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The Camden Chronicle VOLUME 44. CAMDEN. SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. JULY 29, 1932 NUMBER 17 ... ?^m : | , , . Two New Entrants To Add Interest * Tte Chronicle this Week is carrying the formal announcement of judge Mendel L, Smith as a candidate for the House of Representatives. This announcement will he of interest to Judff$ iSmith's numerous friends and admirers throughout South Carolina, as well'as Kershaw county. Judge Smith was, first sent to the House by the voters of Kershaw county in the election of 1900, when he was quite a young man. He rose rapidly to prominence in that body, and after the sessions of 1901 and ^02 he was elected Speaker of the House at the session of 1908, defeating by overwhelming majority one of the ablest legislators and parliamentarians in the state, who had had long years, of experience in the general assembly. He was re-elected speaker in the session of 1905 and served as speaker during the sessions of 1905j and 1906. Returning to the House he was again elected speaker in 1911, serving through the sessions of 1911, 1912, 1913 and 1914, as "the presiding officer of that body, being elected and retiring upon his election to <the Judgeship in 1914. He served with great distinction as judge of this circuit from 1914 until the entry of! this country into the World war,' when he, responding to the call of his country, resighed the Judgeship and entered the service. (Because of his eminence as a lawyer, his distinguished service and experience as a [ judge, he was assigned to the Judge .Advocato's Department and received the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. When he was discharged at the conclusion .of the war he returned to Oamden, I where he resumed the practice of law, ! being again elected to the House in 1924 and serving during the sessions of 1925 and 1926. " 'Because of. the ritite of his health and because his' long public service had made'it ne cessary for him to_ devote all availBible time to the practice of his pro-1 fession, he has ru?t since been preI vailed upon to offer for public office until this time; although in the n^ean time in spite of the fact that he was ill for a great part of the time, he has been frequently called to serve as special judge andi as an acting member of the iSupreme Court of this j ?tate, filling in vacancies oaused by' illness, death and other causes; and his opinions while so acting have been remarkable among legal circles in in iSouth Carolina for their clearness and erudition. ?A? a practicing attorney Judge iSmith has served in more important cases than any other Law ler in South Carolina. If nominated nd elected he will most assuredly m? a very import?nt"TP?Tt"tn shap jng the legislation during the next wo sessions of the General Aseem ?y. The demands upon him for en **nee into this race have come from very section of the county. While Smith has practically entirely ecovered from his recent lohg il^ it is necessary that he conserve '8 &trength, and for that rensofi, and Because of the accumulation of busi y0 during his illness that must now * attended to, he will not be* able to "*ke a house-to-house canvass over J* county, but he will attend1 the ampaign meetings, where he expects > discuss the important issues facing ?G taxpayers at this time. The other pnn^i/ja+no 'or the houn lre*dy announced are J. R. Belk, ^cacnt member of the house; New ?i Kelly, a former member; Wade, j* J?Ues, who has been a candidate B* ore? an(l E. T. Bowen, at present tfiember of the county board of di ^ ors. All of these men are widely i ^0Wn 0Ver Kershaw county and the] ^P^Tr'umTs^s to be a most interestone. nother announcement of imporBn ?<a> significance is that of Mr. ^ Kedfearn, who this week an-! ?BBces a. a candidate for an office.' |irector from DeKalb Township,' ^Position to Mr. H. G. Carrison, Jr.,; T1* member from DeKalb Town-' V P and Chairman of the Board of! Tu j B . 1 nia promises to be one Kis 6 ^ve''e*t races in the county ***** Eoth of those gentlemen known business men and v* VCry P?Pular. Mr. Garrison d . *r the Bank of Camden, HLf iar*e farming interests. Mr. r??rn is the owner of the Ford t},is plada^-^nd is also en Vu farmin? ?n<4>a(|ch growing Urge scale.?Th? outcome of this will be Watched Dozier Birchmore Dies In Hospital i- Mr. 