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| : The Camden Chronicle wr i camden, south carolina. FR.n.v ^ * 1 ? NUMBER 5 I'rison Fire Takes I Heavy Toll of Life 1 Columbus, Ohio, April 21.?Mor^ I 300 men, confined in Ohio pen untia'y here, met death tonight Khen a disastrous fire swept four cell Knocks in the prison yards. Most of Ku, dead were convicts, who were rapped in the ill-fated tiers of cells. Blorc than 100 others were affected ^Etriously by Bmoke. It was feared ^Hnore would die. i I Regular Army troops, National Bjuardsmen, prison guards and Co umbus police were on duty in the ftfison late tonight attempting to B, iaintai n order umoug than convicts loose in the prison Krd?, who, it was. believed, had set Several fires in the prison cotton BUii , had cut fire hose and had Bhioatcned firemen. I The penitentiary yards resembled B, urmed camp after a pitched battle. Byiug on the grass were the bodies f some 200 victims of the blaze, Kiost of them killed by dense smoke. In the prison hospital basement lay imost 100 other, dead. A few dead ^?ere known to be in G and H cellH'' I * where the fire burned fur oudy for several hours after it had Started in an adjoining block and B>pread rapidly under a stiff west ^Mind. I The loose convicts were being drivBn i|to the dining-halls. Troops Mime having trouble controlling the Hnen, who, earlier in the excitement had pitched in and aided in rescue, | Later in the night, some of the j convicts, cornered in dining halls, a-1 gain got loose in the yartl^ and at1 B hi., it was estimated that about 2,000 of the more than 4,000 j men in the prison still were milling 1 ^R. r inclosure. Fire department officials believed j Hall the fires were incendiary. The 1 first fire, on the I and K cell-block i was near the spot where men I had been working during the day ( i Iwith an oil preparation to repair This, it was believed, was jHused to start the blaze. Other places, | Ifired with oil-soaked cloth, included ^ '.he Roman Catholic chapeL cotton jBmill and woolen mill, j The fire was started in a manner ' ^Bmuch the same as thfe Junction City prison brick plant blaze, when some 20 convicts were burned to death, j I Convicts slugged three firemen and . injured another, while the men were attempting to get a line of hose on | Ithe flames. All four injured fire- j ^ men needed the attention of a doctor, j I The great toll of life was not re-| { fleeted in the estimate of property) damage by the fire. Prison officials J Band fire department heads said the ( damage would be about $11,000. j I Chief Ijams of the Columbus fire I department was among the first out-j siders to get into the blazing cell- j ^Bblocks. Ho said the fire spread so ^ r?pidly that guards on duty there had ^ little or no opportunity to unlock the il^ell doors. Warden Thomas rushed !?f(>ur guards into the blocks with cellbut before they could get to *ork on the doors, they were overBorne by t,he dense smoke and car^ ied out by convicts. ^B^ The fire chief said there was no Bectrio wiring in the block, and he e t confident the blaze was of in-! ^^ *ndiary origin. I H T?rvices at FHnt HiI1 Church ere will be preaching ^?jrvices at I !*>Tnt. church .Sundaj^jAftemoon I > '' ! re? 0 c^ock. All t^Hpnembers ^Hcnt f are urged To be pres||s ,1 / the reoT8Tanization of the ^ hus'ir/'^ (^00' Also other important m.Ci 'r''/s matters are to be attended] 1' a"d bring nil the family! ; lv _ , ' " * r',v'- The public is also in-^ | mme and worship with us. , important Hob Meeting ^ :n the interest of hog ^ i^'the development of ^ 5 . - no^s in Kershaw county j.- ' *n Court House in Ev07 nday* APril 25th, 10 a. m. ' urir .V'"0 interested in hogs I l^ent w ill \att?nd A Car load ship" BC I* trotT ma<1<? if enOUKh h?*S Bing to K Also anyone desirBattcnd "n ^Ur? ^red ^?KS please W h' . ' ,g desired td develop the (I ? | 11 f* C e i i V B^n shinm county and beI ?r Cp "I " ^tld. |ASent for th ? ^ U' Agricultural |"'J" in the R*ilWa7' 'i" '^k^nClnUr^. *h?M "" Young Man Charged With Homicide New York, April *19.