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IB?'*:. >*. "."V "* ^ - -jt ?'V-T ** / The Camden Chronicle VOLUME SI CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1939 NUMBER 16 - ? -i | ... . . I 1 ' "'1 """T Camden Chiefs Drop Two To Red Roses Again the Chiefs collected thirteen .,. Hiui lost the game. Only three IrUU*^ 8C?red 1W thWj mUddy> U8t* affair on the home grounds. Sevler&l ?Jn8,e8 could haVe bGeU 8tretch" Bed lnl(> doubles. The Hoses didn't look like a world I toiler yet they scored ten runs with I sixteen hits. When they hit the ball I hey run and ran hard. Maybe tbey I figured the Chiefs might make an er yor, and by running fast another base might be the reward. < Those who haven't heard the score,| .|lt was Lancaster ten, Camden three. Another Lose I The Chiefs Journeyed to Lancaster Ion last Saturday. It was the same uory. 1 Lancaster twelve, Camden ^^ even. It seemed like in the second inning ICamden would win a ball game. Dur )Dg this inning Camden collected Ave two men on base due to errors, and yet only two scores were made. 9Tv0 Dase runners were caught asleep on base. A couple of balls were hit liar enough to go for doubles, but slow ^|base running held nice hit balls to singles. Camden made sixteen hits and scored seven runs. Several men |were given bases due to errors. This (game was one Camden was due to' win. An old time baseball player once laid. "If you hit a ball, run like blaxeB, |the fielder might fall dead." Maybe |if the Chiefs would really run when |they bit the ball, and keefc running, |(heBe same Chiefs would knock off acme top notohers. The Chiefs have a real good pitcher, by the name of (^ "Speedy" Moore, and Taylor would ^ make a good player?pitcher, or what ' ever you want to call it. If Mr. Tay lor would develop a little more energy, ^ -ilp" and confidence. Then, there Is Caulder, a good relief pitcher, who has been coming along fine. Starting this aeuou with very little baseball playling is a background this boy has improved very much. den has good pitching, good icing, fair fielding, so where Is the trouble ? Well, players, let's have more "pep"?keep your eye on the lame, stay alert, and tak^ advantage |f breaks when opportunity offers. Base Ball Tomorrow | Camden and Sumter baseball teams, |f the Palmetto State league, will play Kera Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock Kt the Municipal ball park. Palmetto State Baseball News (Chester Reporter) I The Sumter Gamecocks continued |heir winning streak by downing the |rotest riddled Chester Cardinals for ^Khe second time in a week by the |une of 6-4 and climbed into second! >laee. The Hartsville Red Raiders have |een on a week's vacation in New Kersey and New York, at which time hey played one of the Sonoco Plants ^ n New Jersey and took in the World s Kair. Managers Richey and Tyner say ^ hat their boys aren't planning on losing any more games so there prom^ ees to be a hot game In Chester TuesKay afternoon at 4 o'clock when they ^Km] the Cardinals meet for the second Kme of the season. I The Camden team headed by Big Khief Russeli are Improving each Kamo and are figuring on beating SumKr this week. They have one of the Kest hitting teams in the league but ^K&ven't been able to win due to poor Bmsp coaching. Lancaster and Kershaw have severKl new players on their team now and ^ re not out of the running by any |nean?. Manager Griffith's Bed Roses planning on being near the top Ky the time August 1 and the All-Btar ^Banic rolls around. [ Mm h credit should be given Frank ftieath, vice president and publicity nanager, for the attendance at all of he games. Mr. Heath has been the ^ park-plug of the league and we wish or him a very enjoyable vacation ^ 'hlle in Chicago. ? Lynching Records Reported I According to tbe records compiled |tt Tuskwgee Institute In the Depart^ nent of Records and Research, there four lynchings In the first six ^ nontha of 1D39. I Thjs is three more than the number ^?>ne for the first six months of 1938, Knd the same number for tbe first III months of 1937. I The states In which lynching* ocKurrcd and the nnmber In each state as follows: Florida, two; Georgia, n#i: and MUslasippVo** Electricity To AH Farms If Possible "The idea that the farmers of this country are entitled to rural electrlllcatiou now has wide acceptance. The resources of this department will be thrown behind the RJflA program iu order to further rural electrification and, with and in part through rural electrification, the other farm programs," said Secretary H, A. Wallace, in receiving the Rural Electrification Administration into the United' States Department of Agriculture. The Secretary of Agriculture described the recent transfer of the RHA as "a step of the utmost significance both for the department and for the federal rural electrification program." "It holds promise of widening the usefulness of electric service for far mere," he said. "Farmers have discovered that electric service can be brought within reach and they are determined to get it. It is my intention to preserve the gains that have been made and to do everything 1 can to insure that federal rural electrification goes forward with the same vigor as under the leadership of Mr. Carmody and the staff of the REA. We will take electric service to all the farms we can." 