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|ll|njHinGj|n IIWJj flv J UonopHminri J p -pipJLlJ Washington. Jan. ID.?-An economybout House Thursday sustained Its Appropriations Committee In all Its slashes In the $1,100,187,000 Independent offices bill, then swung a final axe at f 150,000.000 In Maritime Commission contract authorizations. The onslaught trimmed $04,517,200 front the "bedrock" budget, Just deeper than the committee recommended. The 1150.0U0.00U contract power slash did not affect the total of the bill, as the eliminated item merely authorized the Maritime Commission to commit the amount prior to appropriations, Narrow !y escaping the economy hatchet was $40,000,000 included in the hmlgei lot the Tennessee Valley Authority l/ost as the Hoy.se approved all committee cuts wuB a budgeted $1,070 000 designed to start work on six Federal building projects In the District of Columbia that ultimately would have cost $2.>,820,000 Fussed and sent to the Senate, tlto bill brought total House below-budget savings in the first two appropriations bills to nearly $102,000,000 and staved off by that amount the budget's close approach to the $4a,OUO.OuO.OOO legal debt limit Sponsored by Veterans of Foreign Wars, a bill to grant pensions of from $20 to $60, monthly, to permanently disabled war veterans was Introduced and presented to the Committee on Veteran#' Affairs Wednesday. The hill would grant pensions for total disability even though pot arising from service of the veterans. Pointing out that --It has been 22 >cars since this country entered the World War. Representative McCorinack. of Massachusetts, said the government following previous wars had assumed the burden of caring for all the disabled veterans within about I won Ly years The Senate on Thursday approved unanimously a four-year extension of the Federal Farm Moratorium Act, scheduled to expire next March. Senator Fr.i7.ler of North Dakota, author of the measure, which now comes to the House, said extension would enable thousands ,of farmers to avail themselves of Federal bankruptcy in an effort to scale down and re-adjust their debts. As 1 am writing tills, news lias Just come in (hat Senator Borah is still holding his own. However, reports are that death will come within a short time?possibly before you read thi- Senator Borah was elected to the 1'tilted States Senate on January 1". lhOT, so he has been a member of that legislative body for thirty-three years. He suffered a cerebral hemorrhage a few days ago. With President Roosevelt and intimate friends looking on, Frank Murphy, new associate justice of the Supreme Court, and Robert H Jackson, his successor as Attorney General, took oath of office Thursday. The ceremony took place In the Pn-sident's study on the second floor of the White House. Once again Murphy placed his hand on the Bible his mother gave him when he was graduated from high school Murphy will net a lullHedged member of the Supreme Court until he lakes the lorii:al judi la. oath, pr?>I .?D1 > January ' : I |gh - I'll U SUI - ' I h .; - - >:i - ! r ; : ..I: oath of ! \ : ! * | e K ,e; III ;t| t: 7-i DASM LAECCTED FOR RAPE MURDER F' om i '.t-n. Jr , a d .!?!.( ?-d t.- a > 11 .l it.<-d by P- > ' :': i . > ,, i \ - j. ;a. ..el of a so - ! !( ! :. " chair , -f ?' . J.,-, utiaiy toda> for Co - ! -in eb ;.. Calhoun < ' I 'tli.ltl An J US' ! -' m -- I i-h's t. 11; wa? that be w i ... home of ,i r-old ^ 'Ml.It. 1 I ke i h.-r to leaf!) with e Ktif- b ;r;i,n *h.? .--niggle "he woin.i.n a.i.-, c: in,..tail> assaiiio-d, tegtimonv showed Don t w?i, a moment if you your child JCratching. Prompt action bring. prompt Sc? ^^^^Trealmenf Soothe* inM.nfty Killitha tiny mite* that burrow under thr ,k,n atvd cauae 'h? itching. (.Iran, quick, chrap and ?ure. All drug, gitta ? yot C0MMENT8 ON MEN AND THINGS By Spectator ?j The Farmers and Taxpayers league respectfully presents for your consideration this address: Our Htulo Is Interested In both agriculture and Industry. Our economic, self-interest Indicates^ that through further Industrialisation wo can take up a lot of the slack caused by the curtailment of agricultural employment. Furthermore, each unit of Industry servos our people by offering employment as well as a market for products raised locally; and It serves the State by contributing through taxation. it Is obviously to the economic Interest of the State as a political body and as a body of men and women that we adopt tho appropriate means to Induce Industries to come to South Carolina. The League has been studying the larger aspects of the economy of the State and,, with all deference, invites consideration Of these definite recommendations : That the three-mil^ properly tax be repealed as was clearly demanded by the voters; That the capital Htock tax be reduced to two mills as a matter of good faith; That If the tax on Intangibles be found to militate against larger revenue it bo repealed; That this State take appropriate action to conform to general practice in the matter of punitive damages; That the State take necessary steps to determine the scope of activities of its institutions and to correlate their activities so as to avoid