-James Mutthew Maxon, Jr., a Komewhat bruised and dishevelled young man, who followed with curious and troubled eyes the activities of the repprters whose company he hud hoped some day to join, was arraigned today in West Side court on an affidavit, signed by u policeman, oharging him with homicide. Young Muxon, son of the right Rev. James Matthew Maxon of Chattanooga, bishop coadjutor of the Protestant Episcopal church in Tennessee, has been accused by fellow lodgers of having killed David Paynter, aged 73, while in a drunken frenzy. The killing occurred in a shabby rooming house. Muxon, according to his attorney Martin W. Littleton, admits that he had been drinking, but denies that he killed Paynter. Paynter's death occurred, according to the story told his lawyer, during a general melee that followed when he went down to the basement kitchen, adjoining the landlady's room to investigate the cause of a gas leuk and was evidently mistaken by his fellow lodgers for a burglar. Hearing on the charge against Maxon was adjourned until next Wednesday, April 23. No plea .was entered today, until Wednesday. He wfll be held in the jail attached to West J*jide court., Maxon had several bruises and scratches on his neck and face when he appeared in the police lineup and later in West Side court today. There were cuts on his hand. His well cut grey suit was wrinkled and his shirt and collar rumpled. He is a short, rather stocky youth, good looking, with hazel eyes, thick dark hair, apd an olive skin. He looked sallow and tired today. Apparently with some effort he maintained a sort of composure. For nearly half an hour before he was arraigned he sat on a bench in a room adjoining the court room his grey hat pulled well down over \ his eyes, smoking cigarettes and gravely going through the morning p&pers. To Make Home in Connecticut The friends of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey R. Davis and family, with Miss Ardrey Arrants, will be pleased to know that they arrived at Suffield, Connecticut, April 6th, and they are well pleased with their new home. Mr. Davis goes to Connecticut to take charge of a large game and fishing preserve. City Officers Elected At the regular meeting of the city council held Monday night the following officers were elected for the ensuing term respectively: F. W. Chapman, superintendent of the Water and Light Department, j W. H. Haile, city clerk and treasi urer. W. D. Whitnker, street commissioner. H. D. Hilton, chief of police; Alva Rush, C. C. Brown, L. E. Barnes and H. T. Horton, policemen. W.. F. Nettles, chiecf of fire de partment. J. D. Zemp, assistant chief fire department. D. J. Creed, foreman; F. C. Mayer, driver. L. A. Wittkowsky was re-elected city attorney and I. C. Hough, recorder. Presbyterian Church Services Rev. A. Douglas McAm, Paster, announces the following services at Bethesda Presbyterian church: Sermon subject: "Our Need of Patience." Beginning next Wednesday evening at thp midweek service the pastor will begin a series of talks on the distinguished men and women of the early Christian chur"M>?^These talks will offer a splendid oppoiTmuty^to gain knowledge of the great Christian loaders and of early church history. This church was represented at Presbytery in the New Brookland church by Mr. J. T. Mackey and the pastor. Sunday morning last the Cradle $611, under the leadership of Mrs. E. E. Sill, gave a very interesting program of songs and recitations after which there w*s a baptismal service for the infants of the church. iSlmday'school-K> a. m.; morning worship 11:15 a. m.; midweek service Wednesday evening 8 o'clock. You are invited to all these 'services. ~ <" * - fsdfi ??- , m Knights To Meet * |l o At Ilobkirk Inn' The state convention of the Knights of Columbus wall meet this year at the Ilobkirk Inn, Camden, S. C., at the same time the retreat for Catholic men of the Diocese of South Car- ] olina will assemble in that city. The convention will be called together at 11 o'clock, April 27, by ! State Deputy Edward D. Buckley, of Charleston. The members of the state convention from Columbia who will be in attendance arc John J. Cormack, state advocate; Charles F. J. Suit man, treasurer., and Joseph R. Allen, district deputy. The delegates who will represent Bishop England council of Columbia are John II. Park, grand knight, and Thomas N. Fickling, past grand knight. The following news story from the Charleston News and Courier gives details of the exercises of the Catholic Laymen's Retreat association of South Carolina which takes place at : the same time ami place. This is the sixth retreat of the association which is growing in interest each year. "This will be the sixth retreat, held under the direction of the Catholic Laymen's Retreat association of the Diocese of Charleston, whose of-' ficers are W. J. Leonard, of Charleston, president; J. R. McR. Barbie, of Florence, vice-president; H. KIx?a, treasurer and M. A. Condon, secretary, both of Charleston, and President Emeritus F. B. Moran who originally organized the retreat association in 1924, at the request of the late bishop, the Rt. Rev. William T. Russell. "The association was honored Inst year at its fifth retreat, also held at Camden, with the presence of the Rt. Rev. Emmett M. Walsh, bishop of Charleston, for the final exercises, who at that time accepted the office ' of spiritual director. "A retreat means