The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, June 28, 1929, Image 3
I Yery Few Whites
Attend Reception
Washington, June 21.?iMore than
s ooo Negroes and dwtn or so
-Kites attended ? musical* *ud reception
given her# tonight by Representative
De Pfiest, , |he Jfegro Renublicen
member of congress from
Illinois, to which most of the Republican
members of congress had
Keen invited. ' >'*
Representative Yates, former governor
of the state that De Priest now
serves, was amon* those present.
De Priest, in a brief speech said he
would a?k the Negroes "to repeat this
Lain next February, when everybody
is over their summer vacation/'
Most of the members of congress left
Washington yesterday after the adjournment
of the two houses for a
summer recess.
There was a bridf reference in the
speeches that prefaced the entertainment
to the comment that followed
the recent attendance of De Priest's
wife at a White House tea.
James Weldon Johnson, New York
Negro, secretary of the National Asgociation
for Advancement of the Colored
People, said the statement made
by De Priest had been "the only dignified
n nil statesmanlike thing that
has come out of all the buncombe and
moonshine that has been thrown out
in Washington in the last few days."
De Priest a few moments later de<?
clared there had been too much said
in the press recently. "I gave out n
public statement in which I said
everything there was to say," he said.
His wife was cheered vigorously
as she went to the stage to receive
a bouquet. - : .
Pluck Cat Crossed His Path
A black cat, time honored harbinger
of ill fortune, ran acrcfas the road in
front of Truman Proffett's automobile
shortly before the machine
wrecked and killed the Pelzer youth
about midnight Sunday, according to
I tale told yesterday by a companion
iho came to Greenville in the car.
"When Truman sarw the black cat
be said, 'Oh! Oh! We're going to
lire some hard luck,'" he said.
Sometime later, as he was .approaching
Gantt's station on the Piedmont
road, the car skidded from the highway,
turned over several times and
stopped in a field."?Tuesday's
Greenville News.
YOUNG COLUMBIA MAN
' . ...
Charged With Serious Offense in
Bamberg County
Denmark, June 21.?"Sonny Boy"
Haynesworth of Columbia is being
held in the Bamberg county jail without
bond for assault on a Denmark
high school girl Thursday afternoon.
Haynesworth and some other young
men went into a cafe here for dinner
about 4 o'clock Thursday. 7 Haynes-1
1 worth met the young girl and asked
her to go to ride. . She consented.
Blhey went out on the highway toB~i\tds
Savannah and after going a
iw miles turned into a side road.
B Hiptsworth, it is said, offered the
Bfir/i drink, but she told him she
iw not that kind. He then choked
B hw, it is said, and assaulted her. Re
brning to the road they met a young
man Haynesworth knew, whom he
asked to take the girl to her mother,
which he did. I
Haynesworth went to Columbia and
was arrested there early this mornI
!ng. (hiof of Police W. J. Hutto of
I this place went , up and brought him
I totne Bamberg, jail, where he now is.
I i E. D. Carter was in town
I loOKing into the case today, as was
John Hughes Cooper, attorney of Co
lumbia.
I -No preliminary hearing will be
held, the solicitor said, unless Haynes
worth asks for it.
Texas Rebukes Mrs. Hoover
I Austin. Texas, June 18; .Only GovI
en?or Dan Moody's signature was reI
tonight to complete Texas Ieg
uiature's rebuke to Mrs, Herbert
I "oover for entertaining a negro conI
fre8ST!l?n 3 w^e # 'Wihite House
I The governor said he would
S1?n The resolution but indicated he
tv! v so some reluctance.
I e house of representatives today
concurred in the Senate resolution
proposing that "'we bow our heads'
|"i shame and regret and express in
e strongest and most emphatic
erms at our command our condemn^,
on and humiliation at said conduct,"
I",. on the pant of the mistress
the White House and her asln?s
vo*e was ^ 10.
v/fi passed the resolution Inst"
fi'r Mrs.'" Helen Moore of Texas
H-y ' ' .-sympathy for Mrs.
