The Camden Chronicle e P==^ ; VOUiME XXXVIII* /** itej r a p*~^i CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JUNE II. 1926. NUMBER 11 JOHN GIRARDEAU KILLED J. 11. Mancke Held For Tragedy In Jerome lloiel in Columbia (Wednesday's Columbia State) John L. Girardeau, 38, of Columbia was shot and almost instantly killed shortly after 10:30 o'clock last night in the room Of J. H. "Bub" Mancke at the Hotel Jerome and Mancke is being held at the Columbia city jail. Mancke was unable to talk of the affair last night or early this morning as he was in a deep sleep or stupor at the jail and could not be aroused. The two were ulone in the room, it is believed, as they were seen to go upstairs together about an hour before the shooting occurred. There was no sign of any unusual disturbance and no unusual sounds were heard by persons next door, until the shot was fired. J. F. Chappell, manager of the hotel, went to the room upon the sound of the shot, opened the door and peered in. He said he saw Mancke on the bed, and at first thought Mancke was the person who had been shot. Hearing sounds from the northwest corner of the room, he said, he saw Girardeau upon the floor, gasping. Chappell spoke to jfiancke, he said, but perceiving him to bo in a druhken condition, and in the possession of a pistol, he shut the door and called a physician and officers. Upon the arrival of officers the room was again entered. Girardeau was found dead and Mancke was lying upon the bed, apparently senselessly drunk. The body at this time was lying in the southwest corner pf the room with the feet toward the center of the room. The bullet entered the right side, slightly toward the front, an autopsy revealed, and traveled slightly upward and was fpund just beneath the skin under the left shoulder blade. The bullet was of .32 caliber! " Coroner J.*B. Scott made an investigation into the affair soon after it happened. He found on a dresser in the room a whiskey bottle containing a very small ^quantity of whiskey and an emp^y ale bottle. It was also learned that Mancke had been at the hotel Sunday and Monday nights. Officers S. A. Hancock, George Cleiger and E. C. Richbourgh were the L first to reach the scene after the. u alarm was given^and they disarmed Mancke. They were soon followed by Detectives S. S. Shorter, W. H. Rawlinson, R. F. Broom and R. H. Wilson, of the police department. These detectives, with Detective J. B. Quick, are working on the case to locate a man seen with Mancke and Girardeau shortly before they went to the room. ' John H, Girardeau was 38 years of age and was a son of C. H. Girardeau of 1810 Assembly street. He resided with his parents and was at home for supper last night apparently in a normal condition, his father said. He was serving as a juror during the present term general sessions court sitting in .Columbia. He was a member of the Headquarters company, One Hundred and Eighteenth infantry, National Guard. Surviving him are' his parents, two sisters, Mrs. J, W. Daniel of Savannah and Miss Bessie Gerardeau of Columbia, and two brothers, Claude Girardeau, Jr., of Orlando, Ffiviid Charles J. Girardeau of Savannah. "Bub" Mancke is well known, in Columbia, having worked in various pool rooms around the city for several years. For the last nine months he has been a patient at Ridgewood tuberculosis camp. Several days ago he left the-camp and was to go today to Oteen government hospital, near Asheville, for treatment. He was a veteran of the Spanish-American war, Thomas S. Franklin, a former mayor of Charlotte, N. C., was stricken in a barbershop in* that city Saturday, and died in a hospital a few hours later. Camden Water Gets High Rating Dr. F. Ll Parker, chemist and bacteriologist of the state board - of healtlf, has issued the following report upon the condition of water received from the Camden Water'and^ Light Plant: * . . Color (in parts per million) 5.00; chlorine, 0.00; free < ammonia, 0.01; albuminoid ammonia, 0.01; nitrogen "? nitrites, 0.00; nitrogen as nitrates, .* 0.00; total iolids, 42.00;' bacterial lit'cations of comtanfination, negative. To the above report Dr. Parker ' fids the following remarks: Analyses indicate mater to be of good quality and froe frvm contamination. ^ ' l.~L ^ rTVif M t "M" SYSTEM MAKES BOW Clarke and Villepigue to Own and Operate Large Chain Store Camden welcomes to this progressive city> one of the largest chain stores in Amerieu. Replacing the DeKalb Grocery the "M" System of Stores will ^ owned and operated by Messrs. Clarke and Villepigue. These two gentlemen are well-known in this section, both natives of Camden and their many friends will welcome their connection with this well-known system of stores. This is another step forward in building a greater Camden, in view of the fact that all their merchandise is bought locally and they will be a part and parcel of this community. These gentlemen have secured the franchise for this city and they will extend the number of these stores from time to time as their business will warrant. Mr. A. R, Jackson of Couch and Jackson, of