as vice-chairman.
No other nominations were placed
before the convention.
Soon after the convention waB called
to order by Chairman Clyburn
temporary officers were selected.
These were Mr. Clyburn and Mr.
Mackey, who were later elected permanent
officers.
A credentials committee was appointed
by the chairman as follows:
R. S. Stewart, Ned Gregory, Mrs.
Howard Williamson, Sidney Mahaffey,
and Marion Bridges.
On motion of R. S, Stewart, it was
decided that each club be permitted
to vote Its full strength.
Delegates elected to the state convention
are as follows: Ben C. Hough
Henry Bennett, Jr., of Lancaster; J.Craft
Cook, of Taxahaw; Claude
Thompson, of Van Wyck; C. Frank
Clyburn of Kershaw; and M. H. Sills,
of Heath Springs. The name of John
T. Stevens was placed In nomination
by Q. A. Williford, of Kershaw, but
he later withdrew the nomination and
substituted the name of Mr. Stevens
as an alternate. In this manner it
was not nocossary to ballot individually
on the men nominated as only
six men were left In nomination, and
the county Is entitled to six delegates.
Toy It. Gregory or the Lancaster
club prosented a resolution praising
the administration of Franklin D.
Roosevelt and calling on the body to
Instruct the delogates to vote for his
re-nomination at the state convention.
This motion was carried unanimously.
B. C. Hough nominated J. S. Wilson
for state executive committeeman
and he was unanimously elected.
After the namo of John T. Stevens
was withdrawn there were at no timo
more than one candidate for any office
6o that the meeting ended in record
time.
The resolution offered by Mr. Gregory
was the only one put before the
convention.
Mr. Clyburn called the meeting to
order at 10:05 a. m., and at 11 a. m.
the meeting adjourned. Furthormoro,
a good portion of this time was taken
up In the confirmation of delegates
by the credentials committee.
A white man named Tillman Schumaker
was sent to the chAin gang for
a year in Orangeburg sessions court
for putting a dead dog in the well at
the home of his sister.
A New York visitor from Iceland,
says that there Is practically no ice
in Iceland even in the summer, and
explain* the tallneaa of Icelanders by
arise that thay art flak eater*.
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Life Sentence Given
Kidnaper Robinson
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Louisville, Ky? May 13.?Thomas
H. Robinson, Jr., last of the nation's
major criminals to be captured, pleaded
guilty to the Stoll kidnaping and
was sentenced -to life Imprisonment
here tonight.
The 39-year-old former inmate 6t a
Tennessee insane asylum stolidly
heard the federal Judge, Blwood Hamilton,
pronounce sentence immediately
after he had replied in an almost
inaudible voice, "Guilty, your honor,."
Robinson slugged Mrs. Alice Speed
Stoll, young Louisville society matron,
with a lead pipe and snatched her
from her home here October 10, 1984.
For more than 19 months he eluded
federal agents, while Mah&n, Karpls
and other major criminals were being
netted. Robinson spent most of
his time traveling between New York
and California. Federal agents said he
had spent freely the $50,000 paid him
for freeing Mrs. Stoll. He had held
her a week in an Indianapolis apartment.
Monday night he was caught in
Glendale, Calif., and whisked here in
a government-chartered airplane. His
sentence came less than 48 hours after
his capture.
Judge Hamilton directed that Robinson
be sent to Atlanta federal penitentiary
with the usual specification
that he was subject to transfer to any
other federal prison upon order of
the marshal and a guard of federal
agents left with him for Atlanta tonight.
All seats in the large federal courtroom
were tilled as the kidnaper was
brought in after a long wait for his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H.
Robinson, Sr., Nashville, to arrive and
confer with him and his counsel, B.
B. Gabbard and Clem Huggins.
The kidnaper's wife, who had started
divorce proceedings after she and
the elder Robinson were acquitted
last November of complicity in the
kidnaping, was not present. Nor was
the kidnaper's flve-year-old son, Jimmy,
who had been told his father was
dead.
Robinson came in -manacled to a
federal agent and with his mother
clinging to his arm. The mother who
had cried softly after visiting her son
before the arraignment, recovered her
composure, as did her husband and
her sister. The buzz of conversation
stopped. A court attache turned off a
large fan.
Judge Hamilton read the first court
of the Indictment, charging conspiracy
to kidnap. Pointing^qut that the other
two defendants htm been acquitted,
he dismissed that count. Then he
read the second count, charging that
the defendant had abducted Mrs. Stoll
and carried her across a state line,
and asked: "How do you plead?"
"Guilty, your honor," Robinson replied.
