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SECOND SECTION The Camden Chronicle PAGES 9 to 16 <?. - ? - , , ? ?... ii ????? .. . 1111 1 . . .... ! ? - ? volume XXXI. ' CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1919. NUMBER 24.^ v ?thim ' ? i "i i nr w? i' I"' ' 1 ?" , ,, II ? ? I , . _ r , , I I s OI A( < IDKNT. paper I >? -.^4-i'ilM'M How * '* lost Ills I Ati\ j., ,m ,i?. Au'iitiii American of Suuday 7,11 wt> ,Hk<> ***? fsiUow w of tho Mid tuvident : yirst Ueuteiiant Malcolm A, Hate gJU ?( Camden, N. I'uttwl States tir Serylco, who has m'9? Hying duty jp Kraiu'f during tlu? war, was killed (,>! night win-" ,,m> '^Havilaud LU> -v (ayIw motor plan, in which he was jfiitK ?'?* demolished, wbeu a lauding fJ< attemi>tod on a farm three miles lorlh of this city. , AMt )> :l'? Saturday night the peo ple of KHkvillo and til^je farmeru in thit vicinity heard the noise of a great ilrohjue ? noise much larger than usual. St?on after the uoitfe of the pass jag machine grew fainter ? then ?udden ly cainc t lie -sound of a groat crash M,| staccato ripping. The tlireetion of the sound was plaiu lj ascertained, so loud wus the noise. A seaiv'hinfr party was made up. They i ? tli? Kay farm iaud rightly ju.v^hI that the accident had taken '.j?h> in the cotton field. S?' high in the growths of the tield (hut although they spread out to ex tent the snipe of their search, it was {?.. hiiiirs, or about 11:30, before they fotaitl tin' wrecked plane and the body Vftii'tilfiiant Hatenuin half buried under Wreckage. ? ? ? jit thf of (lie field is nn old Bu ??tvu]?i?,tl house. Whatever the ea.use of the neeident. "Tb: plain- had driven ^ itself straight through the wide gable roof. Thftv i* h treat gap in the gable whieh in c< lie light of midnight, V*>k> to1)f about twenty feet wide, and ibout ten feet deep, extending from the rnip- nf the roof almost to the eaves. l.i-iiteuaiit Mateman's bombing plane dim .have bee.e driving at SO to 100 mi!-* an horn- through the night. Tli'* plain* mi in k the high gable, cuj. t^iii ihr.Migli it as' If the work of a fjii"ii>', then the plane shot fully one kund.-'-d feet In-fore striking the fleJd. It struck the earth a glancing blow ind .vmil across the field for fifty feet, Ijrii the crumpled nnd broken bombing ?iant A.ci'tus in h.i ve risen fur a second and i?hn?K? tl } td( |i^a UiiiiW) in t lit* ground, j burying Lieutenant Uatemau su much I ht?t it was nectary to lift part of ? M??- w.i *?ekrtjc?? ft) extyleafe his body. 1 'i-MiU.'liaul loHeintni was flying ift ' 1 t . Hi1 may not have soon the house, but it is of such si/.e that it slKUild have boon discerned with ap* ; ? a i't> 1 1 1 ea?e. , Mis clothing hail the aiH>oiOr&iieo ?>? his having worked around tho ohglne recently. v W hen tho plain* passed over Kiskville tho engine was hitting trupk One feature that indicates (hero might have been trouble Is that tho right wing of tln< piano is badly smashed, while the left wing is still .holding its gen vral shajH'. It may have boon thaj in crashing ?through th<> foof the machine had swerved, as it can easily he conjectured that only the under part of the plane passed through the roof, and. with it Uie right wing. It may also have boon that Lieuten ant Hateman was necessarily fl.viuK low because <?f trouble and had intended landing in the big field. ? -W hen- he wa ssppwl I n g~~ o v o r Fiskville has was at considerable height and the only explanation for being low enough to hit. the house was an attempt to alight or .trouble. The gns tank is intact and half full of gasoline. The crash of hitting the house was1 so great that it was heard three mile* from the. -scene of the accident. Whatever the cause. Lieutenant Bate-] man saw ihe crash coming. That is evident from the fact that his safety belt had been unbuckled ? not broken. lie was still holdiug one end of tho safety 'belt when found. The buckles are secure. Or he may have unbuckled his belt lust as he hit the house, hop ing to make a jump for life, but it all came too quickly. Orders were also found on the dead flyer which directed him to proceed from HhVomin'gton, which is in Victoria Coun ty. to Laredo, and there were also some instructions with reference to Kelly Field. San Antonio. IJe carried overseas identification card