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- The Camden Chronicle Mfc XXXX. ^ ?????_?? ? SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JUNE l. 1928 ^^===ra==aaBa=aaE!e!!,=?=asBs?Rse5? * * '- " --- --- -"- * NUMBER 10. ' Young Men >ld For Car Theft young white ' men?Charles l( John Humphries, Bill Penny ier Kelley. w ere arrested here night at ? ho?r *>y ofn Smyrl. having in iheir pos# stolen Chevrolet touring eir agea are said to range to 26 years. yr wn and Humphries are siid stolen the car at Johnaon nn., on Saturday night. They j w?y of Laurinburg, N. C., , picked up Penny and Kel>ping at Bethune, where they a private garage and stole a drained the owners gas tank ceeded to Camden where they ken .in charge. All admitted ilt except Penny. 1They were 0 Bethune on Monday and i n, Humphries and Kelley were 4 hy Magistrate-. C. C* Pate [thirty days for the theft of and gasoline. got in communic*tioat,with City authorities and learned 1 car belonged to A. C. Puttraveling salesman from AnS. C., who had his car parktint of a hotel in the Tennesmmmmm_ y _t' _ mien Methodist Chi^rch ton Street, near Hampton leorge Pierce Watson, pastor. June 3rd?Bible School at , with classes for all grades ?. Epworth League at 7:I5 ) which all the young people ted. Public worship 'at 11:16 3d 8 p. m. conducted by Jhe Morning theme: "Commun;h God." At the conclusion termon the Holy Communion celebrated. Evening theme: unity and Obligation." Midrayer service, Wednesday at The public is most cordially to all the services of this ! Seats free. Delightful music. 1 singing. Biblical firing. Coma and i. Church Notes onal .meeting Sunsrs. S. W. Hogue, W. D. MdDowall ns. - . the church is comurch will be used iy. We are grate* i for the improve* tch and the organ, for attendanceH at i women are three ie men. There are rs yet to decide the unday ths.r attendhese there were 27 is. The men have 'inter but now the , June 3, our con1 to raise "$170 as i Presbyterian Colduring next eesiU be provided and ested to come' pre'ontribution to this resbytety regards e most vital re* mbent upon the hurch have recentSunday School song r Sunday School oh Sunday School Endeavor Sunday ; Junior Christlah ifternoon* 5 o'clock; 1 ?. ?.* i|B cordial invitation Mc to all services. Kershaw Era ?- ? "? and MibJofm * Oak Ridge comied Saturday, May f Rev. J. M. Naal, ; ceremony. * 7 family have re."uma, wagR 13 bccn transferred atee poatofBce daPostofftce gt S?rhe had been a ostofflce force for ^roxton and her of Washing, a Washington to Kerr * visit to that? or., Mrs. W. L. and Leroy C**cthia " ' 1 l~ '' '1 Postal Employe? Gets Year anil a Day\ Travis Deschamps Goodale, postal clerk of this city, pleaded guilty in the federal court at Churleston Tuesday to charges of rifling mail and extracting money and was sentenced by Judge Cochran to serve a year and i a. day in the Atlanta federal prison. Goodale had taken not more than one hundred dollars and this he made good, the evidence showed, and he alto had made over his pension fund to cov?r_.stbfiT losses ..which .might he traced to him, j, Mendel L. Smith, Camden attorney, appeared at the trial to ask clemency for the young man, not as an attorney, he said, but as a friend. A group of Camden had asked him to appear, ha said. / Goodale had an excellent record heretofore, Smith declared, and was confidered one of the most dependable young men in this city until the thefts came out. The defendant is said to have wept as Mr. Smith made mention of his wife and children. Judge Cochran told the prisoner that at one time a man who had Berved in the penitentiary was thenceforth an outcast but that nowadays jlL'J?