Atlanta, Ga., is eastern manager for the "M" Manufacturing company^ who have charge of the sale of exclusive franchise rights, embracing all territory east of the Mississippi River. The "M" System of stores was first put in operation just three years ago, since \ which time the chain has grown to over 600 stores. The many features of saving, ease of operation and the dispensing Of groceries at lower cost of operation, enables them to sell cheaper,' affecting the saving to the public, has caused nation-wide comment and contracts for exclusive ownership are being rapidly closed throughout the United States. One of the greatest features this store has is their vegetable stand with patented spray of water flowing continuously in a mist, keeping the vegetables fresh and sweet at all times. The arrangement of the store | is so complete that any child can easily find their wants. It is understood that special demonstrations on both Swift & Company aud Proctor & Gamble will feature on the opening day. Souvenirs, will be given to adults on opening day, and the public in general is invited to( visit this modern grocery. Traffic Toll Heavy Traffic by airplane, train and automobile killed 46 persons, and injured a total of 285 during the past week, a survey conducted by the Associated Press in 11 Southern states revealed j Monday. The list of casualties exceeded by two the number of persons killed and by 31 those injured during the week previous. South Carolina reports six killed and thirteen .in-1 jured. v a ' ' _ STRANGE CRAFT DOCKS, Small. Vessel Had Roamed Seas on Scientific Expedition Charleston, June 5.?Completing a scientific voyage that carried the little vessel approximately 15,000 miles within the last two* and onehalf years, during which it collected 12,275 specimens of plant and aninUl life for the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, the ^schooner, Blossom, docked at the Columbus street terminal ' ^Saturday morning, having arrived off the bar from Fernando da Noron ha Friday nlgliL'T'He expedition wa^ under command of Captain George Finley Simmons, curator of natural history at the Cleveland museum. He was greeted at Charleston by his wife who had not seen him in two years and their fifteen months old son. > A remarkably complete collection of birds, fish and plants were obtained and much scientific data-of value ^vas~con*piled <|uring "the long and adventurous voyage. Most of I the specimens were shipped from ports at which the Blossom touched, while on her return and about 4,000 [ are on board and will be shipped from Charleston to Cleveland, Of special interest to Charleston is the fact that Professor Paul Marshall Rea, director of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History which institution. ownsthe Blossom was formerly director of thu^ Charleston museum,?which is the oldest institution of its kind in North America. An Associated Press dispatch from New London, Conn., quotes Professor Rea as ptjrting that the Blossom /activities in the Cape Verde Islands increased the number of species known to the island approximately one-third and~ In "Bengal, West Africa, the Blossom made a eotle^lion not equalled f by the American Museum." ' -S " ; > 1 j ? ''A3 V-.. i'y, j 1 :i, LEE COUNTY ASSESSMENTS Candidate* Pay High For Privilege of Running for Office Some prospective candidates entertained the opinion thut campaign assessments ure high in Sumter county, but as a matter of fact, Sumter county assessments are low in comparison with other counties. So far as noted the schedule of assessments are higher in all other counties. For instance the Lee county assessments are as follows: State Senate?$100 if only one candidate; $50 each if more than one candidate. Representative?$100 each if only two candidates; $60 each if more than two candidates. Treasurer?$100 if one candidate; $50 each if more than one. Auditor?$100 if one candidate; $50 each if more than one. Rural Police?(four districts)?$50 each where there is no opposition; $25 each in districts where there is opposition. * Commissioners?(Two districts)? $50 each for candidates without opposition; $25 each for candidates with opposition. Cotton Weighers?Bishopville, $50 each candidate; Lynchburg, $15 each candidate. Cotton Weighers, Bishopville?$50 Magistrates?Bishopville, $70 if H>ne candidate; $35 each if more than one candidate; St. Charles, $40 if one candidate; $20 if more than one; all other magistrates in county, $10 if no opposition; $5 if opposition. * HERO PERISHES AT HAMLET Man Loses Life Trying to Rescue Lodgers From His House Hamlet, N. C., June 4.?B. B. Baker, &L Bernia Joyner, 19, and Lewis C. Englekap, 43, are dead and R. G. Kelly, 22, is in a local hospital seriously burned as the result of a fire of undetermined origin which destroyed the Baker boarding house herd early today. The house, a large frame structure, was old and built of pine lumber so that the flames made rapid headway. The hour made it difficult to get help :but the fire Company responded immediately to the alarm. However, the building was falling when the engine