The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 23, 1935, Image 1
The Camden Chronicle
\ ?y?^SOUTH CAKQUNA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1935 NUMBER 22
I Wiley Post Began
I Life As Farm Boy
Tin- stocky little globe galloper who
B wa(le tl>* nnine of Wiley Host known
[ arouml il?" world wan a farm boy with
I 4 dlHtantfor farming.
Wiley Post was born November 22,
I jj9s, on an isolated farm near Grand
gajiue, Van Zandt county, Texas, and
[ |d the days when flying was only a
atunt f?r professional daredevils the
I boy who was to bring the aviation
I world to I?1h feet whittled out modelB
I of airplanes.
His father gave him u small cotton
I patch. Wiley took the utmost pains
(0 develop his crop and with Its proI
ceods he set out for a school in KanI
IW City to train hiirfsclf in auloinoI
bile mechanics.
The course cost him $85,' and young
I Wiley bad to work out of school hours
I to pay living expenses. His cotton
I patch had produced hardly enough for
I that. The youth who hud been inI
different to orthodox education proved
I be could digest a book 011 subjects
i close to his heart.
I* Wiley took a "post graduate" course
I In garages, machine shops and oil
I fields of Oklahoma. He got a job in
I a machine shop at Holdenvllle, und
I there came the accident that blinded
I him in his left eye. The |2,000 he
I received as compensation was used to
I purchase his first airplane.
Already he had become chummy
H with airplanes in the dangerous role
H of wing walker, parachute jumper and
B genera! barnstormer.
I In June, 1927, Wiley eloped?in an
I airplane?with May Laine, the pretty
I 17-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
I Dave Laine, of Sweetwater, Texas.
I They had grown up together near
I Grand Saline.
J She accompanied him on his barnI
storming for a while, but having a
I wife called for a steady Job, and Post
I had heard that F. C. Hall, Chlcasha
I oil man, was interested in flying.
Post got a job as his pilot. The oil
I man later'became his financial backer
I for the flights that shot Post to fame
I in the "Winnie Mae," named for Hall's
I daughter, Mrs. Winnie Mae Fain.
I Hall sold this "Winnie Mae" (he
Bnaroed all his planes Winnie Mae) and
Host was without a Job. Next he
to the Pacific cohst and became
Bchief test pilot at the Lockheed facBtory
in Burbank, Calif.
B in 1929 he entered the Los Angeles
Chicago non-stop air derby and got
I lost but won it, roaring ahead of a
I list field In nine hours, nine minutes
B and four seconds.
After meticulous preparation Post
and Harold Gatty, with Hall's backI
tog, streaked out from Harbor Grace,
June 23, 1931, and circled a cheering
*orld to land in New York just eight
days, 15 hours and 51 minutes after
I leaving it.
B An urge to "keep on the move" led
B him to prepare for his solo flight
Baitund the world, his greatest exploit.
Hdc July, 1933, he stood by his Winnie
kae tor two weeks at Floyd Bennett
Held, New York, waiting for a pro
Pltious time. At 3:10 a. m., July 15,
B lie strode into the field, Mrs. Post at
I "I'm going pretty quick now," he
Hr '-'llrv K.*. - ??* if
t ~ ' v vuaui ui.
"Okeh," Post smiled, and soon he
off to Berlin, Novosibirsk, on
through Fairbanks, Alaska, and back
,!o New York In exactly seven days,
IS hours, 49 minutes. "Get me a
P&tch for this dim lamp," Post cried
as he stepped from the plane, and
a?ain the world's cheers rang in his
ears.
Next, the stratospheric flights, this
fear Four times he took off from
fields in California, bent on reaching
*ew York through extremely high altitudes
in record time. Four times he
failed to reach his goal, but what he
earned of the stratosphere added to
aviation s knowledge.
Put the "Winnie Mae" away and
*atd he w;(s through with experimental
flying.
