The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, November 16, 1934, Page PAGE SEVEN, Image 7
I Camden Lady Saw
King Assassination
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K. C. von Tresckow of Camf
d#n! this state, the former Miss Sadie
Kennedy, whose husband is United
States consul at Zagreb, Yugoslavia,
wW in the capital, Belgrade, when
King Alexander and the French premier,
Barthou, were assixsiuated in
jUrseill?8? and for 14 days afterward.
The State is privileged to reproduce
in part a letter Mrs. Von
Tresckow has written to relatives in
|. jjouth Carolina describing her experiences
and observations during that
stirring fornighti
"On October 8 1 had gone to Belgrade
to visit the wife of the America
consul and expected during my
four days' stay to meet the foremost
Serbian clubwomen and get information
concerning the woman's work of
the country for our federation of
I clubs in Europe. Owing to tragic
events my stay lengthened to 14 days
and had trouble getting home then,
r on account of the enormoua crowds
I visiting Belgrade. *
"October 9, at 6 o'clock, we were at
a large bridge party, quite international;
when the wife of a Hungarian
journalist got a telephone call from
her husband, who had just caught the
tragic news over the radio from London.
The King of Jugoslavia and
, Barthou had been assassinated just
ten minutes after the king and party
had set foot on French soil. The
woman said a hurried goodbye to her
hostess seized <her hat and cloak and
with blanched face, left to join (her
husband. We all sat stunned a minute,
then each one called some one
over the phone to have the awful
news confirmed. Some ministries
... said they had heard nothing of it,
but our American minister replied
that he had heard it, but the facts
were not certain. Some gave out
that the king was seriously wounded.
Sadly we went home through the deserted
streets only the tramp of soldiers
being heard, all public places
were closed and a silence of the
grave followed?a nation stabbed to
the heart.
?
"The next day the city was combed
for any undesirables, the tramp of
troops was like war-days, airplanes
hovered over the city, which was
draped in black, even some of the
huge platp glass windows were painted
black; thousands of pictures of the
king suddenly appeared often surrounded
by an altar and burning
candles. One shop window showed a
snow scene, a ginning skull, an arm
and a half buried war-helmet with
two stuffed ravens picking at the eyes
and bones, most gruesome and significant.
Others pictures of battlefields
drew crowds of spectators. The lights
were swathed in crape, black flags
flew from trams and buildings, the
bells tolled every hour, the heavens
wept in sympathy, and the people
wailed and clad themselves in black.
Rumors flew like magic, papers were
censored and the city only brightened
a moment when the red, white and
blue flag of the country welcomed
the poor little king. Nine hundred
thousand people wended 'their way
into the city from the furthermost
Albania to the Hungarian border and
every national costume waa in evidence.
"Official mourning was declared for
six months, every place of amusement
closed for two weeks, no music
allowed. A well known American reporter
who has lived in the Balkans
told the following. He was walking
on the street and thoughtlessly whistling
when a policeman touched him
on tne arm and said, .'No music,
please,' whereupon Ke answered, 'But
1 was just whistling.' Reply, 'Well,
that is music.' 'Thank you, you flatter
me,' said bhe astonished reporter.
"After terribly stormy voyage, the
king's remains arrival at Split on the
Bubrovnik and began the long, sad
journey to Belgrade, stopping at Zagreb,
where thousands from Croatia
and Slovenia came to pay last respects.
The train had the front of
the engine covered with crepe and the
coat of arms of Yugoslavia and the
la*t words of bhe king: 'Save (or
jfuard) Yugoslavia.'
"It was met at Belgrade by thousands
of loyal subjects who knelt in
aM the rairt and mud and wept io unrestrainingly
that their Wailing w*B
like the waves of the sea?quite oriental.
S*
"The body lay in state in the cathedral
for three days, 12,000 wreaths
wo-e =enl and the peasants brought
flowers from all over the country.
One wreath was five feet high. The
flueen's wreath of red roses was said
to have been made by herself. The
funeral was one of the most impressive
and colorful and yet mournful
that Europe has pver witnessed. Most
?f the notables of Europe were preset
or sent substitutes. I never saw
so many crowned heads or former!
crowned or going to be. order bedecked,
but more than serious. Brit?h,
French, Gifcek (looking like ballet
dancers in their little full white
tarts), Turkish, Czech, and YttgoT
, Avian troops and bluejackets fol*?^d
the coffhreff tfw rktftg* a simple
of oak as smaD as a child's
- <&*ped in the oolora with a wreath of
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roses thereon.
"Then hundreds of Orthodox bishops
and priests, in their midst the
gorgeously appareled Patriach, the
sun shining on their oriental'Tobes of
all colors of magnificent brocade and
their gold and silver mitres and
staffs.
