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I- f v I ATTENI) E MARION-CAMDEN GAME AT ZEMP FIELD TONIGHT AT 7:3# [vo,ume<, n Chronicle NUMBER 33 I Six Negroes Get Ten I Years For Jail Break Blx negroes who took part in un abortive break at the DeSaussure State prison farm in the north-western part of Sumter county the afternoon of April 7, 1935, today were found guilty of assault and battery with intent to kill by a Jury in general sessions court here, and each of the defendants were sentenced by Judge Grimball to serve ten years at hard labor, the limit allowed under the law. Guard Gilbert Mabaffey was shot through the stomach in the break and was at the point of death for several weeks. He was the principal witness against the sextet today. The six negroeB, Wyatt Patterson, Melvin Mitchell, Grady James, James Wilson, Willie Davis and Sam Simmons, pleaded not guilty to the charge against them and conducted their own defense. Solicitor A- F. McLeod conducted the prosecution. In the break Mahaffey killed one negro and shot down two others, both of whom recovered. Two other negroes were killed by possemen a few days later, while one was captured a few months ago in Canton .Ohio, and another was taken in North Carolina. Of the nine who made the break, therefore, three were killed, and the six others today had ten yearB tacked [ on the sentence they were serving. Mahaffey was the first witness this morning and described in graphic manner the break. Ho was outside of the main building, or stockade, he said, when a guard on the inside yelled to him that the convicts were making a break. He heard a commotion, he said, and then a crowd of negroes armed with rifles started pouring out of the door, shooting at him as they came. He grabbed his rifle, he testified, and opened fire on the convicts. Grady James was the first negro to come out, he declared, followed by Wyatt Patterson. He identified the other members of the group on trial and also Fraser Lyles, who he killed and Willie Jackson and Cornel Williams who were later killed by possemen. One of the negroes shot him in the stomach, Mahaffey Baid, but he was unable to tell which one it was. He said seven of the nine had rifles. Clarence Sharpe, the guard on the inside of the building, testified that the negroes were coming down for dinner when the group rushed him, - knocked him down and dashed into the ammunition room where they got the rifles. Eddie Wright, a trusty prisoner, and John M. Glenn, manager of the farm, also testified briefly for the Btate. Each of the six defendants testified, all admitting taking part in the break, but laying the blame on the three dead prisoners for instigating the plot.?Monday's Sumter Item. Catoe Bros. Store At Kershaw Burns Kershaw, Oct. 31.?Fire originating around the furnace in the basement of Catoe Brother's department store early this morning has been steadily burning its way from basement to ceiling all day, despite efforts of local tire department. Apparently having gained considerable headway underneath the first floor bdfore being discovered, the entire biulding has been a mass of smoke all day, hampering firemen in their efforts' to save a large stock of merchandise. Occurring just at a time when this store was stocked?. to capacity with pooris for the peak of season's trade a loss of approximately |75,000 was i?"urred. For a time concorn was felt for the adjoining building owned b-' Catoe Brother's and occupied by 'he post office. Marion To Play Here Night Game Tonight The football team from Marion hien school will play the Camden ] high school on Zemp Field at the fair j grounds herd tonight. This will~be | an exhibition game, the Camden management having Invited Marlon here 1 for the engagement. Marion is said to have a fine team j ami a better game is expected than ^ 'he one that was played under fiOOfl' , fight* here last Friday night. The. game wilT be .called at 7:30 ' o'clock and the boys are expecting a 1 hue attendance. The admission fee *ill be 25 and 60 cents. Report Of The GlnS 1 Census . report shows tMat there 1 were 9,148 bales of cotton ginned in < Kershaw county from the crop of 1986 Prior to October 18. 