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VOTE FOR GOOD ROADS BONDS TUESDAY OR GOOD bonds ->=BMaesB=! NUMUER 8. Camden, south carouna, fridav, may 30, 1919. volume XXXI ^JTor honor awahukd. Ilgfi ?Kl)At (Tih??Jh>V tftate.) ^ewlouil ,)u' .tven young mou in the iif n**1" ^ ,dwirwl hi* mauy qualities came to (.Vluii.hia for the ceremony. Last night ^ iud Serft. Hohaon Hilton of Cam den, who ab*> won a congressional medal the juestH of honor at a banquet ? the Jefferson Hotel, given by Cam den folk. .Both are to receive English liter. ViUeplgue, the young wvan'a g^er, was at the camp yesterday and pi commendable pride in the country's jetton of tho ibrave act of her son. pt congratulations showered upon the yi were no less lavishly -extended the Dtber. The medal was presented by Major j?. George W. Head, commander of fcnp Jackson, who made a short speech. foUy commending the gallantry of the |Hif man for his heroic fighting In the ^ of ?? unequal odd* A batallion of the Forty-eighth Iu llitry was inspected aud reviewed as 'part of the ceremony, Maj. Benjamin I. Mills in command. Col. Harry R. was the commanding officer of the mn?, and Capt. It, M. O'Day ' acted u Colonel Lee's adjutant. Capt. J, T,, laifbt. Jt., --aud Lieut. George Wv W Jr. were (Jeiieral Read's aides. FT ? .? - ? The citation from the war. department th read by Cai>taiu Knight of General tod's staff, and follows: "John C. Villepigue, Corporal, Com >uy M. One Hundred and Eighteenth Infantry. For eonspicious gallantry and atrepidity above and beyond the call < duty iu action with the enemy at fiw-AiHiigny, France, October 15, 1918. hriaj been sent out with two other ?Iditr* to scout through the village of Tm-Audigny, he met with strong re wtince froan enemy machine gun fire,' rteh killed one of his men and wound d the other. Continuing his advance ^tout aid r?00 yards in advance of fe platoon and in the face of machine HP 'ad artillery lire, he encountered tar of the enemy in a dugout whom he and killed with a hand gre lie. Crawling forward to a point 150 fto in advance of his first encounter, ) rmhed a machine gun nest, killing *f and capturing six of the enemy and foil two light- machine guns. .7,' After joined by his platoon he waB se ?Hy wounded in the arm". the relatives' who saw the Mutation yesterday were : The mother ^ E. C. Villepigue, John M. Ville ? brother and Mrs. Villepigue; bikers Misses Mary and Emma Vil Sergt Charles Villepigue, a ?tor; and Miss Kate Villepigue, .an who had more than a interest in the proceeding? was Hoteon Hilton, who was also a Company M, One Hundred Infantry, Camden, who several weeks ago the con m?><lnl (or distinguished scr* Kran.ee. The award to Sergeant was nia<le at Camp Gordon, At This young man was only 19 old when he went into the ser ening to enter the Univeraityi Carolina this fall. ? ? entfriiiK the army Corporal ? who is only 22 years old *?ploye<l by a banking house in He is now at his home in 1 but expects to come to Co- , abfuit July 1, where he has ac a position in th6 State game de- 1 site Herman in a ihter iCods" Picture ttrt IT WE " MODEM VENU TRUCK FOR THIS COUNTY. Government Semi# Ninth Quadruple Drive For Use of Itoad Authorities. Columbia. S. C., May 24. Tlu- State Highway <\>inuut*>iou Iihh been notified by the Federul Bureau of Ro|d| that 70 of the 290 motor truckt* which are to be turned over to the Coiuinlsslou are ready for shipment. The State Highway C/otu mission haw instructed the Bureau of Public Roads to have one 2-tou Nash Quadruple Drive shipped from Indiana polls to Kershaw. The truck will be turned over to the road authoritiea of Kershaw Couuty for use la maintaining or constructing roads built Id whole or lu part with Federal Aid. ICounties which have made uo provis ion to use Federal Aid iu constructing roads or bridges cannot under the Fed* eral law share iu the distribution of trucfcs from the Federal Bureau of Public Roads. These trucks are part of the surplus war equipment built by Uncle Saau for use iu whip ping the ljuns. An Act of the last Congress instructed the Secretary of War to turu over to the Secretary of Agriculture tor distribution to the State Highway Commission, through the Fed eral Bureau of Pufblic Roads, all sur plus war