The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, February 05, 1937, Page PAGE TWO, Image 2
Trio Convicted
Swindle Chargt
Charleston, Jan. 30. Charles i
Robinson, alius .Sir Mark YY?-bsU
Jenklnsou, and Arthur Happen!*? w<?
H t; 111 e 11 (* 4 *< | to hUl'VO MlKhl yeUTS OH C
lii thij federal (Mm I tent Jury In J.ewh
hi" K. I'a , and Samuel Allen wun h?i
touted to serve two years In the sum
Institution today when they were cull
vI? tod by a jury In tin; United State
district court in council ton with tin
defrauding of Frederic < Jut tic, ?
Cincinnati, of $3o,OU0 lure last Ma;
10.
KobliiHon a fid Ha|i|>enio were ton
vlcted on the llrst and third counti
of the indict no nl, and Allen was con
vlcted on the third count only. Judgt
Frank K. Myers, at the request oi
defense ((/tinsel, directed a verdict ol
not guilty on the second cotiut, which
was withdrawn hy the goveninajii
i- rlday altcrnoon when deienne conn
se| entered a deinnrrer to It. A fourth
defendant, Flunk <". Davis, did not
appear for trial, being out on $.*>,000
bond.
On tiio llrst count, Robinson and
iiappenle were convicted of transporting
more than $0,000 fraudulently
obtained, in interstate commerce. All
three were convicted of conspiracy to
defraud Tattle and transport the
money in Interstate commerce. The
_ Indictment Is bused on the so-called
Lindbergh uci, passed in lb.'M to give
the federal government Jurisdiction in
cases in which ransom money is handled.
Judge Myers llrst sentenced Kohlnson
and iiappenle to serve eight years
each in the federal penitentiary at
Atluntu, on the lirst count and ull
three to serve two years each in Atlanta,
the second sentence in the case
of Kobinuon uud liarpenie to run concurrently
with the first, but ut the
request of District Attorney Claud N.
Sapp, who explained the defendants
are wanted on other charges in New
lork, Judge Myers placed them in a
more convenient institution.
As soon as the 11 man Jury brought
in its verdict, J. D. E. Meyer of defense
counsel, made a motion in arrest
of judgment in behalf of Allen,
he said thai in as much as the Jury
had found Allen not guilty on the lirHt
count, in which the only avert act in
the Indictment was alleged against
him, the Jury could not find him guilty
on the third count, which alleged
conspiracy to commit tin- same act.
Judge Myers, though admitting
there was an appearance of inconsistency
in the Jury's-verdict, said he I
believed the jury was satisfied beyond
a reasonable doubt on Allen's
connection with the conspiracy, and
said he could not grant a motion in
arrest of Judgment. He allowed an
exception to be noted in behalf of
Allen.
Fulmer Pushes
Cotton Measure
(Special to The Camden Chronicle)
Washington, Jail. 28.? Expressing
belief that a crop Insurance bill now
being drafted by the agriculture department
would apply only to wheat,
Congressman H. P. Fulmer of Orangeburg,
K. C., said today that he would
not support such a proposal unless It
applied to cotton.
t ulmer has introduced a crop Insurance
bill, applying to cotton and
wheat. He said that he did so In
an effort to have such a program also
include cotton.
I am in favor of crop insurance
but I can not support any measure
that does not take cotton into consideration,'
declared the congressman.
My bill serves notice of my iutent
ions."
I he I- uluter MM would levy a premium
of one-fourth of one cent on cot
ion a pound, and two cents a bushel
on wheat to finance crop insurance
for the two commodities. It also would
appropriate $ 1 o0,uoo.wt?o to set up an
initial national crop insurance fund.
Ibis bill is not compulsory, but will
ui\t- cotton farmers an opportunity to
protect themselves from the loss of
their ?rops. from druurht, flood, boll
wee\il infest at ion. or other causes,
.-talis Mr Fulmer. '
$10 MONTHLY RAISE FOR
TEACHERS IS APPROVEC
Columbia Chairman N't vdle Hen
lo t raid Twe>da\ nigh; the ways and
means committee had decided to jn
corporate a $ 1?? a month raise foi
t> at hers in the general approprlut iot
bill.
