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J* r-TT WEEKLY BULLETIN rrr* - S.C.Game f^fish Association J/tru Sfoff ionic G> opera (ion Come. < [fish /, lore si (an he Ma (trio flu- j !JiUn\iscd foe Ihe benefit oiJlu. DON'T SHOOT THE8E DUCKS! Wlldfowlers who get their best thrills from hunting redheads and canvasbacks need not lose heart yet. These diving ducks have doinuscil alarmingly in the past few yearn, but tie re ar?- still enough birda left to replenish the species if tin-y have M?to'|Uate ploOcilon For the present ad r''l bate protection mean* complete protect ion Hunt'18 who expect future sport are urged to cooperate in tin- enforcement of this year's closed season on tiieHe birds "Don't shoot until you know what you're shooting at" should be every sportsman's first rule. No law-abiding sportsman who puts this rule Into practice need worry about his depleting the breeding stock of canvasbacks and redheads. Tho law excuses no one for ignor- | ance, and even though a hunter may 1 himself reel satisfied with knowing that a duck Is a duck, it behooves j him to distinguish the specially pro-: tected species, both for the sake of conserving the threatened birds and of staying out of court. Hunters exercising due cure will,1 as a matter of fact, have little trouble ' in identifying their (links. The species' of duck that are not to be shot are i the wood duck, or summer duck, ruddy duck, caiivashack, redhead and hufTlchend. "The South Carolina law, in ac-' cordunce with federal regulations, states that no duck may be legally shot between the hours of 7 a. in. and 4 p. in.," according to A. A. Rich- j ardson, chief game warden, "neither may any ducks be taken over live decoys, jilts, or halt. "The aggregate bag limit is ten ducks of all khids. it is also illegal for any hunter to have in his possession more than ten ducks," declared Mr. Richardson. To aid sportsmen, Ira N. Gabrielson, biological Survey Chief, described the outstanding characteristics of the canvasback and redhead: "If the head is red. don't Bhoot," is one good motto, he said, but often colors are hard to distinguish in the open, and tho hunter must therefore rely largely on pattern and outline for his identifications. "The male canvasback is easy to I identify even at a Jong distance by | jih white buck, and botii males and females may be told by their long sloping bills. Canvusbacks don't luive j foreheads, the bill continuing the tap- | cling lines of the head. The long 1 head, bill, and nock give cunvasbacks i a 'front-heavy' appearance, making ilmni look as though their wings were' set too far back ' Redheads, Jike caiivusbacks, are j fast living ducks, and at even n la- ; I t i \e| \ snort distance present an up-j parent ly uniform gray color. They arc chunky ducks, and to some extent their round heads and high foreheads will assist in identification. The gray wing stripe of the redhead is one of the best Meld characters, as the only! other duck having a gray wing stripe is the ring necked duck, and it has a black head." u "Summing up the "Don't Shoot" points, (JahriHson said: "Ix)ok hard at any fast-flying ducks?they probably are deep-water species. If they show gray wing stripes, a general | uniform gray color, or long tapering heads, slip the safety back into plate." Closing the season on redheads and! can v a shucks, is part of a nation-wide program lor waterfowl eonservatu n. i Two things are needed in tiiis pro-1 gram matshes where the ducks can breed, rest, and iind wintering grounds; and breeding stocks to pop-] ulate these marshes. Cape Itomuinc, | i Hull Island and Savannah River, refuges in tills state, are examples of ' tiiis work. Marshes are being pro- | vided in the Survey's, refuge work, | and hunting regulations are* made to preserve tin? breeding stocks for future years. In phrasing regulations, the Survey follows the principle that only the surplus of birds can be taken each year, and when there is no surplus, no birds can be taken without endangering the species. Tiiis year it was found that cauvasbacks and redheads were so scarce tliut further shooting would jeopardize an otherwise favorable chance to restore these birds to something approaching their ! former numbers. Hence, the closed season on these ducks. States included in the southern zone, where the season is November 26 to December 2."), Inclusive, are: Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. PISGAH NEWS NOTE8 Pisgah, Nov. 25?Mrs. C. L. Haker and children, Carl, Jr., and Hetty, of Hembert, spent Thursday and Friday of last week with her sister, Mrs. Leon Stuckey. Mr. and Mrs. Hoy Haker spent Saturday night ami Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Watson. Miss Carrie Mitchell, of Clinton, Mrs. ltoss Dent, of Columbia, and C. S. .lames, of Hembert. spent Sunday w;th Miss Kilrn Jnmrs and her broth r, Willie. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. M- Lood, of Hembert. spi nt Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.: W F. Haker. Mr. and Mrs. Kendall, of SpringHill. visited Mr ancL Mrs. H. C. Hoss "Sunday Mr and Mrs ,| l McLeod. of Hornb it. spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs., .1 T 1 i-ints Mrs. J. J. lluttleld. ot Saint- r. is \t-itinc h- r daughter, Mrs. W. F. Hak r. '1 he fi lends of K. A Hradloy are sorry to 1- arn that he is unite sii k with pneumonia in the Tourney Hospital in Sumter. I The Associated Press business index of last week, indicated that in- j dustrial activity has climbed to the. 1929 level and past the h-sH ef 1920, the index indicating 92. as eoinpared with 83 4 for the same period of 1935. j The remains of the late King Constantine of Greece, his wife. Queen ; Sophia, and his mother, Queen Olga, have been given final burial In Athens. They died in Italy while In exllo there in the days of the Greek repub-: 11c. An explosion in a chemical factory at Merano, Italy, near the Austrian border, killed live or more persons and injured others. James A Farley, sojourning in Ireland, called on President Kamon de Vnlera of the Irish Free State, at i Dublin. ?irirT"MUi^7',g:,r:-.i?ii'j -um^ji w i g m | J ? " --? | 'FRISCO BRIDGE Cost Huge Fortune and Many Lives In Construction. Swarms of *ea gulls used to follow the ferry boats which piled the. hay at Han Francisco. ,Last week, howover, they wheeled overhead tnore I aimlessly a a the customary transit of their (lights v.uh forever Interrupted hy towers of steel which man liatl flung across the hay i? speed his own transit. i in the White House a button wua pressed by President Roosevelt. On the West ('oast green lamps were lit at either end of eight and a quarter [ miles of connected steel. The Trans hay Bridge, built at a cost of $77,200,U00, 24 lives and 1,167 injured, was formally opened. The era of the ferryboats faded Into the mist of history. A new day loomed for the picturesque harbor of Frisco. A few miles from this Bay Bridge, linking Han Francisco and Oakland, another span across the Golden Guto^ itself Is Hearing completion and with its opening next year, Frisco'* relative isolatioif will be ended. Records toppled with complo^lon of I the Buy Bridge. It spans the,longest stretch of open water of any bridge? four and a half miles. It Is the "cost-j llest bridge In the world," Its huh-j pension towers rise 619 feet out of the water and go to a maximum depth i below water of 235 feet.. At Yerba j Buefia, traffic passes through the world's largest bore tunnel, oneeighth of a mile long. Cables urel made of 70,*00 miles of wire of pencil thickness. Hundreds of mercury va-j por lights make automobile head- j light unnecessary. Into the building of the bridge went 152,000 tons of steel and 1,000,000 cubic yards of concrete. With these materials, said engineers, 35 duplicates of the Ia)h Angeles City llall could be built.?The Pathfinder. WE NEVER DOUBTED IT For the past year or two the most of the editorial columns of The Charleston News and Courier have -been devoted to the New Deal and Its activities -largely In a critical vein. Doubtlessly many people who read that interesting journal have become so accustomed to editorials direct'd toward this one subject they have utile to the conclusion that had the New Deal been eliminated by defeat in the November election The News ' and Courier would have had to abandon its editorial page, but we are ted ! one of them. ' We know Dr. Ball is a versatile writer, and that when it became liec[ essary he would write interestingly of other subjects. And Monday's pa- | per bears out our confidence in him, for out of three columns of editorial matter, only about four inches was j 4?voted to the doctor's favorite subject.?Lexington Dispatch-News. Pet Monk Goes On Liquor Raid Darlington, Nov. 20.?Sheriff J. H. Coker. of Darlington, Is the owner of a two year old monkey named "Archbald" which was presented to him by a member of the carnival which spent last week here with the Darlington county fair. The monkey accompanied Sheriff Coker on a raid on Tuesday when ; oflicers in this county seized two large stills in this section. While [ the officers raided the stills "Archli bald" is said to have made himself at home in an automobile. The captain, t Ho stewardess and live seamen were drowned in Georgia bay, Canada, when the 100-foot motor ship Hibou, heeled and sank suddenly. s Attention! members of 6 1936 Christmas Club / ON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, (NEXT