The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 13, 1945, Image 1
Police Offer Reward For Inforn»tioii A& To P
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VOLUME 57
CAMbEN, SOUTH CAROUNA, FRlt JULY 13, 1945
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Looting Graves At Cemetery of Potted Plants
NUMBER 17
^ur Stokes k Now
n Charge of County Schools
I^SuperintoocIwat Will Train
^ib So They Can
Take Jobs
no ronis of Kerrtinw County’s hwiy
L, oxocuUves was reduced from
tliree wh«i Mrs. Kathleen
^ for the past If .years county
Uirlntendent of education, turned
the keys to her office to Arthur
kei. >
linlnf in the ranks of the wo>
execoUves are: Mrs. Lena Cly-
. clerk of courts; Mrs. J. H. Me*
Sr., sheriff, and Mrs. Hough,
b5 warden.
bar Stokes was born and reared
iKenhaw county, received his edn*
in the rural achoola and gradu-
trom Camden High school. He
a four year seholarship at The
d9l gr^uatlng from t^gt Instltn
ii 1928 with a H.8. degree. He
took poet graduate work in
•chool administration at the
tity of South Cadolina end then
Jt icbool for IS yeere in the
^way achool of Kershaw county,
home community.
Stokee left school work in the
of 1941 and entared the army,
was (Uacharged In 1148 after
reached the rank of First Lieut.
|the infsotry. His military career
fsefeded service in Cony^ny M,
Infantry, South Carolina Na>
i Guards from 1928 to 1928. He
rt member of the Camden Home
I inlt and Is also an active mem>
|«f the James Leroy Belk Post,
Legion.
ously Mr. Stokea la a Baptist
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icle Whiskers
icement Unit
)w In Operation .
Office Will Aid In the
I Work of Matchinf Man
To Jobs
D. Bennett, local United States
ployment service manager states
the expanded employment coun-
program of the United Statee
"oyment service la now being
blUhed in the local office and
its primary- objective the prop-
Pheement of workers during the
' and during the period pf demobi-
and reconversion of industry
post war period,
new program, which supple-
[ * placement senricea of
I ooES, Mr. Bennett stated, In-
» more effective matching of
•od men. It la a process Mr.
, whereby present and
Qualifications of the appli-
related* to prevailing occupa-
'*^*ue turn to paga tight)
[thune Fighter
the Way Home
Bruuaoo Saw Much
On Gomuui Frotit
Brannon. Jr., son ol
Brannon of Bethnne. has
^ rrom the war front In Bnrope
the Eighth Infan-
.t^iith
tor 21 times its ovra'vrelght
^ by uklng 81t.l87 prison-
months of combat. The
'^iden Arrow) division was
Normandy breakthrough, the
the bitter fight In
^n forest
aj Eighth were the fhet
*4 launching
• that reached the Rhina The
ISt *TO tlghtlBg by
Kenttedy' Contacts
Governor On The
Retirement Issue
Addraaaea Ezacathm Altar Ap
pearance Before the Re>
tiremeut Board
Following an appearance before the
Retirement Board, during which he
discussed with members of the board
some of the cases affecting teachers
throughout the State and particularly
In Kershaw county, Rep. R. M. Ken
nedy, Jr., in. a letter to Governor Ran.
some J. Williams, points out that
there la a definite distinction between
“teachers" and “employees,” and that
this distinction is intentionally indi
cates that It was the Intention of the
legislature to provide all teachers
with retriement benefits. '
Says Mr. Kennedy In his letter:
“This letter will express my ap
preciation of the opportunity afforded
me yesterday to diacuaa with the Re
tirement Board some of the cases
affecting teachers thronghout the
State and particularly in Kershaw
County. I am also taking the liberty
of atatlag again the arguments offer
ed as to the eligibility of teachers
who have received all or part of their
oorapensatlon from political snbdivis-
Iona of the State rather than from the
SUte (JBiveUy. First. I wish to call
the attention of the Board to the fact
that throughout the Act there la a
very deflnlta distinction between
‘teachera’ and ’employees.’ This dia-
tlnctlon so evidently Intentional indi-
cataa that it was the intention of the
Leglglatnre to provide all teachers
with retirement benefits.