a retirement I from the world and had its origin in the early days of Christianity, it is pointed out. The religious ones who sought the deserts or the monasteries, or, in general, those wishing ta lead a contemplative life retired from the world in order more readily to draw nearer to God and to apply themselves to exercises of Christian perfection. "The ordinary layman is so much engrossed with his relations with his fellow men and with his well being in this world tjiat he fails to give God the thought and service that are due to his Creator and last Judge and to interests .that are eternal, it is pointed out by those an charge of the retreat. "A retrea^. master of the Jesuit Missionary band, of the Province of New Orleans will Conduct the exercises. Application of a reservation to attend may be made .through Matthew A. Condon of Charleston, secretary of the Retreat association."? The State. Services at Methodist Church Services for the week at GLyttleton Street Methodist church, are announced by the pastor, Rev. George Pierce Watson, as follows: Sunday, April 27, Bible school 10:00 a. m., Mr. L. C. Shaw, superintendent; Epworth League, 7:15 p. in.; Public Worship, 11:15 a. m. and 8:00 p. m., conducted by the pastor. Morning theme: "The Financial Power of the Church." Evening theme: "Lessons Taught by the Spring Season." Midweek service Wednesday 8:00 p. m. The public is most cordially invited to all the services of this church. Visitors are especially welcome. Come and bring your friends. Bank of Camden Bids Highf.For Bonds The county hoard of education hold a sale of $10,000 worth of high school bonds Thursday, the bonds to be used in erecting n high school in District No. 14 of Kershaw county. All were sealed bids and after all bids were in the Bank of Camden was the successful bidder, paying a premium of $500 for the bonds. The list of bidders includod: Bank of Camden, $40,500; Peoples State Bank of Charleston, $40,420.50; J. H. Hillsman & Co., of Atlanta, Ga., $40,301.00; Robinson, Humphrey & Co., of Atlanta, Ga., $40,390.00; First National Bank of Camden, S. C., $40,380.96; Caldwell & Co., Atlanta, Ga., $40,152.50; Walter Woody & Heimerdinger, Cincinnati, $40,369.63. Mr. and Mrs. Sam -Cvana are spending this week in Oxford, N. C., at th? home of the latter'a parents. } * lr 'VT-V :"^y' " Sumter's Airport J Opens Saturduyj Sumter, S. C., April 22.?The first! Ioiir distance air race ever held in n South Carolina will be staged on Sut- j t urday, April 26, when a large num* her of planes will race from Colum-1 t bia to Sumter, this event having been ! |i arranged as the first'of a number of ! \ events to be held that day in con- u uection with the dedication of Sum- ! 1 ter's splendid new airport. Other ; ( avaiation events arranged for the ! ( day are u dead stick lunding, a bomb dropping contest and u 16-mile: \ free-for-all race. | j A tremendoys crowd is expected here to witness the finish of the Co- t lumbia-Sumter race and the other t features of the day. An Official ihvi- j t tation has been sent by Mayor Raf- I j field to Gov. John G. Richards, the i 1 mayor and city council of Columbiu i and members of the airport dedica- j < tion committee of Columbia, and the j i mayors of other surrounding cities! and towns. The general public is invited to tho celebration. Sumter is staging its airport dedi- I < cation on the day following the con- j clu.sion of the great air derby to be ! j)eld in Columbia April 24-26 in I which planes from all over the county are expected to participate. The Sumter airport committee will extend an invitation to every aviator at the Columbia meet to come over to Sumter for the events here on ' Saturday and is already assured that a very large number of the planes will be here. Mrs. C. L. Dye Passes Away in Kershaw Mrs. Cornelia Perry Dye, wife of C. L. Dye, passed away Saturday j morning at her home on South Cleveland street at five o'clock I and was laid to rest in the IC&shaw cemetery just At the close j of day. The service was conducted by Rev. T, M. Stevenson-, pastor of ! the Kershaw Presbyterian church,! assisted by Rev. W. S. Patterson,' pastor of the Associate Reformed i 1 resbj terian church of Lancaster.) i 1 he bank of beautiful flowers took! the place of the freshly turned clay ; and was a fitting tribute of the high j : esteem in which Mrs. Dye was held.] ; Mrs. Dye was seventy-two years of | i age and was born and feared in Kershaw county. For a long time prior to her death she had been in declining health, but bore her sufferings with patience and fortitude. In her departure she leaves surviving her husband and the following children: D. P. Dye, Kershaw; Mrs. R. E. Thompson, Lancaster; Mrs. J. M. i