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The Camden chronicle VOLUME 4? CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1938 NUMBER 52 ?????? ??P?.. hi |i ?i_. g ii i BMWMMWMMMMM? ? L.U M ?' WWWWaWWRgg?BMCggggaa Annual Horse Show Holds For Two Days -(By lieu Heath) Highlights of horse events in the Southeast this week will be the twenty olgth annual Camden lioraej Show to be hold on tins grounds of t^,. Marlon duPont Scott estate here the afternoon of March 11 and 12. As in the Virginians' show last month, members of the horse colony will again have tho opportunity of seeing such well known stables us those of Crispin Oglebay, J. North Fletcher, \V. 11. ltuthrauff, Wilholmlne 8. Ktrby, Marlon duPont Scott. F. Ambrose Clark, and others, show their beat horses. Itlue ribbons In the champion class lust year were carried off by Richard K. Mollon'a brown' gelding. Rector, who beat his stablemate, Sen Satin, by a small margin. Many who know their horses look for stiff competition between the entries of Mrs. Ellsworth Augustus and " Crispin Oglebay for top honors. Oglebay's five-year-old chesnut mare, Hl-Bey, carried off the champion class in the Virginians' show this year, but it was a nip and tuck affair between her and the Ryantrained, Bally Black, up till the final decision. Hi-Bey, a big, rugged, middleweight daughter of Thunderatjon, son of the Furturity winner, Thunder, is a pro-i duct of the Genessee Valley, and a splendid mare. Among the well known Worses and their owners to be represented in thei twenty-two well balanced classes are: J Faster Morning and Royal Reveler.] owned by Miss Wilhelmine S. Kirby, of Camden and Bedford Hills; Our William, Mrs. David Buckley, Middletown, Va.; Arrester, Mrs. K. T. El-1 lis, of Hot Springs, Va.; Steadfast and Cumille, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. ltuthrauff, of Red Bank, N. J.; Crispin Oglebay's Walumbo and Hi-Bey; ("ornish Mills and Sand Artist, Mrs. K1 is worth Augustus, of Willoughby, Ohio, Smokey ajnd Signal, Harry Colt of UencBsee Valley; Orimore, an entry of the Brandywtne Stables, of Wilmington, Del.; Rusttck Romance, .1 id. Ryan, Unionville, Pa.;, War An-gptr-Miss Vlota winmlll, WBrrentom I Va.; Lucifer, Mrs. Raymond Woolfe, I Red Bank, N. J.; My Lady, Klrkwood I Stables, Camden; Drill, Carlton SaI cho, Washington, D. C.; The GentleI man and Say, Mrs. Dwlght Partridge, I Camden; Sun Faun and Abbot's I Light, Mr. and Mrs. Gerard Smith, of I Brooklyn, N. Y.; Drum Hannen, Ward I Belcher, of Camden and Lakeville, I Conn.; Athlaca, H. D. Kirkover, CamI den; Bottoms-Up, Watson Pomeroy, I of Camden, and MUlbrook, N. Y.; OsI wigatchle and Bal Jay, J. North I Fletcher Warrenton, Va., and many others. I Judges for the affair will be Morris I Dixon, Newton Square, Pa.; Hum phrey Finney, Baltimore, Md., and I Mrs. Chipchase Smith,'of Aiken. The I first class will be called at one o'clock I this afternoon. Plan For Doft, 8how I The young people of Grace EplscoI pal church are planning for the anI nual Lenten dog show to be held FrlI clay, March 26, at the Hobkirk Hotel MJ 1 grounds. I The show is given by the young poopie to ralae funds for their Lenten I offering. In 1937, the show was a big I success, overshadowing the affair held at the county fair in the fall. This year's Bhow will be even greater in every way and will be judged by one of the outstanding dog authorlI ties in the United States. There will be ten classes of dogs I exhibited In addition to the usual championship class. Miss Ann Whitaker, who was gen eral chairman of the 1937 ShoW Will again head the group this year. It I was due to Miss Whltaker'a untiring efforts that the show a year ago was a big Buccese. With her on the com mittee a year ago was Miss Martha Williams and Miss Joan Hill. Miss wiliiatns will be on the committee this year. Folder# Being Placed On Trains Through the efforts of the Camden H<namber of commerce, booklets and other literature of Camden, are being placed on the club car of the Sea board trains north and south bound otween New York and Jacksonville. A request for the placing of the booklets, and the like on the club car Raleigh each day V*4 made 9' VI- Gattis, assistant triAe manager rgnulted in an grant Another Game For Sunday Afternoon - - \k One or the best polo gumus of the season Is promised for Sunday, March | 13, when the Camden Country team ( meets the New Yorkers in the second lilt of the Creed trophy series. The Camden team, by staging a brilliant burst of speed and shooting nosed out the visiting stars last Sunday by a 10 to 8 count and the rail birds who flock by the hundreds to watch these two teams in action, declare that if the locals show the same ability next Sunday they may take another leg on the exquisite trophies. Carl ldghtfoot was one