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? I THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE II. I). Nile* . . Kditor mul Publisher Published every Fridsy at No. 1109 Broad Street and entered at the Camden, South Carolina, poUofflce as second class mail matter. Price per annum f'2.00. Camden, S. ('., Friday, Aug. 19, 1927. 1927 ' AUGUST *927 UT^m.] T-.|We4.| n.1 M it UJ I 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 IS 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 W LU UJ WU1W J , J ^ I The Heal Tragedy Three people were convicted in Louisiana last week for the murder of a man. Hie widow, her alleged lover, and another alleged CoVlkpiri-' tor were found guilty by the jury, and the first two will die. The other.gete life imprisonment. Four lives, in all, ruined hy jealousy, lust, hatred, or. some human tragedy. Worst of all is the effect upon the homes of these people. The press dispatch read: "Mrs. Lebouef is years old and has four child rep. Dr. 1 > re her is 55 and has five children. Ik'udlo is 40 and has seven children. Most of them were present in the courtroom." Sixteen little lives started off under such a cloud. That's the real tragedy of the hrutal crime.?Orangeburg Times Democrat. Riches and (ienius Julius Kosenwald, of Chifagn, one of the nation's wealthiest men, noted for his philanthropy and donations to education, who has arrived hi the 05th rnilepost on* his life's journey, in making some comment on the occasion, in keeping with the custom <?{ the great and near-great, explodes the theory so ardently and persistently advanced by the feature writers of the present day to the effect that men who attain outstanding success in the realm of business or finance possess extraordinary gifts and talents. He attributes his unusual success as a money-maker and holder to the fact that he was "lucky." He is quoted in the Associated Press dispatch; "I was lucky, not a genius, and I think you will find that i< true of moit rich men. With rare exception, the man who accumulates great wealth displays no more genius than the capital prize winner in the Louisiana State lottery. My luck he got hold of a good thing, at the right time, and by more luck he held onto it." This frank avowal, which does its maker great honor, comes as a shock and blow to the reading public, which bus been dosed time and again with the glowing accounts of men who, possessing genius and soaring aloft with Lindbergh wings. overeanUl every obstacle and forced the favor of the Goddess Fortune, willy nilly. A few more such declarations from men of the type of Kosenwald will cause numbers of these special writer^ and magazines, whose slock in trace i> to discover and p.ay up to the nth degree the money-making qual.ties. virtues and attributes of materially successful men, to switch I her- system.- -Spartanburg Journal. The Triangle Tragedy Last week a Knoxville man shot and killed his wife. A few minutes later he shot to death the man he accuse.I i>t having broken up his home Su h occurrtncos eannot he said to he unusual. And sometimes the double slayer, having wreaked vengeance o . tho.se who have betrayed him, turns the weapon of slaughter on himself and commits suicide. In the case of the Knoxville man, how i-i or. the final chapter of the triangle tagedy was written in a different way. IK- died of a heart collapse. -upi rinduced hy the strain undrig.uie sttier the tragedy came into hi> lite Maybe it is just as well. Oi course, it would have been betb't if the wronged man. assuming that he was wronged, had put the woman-out of his life and kept hi? hands free from the stain of humar blood. But sometimes the menta machinery ot a man got-- t,? piece? under too great a stia.n. and he be comes irresponsible. But in cases like these the sym pathy nt the public is always witT the man who is wronged. What i known a> "the eternal triangle" ialways t h *? forerunner ot tragedy even if there he r.o bloodshed. Home wrecking is a serious crime And whatever criticism may be levelec at modern society, it is still decen enough to despise those responsibh for the wreck. -Memphis Commercia Appeal. Ill the native quarters of China thi f mtreel* are made crooked on purpo>. to cottfuse the Evil One. who is nl trgvel in * 2 Ml*. ' ' ,A.' . L - V J-.J .-i..* , NOTED CRIMINAL- C ASE History of M?n> Move* Since Arreat of Sacco uiuj Yanzetti. A criminal case which has echoed throughout the world begun when Fredrick A. Farmenter, paymaster at the shoe factory of the Slater and Morrill company in South IJraiotree, Mass., and his gourd, Alexander Iterardelli, were shot to death at the door of the factory on April 15, 11120, Bandits who had driven to the factory in an automobile seized the factory puyroll of several thousand do?lars which Farmenter had brought from a bank ami escaped. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo V'unzetti entered the case with their arrest on charges of murder on May 5, 1020. Almost immediately fchere started the efforts to bring about their liberation which spread over more than seven years and extended to Europe, Central and South America. Mistaken identity was the claim set forth by supporters of the two men. BEAU GETS BEES llorry County Apiary Robbed by Sweet-Toothed Bruin In years long since gone by this county was infected with black bears ranging in the deep swamps and across the ridges isolated by the clearings of the lands by the people who settled on Horry County lands, then known as Horry District. The specie has about become extinct and it is very unusual for a black bear to be found in the woods or swamps of this county. Whenever one is found the animal is a subject of much interest to all the j>eople, as they are not used to seeing such big game anywhere about here. * Sam Sarvis and D. V. Richardson Art' interested in a large colony of honey bee hives located in modern) hives at Tip-Tip on the Waccamaw River. Recently Mr. Sarvis went to the .plact and found that all of the hives except seven out of about thirty-seven, had been bursted open and the honey robbed. The remaining seven hives had been injured more or less but they were not in such bad condition but what they could be saved. All about the bee hives he found the tracks of a large bear. The track measured eight inches across and from this any person who is familiar with bears can imagine the size of this bear. Sarvis went to looking around to find a bear trap to catch the animal. He learned that two bear trups were in the possession of Mr. Stalvey in the Socastee Township, where now and then s rme bears are found. Sending after the trap he failed to get it and that night he hid near the bee hives to see if the bear would return for more honey. It l>egan to rain after dark and they decides! to abandon the wait for the appearance ot the bear. They hung up a coat and a cap on the end of a tree and next day it appeared that the hear had approached near the place hut did not come up to the bee hives. Within the next few days the hear tiap was obtained and set near the place hut at last account the hear had r.ot been hack and wa- still at large, ? Horry Herald. WAS PRIZE ESS A ^ "Americanism" by Tom Johnson Gets Legion Auxiliary Award I no American Legion Auxiliary of Camden, under the terms >t* a recent contest in which high school student? throughout the county participated has awarded a prize to Tom Johnson ot the Antioch High school. Young Johnsons paper on "Americanism" i; as follows: Americanism is loyalty to out country and to its ideals and princip.es which we believe to be the best in the world. The foundation of these ideals and principles has been laid by such men as George Washington Abraham Lincoln. Robert E. Lee, and W oodrow Wilson. Ivan C. Hall says that Americanism is an ideal of loyal patriotism, religious tolerance, righteous freedom fearless courage, abiding faith in the i commanding destiny of the L'nitev States, and a fathomless love for tht principles which led our forefatherto found this commonwealth. Patrick J. Shelly believes thai Americanism consists in knowitu j America intimately, loving; her pas ^ sionately. and being ever ready ti ( wan! tiff her enemies from within a: ' well as from without. It ;s a sacre. ; word demiting sympathy and willing - nc?s to forego self-interest in ordei to promote the welfare and happines; ai d contentment of others. I* mean: iheiience to and respect for our law ' am; ordinances, and a deep appre.ia tion of our National principles. [ ; is -ervioe "f > God. f ir h >m \ i u r. t ry I heodore Roosevelt sgld that w have our problems ;> solve, man e\ ils to fight, and many deed.- to -.1 . 1 u> we hope and belie\ o we have tin l wisdom to accomplish. We must hav. , the strength, the couiage, the virtu. , to clo tneun. We shall never he su cessful over the danger# that cor.fron us. we shall never achieve true great r.css. nor reach the lof*y idea whicl the founders of our mighty Kedera > Republic has set before us. unle** w . aic American* in heart avi sou ai! oar faults no other la~d offer 'Mtrh glorious posiiETIitis.j xi Joe ours. Even before they were brought to trial it became known that Sacco, a Stoughton shoe worker, and Vanzetti, a I'lymouth fish dealer, had radical affiliation*. They y^ere indicted yn September It, 1920, and at their trial which alar ted at Dedhain on May 31, 1921, both admitted that they were radical ?. When the jury on July 14, 1921, brought in ? verdict of guilty of rnuVder in the first degree, the SaccoVanzelti defense committee which had been organized to finance their defense, asserted that the jurors had convicted the men because they were radicals and no*, because the evidence had shown that they had committed the murders. Judge Wobater Thayer of the auperior court, whose home in in Worcester, presided at the trial. Fred H. M oore of San Francisco, was chiei counsel for the defense. Sentence was stayed pending motions for a new triul. On December 24, 1921, Judge Thayer denied the first of these motions. At about the same time there occurred the first of a series of demonstrations in foreign countries by sympathizers with Sacco and Vanzetti, in the form of a protest by a labor committee at Milan, Italy. In the years that the case dragged along there were Sacco-Vanzetti demonstrations, some of them accompanied by the placing of bombs, in the vicinity of the American embassies at Paris and Buenos Aires, the American legions at Montevideo and other places in Europe, Mexico and South America. Several supplementary