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fe The Camden Chronicle s CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROUNA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER (28, 1928. NUMBER 40. m children i\uitsu,,~ Work of Drunk Maji Ga., D?c. 24?Death tupj^d' four children who were pChristmua mon?fy aa tempoBb ju a'fireworks store, when Kindle, lighted by a customEd ?n explosion, which envelCbuilding in flames. ILrred bodies of 'William Kr ind Frances Shaw, 16, chilEthe proprietor of the store, Eshaw, and Mary Bell Dodd, E brought out of the blazing Kby firemen, who were forced the flames for 16 minutes Hby could enter. Kennedy, 18, who, with the E?r children, was earning Ejjxlay money by working in K^rks "tore, was burned so' Kit she died in a hospital late E Padgett, 11, was severely Bind his father, Paul Padgett, < Bdiy cut about the face ih es^B through a sljow window. ' J Shellhouse, Jr., 17, dashed l burning building and at to carry the Dodd girl out- 1 tf, crazed by the sudden blast ] she fought hiiu off and rush- 1 E into the' flames. The youth Bis escape with both hands bad- 1 K B, proprietor of the store, told toiunideutifled man, whom he * to have been intoxicated, en- < he atore in which a number of J B were shopping -and snatched i B Soman candle from -a counter. < Bt anyone could stop him, < aid, he had lighkfti: the . fea j f begun fixing the balls of ( Btbout the store. Other Are- i vere ignited, and while the with the Roman candle was be- I Eta outside the swift staccato ps of the small crackers were Bid swiftly by the (deeper intothe larger nnes. t fci abe store immediately was ? street, on which the store was f became immediately a con- t Bus of tarror-stcicken srop- i Bad firemen were hindered in ( Km6 work .until ithe street had <j BirtLalJy cleaned. j Building was an .old structure, B jointly by ithe fireworks t da restaurant. Shaw, a gin- j opened the store as a tempoBl)dillij1unent \ B-r ? , . I Pden Police Assist i mVniisual Recovery j Bung lady school teacher who. I mini through Oamdeu on as eve day tad ithe misfor- 1 [to lose her pockethbok while in ? tad by a mere chance reeofw^ [ike same isshort 'While afitt^ Prosperity, stopped at a local 1 ?Ution reeb roam, and while 1 ^hopped her pocketbook which 1 forty or more (dollars! She jMke purse upon reaching the j i*%e. Coming quickly hack to .] she returned to .the filling tad was told that they knew the lost purse. She learn- ] **ver, that two men and two : [driving a car with A Mew York 1 SM*g had been the ones i Ffttere since her departure. 1 ft8 meagfg clne she appealed !l Hilton and . ha told her that Rr (io what he conld for her. ^ ?cer promised her faint hope, ft-with the large amount of p Pmi'ng on jjj r0nds on ChristNot even knowing in which H^Jhe New York car was travthe rural police of (Rich asked ,hioi to watch for the women, giving him a deF'n5thecar. Chief Hilton's surprise he 7 * ?ard next day thinking El w *n helping her E*"**r pocketbook. Er^ Goodfellows Club mirrt Jnccfcaon? w' T. DempRhf , Watts and O. M. Lorwman Svl mU!ic for ?T*kre dance L* r-ugoff community house on avening last and the p retributed the sum of |7.00 Br*ri of music. The music *** thoughtfully and Mbert'8 bT ** u The euur men in Airplane Crash W?.*t?n00W' ^ 28?Two Georj homeward bound (or the lwlidays, and two pilot, in a .Ix-pawenv g? cabin monoplane o( the Interstate! here X wbi.rr. T'" V""'" vvu*y wnen the Ship crashed in h?e; IT",1 "ection ?f the c,tyField 'U at Marr A third passenger In the plane es2 W'th mfnor '"Juries but was M? !' e eXpUin how he came through the accident sa(ely. Th* plane, southbound from Chicago, experienced difficulty in taking off from the field, and a short time later plunged earthward, smashing . frS" rippln'K aw?V a portionl It torst |T ? ? P?rch 88 " "tmck. It burst into flames, trapping four of its occupants In the cabin. ki"edIwere Charles H. Shield Of Evansvllle, Ind., pilot of the. plane; C. . MayPer, St. Elmo, foreign lanTl" J"1".*1 *" iorthe Chattanoo' Medical company for many years, w o hud taken passage here for Attanta; . L. Burnett of Chicago and Raymond D. Harris, pilot for the Ine !. 1, Ts ee" Chicago and Evansville, Ind., who was riding as a passen?rer for the purpose of learn80uthern part of the route. 