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The Camden Chronicle . '*'! ^ wssami ???mstfrnsssaetsagsirsBsgtssssataaa&saaa&mBsss**y "'' ?? ??? VOLUME 45 ", CAMDEN, SOIJTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1834 NUMBER 41 Banner Season In Aiken and Camden (By Murray Tynan in New York Herald^Tribune) During the cold snap last week tho followers of fox hunting must have ... done some thinking. Out on Long Island the ground was frozen as solid as concrete, and over in New 'Jersey and in Westchester and Connecticut not only was the terrain hard but there was much ice and snow. When these conditions prevail, the hunters see the end of the season and their thoughts turn to Aiken, Camden and other sjxotr*where tbey can hunt all winter. As a general rule, hunting lasts much longer in Maryland and Virginia than around New York, but the cold weather also left its mark on those sporting countries. When the ground freezes and a thaw seta^in the going becomes slippery and horses are more inclined to watch their step than to gallop freely after the pack. Then there is nothing to do except head south if one wants to continue hunt' ing. The first blast of freezing wind brought news of Aiken and Camden, and from .all accounts those two resorts should ibe on the threshold of a most successful season. The announcement that Mr. and Mrs. P. Ambrose Clark intend to forego their annual /{rip to England in favor of Aiken, ai\d that Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Durant, among others, have taken a house in the heart of the 'South Carolina sporting country, Was welcome news to the Aiken colony. The Clarks* and the Durants are hunt racing enthusiasts, and the tip is out to look for a late winter or spring season of racing in the Cnrolinas. 7 Thanks to Mr. Harry Kirkover and Mr. Ernest L. Woodward, sportsmen from New York's 'Geneseee Valley, South Carolina has been re-established in a racing way through the annual Carolina Cup, offered in honor of Mr. Thomas Hitchcock. The only trouble with South Carolina racing has been that there was not enough of it. Now it appears as thouglWhat condition is to be remedied by the people of Aiken. If present plans are carried out the Camden colonists will hold their annual hunter trials on February 21, and follow that with an informal race meeting on Washington's Birthday. A few weeks later the meeting at Aiken will be held and the season in the Carolinas will be closed with the running of the Carolina Cup, first of the important spring hunt racing fixtures. It takes effort a Ad money to put together a. race meeting, and a good start already has been made at Aiken. The National Steeplechase and Hunt Association'; naturally, is 1ft favor of it, and Mr. Frank J. Bryan, veteran secretary of the association, has promised assistance. Mr. Hitchcock has donated a piece of land comprising 300 acres, on which the Aiken tract will be constructed, and Mr. Durant and others will donate pieces of plate. Most important of all these items, however, is the news that in addition to running for cups * at the Aiken meeting, cash prizes will bo offered. A meeting in which only cups are to be won is certain to attract a fair entry from the hunt set and owners of means, but one in which there are stakes as well as trophies is sure to be that much stronger. It takes money to ship horses, and many persons these days are forced to consider that angle. They do not look for profit, but they feel that they have the right to make shipping and training expenses if their horses win or place. Although plans for the meeting have not been completed, it is understood that a course resembling the United Hunts layout on the Hugh Murray place at Roslyn will be built on the land donated by Mr. Hitchcock. "Tim" Durant did most to make that United Hunts affair the success it was, and this piece of news indicates that he will play an important part in the Aiken meeting. It will be recalled that hurdle racing was revived at the United Hunts meeting, a step that met with Mr. Hitchcock's approval. Mr.-^i&rftnt was responsible, for that, andT if he has his way, there undoubtedly will be hurdle racing at Aiken. It is a humane form of racing, if one may put it that way, and is less of a strain - on. horse andirjder than the longer and more hazardous timber races. Moreover, it is much easier to prepare horses for hurdles than for brush and timber, and naturally more (Turn to Last Page Please)/ Cotton Campaign To Begin Next Monday The 1934 Cotton Acreage Reduction Compaign will begin in all South Carolina counties on Monday, January a The Kershaw county meeting will be held in the Court House in Camden at 2 p. m. on that date. Arrangements are being made for one of the government officials to be present and assist with the meeting. Since this is the most important matter which will confront out farmers for the coming year, it is highly advisable thnt every farmer