"The Sokols, hundreds strong, in
their gray and red costumes, with
falcon feather on caps, the same uniform
the little King Peter wore as he
bravely marched along with his Spartan
mother, wondering what it all
meant. The ihorse of the king, stirrups
crossed upon saddle, led by
grooms in royal livery, 20 trucks laden
with wreaths, military bands and
p native Gipsy band with its weird
music made an impressive sight.
"French airplanes flaunted the
tricolor in the air and swooped low
with the Yugoslavia planes in formation
as they dropped flowers at
the tomb.
"The bells tolled, the lights flickered
and went out and the poor fcing
Alexander was gathered, to his fathers,
at rest for the first time in his
short life, so sad and busy and struggling
for peace in his own land and
the world.
"He rests in one of the most unusual
and beautiful churches in the
world, the mosaic mausoleum at Topale,
about 50.miles from Belgrade,
which he built for the royal family
of Karadeorgevich, as this is the
birthplace of the dynasty.
"The outside is of white marble
with a copper dome high up on an
isolated hill, the interior is of .1,200
different colored mosiacs, all native
to Yugoslavia, the color of blue predominating.
"So beloved was the king in Serbia
that added to the thousands in the
city 15 miles from the station to bhe
church were thick with peasants
kneeling and weeping and throwing
flowers as the coffin of their martyred
king passed by.
| 41 Sleep well, we will guard Yugoslavia,"
was the legend on the arch
to the entrance to Topola, bhe little
Serbian village, and they will keep
the oath."
Colonel Von Tresckow, formerly in
law practice at Camden, whfre he
was also interested in newspaper
work and real estate development,
entered the United States foreign
service as a consul on examination in
June, 1921, and has had assignments
to Africa, Chile, Berlin and Rotterdam,
before going to his present post.
Bom at Mamaroneck, N. Y., in 1873,
he was educated in part in Austria
and took his law degree at the University
of South Carolina. Ho was
a major in the -South Carolina National
Guard when it was called to
Mexican border duty in 1916. He
served overseas in that grade during
the World* war and' is now lieutenant
colonel of the infantry reserve. He
has made ap excellent record in the
foreign service and won several promotiona?Tuesday's
State.
Housing Has Started
Things To Rolling
New York, Nov, 12?4*roof that
tho National Housing Act has started
things moving in the long quiet
building industry has been submitted
by another targe American corporation.
Inquiries from home owners about
the installment plan of repairing
liave increased ?'i00 per cent since the
loan provision of the National Housing
Act became effective in August,
l/ewis H. Brown, president of the
Johns- Nanville Corporation, announced.
Mr. Brown's statement that impetus
for the construction industry, I
where millions are unemployed, was
to be expected soon followed closely 1
a similar statement from Clarence
M. Woolley, chairman of the Am?ri-|
can Radiator and Standard Sanitary!
Corporation, that the Housing Act
had given his corporation a 40 per |
cent upturn in sixty days.
Industrialists are throwing their
full weight behind this move to give
employment where so many of the
Nation's idle are found today.
Cotton Ed and Cotton Growers
Senator "Cotton Ed" Smith of
South Carolina ups and says he will
demand the repeal of the Bankhead
law in the next congress because it
has been a "heartbreaking disappointment.*'
Senator Smith has ibeen engaged
himself in this business of saving the
cotton farmers of the South for many 1
years, eloquently endorsing pretty
much any movement or organization
that came along looking to their redemption,
but, somehow or other, as
good as they aimed, none of them over
achieved what was originally intend-1
ed in the way of getting the cotton
raiser on top of the pack.
And the more important point of it
all is, if Senator Smith finds that the I
Bankhead bill is a mess, what substitute
does he propose in order to keep
the farmers of the South from making
two or thre^ times more cotton
than the world wants every year they
go to the fields, and in the fall take
the punishment for such folly by selling
at a price that does not reimburse
them for expenses.?Charlotte Observer.
Taken Oft Relief
Rolls And Helped
Nearly 100,000 families have been
taken from relief rolLs and helped toward
economic independence in the
Ural seven month* of the FMRA rural
rehabilitation program,
These families now are raising the
bulk of their food and in many instances
are exchanging home-grown
products for other necessities.
In Alabama a number of families
formerly destitute already have repaid
more than Italf of the advances
made them under the program, and
similarly encouraging reports are
coming from other States.
In Ohio, 1100 families have been
removed from relief rolls through the
rural rehabilitation program and
more than 6,000 other families have
been assisted with capital goods and
supplies. Under the Ohio program,
40,000 families will receive vegetables
growaJn 16,148 family gardens
and 1,281 acres of community gurdens.
