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The Camden chronicle vol UME 44. CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MAY, 20, 1932 , NUMBER 7 .ell Known Citizen Died Wednesday [Nonius Baxter McClain, for tho it thirty years a well-known and (uniuiit citizen of Camden, died >ut noon Wednesday after a short less at his home on north Broad eet. Mr. McClain was born in rk, S. C.? June 13, 1857, and on 1Uar\ 14, 1880, was married to Miss ncy Massina MoClain. To them re born five children, all of whom re passed away, and the widow jne survives. (jr. McClain moved to Camden ^ut thirty years ago, when he built LJen's first telephone exchange, ce that time he has been engaged various lines and was at times a relin^r salesman. A short while jr to his death he was assistant; the county treasurer's office, it-fore moving to Camden he was, ititied on a large scale with Yorki int'ss interests. He at one time ted a telephone system, a carriage buggy works, and later on a cotnull. He had traveled extensively was well informed on many lines. [r. McChyjt had a large number ofi nds here and elsewhere, who ret to learn of his death. He was an r in the Bethesda Presbyterian rch of this city and took great in?t in church affairs, hort funeral services were conted from his home in this citjr at /clock Thursday morning and r4he a! occurred Thursday afternoon he family plot in the York cemepture Two Men nd Stolen Cadillac co white men, giving their names oe Brown and John Lewis, were ght to Camden last week and ?d in the county jail to be held Richmond, Va., authorities. They i arrested in Bethune on Friday, 13th, charged with having stolen idillac sixteen cylinder automoThe car was located in the* Is near Bethune. Sergeant Parof the Richmond detective force | npaniod by another Richmond er, came for the men and car lay and carried them back to the inia city. Sergeant Parker told den officers that his main duty to trail stolen cars and up to this one hundred and twenty-five had been stolen from Richmond year. Iportant Meeting For Farm Women j B'y .-cction of Kershaw county Bk- represented at the spring Hnc the County Council ofj W'-men. which will be held in Bk,Legion Hall on Friday Btg. May 27, at 8 o'clock. B^ ' j-.ty Council is composed of B>'.;: \-.ndrod twenty farm women ^B.'e i! . tubers of the seventeen B Demonstration Clubs organ ^"^'hdUt Kershaw county. All dur.- will be represented at the Br 1 he president of each club B?g greetings and the eleven chairmen will give 'condensed Bs the work accomplished in ^Pr: departments. will be given the club hav-; ^B' " t people present, so it is Cat the attendance at this B? A be the largest in the | B tne council. A part of the; B*^ a;!', consist of songs, music, Pl'r: 'u.ks by friends of Patens' 'nii- I. Landrum, State '' - Nation Agent, is ex present and to bring m Home Demonstration program will be puhB Getty*, president of ' vinci 1 of Farm Women. "n Drive Against Crime. B ,r'c brutal kidnap-murder B ' r':;K'rgh baby, members of an l^egion post hero have nv-elvo^ on record as urgB nte.nbers^f that organization ^B ' ''m m a crime crusade. ^B^Tbers also pledged themV? *tr,ct observance of the law B attempt to inculcate in those H intact a respect for cons' authority. . . E- Howell, of Decatur', III, ^B ?t here at the home of her ^^B* r- and Mr*. E. T. Barnea. Railroad Builder I Passes at Cheraw The passing of Mr. Adolphus H. Page at Cheraw last Saturday removed one of the county's most val-1 ued and respected citizens. Mr. Page died at his home at 11:20 o'clock Saturday morning. Ho was 81 years of age,< and though he had been in failing health for some time his death came as a shock to his relatives and friends. Born in Wake county, North Carolina, he was the son of the late Wilbur and Cora Page. He camo to Cheraw about 30 years ago and became the leading spirit in building the Chesterfield & Lancaster railroad. The memory of the stirring events I of that time are still fresh in the J minds of many citizens especially 'along the line of this road. The town of Pageland at the western terminus of the road proudly boars his name. The personal character of Mr. I^ige seems fittingly described as that of a high-toned Christian gentleman. At least one strict rule of conduct applied to all workmen employed in the construction of the railroad. He allowed no profanity and it is said several men were dismissed for this offense. Mr. Page is survived by his widow, formerly Miss Nancy Guess, of North Carolina, and the following children: Mrs. William Godfrey. Mrs. Ethel Wannamaker, Wilbur Page, Hunter Page and Mrs. P. A. Murray, all of Cheraw; Alfred G. Page, Washington and Mrs. George Goodwyn, Hagerstown, Md. Several grandchildren and one gi'eat grandchild also survive. Chesterfield Advertiser. Sounds Like a Lie I Reidsviile, N. C? May 12.