“By referring to page 2, Sectional,
Snbseetlon 2, the definition of ‘teach
er’ shall mean, any teacher—in any
educational inatltutlon supported by
and under control of the State. It
will be noted that there is absolutely
no qualification aa to who pays the
oompOnaation. The only requirement
being, that such teacher shall be an
employee hi an edocatlonal Institution
supported by and under control of the
State. Compare this definition with
that of ’employee’ in the subsection
following, where there la requirement
•s*to till time employment and that
■ot less than 60 per cent of the sal
ary aball be derived froin the state. I
hope you will agree that this deflni
tion of teacher carries no qualifica
tion as to the derivation of compen
sation. and that It was intended that
the. provisions for teachers be ex
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State Slaughter
Policy Made Knowir'
By 0.PA Executi^
SUttglifteren Warned Afamsl
Violation ol Any ol The
Promkms
Richards Joins
M Fight Against
FTEPC Measure
^jkifretsman Describee Act As
Announcement has been made by
the district OPA ezecutiTe that the
maximum percentage of choice (AA)
end good (A) cattle, which may be
slaughtered by any slaughterer In
South Carolina has been-'revlaed.
The maximum percentages which
any slaughterer may kill In fhw
months of July, August and Septem
ber In these two top grades are not
to be exceeded under any clrcnm-
stsnees. The maximum percentages
of so. 50 and 40 are not to be con
fused with slaughtering quotas.
Further more, it is stated, the
amount of AA and A grade meat
slaughtered by any ohe Iq the itate
could not exceed tbepe percentages
of the entire amount of meat slaugh-
tered.
In thla connection H was pointed
out the enforcement division of the
OPA is now in the process of exten-
alve Investigation into the activities
of the meat Industry.
1
Woll In Sheep*#
Clothinf
Congrea«man J. P. Richards of this
dietrkt, has been named as a member
of the 12 member committee selected
to map our strategy and coordinate
tlte aetlvltiea of members of Congress
opposed tP the Fair Employment Prac-
tls#a J^L Congressman Whittington
of the committee,
statement Congreaaman Rich-
arfi said: “This committee la going
to tight any appropriation continuing
the present FEPC as well ae the new
bill which would create a permanent
FlJPC set up.
“Such legislation Is a wolf in
sheep’s clothing. If Its hidden pur-
PtklM are carried out. they will ulti-
mktely deatroy our present‘form of
government. The name of the act
Is a misnomer. It should be more
properly called ‘The Untglr Practices
Aet,’ or ‘An Act to Establish Racial
and Rellglona Hatred and To Promote
Strife Among the People of America’."
Mystery Still Clouds '
Death-of Mrs. Ida Small
Maybank Asserts
Will Be No Soft
Peace For the Nazi
South Carolina Senator De«
,dares 60 Per Cent ol Na
tion In Ruins ^
Autopsy Fails To Indicate Any
Violence. Ceberal Hem
orrhage Proven
Rush Says Example Will
Be Made of the Culprits
Tarheels Batter
Sandlappers In
Annual Ball Tilt
North Carolina Wins Over
South Carolina At Char
lotte 8 to 3
The several Camden fans who man
aged to store up sufficient gas cou
pons to make the Jaunt to Charlotte
last Friday evening to attend the so-
called All-Star baseball game between
the so-called cream of the two Caro-
linas were rewarded by having to wit
ness the downfall of the Palmetto
lads by a score of 8 to S.
Not only did- the Tarheel players
clip the apple for 14 safeties but the
scoring was aided through the regist
ering of eight big errors by the South
Carolinians. The Tarheels had It
over their opponents In hitting and
fielding like a circus tent.
