Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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[ (Continued From Bage One) : *iflHT8 RETURN TO r,? COUNTY CHAIN GANG i niked to other convicts in thlB Hp end inspected the steeping qunr 8j\he mew hell, and I am frank in fEw that Mix haa exercised an ! Itlonul spell over the New Jersey ! thorite, ?b his report of camp ILitleH, mh well a? hie version of ttrr(.st and imprlBomuent, 1m a tielZ of Hea. i checked the recorde in the historic courthouse in Camden. In the hist [ !iact, MU is not 1? y??r? of age. He I to nearer 25 if hlB own statement on ,he witness staud was correct. The 5urt records show that Mix was tried I February, 1936, for criminally aa LltluK * 14-year old girl. Testimony I further revealed to the Jury in the case that Mix's crime Was further intenslfled by the transmission of a loathsome disease to the young girl. Mix was sentenced to ten years in prison or on the chain gang. % was placed at the prison camp and Worked on a road crew for seven months < until he made Me escape. Hecbutly ht was learned that he had been seen at Patereon, N. J., and a request was made to the police there to take him i tato custody. When peputy Sheriff f j, H. McLeod, Jr., and Deputy S. P. kWatkins went to Paterson to take Mix into custody and return him to the prison camp, Governor Hoffman de cllued to honor the request of the South Carolina governor for extradl, tlon. I found the prison camp six miles north of Camden on the Charlotte, N. 1 C. road. It is on an eminence and in a grove of tall pine trees. Outside of a low Wire fence surrounding the five acres, the area resembles a modern construction camp and on this chilly day of niy. visit, all buildings on the property were comfortably warm. E. L. Moseley Is superintendent of the camp,, and M. P. Owens is yard foreman. There are 37 convicts now In custody, and 34 of them are on road duty and three of them on yard duty. Luther Hilton was on yard duty when I sought him out with permission from the foreman. No one Interrupted my conversation with the negro, who will.spend the remainder of his natural life In the pine grove. "Sure, I like it fine here captain," said Hilton, in answer to my inquiry. "Of course, I'd much rather be at home taking care of my old mother." "They treats me fine, I gets plenty to eat and at night I have enough blankets to keep me warm, even if they didn't have stoves in the steel trailers where we sleep. We works five and a half days each week, but never on a rainy day, or when it gets real cold." I asked Hilton if he knew Mix, and when he replied In the affirmative, I Inquired if Mix was bad, and he replied, "Yes sail, that nigger was always' up to some degjltry, and wanted us to make a break to escape with hiufl} Some of the fellows did, but "they got "them all back here 'ceptin' Mix." " Foreman Owens Btated that when Mix entered camp, he was a constant source of trouble. He was stubborn and refused to work. "The story that Mix was terribly beaten two and three times a week is ridiculous," said ' Owens. The quarters in which the convicts sleep are steel trailer like affairs with heaters and toilet facilities. They are i warm in the winter and cool In the i summer. The mess hall is clean and I well arranged, while the kitchen is : modern, and when I was there, redeblent with the odor of freshly baked Lcornbread. The average'breakfast menu of the convicts consists of: Hominy with I gravy, corn bread and coffee; for dinner: Pork and beans, bacon, bread [and syrup; and for supper: Bacon, eggs, cabbage, or some other vegetable and buttermilk. An interesting feature of the camp t h the shower room. This is a separ?*te building with concrete floor, equipped with a battery of five ghowwith both hot and cold water. t There is also a laundry where the clothing of the convicts Is washed. [ The camp also has its own water |^.works system with running water and \every building and trailer is lighted hith electricity. r The commissary is another separate anit wherein lis stored pork and other food used in the dicing service. There la also a poultry yard with scores of [Chickens and a hog yard with a dismay of prize-winning hogs, several of pfkich tip the scales at 670 pound*. * ' Ever since the Kershaw county ctnp was established it has been the *bject of those la charge, and the aim the county officials to conduct it ea^^This^tAtement J*?