*?. possible for a man to work .himself back into a place of trust in society after a prison sentence.' Death of Miss Farrelly. Within the last few days news has come, to Camden of the death of Miss Marie Farrelly, of Rye, New York. No details of her illness are- known except that the death was rather1 sudden and not at all expected. Miss -Farrelly was a visitor here two seaons ago, being the guest of her mothers-Mrs. Stephen Farrelly, and her daughter, .Mrs. Elizabeth Farrelly, at their cottage pn Hampton Avenue. The FartteUys hove -resided here three successive Winters* and ha\te a great "pf friends here who will be grieved to team of the sorrow that has come into Mrs. Farrelly's life. -Pur ^?fi^lSit.'aympathy is -with the family. Miss Marie Farrelly's remains were buried in the family plot i in New Yprfc. r*? j Southern Train Derailed. Kershaw, May 2ft,?Southern train! I No. 118, Charlotte -to Columbia,, with Engineer McNair and Conductor Harksdale, -was derailed here z. Mom j day, due, it is said, to sand on the tracks. Only the engine left the rails j after running on the ties for. nearly a block. No one was injured, passengers being shaken ujp as the engine left the track. The speed of the train was fortunately slower than usual. An extra traip was sent bare to take wrecked train, as well as a wrecking crew to clear the line.* 1 Bar Association To Meet The Kershaw County Bar Association-will meet at the Court House on Saturday, June 2nd., at 10 a. m., for the purpose of arranging the roster for the June term of Court of Common Fleas, ^ Banks Close Monday . The three banks of Camden will I close on (Monday, June 4th, being a| holiday observed commemorating the! anniversary of the birthday of Jefferson Davis. Funeral of Mrs. Cornell . Funeral services for Mrs. Luther Cornell, whose death occurred at a Ideal hospital Monday, were held at Beaver Dam Baptist church, near this city Tuesday. The services were conducted by Rev. George Pierce Watson, of the Camden Methodist Church. The passing of. Mrs. Cornell followed an illness of ten days. She is survived; by her husband: and one child of nineteen months. " Charles Harris, Jr., Dies The many friends of Judge Charles : Hnrris, who occupied the Hay home on Fair street* will be shocked at the news of the deatVof his son, Charles Harris, Jr. The little chap was much , 4?n about town sund was a most promising lad. As far as present information goes, it seems that boon after the Harris family returned north, Charles was taken ill with what Was diagnosed as sleeping sickness. !Dc grew gradually weaker and his death came on the twenty-first day of May. The deep sympathy of this community goes from us to. Judge Harris and his family in the great to? that has com* to them. Tha funeral was from the Harris reek deaca, Greenbrier, Hunting ton, long ork. 1 - I Al Smith la Safe Says M. L. Smith 1 - L Governor Alfred E. Smith will receive the Democratic nomination for the Preeidency on the third ballot at Houston* Mendel L. Smith, who spent the day in Charleston yesterday, says. Mr. *Smith was recently elected both temporary and permanent president of the "dry" South Carolina Democratic" convention at Columbia. * "1 think the state delegations will vote for the favorite sons on tEe first ballot," Mr. Smith, a former circuit court judge but now a practicing attorney at Camden, said. "On the second ballot, a few of the more zealous states will continue to show-their love and dlvotlon to the favorite sons. - And on the third ballot, A. Smith, I think, will be nominated." Mr. Smith was asked what effect the instructions issued at the convention that the delegation support a "dry" candidate would have 011 Al Smith's chances. "X can't asiy about that," he replied. "The delegation will have to settle that themselves." "But I feel quite sure that He Democrat in (South Carolina will bolt the party, if Smith is nominated*" While here, Mr. Smith appeared in federal court to speak in behalf of a Camden man who pleaded guilty to rifling the mails while employed as a postal clerk. Mr. Smith