Landrum, Kerr and Haxel pitched
for the South Carolina team. Lan
drum from the Columbia Caps gave
up four hits In one and two thirds in
nings; Kerr yielded 8 in'8 innings,
and Hasel was hit for seven blows
In five and two-thir<} rounds. Lan
drum was the losing pitcher. Riggs
of Charleston got two of the four hits
that-the Palmetto team listed. Dosen-
berry of Florence and Parrow of
Qreenville, collected one each.
Haxel had 4 strikeouts, Landrum 1,
and Kerr 2. Hasel walked 2, Kerr 1
and Landrum did not break Into that
column. An overflow crowd of 6,000
fans saw the game.
Black and Stiver
Colors For 1545-46
Motor Licenses
South Carolina motorists will add
a lot of chic and style to their Jalopies
when they affix the new state auto
Ileense ptetea In September and Oe-
tober.
iinisn^ It, ttihUBg by The new 194541 plate la to be jet
Elbe and tinklBC writh black wHb bright alumttiaiB nmiAerf
eM win go on sale late In SepCeniber.
They will be effbcUvo as of Oct IL
A change la to ba made this year
la cemiectkm with tb# aaven anmM'-
als la the Class C, ilaaeijOeHon. Here-
tsitrs cars la that cttairhaTe had to
dMregaM the jC -wbea Acre than six
Bamanls wera lavolvad bacaaeo of
lack cf «9acd t^e tag. _TW C tWa
year win be naaller as win alao be
tk» lettsra, tham cMkUat the
It fho »alt oa the llemma,
•ntering the service Pfc.
Iks «• •“*
I It 1944, and
Ha has
^ leekM ^
He kh ^ the Bbe
Congress Amends
Farm Loan Act
LMidinf Powara ol Land Banks
and Farm Loan
A. C. Bradham, secretary-treasurer
of the Camden National Farm Loan
association, said today that nnder the
new legislation recently enacted by
Congress, it will be possible for the
aaaoclatlon to handle loans more ex
peditiously and that with more of the
lending procees turned over to the
associations, the proepectlve borrow-
on win be told more quickly of what
action wUl be taken on their applica
tions for long-term loans from the
Federal Land Bank of oClumbla.
Under the new law, the land bank
may lend up to 65 per cent of the
normal agrlcnltnral value of the farm,
whereas since 1917 It baa been limited
to 50 per cent of the appraised value
of the land plus 20 per cent of the
permanent improvements.
Land Bank Commissioner Ipana will
be continued for one year from July
1, 1946. ’They may be made up to 75
per cent of the normal value of the
farm. However, the contract interest
rate on these loans will be 5 per cent
except to veterans who may borrow
at 4 per cent in the event the loan is
guaranteed under the O. I. Bill of
Rights. The contract rate for “land
bank loans through the association
will remain at-lU present all-time low
of 4 per cent.
Secretary Bradham said that many
of the Commissioner loans have been
reduced to a point where they can
easily be refinanced with 4 per cent
land bank loans which will give these
borrowers interest aavings of 1 per
cent
The office of the Chimden Associa
tion ts located in the Crocker building
in Camden and handles land bank and
Commissioner loans In Kershaw and
Fairfield counties.
Court Inn Is
Purchased By
Local People ^
Will SpMxd Bif Sum In Mod
ernizing the Historic
Hoetelrj
John WhlUker. Jr., C. C. Whitaker,
A. Robin Zemp, Moultrie B. Burns and
John M. VUIeplgue, comprising a
group of local buslneas and profes
sional men, have purchased the Court
Inn property and will, as soon as pos
sible. expend between fl2,000 and
IIS.CKK) In modernizing the historic
old structnre.
Details as to the management of
the Inn In the fnture are not an
nounced at this time, but it Is known
definitely that sew faces will be seen
in the hotel office when the place la
opened foUowlag the modernisation
program.
