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Legislators To Get "Official Expenses" ( i Iiimilii;i. May II Tli. senate fi J ltriU' rmritnitten brought nut n tav- ! <11 ;iI !> i |nu t last nivlit upon a joint mm | tp ion by Ueprosetil at t \ ? t'l.upin.in oi \ 11t'k. to pay legislators for olt n lal i \pi ii s i s" III addition in ih. ir 11.11 j - ii- . ;i. *r li 11 < p in j... .i| .hi a in. ml . it* i o p.r, . .i. Ii I. . i -1.11. r $ i u ! . .Hi o| <L'".ll (.'III pi.ia I! proposed Government Vault Nearing Completion Ft Knox, Ky. May 12. -Secretly litiili to ?1? f> cvt-ry known power of man or nature, the vault where the gnv? i utn? nt will more under the earth noil.noo.ooo tn gold more than half the nations t rea mi re lowered nearly ' < out plot e yesterday I Two morion of mono aiirt*Htee| show ; against the hills which rim Lhia mill ' ta ry reserva t ion. where eavalry and [artillery will guard tin* finished vault j Tiie upper works form a square building, about 100 feet on a side, surrounded by a balcony. Ai eaeli corner Is an <vlght foot urea heavily reinforced, looking like the [defenses of a medieval fortress. ' Tin- suiTai hilllding faces east; on that side the lu fool high marble door frnine, with the legend I'nited States I Depository." Is already in place. In| side t lie square outer huildiliK is another square structure, its walls unbroken by door or window. This inner square rises Into the second story of the surface building, which sits hack some twenty five feet from the first story. The subterranean part of the vault apparently is far larger than what can he, seen. Half surrounding the building Is a mass of red Kennicky dirt, result of the excavation. This dirt pile Is about 2n feet high, a city block lone and a third of a block wide. Many workmen are engaged on the underground vault The nature of this work has been kepi secret. M appears likely that the treasury will have an arrangement to Hood the \ a u It in time of danger, similar to that employ I'd by the Hank of Franee to safeguard lis hoard Two ditches twenty f'it deep with yard-thick pipe in the bottom lead to the vault 'I lie $?;.mm.(mo,ono iii gold will come la-re in about two months from depositories in New York and Philadelphia. Already the postoffice is working to safeguard the shipment It will he the greatest in American history. Delegates Go Instructed Columbia. May 2<>.?The South Car! olitia Democratic convention unani tnously instructed its delegates to the j j ua'iounl convention today to support MY* ? id'-nt Kooscvelt's ieit< an inat ion I I In- ( itit\? nt ion unaninioii-lv e|. <-tI ; d 1 i ricn <)lin .loluisi im national i * , ' en.*: t! ! iii. .iii It >-leti.d ( iiairiuaii ; I' I I ;>|?111 of (1 re? n\ ill.- and Mrs. i I. H lining- of Columbia as na llioiial e\ i < 1111 mmiitee wnmaii. ' 7 * Farm News Bright Spots Aiken, May 10. H. a, Woodle, county farm ugeiu. states that gjnce terracing and cropping agreements have been signed covering over 2.00b acres for summer work (und much more for Tall work) and since there every indication thut there will be much more work to be done this sumtiter, the Aiken County tfoll cOJ,MM. vutlon Association bus made arrangements to purchase at least one more power terracing out fit immediate!'. Anderson. May 16.?'l^cal seed houses have sold approximately 15,- ! ooo pounds Of lespede/a seed this i spring, ami 11,000 pounds were purchased cooperatively by farmers, mak- ! lug a total of 26,00o pounds,'' says I'-. J*. .Josey, county agent. "J estimate that .20,000 pounds of seed were saved by farmers last fail. Counting I resueded acreage, we have at least 4.000 acres seeded to lospede/a this year." Winnaboro, May ltT.---R. ||, i^m. '"on, county farm agent, who has always urged Fairfield farmers to plant I velvet beans, says the indications now are that Fairfield county will have ai larger acreage this year than ever.! We have ordered c ooperatively f>45 ' bushels of velvet beans," says Mr. j Common. "in many instances our! farmers will get a good farming prae- J Hce payment on the acreage planted' 111 velvet beans as the vines will bo |,,f? "" ">e land. We have also ordered cooperatively erotalaria seed, HI P-hhi 4.000 pounds of which will, be planted compared with 4no pounds plani? <1 last >ear." Conway. May 10 ,j. Walter John -on. Of 111!' Ay nor sect ion. has just completed a feeding demonstration of i'J bogs. I h,. hogs made an average daily gain of 1 20 pounds over u period of ..s day s, according to records kepi for County Agent V. M. Johnston. Mj\ Johnson received $1.04 per) bushel for 1 lie corn fed for this demonstration His hogs sold for $10.7:") . per hundred which was tops on the! Richmond market that day. "'I he 1 best market I have found for coi n," J says Mr. Johnson. Miami Worried Over Fire in Everglades \ Fin. Mi,j 10?An 'IAvi-lad> > iiiu< k and gr.i-s lire tlirea ned !h' 1 '' > !|i lands ..1 ih,. I.ake ( ?k. ... 'I:"."-. i'gi,i||. sent barges loaded with tia.iors. plows and pumping equip. , in.