New Acts Have Arrived
Urk of Court James H. Clyburn
?luest>. The Chronicle to state that
^e new h, ts 2935 M pag8e<j by ^^e
and KHUr'1' a88ei"bly have arrived
lhat magistrates entiUed to a
olffc tan gt t 8ame calling at his
fc in person and signing for same.
F,re In Rogers Grocery
In re at an ear,y bour Sunday mornI
^ a small amount of damage
1 4 e Elding and stock of the Can*
U ttnlt ot the Rogers chain system
B discovered in time by toe ***
ft k*d l(l PUt out the blase before
| l&lned any headway. The bnildBrJ,?fWd
by M Baruch and John
Hetties and waa covered *7 * "
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Old Rembert Church
Has Home-Coming
tor Home months the puntor and
congregation of Old Rembert church
have been preparing for the meeting
thut wan held there laut Tuesday.
Rev. A. M. Jones, the pastor ha* been
looking up dates and . records for
many weeks. This old church is located
some twenty miles southeast of
Camden, and 1b the second oldest
Methodist church in South Carolina.
Records are extant reaching back to
1786, and one Rev. John Smith was
the first pastor, und the second was
Rev. Isaac Smith who figured so prominently
in Camden's early Methodism.
A tablet to his memory is now in the
vestibule of the Lyttleton Street Methodist
church.
One feature of the Rembert church
was the frequent visits made to that
community by Rishop Anbury, in fact
it was his headquarters when in South
Carolina. The Old Rembert Hall,
which w^s located Very near the site
of the present church, was an old Revolutionary
manor, and her spacious
accommodations furnished a haven for
this "Prophet of the Ix>ng Road." It
seems that he spent more time and
preached more often at Rembert than
at any other church in the state.
At this home-coming all the former
pastors and presiding elders living
were invited and some of them were
there. The principal historical address
was given by the pastor and
many interesting details were brought
out by him touching the personal history
of the leading characters of the
church and community. Such names
as Rembert, Green, Kennedy, Newbury,
Brunson a^d DesChamps, and
others were given.The descendants
of those families are still living in
Camden and Kershaw county as well
as scattered throughout the country.
A great, great uncle of Henry D.
Green, wus a prominent figure in the
history of Rembert. The former
mayor of Camden, "Bob" Kennedy, is
also a descendant of the Kennedy's of
Francis Kennedy of this old community.
Special selection of music was
rendered by ladles who were the
great, great grandchildren of the
pioneers of Roinbert church.
Dr. W. D. Klrkland, of Tlmmonsville,
gave an address on the early
history of Methodism centering about
the three out-standing founders?John
Wesly, Bishop Thomas Cooke and
Francis Asbury. Rev. J. T. Fowler,
the presiding elder, gave a short talk
on the importance of preserving the
place and the tradition of that historic
church. Dr. H. N. Snyder who was
to have been present for the principle
address, but was unable to be there.
The writer was Invited to be the
preacher for the occasion. The program
lasted exactly two hours and
a half. In the journals of Bishop Asbury,
as given by the pastor, Rev. NA.
M. Jones in his address, was to the
effect, that on one occasion, the services
lasted five hours at Rembert
church. From the patience manifested
by that long-suffering congregation,
showed them to be true descendants
of the founders of Rembert
church.
At the close of the program a most
sumptuous dinner was served under ,
the trees. It was thought that the
big baskets sitting on tables In full
view of the congregation, was doubtless
a strong factor in holding the
people so long. It was a great get-together
time, and every one enjoyed it.
The success of the whole plan was
due to the untiring efforts of Rev.
Jones.
We almost forgot to mention the address
by Professor Dick, of Dalzell, ,
who was brought up in and near this
old church, and gave some most Interesting
incidents of the people of
Rembert. Professor Dick has been
an educator in Lee county all his life.
?C. F .WJUmtyerly.