* to be borne out by replies made Kwai other convicts whom I ^jjy^^They inhumed axe that they y .v ? ?? i IIII?i^^^gcl.n.l..i .. (Continued From Page One) CLYDE CUNNINGHOM DIES IN GUN BATTLE and aomo of the woarablen taken from the laundry were recovered Saturday. Death of Bandit Said Justified Uuatoniu, N. C-, Dec. 19?A coro ner'? Jury today decided that the slaying of Clyde Cunningham, 34-year-old South Carolina gunman, by offcora near here Friday wuh Justified. While Cunningham's unclaimed body lay in a mortuary the Jury decided that he wuh a victim of "Justifiable homicide" at the hands of officers "acting in line of duty." .v.Sheriff J. H, Mcleod, of Camden, 8. C., atate patrolmen Jim Wallace, of Charlotte, Fred Hill of King's Moun-1 tain and Graham Stevens of Aaheville, testified that Cunningham after a long chase promised to surronder | after his car had been stopped but Huddenly opened lire and slightly wounded police chief J. A. Burns of King's Mountain before he was shot to death. Police chief W. 8. Rlkard of Cayce, S. C., a Columbia suburb, testified that Cunningham held him up last Friday afternoon and robbed him of his automobile and pistol. He said Cunningham drove directly from Cayce to the western edge of Columbia and there robbed a roadside inn. He said Cunningham was wanted for a $300 dry cleaning robbery in Camden -xermnily? - ? ^ ~ Funeral Rites For Cunningham Kershaw, Dec. 21.?Funeral services were held at Westville today for Clyde Cunningham,''34, of Camden, who was killed in a gun batle with North Carolina officers near Gastonla Friday night. He was buried beside the body of his mother, who died last June. I The services were held at the grave in Damascus Mbthodlst church cemetery, conducted by the Rev. L. D. Hamer, Kershaw. Cunningham was born and reared at WeBtville, and visited there shortly before his death last week. Appreciate Soil For Success Of Land Clemson College-?-Lack of knowL edge and appreciation of the soil itself is the biggest reason many South Carolina farmers have let more than half the topsoil on their fields wash away, says D. W. Watkins, director of the Extension Service of Clemson -college.? ; =? Just as a carpenter must know the kind of lumber he Is working with, the farmer needs to know the kJpd of soil he has if he is to farm It intelligently as well as save It from washing away. He needs to consider [the thickness and texture of the rich layer of topsoil as well as the subsoil beneath. He needs to consider the slope of the land over each field, how badly the soil washes away and how much of it is already gone. "There are some soil types in the state where farmers on badly eroded land are managing to eke out a living farming almost In the subsoil. 1 he most striking proof I know of the importance of the particular soil." Director Watkins says, "is to examine soil on a continuously cultivated slope where the topsoil Ib likely two Inches thick then go to a nearby wooded slope to find from 8 to 12 inches of good topsoil. "Eyen within a single field there is a big difference in soils and in the extent of erosion, because, over the field there are steeper slopes from which practically all the topsoil has been washed," he continues. "These badly eroded steep slopes need to be retired to thick-growing crops, while more level areas below are still good for careful farming. A careful study and survey of the soil on each farm has proved one of the most impot tant steps In the whole-farm approach of controlling erosion that is now being demonstrated in erosion control areas over the state." Finland, on Tuesday marked the 20th anniversary of her Independence with a big celebration. Christmas week, is a holiday flirlod. be warm and get plenty to eat. and not a truck leaves the camp. Thb convicta pitch horse shoes, baseball, and in general, amuse thefinselves. This pounds of turkey will be served for Christmas dinner. ^ "" To bear out my findings regarding the conditions at the Kershaw prison camp. I talked with several salesmen who called at the office while I was theft to sell supplies used at the 4*mp. These men informed me that Che Kersfca* camp la one of thb beat in the south from every viewpoint I have talked with men in authority at the time that Mi* was arrested mad they are eniie emphatic in etatlac. - fcn&sr : And this is the county to tWrlAl?a>0M?torT toM by - - ^?I !