1986, as compared i *ith gtwnad to October 1 Cup For Good Work Presented to Sheriff Hhoritf J. H. Mcleod, of this county, wan in attendance upon the big gathering of Democrats hold ut Hotel Columbia Fuesday night to celebrate the successful drive put on for funds to finance the Democratic victory. Governor Johnson presided at tho meeting and said he wan happy to state that the Htate had gone fur beyond its quota. South Carolina was asked to raise $50,000. but at the meeting it was announced that the rund had already reached $63,291 und the grand total was expected to go around $65,000. Mrs. L. H. Jennings, national committeewoman and leader in tho appeal which was climaxed with sue? cess, was gjven a rousing ovation by those present when called upon by Governor Johnston to speak. She thanked tho workers from the entire stat? for their labors which mude the appeal a success. At the close of her talk Mrs. Jennings was presented a watch by those In attendance. Gups were awarded to Chairman T H. McLeod of Kershaw county for being the first county to reach Its quota and to Chairman Tom Pearce of Richland county for the county with the largest per cent over Its quota. ^ Watches were given to George W. Collins, Columbia, for raising $1,74606, the largest total of any one in the state, and Miss Mary Meetze, also of Columbia, for securing the largest total of any woman in the state. Miss Meetze raised $1,369.09. Governor Johnston estimated between 50,000 and 60,000 people In the state contributed, many only a very small amount but said he vras glad to represent a state where everyone took a part in forwarding Democracy whether they could give a number of dollars or only a few cents. On the cup presented to Chairman McLeod was the following inscription: "To the citizens of Kershaw county, J. H. McLeod, chairman, in appreciation of outstanding service to the Democratic party, 193?." OLIVER RICE HEADS RED CROSS ROLL CALL FOR THE COUNTY The board of directors of the Kershaw County Chapter of the American Red Cross announces the appointment of Oliver Rice as chairman for the 1936 Annual Red Cross Roll Call in this county. Mr. Rice has accepted the appointment and is laying plans for a roll call that will extend to ' every portion of the county. The public is asked to cooperate with the new chairman and help the roll call this year to meet with a wide response. Mr. Rice is a member of the Camden bar with law offices on the second floor of the Crocker building in Camden. Camden Piled Up Enormous Score . , Camden completely outclassed Bishopville here last Friday night in Camden's first night game. Camden won, 68 to 6. The Camden first team played less than one quarter, Rhame being the star of the period. Captain Grayson of the visitors fought hard but his team could not stop the drive of the Camden backs. Grayson scored on a beautiful forward pass. Negro 8hot Resisting Arrest On last Saturday night, night policeman John Welsh arrested Lawrence Truesdale, colored, on a charge of being drunk and disorderly and started with him to the city jail. When nearing the jail his prisoner began to offer resistance, using force and fighting, when the officer fired, the shot striking Truesdale In the leg between the knee and ankle, breaking It. He was taken to' the Camden hospital, where he is yet con- ( fined and resting as comfortable as could be expected.?Kershaw Era. Improving Air Port Considerable work has been done at the Woodward Air Port recently by the Airport Commission. The field , has been neatly mowed, the hanger painted and the fences overhauled. 1 The name "Camden" is conspiciously , painted on the roof of the building , which ran be seen by aviators from a long distance. The commission ex- < pects to paint the walls on the Inside of the hangar which will also be a [ nice Improvement. I^ater, they hope , to havo clay hauled to tho field to j mix with the sand, to give a firm foundation to the field, which is a j tittle "randy now. However, no defr site plans have been worked out for i Lhik latter improvement : * 1 The Woodward Air Port is regarded as one of the best In the South ind It is hoped that some day daily . mail service will be reinstated In j Camden. The improvements at the air port i were under the supervision of W. T. ] Redfearn, chairman of the County < Board and J. H. Osborne, Mayor of Camden. , \ y 111 Roosevelt Winner By Great Majority Roosevelt Reelected In Landslide A Roosevelt landslide that shook the nutlon Tuesday left but two states clinging to Republicanism. Maine and Vermont alone clutched the beaten banner of Alfved M. Random New Hampshire, after marching with him all night, finally turned into the victorious columns of Roosovelt in the morning returns to give the president a narrow lead. All the other states already had given the Democratic presidential ticket shouting majorities in the electoral college, sent new recruits to the previously top-heavy list of Democratic senate and house members. T he apparent electoral vote stood at 52a for Roosovelt, 8 for Landon. The final thinning ot the Republican ranks left them with the smallest electoral vote the party has had since the Taft debacle in 1912. faft had just 8 voteB, 88 had gone to the Bull Moosers of Theodore Roosevelt | and the rest to Woodrow Wilson. Not since 1820, when James Munroo was re-elected with just one dissenting vote in the electoral college, has there been so close an approach to unani-v mity of electors. The -New Deal plurality of popular votes seemed likely to approach 9,000,000. Of the prize packages, heavily atufTed with electoral votes, California cartie to