Oeorgia reports that out of 1,140
families included in the rural rehabilitation
program August 1st, some
repayment has been made by 00 per
cent.
Approximately $100,000 has been
repaid in labor on public works projects
by 6,000 Alabama families who
wore advanced $620,000. The average
advance per family in th*\t state was
$111.00, of which more than half represented
work animals, implements,
feeds and fertilizers.
iFERA files are replete with "case
histories" of families aided by this
program. Throughout them all runs
one dominant note?the desire of the
average American family to be selfsustaining
without the aid of charity.
One of these case histories, selected
at random, follows: Crawford county,
Arkansas: Family of three. Were
in destitute circumstances without
clothing or food. Advances were
made for food, clothing, shelter. Total
value of capital goods advanced,
$125.00, which included one work mare
and plow tools. Subsistence to the
amount of $93.08 advanced. This loan
was paid in full by canned fruits and
vegetables processed by the v client
and his family. Program has made
them self-sustaining.
Despite drought, this client produced
meat, fruit, and vegetables sufficient
to feed his family this winter.
He also produced 50 per cent enough
fr>ed to take care of his wo.vk stock
and dairy cows.
In South Carolina and in Kershaw
county, rural rehabilitation plays a
large part in the FERA. In Kershaw
county there are today, 40 families,
on rural rehabilitation. These families
are allowed to repay the loan
advanced them under this program
by working on work or production
projects, repayment made from produce
raised in clients garden, etc. In
examining the case histories of these
40 families, let us pick out at random
from our county. On June 1st of this
year, there was u%}this county a family
of 7 who had for the past several
years vainly struggled for mere existence.
The land was actually barren;
hardly fit for the raising of
peas. The morale of this family was
at a low ebb; their hope for the future
was broken. A loan was made
to these unfortunate people; their
land was cultivated and at the present
time, most of this loan has been
repaid by the work of several members
of the family on work and production
projects. In fact, enough
corn has been raised to feed his
stock throughout this year and the
i next. A total of. $280.61 was advanced
to this family of which
$116.35 has been repaid. In the past
several months, a total of $2,527.21
has been advanced to families under
the rural rehabilitation program in
Kershaw county of which a total of
$590.70 has been repaid by work on
public work projects and by produce
raised and canned by the r. r. client.
B. P. DeLoache, county supervisor
of the rural rehabilitation program
has set a goal of 7*5 families to be
placed on r. r. by the first of January.
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lies have been taken off of relief rolls
and placed in a position of self-supporting
and self- sustaining people.
Mr. DdLoache is ably assisted in this
work by Mrs. Eva Irby. DePriest
Loses
To A. W. Mitchell
. Chicago, Nov. 6.?Arthur W. Mitchell,
negro .Democrat and eloquent
advocate of the new deal, appeared
to have replaced the veteran negro
congressman, Oscar De Priest, on the
basis of early returnes from todays
election.
Holding a huge lead over the only
member of his race to sit in the national
house in recent years, Mitchell
counted 11,117 votes in his fa rot
against 8,106 for his Republican opponent
when 37 of the 47 precincti
of the first Illinois district had x*.
ported.. .^T_r . . . . <
Patrick Nash, national Democratic
committeemen from Illinois, claimec
the seat for Mitchell in a telegram
to National Chairman Farley.
"*"** . .. _ ?">,rrjL>0- - ? i*? ? / dp
Duck Scarcity ?
Appears Certain
A. A. Ku'httrtlbon, chief k?hu- warden
of South Carolina, yesterday
called attention to the regulation providing
for the opening of the duck
hunting season November 8. Thursday,
and appealed to sportstufpi "not
to kill any more than they cau use"
in view of the anticipated scarcity in
this species of game this year.
"From reports that I have from the
coastal section of the state the flight
of djucks seems to be rather spotted, \
In some places the reports are that
the ducka are plentiful, in others that
they are scarce. The report from the ,
breeding areas of the ducks seems to J
be conclusive that there will be a
j short crop of ducks and though there
may be good flight of ducks in (South 1
Carolina, they are going to 1>? short
in other (sections of the United
States," the official said.
"I am urging the sportsmen to
conserve their kill of ducks as much ,
as possible, not to kill any more than ;
they can use and especially urge them
to shoot only at ducks that are ip(
good range. There is no use to wound ;
a duck and keep it from going back
to its breeding grounds. .
"If the sportsman cannot accept 1
this recommendation from a sportsman's
standpoint, then I call attention
that he had best consider this proposition
from a selfish point. It is a
certainty that if a good flight of
ducks do not go back to the breeding
grounds that next year the government
will put on an entire closed
season on the shooting of ducks, so
it behooves every one interested in
duck shooting to do his part in not
unnecessarily wounding or destroying
ducks."