equipment, including trucks. It is expfocted that South Caroliuu will get a good deal more road building equip ment and supplies besides the 21K1 trucks which have been given to It. partinent. Military regulations were such that neither soldier* nor civilian* were al lowed within the area yesterday restrict' , ed for the medjtl presentation, and con- , sequently the 'speech of General Itead oould not be heard distintely by the group of young men from Camden, whoi had coine to Columbia to see their com rade so signally honored. FoHowing the ceremony these admirers crowded about inquiring "What did the general say?" The young man blushed with be coming modesty, but admitted the com mander of the camp had said "some mightty nice things," words calculated to give a considerable bulge of the chest ?to a less^ modewt man. Corporal Villapigue's right nrni was bUdly wounded and the youthful hero will in all probability go through lifel with his arm slightly drawn. The story is told that Dr. MJoultrie Brailsford of Muliins, army surgeon with jfhe Thirtieth Division, found Corporal Villepigue on the battle field after he had been wound ed. Recognizing the Camden boy, he ? made inquiry if the youth wm seriously hurt. The curt reply the surgeon got was, "No. but f want a cigarette". Sergt. Charles Villepigue, a. brother, was also a member of Company M. Thisj company suffered frightfully in casual ties in the drive on the western front. Aocurate figures could not be procured yesterday, but members of the company thought 21 young men had been killed, besides the great number wounded. When the armistice had been signed, the com pany had only about 80 men fit for ac tion. ; The Villepigue boys are closely re lated to former Governor Manning, and direct descendants of the late Governor Richardson of South Carolina. They bad numerotme ancestors in the nation's wars, four of which relatives were high com manding officers in the War Between the; States. Among those from Camden who saw the presentation of t^ie medal at Camp Jackson, mpst of wWHn were at the dinner at the Jefferson Hotel last night were: v . . ?. Thomas Ancrum, Lambert DePass, Whit *T^e6olr, Btrgcno Lenoir, Vernon McDowell, Jack Whi taker, Jr., Lenox Kirkland, Addichs Kirkland, Jack Wat kins, Edwin Guy, Cassolls Zemp, Sergt. HtVbson Hilton, Charles E. DeLoach, John L. Team, Kirkland Trotter, Bol liver Boykin, L. Whit Boykin, Jr., Jules Camipbell, Alfred McLeod, James H. Clarkson, Leonard Schenk, Mendel L. Smith., Jr., Ralph N. Shannon, J. Nor wood Ancrum, Clyburn Taylor, Harold Birchmore, Mortimer Boykin, Harry Porter, Eugene Zemp. James Zemp and E. C. Zemp and G. G. Alexander A numlber of these were with Com patay M in Fran c^ Five whd Were wounded in France and who are yet at the Base Hospital came to the parade field to see the medal bestowed. were: Sergt. Sam SoweM, Sergt. C. M. Diokins, Corp. Harold Butler, Private Cooper Peeples and Private John W. Cole. Tjietrt. J. N. Ancrum of Camden, now stationed at Camp Jackson was^ another of the home folk to see the presentation. ... , rgeverai relatives frond* Columbia >leo went to the camp for the occasion. They were: lira. 8ta?l?ope Sams, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Hafle, Maj. E. B. Can tey, recently discharged from the aer vee and Mrs. Canter Mme. Olffa Petrova In "Exile" la billed for burning * the Majestic Monday. IHH'ULK TUAUKDY IN COLUMBIA Police Officer Fires Kieveu Shot* Into Couple Killing Them instantly. ( 'olniubia, S. C., M ay 2H.? Hhootlug 11 time* from two revolvers, every shot taking effect, Eugene Lancaster, traffic policeman uf this city, this aftenuxiui about 5 o-VUodk imrtautly killed his wife, Mrttf. AritiO I^anoaiHter, audi the companion with whom she waa riding lu an automobile, Newton .Loriek, a far' mcr of the Dutch Fork aeetloa of Itlch laud county. At, the police department it is said that Lancaater, and his wife were not the moat congenial of companions and it is aleged that the woman had been receiving attentions from Lorlt'k, who was an unmarried man. Today Laucaster went to the Colum bia aide of the Gervalt Street bridge crossiug the Congaree river, and Is aaid to have waited ovn his wife and Loriek, who were riding in Lexington county. When the