'Edwin Dozief Birchmore died in the Veterans' Administration hospital in Atlanta at 11 a. m. Saturday, July 28. He had been in a serious condition since suffering a stroke of paralysis last November. However l^e had slhown signs of improvement and hopes were entertained for his recovery. About two weeks prior to his deatfh he took a turn for the worse and gradually grew weaker until the end came. His mother was at his bedside when he parsed away. Mr. Birchmore was the sort of the late Editor of The Messenger K Mr. C. W. Birchmore, and Mrs. Eva Sligh Birchpriore. He was born in Camden August 15, 1898. In early manhood he accepted a position with the Westem Union Telegraph Company in the Charlotte, N. ., office, and continued in the employ of that company working in various cities up to a few years ago when hie health failed. Mr. Birchmore was a World war veteran and a member of the American Legion. Possessed of a sunny and gentle disposition he made friends readily. There are many who will mourn his untimely death. (Surviving - Mr, Birchmore are his. mother, -Mrs. Eva B. Birchmore, of Camden; three sisters, Mrs. E. G. Kirven, of Darlington; Mrs. Norman O. Head, of Augusta; Miss Ethel Birchmore, of 'Camden; one brother, Mr. <C. W. Birchmore, of Funeral serices were**cortducted from the home Monday morning at 11:15, Rev. Warren G. Ariail, pastor of the Lyttleton Street Methodist church.- assisted by Dr. Luther B. ( Bridgers, officiating. Interment was, in the Quaker cemetery of this city.; Those acting as pall hearers were: Messrs. Wylie iSheorn, W. M. Alexander, Marvin Roasonover, Lambert DePass, Arthur - Clarke and Dr~-George S. Rharme. Mrs. Sowell Dead In Beulah Section Funeral services for Mrs. Elizabeth Sowell, aged 74, who died at her home in the Beulah section Tuesday, were held Wednesday afternoon at Beulah church and the burial was in the churchyard cemetery. Services were conducted by Rev. M. Shealey, assisted by Rev. Warren G. Ariail, of the Lyttleton Street Methodist church, of this city. ? Mrs. 'Sowell had been an invalid and confined to bed for a long number of years and her death was not unexpected. She is survived by a large family of children?Mrs. Lou Pearce, Miss Ethel Sowell, of Camden; Mra. J. H. Hammond, of Stateburg; J. C. Wylie, of Sfcindale, N. C.; D. L. Sowell, L. A. iSowell, C. F. Sowell, o Camden; and Sam Sowell, of Washington, I?. *C. Pallbearers serving at the funeral were: M. M. Johnson, E. C. J*?"!' Eugene Pearce, H. D. Green, of CamdSn; R. E. Sowed, of Hartsville; and Vance iHough, of Kershaw. MeetingToClose On Sunday Night The revival services at the 'Lyttleton -Street Methodist church will do to a close Sunday night- The services have been going on for two weeks and Dr. Luther Bridgers, a well known evangelist from Gaines ville, Ga., has been cpnducting the revival. There have been two services daily?morning and evening and the evening services especially have drawn large congregations from all denominations. Dr. Bridgers has been preaching powerful won* and. great good will no doubt result from his earnest efforts here. I A well trained choir from the var-, ious denominations has added much, to these services. Services Sunday at Grace Church ; Rev. William Byrd Lee, o? Auburn, Alabama, will be the Preacherin charge of services at Grace F.p.seo^l church Sunday morning at 11.l? o-, clock The congregation issues cordial invitation to these services. RolpBooks Closed Tuesday . The Democratic club books for e enrollment of voters closed Tuesday night. Only a few of the preemcts have sent in to the secretary these books so it is impossible yet to give the total enrollment. """J?* ?0 roll book shows a total of 1'770 in WW. -;V' I _J - L k " Bureau Ready To Make New Loans ~. ' The veterans' bureau at Camden will be prepared today to receive ap- j plicutions on adjusted compensation, certificates from those whose certificates are not two years old who were ineligible to borrow until legislation was passed by thVrecent congress which mak?? it possible for them to borrow now up to 50 per cent, of their policy. The new legislation does not in any way affect those already eligible to borrow. That is, no increased loan value over the 50 per cent, has been; authorized though a smaller rate of interest is hereafter to be charged. Those desiring loans can get same by applying to M. M. Reasonover, Legion service officer at the American Legion building. He will furnish application blank? and forwai-d to the Columbia office of the Veterans' Bureau for payment., * ";" - ' * ; ... i . t ?J * First Baptist Church Service^ Thq " following services are announced at the Baptist church: Sunday school at 10 o'clock, Mr. C. O. Stogner, superintendent; public ^or* ship conducted by the pastor at 11: ^ a. m., subject, "A Marred Vessel. Sunday evening service is called in on account of the meeting at the Methodist church. , The public is cordially invited to worship with us. '<> Services at Malvern Hill Services will be held at Malvern Hill Baptist church Sunday, July 31, at 11 a. m. Sunday school