The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, November 25, 1938, Page PAGE THREE, Image 3
Nobody's Business
Written for 1'6? Chronicle by (it*
MoQee. Copyright. 19X8.
AROUND THSt TOWN IN OLD FLAT
BOCK
..the football game which was to of
houu h?U last friday betwixt flat rock
and oedar'lane was called off onner
count of punk wllkliis, tho wild-cats
punter, getting his big too broke whilo
potiKuin hunting, enduring a reoeut
night when he got drunk and foil out
of hla ford.
..miss Jennie veovo smith, our tluo
Mcholl principle, had us her weak-end
Kuest from friday thru monday, musdames
winklefusB, a secunt cuxzln by
inarrldge. she did not excite verry
much cury-oaalty while here; she was
: < lassod aB the ugliest Yttkitor In our
midst since holsum mooro's aunt spent
a week in. our city about 4 years ago.
..nearly everboddy has commenced to
talk about xmaa. they will bo glad
when It Is over as they have no tnonney
In the community this fail except'
w.p.a, checks, and othey hardly keep
our soles and boddlos together. Wo
have found out that oil cotton and c40
corn mought mean bread and meat
to us, but they do not moan rail cash
dollars and cents, bort skinner has
returned to the chaingang to serve
out his'8-year sentence after a parole,
ho can make a better llvving there
than he can on a farm, so he says. '
.. whoever stole yore corry spondent'a
two fine hens and three roosters had
better return the same to their henhouse
at ouCe, uj tlioy will bo took
to law, that is?$ they have not been
killed and et. we know who stole
these fowls, bill and Joe, so don't bo
bashful about comming acrost. the
poleesman allso has yore Anger prints
which you left on the duck which got
away. n& questions will be asked if
these roosters are crowing in our
back-yard as usual sunday morning,
but if they are not there?get reddy
to meet the law.
. ,mr, art square has got a govvernient
Job at last, he will not be a
bench warmer at the citty hall where
he has been setting almost constant
for 6 years, his two darters married
not long ago and are now working!
and making a Uvving for their hus-(
bands Instead of their daddy, hence
art's new move, his wife told him
what was what, nv?d he chose what J
at a rappid gait, he enjoys eating,
and a job means that he can keep
that up as long as his job keeps him
tied to same.
yores trulle,
mike lark, rfd,
corry spondent.
A WEDDING OF WIDE INTEREST
18 ANNOUNCED
..mrs. art square gave a big announcement
party at her home last friday
night and all of the guesses present
enjoy-ed theirselves to their harts
content.
..the announcement was about her
darter, lizzie sue, who hopes to marry
Jim junkins of the countyseat as soou
as possible, it was no Becret about
the approaching nuptials from her
point of view; she had alreddy told
nearly everboddy.
. . jim has proposed to her, so she said,
but the wedding day has not been set
as yet, but it mount be this month
??r next month -or month after next.
In* wants to make another down payment
on his ford, which will make 3
down payments on same, befoar the
knot is tied ansoforth.
..lizzie sue thinks that she can break
jim from drinking and has promise^
ma and pa she can do so in 3 lessons
. . . but the publick doubts her
ability to cure him. his pa "was married
with the same stunt in view by
his ma, but he is still reddy to lift
the cup to his lips.
.. the announcement landed in the
middle of the floor from the loft where
little minnle moore had hid herself
and Jumped out amongst the guesses
with a big plack-card. pinned on her
back which read as followers: "lizzie
sube la going to git married, llssle
sue is going to git married."
.. as soon as mrs. square finds out for
certain that Ji? Junkins aint going to
fool h6r darter again, she will have
sevveral showers like she had 4 yr.
ago when everthing was set for the
wedding and he dlddent show up.
crackers and russian tea and Bardlne
Mandwitches were served, mrs. square
la a fine host when ehe wants to be,
but a poor one if her liwer is out of
f.x.
yores trulie,
- mike lark, rfd,
- . society eddltor.
Japanese soldiers at Wuchang,
China, attacked Dr. Dogan H. Roots,
American missionary physician, when
the doctor found Japanese soldiers
driving Chinese refugees from St
Michael's church, The soldiers tore
an American flag and threw acid at
the doctor, hut Med to strike him.
The United state* consul made a protest
to the Japanese consul general,
who made no fepiyfL' , "..