The Court Inn will oiterate aa a
year-round hotel nnder the new own
ership. It promisea to become a fav
orite eetabllahment w4k Camden peo
ple aa the new owners are outstanding
In the clUseoablp yanks ranks of Cam
den and will have a large foUowiag.
The Court laa khe 90 rooms and It
is understood that whereas only a
portkm of the room aecomamdatlOae
have heea utilised la the pact few
that an of thtm will he avail
able when the work of modaralaatloa
is complsted by the new owamrs.
CEMETERY AMOCU7ION
There will be a nsstlag of the
(3eaaetery sssodatloa of Csaidea oa
mdior. Jahr l*. Il6f, at 6 p. m.
at the Preebxtwisa iapday sdiool
MomlO^lsiii firtOftlt to at-
* ■ r .. ■■ ■
Ralers^ To- Act
As Dospicahic and Low
Down^
*‘l have heard many 'people express
the fear that Germany will have a
soft peaee,” aaid Senator Burnet R.
Maybank, Just returned from a five
weeks tour of European battlefields.
"From my own personal observa
tions, they can allay these fears be
cause you cannot have a soft peace
with over 60 per cent of the country
in ruins and destroyed.
Senator Maybank, who went to
Europe as a member of a special
committee of the Senate military af
fairs committee, visited the Army's
camps where German prlaonera are
Interned and learned first hand that
the German prisoners are being made
to work and that the Army is cer
tainly not treating them “toft"
, In prison* camps In the vicinity
of MaraeiUea, Senator Maybank said
are 75,000 German prisoners who are
being used In .clearing up the war
damages.
He found that no one seemed to
be, sure aa to the fate of Adolf
Hitler. In hla talks With people he
found many who believed that Hit
ler bad been dead at least two years
sad, others who doubted that be had
ever been killed or died. However,
he said, no one seemed to believe that
he died lately.
’’Industrial and commercial Ger
many are destroyed," said Senator
Maybank. "Holland is greatly dam
aged and It will be many yaara before
The Camden police department has
announced a reward of $26 will bo
paid for iafermatlon leading to the
apprehension of the peraon or per-
ootM who have beeo stealing plants,
sad cut flowers from the graves atitha land cah. be reclaimed from the
salt water that covered farm lands
Quaker cemetery.
“Of all the deaplcable dastardly low
down acts I have ever beard of. the
looting of the graves at Quaker ceme-
tery of floral expressions of sympathy
and affection la Juat about the last
word in vandalism,’’ aaid Chief of
Pouts Rnsh.
“Yesterday a woman came to the
police headquarters In tears. She had
oaHjl a law daya ago placed some
peRM plants oir the grave of h de
parted relative and that morning
when she went to the cemetery^ the
plants had been taken.”
For aome time past there have been
complaints heard relative to the theft
of sprays of cut flowers from the
graves, but the practice now includes
potted plants.
Chief Rush of the police department
has asked The Chronicle to announce
the offer of the 826 reward.
Barfield Lauds
Work of Future
Fanners Group
Baron DeKalb Chapter Mem
ber Telia oi AcooenplUh-
ments.
when the enemy broke the dikes and
flooded the countryiide. Belgium and
Prance suffered kllghtly from phyileal
damage In comparison with other
countries." Sixpresslng the belief that
American military forces have done a
most outstanding and remarkabla Job
in ^roi>e. Senator Maybank warned'
that we are at a disadvantage on the
civilian end because we do not have
a long-range definite poUey as to our
plana in postwar Europe, while Great
Britain and Ruaala know exactly what
they want to od. “The sooner onr
government develops such a policy,
the better off we will be, sfid the
South Carolinian.