'Branding' Inquiry Brought To Close Baltimore, July 7.?Investigation of the "branding" of a Jewish high school boy was closed today, with the school board's report there was no "organized activity, either within the school or outside, directed against any racial or religious group." The board adopted findings of a subcommittee studying an incident in which Melvin Bridge, 14, claimed classmates at the Owynn's Falls Junior high school had scratched an "H" on hiB neck early in June. Funeral At Beaufort For Mr. Rieger Walterboro, July 6.?Suffering from fracture of the skull and other injuries, District Forester R. W. Rieger died this morning at the Warren A. Candler hospital In Savannah. He never regained consciousness since an automobile collision in which he sustained these injuries the afternoon of July 4. Also in very serious condition is Mrs. Rieger, who suffered a broken leg, a broken arm and other injuries. Less seriously injured are C. J. Collins, teacher of agriculture in tho Walterboro high school, who has a fractured vertebrae, a severe cut around the left eye and arm, and Mrs. Collins, whoso left wrist was fractured. The 18-month8-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Rieger escaped with slight Injuries. \ The party was en route to Savannah. When within about four miles df Savannah, a car driven by a negro, said to be under the influence of liquor, with several other negro occupants, came down the highway and despite efforts of Mr. Rieger to avoid it, a head-on collision resulted. The cars were completely demolished and all the occupants of both cars were taken to hospitals. The funeral for Mr. Rieger will be held at the residence of H. P. Schwartz, Beaufort, at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon with the Rev. Mr. Mayes, pastor of the Baptist church, In charge. Interment will be In the Baptist church cemetery. Among the survivors are his widow, who was Miss Caroline Houser, of Hamlet, N. C.; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Rieger, and the little son, Richard'Warren Rieger, Jr. Mr. Rieger was thirty years of age and a graduate of the University of Georgia and of the United States forestry service. He came to Walterboro in August, 1938, from Camden, taking the place of H. F. Bishop, who was transferred to Florence district. He was a member of the Walterboro Lions club and took an active part In! all that pertained to the development, of the county and of his district. C, H. Hammerlee, assistant state forester, was in Walterboro this morning looking after Mr. Rieger's work. Meeting At Flint HIM There will be a protracted meeting at Flint Hill Baptist church, beginning Sunday evening, July 16, at 8 o clock and continuing through the week with evening services only. The pastor. Rev. J. A. mile, win be aeelsted by Rev. Furman 8. Rivera, of Chesterfield. The public la cordially Invited jo come and wonhlp wtt* ?-" . ~** I ^-Lfr .r . ~ ' ..Z'Ji-L j ? ??? - Young Camden Men I To Practice Here I Camden pepple, always interested In its young people, will be glad to learn that two Camden boys have returned here to practice?William R. Clyburn, as a dentist and P. Orayson Shaw,young M. D. W. U. Clyburn is the son of Mrs. Emily T. Clyburn and the late Dr. W. R. Clyburn. He graduated In June from the Atlanta Southern Deutal college and has now opened an office In what Is known as the Dunn building, 622 DeKalb street. F. G. Shaw, M. D., is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Shaw and is a graduate of the Medical College of Charleston. He has an office In the Medical building, corner DeKalb and Lyttleton streets. Dr. Shaw served one year as an interne in Grady hospital, in Atlanta, where he had a wide experience in the practice of medicine and surgery. Three Executed In North Carolina Raleigh, N. C., July 7.?The state executed three men today for murders, including the first Indian, Bricey Hammonds. v Hamni<yd8 died first in the first thx;ee-man execution here on one day