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?uaeaB? ?.v . W&g'te ? ?>'? :;^lr>: . - 1 IN."' 4 - * - -1^ V i?"'? The Camden Chronicle ? fc .. I Tif! . ' ,11 J' , yjUUME XXXIX. J CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA,., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1987. NUMBER 3?. BJlii mi III nil I ?Him I I M .11 I I I HI I II I til I I I ^ i .ui-r-m-i?i rrrTTTm?^ : IlsP " I .11 I n m ? ' *\m? ? ?? I Now is the Time for Santy tp Make Good -. ' n. 4 gy Albert t. Rod " ' I l i . .i , ... l>W.H MIR I Sgl'lUllI II ' ! >'*. < 3w\J ?XMy CIAV5 Con*u$$ f Wocd UkE A Sooof Vo< atdacTlon, PLood CtmXM. LAM8*A*PI uutr 'A?<* $owr haviy OOOSCt-5 And Any <?WWl MlCf Tl?h46fc 6coo>?tip - pertr. fOUtiH NAMED DIRECTOR ajigw ('aunty Man On Penitentiary Board. -r|(Ve selection of W. R. Hough of !-Asden as a member of tho board ?director* of the South Carolina Jenitentiary, vice George R. Wightj^n <,f Saluda, who resigned Friday to become inspector or shipping and n? kir.g clerk at th? institution, ami toe reorganization of,the prison and aowe of its farms and areas have been announced. Governor John G. Richards yesterday appointed Mr. Hough as a directpr of the prison board to succeed Mr. Wightman, \yhosc resignation was announeed Friday. The resignation of Mr. Wightman was accepted Jn order that Mr. Wightman might take up his new wqrk to which he vras appointed by Superintendent jPearm??. The prison directors approved of /he appointment of Mr. Wightman ds inspector or shipping apd cheeking clerk at the prison chair factory. The reorganisation program includes the transforming of one <?1' the truck and farm areas of the prison into a farm for raising cattle.i This farm containing about 700 acres is praa a^out seven miles from Colombia on the .Columbia-Newberry road and has been used as a truck ind crop farm, prisoners being carried out from the penitentiary to grow the crops. In the future, under vtho reorganization program, this area will to fenced in and used for* thU Tdls-' ing of cattle, so that adl thV* meat lecessary for the >prison and its forms j^n be raised here. It is al^ planned .by ~i.be directs that tpe policy fprmerly in force in the two prison farms in Sumter !ounty be discontinued regarding the production of cotton alone, the future policy being diversification. Truck and other crops and some cotton will be planted in the future on these two farms in Sumter county. Another feature of the reorganization program'will be the repairing of itructures- at the prison and of the Wilding badly in need of repair at the various farms. ^ Governor Richards said following the meeting of the prison board that tith some repairing the prison and h? farms could,be put into first class Pipe. The governor further said itot the recent agitation about the tsmsity tit a new prison would be a cold shoulder so long as fie war governor for the repairing of the prison buildings and its farm .structures under the reorganization program ..would be adequate to meet all needs for years to come. The idea of the reorganization was to make the prison self-supporting, raid Superintendent Pearman.?Sunday's State. Carnival Of Interest To Many Of forthcoming yuletide attractions probably none in Camden will offer greater interest than the carnival t6 be staged in. Saint Mary's" hall Friday evening,. December 30, by the American Legion auxiliary of this city. Bingo and hot'dog stands will dot the midway and candy wheels will be in full swing for thesSsrowds in attendance. The palmist for the evening is one able to divulge Camden's darkest secrets of the past as well as today's popular gossips, accoYding to miliary officials, and other side *ho\vs will include the bearded lady, the fat lady, dancing girls and "the $ving skeleton. i An added attraction will be the ;foronation of the carnival queen "to be selected from Camden's smartest younger social group. .Selection of gp loost popular young* represent*this