Last Of Bad Gang I
Goes To His Death
Michigan City. |mf, Nov 17.?The
federal government throws an electric
switch tonight to complete oxioruiiuatlon
or the A1 Beady gang. which*
Head t;man J Edgar Hoover once
culled the "most vicious" criminal
group in the I'lilted Suites.
James Dulhover, diminutive triggerman
or the gang, dies in the electric,
l 'liUr 1,1 Hie Indiana penitentiary j
shortly after midnight to finish the J
Jot) which federal agents started when!
they hilled his two pals at liangor.
Me , u little more than u year ago.
l>alhover's death sentence was Imposed
for the slaying of Paul V. Mill
lie man. Indiana stato policeman. Mtnnetuan
was shot down from atnhush
May 2.?, 1937, after the $2,500 robbery
of the Good la ml, Ind , state bank.
Because the bank had federal Insurance,
the federal government took
jurisdiction and pressed anew the
hunt for the Brady gang. Early tho
morning of October 12, 1037. federal
agents surprised A1 Brady. Clarence
Lee Shaffer, Jr., and Dalhover in a
Bangor sporting goods store. The
gangsters were after ammunition.
When the shooting was over, Brady
and Shaffer were dead and Dalhover,
slightly wounded, in handcuffs.
Returned to Indiana by airplane,
Dalhover pleaded guilty to murder
and a federal court Jury fixed the
death sentence. Ho appealed, but
lost. Only today tho United States
supreme court refused to sttfy the
execution.
Federal jurisdiction of the case gave
United States Marshal A1 Hoslnski
the unaccustomed role of executioner.
Dalhover, one-time Madison, Ind.,
farm boy, Joined Brady and ShafTer
in forming the gang in January, 1936.
Their lirst "job," government records
show, was a $320 store robbery at
Robinson, 111. From then until their
final brush with federal agents, they
robbed banks, jewelry stores, groceries
and theaters in the Midwest and
East.
After his capture at Bangor, Dalhover
confessed, Indiana Detective
Captain Meredith Stewart said, that
the gang, In addition to killing Mlnneman,
had slain Edward Linsey, Plqua,
Ohio, grocery clerk, in March, 1936,
and Police Sergeant Richard Rivers
in Indianapolis in April, 1936. Charles
Gelsklng, once a member of the gang,
is in prison in Ohio.
MYSTERY IN THE ACTIONS OF A
CHESTER MAN V^ELL KNOWN
Many York county people know Z.
Vance Davidson, of Chester, candidate
for congress in this district several
times, and occasionally orator at public
meetings. Lately, he has been a
magistrate at Chester, appointed on
the recommendation of the state senator
there.
For the last thirteen months, he has
omitted to make his routine reports
on his financial transactions. During
that time he had presumably taken
in several thousand dollars, and had
paid over only a few hundred dollars.
When an audit of all the county offices
was made, he failed to allow the
auditor to inspect his books and accounts.
When the auditor reported this, the
county obtained an order from Judge
Featherstono ordering him to appear
in court and show cause why he
should not furnish full record's and
facilities for an audit of his accounts.
He did not obey that order, and the
grand jury made a committee to audit
his accounts and report at the next
term of sessions court.
But thoy found only Incomplete
books and scraps of records, of the
office of the magistrate, making an
audit difficult; If not Impossible.
Also, those officially interested have
not been able to find Davidson anywhere.
But when the court order on
him was issued the sheriff reported
that he was unable to find Davidson,
to serve It, and later search failed to
locate the well known magistrate.
It has been suggested that he may
have been stricken with amnesia.?
Yorkville Enquirer.
Jobless May Obtain
Benefit Pamphlets
Free copies of "How to File Claims
For Benefits," a pamphlet for Jobless
persons recently issued by the South
Carolina unemployment compensation
commission, may be obtained at the
state employment service office here
In Camden, officials announced today.
As soon as all employers subject to
the South Carolina unemployment
compensation act have received a
supply of the pamphlets, they will be
asked to give a oopy, along with a
wage and separate notice to each
worker they lay off, either totally or
partially.
The employment office here la
Camden is located In the city court
room and is open on Tuesdays
Copies of the pamphlet may also be
obtained by writing to Informational
Service, South Carolina unemployment
compensation coram is slonr-Columbia,
S C. ~
OLD CITY BY THE SEA
Charleston Being Rapidly Restored
From Damage By Tornado
Charleston. South Carolina, famed
for li* architecture and beautiful Hardens
l? rapidly emerging from the
ftlttbrls left 111 the wake of tho violent
tornado that recently damaged some
of U? historic building*.