at 3 p. m. and evening service at 8:15 ip. m.! These services are to be fcoddUcted by Rev. W. E. Furcron. The public is cordially invited to attend these services. H To Meet With Cedar Creek The Lee County Singing Convention will meet with Cedar Creek Baptist church on Sunday, July 31st, at 10*45 a. m.; recess 1 p; m. for dinner; reconvene at 2 p. m. We cordially invite choirs from Camden and Kershaw and adjoining counties to meet with us,, All attending the morning exercises will be expected to bring lunch. A warm,welcome to all. ?L. A. Moore, president. Young <Hrl Dies ? _ Friends and relatives were grieved to learn of the death of Miss Carrie Bell Wright, sixteen-year-old " ter of Mr. and) Mrs. C. M. Wright, of the Hermitage mill village. ?,The young girl passed away on ^UC8fiy after a short illness and burial^services were performed by Rev. T. Christmas at 11 o'clock Wednesday morning. Burial was in the graveyard at Hermitage mill. The decked is survived by her parents and several sisters and brothers. Magistrates Attention! The Acts of 1932 have been received at the Clerk of Court s office at the court house and the trates of this county can get sam by calling at .the office of the clerk for their copy, announces J. H. y burn, clerk of court for Kershaw county. NewOifficersFor State Council At the closing business s?isiin ?f ,Sute Council of Farm Z new officers and chairmen were introduced to the eonvention as follows: Mrs. J. Whitman Smith, B.sh opvitle, president; Mrs. Julian Onsenbury, Florence, first vice-president. Mrs J T. Gettys, I-ugofif, second vicepresident; Mrs. R. F. Fayle, F-astover, Treasurer; Mrs. R. R- Shaw. BiahopsecretaryT Mrs. 7T. K. Cantt, Monetta. chairman of a?r,ra"u"' Mrs. Landrum Sellers, Pauline, chairman of exterior benutiflcation, i rs. S B. George, Lexington, chairman o health; Mrs. J. R. Fairy Fort; Mott, chairman of education, . rs. Edwards, Union, chairman of finance. Mrs J L. Williams, -Greenwood, chairman of legislation; Mrs^ J. MThomas, Ruffin. chairman of membership; Mrs. A. V. Bethea, Dillon, chflrman of publicity; Mra. F. . Candy, Darlington, chairman of music and recreation; Mra. Annie Dun lap, Laurens, chairman of ami welfare and Mrs. C. E. Gamble, Turbeville, chairman of citl*?tt?hip. Mrs. L 'C: Chappel, director of central district; Mrs. J. L. ,Welbo"1' f" rector at Piedmont district and*r?i C. E. Gamble^ director of Pee Dee district. - - ^ I ~ *- r, * ' - - > jjt . < v a ? = r?r - y u. - >1 -i rJ: .. - - _ "lOVitfirrriii i itfiliii Former Camden Man Is Penney Manager A. Clifton McKain, native of this city but who haa been away for the past three years working in North Carolina and Virginia, returned to Camden last week to assume the manager's place with the J. C. Penney store of thle city. ' . Mr. McKain comes to the local store as manager after being with the J. CL Penney organization for three years, where he was first associated with them in Fayetteville and later as assistant manager in their store in Petersburg, Va. This is 'an honor for Mr. McKain to be put in charge of a etore in his home town, as the organization seldom sends a man to his native city. H? is well known to the trade of the city and county, for he was with L. Sehenk & Company, who up to a few years ago had one of the leading mercantile businesses of the county. Ho was with this firm for fifteen years and became known through his dealings with the public to tho majority of the citizens of this district. Mr. and Mrs. MoKain hav. been expended a cordial welcome back to their home town. They will occupy the Stevenson Wo-story bungalow on Hampton avenue, formerly occupied by Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Health, J*. * ' " Infant Industry Will Start Soon j^sheville, N. C., July 20.?H. V. Jenkins of the Savannah (Ga.) News and Press announced here today that manufacture of newsprint and other paper from pine pulp would begin within a few days. ? Mr. Jenkins made his 'announcement at the closing session of the Southern Newspaper Publishers' Association's annual convention. In his refport, the iSavnnnah mem~ ber briefly outlined the progress of the research work in connection with the use of Southern pine for paper making purposes. With results obtained1 in the experimental paper mill in 'Savannah already far advanced, he said, it had been definitely assured that the manufacture of the product would begin without delay. Iti connection with the new industry, Mr. Jenkins pointed out that there were 10,000,000 acres of slash pine in Georgia, Florida and other Southern states, while in the Carolinas, Virginia and neighboring states there were 100,000,000 acres of long leaf and loblolly pine. Association To Meet At Jefferson