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The Camden Chronicle VOLUME 48 CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY. AUGUST 25, 1933 , NUMBER 22. Negroes Confess To Burglarizing Home City police and county officers deserve much praise for the capture of <T Tillman and Isaac Pearson early Wednesday mornirt^ afWr they had attemptedth rob and shoot their way out of the home of R. Dennis Dibble, respectable colored merchant of Camden, located on the corner ,of I*fayctte avenue and Campbell street, Dibble was painfully wounded in the left foot and his house riddled with twelve bullets from magazine pistols when they tried to hit him through a wall. Dibble called the police department fls soon as the fusilade was over and officers Alva Hush and Jim Haley re' iponded immediately. They took no' tations of shoe tracks in the yard and followed thorn until they had Tillman under arrest. The sedond man whom they had seen earlier in the night in company with Tillman, was placed under arrest later. He immediately stated to Chief Whitaker that he "had done nothing" without being accused. Later the two were carried to Columbia together with some of the window glasses of (the Dibble home for fingerprinting. They both strenuously denied their guilt, but after close questioning by Chief W. D. Whitaker and Sheriff J. H. MoLeod, they later unloaded the full details. Pearson came across first and said that he was overpersuaded by Tillman to pull off the job and that Tillman could do as he pleased, but as for himself, he was going to tell all and plead guilty. Officers Haley and Rush were making their rounds at a late hour and discovered the pair on the street and advised them to go home, which* they said they would do. When the telephone call came from (Dibble's home, they suspected the two men who were, out late at night and their arrests and confessions followed.. Their confessions did not vary in but few details from what the officers respected. The two negroes threw away the two magazine pistols used 1n the shooting of Dibble and so far they have not been found. They are supposed to have been stolen property, as Tillman already has a chain gang record, and it is believed he engineered, the plot, thinking Dibble had money in his home?that he could go there, rob him, shoot him up and the police would not care. In this he was mistaken. It was one of the boldest attempts at robbery and assassination ever to be perpetrated in Camden and the police force worked fast and diligently on the case. Police Chief Whitaker is loud in his praise of Sheriff McLeod tfVid his ability to (ret Jhe negroes to confess and clear up the crime. Dennis Dibble is still suffering from a brass bullet in his foot fired through the wall in his house. A scorched place on the left arm of one of the negroes showed that , one of Dibble's bullets, fired at one of them :t > he was escaping through wind' - -lightly found its mark. Llewellyn Made Head Of Council Govern . Tbra C. Blackwood yestoday ir cased the number of state merger, relief administration council from hroe to five, adding J. A. Ion Doh' n ,,f Charleston, Mayor Ben jjdi Br of Spartanburg an^. H. (Sm" ) Thompson of BateS&urg. Annour ement qf the increase was made h Vah-om J. Miller, state ad?inistra'. r of federal emergency reitf. wh- - as one of the three origi* ' nu n r?. When he was made dmin:-* r about a month ago he , fou:d yy, v.ger serve on the council, j ley Llewellyn of Camden mrui.- chairman of the council, j breeding' Mr. Miller. Bishop Kirk-j G 1' rley of Columbia was the 1 ^ nun-nor 0f the original hoard toch v,a appointed by the. governor ' nr. 1032, when relief work starred. I ^'' ' ;? a splendid well rounded with every section in the, r*Presented and with labor, in- , j!trv' -"icipalities and the legal Wrepr.--f.nted too," Mr. Miller said. r- \' n Dohlen is prominent in 'Pping jn Charleston, where he is yor prr, j|ri Thonopson is * mb^r ,,< ,^c state board of labor ^filiation. Mayor. Brown of SparUnbllrf? is a lawyer. _ ? be new ehairma-n of th6 council, ' Llewellyn, ia a former state. comTv , of the American Legion.? Malay's State. Stevenson Target For Capital Scribe Washington.?More newspaper criticism of Williafn F. Stevenson, who has drawn down a great tdeal of it on his head since tho "New Deal" administration placed him in the na' tional spotlight, came out in Washington this week. Writing in his column "The Listening Post" in tho Washington Herald, Edward T. Folliard comments: "William F. Stevenson, South Carolina's famous 'Seaboard Hill,' has rung the hell again. He has put another relative on tho payroll. With a nose for jobs such as Washington hAs not known since Reed Smoot's : day, 'Seaboard Bill' has located a ' place in the Home Land Bank Board for a favorite niece of his?Louise tSiler, from down Carolina way. ! "A lot of us have long wondered how in the world 'Seaboard Bill' ever got whipped in his campaign for reelection to Congress, after 16 years on Capitol MIL "We knew it couldn't be because he neglected South Qarolina, for, as h^s been pointed out, if ever a man was Carolina-minded it is 'Seaboard Bill.' He has shown this since the j day when, as a 'lame duck,' he got i himself appointed as chairman of the Home Loan Bank Board and also of the Home Owners' Loan corporation. "In that role, he has set out to pack his offices with South Carolinians and friends and relatives. "How, then, could this man, devoted as he seems to be to his state, have been defeated in a South Caro| lina primary, especially in a year when iRoosevelt and the democrats were certain to take oyer the government? . "One answer is: 'Two-job Hutch.' "No one calls him that here in ! Washington, of course. He is the j Hon. A. E. Hutchinson, and he is 'Seaboard Bill's' right-hand man down I in the Commerce building. There is i something about 'Two-job Hutch, his i size, maybe, or his air of importance, that would restrain you from using his nickname even if you knew it. "But there was no such restraint 1 on J. P. Richards. He was 'Seaboard Bill' Stevenson's opponent in the ' democratib primary election of 1032, land in casting around for an issue he landed on Hutchinson. "At that time, Hutchinson was '"Seaboard Bill's' secretary on the House side of the Capitol. In addition to that, he was the reading clerk of the South Carolina legislature. Two jobs and two salaries. "Candidate Richards thought this was wrong especially in view of the fact the 'Hutch' also owned two ! Carolina plantations. He pointed out | that there was many a man in South Carolina who didn't have one job, much less two. "To hear Richards on the stump, ' you would havo thought that he was j running, not against 'Seaboard Bill, but against 'Two-job Hutch,' and for j that matter maybe he thought so I . himself. Maybe, indeed, 'Hutch' was j ; the veal candidate. Said Richards to the voters: f " 'Well,'we will just put 'em out. i " \nd the voters did just that. ( ; "Now, you would think this would , ! teach 'Seaboard Bill' a lesson, but it j didn't. As soon as he was appointed j to his present job, he took the usual j good care of 'Hutch,' making him secretary of the two outfits^-the , Home Loan Bank board and the Home Owners Loan corporation. Two ' jobs'and two salaries?$10,000 a year in all, less the usual cut. j "If he wanted to, 'Two-job Hutch , could get even with the voters by , telling them that he gets more money j than Prof. Moley." Violin Duet t Next Sunday morning, the worshipcrs at the Lyttleton Street Methodist church will be favored with a real musical treat. * Mrs. H. T. Sax-r ton, of brange, Va., with her brother., Newell Wimberly, will render a yjo- . lin duet at the morning service. TJwy-j are the daughter and son of the pas-. tor Dr. C. F." Wimberly, and both art*'artists of unusual ability. Lovers of music should take advantage of,; this rare treat. Services at Episcopal Church Services at Grace Church announc- . ed'by Rev. F. H. Crailfhill, Jr., IUctor will be the following for Sunday i August 27: No early service, Church school at 10 a. m. Morainrarayer 'and sermon at ?* x-. U The public is cordially invited to attend. - y-?-- "7" | Man Bound Over j Under $1,500 Bond John Walker, of Kershaw, was glven a preliminary hearing before Judge Heyward Broekington in Columbia recorder's coutt last Thursday morning and bound over, to higher court under $1,500 bond. Walker was charged with having been implicated in several store robbories in Columbia and at East over, among those being Fivo Point Drug store, whit'h was entered about two weeks ano and again recently; Kir-j by's Grocery Store and a magistrate's^ office, all nearby. A clothing store' at Eastover, entered in tho same manner as those in Columbia, was^ linked with the robberies here. . j One of the things taken from the drug store was a bicycle, which wasi found at Eastover tho day tho store, there was entered. The store was en* j tered *hgaln recently and a bicycle taken. Walker was arrested after the | tracks of a bicycle had been followed | over several miles of Columbia "streets, among those taking part in the chase being 0. K. Murphy, Sgt. J C. K. Wescott and Officer Fisher. Much of the goods which were1 stolen from the stores have been recovered.?The State. Baptist Church Announcements At the closing exercises of Sunday' school next Sunday morning Judge Mendel L. Smith will speak to junior, j intermediate, young peoples andi adult departments. A full attendance j of