Relatives Disclaim
Body; Buried In
Unmarked Grave
Jack Ewaafeliata, Suicide
Cell Corridor, Now In
Unknown Grawe
In
* Douglas Barfield of the Baron De-
Kalb chapter of the Future Farmers
of America la really proud of hla
achievemrnt in the work of this fine
undertaking. .
The Baron DeKalb
youth has submitted
an interesting article
dealing with hla ca
reer as s'- Future
Farmer.^ He aaya:
“I my green-
hand year of t^ Fu~
ture Farmers of Aineitea_in 1948.
During that first year, I set my goal
to become a State Farmer before my
work In agriculture was -done. 'With
this In mind, I planned my project
work ae that it would increase In size
and value.
In the fall of 1942 I purchased a
purebred Qaemsey heifer at the aacri-
flced price of 85. Besides the calf,
whidb was to be my oontlnuatlon proj
ect, t produced 54 pounds of friers.
From three scree of cotton I made a
net profit of 1144.10. Four scree of
corn produced 50 bushels which waa
used la calf feed and for my horae.
I alao had one acre of lee'pedesa, from
which I harvested a don of well cured . .
hay. I planted two acres of oata and | A|*lrgk|*
I waa responsible for the home gar- AeVvlaC'g
Officers Will Be
den.
"la tile summm* of 1942 I won the
diztriet Future Farmer epeaking con
test. Not being satisfied with that,
I tried again the following year and
won the State F. F. A. speaking con-
tezt. Tke same year I was one of
tke two delegates from South Carolina
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Kerdiaw County
Is Free of Polio
' .Ill ii f
The jaspected case of polio proved
to ha * iad and as s rssolt Karshsw
Coat^.ls reportsd ss saaoag the few
la the state bslas free of poUo.
Thwo are less than aknndred easea
of la the state at the
SNasa^. tee aid H Is tha belief of
the stSjj'ksdWk he^ officials that
thera. KSfla If danger of ha
m frwalled a few
Jack ENangeliata, 26 year old New
Jersey man, a discharged soldier,
rests in an unmarked grave In pot
ter’s field here.,
Oangelista, who hung himself in
a cell corridor of the Kershaw County
Jail after bis arrest for assaulting
Sgt. Clayton E. Betzold of Camp
Wheeler, Ga., after the latter had
picked blm^up in bis car and brought
him ffom 'a point in Pennsylvania
here, waa turned down by hla own
relatives. '
Louis Evangelista of Elizabeth
City, N. J., beHeved to be either the
father or a brother of the suicide,
when wired T6t IhilruCtSons regarding
the disposition of the body, replied
ifi a recunrwirgT “
“Cannot accept body for what he
did, for the Catholic religion don’t
allow me to take him to the church.
Can’t afford It.”^
So Deputy Sheriff J. H. McLeod
called an inquest which was held at
the county Jail Thuraday noon, the
coroner’s Jury returning a verdict
that Evangelista came to hla death
at hla own bands by hanging.
Shortly after the inqneat the body
of the young man waa bnried in an
unmarked grave In the potter’s field
section of Quaker cemetery.
Located In Gamden
The conatltetlon of the South Caro
lina Freeser Locker Operators’ aaao-
elation waa formally adopted Monday
at a meeting of the 25 members of
the association at the Jefferson hotel
In Columbia. The officers of the aa-
Bociation will be located in Camden,
it waa daolded.
At Ifemday'a maatlng,' tha ground
work waa laid for the eatabUahmaat
of uniform pricea te thla ateta. Repra-
aentetivea of tha Offlea of Price Ad-
minlstratloa eoaferred with the aaao
clatlon to work dnit 4 anttorm piioa
for tha South Carolina plaats.
“We will work together with the
OPA to arrive at uniform prlouu uMi
the types of aarvioa to be rawden
hy tha loekar plaata of South Caro
ls" B. E. Bauaoa. aacretery-treua-
urar of the orgaatautloa. auU.