"She is merely the agency
, a v!l.at P?Dticai scheme," she
B. i' is a part of the most unB0*PU:(,us
political move on the part
no publican leaders since reconB-nic:.,
days."
Blazes Air Trails
Hartford, Conn.?Largely through
l-T'" The American Legion posts
L tla ,s aro heing marked throughE
state. The Legion has con-,
K iH' a campaign for three years
K?t tlying to the people of the
J-ate morc air-minded. ~
City Milk Ordinance
Reviewed by Officer
John W. Wilson, city health officer,
with Dr. Smith, the government
mtUc inspector, and Mr. Weston, state
milk inspector, visited all dairies and
farms from which iuiik and milk
products are brought, delivered, distributed,
sold or offered -for sale in
the city, for the purpose of checking
and grading same, in compliance with
the milk ordinance of the city, as
follows:
Rock Springs Dairy, grade A; Willow-Brook
Dairy, grade A; all others,
grade D. the lack of proper equipment
reduces the grade. AH bottles,
cans, packages and other containers
enclosing milk or milk products shall
be labeled with the name of the contents,
the grade of the contents, and
the word "raw." A physical examination
and tuberculin test of all
cows shall be made before any milk
therefrom is sold in the city. A certificate
signed by the veterinarian
and filed with the health officer shall
be the only valid evidence of the
above tpst. Every person whose work
brings him or her in contact with
the production, handling, storage or
transportation of milk or milk products
shall file with the health officer
>a physician's certificate certifying
that snjd person is free from any
disease capable of being spread
through milk supplies. Notice shall
be sent to the health officer within
twenty-four hours by any milk producer
or distributor upon any dairy
farm or other premises any case of
sickness or any infectious, contagious
I or communicable disease that occurs.
No cattle over six months old shall
be kept within the city of Camden
for a period of more than thirty day?
unless such cattle shall have successfully
passed the tuberculin test applied
by a graduate veterinarian.
In all cases of diphtheria, scarlet
fever or typhoid fever no milk pro- |
ducer oit* purveyor shall leave any
milk bottles or other containers of
description at the house or building
where such disease exists, and no 1
milk containers of any description |
left where the above diseases are
shall be removed therefrom except under
direction of the health officer.
Every grocery store, restaurant, \
cafe, soda fountain or similar estab- j
lishment selling or serving milk shall
display a card furnished by the health
officer stating the grade of milk and
whether same is raw.
Any person or persons who shall
violate any of the provisions of the
milk ordinance of the city of Camden,
he or they, shall upon conviction before
the recorder be punished -by a
fine of not more than one hundred
dollars or be imprisoned not more
than thirty days.
WHY JOE TOLBERT HATES HIM
Congressman Stevenson Tells Why
Big Boss Abuses Him in Print
Cheraw, June '25.?'Referring to the
publication of The State of Josep.n
W. Tolbert's attack on him, Congressman
W. F. Stevenson says:
"I am not surprised that Joseph W.
Tolbert is bitter towards me since I j
proved to the world that Joe's agents
were, selling offices in South Carolina
and Joe was carrying out the trades
by having the vendees appointed. I
also procured the passage of a law
making it a penal offense either to
sell or offer to sell, or buy or offer to
buy political influence to have any
appointment made. This embarrassed
Joe's agents greatly.
"Tolbert was in error in saying
that I wanted to control post office
appointments. When Harding came
in I was informed that no one could
get a postal job without Tolbert's indorsement,
and I never undertook to
interfere except to stop the sale, and
if Joe didnt got any of the money
paid his agents, he is a bigger 'sucker'
than I ever supposed.
"Naturally he is bitter. I started
the expose" which has ousted him and
a lot of other patronage vendors in
the South, and naturally he is bitter.
The dose is bitter and he makes a
wry face, but he i? down and out all
the same."