-*W W. King, Reidsville resident, says Clarjence Cayton, a neighbor, has one for the book. King said Cayton shot a leatherwing bat with an air rifle, using a match instead of a shot. He said matdh entered the bat's stomach and came out through the mouth and the match struck the bat's teeth, and burst into flame. Carl West Named As President Rock Hill, May 18.?About 40 physicians of the Fifth congressional district meeting here today electedL Dr. Carl A. West, of Camden, president for next year, Dr. Sylvia Allen, Winthrop college resident physician, vice ! president, and Dr. George Rhame, ! Camden, secretary-treasurer. I hey selected Camden for their next session, to be held next Spring. CoastGuardScours Sea For Kidnapers New York, May,l-l?A mysterious vessel believed to carry persons who imay be the Lindbergh kidnapers was sought today somewhere between Boston and Tape May in one of the | m?st intensive ocean hunts ever orj^FoT'more than 24 hours 25 coast iguard craft have been ^Ung to and I fro on the Atlantic watching for the vessel, with which Col. Charles A ! Lindbergh is understood to have made contact Wednesday. . Wired instructions from Washington started the hunt. They conUmcd a meagre description of hejs iterious boat, but this was withheld There was not a major vessel at the Staten Island base of the ?as I guard last night. Fourteen, including six of the new 165-foot patrol | boats, had loft under sealed orders. 'Others were sent from Boston an i New London, Conn. I Cmguard officers were not por! mitted to discuss the search. School Closing Exercises Soon The High commencement exercises begin on Sunday night. ! May 29, 1932. in the school audit !* ot 8-30 The regular commencer,um at 8.30. ine K he(, by ment sermon will be P Rov J. B. Gaston. Monday nigh 8:30 class Day exercises will be he in the auditorium, with the me of the senior class par' thc final exercises will be held i auditorium on Tuesday, May 8:30. Adhering to the general custo adopted by the High Schools of the State there will be no 'fT* dwaa. A dei.iied v. jbe c mencemetit exercises will be *1 n?xt week in this paper. v_ " J. G. Jr. ? ' # 'News of Interest in and Near Bethune Bethune, S. C., May 17.?In* a declamation and reading contest held at the high school auditorium last Wednesday evening the following were winners: High school pupils? I First, Edith Olyburn, who gave "Little Boy.Blue"; second, Cleora Estridge, "Cigarette's Hide"; third, Kate Helms, "Bobby Shaftou"; boy, Forbis Morgan, "The True Grandeur of Nations." | Grammar school .pupils: Girls?' First, Harriet Mays; second, Juanita Pate; boys, first, Bill Nicholson; second, Otis Elliott. Judges: Miss Louise Jones, Miss Lucile Gregory and. Mr. : Gregory, of Kershaw. Memorial services under the auspices of the Bethune chapter of the U. D. C, were held at the high school i auditorium last Tuesday evening. The stage was decorated with baskets and bowls of red and white roses and flags of the state and confederacy, the meeting was presided over by J^ws Stella Bethune and opened with prayer by Rev. .7. E. Williams. "Dixie" was sung by the audience. The speakers of the evening \v<*re Col. E. N. Yarbrough, of Colummir, and Mr. Ned Gregory, of Kershaw. Col. Yarbrough, who is a native of l Bethune, is one of the few surviving Confederate veterans and is on the [ staft of General DeSaussure. | Special music was given by Mrs. |J. C. Foster and Mrs. T. R. Bethune. (The meeting was closed with the ; singing of "Tenting on the Old Camp j Ground" by the audience and prayer ! by Mr. J. H. McDaniel. 1 Mrs. M. L. Kelley, Mrs. A. K. McLaurin, Miss Mary Louise McLaurin land Mr. George Kelly accompanied by Mrs. C. M. Wilson and little son, I of Columbia, left Tuesday for Johnson City, Tenn., to visit relatives. Mrf Kelley and Mr. Kelley will remain for an extended visit while the others will return in a few days. Miss Ethel Kolly's many friends will be sorry to Jearn that it was ne, cessary for her to be taken to the i Columbia hospital Monday for an opj e rat ion. ) Mr. and Mrs. Allard LaBruce, of Georgetown, were recent guests of ;Mr. and Mrs. Loring Davis. I Miss Margaret Truesdell, of-Cokumjbia College, was at home for the j week end. j Miss Lizzie Kate Davis, who is .teaching in Kershaw, spent the weekend at home. \ | Mr. Robert DuBose, who has been working with the state