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I The Camden Chronicle B ti^MWMBM^gggogggggWBW*^PBBggg=ggggg?g=ggacg=gggsggg! ; mrmtskerxbsasssssmakssssmssam^rs^trrssbss -J u??a -u-4-am-. i tea . . .jl. ? 1 ? j ^LUME XXXX. CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1929. NUMBER 46. - " ' - mghway Association I To Advertise Route j ' B'h?- United States Highway No, x Bsciation, meeting in Columbia Bdnesday morning, decided to raiso ^B)00 which will be immediately used B provide highway markers near jBksonville to direct motor travel fHugh Augusta, Columbia and Cajpi;||ft Of this amount Camden has |Hi asked to raise $150. Bamden was represented at the fiH)ting by Dr. ft. E. Stevenson, apBnU-d by Muyor C. P, ))u lio.se; Bm, Ji. Burns, local direcloi of the Hocialion; Henry Savage, Jr., and Bghry 'J'indal of the Chmden chjwn B of commerce, 1 wag reported by a committee ap Hnird by the association to in Htigate the routing of motorists Hlh frona Jwkaofnvllle, that the |Htoi iatfi were being routed over the Hiatal highway instead of the NaHnal highway No. 1, which, accordH to 73. F. Taylor of Columbia, i Htirman of the new industries comis 63 miles longer from ^Brksonville to Washington, I). <;. Bfcccording to Mr. Taylor, Jacksonis going so far as to misrep Beni distance and road conditions the national highway and it is "H PUU30?6 the association to give B motorists such information as maky them favor the route through ^^Lgu&ta, ,Ga., and Columbia. HA round $1,700 has already been Bsnt on highway markers -north and jCblunffia.... The amountj ^ lich will be needed for the markers Bed around Jacksonville has pracB*Uy already been pledged by the Bsociation and the work is scheduled -begin immediately. BjUugusta, Batesburg, LeeAvilie, JLexBton, Columbia ancT Camden were B>resented at the meeting. The asBiation was organized recently to' Brertise and popularize the national .jiHhway, which passes through these'?:Bes. .More than 35 members were ;Bkent at the meeting. Bolumbia was represented by C. ^Blordan, Mayor L. B. Owens, 13. F. ^Bor and R. T. Koscman. ^Bfollow ing the meeting, a South ^Bblina branch of the association ^Bs organized and Mayor L. B. ^Bens was appointed chairman. Hch town on the national highway, Bween the Georgia and North Caroboundaries, will have a director H" wi'1 work in conjunction with branch organization. H^' South Carolina branch will ^HSC ?f $3,000 which will ^mneedvd immediately for the activaround Jacksonville. B. E. Gordan wilil>e in charge of rB raising of $500, which is Colnm' H? Quota, and L. S. Moody of AuB?ta will raise $150 in Aiken, ^ ^ugusta has already raised $2,000 B this phrase of the association's rk. Winnsboro Hotel Burned B'innaboro, S, C., Feb. 4^?The B field, Winnsboro's tourist hotel, destroyed by._?ze _early . today. B fire was discovered about 2 this morning, when the back of the building" was already in ' Bes. The fire probably originated kitchen. Only the main walls H standing. Both the Winnsboro and the WinB>ro Mills fire departments made a Be fight to save the building, but Bfire .h*<L*ained. too great a headB when the alarm was sent in. ^B hotel, owned by the United States r ( tlu- present owners of ^ innsboro Mills. The building ^B Partly covered by . inanranro Hateree Baptists To | \Save Fine Building Hptists of the Wateree Mill' vil. | near this city will in the. very H. future have one of the comwjy8 most magnificient places ^F'('rship, it became knpwn hero Br|'ay when George A, Creed, I gilder, Was awarded the con 1 erection of the building." ~ I H new ?hurch, which will replace I Br;,me building recently destroyed ' Hre- wiil be built of brick. In H""1 tn itR large auditorium the - H, f 3 a^? furnish a spacious . :.B? lor t*l pastor 4|jind a number ass rooms for the Sunday school. ^Bs Stella Brewster, wife of ^^Mttia^Brgwrter of the ^Bjopal diocese of Maine, was killed ^B15 other persons were injured in J1**' ***"' ^ata,^ay when the ^ they were in collided with an ^^ nobile. . public debt of the United ^^h^t^ad^W^88,?29 during Carnes Pleads Guilty Gets Short Prison Term Atlanta, da., Feb. 6.?Clinton S Came#, former treasurer of the Southern Baptist Home Mission board, whose disappearance late last summer led to the discovery of an alleged shortage of nearly a million dollars in his accounts and his subsequent arrest in Canadif, pleaded guilty in superior court here today to embezzlement. His plea was to one indictment, charging theft of $80,000, and he was sentenced immediately to serve not less than five nor more than seven years imprisonment. Twenty indictments, in all, had been returned against him. Solicitor General John