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t~r~=- iT'i, i i " ' i Girl's Slayer Says He Will Talk Soon llaleigh, Auk. 24?While plans went forward for an appeal from his death sentence, Martin Moore, six-foot-three ncKro youth, indicated today lie would soon "tell sometiiinK important" about Helen ClevonKor's murder. Tiie 22-year-old former hotel hallhoy, removed to a ceil on "death's row" in the state penitentiary here after his conviction of killing the blonde New York University student, did not say what the "something important" was. In the presence of Warden H. II. lloneycutt, Moore talked with reporters in his little white washed Cell? Just a few paces froip the concrete Kas chamber where he is under sentence to die October 2, i, "Ho you still maintain you didn't kill Miss Cievenger?" he wus asked. "I didn't do it," he mumbled. ."Then who did ?" I "Well, It wasn't me. That's all 1 know." At Abbeville, where Moore was trb'd and convicted, tin- Itev. M. L. Breeding, president of tile local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Uolored Persons said tlie association would raise funds to finance an uppoul. Breeding said u meeting of the Ashevlile chapter was hold yesterday and that It wus voted unanimously to raise money for Moore's defense. Notice of an appeal was filed by Moore's lawyer, Sanford W. Iirown. He has 45 days in which to perfect the appeal to the supreme court. A few mlnuteB after Moore was convicted ho was brought 275 miles to the state penitentiary here in aherlff Laurence E. Brown's armored limousine. In a confession, accepted as evidence at the trial, Moore told how he sneaked to Miss Clevenger's room in the fashionable Battery Park Hotel the night of July 15 to loot it und shot her when she screamed. Moore said he was tortured Into making the confession. "They licked it out of me," he said. "They beat me with a hose and punched me In the stomach. That's why I signed it; because they licked it out of me," Moore. In his cell here, said he knew nothing of the efforts of the Association for the Advancement of colored people to raise funds for an appeal for him. "I never heard of It," he said. Warden H. H. Hunefycutt quotod Moore as saying soon after his arrival at the "big house:" "I'm not guilty, but 1 reckon I may iis well say I'm guilty, because I'm going to die." TYPICAL AMERICAN CITY HAS $32 PER CAPITA TAX YEARLY Chicago, Aug. 17.?In the "typical American city," Professor William F. Ogburn said today, the women outnumber the men, the per capital tax is $32 a year and one In every ten families takes in roomers. There were some of tho data compiled by the University of Chicago sociologist in an article published today in the Journal, "Public Management." He produced bis picture of the typical city by making a composite of statistics, including federal census figures, from 33 cities with populations between 25,000 and 100,000 throughout the United States. For every thousand persons ordinarily employed there are 3.9 physicians, 4 2 lawyers. 3.1 preachers and 23.8 teachers. In the south he found more lawyers, doctors and preachers and fewer teachers. For every 100 women, his survey showod, there are only 97 men. Six out of every ten persons more than 15 years old are married. The average family In "average town" consists of throe or four persons. Including boarders and relatives. The average routing family paid $28 a month. Miss Katie Adelle Brode, 35 years old, near Dorchester, died from a rattlesnake bite 15 hours after being bitten. One of the family noticed blood on her ankle, and then the snake was tound colled near the doorsteps down which she walked Just previously. She waa hurried to a hospital, but treatment was useless. The body of an unidentified white man. aged about 38 years, with a 7$ pound iron bar tied to It In several places, was pulled out of Hlttle river, near McCormlck, by four fishermen. The drowned man was redhoaded and had his bight band amputated. He had been shot four times in the head and twice In the abdomen. Two men arrested at Jacksonville, Fla., for speeding, were sehteimed to pay fines of $10 each, and tdstt for ona hour in a badly wrecked cat la which four persons were recently Princess Nina Mdlvani was married tkftl wash at Bridged, Wales, to Denis Dajdf. son of the