city will be decided by t Wfcts, now being taken, and entries to date include Miss Molly Blackwell, Kit DeLoache, Miss Billie HanMiss Rfcca Myers, Miss Gladys t'W6Kti w . * | Car of Turkeys Shipped North. L The County Agents Of Kershaw and Mjncaster counties shipped a, carload live poultry last weak?WwrttflnE p?tly of turkeys. The loading Wis B? follows; Camdeh 3*000 pounds, PW5.35; Kershaw, 0,000 poupds SIr gj.79; Lancaster,v 7,000 pounds,. |1,W About 3,000 pounds- was Pried away at.Lancaster on account (the car being overloaded. The P?r was Clarence C. Lee, of PittsPJT. Pa. This shipment takes a number of turkeys off the.,mar h from Lancaster, Camden and Ker J* as local markets weVe unable to >he large ndmber of turkeys! Jea this year, and at the same time Wr * considerable Amount of extra *?ey into circulation R Property Changes O w ners. > ,9r??cent ^?ke property, owned T. K. Trotten C. C. Whitaker, Sr., t. $!***& snd Rr"!!. Stevenson, f? S(,ld this week through L, C. of the C. P. DuBose real estate to th? First National Bank or JJJWcn as tiustee. This property BCvA.? Ainetoen acres with a pond *L b.athlnK-. boating, and fishing and beyond the city limits of Ettght acres of land lying between Whitaker and T. K. Trotter JjUto acres, the property of Lt * well as two acYes, HORRIBLE CRIME COMMITTED Kidnaper** Claim Reward After Mutilating Body of Little Girl Lor Angeles, Dec. 17.?T^e mutilated body of Marian Parker,*12,,bank offician's daughter kidnaped la9fc Thursday noon, was tossed out of an automobile tonight at the feet of her father, Perry M. Parker, who had gone to an appointed s,treet corner in the northwest section of the city carrying $1,500 in ransom money demanded by the abductors. First examination of the body revealed that both legs Had been cut off apparently close to the body. Parker received a telephone call at 7:35 o'clock 'tonight instructing him to proceed to the corner of Fifth street-and Manhattan place with $1,500 in gold certificates and his daughter would be returned to him there. The father, distracted and nearing collapse, proceeded to the street corner with the money, arriving there shortly after 8 o'clock. A few minutes after he arrived.'asmall roadster drew up alongside Parker's automobile. The banker saw I his daughter in the seat beside the I driver and was told by the kidnaper j that tKfc little girl was asleep. I "Here's your ehiid." he said to Parker. 'Give me the money and fob low instructions. She is asleep.". Parker banded the kidnaper flib $1,500 in the $200 gold certificates designated by the kidnaper. According to the agreement, the man after taking the money drove ahead of the father a little way and, climbing out of the car, laid the body bf the girl on the grass in front of a house a few doors up the street* Marian was lured from the Mount Vernon junior high school grounds last Thursday noon by a'man who represented that her father was ill. When she failed to return home at night, Parker communicated with school authorities and'when told of the ruse, Notified police. ^ . One of the most intensive man hunts)ever Conducted in southern California began that night and /increased in scope hourly. ,.As soon as .the man had driveii? away, Parker nm frantically to his daughter's side,^clasped her in hi# arms and found she-twas dead. A wire had been twisted so tight*? ly around the girl's throat that 1m flesh* had been cut deeply into a gaping Wound. The wieowas run arvunflfc the back of the head and to the faeo where It was thrust through her eyelids. "t : .The head of the girl foras ekis ,posed, but otherwise was so wrapped that first examination disclosed no further mutilation. Hundreds of detectives, deputies and peace officers in the Los Angeles" district awaited the flash that the kidnaper had appeared and;:with the tragic message' telephoned to police headquarters, a tremendous drive was begun to find the fiendrt^r"y Tonight's arrangement for Paiker to pay over the mdney to the abduetor-eliminated a two-day correspondence/ by the kidnaper with . the father. Four ransom letters were received, the first Friday mornihg. " fcWK'bar^ ried the threat of death if the money were not paid or if the police were notified. Aftet every effort on the part of ,j*Uce to locate the child bad failed, it was decided to meet the demands' of the abductors. releaaa?tbe ; chiM from bondage and-then use^ever^^fAfter preliminary, examination. -at the morgue, it was estimated that the girl had been dead 12~hourh. 