-iit threading slowly up h,,. North j New river .anal Saturday to l>e used in lighting the flames. Starting Wednesday from what wardens believe was a cattleman's fit.', the blaze lias since spread over a three-mile front about 12 miles west ol Davie, if (he winds change, it was feared the flames would rapidly eat their way towards the lake region 13 "dies away. The- fire has caused dense early-morning smoke palls over M iaini. Snow in New York State Albany. 'S. Y. May 20.?Snow and! sub-freezing weather returned to j l>arts of New York State today in | the wake of freak weather that sent | a waterspout w hirling across the Hud-| | ton river at Troy. Snow was falling i , at Ow l's Head and Malone. j . . I Forecasts Showers 111" weather forecast for South Car..'linn issued Thursda yrends. Partly (cloudy Thursday and Friday with I > < at 1 i-i'i .I showers." WHERE AND WHEN? 1 iv .1 ml u ||(.n will 1: stop?" a-k. .1 |r eminent Anderson county , ' sti. < "ssful men b.ir.: and r !l"' "th.-r day w )nl. discuss; ing this matter of federal r.-lief, t h<> J'art i. ular. He was frankly |.? 'dt pessimistic over the situation and believes that Cncle Sam has on his hands today a problem that cannot be disposed of successfully for many years to come, if ever. "Once n certain type of family re1. Ives federal or other relief funds," he remarked, "they will expect it in1 the future, irrespective of where It is coining from." And this gentleman voiced the sen-, tliuonts of ? great many more people when he deplored the trend The tragic part, aside from the enormous costs of federal relief that are piling! up additional burdens 011 the taxpay- ' era. is the fact that there has been.1 in many instances, a weakening of the ! moral flbre of those who have been : Placed on the relief roils-Anderson Record. Four well kimvoTTTtTzens of Yancey .' county. N (\. have been indicted in! th" federal court at Asheville, on charges of conspiracy to defraud and I defrauding the Reconstruction Fi-i nance corporation. It Is estimated that 137.000 men' and women will graduate from the I colleges and universities or the United J States this summer. rr.i!l2T8a lr\ during 1935 ex- j v?? ? by a total of 1M78.1 by 42 480 1934 b,F<h* Mceed^ deaths General News Notes Three members of a family were burned to death and a fourth seriously injured when tiro destroyed a farm home near Warsaw, Ky , Sunday, tiocauti'' ()f coottnue,d disorders in Jerusalem between. Jews-and Arabs, tin- Hritlsh army has. issued <^urf?w regulations forbidding any citizen to; appear on the streets ut night. Seven men and boys, speeding from j a wedding in a new automobile, wore killed at West Austintown, Ohio, when 1 their ear hit an lCrie freight train on j a grade crossing. So violent was the j Impact of tlie car t^iat a freight car's , trucks were knocked from tlie rails, A terrific storm of wind and ruin i swept across a large section of No- ; braska on Sunday. Heavy property j damage was counted up iu the path of the winds that attained velocities I of SO miles an hour and more. Other f mid western states were visited byheavy rains. Mrs. Roosevelt last week entertained ut a White House lawn party, 70 j "unfortunate girls" from a corrective institution In Washington. Women officials in Washington, assisted the! first lady in entertaining her guests. The affair caused a buzz of comment in official social circles. Iirown Perry Fisher, 60, and two of ids sons, 28 and 19, were drowned j near Rrevard, N. C., Saturday night, ! while trying to rescue a third son, 35, { from drowning in the Toxaway river, j Ail of the four bodies were recovered Sunday morning in 15 feet of water ; and close together. Dr. Hugo Kekner, skipper of the (li rman built Zeppelin Hindonburg, in a Chicago magazine, offers to teach tin- I'nited States all that lie knows about dirigibles, in appreciation of the cooperation given him by this country during "the first great pioneering voyage of the Graf Zeppelin An Oakland, Cal.. police court judge excused a husband there on a parking charge, when he explained. "Well I parked my car and followed my wife into a furniture store because | I didn't want her to buy any more j furniture." The judge .replied, "Good enough." and ordered the $2 line returned to the husband. 1 >r Hugo Kcknor, president of the Zeppelin company, was almost com- ' p I e t e 1 y ignored by German newspapers. on the return of the llindenburg from its first round trip to the I'nited States. Or Kckner is in disgrare with the Nazi party because of His failure to co-operate in the recent reichstag election campaign. The entire 1935 relief act. carrying $ J.xno.OOO.OoO whs held iiticonst it ut ion! al by the court of appeals of the [ District of Columbia, because it gave j I excessive and improper delegation of | I congressional powers to the president, ' and is an invasion of states rights. I 'Hie case will now go to the United States supreme court. The Chinese press charges that the 1 great Chinese wall is in danger of destruction, asserting that many of the