couj)le reached this aide of the river, Lancaster opened Are on them. He emptied one revolver and fired five ahota out of the other. Both were au tomatic 88 caliber specials shooting six rounds. Six of the balls entered the body of Loriek, one penetrating both legs and the aide of the automobile', and five struck that of Mrs. Lancaater They died immediately. The car swerved out of the street and^. nearly rolled down a 15-foot em bankment. It waa running when Lan caster fired the 11 sb&ts. Lancaster, who- has been on the police force here for a number of year8 and ia very pop ular, had hia left leg broken, in two places about seven Weeks ago, and today It waa bound up and he waa on crutches. There .are two conflicting versions as to how he did the shooting. One is that he was in an automobile when he saw the car approaching with his wife and LoriCk and he stepped out and started firing at the couple, that he fell down, got up and recommeuced firing. Another is that he jumped on the run-* ning bnai-<V of the machine and killed the couple. When the machine stopped the body of Mrs. Lancaster was hanging over the door on the .right side of the car and that of Lancaster had slumped over on the seat behind the dead woman. The couple occupied tint front seat of a touri-ug car. Lancaster did not try to escape but awaited the coming of Chief of Police Richardson and ?Sheriff McCain. He was considerably broken up over the deed and before he was taken from the scene he was sobbing, crying out and' talking incoherently. "Oh,ymy God, what made me do it", he is alleged to have cried. Bis con stant thought was for his children, of which he has four, three boys and one girl, the elder albout 15 years and the youngest, the daughter, about seven years. "My poor children, my poOfr children/' he moaned, "what will become of them; my darling little girl, she doesn't know, she doesn't know." When taken to the police barracks this afternoon it wa? necessary to call a physician to attend Lancaster for several hours because of his deranged nerves and mental condition. CALLED MEETING OF CITIZENS I; Will Meet at Court House Monday Even ing to Discuss Street Improvement*. -A meeting of all citisens of Camden, both white and colored is called , Jfor .Monday evening, at nine o'clock at the county court house for the purpose of hearing the matter of permanent street improvements discussed. Gilbert C. White, an engineer of Char-, lotte, N. C., who has made a survey of the city Will be present at the meeting to tell of the cost and kind of work to be done, and it is urged that there be a large attendance of all citizens at that hour. Other progressive towns throughout the country are building per manent street improvements and there is no reason why Cspvden should be be hind in these matters. Married r>-,N 'Ma rrfed on 'Sunday, May 2f>, at the home of Probate' Judge McDowell, Mr. William Henry Outlaw, of Lucknow, and Miss Maggie Lee Newman, of Cam den ; and Mr. John Tillman Rabon, of Westvilie, and Miss Estelle Mattie Ste wart, of Camden. 1 Mr. Harry Clenpner Hill, of Columbia, and Miss M. Maud Hudson, of Wax aha w, | N. Cf Wsie a ? fried at tfce Methodist parsonage Tuesday evening by Dr. W, W. Daniel. Miss Hudson kaa been a nurse at the Osmdi? hospital for the past year and Mr. Hill is a ^soldier .at Camp Jackson. . - Mrs. R. T. Goodale is spending Thura day and Friday in Columbia, attending a meeting of the State executive com mittee of the Woman's Missionary Union. ' -r -? - - <- V * - ^ -? ? ..t- . ? r - AVLATOK8 I'lCKKI) UP. AT 81CA Hawker and Grieve Come llark On Danish Steamer. m?>' for ami virtually given up for lont Harry <} Hawker and bis navigator, Lieuteu a,*t Commander Maokensle Grieve, Brit ish airmen who essayed ft flight across the Atlantic ocean, without protect.on ugaiiiNt disaster wave what their frail airplane afforded are safe tonight aboard a British warship off the Orkney#. 