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| The Camden Chronici.f. " ? .Camden, south Carolina, friday, ma?ch 10 i?ii ^ ?^ . rwuAi, "ARtH lO, 1933 NUMBER 49 - - -- ' ! II ' II | Inaugural Address Of New President Washington, March 4.?Franklin D. Roosevelt became president today in a setting vibrant with the gravity bf national responsibilities, and declared in his inaugural add rets he was prepared to submit? program of drastic remedies to cure the nation's ills. Cheered by thousands as he pronounced the words of his faith from tho north steps of the capitol, the nevv president added that if congress did not Help to carry this program into fulfillment, he would ask that war time powers bo vested in the presidency. He outlined only in general terms the program he had in mind but named among his objectives new safeguards for banking and against speculation. His induction into office was the high moment of an old-time inaugural, to which one of the largest crowds in history had come. Vice-President (garner had taken the oath of office nearly an hour before his chief, in a short ceremony "in the senate chamber. A mammoth inaugural parade, starting immediately after the presidential address and reviewed by Mr. Roosevelt from a White House stand. .. Washington, March 4.?The text of president Roosevelt's inaugural address follows: "1 am certain that my fellow Americans expect that on my induction into the presidency I will address them with a candor and a decision which the present situation of our nation impels. "This is pre-eminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today. This great nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So first of all let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself?jmmeless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retrCat into advance. "In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory. I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days. "In such a spirit on my part and on yours we face our common difficulties. They concern, thank God, only material things. v Values have shrunken to fantastic levels; taxeo have risen; our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of in.corne; the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves of industrial enterprises lie on every side; farmers find no markets for their produce; the savings of many years in thousands of families are gpne. "More important, a host of unemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence, and an equally great number toil with little return. Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment. "Yet our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are etrickcn by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils which our forefat ners conquered because they believed and were not afraid, We have still much to be thankful for. Nature still offers her bounty and human efforts have multiplied it. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight ^f the supply. ^ "Primarily, this is because the xul rs of the exchange of mankind's foods have failed through their own tubbornness and their own incompe?nee. have admitted their failure &nd bdicted. Practices of the unscrupu- 1 ous money changers stand indicted in be court of public opinion, rejected , y the hearts and minds: of men. i "True, they have tried, but their ] fforts have been east in the pattern \ f an outworn tradition. Faced by j allure of credit they have proposed j n'y the lending of money. Stripped \ f the lure of profit by which to in- < uce our people to follow their false , ^dership they have resorted to ex- t ortations, pleading tearfully for re- \ *>red confidence. They know only ( rules of a generation of self-seek- t rs. They have no vision, and when a >?re is no vision the people perish, j "Phe money changers have fled i |?m their high seats in the temple i our civilization. We may now re0r? that temple to the ancient Annual Horse Show Here On March 21-22 Camden's twenty-third annual horse show will take place Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons, March 21 and 22. Entries should be mailed to Miss Edith Wills, or the Camden Chamber of Commerce as soon as possible, as entries close next Tuesday, March 14th. This year's show will consist of twenty classes including two champibnships, one for polo ponies and the other for hunters. Nine classes will be judged the first day, the feature being tho touch-andout for jumpers. Entrance fee will be $5.00 with the winner tuking all. No doubt the mule 1-ace, with tb* colored jockies, will be a feature from a humorous standpoint. Such events bring much amusement to visitors. The other classes are model hunters, middle and heavyweight hunters, road hacks 15.2 hands and under, lightweight p6fo ponies, handy hunters,: children and ponies and pairs of hunters. ' On Wednesday afternoon, the classes judged will be the juvenjle class, hunter hacks, lightweight '^hunters, heavyweight