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Cool Summers Until 1940 Seen ? * ? Ues Moines, Iowa.?Farmers of Iowa never have experienced a real drouth, according to Charles D. Heed, U. 8. meteorologist. Even the famous drouth which damage^ crops in much of the tall corn state during the summer of 1934, was a period of "too much heat" rather than "too little rain," Heed's weather charts reveal. During June, July and August of 1934 Iowa received u total of 10.18 inches of precipitation, or 80 per cent of normal. *There were seventeen other summers out of sixty-two on record In which precipitation was less than for 1934 and two years produced only five Inches of rain during the growing season. Only one of (fie latter, Heed said, produced a smaller yield of corn than has produced in 1934. "Hut Iowu'h 1934 summer was the J hottest on record," Heed said, "and therein was the cause of the damage 1 to crops." It lie the J 931 prccipiLuliou was only slightly under normal, It was unable to compensate for the temperature whicii averaged 7?>.H degrees,' |LKood explained. The water needs of, life are often doubled when temperuturcH rise live degrees above! the usual summer scale. The meteorologist believes that the temperature curve which produced unusual heat during the past several years Is due to move downward during the next several growing seasons. Hoth professional and amateur, long range forecasters agree should average below normal In temperature, Heed said. Notations in weuther bureau records as far back as 1932 disclose that Heed then predicted a cycle of cooler Hummers that by 1939 or 1940 would shorten the growing season to u point Where a large portion of the Iowa corn crop'wfll he damagod by frost. Heed Is confident that temperatures rather than the quantity of rainfall is the most Important factor in crop development. | To .substantiate this belief. Hoed points to the fact that in 1933 only X.I inches of rain fell In Iowa, as < oiupared to 10.18 in the drouth season Of 1934 Vet 1933 produced a bumper corn crop while 1934 was s.-ven-ly damaging to corn, particularly in the Southern sections. Tli?' summer of 1935. while avorng ing nearly a whole degree abovo nor- I male, was the coolest since 1929. Heed said. n 'biting the past eighteen months. Heed pointed out, Iowa has experienc"d all tipm extremes of heat and cold. LOOKING FOR CORMORANT NEST New York, May 30.- The National Association of Audubon Societies Indulged in a hit of wistful wishful thinking today and announced that it hoped for the discovery this summer of the first neat of a European cOrtnoruut ever to tie found Jn the United States. 1 he European cormorants are like "e* birds that the Chinese use even now to catch fish. Rings around their necks prevent them ^from swallowing he larger ones they capture. They get the smaller ones for food. 'he bird is extremely rare on this Side Of the Atlantic. Hut the association -reported that a pair had been seen flying about Hog Island, in Mus-j gougus bay. near Hath. Maine. I he nest, if they have one. has not been spotted. I lit- tirst Audubon nature camp will I be established on Hug Island. Maine. | 'his summer and a force of natural j ists and student campers will be nilIt's shed on the quest for the nest lb.' association said the island giv" ,(> " '*y hf M 111 leant Todd Uinghnut arid the surrounding bay region w. r, one of the places richest In tor 'st bird life in the United States lb.- forest growth there is in the: prim.'xal condition of the original I spruce forest. Ford Builds Another "Village Industry" i Dearborn, Mich., .June 3.?Welding electrodes used in departments of the Rouge |>lant of the jfprd Motor Com puny are now being produced in u rehabilitated grist mill at Dundee, Mich., adding another to the Hat of I Ford "village Industries," It wan announced today ut the company's offices here. A force of forty men is employed. Carrying out the Ford village industry theory, most of them live in the neighborhood of the mill and are enabled to supplement their factory employment with farm work on off days and in spure time. A portion of the required power will be taken from the Raisin River on which the mill, known several decades ago as th?* Davis (Jjisi Mill, is loeat gj. A dam, head works and draft tube are being rebuilt, and the completed hydro-electric system will have a capacity <>r I'd) horsepower. Hqual power will he supplied by a steam system. Machinery is now being run on^eiectric utility power which, when the hydro and steam systems are completed, will be used as standby. A power bouse has been built adJoining tin- rear of the mill building.. It is of masonry construction, and tinstone used wus taken from the tail race which was enlarged to handle increased quantities of water. The mill rehabilitation project also entailed the excavation of a basement and the, straightening of the Raisin - River in the adjacent territory, to care for the excess spill. A seven foot head of water will he carried. With the placing in operation of the Dundee mill, thy Ford Motor Company lias ten villuge industries* in production. One other is on the tyalsln