bricks of the wall are being torn i away and used for building barracks for Japanese troops. The Chinese wall has long been regarded as one i of the mightiest achievements of human manual labor and is numbered | among the wonders of the world. About 140 persons were landed safely last Thursday, having been rescued with boats after the steamer North Sea ran aground, then refloat- j ed herself and then wirelessed she was sinking oft' the southern tip of tin- Alaska panhandle The coast j guard cutter Alert began picking up j the life boats within 28 minutes after the North Sea wirelessed that she : was sinking. I bi- appellate court of tho Distjlct of Columbia decided that there is in the fe(l?tal government no power tonfi-rrcd by the constitution to regulate housing, or to resettle populations.! . The latter strikes at tho Tugwell or- ! ganization for resettlement. The same legal flaws were found as the United States supreme court found in AAA, , and that high court will finally de' t ide tho case. ! :? ! 1 Death Masks Discovered in Mounds in Wisconsin I Madison Wis ?Known history in j this state now pics buck lo.fHKl years and a new record of ancient residents I here is announced ;>v I'rof Ralph Linton. University of Wisconsin anthro pologlst, In the discovery of what are said to be the first portrait death masks ever found in Afhericn. The masks were found In recently opened burial mounds In northwestern Wisconsin. The masks are said to he 3,000 to 4.OO0 years old. Professor Linton believes they arc a record of aborigines 1 who came to this region from the South; people touched with the civilization developing in Mexico They were farmers and traders and knew the use of metal, probably coming here for copper. Professor Linton says In his report: "Our work has thrown much light upon the life of this ancient people, and j especially upon their treatment of their dead These were not buried at once, but were kept for yeara aa honored members of the community.** The bodies of more than SOd Ethio- . pians have been dug out of the ruins of Addis Ababa, who were slain during the pillaging of the city. All ton ign and half the natives' homes of the Ethiopian capital were destroyed and all but one store was sacked and burned. A. Mitchell Palmer, attorney general in the Wilson cabinet, and one time candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, died in a Washington hospital on Monday, of a heart condition following an operation for acute appendicitis, aged 64 years. Last of Famous Trio Dies in Fatal Crash Haton Rouge, La., May ^0 ?'Harry 1'. Williams, millionaire aviator and husband of Marguerite ("lark, forma screen star, fell to his death in ? plane crash near here late last night Johnnie "Red" Worthen, a veteru pilot, rode to death with the 47-yearold aviation enthusiast when their plane ripped Into a wooded swam* land shortly after taking off from tlx Baton Rouge airport for Patterson, La. Worthen was employed by Williaiw ,but the weialthy sportsman was ? competent pilot. It was not knowi who was at the controls. r -? Haiglar Theatre Corner Broad and Kut ledge Hts. FRIDAY, MAY 22nd We promised >oij HITS! We promised you SK.NSATION'S! We promised you KNOCK Ol'TS! And now we will deliver "THE MOON IS OUR HOME" Put aside your < area and your Wot'l'leS #e( into lite Hpillt of t hu season We'll promise end deliver the e|e.\<*r<*Ht entertainment of th year. SATURDAY, MAY 23rd IMrk HV>ran, the now hIiikImf cow hoy in "THE SONG OF THE SADDLE" 1 lie's Ikii k with a new bait Of tri< ke and a new round ol thrills. Alhp etonedles . und cartoons "FLASH GOHDON" Serial, I^ATE 10:30 SHOW Kdward Kverett Morton In "YOUR UNCLE DUDLEY" MONDAY & TUESDAY ' MAY 26th-26th "THE PRISONER OF SHARK ISLAND" The true atory of Anierlca'a hidden shame! Towering above the yeur'a big hits! One of the "Heat Ten" of all time! StarrliiK War- j tier Baxter, (florin Stuart, Claude j (}lllitiKw'ater. Arthur Hryon, O IV j iieKKle and a cast of one thousand. WEDNESDAY, MAY 27th ! Peter U. Kyne's famous ? harac- ! t r returns Robert MeWade, ItaS J Walker, Florine Mt Kinney an<l I an - it-ii lot I lelh-ld in "CAPPY RICKS RETURNS" j EXTRA: "Ye Old Saw Mill" J and News i THURSDAY, MAY 28th Ann Hard inn with Herbert Marshall in ! "THE LADY CONSENTS" K\< illlli: Allien! Smart Dialogue! Every Graduate wants New Clothes There is a thrill for you in giving, and for the graduate in receiving a gift from our up-to-date stock. Dresses for the Miss in summer's most important fabric $2.00 up SUITS For the Young Man in summer material $4.95 up SHIRTS $1.00 and $1.50 SLIPS '98 c to $1.98 PAJAMAS All Colors in Silk Crepe 98 c to $1.98 Belk's Department Store CAMDEN, S. C. SAVE ON ~ GARDENING EQUIPMENT Make things easier for yourself keeping th lawn and garden in trim in this hot weather, here-?our best buys? > "-oot hose so& ga Lawn Mowers $6.50 to $12.50 BARRINGER HARDWARE CO. Telephone 21 BHBBHi Imagine getting the newest overall oe the market today FREE! 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