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The Camden Chronicle
VOLUME SI CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1939 NUMBER 16
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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