The committee felt that teacher:
of t he state were entitled to a raisi
and the action of the committee In ap
proving it for them was practical!;
unanimous," Bennett said.
1 he slate, general appropriation bil
is scheduled to be introduced in tin
legislature this week end.
1 he new United States heavy cruif
er, 10,000 tons, Vlncennes, recentl
huilt at the Quincy,' Mass., yards c
the Bethlehem Steel company at
cost of $15,000,000, is to be commit
^ sioned February 23.
YE OLD DAYS
When Country Publishers Were lr
^ Dire Need of Funde.
i Hy Joint Jv King, In llidiU't, < uM
'r font In NtiwH)
? Muyliups times urn different, olid
' tlio Western Newspaper I'lilon In
*' more kindly to didfinjlii'iit publishers
1 than were tlin "i>at?'iil inside" ogres
u of (Ih* old day. Of this I have no
1 personal knowledge
H AIouk in I In* early part of ISV.t I
" bought "patents" from flit* Sioux City
' Newspaper ITaoii, and (IiIh coin 'it'll
k had ihc disagreeable Iiuhit of waiting
only .'10 days for Km money. The llftli
shipment, In tin- vent of non-pay*
* iniMii, wan sent C. O 1)., and the local
express agent seemingly was in
J cahoots with the economic royalists,
' sincq neither (earn nor cajolery inude
'ja dent in his Htolid Indifference.
1 In the old days country publishers
^ had at ccHs to little chhIi, and, fortunately,
reipiired hut little. Many subs<
libers and merchants were oil a
"t radW'v basl s, and it wau the general
rule to aettle advertising hills quarterly,
making a Icing hiatus between
collection periods. "After harvest"
was the lush time for creditors, and
for at least eight months of the year
neither farmer nor merchant was over
burdened with cash.
Thus came the fifth week. The
Lurch wood Leader should have apI
peured Thursday afternoon, hut the
"insides" were still in the careful cusj
tolly of Ihc express agent Like Mr.
Mlcawher, hopefully waiting for something
to turn up, the editor closed
j shop Thursday evening and went to
ja church fair, investing 25 cents for
a ticket on a mustang pony. Two
tickets, one held hy the editor, remained
in the hat, and as one of
them would he awarded the pony, the
holder of the other ticket stopped proceedings
to announce that he would
give $15 for the editor's ticket. The
offer was too good to refuse, and it
is worth mentioning that when the
drawing was concluded the other fellow,
a young Englishman, was the
winner.
With the $15 tightly clasped In his
hand the editor rushed to the express
office, woke up the agent, paid the
$14.GO C. O. I). charges against the
ready-prints, walked a mile to get the
roller boy out of bed. finished the two
runs on the Acorn press (father of
the Washington) and had the issue
of the Leader in the poatoffice at 8
o'clock Friday morning.
The editor required subsequent favors
of Providence, since the same situation
arose the next month. The
outlook for redemption of the readyprints
was dismal, yet on the Thursday
evening train came a check for
$15 from the Louisiana Lottery company,
representing payment for three
months' advertising. It was as welcome
as would have been announcement
of the winner of the capital
prize.
In the third embarrassment the ex-,
press agent had a scintillating idea.
"Why not borrow $15 from the bank?"
he suggested. The editor had never
borrowed money from a bank, and it
was with fear and trembling he stood,
hat in hand, before the president's
window and made known his need for
money. The banker hesitated, using
with devastating effect the famous
glass-eye expression, but finally decided
he couldn't loan $15, as $25 was
the minimum for loans. This amount
he was willing to loan, provided a
chattel mortgage was given. It seemed
to be a satisfactory solution of the
difficulty, and after deduction of a
charge of $1 for making out a mortgage,
$1.25 for recording fees, and
interest at the rate of 12 per cent for
DO days, approximately $2?i was paid
the editor, and the Leader was issued
on time.