'City of flowers and guns, of hard
cash uud tender sentiment. Charleston
has for years played the role of
custodian of a valuable exhibit of
churches and other old structures of
such rare historic value that they are
national treasures," says a bulletin
from the Washington. 1). C. headquarters
of the National - Geographic
Society. "Any other Jobs she has undertaken,
such ns tho manufacture of
fertiliser or spools of railroad tires,
are arranged so as not to Jostle the
showcase of historic heritage. For
here was tho cap 1 to I of that extinct
civilisation, the gracious and elegant
culture of southern rice planters."
It was a chip on scrappy Charleston's
shoulder that precipitated the
American Civil war, ut Fort Sumter
in the harbor, on the bluck day of
April 12, 1861.
Charleston also found now ways to
make peace supremely enjoyable?new
I comforts, i\ew beauties, new ways to
grow wealthy. The gardens in Amer(lean
buttonholes today owe their.
I name to early South Carolina botanist,
Dr. Alexander Garden. When Joel
Poinsett was made United States
minister to Mexico, he brought back
to his Charleston home on Kutledge
avenue, tfte exotic name-colored flower
n&w named for him, tho poinsettia.
Other developments in which Charleston
had a pioneering hand Include
the Introduction of vaccination and
licensed prescription pharuiaucy Into
the United States, tho organization of
fire insurance companies and Masonic
Scottish Kite, and operation of early
snubmarines and railroads.
Historians credit Governor Thomas
Smith with introducing rlco culture
from Madagascar into South Carolina
about 1693. By tho end of that
century, bumper crops supplied cargoes
for Charleston to export?prizes
ghat pirates chased. For more than a
century, dikes and canals criss-crossed
the productive Low Country of
the tidewater strip, like tho ntlniature
Netherlands. When malaria followed
water into tho rice plantations during
the three periods of "flowing each
crop, planter chose to spend tho
"sickly months" away from their soggy
green acres, they took advantag-e
of Charleston's better sanitation and
social life.
The rule of rice gave Charleston
three features still dominant in the
city's landscape: a town house architecture
designed for summer comfort
as well as year-round beauty, crowded
docks for the export of plantation and
forest products, and the Gullah negro.
Tho typical old Charleston mansion
is long, tall, and thin, with a narrow
shoulder turned to the street and a
10-foot brick wall masking its averted
face, Behind the wall, each story of
the house wears a whalebone collar or
basking above a garden's green seclu-i
sion. Charlestonians later accepted
Georgian homes than boldly face the
street.
The ricd fields of the Ixjw Country
around Charleston, still visible from
highways, but abandoned to marsh
grass and herons, supported a cult as
wnll as a mltuiu. Charlcntonlans 'acquired
a reputation as "American
Chinamen, who worship their ancestors
and eat rice." Dining rooms saw
rice served daily?usually with gravy?
anruuy boiled" t(S Tbtain the flavor of
white or gold Guinea variety, of salt
tide or fresh water origin. The heavy
silver rice spoon, over a foot long, was
a feature of Charleston silver services.
Rice first gave Charleston a place
in world trade and high rank among
American seaports. In 1775, among a
profusion of lumber, Indigo, tar, barrel
staves, and deerskins from the Ind.an
trade, the port shipped 140,000 barrels
of rice. The only import to balance
in value with exports was slave
labor for hand-cultivation of rice
fields. After the Civil war, rice planting"
dropped &way almost to a memory.
Now Charleston's hinterland produoss
less than 1 per cent of the American
crop. South Carolina ranking fifth
among eleven rice-raising states.
But Charleston had already writtena
prescription for its own rice-sick
trade. In 1784 a bale of cotton was
shipped from the port; now it is acclaimed
as the first exported from the
United States to Europe. Soon Charleston
wharves were deep In drifts of
that "snow of southern summers, and
cotton still is king.
Charleston slave,, quarters were
stocked by preference with natives of
Angolo, Portuguese hunting ground on
Africa's west coast, "Ngolo or Gullah
descendenta have a strange language?
a negro dialect ot Shakespearean
English?and some even stranger
superstitions. The "Catfish Row," of
which DuBose Heyward wrote _in
Porgy, is,,identified as the town's Cabbags
Row.