A. Boykin told the court that he had decided to accept the recommendation of the Baptist Home Mission board that Carnes be permitted to plead guilty. He agreed to. this, he said, only on the condition that the other indictments against him be attached in the form of memoranda sntfthat if he attempts to seek a pardon before the minimum sentence is served, prosecution will be started on the other bills. If Carnes does not apply for a pardon before serving the minimum term, Boykin fcaid, the other indictments would be nol prossed. Arthur G. Powell and Rev. L. R. Christie, who represented the home mission board, bad agreed to the plea of. .guilty,Powell, in addressing the court, said that (Games had deeded everything he had to the board. This deed, he said, would take care of any farther shortage that might be dis^ covered by auditors. In passing sentence, Judge Virlyu B. Mooco vaaid_that in his opinion Cartas was ''getting off light, perhaps lighter than he deserves." The appearance of the former layman and prominent ( Atlanta business man in court was unheralded. He was ushered in Joy deputy sheriffs, accompanied by his son, Robert, and remained seated silently throughout the proceedings without a change of expression. He refused to make any comment. Whether he will be sent to the state prison farm at Milledgeville/or to a county chningang will be decided by the state .prison commission. Carnes had been held in the county jufl here .in default of bond since his arrest in Winnipeg, Manitoba, last September. .... * * ^ Services .At Methodist Church At the services i& the Lyttleton Street Methodist Church, Sunday, February 10, .Rev. J. G. Ferguson, of Sumter will be in charge at the morning hour 11 il5 o'clock. Sunday Bchool will begin at 10:00 a. m. with classes for all grades and ages. Epworth League at 6:45 p. m. to which all the young people are urged to come. The public is cordially invited to all services held in this church. Camden Man Loses Mother Greenwoqd, Feb. 6.?Phoebe Dorroh Pitts, BQ, widow ,of the Rev. John D. Pitts, for many years a prominent Baptist minister, died in her apartment at a local hotel this morning at* .3 o'clock from a heart attack. The funeral services will be held at the home of Judge and Mrs. C. C. Featherstonc here Friday morning at 10 o'Clodk, and Interment will folJowJinJhe..cemetery at Laurens, Mrs. Pitts was the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. William >1. Dorroh of Laurens and Newberry counties. Doctor Pitts died in November, 1925. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. C. G. Featherstone, Greenwood, and Mrs. Claude Fuller, Akron. Ohio; two sons, Lawrence Dj Pitts. Rock Hill, and Reuben B. Pitts, Camden; and two! sisters, Mrs. F. Z. Wilson, Newberry, and Mrs. J. F. Burton, Laurens. Attended Convention Mr. N. R. Goodale has just returned from Atlanta where he attended a convention of the Frigidaire corporation. This meeting was one of a series of ten which the corporation is holding to reach eight thousand members of the field organization in the United State! and Canada. Mr. Goodale noted much ontfnoerirtg progress reflected in new Frigidaire products. The convention was vei*y enthusiastic when informed that the cold control has been nffade so that ft fed emfr ba iHaehod & models Boxer Shoots Man Over Row About Dog Charlotte, Feb. 8.-?JJenny Mack, lightweight boxer, who has fought throughout tyorth Carolina and Virginia, ahot and killed W. K. Moore, landscape artist, here this afternoon. The killing is said to have followed a dispute over a dog. Mack made no effort 4to escape after the shooting, telephoning Chief of Police Alex West that he had shot a man and would be "right down", as soon as he took his wife home. Detectives immediately went to the scene of the difficulty. There they found Moore dead. They then went to the home of Mack, reaching there before he arrived with his wife. He was placed under arrest oh a charge of murder and was in the city jail tonight. Mack, according to detectives, said he had asked Moore several times for payment for the dog and that several weeks ago Moore threatened to kill him if he mentioned it again. Ho said he then started carrying a pistol in his car with him. Dillard Price, a brother-iri'-J^w of Moore's, told the officers that he and Moore had started to town from his i home on the Hickory Grove road nea^ here to pawn the pistol and obtain money to buy food for the family. This was substantiated by the widow of Moore when she was notified otJ hia death. When the officer found that she and her children were with* out any food, they made up a purse: and sent in a supply of groceries to the home. - Mrs. Moore is in a highly nervous -eondition, and told officers the fam^ ily had just moved to Charlotte from South Carolina. / Spirituals and Jubilee Songs The Community dee Club, colored,; of itfcis city, wH irender their fifth annual concert of spirituals and Jubilee songs, so'los and quartettes* at Trinity M. E. Chutth, on Sunday i afternoon, February 10, at 3:30 ?'dock. r A cordial invitation is extended to ! the white friends of this club to be m attendance. 