No. 4009. A. TC. T-. as first lieutenant \. S. S. <\ It I'ilut. Thai I .ifui fu.uit Maternal. was Q( t ; ii - vtautlj is indicated by the fiml i ' > u .if a fire extinguisher at his side. The il of the extinguisher was broken *?ft and half of the centeuts had beeu used, i' i- very probable thai after the crush miiiic parts of tin- phtne caught, five and Lieut. Hatcihnn. although pinioned under llitj wreck and mortally injured. dej*|?er ji t ely fought the Names, sucscediug iu extinguishing thorn just before he lapsed into < unronscioiisneKs. Souvenir hunters attacked the pl*n? and began taking oft pieces of canvas, stmts, propellor splinters, and one man, it is reported, made oft' with the "Jo.v stick", or controlling fever of the plane. The road to the scene of the acci dent was one long procession of auto mobiles, motorcycles, and ?<ber vehicle* from sun up to sun dowu Syndny. Mrs. 1{. L. l'enn, mother of the lale IC n gene l'enn, who was killed in an air I lane accident during the war in Italy, took a wreath of Mowers tied toget.her with the national colors and placed them upon the dead boifly of the lucklow? youth. -v. ? ; t ? TTonday's Austin American : The killing of Lieutenant .Malcolm A. Mateman when his Dellavilaml bombing plane, Hying eighty to ltX> miles an hour, struck the roof of a vacated house in the center af a cotton held near Fisk ville, north of Austin, Saturday night, was explained Sunday night by officers at McAlleti and Kelly fiield. Lieutenant ltatemun was (lying under orders issued by Colonel \V, T. ,lobnt*on, to make a (light transfer f rom "A" (light. Eighth aero' squadron, McAIIcm, Hidalgo county. T<*xas, to report for duty t.i "H" Flight Highth aero squad ron. Laredo. Texas, for temporary bor der duty, after which Lieutenant /l?ate man was ordered to Kelly tiield. S?n Antonio. Advices from llight headquarters at McAllen say that lie was officially on his way to Kelly field from McAllen. When asked to explain Lieutenant I'ateinan's .at -^Austin the an swer was : ? ""We ean give no explanation <>f his presence at Austin." The oflieer in charge also said .that ?!)(> lieutenant was destined for KoUy lirid and thai lie wan alone. In response i?> tlu' i liquify regarding J Mr. Matemuu's pro>ic#}'e at Austin eighty miles ti ? > r t !> of San Antonio. und there fore eighty miles, .past Ins destination, the othcor 111 c.hrti*Ko'M.|d tluit the lieu ti'imut had evidently lost his , way in making tin* tlight. The hi k piano had probably passed tv? tlu east of Sat? Antonio which oily lies to tho went of a direct lino from Mq A Hon to Austin. Somewhere north of Austin I.ieviteu: ant Il^touian' had probably discovered Ills error and had turned south toward San Antonio. As his machine could travel all tho way from eighty to ltH> miles or ntore an hour the distance from San Antonio only represented a Hlght of one hour. The Kelly Held officer said that Lieu tenant Batman had evidently decided to make a landing for observation or for the night and in doiug so in the dark ness he probably did not see or mis judged the vacant house which he struck. \ J'KKKIIIXU W1KKS KKGKKTS I uablc to Accept Invitation to Attend Kciiuloii at Greenville, Georgetown, Sept. ir?.? lrpon his re turn from Washington this morning where he had been in the interest of the Thirtieth division reunion* Col. Holmes H, Springs received a -'.telegram from (Jen. John J. Pershing, in refer ence to the invitation sent him to bo present at the reunion. The rcjinion committee still have hopes that Gen. Pershing will be able to arrange bis plans s<> as to be present. His telegram said : "Deeply appreciate the message of welcome and congratulations from the men of the Thirtieth division, andwini not unmindful of the splendid part they played in the winning of the war. I sincerely* regret thrtt the present, uncer tainty of my plans prevents me from accepting the invitation to be present at tin' .convention at Greenville." The boll weevil is beginning to apread in Harnwell county and. the farmers are fencing lands for cattle and hogs against the cotton pest. PROP IIKI.OW IO,(H>0,iHH? lYcnijce Condition for September Pi j Plact <1 ill ,MI.I I'll- Cent. S|, Mat thews, S? pt hi - - " I 'iiilV r prey cii | coiidit ions, wit It even a Into frost, ii ?vtton *- ?