who cap do so to attend this meeting. Every farmer should acquaint himself with the details of the contract for reducing cotton, acreage in 1934-35. Many who have studied this contract carefully are of the opinion that this is the greatest opportunity our Cotton farmers have hud in many years to get on their feet financially. In fact, it is hard to see how the terms of the contract could have been drawn up more favorably for cotton farmers of this section, and I believe that the farmers of Kershaw county generally w4Jl agree with this statement when they understand the terms of this contract, which is the purpose of the meeting to be held in Camden Monday, January 8. In general, the man who will not profit by this contract is the man who does not enter ThlS-itr and those farmers who fail to acquaint themselves with the contract and fail to sign one will a little later see that they have made a big mistake and caused themselves a considerable loss. Of course the fundamental and underlying aim of the whole campaign and cotton program is to reduce the production of cotton and thereby cause the price to 'be increased to the point where the farmers will have a profit rather than a& annual loss, which has been the case so often in the past. Most of our farmers will find that they can enter into the contract and be paid a handsome rental for -not planting cotton- which they probably did not intend to plant. This is because farmers in this section have already reduced their cotton acreage considerably and since the contract requires that the farmer reduce his cotton planted from his 1928 to 1932 average, it is readily seen that our farmers have already reduced and the contract is an almost unbelievable benefit to farmers o this section while on the other han the greater part of the reduction will actually take place west of the Mississippi River, especially in Oklahoma and Texas where cotton farmers have been increasing their acreage* to the point that many farmers now cultivate and harvest from 100 to loO acres of cotton per man by the use of machinery. This is really an opportunity for cotton farmers of this section.- v? In addition to this big county meeting at the Court House on January 8, there will also be a number of smaller community meetings held over the county from the 9th to 13th of January, reports Henry D. Green, county agent. To Form Cemetery Committee Rev. J. T. Littlejohn, pastor of Wateree Baptist church, requests all persons having loved ones buried in the Wateree cemetery to meet at the church Sunday afternoon, January 7, at six o'clock, for the purpose of forming a cemetery association. Mrs Clyburn Dies at Bcthune Bethune, S. C., Jan. 2.-Mrs. Dana Clyburn, 66, died at her home near Beihune early Tuesday morning, December 26, after several months ill ne^s. She was the daughter of the late Furman Peeples and Maggie Mc"i?n Poeplea oi.Lee county, and widow of W. L. Clyburn. Shewas a member of the Bethune Presbyterian church; Mrs. Clyburn possessed a great love for flowers and all those things which made homcmore attractive and homelike. She wa gracious hostess and devoted mother. She is survived by one daughter , Miss Willie Kate Clyburn, three sons, | F. H. Clyburn, and Lee Clyburn, *. H. Clyburn being a member of the | house of representatives from Lee county. She is also survived by four brothers?W. Z. Peeples, L. G. I eeples, Loring Peeples and Ferrel Peeples, all of Rochelle, Ga., and other relatives.. ... . .. .? >tlFuneral services were held at tne homo Wednesday morning, conducted by a former pastor, the Rev. J. M. For bis, of Gre.t F?ll?, by the R?v. J.T. N. KwU, the p??nt pastor of the Bethune Presbyterian church. The pall bearera werai BW. Beat, Mack Davii, Alvin Clyburn, Neil Truesdeli, C. C. Gardner, Jr. and L. M. Beat. Interment waa in Turkey Creek cemetery beneath a mound of lovely c Speedy Trial Fbr Wiles Is Planned Columbia, Jan. 1.?(Finns for a speedy trial of Robert H. Wiles, con-, /eased kidnapper and slayer of Hubbard II. Harris, Jr., developed tonight when a coroner's jury held the 40year-old auto mechanic for the crime. With 'the reading of the inquest verdict, Solicitor A. Fletcher Spigrier notified all witnesses to report at the courthouse next Monday, the first day of the January term of criminal court. Spigner indicated he >yould call the case Tuesday, January 9. A tensci silence enveloped th^ crowded court room when 0, '.'VUCheatham, foreman, read the coioner's jury verdict: ' . "Wo find that Ilubbard JI, Harris, Jr., came to his death by blows from a heavy instrument (a 16-pound bar of angle iron) in the hands of Robert H. Wiles." H. H. Harris, chain store executive ^nd father of the slain 15-year-old schoolboy, was one ofdthe 12 witnesses who testified. He identified a wrist watch taken from the arm of his son after the slaying, Harris sat near the front of, the court room as the parade of other witnesses reconstructed detail