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rHE CAMDEN CHRONICLE* -- ? P. Nii,m..?dttT ?a ;xs> wai Q*uu]?n, South CarolluM poatotrioo am econd cltM mail matUr. Prlo* p*r Mum ft 00, pa^abU in advaoco. Friday, October 2, 193d THE HIGHWAY CARNAGE A reproduced article In tod ay'* paper, "Koiifi.K To H*U On W#U/' should be put in tbe baud* of every I c itizen of this state to be thought-I fully read. It is a synopsis or a grand I Jury charge at Greenwood by Judgel J. Henry Jobnaon, and deal# largely I with the cheapness of human life In I South Carolina and a criticism of the I growing prevalence of drunken auto-1 mobile drivers on public highways.! It carries a ringing indictment from! Judge Johnson that we are "rolling! to hell on wheels as fast as we can go." We direct the attention of every! reader of this paper to the tlineiy j article. ! How appalling to read the mount-1 ing number of highway accidents and J deaths. Hardly can you pick up yourl dally paper without reading or multM plied deaths and injuries from auto mobile accidents. Death walks the highway. Ho strides through our homes. He is an unseen visitor at I every place of amusement. He Is apt J to put in his appearance in the hap-J plest hours. | Carelessness, recklessness, drunken-1 ness, ignorance and stupidity are the principal causes of accidental injury I and death. And us Judge Johnson! asks, what are we going to do about) it? 1 Here is a problem our law-makers j should fearlessly tackle and a condition they should strive to improve. J Something must 6o done to che.ck the increased drinking that is daily being reflected In the heavy toll being taken in automobile wrecks. A law containing teeth, must be passed 'and rigidly enforced to help improve the alarming situation. The problem is ten thousand times more important J for the legislature than spending its time over a highway row or caucusing to detorinlne whether its members be more coat-tall swingers for the governor or men of brain, lntelll-j genre and backbone who will act with I sternness to protect and preserve human life on the highways. I The gods of recklessness and drunkenness are devouring thousands of lives each month on American highways. Their appetites cannot be satisfied. Is it any wonder then that the automobile death toll continues to climb to unprecedented figures? No wonder 36.000 lives are sacrificed each J year that property loss from acci-J dents runs into untold millions?that thousands of persons are permanent-] ly Injured. I ntll public opinion becomes arous-1 . ed nnd demands that highway travel conditions be made safer, death will I Htill walk the highways, our black accident record will continue to get I worse, not better.?Clinton Chronicle. CAN'T DO EVERYTHING I Occasionally a reader, and soxne-j times a paying subscriber will send us a long obituary extolling the virt-J ues of some departed friend or kinsman, winding up with about 40 vorses of disconnected so-called poetry, and! expect us to donate from a half I column to a column of space. And sometimes the. writer gets sore and raises old ned because we insist on giving our readers something worth reading in our limited space. It is hard enough to publish a newspaper, and the Lord knows we try to be accommodating. We record newly born babies, we lie about newly married couples and doad people, and. As fiar as we can do so, chronicle the affairs of the community. We try to cultivate a spirit of patience and < hristian fortitude, even to the point of not condemning to purgatory those who don't subscribe to The Journal, but read someone else's. But then are some things that get our goat, and obituaries that are to be published free, and news items that we can't read are two of them.?Pagelanf Journal. Veteran Major Is Defeated Atlanta. Sept. 24.?William B. HartsfielA, nominated mayor of Atlanta In yesterday's run-over I)omo? ratio primary, said today he will seek reorganization of the police department to improve law enforcement. The 16-year-old attorney and state legislator viewed his victory' over veteran Mayor James L. Key as a mandate to city council to cooperate with him. Hartsfleld won by a three tOftwo vote, polling 12.348 to Key's 8,178 In an unofficial tabulation. German