duplication of effort; That the State Budget Commission be empowered to constitute itself a source of information as t-o prices of all commodities used by any service, institution, department or agency of the State, requiring each ono to submil a statement of all the needs for a year. The Commission upon ascertaining the lowest price obtainable for each item would inform each service, which might then inuke all necessary purchases for itself; That no new taxes be levied; That the Legislature provide for a study of all the public services with a report suggesting the proper scope of each in a unified system of governmental enterprise. That greater assurance would result from biennial sessions. You know, of course, that only in five states are there annual sessions; 42 have bi-ennial sessions; and the Legislature of Alabama meets once in four years. We reaffirm our opposition to the election by the General Assembly of its members to^executlve and judicial positions, it is not a reflection on the ability of the members, nor a disparagement of those chosen, the objection is soundly conceived as a matter of ethical stewardship. That floor taxes on stocks of merchandise should not be assessed on a basis of forty-two per cent of Invoice price, or actual value, but on the same percentage of value as applies to other taxable property. That the League earnestly suggests ihut through proper expedition of ' legislative matters adjournment might be had without giving .rise to the question of extra pay, which always comes up during protracted sessions. The League congratulates the State that so many earnest men are devoting their time to the public service qnd it asks to be permitted to cooi>erate with them in their work for the people All of us realize that the fullest development of the citizenship of tlie State is contingent on a larger income per capita. The only sound pole > js to foster conditions which, pr mom industrial and commercial ac*i\i-> so that prosperous^!vestment| iii require the services of all who k work " | a feneration ago farms were bought and developed, homes built and property repaired through savings. or local loans secured by gilti-dge security. Today, with our banks full of money, comparatively few are [qualified to borrow. All about us nearly all building, repairing, painting and buying are financed or guaranteed by the Government. During all the years since the coming of tho boll weevil we have gradually consumed or lost thq savings of earlier >< a:s as well as tho stake left to us by our fathers. The greatest problem before us. i gentlemen, is our low individual In* rinip In the former day when unfot red competition was tho rule and Nch enterprise made all the rules for itself such a matter would not properly bo submitted to your honorable body, but laws and regulations aro the Mile today, and while such regu:?ry powers are Intended to serve the people it is sometimes true that changing conditions require a change of law We do not think it a problem of easy solution, but we do earnestly suggest that money Is made where money is; and that employment and high wages thrive where there Is demand for labor. We recommend, therefore, that we . give earnest thought to such measures ' as will I ? ^ e> make possible the employment of our people and will Increase the demand for the things produced here. We observe the trend to greater commitments and heavier expenditures entirely without regard to the; wealth or income of the people.^ Every informed person knows that the world markets are in such a state of confusion and uncertainty as to be un-. predictable. Some things are high and others incredibly low. yet longrange planning and spending have fastened on us as though no clouds were in the sky. State institutions and counties carry out programs of building which require larger expenditures as a matter of course, with no thought apparently, beyond the ambition or impulse of the promoters. All the spending and all tin? taxing might be atoned for if they stimulated production and promoted earning power. Unfortunately the converse is true. So, gentlemen, we face a fact of fundamental concern. We should restrain the ^pending until earning catches up wfth it. Instead of the perennial hunt for new rejtenue we earnestly submit that a prudent course, would be to reduce our commitments and clear the path of every obstacle to investment here so that we may earn our way, rather than continue to spend our capital resources. * Wo spend for state, county and municipal government about a hundred million dollars?more than twenty per cent of our Income; we send out of the $tate more money for motor vehicles and insurance than the vaiue of all our crops and livestock. This Is mentioned to Illustrate that throughj constant sale of capital assets, such 'asj land and timber we are robbing the future. On the other hand, the wages paid by the textile industry of seventy million dollars, and the millions paid by pulp mills, furniture factories and other industries are what keep us solvent and point the way of development and j nccncmlc wfcll-belng. British Tars Badly Treated By Germans London. , Jan. 10.?Three hundred or more British