of the outstanding players on the Camden team and Is a great favorite with the fans. Carl is a riding genius and he strokes a mean mallet. Llghtfoot will probably again be seen at the No. 2 position with Country, although Ktrby Tupper, another ace in the ranks of the local' talent, may see action this week end. Ancrum Boykin will start at No. 1 again, while Watson Pomeroy will work the No. 3 position. Old reliable Joe Bates will play the guard position. For the invaders, Charlie DuBobo Is slated for the No. 1 position. Dick Floyd is to play No. 2, Gerard Smith No. 3, and Captain R. E. Selway at No. 4. Henry Savage and Charley Little will be the officials. Over three thousand spectators jammed the rails and along the parking lanes to witness the opening game last Sunday. With warm sunny weather this number will probably be eclipsed this coming week end. Every city and community within a 150 mile radius of Camden was represented in the big crowd. Sporting writers of the large dailies of the state wheeled their cars into the reserved area for the press. The Camden polo games have been 1 pronounced by the critics as being' the host polo offered in the south this' si ason. The play is not of the lady-! like type prevalent In some of the! polo centers but a slashing, hard-riding and rough-and-ready brand of play that keeps the fans' in whirlwind of excitement and is winning big crowdsj [Young Man Drowns | While Night Fishing George F. Stanley, 22, WPA worker, of this city was drowned Monday night while fishing In Pine Tree creek ?Just south of Camden. Stanley was originally from Hampton county, having moved here six years ago. The young man left his homo, 1108 MilJ street, for some night flBhing. A search the next morning resulted In the finding of the body in the creek. Death was declared accidental and the body was carried to the Kornegay Funeral Home. George Stanley was the son of Mrs. Dossie Stanley and the late Frank Stanley. He was born in Hampton county, October 7, 1916. Surviving are his mother and four sisters, Mrs. Woodrow Lee, Miss Doris Stanley and MIsb Rosa Lee Stanley, all of Camden, and Miss Gladys Stanley, of Clinton. Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at 12:30 In St Paul's Baptist church at Hampton, with Interment in the churchyard. Circus Group Begins Work Fair Grounds J. W. Bunts, an executive of the Crystal Exposition Shows, arrived In the city this week with a crew of fifteen men who have started work on the repairing and renovating of the exposition equipment which has been in winter quarters -at the Kershaw County Fair grounds. Mr. * fchnts states that an additional fifteen men will arrive next week, making a total of thirty. " This group will be here for six or $ight weeks. >' Legislature. Censured Charleston, March 6.?Palmetto lodge No. 208, Order of Railway Conductors, today adopted resolutions censuring the' general assembly for "requesting the highway commission not to take any action against trucks on highways whose Width and weight Is over that required by the recent law upheld as constitutional by the supreme court of the United States." The conductors pledged themselves to "elect new membehf of the general assembly who wfl! hare mor^regard for ,the people as a whole." 1 '1 : Successive blast* In * Harlem, N. killed four pa* ShShSbknm&mShS i Driver of Truck Held In Death of a Child Coroner It. T. Uoodale bald uu inquoHt at tlit) court house on Thursday evening, March 3, to inquire Into the cause of the death of the little child,' Kay V. Phillips, Jr., which onuriod at the Camden hospital on the night of February 4, a few hours after the automobile in which ho was riding collided with a Texaco truck standing on highway No. 621, between Camden land Kershaw. The coroner's Jury fouud that the child came to his death by reason of the collision of the automobile with the Texaco truck loft standing partly upon the highway In j the night-time without lights, und j held A. B. White, the driver of the j truck therefor. White's attorney, jJohn K. dolxmch, appeared before Judge G. Duncan Bellinger on Friday and obtained an order for bail and I White was released from custody. It appears from the testimony at cue coiuner s inquest mat me Texaco truck, loaded with gasoline for dellvi cry to a filling station at Westville, became incapacitated when it reached [a point about seven miles above Camden sometime In the afternoon and that the driver, Mr. White, was unable to get it wholly off the hard-surface, leaving a part of the rear end on the hard-surface, and coming back J to Camden to obtain facflities for removing the truck; that the garage to | which application was lntede for a wrecker was unable to respond at I that time and that the truck was not removed and that no lights nor other precautions