since July 1, 1938. He was convicted of killing Lacy Brumbies. His last request was that his ten-months-old child be placed in custody of his father. He was followed in order by two negroes, James Henderson, 19, convicted in New Hanover of slaying Mrs. Jesse Hobbs, and Alfred Caper, 24, sentenced in Robeson in the killing j of J. C. McNeill, another negro. ? ? Maybank Was Not To Blame Some days ago The Index-Journal noted the unexpected use of "leave of absence" lor a penitentiary Inmate and recalled the very emphatic promise of Governor Maybank as Candidate Maybank that such "leave of absence" permits would not be permitted by him. The convict in question was a white man, Gaines Harris, serving a life sentence from Anderson county. From Anderson it is learned that the man did not get a permit from Governor Maybank but it was issued while the governor was out of the state. Governor Maybank therefore is not to blame for the lapse or mixup resulting in a "leave of absence." Now, the question arises: If Governor Maybank did not grant this "leave of absence," who did? And who has the authority to open the prison doorB when the governor is absent from his office ??-Greenwood Index-Journal. One More Horse Found In Car Some people seem to have all the luck. The first of the week, L. 8. Mitchell, of the Walterboro Stockyards, was notified that the carload of horses that had been shipped to him here for sale at the Walterboro Livestock Market today had arrived. When Mr. Mitchell unloaded his car, he found one more animal than the waybill called for. Despite the fact that the stork had visited one of the mares, while the car was en route I here, the colt was in excellent condi| tion. Mr. Mitchell is wondering if the railroad will now charge him for the added passenger.?Walterboro Press and Standard. One For Ripley You have heard of freaks of nature. This we believe is the "freakiest freak" we have heard of in the vegetable kingdom. W. G. Rhoden, of Warrenville said yesterday, that he had an ear of corn gathered from a patch of Early Dent corn on which were twenty-three little ears. In case someone may doubt the veracity of this, Mr. Rhoden will place the ear of corn on display In the window of the Standard and Review. ,Aiken Standard and Review. Grace Episcopal Church Services at Grace Episcopal church Sunday. July 16, will be as follows: Holy Communion at 8 a. m.; morning prayer and sermon by the rector, Dr. Maurice Clarke, at 11 o'clock. Members are asked to notice the hour of this service has been moved up to 11; tnstefd of 11:15. Three Marylander's | Captured Here: OIihi Kvtl with ohtiilntntt twelve khI-| Ions of gas at Deutsville last Sutur-j day aiul driving away without paying for It, three men were quickly placed under arrest at Camden* Howard Wilson, of Woodstock; William Peacher and Harvey S. 8mlth, both of Haudallstown, Maryland, were captured hero at the traffic signal, corner Ilroad and l>eKalb by I>eputy Sheriff Grover Hush and Policeman Mayer. The men drove to a Ailing station at Dentsville, operated by a lady, and ordered gas. They then ordered oil and as she turned to get the oil the car sped away. The lady got In communication with 8herMT Heise of Richland and he in turn phoned Sheriff 'McLeod, It is said the car was a stolen one and that the men possessed an apparatus for completely changing the color of a car through a spraying method. ~ Officers from Richland county came over and claimed the prisoners and they were Jailed In Richland. Chicago Gang Shotguns Roar Chicago, 1U., July 5.?Shotgun blasts lit gangland style today killed a man who had a card issued to Louis SchlaTone, the name of a former lieutenant of A1 Capone. Sergeant Francis Donohue said police were investigating whether the man was the former Capone gangster and whether he had any connection with the elevators' operators' union, i The man carried a union card, Donohue said, and an auditor's report on the union's financial condition, buf Matthew Taylor, union president, said no one named Schiavohe was a member and that he did not know the slain man. Mr. and Mrs. Molen Trop Baw two men In a coupe drive alongside the victim's expensive sedan near suburban Oak Park and kill him with two blasts from a shotgun. Champion Steer Be Shown In Columbia Clemson, July 10.?The much-traveled 1938 International grand champion steer, Mercer, will be shown in Columbia on July 28 at Knox's Motor Service," says Prof. L. V. Starkey, head of the Animal Husbandry Department The champion steer was bought by the Firestone Farm Service bureau and taken on a 7,000-mile tour through the west and midwest. So many requests for the showing of the