late Sir Arthwr Costs Boyle. % Should Use Care in Purchase of Seed; Although the amount of Kosen and other rye Heed sold In the aouth It-?t fall hh Abruzzi wan much less than five yeai'H ago, farmers there .need to be unuMually careful this fall ti> get Abruzzi when they ask for it, for supplies of Abruzzi apparently are much smaller titan last year, reports the U. H. Department of Agriculture In Alabama especially, misbranding of ryW seod in iuterataLe commerce lias been reduced through cooperationof state officials with the federal division of seed investigations. Approximately 28 per cent .of the samples Of "Abruz&l" rye, planted In Alabama in the fall of 1930 to determine whether or not the seed was truthfully labeled, proved to be of the Kosen variety, in 1933 no such ca.,es were found, and In 1934 and 1935 there were few. Kosen rye is winter-hardy hut not as deslruble for the south as Abruzzi and other varieties of tliut type. Kosen is referred to in some places as "creeping rye." It grows fiut to tlie ground until spring. Abruzzi grows upright in the winter, making good pasture ami more growth for green manure. Cooperation of many of the seedsI men is indicated in the fact that a number of shipments made into the soutli in the fall of 1935 were labeled Kosen rye, making It possible for the buyer to get Kosen rye if he wishes. The quantity of Kosen shipped into Alubuma in 1935 probably was no greater than in 1930, but In 1930 it was sold as Abruzzi. in 1935 it was correctly labeled. Because of the seed of the different rye varieties is so similar In appearance, careful farmers when possible, buy Abruzzi seed from a territory where Abruzzi Is commonly grown, and refuse seed not completely labeled. It is generally acknowledged that when seed is offered at abnormally low prices it is well to make carelul inquiry and keep records showing the representations made by~tfce seller. When seed is suspected of being misbrandod, it should be called to the attention of the state Beed official, who may, if the shipment appears to have violated the federal seed act, report the case to the division of seed investigations, of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. KNOW ANY BIGGER? Drought sufferers may take heart from this message of Lorraine Wardlaw of Kogers, Ark. It may solve some of their problems, especially if they happen to be potato raisers. Many people complain oT the droughts now and wonder how to get their potatoes to grow, she writes, but my grandad had a scheme which always produced a crop no matter what the weather might be. A long lime ago when Dad was Just knee-high, the country had one of the greatest droughts in history. The spring had started out with Just the right amount of rain and everybody scurried around getting their potatoes in the ground. They were coming along fine when suddenly the rains stopped. The earth began to dry out and little by little plantB in the fields and gardens began to turn yellow and then brown. Everybody's except grandad's that is. The Hpi 1 In his garden was continually wet, and everything was growing bigger than It had ever been before. People stopped and stared, wondering how It had happened. But Just a few weeks before they had all been laughing at grandad's mistake in planting his onions and potatoes in the same row. However, they soon learned to laugh out of the other side of their mouth for it was the onions that did the trick. Being so close they kept the eyes of those potatoes running so fast that the water completely covered the garden.?Pathflndor. f Three Meals Not Enough Two Yale physiologists have discovered that eating three meals a day is merely a habit. Their tests spem. to show we would be more efficient if we were to eat four, five or even six meals a day, as our appetites dictated. Dr. Howard Haggard and Leon A. Qreenburg advanced this theory after experimenting upon 213 persons, young and old, who were employes in a Connecticut factory making tennis shoes. For years there had been a falling off in production in late morning and late afternoon, always attributed to fatigue. The two Yale experimenters declared lack of food was the basic cause and began feeding one group an extra meal in mid-morning. Another group was fed an extra meal in mid-afternoon. The third group