each department is hoped fop. - j The Rev. H. C. Hester, of Wagener, will occupy the pulpit Sunday morning. Those who heard Rev. Hester when he preached here several week$ ago will look forward to hearing him The junior and intermediate B. ,Y. | P. U.'s have completed study courses recently. The senior B. Y. P. U. plans to have one in the near future. The members of the Baptist church are looking forward to the return of their pastor to his work on September 3. With renewed spirits his people are ready to enter with him, in a whole-hearted way, into the work of the church. Methodist Church Services Services are as follows for next, Sunday, August 27, at the Methodist church: All the Sunday school classes and departments will meet' at 10:00 a. m. The Junior Church, with chalk talk by the pastor atj 10:50. Preaching at 11:15 by the j pastor, theme: "The Marriage Sup-, per of the Lamb." Preaching at 8 at night. Note the change of the time I from 8:15 to 8:00. Special music will be rendered at both services. C. F. Wimberly, Pastor. Legion Posts in Mourning , State Legion Commander Miller Foster, of Spartanburg, recently appointed to fill the unexpired term of the late Richmond Hobson Hilton has issued the following order to all Legion posts in South Carolina to observe a month's mourning in honor of their deceased state commandei. No dances or other entertainments will be planned or sponsored by the legion nor Auxiliary during .this month. Eichel's Store Soon j To Open To Public Henry Eichel and son, who have leased the store room formerly occupied by the Mackey Mercantile com-. pany, are busy unpacking lnrfee shipments of merchandise, which they will soon offer to the public. Mr. Eichel is just back from a northern trip where he bought heavily before prices took such a turn upward. He says he intends to mark all of his goods in plain figures and sell them at a small margin of profit, giving his customers the benefit of his early purchases. % The store has two beautiful plate 1 glass show windows for di'pjay. The building has been completely remodelled on the interior?new shelves and show cases?and will present a most inviting appearence with all new merchandise. j ~ ^ . I . ! Pi^sbyterian Church Services Bethesda Presbyterian church services for Sunday, August 27th. as announced by the* pastor, Rev. A. D. McArn, will be: Church school 10 . a. m.; morning service and sermon at' 11:15 o'clock. The public is cordially invited to all services. ? ? * j Man Held Here For New York Officers Charles Lorrantino Deguela, about 27 years of age, is being held here i for New York authorities. Deguelu served fourteen months on the Kershaw county chain gang in 1929 and 1930 for robbing Rush's tilling station and store at Shamokin. After leaving the chain gang hare he has served time in Atlanta for auto theft and at AlnVira, N. Y., for forgery. He \y\s recognize! by Officer DeBruhl and arrested on suspicion. The man was driving a Chrysler car and had severaIndifferent license plates. A 'phone message to New York brought information that he was wanted "for grand larceny and asked that he be held. Officers are on the way to Camden to carry the prisoner back to the Empire state. ' . Foster Named Legion Head Miller C. Foster, of Spartanburg, prominent in state and national American Legion affairs, has been elected department commander to serve out the unexpired term of Richmond H. Hilton, *of Columbia, who was drowned Sunday in Lake Murray. He was elected August 15 a meeting held in Camden. The state executive committeemannotinced the Spartanburg attorney commander shortly after funeral services were held for Hilton. Foster was national vice commander in 1928 and was for several years department adjutant. He served overseas as a iieutent in 140th Infantry. The new commander will hold office until October 20. At %that time William D. Schwartz, Jr., of Charleston, elected at the 1933- state convention, will be installed as commander. Captain Wing Leaves New Officer Arrives Captain Allan Wing, who has been the commanding officer at the C. C. C. camp in this county, has been ordered to resume his work at Georgia 1 Tech, Atlanta, where he is a military ! instructor. While on~duty here Cap- 1 tain Wing made friends with all with whom he had dealings, and the boys were unusually high In their praise of him?in camp as well aB when all were off duty. A token of apprecia- j | tion of his work here was shown by ; the lovely watch, a gift of his men, j upon his leaving. j Lieutenant Theodore L. Dunn, of the 66th Infantry, Camp Benning, a native of Ridgeland, S.. C., has been assigned as commander at the camp and he took up his duties here this week-. He will be in charge of the dedication services to be held