7:. i&i^jjjsiayer - Identified. tfevl ,J, fcos A?reles;d)??.-2ft-?r-Wm. Kdward KHf ok man, former employee of the JLos -ttfcgelas. K4rat National Trust dfc Sav& Bank.was declared by Chief of ec^ives Herman Ctfne today to have been ^bxoltttcl|^; identified^ ^ as U?e murderer of Marian Parker, 12year-old daughter . of Perry Parker, O^e Of the bank's officers. - The motive of the atrocious crtme the police declare apparently waa vengeance. Perry M. Parker, an as* sistant cashier of the hank^Wii^th)0: only thank official who opposod the. youth's plea for probation after het had pleadedr guilty soma time ago to charges of forging checks. Arrest on that ^charge was responsible for his discharge.* from the 'bank and Parker? ~hgd urged~ that Hickman should be given a prisoner , jail term, Hickman, howeve&j ?9$ ^ paroled to his mother,.then living in Alhambra, Cat. V Jinnouncement thai' Hickman had been identified, both by . fingerprints ahd photograph*-** the Slayer of the chRd made by the police af:er it I midr bemt: determined that be was not (?11: Alhambir* address, Neighbors f said the family moved a Atonth ago to Kansas City. \ MORE NAMES ADDED. ????????? . r J Goodfellows List Goes Higher This Year Than Usual, p i A number of names have been ad-, ded to-the list of -Goodfellows, giving: 1 ' to a fund to be used for Christmas baskets for the poor. Included among the names are several marked cash with the names of the donars omitted. These came from afar,?one from a former citizen now a resident of Texas?another from as far North as Pennsylvania. The money was turn-j ed over to Mrs. W. J.^Mayfield and I Mis.-Louise M. Brown, who WiH pre-1 pare the baskets and distribute them on Christmas Eve. The names of ! those who have contributed since last j week are: *-.<?/> j Previously reported .. . $9*>.00 C. H. Yates -l.OOi Ted Jacnbson . 1.00 Cash ;... 1.00 Mrs. F. Leslie Zemp l.OOi Cash ...: 5.00 Cash .' t 1.00 Cash 1.00 F. E. Coursen ~7 ?<>. . . 1.00 J. E. Copeland 1.00 I A. A. Shanks l'.OO Leo Nolan *.. . 1.00 T. P. "Christmas 1.00 ! Mrs. E. N. McDowell . : 1.00 ; Total $109.00 j Joseph Cucinotto, 14, killed hia j father at Camderi; Nf.J., last ThurS- j day when the father attacked the boy's mother. The district attorney 1 on Friday refused to take action against the boy unless ordered to do so by the grand jury: Ho is qubted as saying*, "I believe any red blooded boy would.heve done the same thing." The .'father was drunk at the^time oft Attacking the mother. . \r I i immmmtmmmm ? i I i ' M > I ? OFFICER SHOOTS NEGRO t Relict-man Brown Had Narrow Es'ft ..cape From Knife Wound : ^|9) the discharge of his duty Monfta-y evening, policeman Clement C. Brown was forced to shoot a negro man known as "Red" in order to protect himself. , It appears that "Rea," who was left over here by a carnival company about a year ago, was in the home of Rev. Brown pastor of the local colored Methodist church Monday evening in the negro section on Church street that he had steamed himself "up with alcohol used for ubhing purposes, and had threatened o cut the preacher who then sent _fo.