was fed both in the morning and afternoon. A fourth group received no extra meal. At the end of ten weeks, the group getting two extra meals daily made 111 pairs of shoes an hour. The group getting one extra ideal averaged 133 pain an hour and thine on the old mtef eoheduie averaged only lit pairs tkoirty. ^ 1^X3 C Tobacco Used as Remedy - ^ for Cholera in France During the cholera epidemic In France In 1831 the use of tobacco wan | miii<J to Induce Immunity. To ward off IIIi)c*mh while the great plague of 1(KIT> was In progress In London everyone was urged to smoke. Small children Were compelled to take tobacco. At Eton classes were Instructed to pause and light up at frequent Inter* vain, wrltaa Charles Suiutuy in the Chicago Tribune. Who first brought the plant to Km rope Is not established, nor Is It cortain who smoked the first pipeful. Jenn TNlcor, whose name remnlne today In nicotine, sent tobacco seeds to France about 1560. Within five years Sir John Hawkins returned to Kngland with tobacco. Most of Kurope and parts of Africa and Asia had the weed by the opening of the Seventeenth century. Snuff was preferred In Fiance for many years. The "drinking of tobacco," as stooklng was termed In Kngland, become common and later fashionable through the example of Sir Walter Haleigh. Kvery schoolboy knows the legend of the drenching of Sir Walter Raleigh by Ids valet. This faithful fellow, for the llrst time seeing smoke Issuing from the mouth and nostrils of Ida master, believed him to be afire and promptly emptied a bowl of water, alo, or beer over Sir Walter. The beverage changes a? do the characters In the anecdote. Slightly vurled versions are given for Itlchard Tarleton and others. Another Sir Walter Raleigh yarn Involves a ? wager with Queen Elizabeth. He bet that he cuuld weigh tobacco smoke. First he weighed a pipeful of tobucco,- then smoked It and subtracted the weight of the ashes. Black Art Man Known at "Dukun" to East Indians That almost good American word, "hoodoo," Is of African origin. From It "voodoo" was evolved, and the voodoolsm of Africa and the West Indies Is closely related to the "black magic" of the East Indies and Malaya. At least, the prime object of both is to "put a hoodoo" on an enemy or a rival In love, writes a Batavla, Java, correspondent In the Chicago Tribune. In Java and other East Indies the practitioner of the black art Is known us a dukun. A Dukun, man or woman, Is believed by natives to combine all the eerie and weird powers of a witch, sorcerer, demonologlst, and voodoo priest. The superstitious natives do not doubt that a dugun has the ability to summon the devil and evil spirits to do his bidding. When the death of an enemy or any person against whom a grudge Is held is desired, the aid of a dukun Is sought. After payment of a fee, dependent upon the wealth and position of the client, the dukun makes n small Image of the victim In clay. Then, with prayers and Incuntntions, much ceremony and hocus-pocus, he pierces the Image In the region of the heart or stomach with a needle or sharp Instrument, buries the clay Image In some carefully chosen spot, and within a week or a month the object of his professional activities dies of some affliction of the organ presumed 10 be pierced. Ancient A I C An Item In the church accounts for Pyrford, Surrey, reads: "1790, paid for 66 dozen sparrows, 16s. 6d." The church registers began In 1666, and the churchwardens' account)} contain some curious entries, Including the following : "1792, pare shoes for Mary Falkner, 4?. 0d.; 1798, fetching and carrying Woking Church larder, 4s.; 1813, one hedgehog, 4d.; 1815, paid for a polecat, Is.; 1818, a round frock of Lank ford T. Roase for 2 duzn of sparrows, old ones, Is. 6d; 1823, warrant to apprehend David Woodham, 4s.; a prayer book for the Clark, 5s.; 1796, for a letter conserntng the hair powder list, 6d."