seameu captured at aea were imprisoned aboard a German tanker In conditions "recalling the days of slave-trading" when the vessel was a supply ship for the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Bpee, a British statement charged today. ~T' Naval sources said the tauker had not been reported for more than a month and while a search for her was being pressed, It was possible she might have reached a German port. Conditions on the tanker were described by British merchant skippers who were liberated from the Admiral Graf Bpee when she was trapped In Montevideo harbor last month. They arrived hero this week. The British statement asserted the prison quarters were crowded, rations were insufficient, smoking was forbidden and British officers wore humiliated before Fast India crewmen who "were given preferential treatment at every turn." It said the prisoners were forced to sleep on mattresses covered with lice and other verntin. The food, it added, was "scarce and bad" and the water ration for drinking and washing was a quart daily. When the Admiral Graf Spec ran Into Montevideo harbor December 13 after a running battle With three British cruisers taken from the nine raider merchantmen. They were pledged to secrepy about what had happened aboard the German pocket battleship and therefore the whereabouts of other members of the crews of the raided ships was not made public immediately. The T7 alleged members of the "Christian Front," captured by F. B. r. agents in New York Saturday night, after news leaked out that they intended to bomb and blast their way into control of the United States government, are being held In $50,000 bail each?a total of $850,000. An explosion of terrific force wrecked a powder unit of the duPont company at Gibbstown, N. J., Wednesday, of last week, killing two men and injuring a third. The explosion was in the nitroglycerine department and the force of the explosion was felt 20 miles away. The cauBe of the blowup is a mystery, many believing it due to foreign spies, while others lean to the opinion that it was due to accident inside the plant. So prone are book borrowers of London libraries to using strips of bacon as bookmarks that 1,500 books annually are withdrawn from library shelves because they have become hopelessly greasy. One grain of marquis wheat, planted by Dr. Charles Saunders in 1303, increased to 300,000,000 bushels in 1918, In North America alone. Of the 2,000 known kinds of germs and bacteria, only about 100 are believed to be harmful. The other 1,300 varieties are necessary to life in one manner or another. It Is estimated the average diner on an airliner travels one hundred miles while he la eating lunch or dinner. ? ' , _ - T % v. . ' : New Newspaper Without Advertising New York, Jan. 14.?A flve-ceut evening paper without paid advertising will make Its debut In New York^ probably on June 1, Hal pit McAllister Ingersoll, president of the Publications Research, Inc., announced today. As yet* unnamed, the paper will be slightly smaller lu size than exlstiug < tabloids and will, he said, be extensively Illustrated and printed lu J}lack with a seooud color on a new type of stock. Fast drying magazine Ink will be used. Ingersoll's statement said the operating company has been capitalized at $1,500,000 which was raised privately. x , v "Because the publishers feel that the editorial' organization of the paper deserves their fullest effort lu the early stages, no advertising will be carried or solicited," the statement said. "The price of five cents will cover oxponsos. "In place of advertising, however,' the projected paper will treat advertising us, news, and carry a digest of advertised items as a service to the readers. Tho features will not be sold to advertisers." hllaborating on radical lnnova-' tloila," planned for the paper, the statement said; "I^ews will be highly departmentalized, much of it briefed for quick reading. Background, Interpretation and significance will be given more consideration than has been customary in newspapers and the editors will attempt to manltain a long term view. Display will be minimized. "The paper will have no political affiliations or obligations. Then con-' vontlonal features will be absent, but| a number of original newsbased fea*' tures and specialties have been devised." I Ingersoll, wno has been working on1 plans for the projected paper for sev-j eral years, will serve as president o^ the company and editor of the paper.; Other officers and executives Include Donald F. Stewart, treasurer; William Baunirucker, Jr., now with the New York Daily News, business man-! ager; George Lyon, formerly with the Scripps-Howard organization, managing editor. Ingersoll, a former mining englnoer, resigned as publisher of Time magazine last April to develop the new publication. He was vice president and general manager of Time, Inc., when Life magazine was started by that company. Before that he was managing editor of Fortune magazine during Its first five years. Among subscribers to the company's stock the announcement listed: Howard Bonbrlght, of Deh-olt; Chester Bowles, president of Benton and Bowles Advertising Agency; Marshall | Field; Mrs. Louis