Unusual Legal Ads
In Paper This Week
In this week's issue of The Chronicle
we are carrying citations for letters
of adrqjnlstratlons on the estates
of eight victims of ,the train-truck
wreck of three weeks ago. The ninth
was carried last week. This is probably
a record of Its kind, seven citations
being for members!* of the
Baker family and two for those of the
Jordan family. All nine were victims
filled when their truck crashed into
a Seaboard train, ftorth of Camden.
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'IP- On Camping Trip
Frances McLeod, L. O. Funderburk,
Jr., tad PomMm Kennedy left Saturday
afternoon for a several days
tay on a camping trip at Mynle
Beach. r
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Rogers and Post
-?-Rilled In ("rash
Point Harrow, Ala?ka, "Auk I#.?
*' n,,l,lx through an Arcllo fog.
overtook Will Hogora, peerloa. comedian.
and Wiley P??, ,naBler avla.
"r: elr t ehiillt airplane falter,,<1 i
and fell Into an Icy Hide river laatj
:ZoT,h'"weuk
They had Just taken off for a trifling
10-mlnute night from their river
position to Point Barrow. sixty foot
In the air the motor misfired. The
Plane heeled over on its right wing
- The lives of both the gentle master
of the wisecrack and the champion!
aerial globe trotter were crushed out
instantly as the impact drove the
heavy motor back through the fuseluge.
The bodies rested tonight in the
reshytetian mission warehouse here,
to be flown to Fairbanks by the flying
friend of both men. Pilot Joe Crosson.
Leaving Fairbanks today, he said he
hoped to return with thb bodies tomorrow.
" ,y
Dr. Henry W. Cireist. medical missionary^said
the rescue party reported^'the
plane debris was readily removed,
as it was torn and broken to
fragments by the plunge.
"The bodies." he said. "were
dressed by Charles D. Brower, the
'King of the Arctic.' whom Rogers
was flying to see. Serg. Stanley R
Morgan of the U. S. Army signal
corps, and myself."
A terrified Eskimo ran 15 miles to
Point Barrow with news of the crash
of the flying vacationists. Morgan
dashed to the scene, recovered the
bodies and brought word of the tragedy
that shocked the world.
President and pauper alike expressed
sorrow, for both men were
known over virtually the length and
breadth of civilization.
Rogers' Last Message
Following is the laBt of the daily
messages of Will Rogers, published
daily for several years past, and universally
popular with newspaper readers
paBte it in your scrapbook as a
memorial to Rogers:
Fairbanks Alaska, Aug. 15.?"Visited
our new emigrants. Now. this is
no time to discuss whether it * will
succeed, or whether it won't, whether
it's a farming country or whether it
is not, and to enumerate the hundreds
of mistakes and confusions and rows
and arguments and management in
the whole thing at home and here.
As I see it, there is not but one problem
now that they are here, and
that's to get 'em housed within six
or eight weeks. Things-have been
a terrible mess. They are getting 'em
straightened out, but even now not
fast enough. There is about 700 or
800 of 'em. About 200 went back.
Also about that many workmen sent
from the transient camps down home'
(not CCC), and Just lately they are1
using about 150 Alaskan workmen
Paid regular wages. But it's Just a
few weeks to snow now, and- they
have to be out of the tents, both workmen
and settlers. Plenty food and
always has been and will be. They
can always get that, but it's houses
they need right now. and Col, Himt
in charge realizes it. You know after
all there is a lot of difference in
pioneering for gold and pioneering
for spinach.
Yours,
WILL.
Rains Help Crops;
Break Dry Spell
Rains commencing last Saturday
seem to have fallen generally over
the county and came as a great relief
to corn and cotton. Much of the corn
crop had suffered greatly and in many
instances was ruined. Cotton had begun
to open prematurely and was
causing quite a curtailment.
The winds accompanying the rains
cooled the atmosphere and several
nights light bed covering had to be
put into use. The recent rains will
have a tendency to fill up the streams
which reached the lowest ebbs to be
seen here In many years.
New Ready-to-Wear 8tore - !
Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Marshall have
gone to New York and other Northern
markets to purchase stock for the
new shop, "The Smart Shop," which
they expect to open soon. This shop I
of ladles ready-to-wear will be opened
In the store now being remodeled,
Just north of 1fhe Outlook Shoppe,
Associated with Mrs. Marshall.will be
Mrs. Sally S. Massey,whohas had
mnch experience in letting thla line!
of merchandise. The store will be
opened for business around the Mid-'
die of September. ' . '1
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Senate and House
' Discuss Neutrality
Washington, Aug 21.?Swift senate
passage of a seven-point, policy reversing
neutrality program tonight
stirred President Roosevelt to the
sudden culling of a White House conference
to seek an agreement on the
legislation.
A division of opinion already was
apparent In the house us Mr. Roosevelt
privately expressed his views of
the most sweeping anti-war declaration
since the world conflict, including
major reversals in this government's
traditional policy.
While he has made no statement
on neutrality legislation, intimates of
the president believe he fuvors permissive
rather than mandatory legislation
to conform with existing policy.
, With tlie dark days of 1917 in mind,
ifrhen German submarine attacks on
Allied ships carrying American tillSens
had forced the United States
into the World war, .the senato passed
With only brief debate a resolution
encompassing a mandatory ban on
arms shipments to belligerents and a
declaration that Arperlcans would
travel on belligerent vessels "at their
own risks."
Roth provisions departed from previous
neutrality policies.
The resolution also would provide
for the first time federal licensing
of munitions manufacturers and exporters.
This would be made a permanent
policy.
The course of house action was uncertain
because of mandatory arms
feature. Representative Maverick
(Democrat) of Texas announced tonight,
however, that he had over 1.00
members who had signed petitions
for action at this session.
< Speaker Byrnes told reporters: "1
expect there will be neutrality legislation
this session; at least I hope so."
Chairman McReynolds (Democrat)
of Tennessee called the house foreign
affairs committee to meet tomorrow
on the senate resolution. This committee
already had apporved a broader
proposal and McReynolds expressed
particular objection to the senate
mandatory arms embargo provision.
The state department also is understood
to want this ban made discretionary.
The senate resolution omitted a proposed
munitions committee ban
against loans to belligerents.
President Roosevelt, coincidentally,
declined to comment on the legislation
or the Ethiopian situation at his
press conference.
1 With high government officials
maintaining an intensely watchful attitude
and denying Great Britain had
asked the United States to restate its
policies in connection with existing
developments, the senate was stirred
into action by the closeness of adjournment
and filibuster threats of
munitions committee members. The
resolution adopted after only perfunc'ijory
debate and without a record vote
would provide:
A mandatory embargo on exports of
arms, munitions and implements of
war to all belligerents in a foreign
conflict in which this government is
not involved.
Licensing of munitions manufacture
and export as a permanent policy of
the government, wfiR-h is somewhat
In conformity with the recently ratified
Geneva arms treaty of 1925.
A prohibition against American
ships carrying arms or munitions under
embargo to any belligerent port
or to any neutral port for reshlpment
to belltgereqjs.
Authority for the president to prohibit
American citizens traveling on
ships of belligerent nations, except
at their own risk, with 90 days allowed
for citizens to return home from
war regions.
Authority for the president to prevent
ships, foreign or American, from
carrying men or supplies to belligerent
vessels at sea.
Authority for the president to restrict
or prohibit the entry of belligerent
submarines into American
waters or ports.
A national munitions control board
to administer the program, comprising
the secretary of the state, as
chairman; the secretaries of treasury,
war,.- navy and commerce, and the
chairmen of the foreign relations committees
of the house and senate. Unusual
Yield Of Syrup
J. E. Cassiday, overseer on the A.
W. Humphries farm, east of Camden,
reports that he made sixty-five gallons
of syrup from twenty-six rows
-one-fourth acre long of orange cane.
The cane was ground in Levi Holland's
mill near the old Cleveland
school site. This Is considered a most
unusual output for such a smell patch.