was in the city on other business, but had been requested by a body of Camden citizens to ask the court for leniency,, since he had to come to Charleston anyway. He expected to leave yesterday afternoon.?'Wednesday's News] and Courier. Mystery Of Girl's Death Unsolved Yptm'gsiown, Ohio, , May 28.?The s&rfrch for ten-year-old Beatrice Rosenbaum, who disappeared from her home here two wfeeks figo, was at an end today with the finding of the girl's body, but authorities, were still at a loss to explain the circumstances of her death. Coroner M. E. Hayes and his assistant, Dr. P. W. McNamara, said, after an autopsy, that the girl had died from starvation and exposure and probably had been dead four or five days. The body, found late yesterday in a wooded ravine near Salem, Ohio, 16 miles from Youhgs-town, was brought here for the autopsy. Coroner Hayes said there were no .marks of violence or indications that tfte girl had been assiulted. The girl-Bacl "been withouf food for day? and her feet were swollen and cracked as if exposed to water, he said. . Smith To Address Class Forlner Judge M. L. Smith will go to Cowards, in Florence county, on Monday evening, June 4th, where he will deliver the address before thegraduating class of the J. C. Lynch high school ? - . ' - - ' Guilty of Murdering Sons, ~'-yValparaiso, Ind., May 28.?George Allen Chjjsholm, 35, today pleaded guilty to the murder of his two sons, Edgar, 7, and George, 9, whom he dtowned in a canal at East Chicago. His attorneys introduced evidence of insanity After1 they had asked Judge Grant Grumbacker to-mitigate his punishment. ".v rf ? ? Child Killed By Lightning. Spartanburg, May 28.?Lois Cooper, 11*. daughter of B. D. Cooper, of near Foley Springs, was struck by Hghtning wWe seated nt the break- : fast-table today. Other raembera of the family were Severely- shocked but not seriously injured. ,. Rogers'Store Joins In - i . Sl L' ShClamer, manager, of the local branch of the Rogers Chain store system, tells us that while he did not sign the petition for Closing on Thursday afternoon, his company readily agreed for their store to join in with other Camden firms. ShOlamer, also was very enthusiastic on last Thursifefcr; afternoon in getting business houses to live up to their agreement to start to cloeing on Thursday, May 24th, instead of June 7th, and nearly all of the business houses h did close commencing Thursday of last greatly appreciate and enjoy these half holidays which will continue uuMliAugust 30th. j VV - ? f'~- ?~ ^ --VT1 . Gets Bridge Contract , Over Twenty Creek Th?- Kvrshaw County Bridge building Department, under M. H. Deal, was the successful bidder Tuesday at a meeting of the highway department at the letting of the now bridge to be built over Twenty Creek in West Wateree known as the Isbell Bridge. There will be eleven spans of this bridge of creosoted timber and the length is 181 feet. There were more than eight bjddem.?iid JLhu county'a bid Was $5,661.19 as compared to the highest bid of W. B. Boyle & Company, of Sumter, whose bid was $8,724.88. Aside from a considerable aaving to the state highway department the county of Kershaw will make a considerable amount out of this bridge which will go to the i credit of the county roads not under the highway system. Slayer of Toledo Child Minu Tooth Z/p-l ? Tolfdo, Ohio, May 29.?The Blayer of 7-year-old Dorothy Sielagowski, who was stolen from her bed and mutilated early today, lacked a front tooth, and that may be the means of tracing fifth Coroner Frank G. Kreft reyedleA tonight. During a postmortem conducted by the eoroner, Dr. "Edmund A. Apuliski, a dentist, made a chart of teeth marks found on the girl's body. The chart, which has been turned over to the : police, showed that one tooth was missing, Dr. Kreft said. A young man taken into custody today, on suspicion that he whs