highway department near Bamberg, is at home. Miss Eunice Severance spent Saturday in Charlotte, N. C. Mrs. Mattie Kelly has been with .Mrs. B. F. Bolton for the past week. I Miss Stokes, of Bishopville, has j been the recent guest of Miss Margaret Hearon. i Miss Cecelia King, who has been j spending some time with .relatives in I Florida is visiting her sister, Mrs. D. M. Mays. The woman's missionary society of the Methodist church met with Mrs. J. M. Clyburn Tuesday afternoon. Premier of Japan I Killed By Assassins 1 Tokyo, May 16.?Premier Suyoshi Inukai died shortly before midnight from bullet wounds inflicted by asj sassin members of a group of military terrorists who were responsible for a series of bombings carried out j at the very moment the premier was ; attacked. | Bombs were exploded at the office of the metropolitan police board, | the Bank of Japan, the headquarters of the Seihukai (government) party and the home of the lord keeper of the privy seal. At two o'clock this morning a hurried ceremony was held in the palace and the powers of government were transferred to Korekiyo Takahashi, ! who has been serving as finance minister. Mr. Takahashi was appointed acting premier. The assassinated premier, who was 77 years old, died at 11:25 p. m., almost exactly six hours after he was shot. He was the second head of a state to succomb to an assassin's bullet within a period of ten days May 6 President Paul. Doumer, ol France was killed in the same manner. j The premier was shot in the ri^'ht temple and in the nose as he was .talking with a visitor in his official residence. His assailants, a group of seven or eight men wearing naval or army j uniforms, shot their way into the residence to get to him. To Have Protracted Meetirtfe. 1 Beginning on July 17th, there will r be a protracted meeting held in th< i Lyttleton Street Methodist churcl ! for ten days. Dr. Luther Bridgerc, oi Gainesville, Ga., will conduct thi< ' meeting. Dr. Bridgers is one of th< i most noted evangelists in the South The public will be cordially welcomed to theee services. w I _ ?-V- - ? Legion Post Passes Quota for the Year On Tuesday, May 17th, the James Leroy Belk Post No. 17, of the American Legion, was proud to announce that they had passed their quota for membership. New members this year number sixty-one and renewals one hundred and fifty-four, making a total enrollment of 215. The Post has been organized thirteen years ami eleven of those years this post has shown an increase in members. In many ways the local post is unusual. It has the distinction of having two congressional medal men as members; Legionnaires Richmond Hobson Hilton and Oantey Villepigue. Listed as members is to be found the fact that both a father and son are members?Judge Mendel L. Smith ami M. L. Smith, Jr., who both served during the World War, from this county. Three ladies hold membership in Post No. 17: Miss Etta L. Robbins, and Miss Anne Thompson, of Camden and Mrs. Edna 1>. Clark, of Boykin. Three brothers are members: Alex Young of Bethune, Jack Young, Walter Young, of Kershaw. Past Department Commander A. S. Llewellyn is a member of James Leroy Belk Post, which is an honor few cities of this size can boast of. One member, Major E. C. Von Tresckow, the American Consulate General at Rotterdam, Netherlands, formerly of Camden, has a membership here also. A monthly meeting is held at Legion headquarters on DeKalb street each second Monday night of every month. An entertaining program is arranged in advance with an interesting speaker and fine meetings are held, drawing the members closer together. Officers for the present year are: M. M. Reasonover, commander; W.J. Hasty and S. J. Crolley, vice commanders; W. M. Alexander, adjutant; L. I* Wallnau, finance officer. Teachers' Notes Ready Soon The state treasurer announces that the notes for teachers' salary and transportation of pupils, provided for in the appropriation bill passed at the recent meeting of the state legislature are now being printed and will be ready for distribution within eight or ten days. The quota for Kershaw county teachers' salaries will be $65,905.00 and for transportation $12,502.00. A certain amount of these notes have been sold, at par, in the county. The remaining notes will l>e issued to the teachers in varying denominations. Over one hundred thousand notes were required, Julian H. Scarborough, state treasurer, said, and it is taking considerable time in which to get them ready. Buys Aged Mules For Retirement Columbia, S. C., May 10.?An unI usual philanthropy, purchase of oldbroken-down horses and mules, is practiced by Archer Milton Huntington, New York capitalist, at his winter estate near Georgetown. Mr. Huntington pays $20 a head , for the animals and "retires" them on pastures of his estafoT""^ They are never ridden or worked. Children of the neighborhood are paid to walk the animals. ' Seymour Carrell, field representative of the American Humane Education society, explained the work j when passing through here with four 'horses, which will spend a ripe old i age on the Huntington meadows. 