Despite the quiet in the room, Robinson's
voice was so low that Bunk
Gardner, United States district attorney,
turned jo an assistant and
asked what the plea was.
"It is the sentence of this court,"
said Judge Hamilton, "that you be
confined for the term of your natural
life In the penitentiary." The Judge's
voice was calm but his slowly spoken
words, in contrast to the kidnaper's
plea, were clearly audible. The order
that Robinson be sent to Atlanta followed
and he was put on a 7:15 (C. S.
T.) train for there tonight.
Manacled again to a federal agent,
Robinson was led back to the marshal's
ofTlce. He walked stiffly and
stared as In a daze over the brief proceedings
that had resulted in a life
sentence.
Two Men Killed
In Prison Break
McAlester, Okla., May 13 ?A prison
foreman and a convict were reported
killed and four others were wounded
today In a riotous break of twelve
prisoners from McAlester state pent-. I
tentiary.
C. D. Powell, 50, foreman of the
brickyard in which the desperate convicts
rioted to start their break, was
slain.
Warden Kenney said a convict by
the name of Robert Dunningham also
had been killed.
County Attorney W. J. Counts said
Powell was shot by a group of the
fleeing prisoners and thrown from a !
car in front of a school house nearly i
a mile from the prison.
The fleeing convicts, none of whom i
was identified at once, commandeered
a prison truck and a guard's sedan.
_Two guards were wounded. Bob
Gossott. a guard, was- in a McAlester
hoaplta! with several bullet wounds.
The name of the other was not
learned. .
First reports also said two other
convicts had been shot by guards during
the break. * "
Warden Kenny said four guards
were missing. He said he believed
they were held by the prisoners as
. ' i
Senator Homer T. Bone, Democrat*
of Washington state, says he plana
soon to offer a relOTWlon for an la*
vestlgatlon of just why the government
has a flock of undercover men
spying around In the capltol at Washington.
He declared that such practice
"might lend, itself to the most
odious form of oppression and coercion;
and might easily become the
basis for what might amount to political
blackmail." "What is to prevent,"
he asked on the floor of the
senate, "such practices from being
used tip coerce members of congress
Into attitudes favorable to tbe ends
sought by the people who control
these undercover operators." Lately
tbe suspicion that their offices were
being rifled has been epidemic among
members of congress, although most
of them have been reluctant to voloe
their suspicions. ..
John Dougherty, Jr. jumped from
the Delaware bridge, Philadelphia, to
the river, 136 fCOt below, to win a
wager of |12. He won, but says he
won't'do It again.
Tbe senate has passed the 6529,000,000
navy appropriation bill by an overwhelming
vote. It is the largest
peace-time naval bill' in the history
of the country. , ,
Wants-For Sale
FOR RENT?siT room house on west
side Highland Avenue. House la
good condition. Good size lot.
Price $17.50 per month. Rent payable
in advance. Call Wm. L. Goodale,
Phone 193, Camden, S. C.
8-lOsb
FOR 8ALE?A desirable five room
bungalow, with bath, for $2,250,
easy terms. For furthef information
apply Enterprise Building A
loan Association, Camden, 8. C. Sab
FOR 8ALE?Tomato plants and flower
plants, also fresh strawberries in
season. Telephone 325-W, B. H.
Baum, Highland Avenue, Camden,
S. C. ? ~ 7-9pd
FOR RENT?Cool, comfortable four
room first floor apartment. Large
screened porch, shady yard, convenient
location. Adults only. Shannon
Realty Company, Phone 7, In
Crocker Building, Camden, S. C.
8-10sb
WE HAVE IN 8TOCK?Nitrate of
Soda, Muriate of Potash, 16% Acid,
Cotton seed meal, Manure Salts,
and all grades of mixed fertilisers.
Send us your orders. The Southern
Cotton Oil Company, Camden, S. C. 4
47 sb
NOW 18 THE TIME?To plant your
garden. We recommend 7-6-5, which
is a well balanced fertilizer for all
vegetables. Southern Cotton Oil Co.,
Camden, S. C. 47 sb
LOST?lo Camden, South Oeie^T
pair of platinum and dUunon^Sil^H
with brooch combination. iL2S M
of 1100.00 for returu of sanZTSl^l
no questions asked.
munlcate with T. If. S., /J*"l9
den Chronicle or Phone 8942 <\i 9
bla. 8. C.