1 Treasurer Found Short Columbia, Feb. l.-r?A discrepancy of $14,000 in the books of Treasurer i F. A. Gross of Dorchester county was ; reported today by Comptroller General Beattie to Governor Richards, following the reoeipt by the comptroller general of an audit of the Dorchester county affairs. Presbyterian Church Services Sunday morning, February 10, the pastor will speak on the text: "Speak to the Children of Israel That They go Forward." Officers elected for the Sunday School for the current year Sunday morning were: D. O. Houser, super-: mtenderitt w. VanlirmdinghamjraTr-^ sistant superintendent; S. W. Hogue, treasurer; Emily Wooten, pianist; Bettie Cureton, assistant pianist J The attendance contest with the Presbyterian Sunday School, of Frankfort, Ky.f is on. Last Sunday we had 108 present The contest will run through June arvd in that time wehope to build up our attendance and We call on you to help us. ?. Every member of tlie church at Sunday School is our. aim. ^ The ladies of the church observed last week as'a s/ason of mission study, prayer and self-denial for foreign missions. The "Desire of ail Nations" was studied and the contribution was fifty dollars. The last Sunday in February will be a rally day in the Sunday jSchyol, At that time an effort will be made i o raise as much money as possible to help pay off the Sunday School building '^ebk; ThO-Senior Christian Endeavor will nie^t Sunday dvening at- 7:80. The meeting will be led by Miss Elizabeth Zemp. Sunday School at 10 a: m.; morning worship at 11:15. Midweek service . Wednesday evening at 7:30. You are cordially invited to all these services. Jubilee Choir To Sing -?The Jubilee Choir will render a special program at lit. * Moriah Baptist Church in Camden on Sunday evenin, February 10, at 8:30 io'clock. The choir will be assisted [by the "Four Harmony Kings" of Sumter, S. C, A special invitation is extended to friends of g^^aweggg^asgaMBc?-" .juuij-, nr.. ,- ni.au Dreher Leaves Letter - Asserting Innocence | Frankliu, La., Feb. 2.?A farewell .massage to the world from Dr. Thomas E. Dreher, who was hanged here yesterday with Mrs. Ada Honmr Lebueuf for the murder of her husband, was brought to light today by Eugene Dreher, his nephew. It whs written by Dr. Dreher on the eve of his execution and was entrusted to u New Orleans States reporter with the request that it be 'given to The Associated Press. |i "As I sit here in my sad and j lonely death cell tonight with an j lashing heart, I wunt to write my last, ^message to the living people of thU world who . know something of this jtrngedy," the message suid, t "I want these words u> be published to the world. 4 V_ "I wish they could bo given the frame prominence in the press and tover the radio as our trial was given. "This is my "Poor Mrs. Lebouef and I go to our doom tomorrow. Two innocent souls. <4I may not have a chance to say anything tomorrow before they hang me. Mrs. Lebouef, I believe, is too .sick to be able to say anything. Thut ds why 1 am writing this. v "Neither Mrs. Ixibouef nor If fear death. We do not fear, death bei ' cause we have made our peace with God and w? will soon be' Where suffering and punishment ara no more, aafe at home with Jesus. 1K6@Uft*ndB know, as well as Mrs. Lebouef and I know, that we are innocent. \ "Beaddle (the trapper aervfof^liffr Ijor his part in the crime) killed Lebouef and mutilated and disposed of bis body over my protest and against my wishes, saying he had done the same thing to a man years ago and riothing ever came of it. ( "Yet Mrs. Lebouef and I have been led to the slaughter like i sheep. For t year and a half we have ' been slighting for ouir' lives. We have fought with truth for our weapon ever since we were put on trial. We have lost. We will die game. "It has been an uphill fight all the vj&y aguinst those who have . been against us. "If our lives are sacrificed, I hopa it will not be all in vain. I hope that with our deathB a movement will be started to abolish capital punishment, a relic of the barbaric ages. "If some movement like that grows out of the legal murder of Mrs. Lebouef and myself, then, as Jesus died on the cross that others might live, so we too shall not have died in vain. "All this story that Mrs. Lebouef and I were lovers is all untrue. 