Morgan, Asheville, N. C.; and Mrs. j i B. J. Truesdale, Kershaw; eight i grandchildren and one sister, Miss j Lois S. Perry. The friends and neighbors of the sfirviving relatives sj mpathize with them deeply in their bereavement.?Kershaw Era. Midway High School to Preesnt Play The senior class of Midway high school presents "Patty Makes Things Hum," a three-act comedy, Friday evening, April 25, 1930," at 8 o'clock in the Midway school auditorium. Patty, a vivacious school girl of sixteen, livens things up a bit in the household of her sister, Mrs. Greene. Expelled from school on account of some bold prank of -hers she finds refuge under the shelter of her sister's abode. Taking the role of a waitress at n dinner party to the astonishment of the guests she captivates a gallant and dashing young officer of the English army and he has a hard time taming her. See j and hear her conversation with Hya! cinth, the loquacious colored maid, | who gives Patty advice out of her j own thrice matrimonial experiences' : and watch her "make things hum." j Admission 10c and 25c. Stewart Re Named Camden Postmaster A special dispatch to the Columbia .State from its Washington correspondent under date of April 21, says: "The president today nominated William T. Stewart as postmaster at Camden and Mason C. Stroud at Great Falls." This will be good news to Camden people as Mr. Stewart is i popular with our pepole. UndeV his cupervlsfon and with an able corps of assistants, this city gets postal service unexcelled. V ' ' v-'">,v" Last Man's Club is 1 Down to Last Man 1 ~?~f*r At water, Minn.,'April 1??.- The furious Last Man's4Club today is down a o the last man. Originally there were fiX members | 'ivil War veterans from 11. Com pa- n ly, hirst Minnesota volunteer infan- | ry. Death took them, one by one, j. intil only two remained ?Peter (). 0 lull, 91 years old, of Atwater, and t buries Lockwood, 89 yea-s old, of , hamberlain, S. 1). Today there remains only Look- ( vood. His comrade of war and of j >eace died last night. ( Thus to I/Oek wood alone is left , he sober ceremony of drinking a ( .oast . to the 32 who have gone; | ousting them in the bottle of Pur- , fundy wine purchase<l July 2!, 188d, \ A'hen the club was organized. ./uly 21 of each year has been the > late on which the last man's club , met. It was on that day that 11. | Company went under fire at Hull ' Run. Each year the club has met, | and each year the membership has ' dwindled. j At each annuul gathering the hot- | tie of Hurgundy has been brought from the bank vault where it is kept, ' and placed on the banquet table, a , reminder that the day would come when one of them would one day sit alone at that table and drink the toast to the dead men. The last man is Charles Lock-' wood. Yesterday he was up and about the farm, doing his chores as usual. He is suffering from a slight cold, but plans to attend the funeral of Hall here Tuesday. Whether he will fulfiill the original intent of the club and drink the toast to tjhe memory of the dead has not been made known. Three years ago, when only three members of the last man's club were left, the bottle of Burgundy was opened. One of the three put the bottle to his lips, .and the bottle was last touched by Hall. James^P. Wesberry Honored at Mercer Friends of Rev'. James P. Wesberry, pastor of Soperton Baptist church at Soperton, (la., but formerly of Columbia, will be interested to know that in a student political campaign held at Mercer university he was unanimously declared the "Ideal Mercerian of 1930." Mr. Wesberry was manager In 1925 of Columbia high school's championship football team. As a senior he was athletic manager of Columbia h^h school and editor of. "The Columbian," high school annual. He left Columbia to enter Mercer university. He is now working for his master's degree at that institution, and preaches at the Soperton Baptist church, which will soon dedicate a new building.^ Mr. Wesberry plans to enter the Newton Theological Institute at Newton Centre, Mass., next year.' He was married last summer to Mias Ruby Lee Perry, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Perry of Columbia, Mrs. Wesberry is a graduate of Winthrop college. Mr. Wesberry is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Wesberry formerly I of Columbia, but now of Camden.? Sunday's Columbia Record. Welcome Service at Baptist Church The following services are announced for the week at the First Baptist church: Sunday school at 10 o'clock, Mr. W. G. Wilson, superin- I tendent. Preaching by the pastor at 11:15 on the subject: "The Importance of Work." Prayer meeting at 8 o'clock on Wednesday evening; B. Y. P. U. on Sunday evening at 7 o'clock. On Sunday evening at 8 o'clock a j welcome service will be held welcom. i^S the two Baptist ministers, Rev. P. E. Blaeknion and Rev. J. T. Littlejohn who have lately taken up work in the city. Rev. Mr. Blackmon is the new pastor of the Hermitage church and Rev. Mr. I.ittlejohn has accepted the Watereo church. The public is cordially invited to worship with us. ~ ... ,, ^ Chamber To Meet Tuesday There will be a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Commerce on Tueeday evening, April 29th, at 7:i5 at Palmetto, Tea Room. A number of important matters will be brought up. Mr. Lewis E. Staley, State Forester will be a guest at this meeting. " r-.