or signals were placed about the truck; and that after nightfall, the automobile In which the little boy was riding collided with the truck ?with the result that the child was so seriously injured that he died a few hours later in the Camden hospital, his mother and father being also seriously hurt, the fathee less seriously than the mother. The automobile In which they were riding vas almost completely demolished. Mr. and Mrs. Phillips were travel-1 ing from Karris Island to Kershaw and Chesterfield to visit their parents. Mr. Phillips was stationed ut Parris Island, he having the rank of Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy, and being stationed at the Marine hospital at that point, as Chief Pharmacist's mate. His enlistment has since expired and it is understood that their trip was to arrange to again take up their residence in private life. Through their attorney, Murdoch M. Johnson, Ray V. Phillips, father of the child, and administrator of his estate, ha8 filed suit through~the sheriff's office of this county against The Texas Company and its local distributor, John 8. Davidson, for damages In the amount of $76,000. Suits have also been brought for the Injuries to Mrs. Phillips and Mr. Phillips-- the damages asked for Mrs. Phillips being $26,000, and for Mr. Phillips $8.100 for his injuries and the loss of the automobile. The cases will probably not be tried until the June term of the court. Boxing Bout Set For Next Tuesday Night Placards announcing the big fight card to be staged at the high school gymnasium March 16 are in shops and store windows and a score ' of boys and girls, members of the high school athletic organization, are selling tickets for the event. The program of bouts has been carefully selected, the fighters being so matched as to ofTer the best' kind of battling. As near as can be judged the boxers have been paired so that each bout will bring fighters of equal skill and punching ability into conflict. This will Insure some really excellent events. v " The proceeds of the fight are to go to the high school athletic^, group. Bethesda Presbyterian Church The following services are announced for Sunday at Bethesda Presbyterian Church; Church school at 10 a. fn., morning worship with sermon, at 11:15, by the pastor, A. Douglas McArn. The Every Member Canvass! of the congregation will be made In the afternoon from 2 to 4 o'clock. The public is cordially invited to all services in this church. Lyttteton Street Methodist Church The following services will be held In the Lyttteton Street Methodist i0^hn??;n montng' worth^ll?!^ Municipal Course May Be In Offing (By Divot Diggor) Ha\r you played over the six holes j of tin; proposed Cuuuien uiunliipul golf course? I know of twenty or more of the walk ami swat crowd who have boon I doing Ihidr weekly dozen over the meadows of What was formerly culah>gued as the Sursfleld golf course. l)on Morrison, who is acting as the professional at the embryo muiilcij al layout iutorills me that there are Unite a few of the golferH who have been bitten by the bug and are now making regular pilgrimages to fairways and greons. Homo of the gang have been pestering us with Questions as to when a complete nine-hole layout will be available. That's a question friends we cannot answer with any degree of deflniteness as yet^ but we hope f^ow w?eks to spring the glad tidings w ail raots m regard to what we hope will be a real municipal course where Camden golfing enthusiasts may enjoy the famous old Scottish pastime at a minimum of expense. Plans are being worked out to make! municipal golf a possibility and thej process is such that each step has to be one of certainty. The group back of the plan Is made up of men who have the future interests of Camdon at heart. Personally we believe they i will be successful. Iii the meantime, the six holes are available to all you golfers free of charge and I can assuge you that you can get a lot of fun and a vast amount of good healthful exercise by whacking the little white ball over the six fairways. Rabbi Schillman . Speaker at Meeting The program of the Tuesday's Luncheon Club was In charge of Dr. I A. W Humphries and M. M. Johnson.) "The Crippled Child" was the subject of the addresB delivered by Rabbi Samuel It. Schillman, of Sumter, ex-, ecntive-secretary nT tire nerTppTea~cBTT-"i dren society of South Carolina. Ho pointed out that there are six thousand crippled children in South Carolina between the ages of Infancy and twenty-one who have lost the use of their muscles or their bones because of some accident in the home?because of some virulent disease, or because they have been born either with club feet or with some other deformity. Of these orthopaedic cripples, there are one hundred In Kershaw county, approximately. Th? Crippled