steer came from the south that the trip to the New York World's Fair was delayed while the modern trailer-barn takes Mercer through fifteen Southern states from Texas to Maryland. Prof. Starkey says that there will be only the one stop In South Carolina advises all interested to attend the showing in Columbia. Drinking Liquor Is Now Costing More I^egal liquor is now costing the consumer more. All liquor dealers In the state received formal notice Monday from the tax commission that the increase tax on whiskey was in effect. This new tax amounts to 6 to 8 cents on the half pint. It is estimated that the new tax will raise half a million dollars additional revenue for the state. The new tax Is exactly one cent an ounce, as it amounts to $1.28 on every gallon, which has 128 ounces. The old tax was 96 cents a gallon. The old levy brought in $1,429,768 during the year ended June 30, or $158,504 below the previous year's total. -I Baptist Church 8ervlces The following services are announced for week beginning July 16, at Camden 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 11:15 a. m. and 8:30 p. m. Morning subject: "Possessing The Spirit of Christ." Evening subject: "Can Every One Be Saved?" B. T. U. with picture at 7:30 p. m.t Christopher Vaughan, director, In charge. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 8:30 o'clock. The public is cordially Mvite<J to attend all services of this church. Potatoes ,turn green from sunburn and are bitter and Inedible. ? ? Buckner (Jets Off With Light Sentence New York, July 7.?William P. Buckner, Jr., youthful promoter of defaulted Philippine bonds?and of Washington "lobby" parties attended by llroadwuy beauties?marked down today the price of his venture?two years In prison and a fine of $2,500. Convicted of mail fraud and conspiracy, Buckner received the sentence and fine from Federal Judge Henry W. Uadd&rd. He might have been sent to prison for 37 years urn) been fined $24,000. Sentenced with him were William J. Gillespie, also a broker, who received an eighteen-montha terms and a $2,500 tine, and Felipe Dueucamino, member of the Philippine legislature, who was ordered to serve eighteen months in prison and pay a $5,000 tine. Gillespie and Buckner were convicted of conspiracy and mail fraud in coasts. amino oniy of conspiracy. Free on ball, pending his previously projected appeal, Buckner left the I courtroom surrounded by young wornt*n, one of whom wept bitterly. Pretty Blonde Is Held For Robbery Asheville, N. C., July 7.?A pretty young blonde, accused by an elderly notions salesman of doping and "rolling" him of caBh and Jewelry amounting to $1,140 will be returned here today to face the charges. Police Chief Charles E. Dermid said the girl was arrested yesterday in Myrtle Beach, S. C., and gave th6 name of Dot Wimble. The chief said she admitted the charges and waived extradition. The charges were brought by Nathan Horringer, of Baltimore, he alleged j she doped a lemonade he was drinking and when he went to sleep In a hotel here robbed him. I First Bank -7 * In Six Years Manning, July 8.?Saturday, July 1, the Bank of Clarendon opened for business in Manning as the result of the conversion of Clarendon Cash Depository Into a state bank with capital and surplus of $30,000, with membership in Federal Deposit Insurance corporation. Upon the closing in 1932 of the Peoples State bank chain. Manning was left without any banking institution. In September of that year the Clarendon Cash Depository was formed by F. C. Reedy, of long banking experience and T. H. Stukes, and the depository has ever since been successfully conducted and has furnished the town with its only banking facilities. Substantial addition to the capital stock now gives Manning a full fledged bank with federal insurance of depositors' funds to the extent of $5,000 of each account. The directors of the Bank of Clarendon are: F. (J. Reedy, T,-H. Stukes, R. R. DuRant, Jr., and M. L. Sauls. Mr. Reedy Is president and cashier, and Mr. Stukes is vice president, Joseph M. Davis wilL-continue to serve as assistant cashier and bookkeeper. Rock Hill Withdraws Rock HH1, July 6.?Paul Sealy, athletic officer of the Rock Hill American Legion post, said today that the Rock Hill Junior Legion baseball team had withdrawn from the state championship race as a result of a protest lodged by the Camden team. Sealy said Camden charged that First Baseman Lewis Pursley, of Rock Hill, was over hge, and had produced two birth certificates filed with the vital statistics department, one of which showed Pursley to be seventeen and the other eighteen.Sealy said the lad qualified for the liock Hill