the slayer who attacked Dorothy and [threw her body upon the porch of an uncle living across from her home, will undergo further examination to determine whether the chart compares with his teeth, police said. An automobile, believed to be the ono in which the killer carried Dor-! othy away has been recovered. On the di&t covered window was the imprint of a child's hand and on the rear seat 4pd upholstering were fresh blood stains. ? The little girl was sleeping with | her sisters, Stella, 15, Leona, 5, and Carolina, 2, when the man stole into her bedroom after entering the house with a skeleton key. Taxi-Driver Confesses Toledo, Ohio,-May 30.?Charles J. Hoppe, 26, a Toledo taxi-driver, with a wife and one-year-old child, confessed to police today that it was he who kidnaped 7-year-old Dorothy Sielagowski from her home and slew her early Tuesday mtfrning. He was inflamed with drink, which he obtained at the -wedding of neighbors, ami was unable to assign any reason for the killing, according to his signed statement. Suspicion attached to the taxi driver because he and" his wife formerly roorrted at the hon\e of Alex Sielagowski, tne father of the slain girl, and because he fitted the description that police compiled of the "man dressed in black with a missing front tooth." Early this afternoon detectives recovered from a freshly-dug hole in the rear of the man's home the dark suit and shirt, which he worn when he strangled the little girl to death. The clothing was marked with> bloodstains. / -Confronted with this apparel and with a plaster cast of his own teeth,, which fitted exactly into the teeth marks he made on the body of his young victim, Hoppe confessed after a. lengthy grilling. , < Kershaw High School Graduates Large Class , The closing exercises of the Kershaw High School commenced Sunday night, May 27th, with a sermon to the graduating crass delivered fiy Rev. J. F. Mungo, pastor of the Main Street Methodist Church of Colombia, and on Tuesday evening the final exercises took place. The commencement address .was delivered by Dr. D. M. Douglas, president of the University of South Carolina. 1 The senior class is composed of thirty-two members, which is said to hiri^ far-tWe^tsrp^Tlass^to'finish in Kershaw in the history of the school. A list of the senior class includes: Cecil Barfleld, Frank TLowry Belk, Minnie Bell Bowers, Iva Lee Carson, Beulah Marjory Catoe, Ferris E. Catoe, Edna Mary Clyburn, Anna Mae Coats, Jean Reynolds Cul ern, Frank L. Elder, Juanita Alma Faile, Frohn FerguSon, Mary El?i? Gardner, Fredda Elisabeth pay. Mary Abigail Gregory, .Mary Alyce Hilton, Vlrgie Mae Holden, Wttbur Horton, Nita Annebell Jones, Jaqueline KirkSklBKSBftrtSftS: gsrst Seswell^WMam Ariel Shaw, Jr., .fc?je Robert True* dale, Mary MarW^Ttn?dele, W Mh T.wssdsli, MaHie ? -r The New? of Bethune Told by Correspondent lfcrthum', May 60.?One of the moat J successful year a in the history of the iiethunc school came to a close last : Friday evening, May 26th, with the: following program: Processional; I ''The Song and the Breeze," Duorak-j Wilson, liigh School chorus; invocation, tne Kev. M. B. Gunter; Vocal duct, Serenade," Scnubert, Mrs. T. j }/L. Bethune and Miss Stellu Bethune; | address, l)r. J. C. Guilds, president. Columbia college; vocal duet, "Pond Lilies/' K. R. Poram, Mrs. T. R.: Be- j ihune and Mrs. J. Cr Foster; Award- ( ing diplomas and annual report; saxaphone solo, Dr. E. Z. Truesdell; "Star 23 pang led Banner"; benediction, the Rev. J. B. Hillhouse. Prof. ?C. C. Foster introduced county superintendent of Education/ Mr. J. Team Gtttys, who made a few' remarks complimenting the splendid program made by the Bethune schools after which hp introduced to the immense assemblage Dr. J. C. Guilds, speaker of the evening. Dr. Guilds cnose as his subject "Life" and discussed the deffercnt elements of life in a