motions for a new trial were filed from time to time. In March, 1923, Arthur Hill, one of Sacco's counsel,- said that Judge Thayer was in no way responsible for the delays in the case. Lengthy arguments on the motions' were made in October and Nov&h&ber, 1923, In October, 1924 Judge Thayer refused all the motions. Meanwhile Vanzetti was in the state prison. Before his indictment for murder he had been convicted of the attempted robbery of a shoe factory paymaster in Brigewater earlier in the same year and sentenced to a term of 12 to 15 years. Judge Thayer presided at that trial also. Sacco had been held in the Norfolk county jail at Dfedham. There inFebruary and March, 1923, he conducted a month's hunger strike. Finally three alienists were called in to examine him and on their report he was removed to the Psychopathic hospital in Boston. There he was forcibly fed once, then abandoned the strike from which he appeared to have suffered no serious effects. While in the Boston institution Sacco attempted suicide by striking his head against a piece of furniture. Only a slight wound was inflicted. The alienists on March 27, 1923, declared him sane, and he was committed to the Dedham jail. In December, 1923, the question of ^ anzetti's sanity was brought up. In January, 1925, he was taker, to the Bridgewater state hospital for observation. He was found sane in , April of that year and was returned to the state prison. Moore withdrew a.- counsel f?r the two men in November, 1924, and Thomas F. and N. J. McAnarney, who hat! been associated with him, withdrew a month later. William G. Thompson of Boston was engaged as counsel to argue before the Massa> chu-etts supreme court an appeal from Judge Thayer's refusal of a new J trial. , Celestino Madeiros entered the case in January, 1926. Madeiros was m the state prison, under sentence of death for the murder of Jame? E. ( ( arpenter, a \Y rentham bank cashier, I in November, 1924. In a lengthy . statement he asserted that members I of the "Morelli gang" of Providence, R. I., with which he had been assoelated, committed the South Brain. tree murders and that Sacco nhd > \ anzetti had nothing to do with the 1 -hooting. _ Or. the basis of the statement detense counsel filed further motions [ for a new trial, which were denied C b> Judge Thayer on October, 1926. - On the representation that he might 1h? needed as a witness. Madeiros j thrice was granted respites before the . Massachusetts supreme court, which i previously had overruled exceptions * to Judge Thayer's refusal to grant ^ a new trial on other grounds, finally on April 6, 1927, upheld hie decision on the Madeiros motions. On April 9 Sacco and Vanzetti were taken to the Dedharn courthouse ami aentenctti by Judge Thayer to die in the electric chair at the state prison in the week of July 10. In the Courtroom both made dramatic pleas, asserting their innocence. They openly accused the judge of prejudice and of influencing the jury against them. Then Governor A Ivan T. Fuller became the center of interest in the case. His office was deluged with letters, telegrams and cablegrams from all parts of the world. The majority of these communications, which came from persons of all classes including many clergymen and college professors, urged the Governor either to pardon the two men, commute their sentences or appoint a committee of citizens to make an impartial investigation into the whole case. Some of them, however, asked him not to interfere with the courts decree. Occasionally there came a threat of I violence. In due course, counsel for the conj demned men carried petitions to the ' Governor, asking his intervention. In a long, written plea, Vanzetti asked not for a "pardon" but for "justice." Sacco refused to sign the petition in his behalf and Mr. Thompson in filing the plea for clemency, explained that he felt that the long nervous strain had brought about a mental attitude for which Sacco was not altogether responsible. An alienist indicated that he found Sacco abnormal in certain respects, and the Governor was asked to consider the, plea, even if Sacco had refused to sign it. Accompanying the petition for the counsel for the defense were five affidavits by newspaper writers who had been assigned to the trial, and others, who affirmed that Judge Thayer, during the trial, had spoken outside the court room in language that showed he was prejudiced against the defendants. The governor began a personal investigation into the case. On June 1 he announced that he had appointed an advisory committee to make a separate investigation. The committee was composed of President A. Lawrence Lowell, of Harvard university; President Samuel W. Stratton, i of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and former Judge Robert Grant, exf the probate court, who also was widely known as an author. On June 29, with the approval of . the executive council, Governor Fuller granted a respite to Sacco, Vanzetti and Madeiros "to and including August 10." In a statement he said this was done "for the reason that the task of reviewing the evidence and record (approximately 7,000 pages) and interviewing witnesses (nearly 200) cannot well be completed by July 10." j The separate investigations proceeded, a