Children Society is giving care and treatment, medical attention,, hospitalization and appliances to worthy, indigent little' boys and girls who, otherwise, would be crippled for life. In addition to this, the Crippled Children Society Is supplying school teachers to go to the homes of crippled children who cannot go to their classes. Older children are given vocational guidance and training. An important function of the society is to carry on a prevention campaign. The Kershaw chapter is one of forty-six chapters in the state of 8outh Carolina, and it is affiliated with the International Society for Crippled Children. The funds for carrying on the work are raised through the sale of "Easter Crippled Children Segals." All donors of $1.00 or more receive a page of 100 stamps. The officers of the Kershaw Chapter lor 1938, recently selected, are: Sam Karesh, chairman; Miss Faith deLoach, secretary; F. N. McCorkle, treasurer; Frank H. Heath, publicity Chairman; Mrs. Margaret C. Mayfleld, child welfare chairman and John K. deLoach, survey chairman. Campaign committee: C. O. Kornegay, Rotary; Rev. Bryce 'Herbert, Tuesday Luncheon Club; J. H. McLeod, Red Fez Club; Miss Virginia Hallo, Junior Welfare League. The chairman for last year was Harold Funderburke end the seal chairman was I>r. Maurice Clarke. The 1938 "Easter Crippled Children Seal sale will be conducted in Kershaw count/ April l through 17. Gardens In Bloom T he Chamber of Commerce has been advised by the Charleston Chamber or Commerce that the Magnolia, Mtddleton and Cypress gardens will reach the peak of thslr beauty tietwee* March *7 and April 5* The Camden chamber has a supply of titeratat* descriptive of tbeee gardens. i A Kami decree forbid# the Me* lag of all heavy beers la flsrmaij ... -r Vote oil Cotton Quota Saturday Cotton producers in Kershaw eoun-1 ty who produced cotton in 1937 willl have u chance to vote for or against, cotton markotlng quotas for the 193Si crop in tho murkoting quota rofeicn liuni to t>c held Saturday, March 1-. 1 If one-third or more of tho farmers! f taking part in the roferendum vole against quotas, they will not bo of-j fcctivo. County committees of the' AAA will conduct the referendum. Marketing quotas are Intended to bring the cotton supply in line with normal needs, stated R. W. Hamilton, stuto administrative officer of tho AAA. Last year tho United States produe[ ed 18,700,000 bales of cotton, the largest crop ever produced in this country. The government loan helped prevent a ruinous price collapse. Foreign countries also produced a record crop of cotton in 1937 and tho present world supply is the greatest in history. Cotton men estimate that the carryover of American cotton on August 1, 1938, will be approximately twelve million bales, which is ulmost equal to a full year's domestic consumption and exports. Cotton marketing quotas are based on farm acreage allotments, the quota In each case representing the amount of cotton a farm may market without penalty. The marketing quota of a farm is the production of itB acreage allotment and a farmer may sell without penalty all the cotton he can grow on his acreage allotments. If a fnrmer overplants, with quotas in effect, be must pay a penalty of 2 cents a pound on excess cotton marketed, and he also will lose all conservation payments and the cotton price adjustment payment on his 1937 cotton. UndoVTKTT now act, cotton loans will not be extended to non-cooperators except on their excess cotion and the loan rate will be 50 per cent less than the rate of loans which: may be extended to cooperators on all their cotton. County committees will designate \ three lofcal farmers to servo as elec-| tlon officers In each community. The .polls will he opened not, later than I 9 a. m. and will close at 7 p. m. Results will be certified by counties to : the state committee of the AAA and the final official resultB will be announced In Washington. However, local committees are authorized to make unofficial announcements of the results in their communities as soon as the votes are tabulated. Reduction In Power Rates In Camden When Camden householders receive their statements from the Water and Light department on the first of April, they will find that the usual ten per cent reduction provided if paid before the tenth of the month, has been increased to 15 per cent. The additional 5 per cent reduction was made possible by action of the city council, at a meeting Monday evening, extending the reduction given the city by the Carolina Power and Light company, to the consumers. It is claimed that the action of the present council was anticipatory of the declared intention of the administration taking office in April of providing for a reduction in power rates in Camden. The council'* Monday evening