Mrs. Gardner Hied
At Hume Saturday
Mrs. Annie Laurie Stewart Gardner,
widow of I,ae It. Gardner, died nt her
home on South Lyttloton street Suturduy
morninK after an illness lustlag
several weeks. Mr. Gardner's
death occurred on April 1-4, 1934.
Mrs. Gardner wus born in Uisltopvllle
on October 12, 1KK3, and since
her marriage had resided in Camden
where her husband was u Southern
railwuy employee. They had three
daughters?Mrs. Paul Lewis, Misses
Inez and Elizabeth Gardner, of Cainden.
Two sisters and one brother
also survive?Mrs. Pearson llrown,
Mrs. Charlie McCaskill and W. F.
Stewart, of Hishopvillo, There is one
grand-daughter, Mildred Janet Lewis.
Funeral services were conducted
from the home on Sunduv afternoon
at T> o'clock, by Itev. J. It. Caston,
assisted by ltsv. George It llobo, both
of this city.
John W. Wilson, W. M. Loll Is, T. It.
Bruce, C. K Webster, Ney Billings
and M G. Huckabee, long time friends
and neighbors of the deceased served
as pallbearers. The body was interred
in the Quaker cemetery and thus closed
the life of u loving mother and
good woman. Her passing brought
sorrow to a wide circle of friends here
and elsewhere.
Dry Spell Causes
Lake To Dry Up
As a result of the long continued
dry spell reports from White's pond
near Blaney in Kershaw county state
that the once pretty lake has completely
dried up, and of course, the
many game fish in it have died.
It was only a small snnd hill lake,
fed by springs, and had no outlet, but
in years gone by haB furnished lots
of sport to Columbia sportsmen who
had built a lodge there and had many
bateaus and canoes on its waters,
The lake, apparently, had no outlet,
but the water always remained fresh.
There was a bountiful supply of game
fish. Parties telling us say that
cranes and other birds a few weeks
ago ate the remnants of the finny
tribe- and the bottom of the lake now
is only sandy soil.
Rogers Leaves ~
Large Estate
Hollywood, Calif., Aug. 17.?Will
Rogers left an estate unofficially estimated
at between $2,500,000 and $6,000,000.
From close business and financial
associates of the humorist it was
learned Rogers' wealth consisted of
extensive real estate holdings here
and In Oklahoma, government bonds,
life insurance totalling $1,050,000 and
annual Income from motion pictures,
radio and his syndicate writing.
Extremely close mouthed in discussing
his financial activities, Just as he
was in revealing his Innumerable
charities. Rogers won the respect of
business men as a shrewd Investor.
The actor's wife and three children
are beneficiarlos of the bulk of the
life Insurance. Fifty thousand dollars
of the amount Is payable to the Actors'
Equity fund.
Roach Stewart To
Address Club
Roach 8. Stewart, of Lancaster, has
accepted an invitation to address the
Camden Exchange Club at It's weekly
meeting, next Tuesday, August 27.
Mr. Stewart is one of the best known
orators of the state and the club Is
indeed fortunate to get him here. The
members are looking forward to the
meeting and a full attendance is expected.
The club meets Tuesday of
each week at one o'clodk at the Camden
Hotel.
Yesterday's Rotary Program
Thursday's Rotary program was in
charge of George Creed. He had Rev.
and Mrs. Hobo to sing several duets,
and Mr. Bobo also made a short talk
on the type of man the world needed
in every day life.
W. T. Redfearn will be in charge
of next week's program. W. J. Mayfield
drew the lucky number for the
program two weeks hence.
The visiting Rotarians were: Joe1
Stuckey, Bisbopville; W. R. Mercer J
Florence, and John. Wilson, Sumter.
The guest visitors were Capt. A. M.