1*> morrow they will reach the maiulaud, proceed to Ix>ndou, where they will be acclaimed as men returned to life. I s,?n. i- 1,100 tnilea out from New Found land and 800 from the Irlah coast, on Monday May 10, the aviators, maltlni the beat of an eng iue wMoh was failing 1 to fuuotlon properlM, were forced to | alight <>n the water. The Httle Danish I at earner Mary, bound from New Or-j leans and iWtflk for Aarhuua, Dewnaf*. picked the wayfarers Up and continued I on bir northward voyage. I Lacking a wireless outfit, the captainl of th e steamer was obHged to withhold I the good tiding* of the reacue uivtll be watt opposite Butt of- Lewis, where the I information was signalled by means <*f| flags, tihat Ha*|ker and Grieve were! aboard his ship. I Immediately word was flashed to the I British admiralty, which sent out de- 1 stroyer* to overtake the Danish vessel J and ohtaln confirmation, ,t,This was done I and one of the destroyers took the air men off. and later, .transferred them to the flagship Revenge. From this safe hav^n Hawker sentj a message tonight that his machine 1 had stopped ^ owing to the blocking of | the water circulation system. London, May 25.? tfarry G. Hawker 1 and Lieutenant Commander Mackensiel Grieve, the two^- airmen who started last! Sunday in an attempt to fly across the Atlantic ocean from St. Johns, N. F., 1 have beeu picked up at sea. lloth men I are in perfect health.' . I The first report of the aviators siuce their "jump off" last Sunday came when the Mary, which was bound from -X<wr4 folk to Arahuus, rounded the Butt of 1 Lewis today and wigwagged- the faetj tbat*ftie had Hawker and Grieve aboard?* "Saved hands of Sopwith alrplunC", was the signal. f "Is it' Hawker?" was the question sent out by the flags from the Butt, I which is the most northwesterly point of the Hebrides group off Scotland. ?? j "Yes," laconically replied the Mary. j The admiralty immediately sent out I a fast torpedoboat destroyer in an en deavor to intercept the' Mary and take! off the aviators. There was an anxious I wait of several hours, when the word I was flashed that the destroyer had come j across the steamer and transferred Haw- 1 ker and Grieve and was taking them 1 to Thurso, on the northern coast of I Scotland, about 100 miles east of the I Butt of Lewis. i The news of the rescue has electri-1 \fied all Britain. All destroyers, after! a thorough search of the Atlantic for j 800 miles from the Irish coast, had! given up the quest and there was prac-l ticallly no hope thart the airmen were! ?live. o j This morning, however, the forlorn! hbpe that the aviators might be picked 1 j ug> by some craft without wifeless was! i realised. The Danish steamer Mary, j crawling along at 'nine knots, was the I lucky vessel, and her brief message toj the watchers at the Butt of Lewis, as I she proceeded on her way to Scotland, | left the public, to speculate wonderlttgly I over the details of the airmen's adven- 1 tures* . : t r it The admiralty immediately dispatch ed destroyers from northern points to intercept the Mary and The Daily Mail instructed all signal stations to try to communicate with the captain with the request to kmd~ the aviators at some Scottish port. The admiralty quest suc ceeded, and a wireless message came from the destroyer Woolsun late in the evening that she had overtaken the Mary and had transferred the aviators. Nothing except some great battle has excited I?ndon more than today's un expected tidings. The public was dis posed1 VJto question wB?ther the first re port could be trusted, and the admiralty startement that it' was taking measures to vfritfy the report iftdtaated doubt which the Woolsun '? message dispelled. The modest Hawker home near Surbi ton was quickly the center of interest. Crowds of people swarmed there. Mrs. Hawker, who had only on Sunday re-, reived a telegram of condolence from King Qeorgs, ?06: . "I had a presentment all along that Z should see toy btsdband again. I wss confident afl the time, although every one condoled with me. I am overjoyed and too overcome to talk now.