by detaif*the kidnaping plot. His manner was grave as Sheriff T. Alex Heise read Wiles' confession of how the boy was beaten to death at a deserted farm house with a heavy' piece of iron when plans to extort a $1,000 ransom collapsed. Wiles, held at the state penitentiary, was not brought to the inquest. Neither was the mother of the slain schoolboy present. Coroner J. A. Sargeant, assisted by I.Solicitor A. Fletcher Spigner, sought through the witnesses to develop every detail of the crime for his jury of six men to act upon. Among those called to the stand was G. H. Lever, 'one of three'cotton mill workers who' discovered HubI bard's body Christmas Day, two days, i after he had been lured from his j home with a promise of a job; and j several employes of the "Thrift Shop," a charitable agency, in front ijof which Wiles admitted he picked up the boy in a borrowed automobile and drove him to the abandoned farm in a swamp-edge nine miles from the city. v Other witnesses included Eddie Dixon, negro bootblack, who said he carried a note from Wiles to Hubbard; Green Giebner, a youth who [accompanied Hubbard to the Thrift | Shop, and Will Kennedy, a negro, whose automobile Wiles borrowed. Also testifying was Clayton Abernathy, ,negro, from whom officers recovered a wrist watch Wilps said : he cut from the dead youth s arm with a pair of pliers. Abernathy said Wiles gave him the watch "as a present" a few hours after the slay ing. j [Attention Kershaw County Baptists I A very important meeiing will be j held at the First Baptist church, j Camden, on Friday, January 12th, at j 3 o'clock. Let every church in the ' Kershaw association be well repre* i sented. I J. T. Littlejohn, Moderator. Twenty-four Killed In Two Carolinas! 1 . Columbia, Dec. 27.?The Yule holi-! ! day brought a total of 21 violent i deaths to the Carolinas, a compilation of Associated Press dispatches re-! vealed today. The largest toll was taken by aj grade-crossing crash at Pomona, a [suburb of Greensboro, N. C. Five [persons were killed, and a sixth was! j not expected to recover, i Five deaths were reported from1 ^"Columbia, S. C., and its eftvfirons/ i The slain body of Herbert H. Harris,; Jr., 16-year-old schoolboy, was found; in an abandoned house 48 hours after j he had mysteriously disappeared. Other fatalities in the Columbia! area were: Frederick Lee Host, struck by an automobile driven by j James A. Hayne, Jr.; Bill Jenkins,* U. S. C. student, killed in an auto-' mobile collision; Betty Lou Cartin, struck by an autpmobfie. F. M. Howard/ 81, was struck and killed by an automobile at< Spartanburg. ?AC Manning, S. C., Mose Harvin, a negro, waa found on a county road with a broken neck; Charlie Miller, negro, wu * killed in an automobile accident at Spartanburg, S. C. a * r r " These Events Made Best News Stories ' " -ii " i 11 , 4. f * New York.?The ten most outstanding and interesting news developments of 1938, as chosen by J. M. Kendrick, executive news editor, thp Associated Press follow: The Roosevelt administration, including his inaugural address, the bank holiday, the monetary policy, the national recovery act undv other recovery measures, recognition of Russia, legalization of beer, repeal of the 18th umcndment and many other governmental actions. The Unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Roosevelt and the fatal wounding of Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago by Zangara at Miami in Feb?Wy. ~ * The crash of tne United States dirigible Akron in the Atlantic ocean April 4, killing 74, including Read Admiral William A. Moffott, chief of the Havy bureau of aeronautics. The record around-the-world flight by Wiley Post. The... California earthquake; which killed approximately 11G persons and caused millions of dollars property damage, in March. . The lynching of Holmes and Thurmond in. San Jose following thoir arrest on charges of kidnaping and m.v^r/lering Brooke Hart, and the controversy which was aroused by Governor Rolph's approval of the lynchH~ The Unlchel, McMath, McElroy, O'Coniiell, Hamm, and Factor kidnapers, marked the state and federal government's drive against kidnapers and the heavy sentences given the criminals in the first three cases. The sudden death of former President Calvin Coolidge, January 5. The rise to power of Hitler in Germany and the controversy caused by bis treatment of the Jews, withdrawal from the League of Nations and Other policies. I# Huey Long's Sands Point (Long IsAnd, New York) affair, because it Was one of the most amusing stories of the year and kept the country chuckling for days. s- * Baptist Church Services The following services are v announced at tne First Baptist churcfc for the week beginning January 7: Men's prayer meeting Sunday morning at 9:30; Sunday school with C. O. Stogner, superintendent in charge, at 10 .o'clock; public worship conducted by the pastor, J. B. Caston, at 11:16 