| . DEAR'S j i CHRISTMAS DOLL i By Helon Galsford Waterman DEAR was really too big to play with dolls. Yet, when fche said that all she wanted for Christmas was a really nice doll, of course mama and everyone gave in. People ulways were nice to Dear, probably because Dear was so nice. That was why everyone called her "Dear" instead of by name. Such a doll, on Christmas morning, with real eyelashes, and long *curls. It could walk, talk, and sleep. And it had a whole truck of lovely dresses and shoes, and a little fur coat. Dear dashed down to see it first thing Christmas morning, and then, when breakfast was over, she got her wraps, dressed the doll in its fur coat, and set out with its trunk under one arm, and it in the other. "She's so proud, she has to show ; it to her friends," smiled mama. But when Dear returned, she had neither doll or trunk. "Why, Dear," said mama, "where's your doll?" "I gave it away," Dear anwered. "1 do hope you won't mind. You see, I knew a little ' girl who had never had a doll in her whole life, and I wanted so to give her one on Christmas." "But Dear, why , didn't you say so? We could have bought one that would have been good enough, and you could have kept yours." "That's why, mama," Dear explained. "It had to be just the nicest doll ever, to be fun. And oh, mama," she cried, her face beaming with happiness, "did you ever see a poor little girl with her first lovely Christmas present?" ? Western Newspaper Union. 1 The Christmas Party 1 f j: By Katharine Edclman J IN SPITE of the gay music, the Christmas atmosphere, Doris Brian was miserable. For the first time in his life Dick was neglecting her for some one else. Ever since the first dance he seemed to have eyes and ears for just one person?Barbara Overton, a visitor from Chicago. Doris couldn't understand it; Barbara was not even pretty. Bu. there was Dick, hanging on every word she was saying, and leaving Doris unnoticed. Only yesteiday he had been suggesting that they' get carried. There was his writing; he had tola her something would come from it before long. Editors couldn t keep saying "no" forever . . . But now he seemed to have forgotten that she even existed. Doris had heard of men growing suddenly infatuated like that . . . Snatching a wrap she hurried out on the veranda. She couldn't bear the gayety another moment. Suddenly she felt herself whirled around. Dick had come quickly through the doorway. "I've got the whole dope from her," he was saytpg excitedly. "I'm on the -way to riches. Don't you know she s THE Barbara Overton who took first place in the biggest contests last year?and, honey?she's put me right on the track. I'm going to win big money next year--you see if I don't. Doris, are you willing to take a chance, and marry me right away?to make it a Christmas wedding?" Which was exactly what Dons did. ? Western Newspaper Union. DADDY NO SAINT "Mama, isn't Santa Claus ' a saintr' "Yes, dear." "I knew I was right. Johnny sahT that Santa was only your father and I told him I knew thai Santa wasn't daddy 'cause he's nc saint." HOLLAND'S SANTA GIHHILDREN of Holland believ< that St. Nicholas was a kind hearted Spanish bishop who ha< heard about thair land of dikes windmills and tulips and decide< to pay it a visit, says Johan Har in "Picture Tales from Holland.' Be firrtwd thereWng years ago ei g^m^^M>d^^an^gvi^ chfl always returned on that night to fll the wooden shoes of Dutoh ohOdrsi *1* iAllflsaii | n * i*viW13Mh5Si|gt&'4aBBfrg* . jjf ^ . *. Ij BUCKLES if! |!j By Luclla B. Lyons ii Timothy brown knew not I u soul In Hartsburg well enough to merit an invitation to a Christmas dinner, for he hud 1 opened the little shoe repairing j cubby hole in the postoitlce build- J ing only ten days previous to the j holiday. And the little restaurant | served no turkey either, for they | had probably figured everyone ( would be eating elsewhere. Rather blue and unhappy, Timothy slipped back to his workbench, there to get caught up on the avalanche of work that had poured in upon him. The first pair of slippers?yes, he remembered the pale, thin little girl that had brought them in. "My aunt bought them for 25 cents at an auction of secondhand things in the city and sent them to me; but they do need repairing before I can wear them. But I've only 25 cents to my name ?could?would you repair them for that amount, Mr. Brown?" Of course, he assured her that it wouldn't cost that?not to her, of the sad and wistful eyes! "Why, I may be a shoe rebuilder, but if those buckles aren't