** When the airplane aped away from her starting point. Pilot Hawker let loose hts wheels and undergearfng. there by lightering die weight of the maehfae KKKMH.WV NEWS N0TJK8 J Inlfmtlni Happenings Gathered From The Kra of Titnf Place. Lieut. Carl Horton whk here Saturday to uttiMKl the funeral of brother, Luther It. llnrton. jfe!wJW truveiiug U\ Florida mid ?aio?' fwun Jacksonville, having boon telegraphed the sad news of his brother's killing Dr, J. V, Thompson spent la?t week cud in Kershaw at tJ?o homo of hia father-in-law, W. L. Blackiunii. Dr.' Thompson aud Archie Blackiuon are mak lug their arrangements for opening 1 druf store at Landrum, lu Spartauburg county. They have purchased their stock of goods and hope to be ready for busi ness right soon. lteese Blackw&ll received a telegram yesterday from hia brother, Hoyt Black well; stating that he bad arrived at Newport Newa from overseas and ex pected to reach home in a few days. A shooting scrape occurred early Sat urday morning in the lowe* side of town between Dock Stover aud Dock Lanier, both colored, but neither of the combatants wafe hit. ?Clyde Gregory has received his dis charge and has returned to his home near Kershaw. Clyde reached France on Sat urday before the armistice wa? signed on Monday. The many friends of Hubert S. Floyd will be pleased to learn that he is con siderably improved and was able to re turn home from the Fenuell infirmary last Wednesday. The 'Weatville School, taught by Miea Ottey .Mk*( 'ask ill. will close Friday May 30, after a very successful term. A picnic will be given On the school grounds. All the patrons and their friends are cordially invited to attend and bring well filled baskets. iMmh Annie Baker received a telegram Friday from her cousin, Lewis Baker, telling her ' that he had just arrived at Camp Hill, Va., from overseas antj ex podted to get home in a few days. Mr. aivd Mrs. J. Doby Huckabee and children of Camden visited their aunt Mrtf. T. A. -Watts last week Robert F. Cauthen arrived last week from overseas, having received his dis charge from the .army. i Mrs. W. H. Jones is visiting her mother at English, in the West Wateree sec tion of Kershaw county. Mrs. M. H. Brewer left Monday to visit her daughter Mrs. H. L. Bichey , at Camden Mrs. Lavinia Horton died about 5 o'clock Tuesday moaning May 27th at the hoane of her son, B. B. Horton near Kershaw,, after an illness of about six weeks. Mrs. Horton was 88 ye^rs of' ? age, having been born January 24, 1831; She leave -three children, one daughter, Mrs. W. T. Catoe of Spartanburg, aud two sons W. J. Horton and E. H Horton of near Kershaw surviving.- ?? New Superintendent. MSha Etta L. Robins ha* been selected as the new superintendent of <th? Cam den hospital. MHss Robins .comes t?J Camden from the hospital at Camp Wheeler, Maoon, Qa. Miss Willie Watfcins is spending the week in Cheraw. bj a considerable amount, but making a possible landing on the soil of Ire land a more hazardous venture. This, however, probably proved of much advan tage to him ? when it became necessary to alight on the surface of the water. The airplane remained afloat with diffi culty during the hour and a half it J99^ ibe_ Danish steamer to. come up and effect a rescue. . ? ?: Owing to the difgcuHies of communi cation, some time must pass before the full details of one of the most remark able voyages ev?r undertaken are known. Hawker has sent the Jollowitig^ttap^naye from the R&rehge, to the Daily Mail : "My machine stopped owing to the water filter in the feed pipe from the ra diator to the water pump blocked with refine, such as solder and the like shak ing loose in the radiator. "It was no fa lilt of the Rolls Royce motor, which ran -absolutely perfectly from start to finish, even when all the water bad boiled away. "We had no trouble in landing on the sea, where we were picked up by the tramp ship Mary, after being In the watpr for "ninety minutes. We leave Thurso at 2 fp. m. Mapday, arriving in London Tuesday evening.** London, May 25. ? Hawker and Qrieve wsts in the lnttf"Rf ln hour and 1 half before being taken aboard the steam er Mary. ? ' CmuoUUm Prls* of MM Pounds. London, May 25.? The London Daily Mail, which offered a purse of $50,000 for the first flight by a heavierthan air cradfc across the Atlantic ocean wDf five Hawlyi sad Grieve a consul atiQO prise s# 5fiOQ posads. * NAVAL CRAFT CROSSES SKA Seaplane Make* First Trans-Atlantic Flight To Harbor at Lisbon. Watdiingtou, May 27.? Biasing the way of the first air trail frotn the West- ' ern to the Hasten) heml?plui?\ the I ? nit?