Roosevelt by half a million; Illinois by 600,000; Michigan by 100,000; New York by more than a million; Ohio by 300,000; Pennsylvania, the strong fortress of Republicans, by 500,000. While the ' president, smiling happily, received the plaudits of supporters at Hyde Park, a message sped to him over the telegraph wires from the defeated governor of Kansas: "The nation has spoken," Landon wired from Topeka. "Every American will accept the verdict and work for the common cause of the good of our country. That is the spirit of democracy. You have my sincere congratulations." After speqding seven hours in receiving election returns?interrupted once to tell celebrating neighbors that it looked like "one of the largest sweeps" in history, Mr. Roosevelt received the I^andon message and replied that "all of us Americuns now will pull together for the common good." The Indicated electoral vote, on the basis of incomplete tabulations at that time, was 519 for Roosevelt to 12 for Landon. This, if the totals hold, would be an even more emphatic electoral college victory for Roosevelt ,than in 1932, when he broke all records up to that time by garnering 472 to Herbert Hoover'q 59. The 12 votes for London would not set a low record, however, because Taft received only eight in 1912 in , the famous three-cornered contest with Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt. In contrast to the Roosevelt sweep from coast to coast, Landon had succeeded in rolling up safe margins only in Maine and Vermont, while he held New Hampshire in a more uncertain grip. These three states accounted for the 12 electoral votes with which he was credited in the tentative tabulation. An Associated Press compilation of t#e ballots published in Thursday's papers shows that the popular vote was: Roosevelt, 23,822,442; Landon, 14,835,381. Llewellyn Talks To Legionnaires An interesting talk by Stanley Llewellyn, of Camden, a past commander of the South Carolina Department of the American Legion ana a prominent citizen of the state, was the feature of the monthly meeting of Sumter Post No. 15, American Legion, at Julian's Monday night. Mr. Llewellyn spoke of the boys of today as those on whose shoulders the burdens of the next generation would rest and .urged the Importance of starting these boys off right with the proper Ideals and objectives, so that they would be outstanding citizens of the future; The speaker referred to the importance of the Legion's Junior baseball program was playing in training the boys for future citizenship. He closed by stating that many of the toys today would "call John Riley blesse"' for the part he had played in their young lives in inculcating high ideals. (Mr. Riley, post commander of the Sumter post, has always taken a vory active part in the Legion's Junior baseball' pro-1 gram in this state.) The meeting was well attended and J a supper was held at Julian's after > the business session.?Wednesday's Sumter Item. Get-To-Gether Meet j of Business Men The city councii of the city of Camden wish to have a general get-together of the business men of Camden to discuss a very important problem affecting the progress and welfare Df the community. The council has called this meeting for Thursday, November 12, at 8 p. m. at the Hotel Camden, where a dinner will be served at the price of fifty cents , for each individtial attending. Tickets will be sold in advance and should the committee, consisting of Qeorge A. Creed, C. C. Whitaker, Sr., and J. E. McKain, fail to see you call at the hotel and secure these tickets Permit me to insist that we have a large representative attendance of the busityss men of Camflpn to discuss and formulate plans ^Orthe advance ment of our city.?sJ. H. Osborne, Mayor. Bethesds Presbyterian Church Sunday, November 8, A. Douglas McArn, pastor, the services will be as follows: Church school with classes for every age at 10 a. m. Morning worship with sermon at 11:15. 8er? rice for children'and young people at f:30 p. m. Mid-week study group on Wednesday evening at 7:80.- The public is cordially invited to all aarrices In this church. I . How They Voted In Kershaw County Kershaw county rolled up one of the largest votes Over cast in a presidential election here Tuesday. The ratio was seventy to one. The vote is given below by precincts. Republican votes were cast at only three precincts in the county. At Camden there was one Ham bright vote and four Tolbert votes. At Cassatt there were two Hambrlght votes and at Gates Ford there were thirteen Hambrlght votes: Democrat Antloch 41 Beaverdam 35 Bethune 44 Blaney 8ft Buffalo .? 111 Camden 411 Oassatt 35 Charlotte Thompson 20 dates Ford ..' .. 50 Hermitage Mill 29 Kershaw 160 Liberty Hill : 25 Lugoff .. .. .'. .7 43 Ned's Creek 81 Rabon's Cross Roads 35 Raley's Mill 34 Ratcliff's Mill 7 Shaylor's Hill 20 Three C's 63 Pine Tree 39 Westville .. .. 54 Willie Brannon's Filling Station . 