Hotel The fifth annual convention of the United States Highway No. 1 association, Incorporated, will be held at The Jefferson Hotel, Columbia, S. C., .on August 3rd and 4th, 1932. United States Highway No. 1 is the longest Federal highway in the east and is considered toy experts not only the safest but fastest route from Maine to Key West, Florida. This highway under one number traverses tho original thirteen colonies and assures the minimum of inconvenience to the traveler by eliminating the necessity of constant reference to maps. Scenic 'beauty and historical background thrill the tourist as he traverses the sections which were the backbone of the early American nation and which now has become the Main Street of the east. The purpose of tho convention is to advertise ami promote the advantages of every section traversed by | United...States Highway No. 1; - To provide for distribution of practical i educational maps and guides to its j historical centers and recreational J playgrounds and promote tho develj opnient of the Florida Everglades National Park. Increased tourist travel twill benefit every town and city on this famous highway. Rains Help Some Light rains scattered over nearly every section of the county has brought temporary relief to farms and gardens and at the same time has broken the intense heat wave that has extended over a period of nearly four weeks. Old corn has suffered the most and a numfber of farmeTS have reported cotton shedding to a considerable extent. Garden? were practicing rained and there lias been a scarcity local grown vegetables offered for eale. ^ : ' v- . - - > j Louise Gaskin One ()f Three Winners ( ?> 'fr | ' * ^ ' Rock Hill, July 23,-4>istrict conteats were held .Friday as a part the Girls' State Short Bourse now being held at Winthrop College These contests were held in health, room improvement and clothing?the latter being in the form of a dresA review, contestants were entered from the various counties of the Piedmont, the Central nnd the Pee Bee District*. ' Chief interest centered around the health contest, inf which there were 42 contestants from as many counties. The physical examinations for this ' contest were conducted by Dr. Ben F. Wyman, director of county health and rural sanitation of the state health [department, assisted by Doctors White of Gaflfney, Humphries of Carn den and Bryson of Winnsboro. | The winners by districts were: j Piedmont: Addie Lee Ballard, Anderson county: Central, Ernestine Maj lone, Richlana county; Pee Dee, Louise Gaskin, Kershaw '.county. ThesC three will compete during the state fair in October for the honor of .being South Carolina's healthiest club girl, and her representative at the National Boys' and Girls' Club Congress in Chicugo held next December. Bandit Caught In Greenville Pickens,, July 25.?Robert Mc?ill, identified by five Pickem residents Us the driver of a bandits' automobile during the robbery of the iSouth Carolina iState bank here 4k?t Thursday, awaited in Piokens county jail (today other witnesses Sheriff John | B. Craig said he would bring before the prisoner. ' MoGili was arrested # yesterday - in Greenville and brought here where | the five witnesses, including former State Senator W. E. Findley, identified him as the driver ><*f the automobile that waited outside the bank while two others entered the establishment, scooped up $26,000 and fled. McGill said he knew nothing of the robbery. Sheriff Craig said two additional witnesses would face McGill in his cell today. Ex-Senator Findley was rofobed of $50 as he entered the bank while the robbery was in progress. Three employes of the bank were ordered at pistol points to lie upon the floor while the bandits looted the vault. Make Fertility For Next Year s Crops Clemson College, July ^23^"The tonnage of commercial fertilizer used in South 'Carolina this year is the | smallest since 1903, and next year's , tonnage may be as small or smaller, j states R. W. Hamilton, extension agronomist, who says that farmers have been depending largely on this com- j mercial plant food to make crops grow, and in order to maintain the supply of food in our soils a much more intensive and extensive use of farm compost must be practiced. "During the slack work season in July and August," Mr. Hamilton suggests, "the teams and hands can be j kept profitably busy hauling into the lot and stables grain straw, forest leaves, pine needles, swamp grass, or anv other waste organic material around the farm. This material put in the lot and stables or in a compost heap, will rot and be in fine shape to put in the field next spring and will supply the all-important organic matteT and much aetual plant food." Searching parties gre