in the camp this afternoon, and the camp will thenceforth be known as "Camp Hilton," in honor of the late Richmond Hobson Hilton, of this county. Hoffer Company Has a Fine Optical Outfit Jerome M. Hoffer, of the Hoffer company, who is also a member of the State Optical Association, attended a central district'clinic at the office of Dr. G. C. Wise in Orangeburg Monday. I These opticians meet often at some point in their district and tackle hard cases of eye trouble and have been very successful in their fittings. The Hoffer company has recently installed a costly new optical outfit, and in recent months they have fitted many local people with glasses. Mr. Iloffer says that a satisfied customer is his best advertisement as they tell others and that leads to new business. His optical business has been steadily growing since he put in this neiy outfit. Quadruplet Tomato J. E. Lv Brannon, of the eastern section of ?ounty and one of The Chronicle's loFg-time subscribers, was exhibiting and left at our office last week a tomato seldom seen?it was in'the shape of a quadruplet?four we 1-formed tomatoes grown together on one stem. - It was grown from a hot-bed plant?picked at random for planting and just considered a freak of nature. - -?-=? A threshing marhine being operated on a farm in Rumania, exploded and resulted in killing eight and sarioualjr wounding eight other persons. ?? i . Coburn Taylor Is Released On Parole Coburn Taylor, white man across whose path the shadow of tho electric chair fell some ten years ago, Friday was extended clemency by Governor -Blackwood and was order- j ed released from prison. Taylor was convicted in Kershaw | county *in July, li>23, of murder and! was sentenced to die in the electric I chair. However, in lt>?4 former Gov-1 ernor Thomas G. MrLeod commuted the sentence to one of life imprisonment, and since that time Taylor lias been serving his ^ime, either in nho state prison or the county jail. The records show that Taylor was ohargj ed with fatally shooting tlu;. husband of his sister-in-law, it Was claimed tho husband had made threats against the life ot an infant child, his own daughter. Papers in the case set forth that Taylor was the son of a man who had been in 'Sherman's army but who for some reason remained in Kershaw.county after that army had passed from the state. The prisoner, unable to read or write, as a boy followed his father on his hunting and fishing trips. Ho married and later his wife's sister came to his home. Her husband came after [ her, according to the papers in the case, and when she would not return J with him, the husband seized a child and left with it. Coburn Taylor followed him, and later shut him. Ho started to give himself up to the sheriff, bu,t for some reason changed his mind and with one or iwo others returned to the dead body of the slain man and buried it. It was claimed, in the papers- of the case,' that others had influenced Taylor not to give himself up and to aid in concealing the dead body. Later, the body -was taken from the grave andburned; a detective was assigned to the case, and Taylor was arrested, charged with murder and convicted. The state board of pardons, which recommended a parole in the case, pointed out that a report from the State hospital showed that Tnylor had the intellect of a child seven or eight years of age. Judge W. H. Townsend and Solicitor1 Spigner both recommended clemency. Numerous citizens of the county also signed a petition for clemency. His sentence was suspended by the governor on condition of good behavior.?Saturday's State. | Co/burn Taylor, beneficiary of a parole by Governor Blackwood, was in Camden Friday afternoon enroute | to the upper part of the county, where he has secured employment as a farm laborer. It is said that Taylor made one of the best and most obedient prisoners the state penitentiary has ever had in its qpnfhies. He had charge of the cows for the prison lot and it is also said that after being twice .sentenced" to the electric chair and later reprieved by the late Governor McLeod, the next day after he was removed from the death house he was made a trusty and had remained one up to his parole. Circumstances f surrounding the murder of old Cason, much of which did not come out at thq- trial ten years ago, have been lately revealed. Ho was convicted mainly upon evidence furnished by a | notoriety-seeking detective, who is today a fugitive from justice from this state, and one whom a circuit judge of this state would not let testify in his court. In conversation with Taylor Friday afternoon, in the presence of Sheriff McLeod, he told this newspaperman that he shot the man in defense of the child?ohly after Cason had snapped- a revolver at him three