5 Wilham Roz*r of Chattanooga, * * MaCOn (G*> con<? , scaped fronr the -burning plane, hut lelther he nor spectators of the trrrrtptious of how he did It. Rosar iscaphd with minor injuries, but was ^?t^r hours he wasnot iUughia ' *?? Y 40 what happened. Wort!!iJ!?tyi?ns: But Lined Hermit Life Miami, Fla. Dec. 20,?The fled '^^FriiUM^h^dxUfrf^i.'lTy ?* onrt yesterday when anthTrity0^ * trust company to adminMer | ?1M60,000 estate for the benefitrof dstera and nieces fa London, England. - <???w" hy ** lat? n- E. iLi *" ? > wish, Itad an famate of the county paorlouse In Juno," 8eemad ** no Pieas ?> > the oomsmny of men or twonen. The estate grew out of early investments engineered for the recluse ?k Sr*"* SfSSi 1W6? Artier A ****** ** ?" mothed of landling his property aad retrod ^,?ep^any af the e^nfags from ofAcera ?f the Obeak heard ire de?titute circumstances, they *U^?pon snd attempted to persuade Qjjti|feii,iaa .same of the He ordered, them off his property, and some years later wh? he trust Officers decided to sell some of his holdings, he threatened the purchasers ndth a shotgun. ^Subsequently, Courtier went into the Everglade, and lined some year, wtth a tribe of Seminole Indians! im"ltie 'I" '1 t0 civUi""?n in ' ,?7Jt,w" In request that he he adnutted to the county poor farm. The request was Ranted, hut without Courtiers knowldflge the trust company supplied the superintendent of the poor farm with funds to sec that its eccentric client did iiot want for any necessities. ^ ~ Presbyterian Church Notes _ Abeautiful Christmas tree was put id the church last Sunday and in the afternoon Old Santa came and presented ^U^iUed^ stockings to about seventy little ch||d|un^S^in "ifcSi anyone see as much joy brought to the hearts of little children as was teen in thosd who Were present Sunpay afternoonb, at the tree. The youhg people of the Episcopal and Presbyterian churches assisted by Mrs. Mayfield And Miss High deserve our thanks for this fine deed. And Ulty_ wish to express thflhf tiktekkVff to all the cititens of Camden who helped with their contributions to make this tree possible, p?-? Sunday tehodl 10 a.m.; morning worship J 1:16 a^m.; Christian Endeavor i p.m. You are eordlany invited to all tn^flc v lets ? JMrs^ C^ovitt C. Robey. of Washingten. D. C., this week gave birth to be*_f?erth p*ir of twtea in seven Former Mill Worker j Killed at Goldsboro A fipecjal from Goldaboro, N. C., to the Charlotte Observer of December 22, carrit-d the following account of the ftotal injury to J. D. Crolly, formerly employed by the Hermitage Cotton Mill of this city: "J. D. Crolly, of Camden, S. C\, is in the Golduboro hospital with a badly orushed skull, a broken neck, a broken hip and three broken ribs, which Injuries he received late Thursday when he was thrown from the automobile driven by M. R. Holloway, of Bishopville, S. C., at Bear Creek on Highway 10, eight or ten miles from Goldsboro." Mr. Crolly died from his injuries and his body was carried to Darlington, S, C., his former home on Sunday for burial. He is survived by two brothers, S. L. Crolly, superintendent of the Hermitage Cotton Mill and S. M. Crolly, employed by the same mill. Many Teachers Belong To State Association Columbia, Dec. 24.?Of the 163 teachers la .ICerahaw county, 180 a** members 6^ the South' Carolina teachers1 association, it is announced by J. P. Coates, secretary. In Marion county, il6 of the 123 teachers are members; in Darlington county, 164 out of 182; in Lee county,' 85 out of 89; In Union county, 147 out of 1-56; in Richland county, 864 out of 374; in York county, 224 out of 266; and in Charleston county, 266 oat of 322/ ~ Orangeburg, MsCormick, Williamsburg, Bamberg, Chester, Mgrlbeillb; Laurens and Calhoun Counties haare 166 jper -cent, membership '? apd Spartanburg lacks but six of 100 One of the principal speakers at (the associations' annual convention in 1 Columbia -March 28, 29 and ? be X^hseron Reck, personal dh*$dC I of the INew. York stock exchange, which includes the educational department, where all employes receive J training. Mr. Beck is much in demand as a speaker and was one of the .principal speakers at the convention .Uvo years ago and fiemd so popular .that he has been invited back again dhis year. \'OM Liquor' To Blame Aners Youth in Jail I v r ? I A young white man, said