polo ponies, bare back jumping, combination class, polo pony race, hunt teams and tho jumper sweepstakes. Major Henry Leonard, of the National Capital Horse Show, Washingr ton,-will be the judge. Major LeOn-' ard is one of the best known and popular judges in the country, officiating at many of the best known shows in the north and east. ^With the bi-centennial in full swing there should be a large gallery both afternoons. Those desiring reserved parking spaces can secure them frOm the Chamber of Commerce office. truths. The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit. "Happiness lies not in the mere possession Of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must bo forgotten^ in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if 'they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellowmen. ?' "Recognition of the falsity of material wealth as the standard of success goes hand in hand with the abandonment of the false belief that public office and high political position are to be valued only by the standards of pride of place and personal profit; and there must be an end to a conduct in banking and in business which too often has given to a sacred trust the likeness of callous and selfish wrong-doing. Small wonder that confidence languishes, for it thrives only on honedty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection, on unselfish performance; without them it cannot live. Restoration calls, however, not for changes in ethics alone. This nation asks for action, and action now. Our greatest primary task is to put people to work. This is no unsolvable problem if we face it wisely and courageously. It can be accomplished in part by direct recruiting by the government itself, treating the task as we would treat the emergency of a war, but at the same time through this employment accomplishing greatly needed projects to stimulate and reorganize the use of our natural re?~< \ sources. "Hand in hand with this we must frankly recognize the overbalance of population in' our industrial centers and, by engaging on a national scale in a redistribution, endeavor to provide a better Use of the land for those best fitted for the land. The task can be helped by definite efforts to raise the values of agricultural products and with this the power to purchase the output of our cities. It own bo. -i helped by preventing realistically the tragedy of the growing loss through foreclosure, our small homes and oOF i farms. It can be helped by insistence ;hat the federal, state and local gov* i jrnmetrts act forthwith on the dtr; wand that their cost be drastically re-' iuced. It can be helped by the anL'ying of relief activities which today ire often scattered, uneconomical and .1 inequnl. It can be helped by naiionil planning for and supervision of nil 1 'orms of transportation and of com- \ aanications and other utilities which ' uive a definitely public djaracter. 1 Pbere are many ways in which it J (Continued on last page) - ' rk*. f '1 V ri*>. > V-, y.v'V ' Banking Holiday Is Now In Effect Columbia, March 6.?Governor Ibra C, Blackwood today ordered a bunking holiday iu South Carolina until March 13. Tho governor, who is in Washington, issued his proclamation hero through his, secretary, Charles II. Gerald. It follows: "Whereas, on account of the financial crisis existing throughout tho nation, all other states hnving found it necessary to put into operation banking holidays, and "Whereas, tho interest of the depositors in the banks of the state of i South' Carolina will be prejudiced by treason thereof if South Carolina ban^s continue to operate under existing conditions, and "Whoreas, it is confidently expected that the national administration will take vigorous and prompt action f&'bettefr conditions, now ^Therefore, in order to protect the best interests of the people of tho state of South Carolina, I, Ibra C. Blackwood, as governor of the state of (South Carolina, do hereby proclaim that March 6th to March 13th, inclusive, be and the same are declared to be banking holidays in the state of South Carolina, and I request and direct the banks in the state of South Carolina to observe the holiday above named and declared. "(Signed) Ibra C. Blackwood." Governor Blackwood said he called the holiday reluctantly since he felt jbhe banks in the state wore in good condition, but he considered it unwise to permit them to remain open while the other banks throughout the country were closing for ajjoliday. He said they "have been operating under great difficulties for the past two weeks as the facilities for collecting checks on out-of-state banks had completely broken down and "to permit them to remain open would mean that the funds in our banks would be drained out and taken by other states." The governor, who will attend a conference tomorrow with President Roosevelt and other governors, said he was certain "the national Congress will take the matter in hand this week when it