times and it failed to fire. He also stated that he was on his way to Camden to surrender when he was persuadod to turn back and hide Cason's hpdy, and later attempted to burn it. The man being of a low mentality, but of an honest purpose, did not know how to conduct his own defense and was the victim of others who were trying to make him "the goat" in order to save their own hides. The opinion of those who seem to know is that justice has been meted out?that the man was a victim of circumstances and that Governor Blackwood and those who appeared in his behalf have made no mistake ^ in giving him a parole. Pensions Have Come All those in this county who draw Confederate pensions are hereby notified that the second installment has come and*is ready to be issued in checks by Probate Judge L. Rex j Jones at the conrt house. Dedicatory Service Held at Camp Today This afternoon,. Friday, August :35th, at 4 p. m. appropriate dedicatory soVvices will be held at th? Civilian Conservation Corps camp, near Blunoy. The name of Richmond ? Hobson Hilton has been selected for the camp, honoring a native of this county, th? lato statu commander of ^ the American Legion. Hilton served as a sergeant in the World War and was decorated with tho Congressional modal for bravery, as well as being honored by tlve other countries. All ex-service men and legionnaires are requested by Commander W. M. ; Alexander to bo present at the afternoon service. Lieutenant Theodore Dunn, commanding officer at the cump cordially invites all ex-servico men to com? j out and participate in the exercises. Immediately after ,tho services ft barbecue will be served and a dance j held, to which around one hundred , young ladies have boen invited. The Richland drum and bugle corps, of the' Richland Legion Post, of Columbia, hps been invited to take part in tho ceremonies. Employment Office is Established Here T. K. Johnstone, head of tho R. F. C., has established a branch of the National Re-employment Bureau in this city,- with C. II. Yates in charge, who has as his assistants, M. B. Williams and W. H. Halie. ?' The purpose of this office is not to give relief, but for laborers of all kinds to register for highway projects and other public works. Th? burenus have been established in various towns and citieB and they interlock Files are kept of all th? registrants in giving all details as to their ability in their lines. Mr. Yates requests us to make it plain that this is not a relief station, and that their duties are to put them :in touch with projects whereby they I may b? enabled to secure permanent employment which will take many off of the Relief Council's payroll. Tho^se who are employed ar? advised to hold on to what they have , to do, as this office promises no immediate relief. Sidney Smith, former Camden man, was here Wednesday getting th? office installed and ready for work. He i is supervisor ?f this work for twentythree counties. Important Meeting Called For To-Night * G ' ~ * * Friday night, in the school auditorium, at 8 o'clock, a high'y important NRA meeting will bo held. Th? t principn 1 speaker will be W. E. DeLoache, Jr., president of the Columbia chamber of commerce. Every citizen of Camden who can possibly do so is urged to attend this meeting, whether they be interested in the capacity of business man, producer or simply consumer. Subjects of interest to persons in each of these j rapacities will be discussed and questions concerning the functioning of I the 'NRA will^ be answered. To give information, tbe local in| terpretation committee will be presI ent. L. A. Wittkowsky has'been ! made chairman of this interpretation committee. Always in the past Camden and its citizens have responded whole-heartjedly to calls to demonstrate this city's j patriotism. Probably never before j has the nation been faced with a 1 greater crisis than it is today and this means that it has probably never been more important for every citizen : to do his part. At leant on the surface things seem better \>ut this better aspect is based primarily upon ; the anticipation that every one is go| ing to do his part in this NRA movej ment. There is no doubt but that it I is the hope of the nation. Its failure ! would inevitably ^ast us into a darker l slough than any wo have yet seen; I while th? greatest minds of the country are confident that its success will bring the long-deferred good times into reality. Therefore, do your part and in ..order that you -iu&y know what your part is, be on hand at the scho<^ auditorium at 8 o'clock Friday night. The strike of 60,000 garment workers in the New York area appears t?* have been amicably settled and the workers were expected to resume their woijjc yesterday. - -* - - " # U