Death Of Oscar Haley
Oscar Raley, age about 4b, died
Friday night, November 2, at 10
o'clock. His death occurred at the
Veteran's Hospital, Columbia. His
home was Bethune, Houte 1. He was
a World War veteran and his death
was in part due to injuries received
while in service. His death occurred
after an illness of three weeks. Surviving
are the mother and several sisters
and brothers. He had never married.
Funeral services were held 'at the
Bethany Methodist church Sunday at
11 o'clock.?Bishopville Messenger.
Meteors flash through the air at
more than 100 miles a second.
?- f i' niinmy^B^ ^
Engineer Proves
To Be Swindler j
Sunday about mid-day a taxi from
North Carolina deposited ut a local
tourist homo a man, about 00, a woman
ostensibly his wife, and a 10 i
year old boy said to bo their aon. j
At the tourist homo he gave his name
ax Krugg, and stated that ho was a
Government engineer ami was here
to head a corps, which would arrive
the next day, to make estimates for
dredging the 1*00 IX'e river, looking
toward barge navigation in connection
with the inland waterway.
The visitors remained in their
rooms till night and seemed to have
been drinking. Krugg announced that I
he and his engineers would remain I
at Cheraw at least two months and'
he promised several callers jobs in.
connection with the work. The man-1
agor of a local grocery store, who
happened to drop in, , was given a
largo order for groceries to be delivered
the next day, the groceries to
be used by the engineering party,
and generally spread himself.
His talk made listeners suspicious,
as he was evasive as to where he had '
been at work, though he hinted that j
he had done some work for the gov-1
ernment in the mountains of North |
Carolina and spoke of his home being
California.
Monday morning he rented a car
from a filling station attendant, stating
that he wanted to drive to Rockingham,
where he had left his baggage.
His wife and son drove away.,,
with him. About noon a call came
from police in Camden, wanting to
know if the car had been stolen in
Cheraw as they had arrested the boy
on advices from police in Southern
Pines, on a charge of passing worthless
checks. .Southern Pines officers
in the afternoon brought the boy
back through Cheraw on the way to
North Carolina, but for some reason
Krugg and the woman wore allowed
to leave Camden with the "rented"
car. ,
The police think that Krugg is an
assumed name and that the man has
# <
a police record. Efforts are being
made to get the man and the car,
neither of which has been heard from
since the Camden advice.
After failing to cash checks in
Camden and the arrest there" of the
boy accompanying the man and woman,
they went on to Columbia
where they were more successful.
Picking up a boy there, the man,
still representing himself as a government
engineer, went to a store
and bought some $60.00 worth of
groceries and presented a check for
$75.00. The clerk advised him he
could not uccept the check unless he
could "identify himself." The man
then called the Columbia boy in to "
identify him. The boy, being known
to the clerk, he accepted the identification
and the check, giving him the
balanace in cash. The parties then
drove off, saying a truck would be
sent for the groceries. Nothing has
been heard from them since, and the
father of the boy states that ho believes
his boy has been kidnaped.?
Cheraw Chronicle.
I
TAX NOTICE
Tax books for the . collection of ?State,
County and School Taxes for
year 1934 opened October 16, 1964,
and will remain open until December
31, 1934, inclusive, without penalty.
Please stute school district in whioh
you live or own property when inquiring
about taxes.
Following is a list of total leviea
for each School District for School,
County and State Taxes:
DeKalb Township
Mills
District No. 1 46
District No. 2 35
District No. 4 38
District No. 6 40
District No. 26 24
District No. 43 24
Buffalo Township
District No. 3 3794,
District No. 5 21% '
District No. 7 80%
District No. 16 21%
District No. 20 28%
District N<x 22 40 '
District No. 23 28% ~
Distriot No. 27 32%
District No. 28 21%
District No. 31 29%
District No. 40 41%
District No. 42 21%
Flat Bock Township
District No. 8 32%
District No. 9 f....... 32%
District'No. 10 * 26%
District No. 13 24%
District No. 19 32%
(District No. 30 21%
District No. 33 32%
[District No. 37 32%
[District No. 41 . 32%
District No. 40 26%
District No, 47 21%
Wateree Township
District No. 11 24%
District No, 12 35%
District No. 16 26
District No. 29 27%
Distriot No. 38 21%
District No. 89 20%
Yours respectfully,
S. W. HOGUE,
Treasurer of Kershaw County,
South Carolina
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and this trading area the removal of our ||
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West DeKalb Street |
In building known as Little Building III;
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