reconvenes in extra session." He said the people of this state "in the past have always met emergencies in a sane, constructive way"| and he was "sure that they would act accordingly in this instance." "I am extremely proud," he said, "of the fine spirit which they have shown so far in this unprecedented situation." Albert S. "Fant, state bank examiner, said, "since all of the states except North and South Carolina were forced into a banking holiday on March 4, it naturally becomes neces-j sary for South Carolina-;?the last state in the union to fall in line?to likewise take a banking holiday." "It should be a source of pride and gratification to the bankers of this state generally, and to the depositors in particular," he continued, "that South Carolina is the last of the 48 states to resort to a bankingjholiday. North Carolina proclaimed abhnking holiday early Sunday afternoon." To Play Return Engagement -Charley Boulanger and his twelve versatile musicians, formerly featured over OBS from WABC, New York, coast to coast for two years, will play for a dance at the Armory Hall, Camden, Monday night, March 20th. This is on? of the finest orchestras ever to play in Camden, having been featured at Yoeng's Chinese Restaurant, New York City; Knickerbockerj Hotel, New York City; Aragon Club, Chicago, as well as having played nt most of the leading colleges, includ-j ing Yale, Dartmouth, Purdue, Har-j vard, V. P., I? North Carolina and| numerous others. Boulanger has sound equipment and is said to be ana of . best equipped orchestras. in the country. He has with him afl} featured vocalist, Cole Coleman, of, radio fame. The dance will be from j 10 to 2 and 'script will be $1.26, plus, itate and federal tax. Chaperones j will be in attendance. V* ' ________________ Holding Training School Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Cudlip, who iava been conducting a Standard training School at Bethesda Presbyterian church all week, announce that Jte. last session will be held at 7:80 ftis Friday evening. Large crowd* lave beep in attendance all week at heee interesting and instructive lecnrea. t > , v\\? -*" 4* ^ , V/ -"* =* * V Chicago's Mayor Dies From Wound Miami, Flu., March 6.?Mayor Anton Cermak, of Chicago, the victim of u huliet Giuseppe Zangara fired I February 15 in an attempt to assas-1 sinate President Roosevelt, died in Jackson Memorial hospital hero today at 6:57 a. m. Death followed a series of complications agqinst which the Chicago executive had rallied valiantly time after time. The family and close friends were at the bedside. Mrs. Floyd Kenlay, a daughter, was holding one of her; father's hands when he died. Vivian Graham, a granddaughter, held the other. The saddened little group remained in the sun parlor of the mayor's room close to the death scene for several minutes. "Oh, he wanted to live so much," Mrs. Richey Graham, a daughter, said. And Mrs. Frank Jirka, another daughter, adddd, "he fought so hard. He didn't want to die." Mayor Cermak had previously ral-! lied after three crises in his condition. Colitis, threatened heart failure and pneumonia beset him in quick succession just as his physicians had begun to believe he would recover t from the bullet wound. Physicians still were optimistic Saturday, but that night gangrene appeared in the right lung, that grazed by Zangara's bullet, and he grew steadily weaker. A third blood transfusion was performed yesterday in an attempt to save his life, and an attempt to check the gangrene was made, but the mayor did not respond. He lapsed into a coma last night and shortly after midnight physicians said death was a matter of hours. The mayor died peacefully. He never recovered from his coma. j . Associated Charities Drive Is Postponed i Owing to the present disorganized state of business caused by the banking holiday, The Associated Charities have temporarily abandoned their advertised drive for funds with which to operate during the coming year. Warren H. Harris, treasurer of the association Monday issued the follow| ing statement to The Chronicle for publication: "The drive for funds for The Associated Charities has been temparorily suspended during the present banking crisis. i "It will be taken up again at a I little later date when things have adjusted themselves. Services at Grace Church . The Rev. F. H. Craighill, Jr., rector of Grace Episcopal church, announces the following services for Sunday, March 12, the second Sunday in Lent: Holy Communion at 8:00 a. m.; Church School at 10 a. m.; Morning prayer at 11:15 a. m.; Y. P. S. L. at 7:00 p. m. Services for the week are as follows: Monday, children's services at 4:00 p. m.; Tuesday, Vespers, at 5:00 p. m.; Wednesday, Vespers, at 8:00 p. m.; Friday, Veepers at 6:00 p. m. It is hoped that there will be a ' larger attendance at these weekly services during the coming week than heretofore. The public is cordially invited to attend all of these services. Baptist Church Services The