- . ;.v. ""LL Two Negroes To Die For Murder Of Two Allendale. April 2?2.-?~Ausic Moor? nd George Washington, negroes, .hose sensational murder of Frank larley, white man, and Shan Bates, ic-gro, on the night of Januury 20, irought them from ol>s<'urity into rief limelight, will pay with their wn lives for the Lives of their vieims in the electric chair at the state K'nitentiary in Columbia May 10. 1 his, ut least, was the sentence tussed upon tbern this afternoon by Special Judge Mendel I* Smith of auulen following a verdict of guilty ?turned by a jury which icmained >ut only 15 minutes. They are the 'irst persons sentenced to death by .'lectrocution in Allendale sine? it Jocamo a county in 1919. The negroes, who have been in the state penitentiary since their capture, Acre brought to Allendale for trial last night and kept under guard. They were returned to Columbia immediately following their sentence. The prisoners were defended by R. 1*. Searson, Jr., who was appointed by the court. The negroes pleaded self-defense. They were the only witnesses for the defense, whale the state's witnesses were Dr. F. H. Boyd, I>r. A. J. Barter, Deputy Sheriff N. E. Barter, .Justin McMillan, State Detectives Richardson and Foster,, Annie Mae Moore and Bernetha Washington, wives of the condemned men, Frank Moore, brother of Ausie Moore, and Mrs. Frank Barley, widow of tho murdered white man. The men were shot and their bodies thrown into the Savannah river at a point about 11 miles from Allendale. For a week the bodies were undiscovered. Washington was at large for about two weeks, successfully eluding searching parties until hunger drove him into communication with some of his race and resulted in his capture. Both negroes confessed their guilt following their capture thus freeing several white men whom Moore had previously involved in the murder. Sheriff Flees His County Donaldsville, Ga., April 19.?Discovery of evidence that Sheriff L. K. Born, whose bloodstained automobile was found yesterday near Tallahassee, Fla., has fled to Louisiana to avoid a shortage of $12,000 to $15,000 in his accounts was reported today by Deputy Sheriff C. L. Chandler of Seminole county. The Florida State News of Tallahassee gave the authorities information that the disappearance of the Seminole sheriff was a "plant." The State News made an investigation following reports that the Georgia sheriff's car had been found' abandoned and containing a bloody blanket and brick and with a pair of handcuffs located to the steering wheel. Members of the paper s staff followed the situation closely and informed officials that tho parked car was a "plant." - The State News also obtained a confession from Dick Bolton, a deputy to Born, of his part in the hoax. Horse Runs Wild; Jumps On Auto A spirited horse belonging to Jimmie Carlos, became frightened last Saturday evening and broke loose from his hitching post on the vacant lot back of the poatoffice. Making a wild dash toward the Chronicle office he suddenly changed his course and shaking the road cart loose from him made a jump and landed on the back of Frank Maynard*s -Dodge coupe. The animal laid down on his right side and1 was perfectly still until several men attempted to get him dpwn. In his struggle to get off the car the back glass in the coupe was badly shattered and some of the glass cut jagged holes in the horse from whtch it bled profusely. Dr. T. B. Bruce, local veterinarian, was called and soon had the animal sewed up and it was led to its home. It was a most unusual accident? one fraught with an element of danf?er?f?r had the frightened horse kept on its mad dash with cart attached, several may have been seriously injured. Junior Order Initiates Candidates DeKalb Council No. 88. Jr. O. U. A; M. will confer degrees upon a class of candidates on. next Thursday night, May 1, at 8 o'clock. All members are requested to be present: Visitors welcome. o Mrs. IL G. Newhall, Mr. D. V. Nefwhall and Mrs. J. A. O'Meara who* have occupied th? McLeod cot- ' tags on Green siwsi for th? past season Will leave on Saturday for their how? teWw YarJU