Jewish druggists were given until October 1 to lease their stores to 'aryans.' They will be alto remain as silent partners, Ml they mast not actively manage the pharmacies. traveling by railroad A modern steam locomotive pulling a train of thirteen Pullman car* can b?t accelerated to ninety mllea an hour In three minutes. With lean than six per cent, of the world'# land area and population the Pnttetl Mate* fnta 32 per cent, of the world's railroad'mileage. The railroad# buy more than 70.000 , Individual commodities, ranging all < the way from pine and needlea to | bridge# and locomotive#. j Many freight train# are now operat- , ed on schedules almoU jm tftft M t pa##enger train#. These fact#. Issued by the A##ocla- , tiou of American Railroads, give an , Idea of the astonishing progress that , ha# been made In jallroad trahipor- , tation. The chances are that more j Improvement ha# been achieved In op oration since the war than in any like period since the Industry's lnAiw I I ception. When you take a trip "dn a modern railroad train today, you use the high- ^ est developed media of transportation the world has yet seen. It may be hot and humid outside, but inside ^ your car spring weather prevails? ^ because the rails have spent more ^ than $60,000,000 on air-conditioning since 1922. The train Is practically ( silent and vlbratlonless?and It can ^ carry" you through a dual storm with-. _ out soiling your white suit. It will ( take you to your destination in a remarkably short time, and at a very ( low cost. Should you eat meals en- ( route, you will find that dining cars ( no longer practice the "robbery" of ( which they used to be accused?the cost for meals is the same as in any ( good restaurant. More Americans are traveling by ' rail now than in many years?because they have discovered that no other kind of traveling is as com'fortable, as certain and as economical In the light of services rendered.? Sumter Herald. HALF OF NATION'8 MICA MINED IN NORTH CAROLINA A summary of mica production In the United States for 1935, issued by the Bureau of Mines, shows North Carolina produced more than half the nation's total. From a production of 4,904 short tons In 1934, North Carolina's production jumped to 12,087 short tons In 1935. The monetary value of the state's 1935 production was given as $231,151, aH compared with $98,170 the previous year. North Carolina's 1935 production of 19,320 short tons valued at $405,101. The other principal producing state Is New Hampshire which in 1935 produced 460 short tons valued at $19,062. That was a decrease from 1934 when New Hampshire production was 697 short tons-valued at $23,952. Possibilities for further extension of mica mining were indicated by the bureau summary which said during 1935 there were 9,756,496 pounds of mica Imported. Mica mining in North Carolina is scattered in a number of western counties. The rooflug, wall paper and rubber | industries are the principal consumers of the mineral In this country. HOLINE88 PREACHER DIE8 FROM SNAKE BITE Jonesville, Va? Sept. 30.?The Rev. 1 T. Anderson who was thrice bitten by ' snakes In a "faith demonstration" at ! a Holiness meeting Sunday died at ' midnight Dr. T. B. Ely said today. The doctor said Anderson's daugh- ' ter appealed for aid yesterday. After 1 hearing a description of the man'# 1 condition Dr. Ely said the stricken man had waited too long and that 1 medical care could do nothing for him. The daughter said that at times spots appeared all over her father's!' body and he was delirious and In great pain. 1 Ely said Anderson was bitten twic& on the right hand by a copperhead 1 moccasin and once on the left hand by a rattler. Xj Friends quoted the Holiness preacher, a former school teacheiL and unsuccessful candidate for the legislature as having said 1m "hold out faithful to the ondV H At Waco, Texas, 2,000 persons were homeless, when a Braxos river levee gave way under the crush of floodwaters and Inundated the entire eastern part of the city. It sent a torrent of flood water Into a residential section. City Manager W. C. Torrence of Waco' said he believed all persons had boen [ removed or warned taJpave the endangered area before the water hlL Throe refugee stations were #et up