Many at Greenwood for Rail Opening
'
| Greenwood was thronged with
isorrte 8,000 people on Wednesday, the
occasion being the official opening of
, the- now -railroad- line, the Georgia
land Florida, from Greenwood to Augusta,
when the first passenger trains
were operated over the line. The firs-train
arrived at Greenwood at noon
carrying 610 passengers. The openihg
of the new rail line gives Greenj
wood five railroads. A part of the
day's exercises included the opening
of an airport and its dedication. The
two principal guests invited, Governor
Richards and William G. McAdoo,
were unable to be present. C.
kE. Jones, chairman of the state highway
commission; James E. .Byrnes, excongressman;
H. W. Purvis, president
of the G. & F.; Congressman Dominick,
W. 'S. Lee, president of thn
Piedmont and Northern; Senators
Greneker and Hodges and Representative
MoCaslan were among the speakers
of the day.
Given League Chance
s
Providence, R. I.?Jack Carrara, 16
years old, pitcher for his home town
team in The^American Legion Junior
Baseball World series last year, has
been taken on by the Boston Braves
for % chance to sigrr ir hicnttve contract.
The Legion will have almost
half a million boys "playing in the
junior world series this season.
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LIFE STORY OF AN OLD MAN.
MIIm a Threat Uaa Lived Almoet Te
Hundred Ye*r &Urk.
Many of our people remember tht
aeveral weeks ago of Mr.
MAms a Threat, an aged maa of near
iegeland. He has mauy friends
throughout the adjoining counties
who will read with interest the folowing
story of his life. It is written
by Wiu V. Funderburk and appeared
in the last issue of the Pageland
Journal:
On June 26, 1881, there came into
the world in Andon County, N. C.? a
sturdy boy baby endowed with an inheritance
of unusual endurance. A
hoy destined not only to see changes
of vast importance take place in his
native country, but to help make the
history of that country what it Is
today.
This boy with such a power of physical
sturdiuess still lives and enjoys
the possession not only of wonderful
ability of physiqud', but of *the maintainance
of the faculties of mind far
beyond what might be expected of a
man of his age.
On the 26th of this month all the
kinsmen, neighbors and friends of the
most wonderful man will meet at his
beautiful home near * Jefferson to
bring him their congratulations, their
good wishes and to show as best they
may the love and esteem they hold in
their hearts for him.
Miles Theat was the son of Thomas
Threat and Holly Elliott Threat of
Dutch descent.
As was common to the boys of that
time he went to the little log school
with a big fire place in each end and a
dirt floor. He wore home woven,
home-made clothes. Ate the common
but strength-giving food cooked in
the open fire place used at that time
and lived, a rugged life which fate
destined the boys of those times to
have in order that they might be (better
able to cope with the hardships
they were to meet with later in life.
In the first years of his' young
manhood he helped to cut out the first
road that ran into the town of Monroe,
N. C.p where they took a part of
Anson county and a part of Mecklenburg
county to make Union.
He enlisted at the beginning of the
War Between the States under Cap- j
tain Neil F. Graham.
He had married at the age of 23 to
Rachel^ Emily Laney of Tradesville,
S. C. There had been four ...children
born to thera 4?t the opening of the
war.
He helped to dig the tunnel at
Petersburg, and was not allowed to
lie down or to spread a blanket for
26 days. He slept by taking naps in a
squatting position. He nad three
Ippthers in the blow-up at PeteireBurg.
It was there that he took gangrene,
treating the wouud with caustic
and turpentine. He recovered
enough to go back into camp as a
guardsman but was not allowed to gp
into battle any more. While .he lay
in the hospital in Richmond, Virginia,
his wife and fathW Visitwl him. His
wife wore a dress that she had woven,
made and dyed herself and she:
received many compliments on this
occasion for having such a "beautiful
dress."
He was present at the three-days*
battle around Gettysburg, where he,
with nine thousand others were taken
prisoners. They were carried to New
Port News, Virginin, where they
stayed in prison three months.
When Lee had surrendered and
they were released from prison, the
northern captain slurringly refiiarked,
"How big does South Carolina look
to you now" He replied, ."You all
dreaded to meet the South Carolinians,
though." .
A few incidents of interest that he
told me are as follows: He says thai
it was Bill Clyburn who fired the first
gun of the war at Fort Sumter.