15 Stockton Place 3 Stokes' School House 9 t TOTAL .. .. ..1,400 Hold Final Rites For Mrs. L. D. Ross Funeral services for Mrs. Nannie V. Ross, 53, who died at her home in Blaney Sunday, were conducted at 4 o'clock Monday afternoon from Highway Pentecostal Holiness church by the Rev. T-owie Goud and the Rev. Paul Wheeler. Interment was in the churchyard. Mrs. Ross passed away Just a few hours after funeral services had been conducted for her husband, Lawrence David Ross, who died Friday. She was a member of Highway Pentecostal Holiness church and leaves many friends who will be saddened by her passing;. She was a lifelong resident of the Blaney community.?Tuesday's State. r ?' ' To Practice Medicine Here Dr. J. W. Brunson, of Ridge Springs, a graduate of the South Carolina Medical college at Charleston, has come to Camden to practice his profession. He will have his office In the Dunn bntldtng, 520 East DeKalb street. Dr. Branson married Miss Charlotte Balmood and they are residing at 814 Laurens street ' Dedicatory Services At Old Court House The Masonic Ixidgo of Camdeu is planning their dedication ceermouies to bo hold at tho old court bouse on South Main street, for tho evening of Tuesday, November 10, when many men high in Masonic circles wilKjn) present to tuko part. For many year# tho Masons have rented rooms on the third floor of the Burns building us a gathering place. Recently they have come Into possession of tho old court house through a trude with tho city of Camden. For u long while the building was used as a I). A. It. hall, but of recent yours it had boen dlseutograting. and for a nominal sum It wus purchased from the city. The purchase hud "strings" tied to it however. One was that the exterior architecture of the building should remain the same?the other was that should the lodge disband, the property would revert to tho city-.., . A building committee was selected, composed of Dr. Joint W. Corhett, Harry 8. Porter, J. H. Osborne und i W. Robin Zemp, chairman. They wore wise in what they accomplished on the interior. The entrance is from the basement on the front?the stone steps and iron railing to tho second , floor remains the same. On the right, tho old office rooms | which housed many ancient docu-1 monts, have boen made into a lengthy dining room. Likewise, on the left | where other offices were, have been i transformed into lounge and club rooms. With It all, tho ancient archl-1 tecture on tho lower floor still stunds | out. In the basement, or flrst floor, has been used the original brijj*-1 some say handmade and alr-driod?which gives It a further touch of antiquity. On the second floor, the Judges stand, clerks desk and part of the old fashioned benches, have been remodeled to harmonize with the remainder of the building. This is tho big assembly room, where the exercises will be hold. It makes It probably one o? the most unique Masonic halls In tho South. The building was designed in 1825, by Robert Mills, noted South! Carolina architect, who also designed 1 the Bethesda Presbyterian church of this city. - - ? While remodeling thd building, workmen found under the floor on the second story an old hand-made wood plane ,that workmen left there? which it is estimated had lain in the same spot for 110 years. Placed on the walls through the efforts of the present Worshipful MasJ. E. Ross, who has not missed but i three Masonic meetings in ten years, I are sixteen uniform-sized portraits of past Woshipful Masters of the lodge, i and named in the order of their seniority are: General Joseph B. Ker-, shaw, General John D. Kennedy, Hen-1 ry G. Carrlson, Sr., Colonel W. D. J Trantham, Dr. John Wj_Corbett, C. H. | Yates, J. B. -Wallace,-R. T. Goodale, N. R. Goodale, Sr., M. L. Smith, Sr., John R Goodale, William P. Nettles, Sr., Frank D. Campbell, S. - Wylie Hogue, Dr. W. R. Clyburn and N. R., Goodale, Jr. Another portrait is that of the venerable Captain James I, Villepigue, who served as treasurer of Kershaw Lodge No. 29 for fifty consecutive years. Those who have been invited for the exercises are Grand Master J. .E. Hart, of York; Grand Secretaiy, Frank Hart and Walter Goings of Columbia, department grand masters; Major Martin, of Clemson, senior grand warden; Dr. Joe Hyde, grand warden, of Charleston, and Rev. John Graves, grand chaplain, of Darlington. John Laney Dies Cheraw, Oct. 30.?John Laney, 64 years old, was found dead in bed here this morning, heart disease. He was born In Lancaster but his boyhood was spent hero. For many years he resided at Cassatt in Kershaw county, but for the last ten years had been living in Cheraw. He was a cousin of Senator George K. Laney and Claud M. Sapp. He is survived by his widow and the following children: Lonnie Laney of Cassatt, John Laney, Camden, N. J.; I R. B. Laney and Sam Laney, Illshopville; also one brother and three sisters, Tom I>aney