In tin long perspective as a country
publisher may be shown the gradual
exolution from a system of barter to
a business-like operation of the newsI
paper. It is not likely that the old
plan would work nowadays. The
credit man and the sheriff are too
active, and the publisher is no longer
regarded as an object of charity.
Manx may he tin- t'railuies of the
country editor, hut in the new day
. of business necessity, he usually pa>s
his debts or goes the way of other
Iinaiu ial delinquents.
' OWENS-PiTTS
A marriage of interest to their
I i many tre nds was that of Miss Annie
i Louise Owens, of Westxiile. to Kos.
j coo R Pitts, also of Westville, on
^ t January 27. at 4 o'cloek. The core
mony was performed hy Judge of Pro
bate N. Arnett.
Mrs. Pitts is the attractive duugh
ter of Mr and Mrs W. H. Owens
of Westville.
Mr. Pitts is a suc/essful young busi
^ ness man and the youngest son oi
^ Mr. and Mrs C. U. Pitts, of Westville
They will continue to make theii
home in Westville.
i- __
y A treasury report aays that shoult
>f relief be continued at the pace of th<
a last six months, President Roosevel
will need $700,000,000 for the rest o
I the fiscal year ending June 30.
TO CAROLINA WOOD8 AND
FIELDS
i
i My (Jrace Hendrlck Fustis In Hull
day's New York Times)
Tin- worse the wcuther for tin
skiers, (lie happier are the sportamei
' Id the Carolina*. Am they -totrldi
across billiard-green Kolf courses 01
' amble through rusl-coloro? woodi
they in ill tor happily (hat while lusi
VYI liter wan paradise for the hiiow
hirdh, iIiIm Im their year to gloat.
So the act i vlties that enrich thr
pockets of the <'aroliniaiiH und uceu
py the time of the wealthy transient*
are already In awing. Golf tonruu
meiits tit Pinehurst are filling up.
Preparations are going on for the two
annual Camden hunt race meetings.
I'olo ponies are cutting the turf of
the twenty-six Aiken polo fields and
the Southern Pines Drag Hunt Is anticipating
big fields.
People who go to the Carolines for
the winter montliH differ from (hone
who swarm to Florida. The man who
inakeH Iduo from bis gasoline station
in New England during the summer
and wants to take his family in a
trailer to where the sun beats on the
sand does not stop there. Nor does
the broker who wants night-club life
und constant contact with the market
choose the long wooded hills. Put
for the hunter and horse lover the
bright air and the hard, gusty wiud,
dry and strong with the scent of
pines, the great area of forest and
swamps, the scrub oak and the lields
of tawny broom sedge are ideul.
Horse lovers find in the Mid-south
centers many variations of their favorite
sport?the hunts, the steeplechases,
flat, hurdle and brush ruces.
[Here that odd mixture of sports called
the gymkhana brings enjoyment
to many, with its pig races, tilting
contests, ribbon and water races. Not
far from Asheville, N. C., about 2UU
bucks were killed this winter in the
deer hunts.
Besides romantic Charleston, the
major winter resorts in the Carolinias
are Aiken and Camden, S. C. p
Southern Pines and Pinehurst, N. C.
These last two can be bracketed because
they are less than ten miles
apart and in their sporting opportunities
supplement each other. Of the
four, Camden is the oldest (it was
settled in 1733); Aiken is considered
by many the most fashionable; Southern
Pines leads in fox hunting; Pinehurst
has the most varied golf. One
thing all have in common?Northern
money and enthusiasm have created
or re-created them.
In between these resorts lie miles
of the finest natural quail-shooting
country in the United States. Any
one motoring down the flat stretches
of road between November and March
will see men with bulky hunting jackets
and visored caps shouldering their
guns and following their dogs through
the dust-colored cotton fields.