He was never sick except from the
wound during the war.
>He never stole a chicken during the
whole war.
There is only one man now living
who was in his company, Mr. Alf
Funderburk of Union county, N. C.
He has only one first cousin now living,
J. T. Funderburk, of Dudley
community, Chesterfield county, S. C.
He and Mr. L. Ws Ogburn of Jefferson
have been close neighbors for 59
years and have never had any hard :
feelings nor cross words in all that
time. Isn't that a most beautiful friendship
?
An amusing instance he relates
about a Frenchman named Bill Pon- 1
ter. This fellow said to him one day,
"Threat, I am going to quit fighting."
"What for?" replied Mr. Threat. 1
"Well," he said, "I have only one I
brother and he is able to fight for
himself and 1 had a letter from my
mother yesterday and she is its dead
as he?I asked Mr. Threat did he
say where the letter was posted.
On another occasion another man
told him that he knew Mr. Threat was
a good man and that if the war lasted
long enough he would be good too
because said he, "I am praying like
he?." Now at the close of this article
about this grand old man I want to
make this special request that as
many of the U. D. C.'s as possibly
can do so, assemble at his home on
June 26th and let us g'ive 4iim the '
very best birthday celebration he has
ver had. '
Columbia Officers Get Young Couple
Arrested yesterday morning by
County Policemay Eleazer in Wilson's
peach .orchard near Pontine, Howard j
MaoKnett, 18,-of Dover, Dela., and
Kaherine > Stroh, 14, a ward of tho
Childrens' Aid society of New York,]
are being held by Richland county
authorities for Delaware officers.
- A Hudson automobile in which the
youths had been sleeping through the
night, was seized and Sheriff T. Alex
Heisp is informed it was taken from
crippled man named Sheet Jones in
Delaware. "i" i
The young people had had nothing
to eat for more than a day they said
and had completely exhausted their
funds. < The girl is being held in the
Columbia detention home for county
officers.
Delaware authorities reported that
the girl either ran away or was kidnaped
June 21. Yesterday she declared
that she ran away of her own
volition.?Wednesday's State.
r
Ocie Nix, 22, has confessed to poisoning
his wife, 17, in Bowie county,
Texas. Officers had to move him
from Texarkana quickly to prevent a
lynching.
Young Man Dead From
Scuffle With Friend
Funeral services were scheduled to
be held at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon
at Mount Pisgah Baptist
church in Kershaw county, for I*ouis
Clyburn, who died while playfully
ruffling with a friend, Carson Dew,
ate Saturday night in front of a filing
station in Now Brookland.
A coroner's jury investigating the
death Sunday found that Clyburn
came to his death from natural causes
or heart trouble. It was found at
the inquest that Clyburn and Dew
were scuffling in front of the Gulf
Filling station at State and 'Meeting
treels just before the station closed
or the night.
In the scuffle Clyburn fell to the
giound and crumpled up. No blow
had been passed. T. D. Mitchell,
brother-in-law of Dew, picked Clyburn
up and carried him to the
Columbia hospital but the young man
was dead before tfcey reached the
! rospital.
Dew was taken to the I^exington
I county jail but at the conclusion of
,the inquest Sunday was released.,
Oyburn is survived by his widow,
originally Miss Evelyn Singletary of
Lumber ton, N. C., and one son, pobbic.
lie also leaves two brothers,
J. T. Clyburn and Jason Clyburn,
both of Columbia,
j Rev. M. B. Gunter was to conduct
| the service at the graveside. The
funeral party left the h^me of J. T.
Clyburn, 2215 Bull street, at 11
o'clock Monday morning.?-Monday's
Columbia Record.
Iteds Promise Help
New York, June 25.?About 3,000
persons attending a mass meeting
sponsored by the Workers (Communist)
party and the International Defense
today pledged support of the
textile strikers of Gastonia, N. C.,
who were arrested in connection with
the killing of the Gastonia chief of
police on June 7. William Z. Foster,
Workers' party candidate for president
last year, was among the speakers.
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Lancaster 25.40 85.25
Newberry 28.20 38.05
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