?Ttt-Blts Magazine. U. S. Treasury Conscience Fund The United States treasury conscience fund was opened with a contribution of $5 in 1811. Money received for this fund Is not carried on the books of the Treasury department as such, but Is listed as miscellaneous receipts. The amounts sent In rang# from 2 cents from a person who failed to put a jtamp on a letter when mailed, to several thousand dollars from persons who smuggled goods Into the United Stutea without paying Import duty. No special use Is made of the money. It simply goes Into the general funds of the department Largest Tr?i iu Canada Tho Dauglas fir attains the largest size of any tree In Canada, and, with the exception of the redwood of California, Is the largest tree on the North American continent. It has reached a height of 380 feet, and three 15 feet in diameter have been found, a single Douglas flr has scaled as much as GO.000 feet board measure. Specimens more than TOO years old have beet^ found, but comparatively few are found 1 more than 400 years of age. Sk ' 1 invented Revolving Millttone The ltomaua developed no power engines but produced several notable Inventlons Including the quem or revolving millstone which wrought a revolution In the art of milling. They were famous far their engineering and construct!otf werka, and their brtdgee, reads, HNdvcto and harbor works wese s?isc considering that, they " wertced ea eajaftsm trial ailuiw vllh e*lf the erode#* instrumental *v? * \ WMMBMM??? Big Lloyd'* Bell Toll* When Ve**el Goe* Down In London there In u big Lulldlog called Lloyd's,'which In the headquarters of the men whose hUHlness Is the ' Insurance of ships. Naturally the loss of a ship con' cerns those men, hiuI whenever there Is m wreck a bjg hell Is rung and then the announcement or the ship's loss Is mails, notes a writer In Pearson's London Weekly, This bell lunie from a vessel called the Lutlne, which Itself was. wrecked. Originally the Lutlne was captured from the French and became an Engllsh war vessel, - flhe was lost off the coast of Holland w hen carrying bullion and money. Luter some of the riches were re* covered by u salvage company together with the ship's bell und rudder. The hell has ever since beep used for the purpose mentioned, while the rudder was made into a chair nnd table, which are also Installed at Lloyd's. You may wonder why the place is culled Lloyd's. It Is because years ago there was a coffee house not fur away from the site of the present building, where merchants and others Interested In shipping used to meet. This coffee house was kept by n man named JOdward Lloyd. In time Lloyd's customers formed a .corporation concerned chiefly with marine Insurance, It was known as Lloyd's Corporation. Presently the corporation established offices of Its own, but the name of Lloyd was retained because of Ids association with the eurly days of the corporation. Gardener's Cards Led to Use of Term Etiquette If you-will consult an old French dictionary, you will be surprised to And that the definition of etiquette Is 'a label, small ticket, or placard," Instead of the definition given by Webster as "the observance of the proprieties required by a good breeding; conventional decorum; ceremony," The latter definition came to supplant the original one In an Interesting way, states a writer in the Washington Star. An old Scotch gardener, who was laying out the grounds at Versailles for King Louis XVI of France, was much annoyed because the courtiers so frequently walked over his newly laid flower plots. Remonstrance was of little use, so finally he appealed to fhe king himself. The king advised him to place labels nnd placards here and there Indicating where people might walk and where they might not. Moreover, he hacked tip the suggestion by Issuing a formal order that pedestrians stay at all times "within the etiquettes." Needless to say, the order was carefully observed, and the phrase, becoming a byword, soon came to mean "keeping within the proprieties" in every sense. Curvature of the Earth Some of the arguments In favor of the earth's rotundity are as follows, according to a writer In the Detroit News: 1. In eclipses of the moon, the edge of the earth's shadow on the moon Is circular. 2. All other heavenly bodies, In whatever position they are seen, appear to be circular. 3. An observer watching a ship disappear at sea. first loses sight of the hull, then of the masts. 4. The visible horizon at sea Is circular and a telescope does not enlarge the horizon, as It would If the earth had a flat surface. 5. Experiments such as the "Bedford Level experiment" of 1870 have actually measured the earth's curvature. 