to have given the name of Joy, is mew confined in the Kershaw county .jail, i6t\ the part he is said to have played in. an .sieged car theft. Mr. T. X. Trueadell, who has twice bad his car stolen afrom his residence at the corner of DeKalb and Mill stxwfes, beard fome ane trying to start hie car. " ffei (curing his revolver he"wam~out"l#r |aee ahmit. it and found the young man, said to be in an inebriated condition, ttcying to get the machine .started. .Asked where he was going with the car, he replied to Bishop1 ville. Mr. Trucsdell told him to get over further and he would do tlii (driving end go along with him. Instead of landing in Bishopville, he (spent the xiight in the city l6ck-ujv (being later transferred to the county I Young Joy has professed to know nothing at all of the occurrence, and iit aaid to have even stated that be I does not knoow When or how he came to Gamden. * Sumter's Oldest. Citizen Sumter, S. C., Defc. 20.?George I White, negro, who claimed to bars fewnr-the uldest man in Sumter coun|ty, died at his home near Dalzell, Sumter cottntjf Sunday. He plitted I his age at 106 years on his last birth| day, March 18, 1928. George bad been feeble for some time, but was able to go about until the end, 3atur(day night be told yonfe of his thil(dren: "I'm going home on the &*ln in the morning** but no one paid any ( special attention to hie statement. Sunday tpornlng a few minutes after he got up, be collapsed, while talking to his children, and died in (a few seconds. 4iii aged wife survives him, as well as several eons (and daughters, who may be pttt in the "aged** class. George was horn | |ftt0 slavery, belonging to the Jennings family ofethU <***%?. He 1 accompanied his young master to the Noted Educator Pastes At Home in Rock Hill Hock Hill, Dec. 26.?Dr. David Ban founder and president yt Winthrop college for Women who oied at his home here early today, will be buried tomorrow on the campus where he spent so many of his professional years. The body will lie in state in the college chapel from 11 a.m. until 2i30, the hour of burial. Death was attributed to colitis with complications. Dr. Johnson had been 1,1 failing health for some time but ^ad remained in active control of the College here. Affectionately known to thousands "Winthrop daughters" as "Debe," Div Johnson also was - known among national educators as a lgader te hig prpfession. He was. a former president of both the National Educr.tion association and the Southern Education association. Entering the University of " Tennessee when he was fifteen years old, Dr. Johnson wfti graduated at the head of hid class. He served as an Instructor at the university and later as a member d* the faculty. A few years later he was brought to Columto establish the city school sysp while serving in VHUVdfcpacthat he conceived the idea of establishing a training scho^ fdt1'South (Carolina teachers. At his own expense he went to Boston secured ** i??W grant of 92.000 MUTSt. Robert C. Winthrop, theiv chairman Of the hoard of the Peabody Foumfetjgn for Education in the Soutfc' In tl? autumn of 1805 he opened ' Wfck bbfop college with nineteen students and one teacher, The first classes Ik .held la the chapel of the Pi&i hyterian Theological seminary, a converted stable. A few years later the schffcl started by Dr, Jktansa* was thfcen' ovw'W the state of Booth' ; W K?4 Hill. its present sspodprntrnt and building value Is mors than ;$2;000;000 and its student body exceeds 1,800. Primo tie Rivera In Christmas Polo Game Camden's winter season was opened 'officially and with eveiy indication to better all. records when on Christmas -Day, before a hoot of bles from sill parts of the world, the first (petto game of many planned far this year was played on the Kirkwood fWld. The game was played ad;one of the fastest ever witnessed aad was featured by the scoring ?f two goals by Miguel Brim? de Riverai son of the dictator of S^ada and a merahw oof King Alfonso's polo team K rttwiiDd hWh? U * **** y$: de Rivero is in this cannby, according to presa gallery gossip, 1,rider commission from the ^#aBirtuuent to interest American tourists to Spain and since in Camden he has. been the inharesting study of news and camera representatives for . many tourist and- travel publications. He is accompanied by Dr. J. J, Eller