The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, March 11, 1938, Image 1
The Camden chronicle
VOLUME 4? CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1938 NUMBER 52
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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
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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
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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 ~
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