Camden was originally a pinestump
village settled by a group of
Irish Quakers early in the' eighteenth
century. Because it was dry and sunny
and fertile, the fine gentlemen of
Charleston, who spent much time exploring
the back country, settled
there. It has had a colorful history.
Twelve ravaging fires between 1779
and 1902 destroyed the court house,
the market-place, the opera house and
the theatre. It was a battleground
during the Revolution and in the path
of Sherman's march. Until the Civil
War, the rich Southern life, with its
hunts and balls, slaves and crinoline
and glamour, flourished there.
Occasional old plantations survived
the Civil war, and the town had its
gracious houses with tall ceilings,
broad and frequent windows, double
porches facing the prevailing wind,
wide-boarded floors, built on different
levels, and high, simple mantels. But
there was little life.
Then, one winter, Harry Kirkover,
of Buffalo, ranie down with his bird
dogs. He had raised eleven generations
of pointers and setters and wanted
a place to train1 them in winter.
Soon he was joined by his friend Ernest
Woodward, of Deroy, X. V Together
they saw the possibilities of
this sleeping town and went to work.
First they bought property. Then
they restored what had been the
|t ainden Race Course in Revolutionary
days, when the planters bought
their ponies Irotn the Chickasaw In
diatis. They leveled and fertilized
and sowed bushels of bright Bermuda
urass They built jumps of chestnut
tails and brush and miles of slick
white barriers.
This development brought horse!
and trainers and their retinues Mr
Woodward presented a Queen Annt
t up to the winner of the Cnrolinf
('up. U?st year more than 100 raet
< horses were in training there w!tl
1 some 2..> additional show horses anc
J hunters. Now the drag hunt, undet
f the mastership of Mrs. IJwight Part
. ridge, goes out with big fields Then
r are hunter trials and horse shows.
Southern Pines and Pinehurst ar<
as strange a pair of neighbors at
1 can be found. Pinehurst is a large
3 up-to-date Winter resort, offering ver;
t fine golf on several courses, large ho
f tels, good shooting, riding and annua
field trials for hunting dogs. Foundet
Tlmrod Club Met
The Tlmrod Home Demonstrat Ion
! club held Ith January uieetliiK on Jan.nary
26, at 2:30 j), in., at the school
house, with twelve members beluK
present.
I The meeting was called to order by
I the president, Miss Alma Newman.
1 All Joined in singing, "Ulest He The
j Tie." Mro J (J. Squires read the do'
I votlonal, followed by the lord's
prayer. The roll was culled, minutes
read and approved. The meeting was
then turned over to Miss Margaret
II. Fewell, Home Demonstration
1 Agent, who gave us the picture studied
for the month, which was the
"Northeaster," by VVinslow Homer, a
j beautiful study of a storm tossed
I wave. This picture hangs fn the
Metropolitan Museum in .New York
city. The your books were completed
and we also worked on our project
cards. Miss Fewell then made a very
interesting talk on "Iteflnishing of
Furniture."
in 1896 by James Tufts, who built a
home there for indigent teachers, it
has become a commodious transient
resort.
Southern Fines is unique. It is
called a resort in spiCe of an apparent
desire not to be discovered. It
does not seem to want wealth in the
community. It was developed from
a small town built along a llat highway.
James and Jackson Boyd of
Harrisburg, Pa., inherited from their
father some 1,300 acres of woodland
and pasture. As boys they came
down in the winter and hunted with
a salty fox-hunting enthusiast called
Captain Twiddy from Buffalo. The
latter had five couple of hounds and
a negro huntsman, "Uncle Nat," who
slept in the stall with his pony.
Uncle Nat was a real Southern
fox hunter. He called in his hounds
with a great, carved cow horn. He
hunted on foot, except during a hot
run, and his pony followed him
through the swamps and bogs of the
low country.