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Morning subject, "The Backward Look, evening subject, "The Forward Look." Weekly teacher's meeting on Tuesday evening at 7:30. Midweek service on Wednesday evening at 7:30. Beginning next Wednesday evening a book review will be given, using Dr. Bea, gle's recent book on mission work among the American Indians. It is an interesting discussion on Indian life and customs, also setting forth the progress of the church among the red race.' Senior B. Y. P. U. Thursday evening at 7:30. Junior B. Y. P. ; U. Sunday evening at G:30. Regular monthly deacon's meeting Monday evening at eight o'clock. The public is cordially invited to attend all the services of this church. i / Methodist Church Services Sunday, January 7, the services at the Lyttleton Street Methodist church will be as follows: Sunday school at 10 a. m. All the school will assemble at bhat hour and the service will be conducted by Dr. A. W. Humphries, superintendent. The classes will convene at 10:20. Preaching at 11:15 a. m. Theme: "Our Supreme Lord." Followed by the sacrament of the Lord's Supper. Preaching at 7:80 p. m. fheme: "Why Did (he Rich Man Go j,o Hell?" This is ^.he finish of a message preached beforCkthe holidays oiy the Rich Man an<f Lazarus. ..The^Bible says he waked ly? in, hell....Why did he go there?. The ^feuaL ^od/Tnusic will be rendered.? C. F. ^^imbeHy^Jpor. Steen Gets Payroll Governor Blackwood yesterday extended clemency, in ftie form of a suspended sentence, to Ernest Steen, convicted (n Kershaw in July, 1931, of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature and sentenced to earye five years in prison. Practically all of the jurors and many citizens of Kershaw county signed a petition asking for clemency for this younfc man of Bethune. He has served^ more than two y?r? in prison. She governor suspended the balance of his sentence during good behavior.?Wednesday's State. I * - i , ^ * ~j -< ' \ - %.1' - &?f ? ~ ^ Two Held For Stealing Autos With the at rost of Charles Farr and Ix)uU Farr at Greenwood last week state highway patrolman Dill of that place and Ivoo Jenkins of Lancaster believe that they have in custody a pair of automobilo thieves which have stolen a large number of cars in the central states and the south during the past few months as the officers have gotten confessions from the pair on several cars and they are quite certain thatHhey can connect them with the theft of nine cars. Officer IVill, formerly located at Camden but who is now at Greenwood, made the arreat aftei^ the authorities at Greenwood had released the men. Mr. Dill got Mr. Jenkins to assist him on the case and after two days of hard grilling the men confessed. Mr. Jenkins took the pair to Greensboro, N. C. on Saturday and at that place ono of tho most uptodate sets for changing car numbers that the officers ever saw was found. This pair used the electric method in obliterating tho old numbers and Patrolman Jenkins _ now has t}us equipment at his office here. These men erased the old numbers with an electric drill instead of filing the numbers down as it is said that by applying heat to the engine block old numbers are comparatively easy to bring back but that when the electric method is used it is more difficult. A complete set of dies used to make new numbers were found by Mr. Jenkins in the bedroom of the pair at Greensboro and these are believed to have come direct from an automobile factory. It is believed that these two men are connected with an automobile ring which gets inside information as new numbers placed.on cars that they confessed to have stolen were not similar to any in this part of the country but were similar to those on cars on the Pacific co&et. It is also said that they did not steal any cars on which a finance corporation had papers. The officers believe that they received inside information from a car stealing syndicate in Chicago or elsewhere in the middle west. Suspicion was aroused in Greenwood last week when one of the Farrs attempted to sell a car to an automobile firm. Both men were arrested and placed in the city jail but they were released when no evidence was secured to hold them. It was then that Officer Dill made the arrest and called" for Mr. Jenkins. Officer Jenkins sent their finger prints to Washington but no word has been received from the government agency as yet although the two men admitted that their finger prints were on , file in Washington. i .When first arrested one of the men gave his name as R. L. Stone and the other as Roy Stover. It was found that the former had been living in Greensboro under the name of Fred Cleveland and the latter had been known there as Roy Cleveland. The two men are originally from Anderson county and it is said that thoy come from a respectable family who reside in tho country near the city of Anderson. Thoy are now being held in jail at Greenville.?Lancaster News. Bishopville Lady Dead Bishopville, Dec. 30.?Funeral services for Mrs. J. S. Corbett, who died Friday night after a lingering illness were held today at 11 a. m. in the Bishopville Presbyterian church. The body was laid to rest in the adjoining cemetery. Mrs. Corbett was a life-long member of the Presbyterian church. The services were conducted by her pastor, I)r. D. M. Mclvcr, of Bishopville, assisted by Dr. II. D. .Corbett, of Bowling Green, N, C.f and Dr.