- police assistance. f When officer BroWn pjnoed /Red under arrest and took the naif empty bottle of alcohol from him, the negro resisted and struck at the officer who drew his revolver and countered with a .blow on the side of the negro's head, knocking him down. This being insufficient to subdue hinu the negro came back up with an open knife and >made a slash at the officer's head. Warding this attempt off with l\is "left affif,"Mr. Brown fired, the bullet striking "Red" and passing thru the left lower side of stomach. The negro was taken to the Cart\den hospital, and at present it'seems that he will survive and have * chance to seek other pastures after a healthy stay, on one of the county gangs. Officer Brown suffered only a cut to hfc overcoat sleeve, but it was due entirely to the fact that the knife was rather dull, that he escaped a serious c\*t on the forearm. ' p WillSiagifteVeSunday. Ben P. DeLoache, Jr., recent winner of third prize in the Atwster, Kent national audition contest held recently fh Jiew York, will arrive this week to he ;(he guest of his parents, Bit', and Mrs. -Ben P. DeLoache for the Christ* anas holidays. He will sing in the Lyttleton Street Methodist Church in this *ity Sunday, Dec. 25. Mr. DeLoache is expected to-arrive in Cans* deo. Over tne Seaboard Air; Line at 7:2lf Friday evening. Talk of hat ing * the1 NoKhv Carolina Democratic state! convention declasse for Governor McLean for nomination for president is looming strongly he that "We* 4# ? Large Sunday School - Attendance ' There ia keen interest among the members of the,,Bible class - of the rtyttleton Street Methodist Church, since a membership drive had been put on. Oft Sunday, December nth, they had broken the record for attendance .which .4 numbered 253.?vJLasl Sunday tjiey went etill better and swelled thi> attendance to 295. The class is taught by Mr. Q. fy. Birchmore and is ^divided into the ^Blues" and "Reds.M The Blues'led the Reds last Sunday by M to^ll. la the Ladies Bible Class taught by Mrs. N. C. Amett, f K/. ; / moa mil nltowJn m/>o c : r\f 'lK% ' ' Sunday School hour is 10 a. m., and gjke church offers a cordial welcome { bails' services. F wRevi G. P. Watson, the newly ap poltv.cd pas to ii Jlfitbed. Ms first sermon to a large congregation Sunday movsing. The members are delighted with their new pastor. ? '* 'B>' ?*-. - -A?A , "i MAY CONSTRUCT ROAD Business Men Urge Completion of ; I'fnk liberty Hill To (.rent Falls A committee of Camden citiaen*, representing the Chamber of Commerce, the Young Men'* Business league and the business men of the city, 1 uesday called on the goverhor and ^ the chief highway commissioner in i/?e governors office. The object I of the visit whs to request a speeding up of the work on the unconstructed link on state highway No. 97, be-| tween Liberty Hill and Great Falls. This stretch has been projected for | some time, hut no progress has been lately made in getting it constructed. I he chief highway commissioner, Ben Sawyer, said thut the .construction of this link would save between 20 and 30 miles from the Pee Dee section of the stHte to Spartanburg Miid the mountains. The "members of the Camden committee were: Henry Savage, James H, Burns, W. K. Johnson, U. B. Pitts. C. C. Whitaker and Henry Savgge. Jr.. ^us a result of the meeting, surveyors will immediately prepare u routing gnd estimates on the necessary link of some eight miles, so that arrangements may be made for its construction in the near future. Sl'HJNKIt FILES REPORT Ninety-six Convictions and Nine Acquittals lor Year. Out of 106 cases tried in.the Kershaw county court of general sessions this yt'ur, Solicitor A. Fletcher Spigner of Columbia secured 96 convictions against a total of nine ae? quittals. Solicitor Spigner also ntade a remarkable record in Richland county this year but his Kershaw .county record is much bettei/ During the spring term of this year there was only orteMacquittal against 28 convictions. In the summer termthere was likewise only one acquittal while there were 25 convictions. In the fall term there were four acquittals while convictions mounted to 37 and in the winter term there were 2 acquittals against' 11 convictions. Whites with a total of 58 