with national guard field kitchens to care for the homeless. Police rigged up a loudspeaker car to direct rescue trucks, operated by volunteers from the lean Uefipn, police and national #ietds. Tw waters were still rising,- nVMt damage was feared from their continuing to go higher. ? It has been estimated that not more than S per cent of the 1.000,-000 In the world are ?a te*roe*? v' jllPjr " .. L! * V1 Jjf mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmrnttrnrnsm General News Notes A freight train of 100 cars at Kill anlng, Pe? ran over a baby eighteen month* old who lay sleeping between the rails, where It fell' asleep while playing. Its only Injury was a slight cut ou the forehead. When the Will Rogers ranches were sold at Claremont, Okla., to marshal the assets of his estate, nobody bid sgalnst the widow who bought them for 916,000 when the sale was adjourned to the office of an attorney ind completed behind Members of the Goodrich ?' local, l/nfted Rubber Workers of America, ruled unanimously to return to work it the B. V. Goodrich company plant eblch suspended operation making 10,000 employes Idle after a serle# of 'sltdowns." Pan-American Airways has been (Iven permission by the department it commerce to begin carrying pas ?enger* from San Francisco to Mailia, and the company will start pas longer service early next month. The Thompson orphanage at Charlotte was left the major part of the estate of Alexander Kreth, of Raleigh, N. C., by his will. The amount is >ver 950,000 which is made a trust fund for the widow and goes to the orphanage at her death. More than 1,000 Walker county Alabama children remained away from classrooms while school authorities itudled demands of labor leaders that teachers be required to join the Amerft-an Federation of Classroom Teachers. A hilddleford, Me., citizens' committee, seeking to have the Pepperell Manufacturing company continue operations in Biddleford, announced company officials had declared it too late to Btop removal of 600 looms to Alabama. Edwin Robert Crawford, former president of the McKeesport Tin Plate company, left approximately $1,500,000 to charity under the terms of his will filed for probate at Pittsburgh. Attorneys estimated his total estate amounted to 93,825,000. Relief will be required for 350 families, victims of the hurricane along the Atlantic coast, the Red Cross pjxnounces, and $30,000 must be spent for them. Six villages In North Carolina have 125 families in distress, and 18 houses were destroyed along the North Carolina coast. The government forces defending Madrid opened wide the gates of a big dam and sent a fifteen foot wall of water down on the camp of the be sieging rebels. It swept to their death many soldiers, and destroyed much ammunition and supplies. The concrete abutments of a bridge, being repaired after flood damage, at the county fair grounds at Rutberfordton, N. C., fell on a Splndale man In the chain gang and killed^-him. Two other convicts escaped, when the guards shouted a warning, but Paul Cochran, 22 years old, stood still and was crushed.. Mrs. Nancy Seymore, 74 years old, of Greene county, North Carolina, went into the yard of hor son's home, saturated her clothes with kerosene, and Ignited it. She died soon aftef-. ward. She had been despondent and bad gone around telling her friends she would not see them again, and telling them goodbye. The cities which have been operating on their own summer time, an hour off standard time, returned to normal time on Sunday at 2 o'clock in the morning. Chicago remained on what amounts to a permanent daylight saving time under a local ordinance placing the city on eastern instead of central standard time. There will be a referendum on the subject In November, however. A big six-foot n^gp-o confessed killing Mrs. Florence (^oodwln, a Washington typist, after^^Joljce had fixed the crime on him by BcletaHftc methods. Very sn^tll silken threads found under his finger nails were demonstrated to have come from the robA the woman wore, under the microscope, and the blood stains on his shirt and trousers were found to be the same type of blood as that of the murdered woman. < Forest fires threatened Marshfield and Coos Bay, Oregon, after virtually destroying