following services are announced at the First Baptist church for Sunday, March 12: Sunday school at 10 o'clock, Mr. C." O. Stogner, superintendent. Public worship conducted by the pastor, Rev. J. B. Caston, at 11:15 a. m. and 8 p. m. Morning subject, "True Worship." At the evening hour Rev. A. B. Ferguson, a Methodist minister of Columbia and chaplain of the House of Representatives and one of the leading ministers 6t the state vitt preach. Mr. Fergu-, son is a native of Lancaster county and an old acquaintance of the pastor. It is hoped that he may be greeted by a large congregation on his visit to our city. The public is cordially invited to attend all the services of this church. Anderson?Jones, Married Sunday night, February 26, Miss Madelme Anderson, daughter of Mr. L. P. Anderson of this city, to Mr. "Tog" Jones of Hamlet, N. C. The couple left Sunday, March 5th for Hamlet, where they will make their home. . .>*? "" -?; ' Robbers Captured by Patrolman Dill ? UK Two young white men arrested here Saturday night giving their names as,;. Sebastian Buseemi and James Lyons, i were identified by Detectives Wm. Sheeley and Ed Fitzgerald, of the New York police department us the ones who robbed Mril Martha Lauehvan, a Brooklyn boarding hous^e keeper, after she had become nervous and visited two banks to withdraw her | savings, amounting to $10,180 last Friday. The men were arrested by State 1 Patrolman H. S. Dill on a charge of I speeding as they neared Camden on J Highway Number One. They refused I to put up a nominal bond and resist-; I ed arrest, causing suspicion. Upon ' being searched $805 was found on Buseemi while $805 Was found onj Lyons. Lyons also told Now York,, detectives where they could locate, $7,600 of the stolen loot sewed up in J a divan in a New York rooming house, j The two men left here Tuesday afternoon in charge of detectives to face charges in New York. x New York, March 7.?Most of Mrs. Martha Lauchran's life savings of $10,000?snatched from her last Friday after she had withdrawn it from Brooklyn banks?was recovered today after the arrest of two men in Camden, South Carolina. A few minutes after she walked out of a bank, with her savings in her purse, two men dashed past her. One grabbed the purse. They sprang into an automobile and sped away. A boy, hearing the woman's outcry, noted the license number of the automobile and she supplied police with a good description of them. Last night, the South Carolina authorities arrested two men in an automobile with that license number.' They gaVe their names as James Lyon, 19, and Benny Bustemi, 20, j both of Brooklyn. Police messaged j from Camdon that they confessed and I told police tb search Lyon's home in | Brooklyn. Under a bed, in a paper: sack, $7,500 was found. Several hundred dollars more were found on them. Tho pair said .they drove to Atlantic City, then to Washington for! the inaugural and were headed "for. a good time in Miami" when ar-| rested. New York detectives left today to return them to New York. Withdraws $10,180 From Banks, Robbed New York, March 3.?Mrs. Martha Lauchran, Brooklyn boarding house keeper, became nervous over the banking situation and today visited two banks to withdraw her savings. When she left the second bank the white pocketbook under her arm contained $10,180. On 48th street a man jostled her, snatched the pocketbook from Jier and fled. He escaped in an automobile with another man. Death of Miss Baxiey Friends of Miss Anna Virginia Baxiey were saddened to learn of her death Wednesday morning at the Camden hospital after an illness of several weeks. Miss Baxiey was in her sixty-second year, the daughter of John Sanders Baxiey and Maggie Billings Baxiey, of this county. She was an operator for the Southern Bell Telephone Company in this city for years and by her accommodating and courteous manner she made many friends. She is survived by two brothers, Neal Baxiey and Marion Baxiey, of this city, and several nieces and nephews in this county. Funeral services were held at Evans Funeral Home at 11 o'clock Thursday morning with Rev. J. B. Caston in charge. Burial was in the Quaker cemetery. Pallbearers were: Ed. Lewis, Ney Billings, W. B. Porter, W. F. Netiles, Ed Price and Melicue Billings. Infant Died The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Brown, on North Mill street, died Thursday at the Camden hospital and was buried Friday at Mount Pisgah church yard. Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Brown sympathize with them in their loss. Baby Daughter Dies Willie Bern ice Jordan, the elevenmonths-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Jordan, of West Wateree, died Monday and was buried Tuesday at j Logoff. r ... ? ,_|i Carolina Cup Meet Has Best of Entries (iBy John W. Lyman) Closing of hanks and all this talk - **' ^ of depression which now seems paramount in conversational art has in no manner dampened the ardor and enthusiasm of such keen an<. optimistic sportsmen us Hurry I>. Kirkov<u* and Ernest L. Woodward, who are going right ahead to make the annual running of The Carolina Cup steeple- h chase meet on March 26tlv the biggest and best ever run over the famous Springdale track. In spito of conditions Mr. Kirkover seems assured that the coming meet will not be excelled by any held in any part of the country this year. Prom all parts of the north and south entries are coming in, so much so that an extra maiden timber race has been added to take care of those timber-toppers that have never won a race. This added event will be two and one-half miles, and the course will he practically as stilt" as the jumps for the Carolina Cup. Mr. Kirkover has become so busy within the past few days that both he and Mr. Woodward gave up an invitation la attend the scheduled polo match on Thursday afternoon. "Every mail," said Mr. Kirkover, "is bringing in entries which have to bo listed and, in spite of'"what some . folks may call depression, we are ^ finding it rather difficult to attend to ^ anything else." This year's program consists of five races instead of four as originally planned. There will be two timber races instead of one, two brush and one race on the flat. Cpming at the close of the bicentennial week which Camden will be celebrating, the running of The Carolina Clip should cap the climax of the week's activities and those in charge of the race meet are planning to see a gallery of 20,000 or more present to see Governor Ibra C. Blackwood, of South Carolina, present the Carolina Cup, which is dedicated to that ardent and popular sportsman, Thamos Hitchcock, St. At this early date, stated Mr. Kirkover, there are fourteen horses scheduled for The Carolina Cup event, three miles over timber. WThose who have entered horses so far are A1 Davis, Tom McCreery, William G. Langley, Frank Bonsai, Jr., J. T. Skinner, Randolph Duffy, Jim Ryan, Mrs. T. H. Somerville, owner of last year's winner, "Troublemaker," scheduled to run in the Grand National, which, by the way, comes the day before the running of The Carolina Cup; Hnrry D. Kirkover, Ernest L.Woodward and Gerald Balding. William C. Langley, of Middleburg and Long Island, along with Robert Young are sending down three horses to be distributed in the various races. Mr. Langley is well-known in New York and other places north, being in charge of the Meadow Brook Steeplechase, run over the estate of Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose Clark, whose nephew, "Pete" Bostwick, is now in ^ England along with Noel Laing, who will pilot Mrs. Somerville's entry. Frank A. Bonsai, Jr., of G'lyndon, Md., one of the best known steeplechase riders in America and winner of several Maryland Hunt Cup events, will be on hand. It is expected that- * he will be up 'on J. V. H. Martin's "Vander Gold." Another of Mr. Martin's entries will be "Pennyweight." Then there will he two entries from the stable of Ben Leslie Behr, of , Chicago, whose "Brose Hover" took several events last year, including the Wiss&hickoh Cup, held at Philadelphia last 8eptomber. c Victor Noyee, of Giddings, Md., is bringing down "Oakland" and "Netta Run," winner of the two-mile.. Kershaw brush event-here last year.-. There is a probability of Mr. Noves' adding another horse to.his .string, "Jumping Jhck." J. T. iSkinnsr, of Middleburg, Va., sends word that he is entering his famous timber horse, "Manifold" J. E. Ryan. has six horses ready to ship, among them being "Ashler" ana "Pink Tea," owned by Campbell Wier and Richard K. Mellon, of Pittsburgh. Mrs. T. H. Somerville, in spite of the fact that she is in England, writes Mr. Kirkover, from London, that she will enter "See Bee" in the Carolina Cup. There are already a number of , horses in Camden going through the training period. Every morning one finds a large number of owners, trainers, riders, as well as a host of visitors. Among the horsee already on the ground are "Hotspur," owned by Mrs. W. Austin Wadeworth, of Geneseo, N. Y., and winner of the Washington's Birthday Plate last month; "Sunset II," owned by-Harry D. Kirkover and second to "Hotspur" in the same meet; "Dream Maker," "Pappley Spinny," owned by Allison Stern, of Deal, N. J.; "Candlelight," ownea by Gerald Balding; "Hackenthorpe," owned by. C. V, B. Cushman^ and "Optimist," owned by Wilbur B. Ruthrauff, of Red Bank, iN. J. According to Mr. Kirkover, there is going to be a great deal of interest shown in the flat race this year, perhaps more than in all previous years. Such entries as J. V. Covington's wjj "Armageddon" and Mr. RuthranlTs Siw "Optimist." "Armageddon" is a son .. VY of "Man-o'-War" and, from reports coming down from Gulpepper, Vs., Mr. Covington's e&iry la out to splik track records." ^Armageddon's" great . rival wil) be "Optimist," the English thoroughbred imported to the United States last year by Gerald BsTdiag and M to Mr. Ruthrauff. "Optim. i?t? Imm already won four first class (Continued on last paga)