Actively looking for a missing passenger plane with nine passengers, missing since last Saturday in the Andes mountains of Chile. Reports say the passengers are still alive. James Mattern and Bennett Griffin, American flyers who recently "flew from New Foundland to Berlin, and were forced down in Russia in the round-the-world effort, have reached Paris on their return to America. Three bandits held up the proprietor, manager and a clerk of a New York jewelry store, Tuesday and got away with jewelry and unset precious stones valued at $50,060 to $100,OOP. The job took just a few minutes in broad daylight. John R. Oomett has been elected mayor of Merced, ?al.r after the city council had voted oa issue of the mayoralty 116 times. The city council deadlock >egan two months ago. . . . - - 1^1*2 li-'X Truesdale Recovers From Bomb Wounds Managua, Nicaragua, July 22.-? Donald Truesdale, U. ,S. M. C., of Lugoff, iS, C., who it* serving as lieutenant in the Nicaraguan National Guard* wan released from the hospital today ami returned to partial duty after more than three months on the sick list. Last April wfoile he was leading a patrol through the jungles ' of the north, one of hia mert stumbled and dropped a rifle bomb, Truesdale saw the detonator had been released and he pounced upon the bomb to toss it out of the way so that his men would not bo injured. The bomb exploded and blew off his right hand. He has been recommended for the congressional medal of honor. Young Truesdale is a son of Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Truesdale, of Lugoff, and a sister of Mrs. 5. C. Clyburn, of this city. ? ? " 1 - 4? * ? * ...... V ' Wife Of Democratic Nominee Gives Views ? / Albany, N. Y., July 19.?Mrs. Franklin I). Roosevelt, wife of the Democratic presidential candidate, Who said she always had been a "personal dry," today agreed wibh her husband and the Democratic platform that the 18th amendment should be repealed and liquor control returned*' to the states. ^ ~ Mrs. Roosevelt's statement, provoked by a report that she had refused to sign a membership card in an anti-prohibition organization, was issued about the the governor was completing plans for hia campaign. James A. 'Farley, national chairman, and Impute M_. Howie, political secretary t<5 Roosevelt, laid a program of organization work before " Mr. Roosevelt. s Within a few days a national treasurer will be named, general bead quarters opened in New Vork and regional headquarters in Chicago and probably on the Pacific coasts * Mrs. Roosevelt established her place in the prohibition fight in a statement of 57 words. It read: "I am and always have been a 'personal dry.1 I do not believe, however, that the J8th amendment has worked at all successfully and I fa? vor its repeal, permitting the states to pass what laws they deem necessary. In the event of this happening, I shell always be . on the side of those working for real temperance." A Poughkeepsie newspaper quoted I Mrs. Aubert* J. Aiken, of Pawling, saying she approached Mrs. Roosevelt at the Hyde Park home welcome to Mr. Roosevelt on July 9, and asked her to sign a membership card in the Women's Organization for Prohibition Reform. Mrs. Rodsevelt was said .to have replied "I am extremely sorry* that I cannot do so because I am dry." Florenz Ziegfeld Dies At Age of 64 . "# Hollywood, July 23.?Florenz Zieg- . feld, the "glorifier of the American girl", has come to a sudden death when thought recovering from a lung congestion. The originator of the Ziegfeld follies died of n heart attack at 10:31 p. m., last night in a hospital while his wife, Billie Burke, was rushing from a motion picture" studio where she was working. She arrived at his Ijfedside, still in makeup, two minutes, after his death. Patricia Ziegfeld, daughter of the fi4-year-old producer and his actress wife, was at the palatial home in i Santa Monica which Ziegfeld hfitT" leased for his Southern California visit, Sbe reached the hospital soon after her mother. The lung congestion resulted from an attack of pneumonia suffered nearly a year ngo. Ziegfeld was brought to the hospital last Sunday from a New Mexico sanitarium where he had been confined for several days. He was reported on the verge of a nervous breakdown after a strenuous season with his Follies in New York. When ho entered the hospital, his physicians described his condition as "serious but net critical." F? <B. Lax ton, postmaster at Rhodis*, N. C., 'committed suicide Wednesday by shootisf himself with a shotgun. He was short $75 in his post * office accounts, and Ms act followed after a postal inspector had a^proaeh?d him? regarding the discrepancy. ^ im *- - fe. r, jk-- * ? ~ os .. ? v~%jV.Cl* ? Jil' ' ; t~V