Mrs. Ida Kate Small, former Cam
den woman, whose lifeless body was
found lying just off the highway near
Evans Cross Roads on June 22. may
have died of a cerebral hemorrhage,
but that does not explain the circum
stances surrounding her death, ac
cording to Lancaster county officials.
The 864 question appears to be,
according to a Lancaster report, "how
did her lifeless body happen to be
where It waa foupd?"
The offlciala admit they are with
out any information that will answer
that question.
The autopsy, performed by Dr. Paul
Klmmelselel of Charlotte, N. C.. In-
dlcates that the ceberal hemorrhage
had all the characteristics of having
been "kpontaneous. Np evidences of
bruises on the head were found and
the finger marks on the neck did not
serve as sufficient evidence of strang
ulation.
The autopsy revealed that there
were two small bruises over the left
side of the neck st approximately the
level of the thjrrold gland and small
bnilsea were noted over the right
outer surface of one hand. Those were
the only Indications of any suggea-
tloa of external violence. There waa
no skull fracture, no laceration of the
brain tissue or any evidence of con-
tuaion.
Thu coroner’s inquest has been
zgaln postponed pending farther In-
vwtlgutlon by officers.
Soldiers’ Piwer
Will file F^i^hed
Every Month
KsFalutw Gonnty Newa Appeal#
To ISdblic For Support
In Project
Letters of appreciation from service
men in the atetes and overseas ara
coming in to the ateft of the Kershaw
County Newa, the aarvleo man’s news
paper. which la sponsored by variohs
merchante In the city, the work being
done enllraly by volunteers, and which
goes to the service men free of charge
In order that they may have aome
link with home while at far away
posts of duty.
The greatest difficulty encountered
so far is keeping up with the changes
of address of the men and women in
service. It is requested that parents
and friends of these service men keep
the staff constantly informed of
changes of adless, either by writing
a letter or post card to The Kershaw
County Newa. box 98, Camden, 8. C.,
or by telephoning Mrs. Emily Zemp
Hough, 83, who is now in charge of
the mailing list. Itds her Job to see
that the addresses are up to date. She
has an alphabetical card Index of the
members to whom these papers go,
and it will simplify matters if rela
tives and friends would send In their
sons and daughters’ new addresses as
they move from post to post, - such
addresses, of course, to be consistent
with military • security. About 926
papers are mailed each month and It
ia a waste -of time, energy and money
to send them to obsolete addresses,
and have them returned or end up in
the dead letter office.
It is the intention of the staff to
continue the paper once a month, the
deadline for all newa for the paper to
be sent In by the 16th of each month.
Anyone having anything of interest
concerning their boys are rqqueated
to write a letteir to The News, by
the 15th and it will then be_typ^
and aortejT and pdbllahed aa aj^e'
permits.
The paper has been cut to five
mimeographed pages, which will go
first class mall for three cents in the
states and 6 cents overseas. It is
hoped that the editing, typing, sten
cilling. mimeographing, stapling and
(Plauau tnru to pugu suvuu)
Camden Girl Will
Go Overseas In i
Red Cross Work
B««r (WbilakOT) Knifbt Now
Traininf At Camp DaYU,
N. C
- »
According to a report from Camp
pavls. N. C., Mrs. Ellaabeth (Betty
whlteker) Knight, staff aaalstant of
the American Red CroM, haa been ae>
zighed to Camp Davis. N. C., for train
ing 4n* recreational work prior to go
ing overaeus for service.
Camp Davis is an Installation of the
Army Air Forces Personnel Dletribu-
Uon Commapd and functions us u re>
distribution station and oonvalesccfit
hospHal.
Mrs. Knight attended Camden High
schosl sad the Uuiverslty of South
CuroUau. Prior to her entrance tuto
|ted Cross work she was enmgud la
aseretertel work, being In the admin
istration quarters of tha Southeru
Aviatkm school. She Is a daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Yl%lte)cer,-Ult
*Fulr strait •