River?at 'fecumseh. The others are at Nankin Mills, Newbergh, Plymouth, Phoenix, Waterford and Northville, on the Rouge River, and at Flat Rock and Ypslluuti on the Duron River. All are conveniently located to the Ford Rouge plant. Criminally Insane % Men Break Asy lum St. Peter, Minn., June 8.?Sixteen inmates of the St. Peter State Hospital for the insane overpowered their guards last night and escaped. They were led by I^awrpnce Devof. convicted hunk robber, and former KarpisIhirker gangster, recently transferred here. Cowing the guards, the men rushed through the gales and fled into tho St. Peter business district shortly after 7 p. in. (Central standard time). All the fugitives we're inmates of the criminally insane ward. Officials declined to discuss the break Sheriffs of surrounding counties and Twin Cities authorities were notified, all roads were guarded. Some time later two of ttic escaped men were recaptured. The two were taken near Kaston. The other fourteen were believed to be. roaming the Minnesota river bottom attempting to reach Mankato. When a man at Miami, Fla., started to vote in the primary last Tuesday, an election manager halted him with the explanation that the street number from which the would-be voter registered was a vacant lot. The voter explained that ho slept in an automobile trailer at night and took his "home" with him when lie went to work. He voted while the election manager continued to mutter. Two of the Diontte children at Callender. Out . have measles, but it happens to be two older children of the family. S and years of age. There is little danger of the quintuplets catchilig the disease as they are kept iti a separate building. 100 yards away. A baby girl horn to Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Dodds at Salem, Ark , weighed ounces at birth. It is being fed with a medicine dropper and is reported as doing well." General News Notes Alex Hill, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Hill of Oaffney, drowned in Gilkey creek, nine miles south of there. The body was recovered a few hours later. I hree Columbia boys were drowned in the Congaree river, in an olft boat they found, which leaked badly and finally sunk. A fourth boy In It managed to swim to shore. Assessors at Columbia found 357 hops, five cows and a inule feeding entirely on the city dump, the hogs being fattened fast. Ho they assessed the hogs at $1,000 against tbelr owner, Henry Ford has presented a 61-inch telescope to David Wetherhorn, aged 15, a Hoy Hcout, who lives near Mr. Ford's Hryun county, Georgia estate The hoy talked with Mr. Ford Iuh( winter about the stars, but thought no more about the conversation until the telescope arrived. Greal Britain's newest transatlantic liner, the Quoon Mary, arrived in New York liurhor on Mouda$\ after u voyage averaging 20.133 knots per hour: but tailed to breuk the crossing time record sei up by (he Norma.irdio, huge French liner it required 12 tugboats to ease the Queen Mary into her pier. New York* Republicans will go to the Republican convention at Cleveland, Ohio, the last of tills month, without having chosen a candidate for the presidency. The delegation will be open to back the candidate who ,'promises best in ability to solidify tiie Republican strength in the midwest and far west. Davis R. Lpe. Washington Herald reporter, has begun serving a 90-day sentence in the county jail at Rockville, Md., on u charge of contempt of court, l^ee was credited with the authorship of a story purpoTedly giving a decision of the circuit court prior to announcement of the decision by tiie court. John C. Williams, Spartanburg attorney anil law partner of Governor Olin D. Johnston, bus announced his candidacy for solicitor of the seventh judicial circuit in the Democratic primaries tills summer, the present solicitor having quit, to run for congress. John J. Cor mack, 81 years old, died last week after working on The State newspaper from the day it was founded in 1891, ending as foreman emeritus of the composing room, having been retired on full pay some years ago. He was around until his sudden death from heart disease. W omen of France, campaigning for the right to vote, on Tuesday threw' hundreds of pairs of stocks at the heads of senators in the French parliament from the galleries. The socks bore a card stating: "Even if you give us the right to vote, your socks will be darned." Courteous guards ousted the women. I lie home office authorities at Bucharest. Rumania, has forbidden the appearance In theatres of Bucharest of Anna Sago, the woman who gave the tip that ended the career of John Dillinger in Chicago, where she was to receive $2f> per night for her appearances. The woman was recently deported from the United States. Robert S. James, five times married, a barber, was convicted at Los Angeles, Cal., on a charge of immorality involving his niece. 