the coastal town of Bandon, leaving its entire population of 1,500 homeless. At least seven pero ons were reported dead at Baudon. Eighteen miles inland small buildings were oh fire on the outskirts of Coqullle a town of 3,000, and scores of families were leaving their hortes. Burning embers were falling through, the town. Scattered gdburb&n buildings In the Coos Bay cities of Marshfield and North Bend, with combined population of 12,000, were on fire. South Carolina is the only state lb which cotton grades and staples are better than last year,,they being Irregular and poorer in Florida, Georgia and Alabama, a federal bureau at Atlanta reporta. Thomas Young, English scientist, was a prodigy of the rarest type.- Ah an age when most children lead Mother Goose rhyme*.. he wee absorbing foreign lahgnsgee. At the age oflt he oonld write In 14 Searchers Find G. W. Hart's Body Floating In water about waist doep. I the body of George W. Hart. $9, who had been mlsing Mince Friday, was recovered about noon yesterday In I I .alee Murray by Hoy Wbltaker, an I employe of the Duubar Funeral home. I Mr. Wbltaker located the body I while cruising In a motor launch about I Ave miles from Stewart's fishing I camp. . My. Hart had been the object of a Widespread search since he dlsap-l peered on the lake Friday afternoon I aft*- returning froiq a flaking trip] with Frank Stewart. f'Mr. Hart went] back on the lake In a motor boat] after coming back to Stewart's land-1 ing with Mr. Stewart. No trace of the L boat had been found and authorities ] expressed the belief that it had gone | to the bottom of the lake. Coroner John A. Sergeant said that] death was apparently from drowning , and that no inquest would be neces-1' sary. Sheriff T. Alex Helse and a number of other officers and residents ] of the section also took part In the I search. A reward of flOO had been offered ' by Mrs. George W Hart, mother of the drowned man, for the recovery] of the body. v"v.'F Mr. Hart attended both Cleihson} College and the University of Virginia. He had made his home on Lake] Murray, near Ballentlne, for about a] year and operated a chicken farm. | His mother has been In Columbia ] since Monday as the guest of Mrs. R. L. Burnett.?Wednesday's State. j . 3 I Luck 8avss Life L Chester, Sept. 27.?Officer N. Wrayf Benson believes that luck and quick] thinking saved his life Saturday night in a desperate fight that he had with | [Amos Crosby, negro, World War vetteran and Janitor at Gaylo school, Baldwin Station, Chester, when the j negro in a drunken condition resist-] ed arrest. ' Crosby was driving an automobile,] while drunk. Officer Benson said. When he stopped his car, it angered ] the negro. A terrific fight then en-| sued, he said. Officer Benson said | that in the fierce fight Crosby aged to get hid finger on the trigger j of his (Benson's) revolver, and tried] to direct the barrel against hie stomach. However, he *yas too quick for him and he managed to get the barrel turned into the earth, when the car-] tridge fired, sending the bullet into] the ground. Otherwise the officer be-l lieves that he would probably have been severely shot. Sam Ramsey then J' rushed up to assist Mr. Benson and the negro was brought to Chester. His injuries were treated by Dr. | George A. Hennies. Later he was*] placed in the Chester county jail. Of-] ficer Benson escaped uninjured. ' ENGLISH WOMAN LIKES LIFE IN UNITED 8TATE8 New York.?Having completed by automobile a roundtrlp of 10,000 miles across the United States and Canada,] traveling Incognito with only compan-1 Ion and chauffeur, the Dowager Mar-| choness of Reading professed her ] abiding admiration for America before she left here for England recent-1 ly. " ? -f Lady Reading was especially Inter-] ested in the methods by which the j United States handles Its unemploy- ] ment problem, since she is the leader] of the Personal Service league, one of England's largest voluntary relief organizations. By traveling as a"-commoner, she was able to talk with re-l lief recipients and to learn of the] problems of people In all walks of American life, she added. I "The four months since I landed have been full of deepest interest for]) me," Lady Reading continued. "I ] have met men