arrived. * TJaKer,^ an automobile mechanic, operated the house. His wife and six children left yesterday. morning for Columbia on a visit. A small son was the only member of the family at home beside the father. Bakcf made several trips into the burning building, once for his boy and again for a young woman boarder, both of whom were saved without injury. A third trip was made but he was unable to rescue any of the others and died from the effects of the flames. He came here a few months ago from Cheraw, S. C. Englekap's body was charred beyond recognition and wasyddentified only after a check up of the inmates of the house. He. was transfer clerk of the mail shed here and ' " ' . GIGANTIC SWINDLE By Foreigners in Eastern Section of North Carolina Norfolk, Va., June 5.?Whut ia alleged by poatoffice inspectors to bo a million dollar merchandise swindle in North Carolina wus rbvcaled here today with the announcement that 12 persons already had been arrested on charges of using the mails to defraud and that many 'more names had been presented to a Federal grand jury with the expectation that a largo number of additional arrests would be made. Ramifications of the plot spread through the entire eastern North Carolina section, including the principal cities, according to postoffice inspectors. Using as the basis of their alleged scheme the establishment of stores in North Carolina under names almost identical with that of ? reputable establishments, the swindlers are alleged to have obtained merchandise from hundreds of northern wholesalers and jobbers totaling |1,000,000 in value. The merchandise included almost everything from clothing to automobile tir?js and in one case a $2,200 diamond. The plot, according to the government agents, became known after firms in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and other cities had presented .bills for large amounts to old established customers in the South and learned that the goods had not been obtained by them * but had been shipped to stores with similar names. The postoffice department immediately was appealed to for action to, expose the swindle and the investigation that resulted in the arrests has been going-on for months. AH of those arrested, it was said, are native j Syrians, only two of - whom have taken out?their first naturalization papetfiT _ Postal agents said they had difficulty fixing identity of many of the purchasers as automobiles were used to transport goods from store to store and the proprietors were constantly changing. The investigators said they expected to broaden the scope of their inquiry and that indications are it would extend as far as Wisconsin. Ben Doby Dead Benjamin J. Doby, a well-known colored citizen of ^Camden, died at his home on ChUrch street Thursday afternoon of fast week at four o'clock at the advanced age of 73 years. Ben was a long time member of Trinity Methodist chUrch but owing to that church being burned his funeral was held from Mt. Moriah church Friday, his pastor, Rev. B. P. Bradford, preaching the funeral in the presence of a large concourse of friepds. Doby was one of the few old utime colored citizens now fast passing ayray. . He was a butler and waiter by profession and for many years served at Uphton Court, now the Court Inn, a tourist hotel then conducted by the late Mrs. Callie Perkins. For twenty years he had charge of a fashionable club at Saratoga, Y., and returned to Camden a number of years ago and has since bebft ifthployed by tbVCamden Q*TWtry club. He had numbers 6f friends among both races who1 regret his passing. New Postmaster in Charge Hobson B. Taylor, ' the newly^aijl)pointed postmaster at Kershaw, took charge of the postoffice Tuesday morning, and the disastrous fire which wrought such destruction on that day took the postoffice along with fhe toll gathered along its way. Temporary quarters have been established in the Thomas Henry old store 'on east Marion street, and the business is being handled under difficulty in the handicap of new force and new quarters. The public will have to bear patiently in the circumstances until the situation becomes more normal. Mr. Taylor has as his assistant Kermit Gregory of Taxahaw, who was recently married and occupies one of the cottages on cast Richland street,?Kershaw Era. Just a short time before Senora Luisa Caldero of Lisbon^ $pain, died she summoned some of her friends i an orchestra, girls playing castanet* ' and taking part in a local fete, an< h parading in Moorish COstumea, anc s. asked them to accompany her re ' **?tns to the burial place in 'orde . that her funeral might be at "joyouj aa possible.'