defendants, two of whom were' women, led' negroes, with a total of 47, two of whom Were women. Offenses as listed were varied, running almost the length of the statutes with the exception of murder and bther capital crimes. According to.; Solicitor Spigner'* report there was not one single murder case in the Kershaw courts this year. v . Violations of the prohibition law, with a total of 67 cases, led all others in the Kershuw courts. There, were many for assault and bhttery of various degrees, larceny of various degrees and several for adultery. Banks Take Two Days. The three banks of Camden have asked The Chronicle to notify their friends and patrons that they will be closed for two, days?Monday and Tuesday December 26 and 27?in order that their forces can enjoy the Clvristmas holidays. New Tea Room Opens. The Poppy Garden Tea Room was i Opened on Thursday evening^ with a delightful turkey dinner Mrs. Moody Hough is manage* of this tea room, which is situated about five miles out on the 'Liberty Hill drive. J he crowd presertt at the opening dirt* ner was very large considering the bad weather. Tables were arranged in the front rooms f<>r those who wished to play cards during the- evening. ; The dining room and the front rdoms were beautifully ?ecorated with Christmas greens' hnd berries. V * -- Service* at Catholic Church. Services at iSt. Mary's?Catholic hurch will be aa follows: , The. Sacrament of Femanee will be id ministered on Saturday at two intervals 4:00 p. m.'to 6:00 p. m. and , ignin at 8:30 p. m. and 9,;00 p. m. rnose who cannot possibly avail themtelves of these hours might ask at ;he rectory for special times, k', % '> ^fhts year again this parish ' toprivileged to enjoy midnight mass which will start promptly at midnight. A sermon wHl be given at this service. ; The inter morning service will be at 11:<X} a." m. No Christmas evenins services dte scheduled. Non-Catholics are always wel- : some at the services in this church, ph have no Tented pews and visitors re welcome to choose their own seats. Mil-Catholics will please remember , that fa. Catholic churches all females whether adult or junior .must . ac-. cording to church. etiquette, wear a hat, mantilla or other head covering. Last year at the mid nighty mass this requirement was not enforced because lihere was no previous reminder given; this year, because information is given, ail females who expect to at&jiwH"Siiy jjygrjerT" in this Catholic t church must wear a hat or other head rovenring. observance of silence in the church, is of ..course, a similar Universal custom. These points are mentioned not to discourage the attendance ^of NonCatholics but wholly to enable Victors unused to Catholic customs to know beforehand the correct thing to-do. The church Is open to eyerybody from '7:80 ft.-m. to nightfall. AH arej welcome to enter for rest and prater, Bishop Mouzon will head the delegation from the Carolina* to the second annual missionary conference of the Methodist Episcopal 3 church, | South, which meets at Jackson. Miss.. MANY HERK'FOR HOLIDAYS Kirk wood Hotel Opens Saturday After Summer Improvement* With the urrival of college students, the leasing of new cottages daily, and the opening of the Kirk wood Hotel on Christmas Eve Camden's winter season swings well under way. The holiday season finds most of the winter residents in their homes where many house guests are being entertained. Mr. und Mrs. George B. ClueU, 2nd., the lutter us Miss Marion Ticknor u popular member of the young set, have urrived from l)obbs Ferry, N. Y., to spend the holidays with Mrs. duett's parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. I). Tlckn.or, oi the Court Inn, C' Mrs. Robert Burr Deans, of New York, has also joined her parents Mr. I and Mrs. Robert \V. Pomeroy, ?t their home on Kitkwood 'Heights, | and the Misses Dimond who are attending school in New York City, are at home for the holiday seuaon. Miss Mary Elizabeth