large number of witnesses being called before the Governor and the advisory committee. The Governor's advisory committee invited counsel for the government and the defense to call witnesses who ! had not testified during the trial. This action was construed as opening to the defense lines of evidence that were barred under technicalities in the court procedure. On July 17 Sacco and Vanzetti began a hunger strike. They refused food for a week. Then Vanzetti partook a single meal and thereafter rejoined Sacco in his refusal to accept j food. I Governor Fuller visited the state (prison on July 22 and interviewed Sacco, \ anzetti and Madeiros. VanJ zetti, the last of the three brought into the warden's office, talked with the Governor for an hour. Afterward the governor announced that he would make a second visit to the prison. The advisory committe completed its hearing of witnesses on July 21. It heard arguments on July 25 by Attorney Thompson, Harbert G. Ehrmann, associate defense counsel, and Dudley P. Ranney. assistant district attorney of Norfolk county, and then was ready to draw up its report. The executive council, which has the power to approve or disapprove any recommendation of the governor i for clemency, will hold its next meeting today but will be powerless to act without the governor's recommendation. ? 1 Permanent Wave THE WAVE THAT STAYS When we wave your hair oar beauty parlor way you can rest assured that it will stay waved for an indefinite length of time. And we do it in such a way as to , improve the texture and beauty of your hair. To all women who desire to retain their beauty and youthful appearance we hold ourselves ready to he of fruitful service. Try a treatment how. CAMDEN. BKA.LTY 1'AKl.OK i ii ??? FAMED AUTHOR DEAD . ,? ~~ , Jaiut-H Oliver Cur wood Fuwe# After Infection Supped Strength ? C .. Owosso, Mich., Aug. 13.?Jgmes Oliver Curwood, author and noted Conservationist, died at hi* home here from streptococcus infection, which had confined him to hi# bed since last Saturday. Death came to the noted writer of stories of the north woods at his home, "Curwood Castle," here, after u desperate battle against the infection that steadily sapped his strength. In an effort to stay the ravages of the infection two physicians from the Henry Ford hospital in Detroit were rushed by airplane to the Curwood home, and a daughter, Mrs. Antonio PJirus of Detroit, gave of her blood in a transfusion operation. The blood transfusion was futile, however, for after rallying somewhat, the author weakened again, rapidly, and his physicians announced that his death was a matter of hours only. Besides his keen interest in conservation, Curwood was deeply interested in civic enterprises in his home city, contributing liberally to these undertakings. , JameB Oliver Curwood's love for the outdoors and particularly for the great forests of upper Michigan motivated his life and his work as a novelist. He wrote of outdoor men and women and moved them across a stage that t usually was set in the big woods, living their lives with a sereneness born of his own experiences. It was the forest that rose in dark grandeur along Michigan's northern boundary that furnished a great deal of the inspiration for his novels, which he wrote with clocklike regularity. He was born at Owosso, Mich., in the central part of the state, and save for a short period during his boyhood, spent the greater part of his life at his birthplace. \ "The Courage of Captan Plum," his first novel, was written in 1908, after he had spent seven years in newspaper work. Frcm then on the novels flowed from his pen. There followed "The Wolf Hunters," 1908; "The Great Lakes and the Gold# Hunters," botn written in 1909; "The Danger Trail," 1910; "The Honor of the Big Shows" i and "Philip Steele of the Royal Mounted," written in 1911. Others of his novels included: j "Kazan," 1914; "Nomads of the North," 1919; "The Valley of Silent j Men," 1920; and "The Flaming For-, est," 1921. A zealous crusader for conserva-| tion of natural resources, Curwood j was considered an authority on the j Canadian northland and was the [ only American ever employed by the j Canadian government as an exploratory and descriptive writer. Quincy Long, a negro, was shot and | instantly killed at Batesburg early j Monday morning by chief of police , W. E. Duncan, of that place. Long \ had been arrested and placed in the1 lockup for causing a disturbance. He broke out of prison and with an iron j bar made an assault upon the offi- , cer while sitting in his car. The officer fired three shots into the negro, killing him instantly. A coroner's jury exhonerated the officer. The farmers of Sumter County met at the court house Monday morning for the purpose of agreeing upon a price for cotton pickers. It was agreed to pay 60 cents per one hundied poundxS of seed cotton picked. i Monroe Hamilton, aged 65, died at a hospital in Florence Sunday afternoori from burns received when a house burned at Dillon. Andrew Hayes, owner of the house, is also in the hospital suffering from burns. . The men entered the house early Sunday morning and a few minutes later the house caught fire. JBoth men were fully dressed when found. 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