* . . J f , MYSTERY SEBMS SOLVED JuIiuh Bellinger, of Shelby Claims To Ik? Long Loot Charlie Roes New York, June 6.?A mystery of -more than half a century has been solved in the finding of Charley Ross, who was kidnaped from his home in a Philadelphia suburb in 1874, The New York World Will say tomorrow. The finding of the long lost Charley, for whom numerous futile searches have been made in all parts of this country and also abroad, is attributed to Mrs. Pierce C. Starr, of New York, whose mother was a first cousin of Charley's mother. Mrs. Starr has just returned to New York after two months in the South spent in gathering evidence, bringing with her the man she believes to be the Charley Ross who disappeared from the home of his wealthy father in 1874. . The man,' Julius Dellinger, of Shelby, N. C., now 56 years old, is married and has six children. He has iron gray hair and a face beseemed with years. Although he is self-educated he carries himself with dignity. "I want no money," he said simply. "I know that %the estate of .Christian K. Ross was exhausted in his search for his son. All I want is my birthright. I want a name for my six children. I have borne four names and I want my right one proved to them." The Charley Ross case has been one of the outstanding mysteries in American history. When the child disappeared his father began a search for him that he prosecuted until his death in 1897 and in which he spent $60,000' in his vain effort to recover his son, who was a curley headed lad of four years when.ho disappeared. Tho boy was believed to have been kidnaped by wandering peddlers. After his disappearance the father received a demand for $20,000 ransom. He was willing to pay ft but the case counsel caused such a hue and cry that the abductors were afraid to arrange for, return of the child. Afterwards there followed a nation-wide search and huge rewards were offered. Hundreds of "Charley Rosses" were produced almost everywhere, but none was the right one. Suspicion finally settled on two river thieves and peddlers, William H. 'Mosher and Joseph Douglas, as the kidnapers, but when the two W >re finally caught in a robbery they died of gunshot wounds before they revealed anything of the missing youth's whereabouts. BANKERS GO TO PEN Dillon Men Charged With Violating State Banking Laws Dillon, June 7.?Pleading guilty to , an indictment charging violations of the state banking laws, W. H. Smith and M. M. Sellers, former president and former cashier respectively of the defunct Bank of Latta, this morning were sentenced to the state penitentiary by Judge. E. ,?. Dennis, who is presiding over the court of general Sessions, now being held here. Indeterminate sentences were - imposed . in. each instance, Smith drawing confinement for nine to eighteen months and Sellers for six to twelve months. iCounts agkinst the defendants included alleged overdrawing of - personal accounts, alleged false reports and statements of condition of bank', unlawfully declaring dividends and removing and concealing. overdrafts. ? In passing sentence, Judge Dennis . pointed- ou% that as all" business is based on credit and banks are the institutions through which money and credit may be handled, general confidence in these institutions is imperative to the economic welfare of the country. The only apparent way to establish and maintain this confidence, is to exact punishment when the public confidence Is violated, he said. An appeal for mercy on behalf of the defendants was made by J. Monroe SpearR, prominent Darlington attorney. This Case attracted great interest in Dillon county due to the large number of people affected. Ij^ , Herbert Wenig, 17, of Los Angeles , Cal., has been declared the winnei i of a nation-wide 'oratorical contest 1 by high school boys and girls a' 1 Washington, D. C., the contest beinj - held Friday night, with Chief Juatie< r Taft and members of the Unite< i States supreme cou^t acting pa judge of the contest. - - :?r\v - ?rrr BETH UN B NgWb NOTES Items of Interest as Gathered By Our J? Itvtuiar Correspondent Bethune, S. C.# Juno 9.?Mr. P. L. McNaughton, who live *>? MISS Louise King of Neeses is the guest of her sister Mrs. D. M. Mayes. Mr. and Mrs. Mark King and chilJren of Neeses returned* to their ionie Monday afternoon after spending short time with MrB. King's father, Mr. N. A. Bethune. Mrs. L. M. Yarbrough has returned to her home in Elloree after an extended visit to her father; Mr. K. T. : Estridge. Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Mayes spent Sundfty at Cayces with MrL Maye's aisterr Mrs. Era B?kai7"^^niey were accompanied home by Master Charley Belch, who will spend some time here. Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Bethune entdrtained at a course dinner Tuesday Mr. and Mrs. J. A. McCaskill and Dr. and Mrs. Edwin Brazwell Messrs. N. A. Bethune, K. E. McCaskill, A. K McLaurin, J. N. MeLaurin were guests of Rev. W. T. Smith in Rockingham, N. C., Tuesday. FOR COUNTY TREASURER I hereby announce myself a candidate for re-election to the office of 'County Treasurer for Kershaw Coun, ty, subject to the rules of the Demo--_ . . cratic primary. D. M. McCASKILL. - - " ' FOR ROAD SUPERINTENDENT I hereby announce myself as a candidate for re-election as Road r Superintendent of Kershaw County, j t subject to the rules and regulations , of the Democratic primary. 1 S. H. MICKLE. C ?- ; 3 ? Recent tost* show that the bee is T; i color-blind to ted shades and has to s rely upon its sense of smell in detect, flowers of that color. .