Charleston occupies a tongue of
land between the Cooper and Ashley
rivers, which unite to form a threemile-wide
harbor. The approach from
the north crosses tho Cooper river
bridge, long span that swoops ud In
a graceful roller-coaster arch high
city, still only G7.000 inhabitants
strong, presents a line of uniformly
high roofs, broken by such landmarks
as the 192-foot steeple of old St.
Michael's church.
Elected In Philadelphia
W. Washington Rhodes, a former
colored eitisen of Cainden, was elected
as a representative from Philadelphia
county, Pennsylvania, in the general
election recently held there.
Rhodes left Camden a number of
years ago to malte his home in the
north. As a young boy he was employed
by the late Baum Brothers
company in Camden. He la a nephew
of Rev. J. W. Boykin, of this city.
Since going to Philadelphia he has acquired
control and is now managing
editor of the Philadelphia Tribune,
one of the largest colored publications
in the eastern states. He is a former
United States district attorney, with
law offices at 526 South 16th street.
Cotton Quotas For
Next Year Explained
Columbia, S. C.?With the referendum
on cotton marketing quotas for
1939 scheduled to be hold on December
10, every cotton grower should
understand clearly what a marketing
quota la and how It effects his farm,
Btates R. W. Hamilton, administrative'
officer of the AAA In South Carolina.
Marketing quotas for cotton are
provided In the farm legislation nqw
In effect, to he used by producers
when tho total supply of cotton oxceeds
the normal supply by 7 por
cent. Normal supply 1h considered to
be a normal year's domestic consumption
and exports plus 40 per cent , of
that amount as an allowance for a
normal carry-over. To bocomo effective
the marketing quotas must bo
approved by two-thirds majority of
tho cotton producers voting In the
referendum.
If quotas are voted Into effect, Mr.
Hamilton explained, the quota for an
Individual farm will bo the actual production
or the normal production,
. -.sr*
whichover Is tho greater, of the farm's
cotton acroago allotment, plus the Ji
amount of cotton which the farmer
has on hand from a provious crop
which would not have been subject
to penalty If marketed In 1988.
While tho rule of figuring the
amount of the quota Is the same
whether the farmer plants within or
exceeds tho cotton acroage allotment,
the practical effect Is Quite different.
Farmers who plant within the cotton
acreage allotment In 1939 will not be
subject to any penalty unloss they
market thg 1939 cotton which would J.
have boon subject to ponalty If
marketed in 1938.
Consequently, producers who complied
with the acreage allotment In
1938 and 1939 will not be subject to
any penalty, and noncooperators in
1938 who cooperate In 1939 will not
incur a ponalty unless they should <T
have excess cotton from a previous
crop which Ihey curry over and markot
in oxcobb of the 1939 quota.
In a year for which quotas are In :i
effect, a farmer who overplants his
acreage allotment will bo subject to a
penalty on any cotton that ho marketa
In excess of his farm's quota.
Three Age Groups Where Tuberculosis l akes Heavy 1 oil
Babies under one year are safer today
from tuberculosis than was the case in
1928. Ten years ago, 1,300 Infants less
than one year old died of tuberculosis
in this country, while in recent years
the annual toll has been 670. The disease
Is not inherited, but young children
uro liable to bo innocent victims if they
are exposed to persons who havo active
tuberculosis. Christmas Seals are enabling
parents to learn more about
tuberculosis, thoreby protecting their
children.
Young girls aro particularly suscoptlble
to tul>orculosls. Intensive efforts,
financed by Christmas Seals, are directed
toward turning back the threat
of this disease from young people.
Many schools and oolleges throughout
the country recommend tuberculin testing
and X-raying to discover whethor
or not their students havo tuberculosis.
Out of 200 poisons who dlo overy day
from tuberculosis In the Unltod States,
33 are botwoen the ages of 15 and 26.
I While more women than mon are >
victims of tuberculosis up to 30 years
of age, the toll among men 40 to 65
years of ago la approximately twice
that among women of the same age.
Medical authorities emphasise the tmportunco
of parents being free from t tuberculosis
in order to reduce the dangor
of Infecting their children. The
anti-tuberculosis movoment receives Its
main support from Christmas Seals.
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