team under a certificate showing him |to be but seventeen. Rock Hill's withdrawal left Camden as champion of District five. The1 teams each had one game In a flve-j game series for the district title. Typhoid Clinic There will bo a typhoA clinic held at the home of Mrs. T. H. Young, 3:30 j Friday, July 28, in the Flat Rock community. The Flat Rock Home Demonstration Club is sponsoring this clinic. This will give an opportunity to those who wish to take the typhoid shots tA be present and take advantage of the group price of 16 cents for one shot or three shots for quarter. The first milk bottle was invented by an American in 1884. , - / AY ? ??' > i - Dizzy Doings In Daily News Reports New York. July sT?What with a fox trying to kidnap a dog. a man picking 6.943 potato bugs, and Now York legislating two minutes Into 24 hours, last week was a lollapalooza for connoisseurs of the cock-eyed. Here's the dixzy doings derby? they're off! Some Chicago softball enthusiasts kept up a gamo for 76 Innings ... a Klngsport. Tenu.. girl spent $1.22 to pay a five-cent bet by telegraph . . . Some tomatoes grew on a potato vino In Cant don, 8. C. To expedite the passage of a Dill, the New York legislature ruled that 24 hours had elapsed In two minute*. ... A New Jersey man put 1,800 pounds of ice in a pond to keep the trout cool. s Foggy Felons: . . . Some burglars in Cheney. Wash., smashed the bach and front of a safe without discovering that the safe wasn't locked . . . A Bostou firm bought three shotguns to guard Its fundB, and burglars, Ignoring the funds, stole the shotguns. A Watertown, Wis., man picked 5,943 potato bugs in a day ... A Santo Fe man tried to register his expected baby In advance, lest he forget In tho excitement of the baby's arrival. Birds In a gilded cage: . . . Pittsburgh county Jail Inmates were found to be running a lottery . . Ohio state penitentiary convicts were found to be running a matrlmoulal agency . . . and Santa Fe officials announced Jail prisoners would have to stop having guests in for dinner. Three Apache Indian debuntantes In New Mexico had a throe-day coming out party ... A Lake George. N. Y., hotel sent a circular to Attorney General Aaron Burr, whose term expired in 1791 ... A Nashville Judge swore out a warrant for his own arrest on an auto violation and fined hlniselt $5. . Animal Antics: ... A fox In Burgaw, N. C., got drunk on bootleg mash and bit a farmer ... A fox in HartBelle, Ala., tried to kidnap a dog . . . A six-foot snake climbed a 40-foot pole in Eufaula, Ala., and short-circuited a power line. A Norrlstown, Pa., woman bequeathed one Bible to twelve people . . The government tried to collect customs duties on 32 cannon salvaged ' from a British man o' war wrecked 'off Florida in 1896 ... A Massachusetts couple put their three-year-old son on a budget of two clgarets, one cigar and one pipe a day. Department qXJ^elays: . . . Congress authorized an award to the man who carried the message to Garcia forty years ago . . . Frances unveiled a statue carved by Rodin forty years ago. . Additional Animal Antics: ... a Long Island robin rounded out Its first month on a diet of dog food ... A Williamsport, Pa., parrot staged a week sit-down strike on a treetop . . . A Pittsburgh elephant ate so much the zoo had to lay off several keepers to pay for his food . . . and? A three-pound bass In Coatesvllle, Pa., swallowed a swallow. Bad Storm Hits Chester Chester, July 6.?A storm that assumed almost cyclonic proportions struck the Armenia section of Chester county late last night, causing heavy damage to the crops and property by wind, rain and hall. The lightning was the most terrific seen In this county in years. Many buildings were demolished or unroofed by wind. A large number of trees were uprooted. f In F. C. Bailey's yard eight trees were unrooted. ' Some of the roads were considerably damaged by the heavy rain. Part of the top of Mrs. J. B. La? bam was blown off. Some houses were demolished on Shell Mitchell 8 farm. A negro dwelling was badly, wrecked. Graham Grant's 34 acres of cotton and corn were destroyed by hail. Others sustaining heavy crop damage were: F. C. Bailey and R. C. Bailey. Other crops damaged but not so severely were: Weldon Grant, John A. Da vies, Obe Roberts, W. J: Hudson and Clyde Hudson. Chester- was vis ted by three; and twelve-one hundredths inches of rain . In about two hours. The was terrific, but there was little wind here. Hall damage In the Baton Rouge - - ? community was done to the farms of: Will Grant, Green Archie, Johnny Jones, Essex Wllks and Quay Allen, jr. In the Rlehburg section Mlae Elisabeth Melton's barn was pertly an