WEEK) WE WILL, MAIL . CHECKS TO THE MEMBERS OF OUR 1936 CHRISTMAS CLUB FOR A I TIIEIR BALANCES AS SHOWN ON OUR BOOKS, AND IT IS WITH GREAT SATISFACTION THAT WE CAN REPORT THE MEMBERSHIP OF THIS YEAR'S CLUB SLIGHTLY MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED PER CfeNT GREATER THAN THE CLUB OF 1935?THEREBY I DEMONSTRATING THE POPULARITY OF .THIS METHOD OF SAVING. . . Si ON THE SAME DATE AS MENTIONED ABOVE WE WILL i i OPEN OUR BOOKS FOR MEMBERSHIP IN THE 1937 CHRISTMAS CLUB, AND WE WILL BE MOST APPRECIATIVE OF SUCH PATRONAGE AS OUR FRIENDS, BOTH WHITE AND COLORED, MAY SEE FIT TO FAVOR US WITH. * I t The Commercial Bank of Camden I MEMBER OF FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION j g [?<" o? 0 11 W ' - s I Negro Swindler Working Old Game A neero swindler giving the name of Kenon Dawkins was caught workj ing (lie old pocketbook game hero , Friday but it was not until Monday ! that he confessed to the deed. Dave Greer, a negro who lives near the Cunningham peach orchard was the victim but Chief Montgomery returned to this colored man the $20 out I of which he was fleeced. Two other ! negroes who were with Dawkins were not caught. A negro accosted Greer near the I post office and started a conversation. Presently the strange negro | observed another negro opening up | a pocketbook. i "Did you see him find that pocketbook," the Btrange negro remarked. Greer said he saw the man pick up .the pocketbook and the three strange negroes went into a huddle with Greer concerning the find. In the pocketbook was a few real bills surrounding worthless paper and the strange negroes informed Greer that there was $600 in the pocketbook. Something was said about inserting an advertisement in the paper about the find and this remark caught Greer's fancy for the strangers seemed to be honest about the matter. One of the strangers remarked that the honest thing to do would be to advertise the found pocketbook but another suggested that since it was dropped by a white man that they ought to keep it. The three strangers and Greer went over to the Gregory mule stable to talk the thing over. It was decided that the $600 was hot money so that it could not bo spent for some time. For that reason those besides the finder of the money were asked to put up $100 as evidence of good faith so that they could share in the division of the money. Dawkins at this point readily turned over $100 to the man who had the pocketbook and Greer was asked to put up a like amount. $20 was all that he had on his person but he was so intent ou sharing a part of the purse that lie said he would endeavor to borrow the necessary $80 to make up the deficiency. Greer went to the Beckham Brothers Grocery and tried to borrow the money from Jim Beckham. When Mr. Beckham found out what the negro wanted the money for he notified the police. When the officers made a search for the strange negroes but one of them could be found and he was locked in the city jail. Greer refused to testify against Dawkins so that the only charge the officials had against the strange negro was vagrancy. However, Monday afternoon he admitted his part in the conspiracy after the officials agreed to let him off with a $100 fine and the payment of .the $20 which was taken from Greer. Dawkins wired his wife at Fayetteville and the money was soon ^forthcoming. After Dawkins paid his fine he admitted that he had worked the game before. About two weeka ago the pocketbook game was worked on a negro named Allen from the Jones Cross Roads section. It was said that $80 was secured from Allen and that a negro woman was one ot the central figures In the embezzlement. Dawklns said that In working the game he would rather deal with a smart negro than a dumb one as the dumb ones asked too many questions and required too much time. He al? so said that in most instsnces the victim was asked if he did not see the pocketbook picked up wfhen it was known that the victim |iad his back toward the scene. Dawkins said in nine caseB out ot ten the victim would claim he saw the pocketbook picked up and this Indicated he was ripe for picking as he had larceny in his heart.?Lancaster News. Lancaster Man Killed Lancaster, Nov. 20.?News was received here today of the death of Cullen Porter, 22, of Lancaster, who was killed accidentally while installing a boiler in Houston, Texas. Porter was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Porter of Lancaster and a nephew of Claude N. Sapp, of Columbia. He was employed by the Grinnell Company of Charlotte, N. C. Bert Acosta and two other American flyers, have Joined the loyal forces of Spain in defense of Madrid. 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