Gimbel, George 1 Huntington Hartford; Deerlng Howe; I John L. Loeb; Leasing J. Rosenwald; Harry Scherman, Mrs. Marlon R. Stern, Mrs. Dorothy Thompson Lewis; John Hay Whitney; Ira J. Williams, Jr., of Philadelphia; Dwlght JJeere Wiman, Garrad Winston and Phillip K. Wrigiey. America first refined iron in 1645, but not until 1736 waa the first steel produced by Joseph Hlgby, of Connecticut. NOTICE OF ELECTION * The first Municipal Democratic Primary for the purpose of electing a Mayor and Six Aldermen in the City of Camden, 8. C., will be held on Tuesday. March B, 1940. Thq polls will open at 8:00 a. m. and remain open until 5:00 p. ill. y No entries will be accepted by the Committee after 6:00 p, m. Thursday, February 15, 1940. All assessments must be paid to the Chairman of the Executive Committee, and all pledges and statements of expenses must be filed by the candidates with the Clerk of Court and the Chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee prior to 6:00 p. m. of February 15, 1940. , The books of enrollment will open Monday, January 29, 1940, apd will close at 6:00 p. on., Thursday, February 15, 1940. .The Books of Enrollment will be located at the following places in the various Wards: Ward No. 1?W. F. Nettles Store. Ward No. 2.?City FHUpg Station. Ward No. 3.?City Drdg Store. Ward No. 4.?Camden Chronicle. Ward No. 5.?DeKalb Pharmacy. Ward No. 6.?Carolina Motor Company. . Location of boxes for voting will be as follows: ," / Ward No. 1.?City Recorder's Court Room. ? o Ward No. 2.?City Filling Station. Ward No. 3.?Langston Motor Company. __ Ward No. 4.?J. T. Nettles residence. Ward No. 5.?Dr. R. E. Stevenson's residence. Ward No. 6.?'G. E. Taylor's residency. Managers of Election Ward *No. 1.?Mrs. Belle Strak, Joe Goodale, W. C. Stewart. Ward No. 2?Ney Billings. Mrs. Clyburn Smith, Mrs! Roy Mathis. Ward No. 3.?Wiley Sheorn, Mrs. Ixittie Vaughan, Miss Geneva Jones, Mrs. C. B. Rogers, Mrs. Fred Stokes. Ward No. 4.?Boykin Rhame, Clarkson Rhame, Miss I^oulie Whitaker. Ward No. 5.?Mrs. T. Lee Little, Mrs. Jane Willlford, Mrs. W. O. Hay, Mrs. R. E. Stevenson. Ward No, 6.?G. E.'Taylor, W. Craig Clyburn, Mrs. Ila Mae Campbell. 's -> DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE L. H. JONES, Secretary WARD CLUB8 REORGANIZE At a meeting of the Ward Clubs held last Monday night, January 22, 1940, for the purpose of reorganizing the Municipal Democratic Clubs, the following Executive Committeemen and Enrollment Committeemen werei elected to serve for the coming primary election in the City of Carqddn,* S. C. : ~ Chairman rfnd"~CSmmflieem"anal-~ Large?Harold W. Funderburk. * Secretary?L* H. Jones. Ward "No. l.--Blease Shirley. Ward No. 2.?A. G. Hugglns. Ward No. 3.?M. H. Heyman. - - --- -- - - - -- - . - Ward No. 4.?John T. Nettles, Sr. Ward No. 5.?W, L. Ooodale. Warjl No. ?.?T. C. Gladden. Enrollment Committee: Ward No. 1.?President, H. T,Jfourham; Mrs. Iimz Hliisoii, 1,011 EThWuWard No. 2.?President, W. B. Toi ter; ' Clyburn Smith, Williford Nei man. 1 Ward 3.?President, S. W. VanLi dlngham; J. B. MoManus, La?t Campbell. v Ward No. 4.?President, Ejyi Rhame; Clarkson Rhame, .Miss Loi Wh.ltaker, ? _ , a Ward No. 5.?President, Mrs. T. L Little; Mrs. Jane Williford, Mrs, ior; Capers Zemp, Mrs, S. C. Clybui DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE OOMMITTffl City of Catnden, S. C. L, H. JONES, Secrets^ BK " ' SUMMONS FOR RELIEFJ State of South Caorltna ' County of- Kershaw (Court of Common Pleas) 1 B. P. Truesdale, Plaintiff against . Mary Jane Carter, Thomas Carta! Henry Carter, Agnes Carter oi9 Lucy Carter Richardson, Frank (|H tor, Annie t1 Cartefj the unknoJM heirs, devisees oc assigns of fi! Dempsey, and also all other p*n! unknown, herein collectively nated as John Doe, claiming! tight; title, interest in, or lien u! the real estate described in V complaint herein, Defendants. To the Defendants- Above Named:* You are hereby summoned and tl quired to answer the oompl&lnUfl this action, of which a copy is hsfl with served upon you, ,gnd to seri^B copy of the answer to the said c|H plaint on the subscriber at his off! in the City of Camden, South Ca! Una, within twenty (20) days at! service thereof, exclusive of the difl of Such service, and if you fall to ifl ewer the complaint , within the tl^| aforesaid, the plaintiff in this acti! will1 apply to the Court for the reUM demanded In the complaint, HENRY SAVAGE, JR., Plaintiff** Attorney I Camden, South Carolina,, December 27, 1939 To the absent ant |or non-reside! Defendants, and all other perao! named as Defendants herein, coll! tively designated as John Doe: Notice is hereby given that the or! inaX .summons, ot which the foregot! is a copy, and the original compli! herein were duly filed in the office J the Clerk of Court for Kershaw Col! ty, on the 16th day of January, 194lfl HENRY SAVAGE, JR., M Plaintiff's Attorney Johann Schmidt, a German, vfl shot In the heart during the WoiM war, and still lives with the bullet!? bedded in his heart, carrying on ! daily work normally.? . * SAVE WITH SAFETY! CURRENT DIVIDEND RATE First Federal Savings & Loan Association I OF CAMDEN, 8. 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