1 had been the Lebouef's family physician for 20 years and Jim Lebouef was my best friend until that lying anonymous letter came to light. .....Jl "I had always prized the friendship of the Lebouef's. "A kinder hearted or more sympathetic woman never lived than Mrs. Lebouef. "It is a bitter cup we have to drink. Hut we are going to face our God with our hearts washed clean of hatred. "We arte overruled on everything .that might work in our favor. "We were overruled when we fought to keep" otif of the rocord much that hurt us. | | "God knows and I know we both cie innocent, and ..yet we never have i had the benefit of the slightest shadow' 6f a doiiBl." "It is hard not to grow bitter when you stand face to face with a shameful death you have not deserved, as I do tpnight. "I will try not to be hitter. I have forgiven those who have lied about me and I have prayed to God to forgive them. Mrs. Lebouef has done the same. We can face our God with clear consciences.-"The hearts of Mrs. Lebouef and myself-are warm with gratitude for those who have befriended us in these long months of our bitter troubles. We forgive have misjudged us and who have been hard on us. We thank ,Jpur friends and all of those who have aakisted us. "To them this is our on this earth. We arc going Home and we will be waiting tor >Mgtlome you where there is no mora sorrow." President - Coolidgc on signed a bill granting a pension of *34)00 p^r^year to Mrs. Thome* R. j p rwI?nCrT7 v: ' Prominent Attorney Died Here Tuesday W. Bratton de Ix>*ch, 02-year-old barrister and for many years one of Camden's most lovingly esteemed I citixens, died at his homo in this city I Tuesday morning. Kin passing, at* tributed to influenza with complications, followed an illness of several months. Mr. de Loach was a native of Union county, S. C., and was the , aoh of the late James Edward and Elisabeth Bratton de launch. He was the son-in-law of the lute Joseph Brevard Keiahuw, distinguished soldior and jurist, and was himself ono Camden's outstanding legal practitioners. Mr. de Loach held membership in j the First Baptist Church of Camden J and was a teacher in the Baptist | Sunday school. He was respected everywhere as a man of integrity I and his character was symbolic of | the highest principles of Christian' j faith. | Luring his many years of practice before the Camden bar Mr. de Loach was connected with numerous outstanding cases and had or. occasion served as special judge. lie was n graduate of the University of South Carolina and was a member of the S. A. E. fraternity. ? SUrviving Mr. de 1/oach, besides his widow and u sister, Miss Ida de Loach of Charlottesville, Va., are the following children: Kershaw de Loach, Raleigh, N. C.; Serre de Loach, New York City; Teddy de Loach, Gastonia, N. C.; Louis de Loach, Gastonia, Nl C.; John K. de Loach and Miss Faith Loach, bdth of whom reside in Camden. I1 uneral services were conducted at the family residence on Lyttleton street in this city Wednesday morning eleven o'clock and interment followed in the Quaker cemetery of Camden. The ministers serving were Rev. John P. Graham of the Baptist church and Rev?.' Mr. RichardAon, of Grace Episcopal church. Active pallbearers were Cosmo L. Walker, Columbia; W. M. Shannon,' Columbia; A. S. Heyward, ILugofT; James DeLoache, Jr., Hunter R. Lang, and 'C. J. -Shannon, Jr., all of Camden. Honorary pallbearers were L. A. Wittkowsky, I. C. Hough, J. H. Clyburn and T. J. Kirkland, all of this city, and the A'. T. Jamison Bible class of the Camden Baptist church. Negro Woman Is Victim Of Bullet Louise Adamson, negro woman, was accidentally killed early Sunday morning at her home on the state farm near Hagood. A coroner's jury meeting Sunday morning after hearing all the evidence in the case returned a verdict of "accidental $ub cide." ^According to the evidence brought out at the " inquest. Buck Chapman, negro, a friend of' the family, was lying on a bed sleeping. In the pocket of his overalls was an automatic pistol with the butt protruding. Louise, noticing the pistol, leaned over to pull it from his pocket! As she pulled it out the pistol fired, the bullet striking her in the neck and severing the jugular vein. She died within a short time from loss "".of blood. * The aboVe account of howthe woman met her death was substantiated by several members of the household who were present when the accidem occurred.?