Tradeaville; Mrs. Effie Funderburk, Pageland; Mrs. Bert Isgett and Mrs. Earl Melton, Cheraw. Funeral services will be held In Springliill church in Lancaster county at 11 o'clock Saturday. Fire Destroys Kershaw Home The first fire to visit Kershaw in some time occurred last Saturday about noon, when the residence of Shelly Connell on south Hampton street naar the town limits was completely destroyed, except for small portions of charred framing at the front. The loss falls right heavily on Mr. Connell as there was only partial insurance on the building, the furnishings being uninsured.?Kershaw Era. Holiday For Banka | All patrons of the two banks of the city are requested to bear in mind that the banks will be closed Wednesday* November 11, tn observance of Armistice Day. rtv. :< "- 1 ^ ?-A i. > i.. . ' ' i . . ..i i , Hotel Manager Passes Suddenly Hurry Greenwood Marvin, ono of tho successful hotel managers of tho South, passed away at 10:30 o'clock Wednesday night at his home on the Hobklrk Inn grounds. He was horn ut Portsmouth, New Hampshire, .December 9, 1869. lie aturted work al^J'oland Springe, dipping water for guosts to drink. Hetumlng to Portsmouth, he was employed at the Appledore, on the isle of Shoals, as general errand hoy und utility clerk, until the owner of tho Hotel Applodoro, (his friend, Oscar Isdghton, known ub, "llncle Oscar,") now way past ninety years and at his bedside when he died, turned the hotol over to him In 1890. After tho Appledore was burned, he^> drifted away, munaging hotels at Tarpon Springs, Florida, Buffalo, N. Y., Columbia, 8. O , Hunapee Lake, New Hainpuhire and came to Camden in 1910, purchased the Hoblcirk Inn, Camden's oldest tourist <>; hotol, where he remained and managed It with marked ability until his death. He was an interesting conversationist and made his hotel have a home-like atmosphere?where tho guests came early in the winter and stayed lato In the Spring. He loaves his wife, who was Miss -- ? : i 101 eanor Campbell, Ills daughter, (Dorothy) Mrs. Carl Smith, of Boston; three brothers and one sister? Charles It. Marvin, Mt. Vernon, N. Y.; It?v. It. K. Marvin, Franklin, Mass.; T. C. Murvin, Portsmouth, N. H.; and Miss Alio? Marvin, Portsmouth, N. H. Short funeral services worp held at his home at 3:15 Thursday afternoon, and burial will be in Cedar Hill cemetery at 2:15 Friday, at Hartford, Con* nectlcut. Hartsville Man Killed Saturday W. B. Faulkenberry, 40-year-old citizen of Hartsville, was shot and killed Saturday afternoon in the Buffalo section of Kershaw county. The killing occurred near tho Chostorflold coun>ty line, and is said to have arisen over an anticipated squrrel hunt, with Mr. Faulkenberry and Amos Faile, 25year-old citizen of that Bectlon. At an InqueBt held late Saturday afternoon witnesses testified that Falle went into his home a.iul secured a shot gun, when he shot Faulkenberry In the chest while Faulkenber- __ ry Is said to have been seated under the steering wheel of his ear. Dr. Joseph B. Thomas was called from Jefferson to make the examina- ??? tlon and stated that the cause of 'rvji death was from shotgun wounds con* sisting of number three shot. Rural officer Sidney P. Watkins placed Faile J under arrest and he was brought to the Kershaw county Jail by Sheriff ^ Mcleod and Coroner Rush. The Bhootlng occurred in front of Falle's ~7~ home. * Those serving on the jury were* W. P. Rodgers, E. E. Holland, Robert Gardner, Joe GrlfTin, J. D. Munn and R. Bubanks. Their verdict was to the effect "that W. B. Faulkenberry came to his death from gunshot wounds In the hands of Amos Falle." Surviving Mr. Faulkenberry are his widow, Mrs. Maud Wright Faulkenberry; one daughter, Miss Jackie \ Faulkenberry; five brothers, three sisters, and his mother, MrB. W. Q.? Faulkenberry. Funeral services for Mr. Faulken* berry were held at the graveside In Blackmon ceraeU>r? Monday afternoon In I^ancaster county. ? . Baptist t-ead At University Columbia, Nov. 4.?Students of the Baptist faith predominate at the University of South Carolina, according to figures recently released by John A. Chase, Jr., registrar. Baptist students number 406. Second in nura- $ ber are the 386 Methodists. There are 156 Episcopalians, 83 7 ^ Lutherans, 218 Presbyterians, 53 Cath- Q*'M olios, and 54 Hobrowa at the Unlvers- , ity. Other church preferences are: A. R. P., 18; Christian, 7; Christian Science, 2; Congregational, 1; Church of Christ, 1; English Church, 1; Hollness, 4; Mormon, 1; Universallst, 1; Unitarian, 1. Only 24 in the student body of 1,400 indicated no church preference. -Wildcats To Meet In Knoxvllle _ Veterans of tho historic 81st or Wildcat Division will meet ip: NaTfonaT Reunion in Knoxyllle, TenxL, it is fitting that these dates be selected aa the Division moved into the Meuse Argonnd Sector on Kovem- her 8 and the Division loat 1,200 of & its personnel from that date to the court?'bee"