McLeod and R. E. McCarty, of Camden
and J. R. Whltmire, of Atlanta. '
, Next Thursday will be the last of
the half-holiday closing each week
by the merchants of Camden for tk#
World Mourns
American Humorist
(My Mrluu Moll, Associated Press Stuff
Writer)
Ih>s Angeles, Aug, 10,?A cowboy's
(trawl, h shy grin wild u mirthful
toiiKUe that convulsed king wild com*
mo nor uliko inudo Will Roger* hu Intoruatlonul
favorite.
At 56 he was known ull over the
world, whore motion pictures wore
showed or whore he hud visited, for
his homely humor. An uvlatlon enthusiast,
lie went to ids death lust
night while doing one of the things
he liked best?flying.
lie began life us a .plain Oklahoma
cowboy, proud of ills Cherokee Indian
blood and of his ability to twirl a
lariat, lie ended it ub the inllmute
friend of presidents, monarehs, dictators,
millionaires?fllm extras and
"blathering" cow hands.
In homely vein, he could size up
in a paragraph a national crisis that
had statesmen snarling at each other
?and make even the statesmen laugh.
Horn In Indian territory, he learned
to throw a rope and ride a horse as
a youth. He always called Oklahoma
home although he lived In California.
My way of u Wild West show, ho
reached the vaudeville stage and from
there it was only a step to the legitimate
with the Rogers inimitable brand
of humor making him a star in Zelg*
field's Follies.
The first time Will Rogers' audience
laughed at him?the Important moment
that launched him on his fortune-tnaklng
career as a humorist?
Will was mifTed.
Ho thought they were chiding his
Oklahoma drawl. That was in 1905,
while he was In vaudeville doing a
roping stunt. The show manager told
him he might explain some of the flue
points of trick roping. When Will
started talking, the audience roared.
Will didn't want to do it again but
was urged and yielded.
His first venture in pictures was
not sensational, for it was not enough
for theatergoers to see Rogers. They
must hear him, too, to appreciate his
art. When the pictures talked, Rogers
was remade?this time far greater
than when he had topped the Bhows
on Broadway.
He moved steadily forward and at
his death was regarded as the No. 1
attraction in films. His pictures were
showed around the world in a doaea
languages, although titles had to be
superimposed In some countries where
his quaint Americanisms could not be
readily understood. He spoke a
lauguage all his own.
The comedian amassed a great fortune
In the several fields of entertainment
in which he had showed,
gave a great deal of mono? away to
charitable causes of every description
and still was generally regarded as a
millionaire. He was perhaps the largest
landowner in the motion picture
colony.
Although a prolific producer of wit
for the screen, he was active too, between
pictures, giving what he called
"lectures" all over the country, writing
for the newspapers and adtlng as
toastmaster at functions devoted to
a wide range of CftUBflS^
He lived on a rambling ranch near
the Pacific ocean, between Beverly
Hills and Santa Monica. When he appeared
at a Hollywood celebration, it
was an event. No affair could coax
him into formal evening dress. He
made "the old blue serge" double aB
a dinner jacket.
Experts said the secret of Rogers'
success was that he lived close to the
people, on and off the screen. He
fitted In any gathering.
No one was too big for Rogers to
"kid," bill there never was a lasting
sting in his "wisecracks."
News of the actor's passing left every
quarter of his adopted home dazed.
O
From an unidentified extra, who had c
telephoned to pay his tribute, to the
most important figures in th^ life of
the state, came the same expression,
"There was only one Will Rogers."
Soon after the news reached Los
Angeles, flags on all buildings were
lowered to half staff.
Will Rogers, Jr., Stanford university
student, only member of the im- "
mediate family at home, had to bear
his grief alone. Mrs. Rogers, who was
Betty Blake, of Arkansas, before she
married Rogers 27 years ago, was on
a visit to her daughter, Mary, actress,
in Maine. Jimmy Rogers, the other
son, who had finished preparatory
school, was with his mother.
. Rogers was referred to as an ambassador-at-large
from the United
States to the world.
When mentioned aa a possible candidate
for president and for governor
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