and women, boys and | girls of vastly different types and ages. I have found, every wondrous] hospitality, not merely in the form] of entertainment, but also in the most valuable and delightful friendliness and kindliness." So Interested was Lady Reading In North America that she indicated she would return here next summer for] another tour. She said that inspiration to make the trip came from the affection which her husband, the late Marquess of Reading, had for the United States. I was greatly interested in the | great resources of American youth, j particularly iu its virility, enterprise and determination," she continued. "I} j'W0' help feeling that one of the j great gifts education and democracy ] have had to bestow is the complete freedom of self-consciousness appar- j ent in the youth of this country. "In every city and town I was moved to admire the broad vision of the future which young people show, and also by the generosity displayed la public enterprises given by the wealthy to Improve conditions of the poor." t - t * TyJ | -iSssrsiiiiii ****** ? * ~ Vi- > > I I ANTSfrCOOPKII PROJECT AWAIT? COURT ACTION Columbia, Sept. IS.--Chairman Burnet Maybaujt of the South Carolina Public Service Authority said today a conference of !fc? Anther**?, sponaor of the 8antee-Oeoper project, and Its advleory board had- la a better undent landing between the two He aald 'the sponaor* were cheer ed by a prospect of action on lttlgs-> Hon by power companies, against the. big project "soon after" the U. 8 upreme court paaeee on a elmllar nn ^ul "> Bwiart tWo.t froject next month. k y' -1 The Charleston mayor" disclosed that the Authority had expressed "appreciation of the cooperation" of the advisory board, headed by Governor Olln Johnstorf,'and had offered to send It fall copies of its ndnhtetf. Spokesmen for the advisory board, he said, replied that they did hot deem this ndrdsMhry, and would hsk for Information on the progress of the project whenever they wished It. Maybank assured them that records of the Authority were "open at all times." x He said the Authority bad spent only 131,000 In two years of negotlatlou and litigation, $7,600 of It In attorneys' fees and the balance at the rate of $1,000 & month for staff and all other expenses. The Authority also discussed litigation brought by the Duke Power company. t^ie South Carolina Powar company, / and the Carolina Power and Light company on grounds the proposed project was unconstitutional. The case has not reached the United States supreme court, but a decision on the Busxard Roost pro(ect^lu Greenwood county waS/expected to play a considerable part in determining it Sumter Has Brush Artist Sumter has a young man who Is & natural artist with brushes and i paints in the person of Cecil MqCasklll. The very clever sales display banners in the Capitol department store, depicting "Jiggs" and other comic sheet characters are his work and are well worth a visit by, anybody to see and enjoy. .He has achieved local faqae too through some landscape scenes he has painted, one of White's Mill, which it is Bald he has been offered a good sum in cash for it by a prominent local man. Mr. McCaskill displays a talent that is bound to carry him to->a place of notei if be follows it up.?Sumter Herald, j r Massachusetts and Rhode Island are the only states that bllow arrests for an uncollected debt. Wants-For Sale ; MEN WANTED?For nearby Rawleigh Routes of 800 families. Write Rawleigh's, Department SCJ-20-SB, Richmond, Va. 28-30 pd. L08T OR 8TRAYED?About three weeks ago one brown and black female hound. Answers to name of Kate. If found notify Louis Clyburn, Central Service Station, Camden 8. C. 28 pd. FOR RENT?Six room brick cottage in choice location. Heated. Furnished for winter season w?r unfurnished on yearly lease. Available soon. Better act quickly. Shannon Realty, Company, Phone 7;_ Crocker building, Camden, S. C. 28 sb. j FREE ROAD SERVICE?Creed's Fill ing Station Fifty-Mile Free Road Service. Call Telephone 48C, Camden. 