Charlton is here with her mother, Mrs. M. J. Charlton, coming from Washington, D. C., where she is a student, and the Misses. Betty and Ellen Knapp are enjoying their vacation with their mother, Mrs. Julia I>ong Knapp, at r Dearc Place. t Jiminie Campbell has come from the Mohonk School at Lake Mohonk, N. Y. for his vacation with his Aunt Mrs. 11. G, Marvin, at Hobkirk Inn, and Duncan Edwards is here from Princeton, with his mother, Mrs. J. ' L. Graham. % One of the events always anticipated with pleasure by many winter us well as a)T year residents is the tea annually gfv?n by MIbs Ella Coursen. at her charming home on Kirkwood Heights. The gathering each year on Christmas Eve at the Coqrsen cottage is always a delightful and friendly affair, and will doubtless prove us attractive this year as in the past. . . . Polo, the winter sport, for which Camden has been noted since its-early' days as a resort town, will again be featured, and already plans are undei way to make it a success. / The Camden Polo Club has been reorganized and the following officers elected?-president, . Samuel Russell, . Jr., of Middleton, Conn.; vice president, George T. Little, of Camden; secretary ?mt ^-treasurer, ?Lawrence Kirkland, of Camden; delegate, Charles M. Taintor of So'uthport, Conn. Many ponies are being shipped jiere,and so great is the demand that new stables have had to he built. Seymour Knox, of Buffalo, who has leased the Kendall cottage, will have a string of ponies here, and will take part in the games ns will also T. J. McCabe, of Toronto; Ralph W. Chase, of Middlefield; Reginald Taylor,- of Buffalo, und other well known enthusiasts. ' " The two fields are in fine shape, and match games and tournaments will be played at regular intervals during February and March. Drag and fox hunts will also be popular during the* winter, H. D. Kirkover has some splendid setters and pointers, and Earnest L.-Wbod* ward, a large number of hounds. The championship show horses win- . ners at the New York Horse Show, in November, of John R. Todd, as well as fine saddle ^horses of R. W., Pomeroy and others Are here for the winter, and will odd to the exhibit in the late season. Judge Henry A.'King, of Springs ield, of the Superior Court of Masta luistitts, passing the winter at Hobcirk Inn, and Judge Charles N. Hards, of New York, with hit family, it n the Hay cottage for the winter,. - Dr. and Mra. J.-Dodge Peters, and I, Lengdon Peters, haVe .arrived for their annual vtyit at the Court Inn. ; vv" , Miss Marie Blanchard. of Cape Cod, Massachusetts and Miss Gertrude Prater, of . Englewood N. J,r and C/ W.' SJJcpx and Mitt Marjorte Sil- , cox, of Rochester, are season guests, It Hobkirk Inn. Tha I Kirkwoo^ cljlotel this week is charmingly attired with . Its attractive lobby newly pained ftnd -T! refurnished. Mr. Ross W. Thompson Is again in charge; and the many 1 reservations, are indications of a. big v season.. V M" >' .<? . Mne 01 tne very attractive affairs . ? of the past week was the card_party given by. Mr*. B. G, Sander*. Friday. ,. afternoon in honor of Mr*. Boss W?' thompBon, of the Kirkwood, and Mr*. , I Scott pi Brooklyn.. ?'y'vr^^ . Another delightful, event was the party on Saturday afternoon at her home v with Mr*. Reuben Pitts; a* hostes*, honorinr^>!iB8.Charlotte |#| Campbell, of Washington^ :TUcent arrival* at. tho Court - ' J include: MtWJndMrs.F. M. Page, of New York, Mr. and Mrs. Wilttam R. Lyman and Miss K. M. Chambeflin, of Philadelphia: Colonel and Mrs. Reubfcfr*MHler, Jr., of Pittsburg; Mr. and Mrs. William M. Klem of Hempstead; ufljfe'ftml Mrs, K C. Aid, of Plainfield; and Mr. Robert 36b Hawthorne, of Northport. t -W-' - *fjlbrnrv< To Close. The Camden Public trtbpwy will be closed for the. holidays on baturday* December 24th and Monday. Peeem- STS ber 26th. vAu persons desiring to get books to read during the holiday are requested to get them-on Friday, .10 o'clock to noon?altorA4on W li o'clock^