simple but strikingly forcelui manner. Diplomas were awarded to twentyone boys and girls as follows: John Baker, Olga Brannon, Jacob CatoC, Boyd Copeland. Willene Estridge, Rosa Lee Fields, Hlarold Gardner, Barah Hammond, -Clara Hough, Mildred King, George Sedley King, Jolm Edwin King, Charles McCaskill, Rosi Lee McCaskill, Mary McDonald, -John Neal McLaurin, Jr., Dorothy Parrott, Birdie Belle Smfth, Elma Stogner, Kathryne Truesdell, Louise Gardner. Class Day exercises were held on Thursday evening gnd the following splendid program was given: Music, | Dr. E. Z. Truesdell and Miss Katheryne Truesdell; Willene Estridge, class president presided; introduction of class officers by president; class colore, Birdie Belle -Smith; class tlowef, Louise Gardner; salutatory, Willene Estridge: statistics, Mrs. R. K. Tompkins; history, Olga Brannon; class poem, Dorothy Parrott; piano numbers, Pier Gynt No. 1 Grieg, Misfees Dorothy Parrott; Kathryne Truesdell; Mrs. J. C. Foster, Mary King; prophecy, Charles McCaskill; j will, Elmer Stogner; gifts to seniors I and high school teachers, Rosa Lee ; Fields; class song; valedictory, John Neal McLaurin. 2 - Prof. J. C. Foster, who is returning as superintendent of the Bethune scnools for the third year has announced the following list. of teachers for 1928-29: high school, 'Mrs. R. K. Tompkins, principal ana teacher of History; "Mr. R. B. "Parker, Scieqne; Miss Thelma Stroman, English and French; Miss Eloise Miller, Mathematics; Miss Eddie Bradham, Latin and English; Miss Patty Epps, Home economics; grammar school, Air. R. Russell Burns, principal, coach ot jithletics; Miss Carrie farbrough, English and Reading; 'Miss - Stella Bethune, History and Geography; Miss Marie Hdrtonfdth grade; Miss Mary C. Grier 3rd grade; Miss, Beulah Pennington,' 2nd grade; Miss Lillian Miller, principal, Miss Margie Brock, assistant. Shamrock grammar school, Miss Mamie Coker, principal, Miss Sue Hendrix assistant. Mrs. R, K. Tompkins entertained last Wednesday evening in honor of the lithe grade and high school teachers. Quantities of pink roses, the class flower, were used in decorating the rooms. Miss Louirfe Gardner won first prize in a series of amusing contests and Miss Mildred King was given the booby prize. In the dining room where refreshments Were. served pink rosea and eaudles were used on the prettily appointed table. Mrs. J. C. Foster served punch and an Ice course was served by Nancy Tompkins and Marguerite faster. Misses Ruth Watts and Helen Pope Ward, who have been teaching in the Rambftrg high school returned-home last .Monday. ? Misses Lucile Hilton, Frauces Severance and Katherine Ward of Coker; Misses Mary Loutfte McLaurin and-Lizzie Davis- of Chicory, Misses Clara Gordon and Gladys Baker of Limestone: Miss Louise Tiller of Due West; Miss Claudine Gardner of Lander; Neal Truesdell of P. C.; Lavin Severance/find Lee Morgan, Davidson; Charles Stogner, Furman University, have come home for the holidays. The U. D. C. chapter held the last meeting of the season at the home of Mrs. D. M. Mays Tuesday afternoon, the president- Mrs. R. K. Tompkins, presiding. Roll call was answered with the title of some poem t>y a southern author. After the Ufual opening exercises and business the following program was rendered; "Jackets, ot Grey," Mrs. Margaret Marion, Author of Di*ie, Mrs. D. M. Mays; publication, and singing of Maryland/' Mrs. M. G. King. - At ? previous meeting it was decided that the chapter would organize and Poster a C. C. and Mrs. D? M. Mays was appointed leader. Funeral at Liberty HiU Tomorrow Funeral services for Mrs. Ruth C. Bell, whose death occurred at Winter Park. Fbu, Tuesday will be held at the Liberty Hill Presbyterian church Saturday morning at 11 o'clock. Interment will folio n tn the cwnulery at Liberty HlH.Mrs. Bell was a native of thie coupty but for several years bad