21. and was given a sentence of three to 150 years. June 22 ho faces trial for the murder of his firth wire. He 1h alleged to have held his \vifos foot in a box of rattlessnakes that they might irtTtson her; hut that failing, drowded her in a hath tub. William l\ Jacobs, an advertising ageiu-y man for years, was installed, last week as the twelfth president of Presbyterian college, at Clinton, during the commencement exercises, lie is 42 years old and the youngest college president in South Carolina In the address to the graduating < lass of Presbyterian college, numbering TP;, this week. Senator James F. Byrnes told them the world offers them greater opportunity than ever before. "You are not a lost gen- ration." he said, "but rather you are a generation that Is entering a world that offers you greater opportunity than ever before The world is waiting for men of ability. You have your place in it. Go out and fill it" The town of Maryville, near Charleston. has lost its- charter as a municipality. because white people moved into the formerly negro town its white citizens, living there now, found themselves ruled by the negroes, with tin- county police having no right to act there, so they had the legislature pass an act abolishing the town and thus plating it under county control entirely. it was chartered all wars ago. When admitting to the South Carolina bar another young woman, last week. Chief Justice Stabler told her to demand the rights of men. In courts, but not to try at the same time to gain the traditional privilege? of a woman, and told of one feminine lawyer who got married in the middle of a trial. The chief justice said he supposed she thought she could get a Judgment any time, but a husband only once. Charlotte Thompeon Yearly Report Perfect attendance,, pupil* neither absent nor tardy: Grade 5 Frank M< Luod. Grade 6?'Lillian Hhlvar. Grade 9? Margie Shiver. Grade 10- -Carrie Maker, I,in wood Ross. Grade 11 -<^urle* Smith, Doris Workman. Yearly honor roll, pupil* averaging D (>!uh or better for the nine month*: Grade 1?Betty Kelly, Carrie Bell Ncal (until leaving ut end 8 mouth*). Grade 2?Julia Arrant*. Grade 3?Howard Young, Grade 4?Baynard Boykin, Margaret Pearco. Grade r??Martha Dentil*. Grade 6 -Lillian Shiver. Grade 7?Lila Baker, tirade 10 -'Carrie Baker, tirade 11?Iva Lou Arrunts, Naomi Walker, Doris Workman. Grade leader*: tirade 1?Began j)ee*, McRady Shiver, Arnold Trupp, Bargain Dixon. tirade 2. Julia Arrant*, Thelma Sinclair, Kvelyn Branham. Grade 3-?Howard Young, Betty Sowe|], .J. W. McMuiiuk. Grade 4?Murgaret I'earce and Baynard Boykin tied. Grade f> Martha Dennis. Jimmle Black^vell, tirade 0 -Lillian Shiver, Sarah Thompson. J s Grade 7?Lila Baker, Catherine Bradley. tirade 8?Deas Boykin, Helena Holloman, Annie Ixdze Ross. Grade 9?Margie Shiver, Lol* Dixon. Grade 10?Carrie Baker, Lila,Dixon, Mary Moseley. Grade 11?Dori* Workman, Naomi Walker, u , , Chester C. Davis, administrator of the agricultural adjustment act administration, and not so popular with some of the higher-ups in the government, has been appointed the "farm member" of the^ Federal Reserve board of governors for fourteen years, at a salary of $15,000 per year. >he government of Peru has warned the United States in an amicable spirit against intervention in Nicaragua, following the overthrow of the government by a rebellion. Secretary of State Hull has announced that the United States will have no part In the affairs of Nicaragua. The run-off primary election of Florida for the governorship, will be between Judge W. Raleigh Patsy, West Palm Beach, and Fred P. Cone, Lake City banker. Oscar Johnston, manager of the 1933 cotton producer's pool, has announced that 172,004 of the total of 212,793 bales of actual cotton in the pool will be offered to the trade under a sales program, which will invite weekly bids beginning June 17 and continuing through July. The state of Arkansas will tomorrow begin the celebration of its century of statehopd, June 15, 1835, when the state had a population of 51,809. The state was named for its first Indian inhabitants. President and Mrs. Roosevelt are to be guests of the state on Wednesday. i b I | unpaid business licenses. I J. C. BOYKIN, I Kg City Clerk of Camden, S. C. \ I NOTICE | | ;; On and after June 15th all unpaid paving assessment* will 1 bear interest at the rate of 6% annually. J. C. BOYKIN, City Clerk of Camden, S. C. tftp -ft- ' n IT II ;] 1 I To Delinquent Taxpayers I I June 30th has been set by the I I Comptroller General of the State of I I South Carolina as the final date of I I settlement by me of all delinquent I I taxes on town property of Kershaw I I County. Pay these taxes now and I I avoid any further penalty. ?\ I J. H.%cLEOD, > rV I Sheriff of Kershaw County M II Hot Days Are Here! Let us keep you fresh, cool and clean, by doing your I I ' Family Laundry. Our CASH and CARRY prices are I I practically washwoman prices. Laundry washed clothes I I wear longer. I I 5c per lb. Flat Work 11c per lb. Finished I I Everything finished and ready for you when it is call- I I ed for. Visitors are always welcome at our plant at any I I time and criticism will be appreciated. II We render a most complete Dry Cleaning Service. I I DON'T STORE YOUR WINTER CLOTHES BEFORE I I THEY ARE CLEANED. II Washing Blankets, Quilts and Rag Rugs a Specialty. 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