8. C. ; FINAL DI8CHARGE Notice is hereby alven thafj one month from this date, on November 2, 1936, 1 will make to the Probate Court of Kershaw county my final return as Administratrix of the estate of B. W. Rabon. deceased, and on the | Bame date I will apply to the said ( Court for a final discharge as said Administratrix 6t the said estate. : IDA R. RABON, . Administratrix. Camden, S. C., September 30, 1936. Wants-For Sale " |i in i i i WALL PAPERING and Painting at reasonable prices. Before ha via, * your work done write me for pri< 9 O. Bradwell KdgewoUJ Poetofflce! Columbia, 8. C., or Telephone 9318 27-t9pd. DO NOT WAIT all day to hare your cotton ginned. We hare the largest outfit in this section and the inoet modern. Time is worth lot to you during the harreet season. Gin *t "jThe Southern Cotton Oil Company > [Camden. 8. C. ' WANTED?To sell paint and roofing material. No down payment. No ~ mortgage or security required. Two"" ~ years to pay. Only 6 per cent, in terest. Camden Furniture Company. Inc., Camden, 8. C. 17-28sb. WANTED?You to paint and put new root on your house now. No down payment. Ne mortgage or security required. Two years to pay. Only V 6 per cent, interest / Camden Furniture Company, Camden, 8. c CHOIOE8T BUILDING L0T8?"in city,ton Bast Walnut street Fine neighborhood, quiet, neer business churches, schools, theatre. Car cost saved In Ave years will repay for lot. For sale, prices and terms reasonable. See J. B. Wallace Camden, 8. 0. 14 Jt ' WANTED-?Work as house maid or nurse. Address Inez Salmon, Box 37, Route 2, Catnden, 8. C. 29-31 pd FOR RENT?Cottage at 1904 .Broad Street. Furbished or unfurnished. Apply on premises or to J. E. Rob? ineon, Camden, 8. G. 26tl ? FOR RENT?Six room cottage In one of best sections of city. Available now. Shannon Realty Company Crocker Building, Phone 7, Camden' 8. 20-28 tf. WANTED?You to take advantage of our Paint and Roofing plan. No down payment. No mortgage or security required. Two years to pay Only 6 per cent, interest Camden Furniture Company, Inc., Camden, 8- C. 27-28sb. HOU8E8 FOR 8ALE?We have some * very desirable homes in all sections of the city at very moderate prices. See us. Shannon Realty Company, Telephone 7, Crocker Building, Camden. 8. C. 19tf GIN YOUR COTTON at the Southern Cotton Oil 4 Company. They have installed a modern outfit and you will receive a fine sample. A,-good sample means a better price. You will receive prompt and courteous service. Southern Cotton Oil Company, Camden, S. 0. 24tf iWE HAVE?In stock Mascot Ldme Stone for your land. McLeod and McLauchiin, Phone 63, Camden. 5?- - -1 ? 27-tf. ? FOR 8ALE?Filling station, store, lunoh room, home, all under -one roof. Corner lot on Number One Highway. Fine opportunity. Shannon Realty Co., Camden, S. C., tele7. ' 27-29 sb. FOR 8ALE-?A desirable five room bungalow, .with bath, for $2^50, easy terms. For further Inform!, tlon apply Enterprlee Building A ?.h<?a.!?.?5,o0,?*,0n' <**mde#i, 8. C. 3sb ; BUILDING LOT8?Are increasing in prices. Buy now and save. We have five fine lots 62x136, close In; three choice lots 75*160 In center of residential section; three more near Brevard Place Other beautiful lots. No advance in prices on these. Address Shannon Realty Company, Telephone 7, Camden, S. ~rQr :~ 24tf. FARMS FOR BALE?We have many good farms listed, all sizes and at favorable prices and^ terms. Shannon Realty Company, Phone 7, In Crocker Building* Camden, 8. C. S4tf FOR 8ALE?Tract of about 100 acreq of fair grade Of land, containing nice stream, and about 200,000 feet of timber, all at a bargain. Terms . to right party. Address "Timber," Box 272, Camden, 8. C. 28 pd. *_ i: : ' V '.V'V . J QUALITY MEN8 WEAR k J GRIFFON I SUITS and OVERCOATS I $25.00 and $29.50 |j W. Sheorn & Son I QUALITY MEN8 WEAR I . | ii i i ,1 i 1 i 11 sasaeaassggsfl I Grocery and Market Specials I FOR Friday - Saturday a * Monday || | BEST>vrr "* ' Floor, ^ VEGETABLE 7:' I"K ; Lard, lb...... 14c FAT BACK v Bacon, lb. :;, 14c ~ ; ' " - : CAVtNAtlON . ' " || ,1 Milk, ,m*" 4c,ur?* 9c1 DOMINO i| Sugar, 10 lbs.. 55c f J PURE |{ Coffee, lb.... 15cji BL__ PMSH MIA? XI Sirloin Steak, lb 20c Tenderloin Steak,- lb.., 20c > T-Bone Steak, lb.! 20c Round Steak, lb. 20ft Chuck, per lb 12V?c 1 Roast, per lb. 15c ' Pork Chop*, lb 25c ii I II i M ^mrnrnm^m Spare lUbg^lfeigfcwe. } j II I Weiniea, lb. J*6 H I Beef Liver, lb 20c H Hamburger, lb. ; WJi* H 11 Cured Ham. lb. ^ Hi Breakfast Blcoe, lb. 33. | Butter, ptr lb. 44t |