6. The sun and stars viewed at the same time from different stations on the" etfW^havfcdlfferent altitudes; as their ^rays are practically parallel, this must be due to the earth's curvature. 7. The fact that ships have sailed around the earth and airplanes have flown around It Machine Gunner Hiram Stevens Maxim wag horn In Sangersvllle, Maine, In 1840. He hecame the inventor of the machine gun which caused him (to quote LlddellHarfs "A History of the World war") to have his name "more deeply en-1 graved on the real history of the World war than that of any other man." But neither this nor smokeless powder was his most noteworthy invention. He was having a dinner-table conversation with guests when he suddenly got the Idea for the automatic regulator for "dynamo-electric machines" which was to make possible the widespread distribution of electric light and power. sad Jetsam This well-known expression Flotsam and Jetsam Is really an English law term. Flotsam means goods lost by shipwreck and floating on the sea Jetsam means gooda which have been cast overboard or "jettisoned," which 1s sometimes necessary |n order to lighten the ship In a storm, and which may sink, but may, of course, be cast up on the shore by the sea. Goods cast overboard and which float are "flotsam." and In general "flotsam" also refers to any floating wreckage. L Pro,M?.*d Statu, of Liberty Edouard de Laboulaye. a French Writer upon American history and Ufa EwTJIi th? erectlon of tht Statu* ancI^T^L ? com mem a rat* th* alML countrt?? during th* sKsSSSsfS ?*-<* ttnlM*r. ' and mnti ^t atnin, "" THE DARDANELLES Turkish Government Wants To Again Fortify Famous Waterway While battleships are concentrated in the Mediterranean and dispatches from European capitals tell of troop movements and large-scale maneuvers, Turkey asks the League of Nations for permission to arm the Dardanelles which were demilitarized 16 years ago. "The strait of the Dardanelles is the southern gateway to 220 miles of waterway linking the Aegean and the Mack seas, dividing Turkey, and sepa! rating Europe from Asia," sayB a bulletin from the Washington, D. C., headquarters of the National Geographic Society. At the other end of the waterway is the Bosporus, a strait commanded by Istanbul (Constantinople). Between these two narrow water lanes is the Sea of Marmara. Fortification of the sea and the straits was so effective that Istanbul, for centuries a favored plum among belligerents of both Europe and Asia, was taken only three times. Control of the straits has often meant control of the tides of European culture and politics. The fall of Istanbul in 1463 allowed Turkish I caliphs to flood medieval Europe with Byzantine ideas. A^fter the Allies opened the straits in 1918, following a spectacular failure in 1916, western ways poured into the land of the fez and the home of the harem to the accompaniment of Jazz, portable victrolas, and a shower of straw hats. Since 1923, a straits commission under the League of Nations has been in charge. From the castles of Dardanus, at j the southwest entrance, the name Dar-, danelles came to be applied to the' 42 miles of briny icewater swirling down from the Black sea, into the Aegean. Only five miles at its greatest breadth, it narrows to 1,400 yards of wind-twisted eddies, and offers a challenging spot for swimming from f Europe to Asia. Here, where it is j somewhat less than a mile between continents, the storied lover Leander I swam across to keep his nightly tryst' with the Asiatic priestess Hero. Lord Byron plunged into the same swirling waters, swimming the channel in an ' hour and ten minutes. Over a dozen college lads in recent years have proved that the Leander legend Is possible. The Dardanelles, wind-swept and swift, are called the Hellespont, because they had the dubious honor of drowning Helle, mythical princess of Thessaly, when she tumbled overboard while fleeing with her brother on the winged ram of the Golden Fleece. The southeastern shore is Indented with numerous covers which sheltered a thousand Grecian ships launched in the campaign against Homer's Troy. Inland stretch the Trojan' plains, worn down by weather and dramatic violence to muddy flats, flecked with scars of excavations, In 1915 Turkish forts ef the Galllpoll peninsula on the northern shore resisted a British fleet in what