-Rt- L.'Gidor, of Mayesville. Mrs. Cojjhjjtt is survived I>$ her husband, J. T?^Corbett, and the following children: Dr. Lacey W. Corbett and Mrs Jay B. Angevine of Boston, Mass., Misses -Susie and Jeannette Corbett and J. S.-Corbett, Jr., all of Bishopville, and Mrs. I. B. Mayes of Mayesville,'. . . , . . FaU?kenberry--Ray A beautiful event on~Salurday evening, December 23, 1933, at seventhirty o'clock, was the happy marriage of Lewis Ray, of the Gates Ford section of Kersharf county and Miss Margaret Fatii ken berry, tho attractive daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Faulkenberry, of Heatt* Springs, c- * . . - r ^ / *. Bfcg-v:**** v . < ... vr-^f - V- , ... .. ? Vandals Damage Springdale Course Some time during the night of v , j Wednesday of this week vandals made a round of the pleasure grounds north and oast of .Camden and did a large amount of wanton destruction, " Tho property in and around the Springdale course was visited, panels of fencing were knocked down, gates destroyed und sign posts around the property placed there by tho"Kign^vay department were pushed down. Not only were they pusher! down but i.ie vandals were not content with that; they deliberately crushed them. Leaving the Sprlrigdalo course they went next to Polo Field Number Two and thevo destroyed the side boards, pushed down and broke off tho four goal posts and drove their heavy car nil over the re-conditioned polo iluid. Tho Kirkwood Golf Course did not escape for they visited it too?diuug their car over the greens and wrecking one of the holes. It seemed in every instance tho car was used to push tho objects down? not going at fast speed for feur of damaging the machine. City and county forces are working on the case but up to yesterday afternoon no report had been made as to tho progress. Thomas J. Turner Dies by Own Hand ^ \ Thomas J. Turner, aged 46, wellknown citizen of the county, took his own life near here Friday morning , v by shooting himself in the head with a shotgun. His death occurred at his home, where he resided with his aged mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Turner, near Meroney Hill. ? 'u He had suffered a long period of . ill health, with no hope of improvement and this, it is thought, caused , him to end his life. Despite his affliction he always appeared in a jovial mood and his friends were shocked t?>d saddened at his act. Mr. Turner had (been engaged in farming up to a few years ago. He made the race for coroner in the^pst primary along with numerous others/ His friends said he was always the life of the party. Ho is survived by his mother and three sons and one daughter. Two brothers also survive?G. W. Turner, of Prosperity, - and J. B. Turner, of Calhoun. His funeral and burial occurred Saturday morning at eleven o'clock at Beulah cemetery, services being conducted by Rev*. John T. Littlejohn. ! To Make Additions To Camden Hospital 1 " Considerable improvements are now under way at the Camden hospital which will mean the addition of five j hospital rooms, the erection of a small house on the property for the care I of patients suffering from contagious diseases, replacing of worn out Hours, '* ^ repainting inside and out and also the repairing and replacing of doors and windows. The work will represent an outlay of around $14,000 and will be furnished by the Civil Works Adminis, tration and be under the supervision of George A. Creed and R. W. Mitcham, both local citizens. The work calls for, completion by the fifteenth of February. When these improvements are completed it will put the Camden hospital in a class with the best in the state. The hospital was u gift to the City of Camden by Bernard M. Baruch, noted New York financier, as a memorial to his father, the late Dr. Simon Baruch. Mr. Baruch was born in Camden and spent his early boyhood here. - Buried in Same Grave - - . Kershaw, Jan. 2.?R. H. Hinson, 58, farmer of the Flat Creek section of the county, died at hia home Monday after an illness of several months. A small grandchild, John Hunter Todd, aged 14 months, died an hour following the death of Mr. Hinson, and both Were buried in the same c J casket today j at Flat Creek cemetery, the Rev. George E. Smith, of Gheraw^ the Rev. J. B. Caston, of Camden andthe Rev. J. T. Dabriey^ of Kerahaw being in charge of' the services. Taxi and bus drivers of San Joan, Porto' Rio*, went on a- strike Friday in protest against the high price of gasoline, 26 cents a gallon. Traffic in the city wa? tied up. ?V ;