1 Kir**t Baptist Church Services. Thr? following services are anj | -A . i noun< f (1 at the First Baptist church: ! Sunday school at 10 o'clock, Mr. C. (). Stogner, superintendent. Public worj .ship at 11:15 a. m. and 8:30 p. ni. | The morning service will be conducted by the pastor, subject: The St. I Petersburg Convention. As the pasj tor \vil' lv> at Jefferson for their /commencement sermon at the evening hour the young people of the B. Y. P. U. will have charge of the services. Prayer and praise service at 8 o'clock Wednesday evening. Senior B. Y. P. U. Thursday evening at 8 and Junior B. Y. P. U. Sunday even1 ing at 7:30. i ? We are glad to hear such good rei porta of the aervfees rendered by the f. young people last Sunday and many i j will no doubt rejoice to learn that \ they are to give another program .' next Sunday evening. We are ho#ng I for a full nttesidanoe at both ervioes J next Sunda^r. ?-" \ a Capt. W. E. Charles Dies At Bishopville Bishopville, May 18.?Capt. William E. Charles, one of the oldest Confedtatote veterans in South Carolina, died this morning after a week's illness of pneumonia. He would have been iH? years of age June 28. Capt, Charles had been in failing health for about a year and his death was not unexpected. Captain Charles is survived, by one daughter, Mrs. Willie Stuckey, and ! one son, Kemper Charles, both of Hishopvillo; two brothers, K. 1>. Charles, of Timmonsvillc and J. B. Charles of Darlington; two sisters, Miss Carrie Charles and Mrs. Linn Hart of -Darlington. Miss Eva Charles, another sister, died about a year ago. -Captain Charles was born in Darlington county, June 28, 188th His father was Col. H. G. Charles and his mother Miss i/ouisa Martha DuBoise. At the outbreak of the Confederate war he joined the Darlington Guards. Captain Charles was' commissioned as a, first lieutenant and later promoted to the rank of Captain. He was retired at the end of the war as a major of the Fourth battalion of Del Kemper's regiment, light artillery. Until a year ago, Captain Charles seemed to be in excellent health, but he gradually began to fail. Death of James Branham, Jr. Funeral services for Robert Jtomes Branham, Jr., who died Tuesday night at the home of his father near Blaney, were held at 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon at Harmony Baptist church, near^Blaney. Interment was in the churchyard. Young Branham was born February 2, 1007, the son of Robert James Branham and Lavinia Abbott Branham. He had been in poor health for several years, though seriously ill for only, the past two weeks. He lived in Columbia for some time before his health failed and leaves close friends here who mourn his passing. Mrv Branham is .survived by his parents and four brothers, Ernest L. Branham, of Washington, D. C., J. Guarry Branham, of Columbia, Oscar H. Branham and Fred Edgar Branham, of Blaney. Pallbearers will be three brothers, Ernest, Oscar and Guerry Branham, and G. A. Dowey, Russell Maddox and Walter C. Butler.?Wednesday's Columbia Record. Golf To Be Played Again This Year The people of Camden will have golf again this summer and at a lower cost than ever before, through the generosity of Mr. Karl P. Abbott in turning over the small Kirkwood links to Mayor R. M. Kennedy, Jr., who has in turn delegated the operation of the club to the street department of the city, of which Alderman Henry Savage, Jr., is chairman. Citizen's Committee, composed of W. L. Goodale and W. l-t. DePass, Jr., will receive the nominal dues and fees and turn them over to the City Clerk. This committee will also act in an advisory capacity to Superintendent of the Streets W. D. Whitaker, who will have immediate charge of the maintenance of the links. The membership fees will be five dollars per person for the entire summer, beginning next week, May 23. Greens fees to pon-members will be fifty cents per day. Caddy fees have been set at fifteen cents for nin* hoi**, and twenty-five cents for eighteen holes. These figures represent probably the most economical golf to be 1 had in the history of Camden or anyI I where