approved of a ten year contract with the Carolina Power and Light company. First Baptist Church Services The following services are announced for week beginning March 13 at the First. Baptist church: Sunday school at 10 o'clock with V. J. Rector, superintendent In charge. Public worship conducted by the pastor, J. B. Caston, at 11:16 a. ra. and 8 p. !m. Morning subject, "Lot's Wife." ! Evening subject, "Overcoming Our Fears." Prayer meeting Wednesday bvening at 8. B. T. U. Sunday evening at 7:46. The picture on last Sunday evening Illustrated In most striking fashion the progress in medical science. It was interesting and instructive. The one for next Sunday will in all probability be Just as good. Don't miss it. The public is cordially Invited to attend all these services. i To Sponsor Movie The seniors of ^ sponsoring the movie, "Imitation of Life," at the Hatrfar theater, on FM Carolina Cup Race Will Center Interest (Hy Frank H. lleuth) While the Carolina Cup raco moot lb btill ovor throo weeks away, iuiiulrI oh are pouring into the chamber of commerce regarding the date ami othi r information daily. It will he the ninth annual running ' of the futnoUM event and it ih expected that a crowd of at least lf>,000 people will watch the horses gallop over the eourse, one of the very tew major courses In which the en tiro diatance and all juinpH can be seen from the Htauda. Iaiat year, despite lowering clouds and a miow storm, hoiuo ten thousand people attended the meet and judging from the rapid increase in interest this year, this number should be greatly increased. This Is the Ipst big hunt race iu South Carolina ant) sportsmen always watch it with an eye to the future northern races, cup racers often haying gone on to show very well in later events. Entry lists for the Carolina Cup and the other races in the same meet will not be available until the day before the race. There are many horses reported to be ready for the probable entry list but the favorite is Richard K. Mellon's Escape, 3rd, trained by J. E. Ryan and already winner of the Washington Birthday race of 1936 and 1937 and the 1936 Sandhills event. In the Carolina Cup event last year Escape, 3rd, was doped by all of the experts as a certain winner and it waB a big upHet when Fugitive, second in the 1936 Washington Birthday event raced around the course to win. Fugitive Is not running this year. No previous winner of the Carolina Cup hns been able to duplicate, althtnjgh several have bene entered more than once. Three entries later have won the Maryland Cup, but only one of these Maryland Cup winners bus won the Carolina race. Bros? Ilovor, winner of the Maryland Cup in 1930 took fourth In the Carolina Cup last year. Trouble. Maker won both the Carolina and the Maryland Cups in 1932. Hotspur was second in the Carolina in 1933 and won the Maryland. * Other winners of the Carolina Cup hare been: Ballast 2nd, 1830; Sea Soldier, 1931; Pink Tipped, - 193$; Charioteer. 1934; Drinmore Bad, 1935; Indigo, 1936; Fugitive, 1937, The late Noel Laing was the only jockey, to win twice, coming in ahead in 1980 and 1932, although several have managed to place on more than one occasion. Other winning drivers were; J. H. V. Davis, 1931; William Streett, 1938; J. P. McCormick, 1934; J. E. Ryan, 1936; Charles White, 1936; and Dion Kerr, 1937. Six other races will be run in the / ' April meet. The Sprlngdale Cup, two and a half mile steeplechase over brush; Kershaw Steeplechase, two miles over brush; The Wateree, one : and one-half miles over hurdles; the Camden Plate, one pMle on the flat; The Palmetto, two miles over timber; and the Baron DeKalb, one and a half miles over hurdles. HEATH NAMED A8 DIRECTOR 80FTBALL CENTRAL DI8TR1CT The central state softball tournament will be held In Camden in August, according to announcement ' from the state headquarters of the - .?? National Softball association.' Frank H. Heath, secretary of the Camden Chamber of Commerce - and director of re creation for the city has been named as director in charge of 7" the central district which comprises Kershaw, Fairflsld, Chester, Sumtsr, Chesterfield, Lancaster and Lee conn- - 3 ties. ? ?? - - ~ Teams from aU of these counties will take part in a tournament to select a first, second and third- entry In the state tournament which will be held at Columbia early in September. The Camden tournament will laat for several dayh, probably a week, with teams battling in an elimination series afternoon and evening. Camden will have six or eight teams playing in the tournament and * It it expected that there will be three ?r four from each of the other six counties.^,' Pollesman S Iflre The fire department was summoned to the home of Alva Rank, city motorcycle officer, Pa Fair street, Tuesday ~ atsrfo?*' 10 C*rb * ***