of New York City whose gunie Tuesday wan "also magnificently played. The Spanish .potable will remain in ttrip city for several days and later, in company with Doctor Eller, sail for bis native Country, returning to Camden in February for the remainder of the season. Doctor Eller, a noted skin specialist and professor of skin diseases of the New York Post Graduate 'Medical Schools and Colleges, has been , invited by the Spanish government to lecture at the Royal Academy allied, icine while in Madrid, He is an author of numerous works, on skia diseases and is a former teacher at Columbia^ and Consign Among other . celebrities here for the holiday season <were Alexander Rostworowski, Pollih count whose American residence 'Is at - Hills, Nt'jJ.j John Dxohijowskf,' a Polish count and member of" the Polish legation at Washington; and Judge Robert* W. Winston of Durham, N. G* formerly of the iiprsme court of that stale and author V of a notable biography of ' Andrew Johaton ___________ Jr. H. Sheppard tu alactneuilw) at the Georgia Rtjfe prison-^ MB* ledgevffle on Wedaeeday for j|BfjPUV %r of Homer Bowler ia Attain, (U^ te r*mur| Mt. r *,' 'P Three South Carolina Men Lose in A p peals Charlotte, N, C?, Per. 24,?Oliver ,P. Kerr, Lcomtnl Davis and Henry Massey, charged with an imposing array of felonies in South Carolina, were denied their freedom here today when they appealed to Judge W. F. Harding for release under habeas corpus proceedings. i The judge announced the matter would tab reopened January B, by l,yhuch time South Carolina officers tan complete plans for extraditioin of the trio. The men tfbre originally arrested in connection with the theft of' an automobile from C. L. JBrookshire of Charlotte. Officers investigating seized a mud-spattered car last night at a local garage which contained 126 | gallons of whiskey. The car was said to have been stolen from B. E. Page of Columbia, who was shot in the leg < by the youths who are irlleged to have looted a house near Columbia and then "hijacked" Page. Two guns, a coat and spine whiskey said to have been stolen from the house wpra recovered here. Massey, police said, told them Page escaped from his car after the young men held them up, being shot while getting out, and they then sought him in vain with flashlights. ~J. D. Dunaway, rural police chief of Richland county, was in Charlotte yesterday helping police clear up angles of the case connected with the Page affair. Crazed Man Shot Up a Country Church u Fayetteville, Tenn., Dec. Ity.-rQRt hundred or more worshippers besatfte a screaming mob on the initant at the village church in Kelso, Tenn., last night, when Joe Pigg, a well-todo farmer emptied his pistol toward his fciands and neighbors of a life timfl, ...V --JA1 -AiL.. ; . , ..1 ' ?... ~ ~:r-: *?.iq.;-' : f rt. .. . -'' Pigg. was shooting at A. J. Simmons,. hut he killed Floyd Steelman,' 22, and critically wounded Simmons And -Squire Neal Golden, 25, of county court. Paul Gattis, 11, was shot in the scalp superficially. The explanation was that "family i (differences" between Pigg .and Simmons, his &0-y*ar ,pld neighbor, . had led to the promiscuous shots. Pigg was lodged in jail here by Sheriff JBobb Rhea, who found him waitingl ' 4n the church yard after asking, friends to call the officer. Pigg, 55-year-old father of seven children, walked into, the Cumberl Swd Presbyterian church just, as the ! aervice was te h?ve begun. His first shot brought every member to his feet. Steelman dropped in his pew,! mortally gfcjjfcil. Then Simmons fell, wounded in the lpngs and face. Sgfiire Gold en's stomach was punctured, Simmons and Golden, had a alight chance to live at Lincoln, coun! iO^tal .here. No services were held at Cumberland church last night. 'ft"' ^ in "Charts J- McKenzie, aged 40, died i f*#.- his home, 3-10 Conestee avenue, yesterday morning at 6 o'clock. 4 He had been in declining health for several months, but was seriously ill only a few days. Mr. McKenzie had resifced in Greenville for?the past' two years, coining here from ^Latta, in Dillon county, where be waa-born and reared. He was a.memher oil Flint Hill Baptist church, near Camden. <1. Surviving are his wife and the following children: Doris; Lois, Glenn and Charles McKenzie, Jr. One sister, Mrs. Ida Moody, of Dillon, and mm. brother Gary nf ence, also survivor'" r ? , Mr. McKenzieV body was sent to jp former! home at Camden, last night by JsneidieAfes company.