in the state. The club house with its cool and spacious porches and refreshment service will be open to the general public every afternoon, regardless of whether or not they are members of the golf club. The club house will not be open at night. All persons desiring to join the 1 club please remit five dollars, the amount of the dues, to either W. L. DePass, Jr., or W. L. Goodale, at their earliest convenience and all are requested not to play on the links until their dues are paid. New York dope haa it that Tamminy would r.arr.c Owen D. Young for i the presidency; Senator Wagner for : governor; Mayor Walker for United i States senator and Alfred' B. Smith k for mayor of Ifew York Largest Auto Tire To Be Seen Here "Did you ever see a tiro twelve foot high and four foot wide, that weighs more than a half ton? You won't find any in my stock," says Hughe y Tindal, of the Carolina Motor Company, the Goodyear dealer in Camden, "but you will see such a tiro in front of my service station Tuesday afternoon, May 24, at 3:30 and remain overnight until 8:00 a. m. on Wednesday. * i "This giant $5,000 tiro is towed by a special bus equipped with a public address system, ami is touring the entire United States. 1 asked Goodyear to bring it to Camden because 1 want everybody to see it." "The mastodon of the highways was built at the Goodyear factory in Akron, Ohio. Nobody knows how long it will take to wear the tiro out, but it ought to go several hundred thousand miles," continued Mr. Tindal. Goodyear engineers were going to build the tire much larger, Mr. Tindal points out, but hud to stay within a 12-foot limit because of low bridges, railroad underpasses and other obstructions on the roads. In one location it was necessary to dig a ditch five feet wide and eight inches deep to.get under a bridge. "This tire isn't just a stunt, it is rather an engineering and experimental development looking years into the future. Some day huge airplanes may land on tires patterned after this one," declared Mr. Tindal. "It is some big tire and worth seeing." An extra attraction, also of interest, is one of the huge new Goodyg^r 9.00-13 Airwljeels, developed from the airplane, for automobile use. It holds about three times as much air as an ordinary tire and glides or floats a car over roughest roads with pillowy comfort on as little as ten pounds pressure. New Members Join 4-H Club i, Interest in 4-H club work is steadily on the increase for Kershaw county. This is true not only among the young people who are joining the club, but also among the mothers and fathers. There is hardly a week that passes but what one or -more new members are enrolled. Up until Wednesday of the present week the following had joined the 4-H boys club: W. T. McCoy, Jr., Camden; Horace Joyner, Cassatt; Karris Joyner, Cassatt; Oscar Woolen, Camden; and Basil Munn, Camden. The people of the county nre corner ing more and more to realize the importance and value of 4-H club work. Many leading people all over the county have credited 4-H club work to a large degree with the increased number of hogs and the amount of corn now in the county and with the general development of the "Live-ntHome" program. While much of these products were grown by people other than 4-H members it has been pointed out by prominent citizens that the 4-H program and various 4-H activities have led many farmers into following more improved farm methods, especially ajong the line of producing food and feed for the family and ' livestock. These claims by advocates and promoters of 4-H club work were well borne out by the splendid showing made by the 4-H club members at the last county fair. We should all realize that time is passing and it is not only our privi% lege and pleasure to L?k*> advantage of the opportunities presented from day to day, hut it is also our duty and responsibility to takr advantage of every opportunity which affords itself for the development and future success of our children. Ix't's all of us cooperate more closely than ever for the betterment of those who are to take our places. It is believed that many parents in Kershaw county do not encourage 4-H club work simply because they do not know just what club work is and what it can do for young folks. Therefore, all parents ami children of Kershaw county are invited to get in touch with the home agent and county agent for further Information on the value of 4-H chub work, saya Henry D. Green, the county agent. - A mrtft of a Son " ' On May 10th, 1030, at the Doctors* 1 Hoapfttl, New York City, a ton was bom to 'R4n?ld Je tl ' Kirttbrid*. v vet;