DEMAND?Banco Feeds torw I
chicks in Starting Mash Um.i i
Mash, Baby Scratch food'an<i i?* ;9
ing Mash. Sold by your local >.
chants or H. N. Bstrldge, I^as?wJJ 11
WE HAVE FULL supply of S |
Carey Composition Shingles Jlj
kinds, also roll rooting and baiwi! I
paper at the old price. Tou ^S *!
obtain from your local merohaai 9
or H. N. Bstridge, jUucaatsr/B^ I
GRAIN THRESHING?WUi^OH
oats and wheat for the public a2 9
this year. Kquipped with 9
International Harvester Cowim. I
outfit. W. P. McGulrt. yntZ 9
Buckton Plantation, Camdetgc 9
812 al l
FOR SALE?Three females and <.&*
male Ksqulmo Spitz, about fl?! 9
weeks old*. These puppies are J. \
titled to registration. Maloa 17 ^ 9
males $5. Write or see W. A '? 9
Dowell, Jr., Bethune, s. C. 7.4 ^ 9
FOR RENT?Desirable Homta-gT I
en room house, furnished, 2 bith*. 9
steam hsat. Five room house, ? 1
tirely renovated. Eight room house!
will redocorate to suit tenant h 9
years lease. Three room, fow l
room and five room furnished taut 1
menU. All well located. Very mod. 9
erate rentals. Shannon RuWr 9
Company, Phone 7, Crooked Bullf. 1
Ing, Camden, S. C. 7^ 9
REAL ESTATE?For sale, rent, w 9
trade?homes, farms, estates sn|39
hunting preserves. Shannon Resfa 9
Company, Telophono 7, Camden, L i
TAKEN UP?Six head of cattle. On. 9
er to pay costs and olalm stock. 1
Address Akron Workman, Route 1 ]
I.ugoff, 8. C. 8-8 ed. H
WHEN YOU BUY?Fertilizers uuut 9
on the famous Southern Cottoa 08 1
Company ferttlimere which hate I
been popular on this market for 9
thirty years. Any dealer <la Cut 9
den can supply you with ouy goodi, I
We will carry a stock of all thrift 9
of fertilisers and raw materahi it 9
our warehouse. The Sou therm Cot j
ton Oil Company, Camdet, 8. C. 9
FREE ROAD SERVICE?Creed's FUW I
lng Station Fifty-Mile Free Rest '9
Service. Call Telephone 484, Cta- 9
den, S. C.
CARPENTER AND BUILDER?Be
fore you decide who should do your I
work, telephone John S. Myers, for
any class of carpentry work-ask 9
side or Inside. All work goati?'j9
teed. Specialise in cabinet* t?ft9
screening. Any kind of fsrnitvt.j9
repaired. I solicit your patroasf*. >9
Telephone 268, John S. Myers, W 9
Church street, Camden, 8. C. II tt 9
LOW]
SUMMER i
RATES j
now in enter s
new YORK
"OUNO 5TR,P
berth
? 60 D?r return Limit
From CHARLESTON
Saturdays and Mondays to May 25
Saturdays Thereafter
Travel in cool comfort on swift,
modern oil burning liners. A refreshing,
restful voyage via the
Crujse-Wuy. Orchestras, dancing,
deck sports, radio, talking pictures,
etc. Delicious meals. Autos.
Only 127.50 round trip with 2
To JACKSONVILLE?fvuty Thursday and
Sntwrdoy $12 Round Trip.
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WESSON OIL g 20c 1
Octagon Soap and Powder, 5 pkgs.. He M
SNOWDRIFT, 6 lb. can 95c 1
Tomatoes, Full Pack, 4 No. 2 cans .. 25clM
I Grits, Bulk Hominy, 5 lbs. .777. ? 41
I FREE GIFTS?25c Bottle Furniture PolUhQn^ jj
| J? ?25c Jar Silver Polish, with purchase of alls H
I PH Johnson's Wax or Glo<GoAt, can , I I
Tctley's TEA, % lb, pkg. 21ejl
I MARGARINE, Nu-Treat, lb 15c I
Stokeley's Party Peas t?217c| 1
iboorFRUIT COCKTAILS 2r25c11
1 N. B. C. Ritz Crackers, Ib.pkg.,. .... 2j|H
I Phillips Tomato Juice, 2 cans ...... 9c j 1
I Phillips Pork and Beans 6 ~25cl 1
Waxtex PAPER, 2 rolls &\\
Kre-Mel DESSERT 3 pkgs lfll
I PECAN TOPPED I I
KTiocolate COOKIES, 2 lbs...... . . -3^1
Pillsbury's Cake FLOTJR3tg.
LIMA BEANS, No. 2 cans, 2
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES 1
1 BANANAS, 2 lbs n 1
I CARROTS. Green Tops, bunch . . . ? feU
NEW POTATOES, 5 lbs. ...IStl