worth a fortune then I'd better get out of this business," he shouted to the empty little room as he suddenly discovered the winking little buckles were not of the dime store variety. Luck was with him when he sent a messenger for the poor girl owner of the second-hand slippers, and at the jeweler's home the pair were in luck?the expert in gems told them that the buckles would positively remove the girl out of the pauper class, for they were really worth a fortune. Happy and merry Christmases may come and go, but Timothy will never be lonely again, for the lucky little girl later said "yes" to Timothy, not out of gratitude but because of love at first sight. ? Western Newspaper Union. X > XI***.* ----- "w "jngMdiy * PfWSl Christmas Carols 9 a a By Katherine Edelman M gj fi i ini iflii" l WARREN ELMORE was mad?angry through and through. For the first time i his business career he had had a quarrel with -his partner. Of course it had hpen all Peter's fault, bul even that thought didn't help so very much. The old saying, "It takes two to make a quarrel" kept bothering him. What was it that his wife had told him" to get at Grant's? He . asked himself the question as he entered the big department store. Hose for Muriel, that was it! Bother Christmas shopping, aqyway; why didn't Beverly tend to things herself? As he walked down the crowded aisles, he was conscious of music from the balcony. - An orchestra was up there playing Christmas carols. Warren Elmore forgot his peeve against the world; he hurried up and joined the . happy crowd. His voice joined in "O Little Town of Bethlehem." It was followed by the glorious "Adeste Fideles." Then came "Silent Night." As its beautiful strains filled the store Warren Elmore was conscious that all anger was disappearing from his heart . . . He wanted to get back to the office, to slap old Peter on the back, and tell him they were a pair of fools for letting such a small thing interfere with their friendship . . . And man-like, he purchased six pairs of hose for Muriel instead of three on the way out. A store that took time and thought foi Christmas carols should be rewarded a little bit, lti believed. ? Western Newspaper Union. KEEPING TREE FRESH ! IF A Christmas tree is set in water when it first comes in-; to the house and is kept in water : while it is part of the Christmas decoration, it will remain fresh ' and green for at least a week longar. Water should be replaced - - - aa it evaporates. If the base of a Christmas tree is trimmed with ; a sharp kmfe-4u?t^before it is ; mounted, the pores will be left open, allowing water to rise in [ the stem to the living cella which. are still trying to proyide the ' tree with food and moisture. ; Spruce and fir retain their needles longer than 'most other Christmas trees. .Popcorn B&il Decorations I Popcorn balls, wrapped in re , and green tissue paper, silver pi i per or glistening cellophane, an t "piled in ? decorated basket, mak ' attractive centerpieces for Chris r nas ^dlnnar or party table*.. r- small favor may be placed in eac i tyft, to add ^ntorast^at^s^ parj 0 vH|Pc.'||iUW DgBUy OtZLfclTsOTit# mi SFSSK CAMDEN CITY SCHOOL HONOR ROLL FOR SECOND 8IX WEEKS Grade 1-A ? koscoo bonsai, Hi llie Coxe, DHlle Holland, John Lindsay, Mendel Robinson, Clyburn Shaylor, Murt Whltaker, John Walker McFadden, John Zeinp, Martha Arranls, Lynn Roykln, Nancy DePasB, Ida Mc' Dowell, Mary Alice West. Grade I B?Marvin Blackwell, Carl Brown, Delraa ParfaerTCTB. Hodgors, Danny Rush, Joksg Smith, Virgil j Thompson, Nancy Brown, Evelyn Campbell, Evelyn Morris, Betty Jean Myers, June Robinson. Grade 2-A?Junior I^ie, Sophia Beleos, Virginia Campbell, Margaret Kirklnnd, Patricia Maddox, Barbara Hodgers, Venetls Truemlale, Mary Alice Gettys. Campbell, Margaret Kirkland, Patricia Maddox, Barbara ROdgers, Venelis Truesdale, Mary Alice Gettys. Grade 2-B?Bobby Copeland, Josephine Carter, Elizabeth Hendrix, L. J. Amerson. Grade 3-A?Stoney Campbell, Jackie Karesh, Bobbie Langston, Roy Sgott, Edward Thompson, Carolyn] Campbell, Lois Coxe, Bobbie Gene Massebeau, Margaret VanLanding-j ^ ham. Grade 3-B?Jack Harper, Doris Parker, Dorothy Rabon, Minnie TidI well. ; Grade 4-A?Donald Campbell, John . deLoach, Skottowe DePass, Harry Gandy, Chapman Graham, Bobby Hor? ton, Tommy Little, Ted Marshall, 8am ' Nicholson, Barbara Ray, Katherine ; Sheorn, Virginia Stokbs. Grade 6-A?Trlppet Boineau, William Reasonover, Frank Rush, Wylie