-Monday's Sumter Item. Services For Baptist Church Rev. M. B. Gunter, of Bethune, will occupy the pulpit of the First Baptist church of Camden on Sunday and preach at both morning and evening services. ^The hour for morning worship is announced for 11:1B while evening services will be held at 7:30 o'clock. fo Erect Residence Contract -was placed by A. C. prawdy this, week for the construction of a residence on Mr. Drawdy's property in the Sarsfteld section of this city. R. E. Chewning, local builder, waa awarded the _cop? tract and will work *rom plans drawn by R. W. Mitcham, architect of this City. , A dispatch from Karachi, India, tella of the execution of Afghanistan tribesmen in revolt against Kins Amanullah, by tying thWin /rant of Sharon Man Held In Death of Wife Charon, S. C., Feb. 4.?Rafe Kin*, husband of Mrs. Fa ye Wilson King, Sharon school teacher who was found dead 4n a smokehouse at their home here January 25, was arretted late this afternoon on a charge of murder in connection with her death and wus lodged in the York county jail. The warrant was sworn out by John M. Davidson, rural policeman, with the approval of Solicitor J. Lyles Glenn, of Chester, who had attended the inquest at the request of Gov. John G. Richards and Sheriff Quinu of York county. Davidson swore out the warrant immediately after the coroner's jury which had heard evidence throughout the day in connection with the death, returned a verdict that .."Mrs. Rafe King came to her death from poison administered by hands unknown to us." King, after being placed under arrest, suid he hud typ statement to make. He was not represented by legal counsel at the inquest. , Before the verdict of the jury was announced this ufternoon, King who [ was the Becond witness called this ; morning, asked to be allowed to make a private statement to the jury, which was allowed. King, member of a prominent Shelby, N. C., family, testified at the inquest today that his wife left the house on the morning of January 25 presumably to go to her school which opened at noon. He suid that he did not become alarmed until evening when she had mot returned and then started a searclf. He aroused neighbors and a woman found the body in > the smokehouse. King- said he -was ill at the time. * Testimony fwas introduced that; King had dtated that his' wife; had several times threatened to commit ' suicide. Neighbors testified to having *eeniher thq|day k>f her death and ' said that she had appeared.'^' bef in i unusually high spirits. A .score .or xnoro witnosBCft were : heard at the inquest, many of them I testifying to tho) same' circumstances. Dr. Charles O. Burrus,1 Sharon physiaiani, told the jury that poison had been found in the -dead woman's | stomach. Ho said that the lips) and ! throat were burned by acid. There also was a cut on the forehead ami her hair was matted with* blood. 1 he Rev. EJ. {HHinter, pastor of a local church, testified that he had found a suit of underwear on < which there were blood spots,, in a trunk under clean clothing. This garment1 was identified as belonging to King, King was present throughout the hearing. He came here this# morning from the 'home of his parents in _?helby where he J had been kept isolated and all reporters barred. Beyond his i statement to the coroner's jury, King declined to talk. Solicitor Olenn, immediately after the jury's verdict had been rendered, lot it be known'XKat he would issue a warrant on which to hold King pending investigation. When King hoard1 this he went.'to the sheriff and' surrendered. Annual Banquet A t Kirkwood Hotel ! Th? Kirkwood Grille on Camden Heights will be the scene orr Monday evening, Eebruary 11, of the annual banquet of the Camden and Kershaw County Chamber of ComnfGFce, It was ~ announced yesterday. The- banquet will open, it is stated, at eight o'clock with Henry Savage, Jr., president of the chamber, as the initial speaker who will present Col. William L. DeI ass as toastmaster. David K Coker, prominent agriculturalist, of Hartsvillo, will make the principal address of the evening. Dr. John W. Corbett will extend cordial greetings from the citizens of Camden and Kershaw county to Mr. .and "Mrs. E. L. Woodward and < voice the entire community's profound gratitude for Woodward Field, recently donated as an airport by Mr. and Mrs. Woodward. A. S. Llewellyn will address the gathering on recent improvements at Watoree Mills while H. G. Carrison, Jr., will outline the highway progress of Kershaw county. ^ Mr^jSjivage expressed the opinion Thursday that this season's banquet will prove one of the most brilliant and enjoyable affairs in the organisation's history and stated that the officers were especially lfi*bt*d to Kht} P. Abbott, of The Kifkwood, for use of the grille. ^snowfall o* ntarly^flve and one