*?t State* navy MtpUne NC-4, under Lieut. Commander Albert Cushing Head, swept Mnto the harbor at Lisbon, Portugal to day the Hint airship of auy kind to have crossed the Atlantic qceau under its own power an^ through Its natural ele ment. Taking the air at Pouta Delgada, A so res, at 6:18 a. in. Washington time, ou the last leg of , the trans oceanic por tlou of the voyage from Rock away Beach, Long Islaud, to Plymouth, England, the NC-4 covered the 800 miles in nine hours and forty-three minutes, maintaining an average speed of better than 80. knots/ an hour. The total elpsed flying time from New Foundland to Lisbon was 20 hours and 41 minutes, At the first opportunity-' the big plane will continue to Plymouth, 77ft nautical miles to the north. Possibly Commander ; Read cg^. start tomorrow. To the Navy Department, however, it makes little dif ference wheu he completes the journey. The great object of all the effort lav ished on the undertaking, navigation of g seaplane across the Atlantic through the air has been accomplished. Twenti eth century transportation has rcachod a new pinnacle and the United States has led the way Navy officials emphasised that the long delay at the Azores was due to the weather aud to no weakness of the ma chine or its daring crew, nor to any failure of the carefully laid plans of ttre department "to~"IuM? the flyers to their destination. The fourteen destroy ers strung from Ponta Delgada to Lis bon reported with machine-like precision today as the flight progressed. Tho plane was never_off Its course, and there wa| no moment when officials In Washing ton did not know within a few miles where It was in* the air. To maintain aritxpmte commlncation for this stage of the journey the de stroyers stuck to their posts after tho flying boat had passed, relaying baok to Ponta Delgada reports from ships far ther eastward. The chain was not brok en ui*til the plane moored for the night - near the cruiser Rochester at Lisbon. For the next few hundred miles of his epoch-making journey Commander Read and his crew will bo within sight ? of the Portuguese or Spanish coast in the .sweep northward. Skirting the coast of Cape Fhiisterre, they will bead, out across the Bay of Biscay to sight Brest, the mpst westerly point of France, hence direct t'6 Plymouth. The destroy ern th^f will guide them across the bay Werev toltaady In position tonight pro Tided with the flares and bombs that have made the trip safe thus far except for J he fog that' forced the other two' machines of the seaplane division, the , NC-1 and NC-3 out of the flight after they had safely negotiated virtually the entire distance from New Foundland to the Azores. ^ 1 - ? ? ? ? V Negro's Capture Hourly ExpecUfcL Mom Witherspoon, the negro who last Friday shot and killed Luther Horton near Kershaw and made hie escape into Fairfield county, was reported Wednes day and yesterday to be surrounded in a wood' near where the Kershaw and Fairfield county lines Join, and his cap ture is hourly expected. Sheriff Hunter and many Kershaw and Lancaster citi zens have been continually in. -the chase since last Friday. Last niglit several car loada of new passed through Camden to relieve those who have been constantly in the chasev Hie negro is said to have been shot at by a mem ber of the party, and another report is that they have found ? his. hat at a.. Spring where he Stopped to get Water. ~Thfe crowd got too close onto him and in his, hurry he left his hart. ----- - Witherspoon is said ito have killed -? a negro several years, ago near the Hor ton home and the Hortons were instru mental, in getting him out of the trouble. It is said the negro baa never been farther fkWBjr from home than Lancaster and it is not thought possible that he .. will venture far away from home and feia- oaipture is eapeeted soon. WU1 Move. to lnuidM." Mr. GK B. Clyburn, of Befhune, was in Camden Tuesday, and tella us that he will move to Florida shortly to make his future home Mr. ' Cljtrarn spent ' a short while at White Springs, Fla., not long- ago and liked the place' so well that fee purchased fete a home, .lin, | Clytwrn and children will join him later. He haa not sold wit his property at Bethune Jiad Will continue to hold this. Mr. Clyburn tells us that a brick road is soon to be built from Valdosta, Qa., to White flfc>rin#s, and a- new company has tak^n orsr the wrings property sad he predicts a great boom for the place. *