*i ? | ? of' less I It it 1 1 (rill inilliou Im Ics is a certainty." in the opinion of .1 S. Wanuninnker. president of tin4 A mCi'iiWJt Cotton Association. V statement k i v o4t out by Mr. Wan* uauutker today for the n^sioatiou set* o 1 1 1 the crop prospect's us extri-piely gloomy. The average f??n?li t i?*?n in the cotton belt for Xcptettvber 1 - Is placed at !YI.O. The crop is from t hreo to four weeks la to. it was declared ; the fruiting is Very poor, lite bolls under size and opening prematurely as a result of adr verse seasyns and diseased root sy.detu. Tests at giinVeries, moreover, have shown that the line yield this sea son is run ning considerably below normal. Continuing the statement asserts that insect damage, which continuous with * ' wide prevalence, has spread over the greatest area in history, and will show the greatest injury ever experienced : that the acreage abandonment will be the largest jkf any year. "Our record," Mr. Wanuamakcr ?nid. "show an acreage abandonment of 0,25 per cent, not including abandonment) from boll weevil and insect damage. The IVpartment of Agriculture has no tified us that it will publish figures on the acreage abandonment by October 2. With early frosts the report under this head will certainly he startling. Even with a late frost a crop under fen mil lion bales is a certainty." Arrested in Charlotte. Wyatt 1'attersnn. a negro, was arrest ed . in Oho riot te last Thursday hy the ( harlot te police on information furnish ed by thi> county authorities. Sheriff Welsh, Constable" Mickle. Magistrate Nicholson and Supervisor West went up to bring the negro back. Patterson and Dan Richardson broke into the store of Mr. K. H. Elliojt at Shepard some few weeks ago and stole .$<50 apiece and other goods. Richardson was arrested at the time and was placed in jail. Patterson made Ills escape until located in Charlotte, lie admits his guilt. \VIii:< Kl l> N1 Alt ri(l?:s n ?r..> i Two Instantly ivul Two I ujiuv<1 ' ill C4ll|i?iOII. Ci'i , SnpU 13 ? l\0\) l'\ VI jvii, .?!* i h?* t 'levoland I'laiii Dealer, ? Mieinber of I'rcvldt'rti WHno^'h party, mhI .hum s |{. I ';i 1 1 1 - 1 vo u , of l'orllaml. Ore., wen' killed ami two other news paper iiM'ii injured ii? an u col' , lisjon on the (Nduuiibla highway, this ilf t ?vnoon while I h*? Presidential party was ret inning <to i'orllaml from a tour over t ho highway: Thf injured ; Uoia'Vt T. t Small. Phil adelphia Public Ledger, and Stanley Ko.vnolds, Italtiuiure Sun. The ox if itt of Small's injuries has us>t ? beeu ascertained at tho hdspital where ho was taken, hut friends said ihey were M<>t i -on hide rod serious. Reynolds* suffer e I a broken should or. Mr. Patterson was driving tho auto* ?nuhilo. Ho had volunteered his services to assist in taking <'aro of tho Presi dential party horo today. The others woro occupants of tho I'attorson machine. Witnesses said I'attorson was trying to reguiu tile pusitiou his automobile had lost in lino. It was seventeen automo hilos hack from tho automobile hearing tho President and Mrs. Wilson. Whilo I'attorson was attempting to regain his position in lino, a spectator's automo bile is said to have crossed Ahead of hint and in trying to avoid this car his machine struck another and overturned. Weather Causes Hugo lioss to Cotton. Washington, Sept. 1). ? 45otton raisers aro losing $.'10, (?00,<M)0 annually on an average from weather damage to bales ?of cotton loft in tho open, the .depart* incut of agriculture declares in a stale men. Enough "pickings" to represent :!-t ltfa*t $2,50 are lost from each hale exposed to the weather and frequently the losses are greater. Southern farmers arc urged by the department to store their cotton and stop this waste. Attention is called to the warehouse.*. licensed and Iwnded under the federal warehouse law. which the department says furnish best receipts good for cash at any bank. Use of private warehouses more generally would do much to stop the big loss, it declares. SECOND SERIES & Loan Assn. WW be Open October 1st, HOW MANY SHARES DO YOU WANT? SEE ANY OF THE FOLLOWING DIRECTORS AT ONCE: W R DeLOACHE E. N- McDOWELL? r W. D. BARRETT L. A. KIRKLAND H. L. SCHLOSBURG : G' L" BLJAH CLYBURN ? J.P.LEWIS E. P. TRUESDELL JOHN T. NETTUes? Pres- JOHN S. LINDSAY, Sec'Y.