Not only fox-hunting was primitive
and lively in those days. This section
was cattle country and there
used to be bitter feuds between the
farmers and the townspeople. The
townsfolk would refuse to protect
their gardens on the grounds that the
cattlemen should keep their stock
fenced. The result would be that the
cattle would eat the garden produce,
the townsmen would impound the cattle
and the countrymen wpuld come
into town, with blazing shotguns and
plenty of corn whisky, while the
townspeople fled to their cellars.
With this background and a love
of sport, the Boyds started about 1914
to build up a sanctioned hunt. They
paneled the country with good fences;
they put strips of chicken wire across
the swamps so horses could cross
without bogging down; they bred
English harriers to American foxhounds
and developed a pack superbly
equipped for hunting the native
gray foxes.
After much experiment they
evolved an ingenious form of drag
hunt which emulates a run in a fox
hunt and eliminates the monotony of
the average drag hunt. They encouraged
a few persons to buy and build
and have succeeded in keeping Southern
Pines small, simple and sportloving.
There is a hotel and there
are pleasant cottages and a golf
course, but there are few attractions
except hunting.
Finally, there is Aiken, the most
worldly of the resortB. Since these
places have taken on, to a certain extent,
the color of those people who
built them up, Aiken has the grace
and ease of generations of inherited
wealth.
It was discovered in the Eighteen
Seventies by Miss Celestine Eustls of
j New Orleans and Washington as a
j winter health resort for her delicate,
orphaned niece. Louise Eustis, who
! subsequently married Thomas Hitchcock.
From a small village surroundI
ed by immense pines and red clay,
'Jasmine and magnolias, it was built
up, in the beginning, by two families,
'the Eustises and the Whitneys. They
bought houses and woodland. Miss
, Eustis was determined to keep the
. deep woods a refuge from traffic. Consequently.
when the Southern Rail.
| road wanted to build a line to a neigh(i
boring town through . a particularly
{ attractive spot called "Lover's I^ane,"
she told a South Carolina court that
if this were done she would give all
her property to the negroes. The pro?
ject was dropped.
Today the houses there are com
tollable and well furnished. There
i are good hotels. There is an excel5
lent and meticulously cared for golf
t , course. There are, outdoor and indoor
1 | tennis courts. The riding through
r the Hitchcock woods is inviting. The
drag hunts have big and safe jumps.
3 , There are schooling tracks for steeplechasers
and now thero is a track
s for trotting horses. There are good
a schools for boys and girls and for
i, small children. There Is a court ten7
ni8 court and good shooting. It Is
y- a comjfttte resort and draws, during
1 a long and well-filled season, the best
i sporting blood In the country. %
Charlotte Thompson Honor Roll
Grade 1?Tommy Rogers, Herbert
Sinclair
Grade 2?Bogan Dees, Mary Howard
Hancock.
Grade 3?Leonard Baker, Evelyn
Branham, Thelma Sinclair, J. C.
Stokes.
Grade 4?Julia B. Arrants, Betty
Jean Sowell.
Grade 5?John Cannon, Margaret
Pearce, James Walker.
Grade 6?Martha Dennis.
Grade 7?Lillian Shiver.
Grade 8?Lila Baker.
Grade 10?lx)is Dixon, Margie Shiver.
Grade 11?Carrie Baker, Raymond
Dennis, Lila Dixon, Mary Moseley.
A large seashell does dot make a
noise like the sea. We only Imagine
that It does. What actually happens
Is that the shell acts as a resonator,
or loud speaker, which picks up the
slight sounds that are constantly
going on all around us and amplifies
them to an audible pitch.
The trial of seventeen persons,
charged with conspiracy, began at
Moscow on Saturday. Confessions ot
guilt by some of the accused, is expected
to cut the trial to four or fiT?
days, with a number of the defendants
facing a firing squad.
Sir George Burton Hunter, 91, "the
grand old man of the Tyne," builder
of the Mauretania, is dead at Newcastle-on-Tyne,
England. ?
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