The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 25, 1933, Image 1
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
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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
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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.
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A threshing marhine being operated
on a farm in Rumania, exploded
and resulted in killing eight and sarioualjr
wounding eight other persons.
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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
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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.
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