Sheorn, Joe Tobin, Charlie %en)p, Mary Langston, Fay Lomansky, Joyce 8mith, Teresa VanLandlngham. Grade 6-A?Baynard Boykin, Brlant Cox, Thomas Massebeau, Billy Waters, Betty Huckabee, Carolyn Owens, Doris Rush, Frances West. Grade 7-A?Billy Smith, Betty Har ln, Ethel Anne Mauldln, Carolyn Pitts, Betty Jane Sarratt. Grade 8-A ? Arti& Dixon, Patsy Trantham, Juanlta Godwin, Cary Guthrie, Mary Nell Hall, Beverly Hendrix, Virginia Jennings, Mary Pitts, Dora Robinson, Gwendolyn Shirley, Sarah Thompson. Grade 8rB?Charles Bpln9.au, _Cly<J? Boykin, John Clements, Herbert HechL Lester Robinson, Pat Thomp son, Kirby Tupper, Bobby Bell. Grade 8-C?William Mullen. Wal ?! lace Rector, Alva Rush, Frank Sulli van, Nellie Jordan. Grade 9-A?Frances Rhame, Wil Ham Clarkson, Wilma Christmas, Loli d Gaakln, Norma Parker, Annie Le< 4. Pettus, Mary Smith. .Grade 9-B?Rachel Nell. e Grade 9C?Betty Munn, Charle t- McCaakill, Retta McDowell. J Grade 10-A?Phyllis Kareeh, t>rex j* nan Brown. William Brown, Le ? Mima, Voncile Conyprs. Grade ll-A?Aileen Belk, Julian Culvern, Benjamin Gettys. Grade ll-B^Jack Richards, George West, John Carl West, Mareida Rector, Mattio Roberts. When the lawmakers stop lynching capital and industry, capital and industry will he emboldeped to try to do business, and when there is more business, there will he more jobs, more money paid out for wages, raw materials, more buying, more prod notion, more income for government; but as long as capital and Induetrpis subject to being hamstrung by restrictive regulations and constantly Increasing taxes, there is not much left to enconrage capital and labor to try to do business. - ???<, CONSERVING SOUTHERN FORESTS Atlanta, Qe., Deoember ? "Southern Hallway Sy?tem-"-Ttie Flonoer Railroad In Forestry" la the title of an attractive leaflet Maimed by the System and llluatratod by vlowa In the Southern Hallway Demonstration Forest. The leaflet tolls of the continued lutereat of the management of the railroad In preserving a perpetual supply of forest products In the territory served by Ith linen, urging 8lash Pine Tree* ? Southern Railway Forest? 11 Years from 8eed. all owners of timber lands to practice cousorvatlvo forestry. Southern Hallway SyBtom haB not merely advocated sound forestry by others, but, since 1925, has been operating a demonstration forest on 11,043 acros at Pregnall, S. C. On this land, which has boon owned by the Company and Its prodecosflor companies for more than a contuny, there was a thrifty stand of pine, principally second-growth. Fire linos plowed around and i throughout tho forest and cleaned' up annually have almost completely eliminated fire k?m. There were on the land on JVM 1, 1926, 1,776,069 pine trees four' inches or more to diameter at breast height. Up to September I, 1937, 81.011 tree# have bean cul (or lumber uud poles and 8.889 cords of pulpwood were salvage*; from thu|r tops. Ixmgleaf trees nine Inches and over In diameter ere being worked for naval stores prior 10 ooing cui ror poms and pulpwood. Hlush pines hove been planted In the cleared fields and in areas with sparse stands. The illustration shows trees over 85 foot high aud 6 to 10 Inches in diameter at 11* years from the seed. As _ n result of fire prevention natural resoedlng has taken place in all parts of the forest. There are now 3,988,000 pine trees in the forest and Its value has been Increased by I,- 1 231.000 trees added by plantings and natural reseeding, plus twelve years' growth on the 1.697.048 trees of the original stand remaining in the forest. This forest is accomplishing its purpose of demonstrating the practicability of growing pine troos profitably on large tracts or on farm woodlands in the South by showing that a properly managed forest will yield an a n n u a 1 profit aud continually increase in value. It is constantly being visited by forest ore, timber operators, students and t h o r s Intnrnutn,! In I h a limit %wa u?i vm ? # *? " " lems thut havo been worked out. Visitors are always welcomo. * In connection with Dr. Charh s II. Ilorty's demonstration t 1} at many kinds of paper and superior rayoh can he made from southern quick-growing pines, Southern Railway Demonstration Korea! is of particular value as showing that paper makers can dopend upon an abundant and perpetual supply of rulpwond In the South. ^<?tV?> 'Mm PLUS fKIa TAX ~^Jjf4897 \ OoocJ HouiekecpinyJ ..... 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