^?; Greenville News, December 20. The above information will be read with sorrow-here where Mr. McKenzie formerly .^wided. He was in the mercantile business at Cantey Hill for a time. He was married to Miss Estis Creed, daughter of the late J. ***<1 the funeral was held at Flint Hill church on Wednesday. Mr. afid Mrs* G. A. Creed, Dewey J. Creed, of Camden, and Mr. and Mrs. Ben Peatee of Colombia, motored* to Greenville Tuesday to aecempeny the body back to Camden. -f.: 'IfiS C ountry Home Scene of Awful Tragedy l^urens, fi, C? Dec. 24.?Three People are definitely known to have been burned to death, and two others are thought to have perished last mght between 12 and 1 o'clock when the large frame house of Mrs. lam Hembree, sometimes known as Mra. I^ee Munro, was burned to the ground near Kinarda in the lower part of the county. The known dead are: Mra. Hembree, her deaf and dumb son about liO years old, and Boyd Hollia, who wua a visitor in the house at the time. The supposed dead are: Infant grgltd daughter of Mrs. Hembree, whose mother, died in a charity ward in Atlanta several months ago when, the baby was born, and Hattie Wedderman, colored nurse who is thought hav? M sleeping with the infant child. . x' The charred remains of three adults were found in the burned house this morning by Sheriff C. L. Owens, who went down to make an investigation. 1 hut portion of. the house where the nurse and infant slept was still hot from burning timbers and could not be reached for an investigation. , No one in the vicinity this morning was able to account for the whereabouts of the hurte and inftmt* > ?o it is supposed that they, too, perished in the ffw.' -4Qgt" 'Holland, 'of Clinton, who was in the house some time before fire, escaped. Discovery of the fire was made by Baspcom?, Timmons, , Murray. Adams and a man named Underwood, . whan . they iWtumed to the house about orie o'clock. *ftcr.miWat i jtip tp Clinton to have * puncture fixed. They ;*# ported to the sheriff, this -morntiig that the house was practically burned down when they reached the scene. ' Several years ago neighbors of Mrs. Hembree brought court pro* ceilings against her in'the effort to pbtte a nuisance which they alleged' She conducted there. Clinton, S. C., Dec. 14.?Bodies of three adult pewoiA ^rd found early this morning amid the charred reI mains of the residence of Mrs. Lee Hembree, located two and a half miles southwebt of Kinards. Local ' officers believe that in addition to the three, a fourth .person, an infant grand daughter of Mys. Hembree. also lost her life. Identification of the bodiea.hss so -far been impossible, but it is the bell J* authorities that they areJMrs. Hembree, her son, William Hembree,r *bd Boyd Mollis, carpenter, of Clinton. ffo trgce of the body of the in-1 fant has been found bufclt is Jtpughi^ that she was inthehousb at the time of the fire. is taown otUisjuJgln_of_tht M? r to Sher-, iff Colnabu. 6we# of Won, ?t 3 nt* *#rnlWiW *Wr Alv. Holland, printer of Newberry, told Jnthti ?!? ? ?n * awakened by the managed loiscape with his life. He said he had been occupying a bed at the rear with HolMs and had | tried first to wake him and then to ito a window, but was forced 1 to give up this attempt when Haines began to ^nge him, according to information obtained from Sheriff Owns. Holland was unable to acCouwtfor the origin the-blase, the sheriff said. . ; '' A coroner's Jur? was empanneled at the seeneof the fire thie-moming but no testimony was taken. A resumption of the Inquest will take plaCo Thursday morning at Clinton No on. i, being hold by the .otheritiea in connection with the. fire. ~^Sf^~t?nttr Ypitth Dies Itore . , Slnima' years of age, died hl/w*1 h.08^ital Sunday, where he had been placed while suffering a severe ijlness. Mr. Simms was a native and former resident of Olanta. where funeral services were held. During his stay in Camden the brid? WH|had ?2 conn6ctad wifl, Mdg* building forces operating on highways near this City and among his fellow-workers and acquaintances hvhad gained many warm friends. He is survived by his lather n t> Simms, and other reUtives in OlsmU. | ifv fFTHTir f a 1 fail M ? \ nifH 4IS ^