has been called the most powerful bombardment in history of a land position from the sea. The middle section of the Aegeanto-Black sea waterway is the largest and the least important?the Sea of Marmara. An inland sea with less than half the area of Lake . Erie, lta sapphire surface is stirred with a current so strong that tides are scarcely noticeable. Of its several islands, the most important IS the 50-squaremile Marmara Island which supplied marble and alabaster for Istanbul's proud architecture. Hence the Greek word for rock, marmara, named an Island, a sea. ahd one of the world's favorite building stones. The third link is the Bosporus, shortest, narrowest, most populous, most perilous. Like an lS-tnile tube curved into a slightly stralghted 8, J?. . . 1 ?? Both Itumptd I 'John," ft father said to his backward son, "how many letters are there in the alphabet?" I "I don't know, dad." "What, you have been at school for four years, and yet you don't know fl how many letters there are in the alphabet!" | "May I ask you a question, father?" "Yes, my boy." "You pass by the post office every day, don't you?" "Yes." "Well, how many letters are there In the post office?" The census bureau reports that for I July the cotton spinning Industry of the United States, operated at 119.8 per cent of its capacity on a single I shift basis, as compared with 73.5 during July of last year. Spinning spindles in place July 31 totaled 28,- I 167,094, of which 23,249,572 were active at some time during the month, compared with 28,311,834 and 22,957,- I 322 for June this year and 30,110,078 and 22,312,384 tor July last year. Twenty-two men, including Virgil I F. Efflnger of Lima, Ohio, described I as the national head of the Black Legion, have been indicted by a grand I jury at Detroit, Mich., on charges of criminal syndicalism in connection with activities of the hooded order. The Indictment Includes two counts, accusing Efflnger and the others, with advocating or teaching "crime, sabotage, violence or other forms of terrorism as a means of accomplishing industrial or political reform." I Mrs. Furches Crane of Caldwell county, North Carolina, has been arrested, and officers are looking for her husband In connection with the death of a 6-months-old child in an automobile accident. Officers found I Jars of liquor near the point of the wreck hidden In the weeds. The Cranes and the mother of the baby I were in the car at time of accident. A "chappel" of myriad-colored glass balls is a feature of the German peas- I ant bridal attire. between shores sometimes less than a half-mile apart, it handles all the turbulent waters of the Black sea, which is twice as large as all the Great Lakes, put together, "The Bosporus has been a water highway of history. Jason piloted his Argonauts thru here to seek the golden fleece. Here Darius pushed his Persian hordes Into Europe 480 B. C. I Here Alexander stepped into the Aft* I he was to conquer. Through here sailed galleys from Venice and Genoa | on their way to Trabzond (Trebizond) , | and Kaffa, to meet camel caravans laden with merchandise of oriental I splendor. When Turkish control of | the Bosporus Impeded commercial j connections with overland trad? routes from the East, Columbus set out to find a new road to the Orient. i "Since then the straits have been I less concerned with history and more j with commerce. Vessels have passed I through with Turkey's tobacco, rais- j ins, and dried figs for the United i States, quantities of eggs for France, j mohair from two million mohair gots i to be woven into cloth in the U. 8. , S. R. Brazil has shipped tons of coffee for the thick, sweet beverage I which has retained its popularity although turbans were replaced with the fez, the fet with the western feltu ? I DRAYAGE I AND I STORAGE I F. R. CURETON I Telephone 233-J -r- ; - j | ggggMaagga i ^ MONEY TO LOAN ] We are in position to make immediate Loans on DESIRABLE REAL ESTATE Investigate our easy payment plan Wateree Building and Loan Association First National Bank Building Camden, S. C. Telephone 62 FIRE?AUTOMOBI LE^-BUR^U^BONDS= ? I I DeKALB INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE 0 i I S "INSURANCE HEADQUARTERS" jjlII p CROCKER BUII.DING?TELEPHONE 1 | 1 III ? M. G. MULLER ELIZABETH CLARKE. M<T. gH I ^ . I