beeifc making her homaln tfceTFlorUa dtpShe la survived by one sister. Mist Laura Ma thereon of Liberty Hill, and V . -1. ' I .... Two Ladies Injured When Cars Collide Mi?s Huth Shaw, of Columbia, who was hero for the week-end on a visit to her parents, Mr. and 'Mrs. C. C. Shaw, was badly injured as was her mother, Mrs. Shaw, while out riding Saturday night, when her car was hit by a ear driven by Mr. p. S. Trapp. The Shaw car was going east on Laurens street and the Trapp car was going south on Fair street. The car -of Mr. Trapp is said to have beau driven at n rapid rate, and the impact when it struck the Shaw car was so greuA that the noise from the collision*v aroused people within a* block or mow from the scene of the accident. Persons residing nearby who rendered first aid found Miss Shaw unconscious and 'her mother badly dazed, Both were immediately carried j to the Camden hospital where an examination showed that- Miss Shaw was suffering from a broken collar bone, bruiseB and severe shock. Mrs. Shaw fared better in that she had a dislocated collar bone and bruises and was not so badly hurt. Little Francis Shaw, baby girl of Mr. Lane C. Shaw, who was sitting between _the two ladies, was uninjured. That all occupants did not meet with more serious injuries was probably due to the fact that the force of the blow from the Trapp car was so great that it buried its ffont end into the Shaw car, thereby preventing it from turning over. The Shaw car was pushed ! clear of the road and put partly on the sidewalk. The Ford coupe of the * Shaw's was almost a total wreck, .while the Overland roadster of Mr. Trapp was also badly damaged. Miss SJiaw/as well as Mrs. Shaw, have returned to their homes on Hampton avenue, but will probably bo i under treatment for several weeks. Miss Shaw is a popular member of t the insurance of flee staff of Seibels, >Bruce and company, of Columbia, and ] makes her home on Senate street in T" i that city, and when news 'of the accident reached Columbia, many teleI phone1 calls were received in Camden asking further particulars as to her ' ; injuries. Mr. Trapp was also considerably 'J bruised as was also a negro passenger in his car at the time,' described by Pr. Trapp as his butler; [Happening at around ten o'clock when many people were on the streets or ~In their homes u large crowd of tl spectators soon gathered! to view the wrecks. Ill? ?i j Woman Aerialist ?? Kitted At Atlanta Atlanta,. May 27.-?A woman parachute jumper hurtled 600. feet to her death hens today wh?e 10,000 spectators at an amusement park stood horror-stricken* when the third parachute in a triple tfifiy taBlfcrto open. The woman, 'Louise Gardner, of Boston, Mass., had ascended to an altitude of 2,000 feet in'a balloon to make the triple jump. >|Jj The woman, on reaching an alti- _ tude of 2J000 feet cut loose'froth the. balloon and dropped about 400 feet, when she-pulled the rip cord of the first parachute. Floating downward another 100 feet the second parachute was opened. 'Spectators said tfiey saw her trying to op^r the third parachute while standing in the harness of the second. The third parachute^ was not attached to her body. The big spread of sitk supporting the woman was seen to wave, turn to pne side and the woman came hurtling to earth. The body fell into a tre? near the park, then dropped through the roof of a small building beneath, x _ * ?= ? _ Dodge Brothers 3 hvijftlpv ... New York, May 28,?Directors of the Chrysler corporation today that approved a plan to acquire the entire property of Dodge Brothers corporation, including Hs subsidiaries in this country and abroad through an exchange of stock. Under the terms of the merger one share uf Chrysler cum mun stock will be exchanged for each share of ""-"j! Dpdge brothers preferred stock and one gEfafrsl?r$mmon for each shares of Dodge Brothers class A