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The Camden Chronicle mm tXJUME 57 CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROUNA, FRIDA^OCTOBER 19, 1945 Escape bung G>up]e Prom Jail Joke Seems To Be On the Sbe CoeU This Time For Certain imden police and a lot of folk* connected with the police de- inent are wondering If the woman a, drunk a* she seemed. At any , the Joke seems to be on the ^ story begins wltii the arrest young man on charges of dmnke- , disorderly conduct, carrying a ^ed weapon and resisting arrest, ^rs Stanley Eose and Joe Mc- iss, who went to a Broad street e early in the morning and ited the young man claims that ns armed with an Ide pick and I to use it on them. So they sub- I him and placed him in the itj Jail- At his arraignment in Becorder’s court he demanded a trial and it was set for two days I the day following the arraign, t of Uie young man In court, his ^ also a woman in her middle (ties, was found apparently in a or in the wash room of the Sar- bailding. She was booked at Iqoarters as being drank. She placed in the city police guard- le, Joining her husband there, te next day when the husband’s was called, the judge, the Jury, lawyers and quite a few specta- were on hand—but the husband his wife had disappeared.. Four Mioarter Inch iron bars in a win- of the Jail had been sawed ofh and bent back, offering an ling through which the man and had escaped> Tsstlgating, the police found that tf the morning of the day of the It of the young woman, she had ^t three hacksaws at the Bums Barrett hardware store and pre- ably had them with her when she pat in the guardhouse. This ex- Md the sawed bars. When asked the woman had not been search- before being put in the Jail, the ee replied that there is no p<dice roD available and tar be it from pliant police officer to try and th a woman prisoner, hiet Rush states that the woman not carry the saw on her person ■ she was locked up. He says had slipped them to hJna throagh (Please turn to page sereci) linden Races Are theSpotfight; «e For Aslmg (oofh Streets Are Being Conwerted Into Indian* apolis Speedwrays Camden Battles Heavy Florence Team To 6-6 Tie Hngfina Rnna^ 35 Yards For l^ulldogs* Lone Tally of Ewening Our Bulldogs tried hard to get Into the upper percentage bracket by de feating the Florence Hlljfhs ^t Fri- day, but the best they could do was to earn a 6 to S tie after sixty min. ntea of battling a heavier squad. The Florence team was one of the beat the Bulldogs have faced this tsason with the possible exception of the Brookland-Cayce powerhouse. The visitors were well coached and had a decided wpight advantage. The Camden playelrs earned the plaudits of seweral thbusand fans by their game stand against the visiting jug gernaut. Huggins’ S5 yard ramble in the sec. ond quarter gave Camden its lone touchdown. It was s nice saunter by the big fellow, putting on a beantl- ful exhibition of broken field running. The effort to add the extra point failed. Florence evened the count in the last quarter on a paka, Branson to Snyder, in the end xond7 TTie try for the extra point failed. One of the features of the game vms the stonUbearted defense that the inraders put up when they held the Camden offensive at bay on their own <me yard line. 'The ^Idogs had four shots at the touchdown line but each, time the vtslting wall was like the rock of Oibralter. The visi tors took over on their own four yard stripe and on the first play ran the ball out to the 2S yard line. A line play and a pass to Camden’s 40 and a lateral that put a visitor on the Camden 10, paved the way for the Florence touchdown. iTcn of automobile races, offer, t thrill a minute, are missing i these days. But it’s their own I. for some of the most sensstional ding ever offered the fans of the Math is a daily menu on Broad et between Green street and ifette avenue. aldents on thts°street assert with Mleanity that there is a race K en almost continuoosly. But kats on Fair, L^tleton and Mill tt declare the Broad street folks aot the only ones being offered taapolis speMway cocktail menu. I participate in these speed das- all a motorist has to do is to lb ignore speed signs, step* on W and to heck with pedestrians wycle riders. , k only catch to the whole pro- > W that this brsxen defiance of apeed laws means that someone to get his or her neck broken these days. It may be a driver may be Just a lowly pedestrian, tth the steadily mounting use of i^blles. and moat.of them fit w the Junk yard, it is apparent the department of police most jomethlng to burb the speeding. years ago a traffic officer on "orcycle did a great deal to curb •Wed demons, but of late years •hu been little If any attention ^ the problem. ^ mtkes this program of races and Lyttleton and also Fair « that these highways are Broad street Is a federal jy, while Lyttleton and Fair ”are tiirough streets by virtue ^Wpal edict Bat the hasard • fflto existence because scores Ignore the stop signa these streets at Inter- Tr The motorist driving on the he has the right of way cars coming In at Inter- to come to a stop. They ® ^y caaea an^ aa a reanlt been some ierlons accU ^ Aviator’s Are Stolen of clothing that had be- W A ^ K»*«ht tte foraMT Betty Whit- ^^«olen from the C. C. WWt- « Fair street Wedneaday, ^5loh teeiad- • fltpanta, nnderwoar, o( tUrrn and ethw Kershaw Fanners To Swing bto line For Power Fondgrirark Smy OrfuiuatioB Needed To Get Politicel Influence At the next meeting A the Kershaw County F^m bureau, tt is likely that a resolution, similar to the one re cently adopt^ by-the Farm bureau of the State of Michigan, will be snb. mitted and approved. L. O. Funderburk, president of the Kershaw County Farm bureau de clared In an interview regarding the proposed resolution that the Michigan measure shows that the farmers everywhere are in the same plight and need to get together and organise if they hope to accomplish anything worth while. Mr. Funderburk declared that of the farmers can get properly organ ised in sufficient numerical numbma that they can exert powerful political influence at Waabingtonr they will have accomplished much. The Michigan resolution which will be submitted to the Kershaw farm bureau members for adoption reads as follows: Farmers' Attention "Whereas, powerfiri labor unions numbering hundred of thousands of members are susking for a SO per cent per hour increase in wages for factory workers and the International OU (Ftoaas tm to tags sight) Kershaw County News WiD Cease With Next Issue The final issue of The Kershaw County News wIU be published around Nov. 1, and n News Christmns Card will ba sent to all sarvlce men from this'county. As so many of the Kershaw Coun ty service people are returalng, the staff of the’News feels that the pap er has served Its purpose, pf main taining a constant contact between home and those in the service. This last Issne of flie News will be edited by Mrs. J. K. Lang and sored by KendaU Mills. The staff again wishes to axproaa lU appre^ ation for the Interest and support m the sponsors. The printing and mau- 4ag of the News Inenrs expenditures which could not have been met ^ It not been for the genaroaity of the sponaors and the Interant of thMS people who have pnrchaaad copies here In Camden. Copies of the November News and of the Christmas Card will be on sale at the Camden Hotel. tt Is requested that all news ItamA as weU aa new •Wraa^^ to Bo* M, Camden, 8. C., hy Oct. IL dean-Cemetery Lots The Cemetery Association rsqna^ •n lot ow^ ; nras now. IBs heavy rafaw m Aagw hero canned an *“ ali^Uy growth cC Cotton Platform Is Not Adequate '^or Local Business J. T. Hey Snya City SIkniM Be Ashamed oi the *^Shaiii* bles** There What is the matter with Camden? Where is Camden’s vaunted civic pride? That is the questoin that J. T. flay, local cotton broker offers in criticism of the local cotton platform on Rut ledge street, which he states Is a piUful sl^t" Says Mr. Hay In a statement to the Chronicle: "If anyone is Inteiested. let them go by the cotton platform, a^ve^y pltlfnl sight, a mere shamble ror the weighing of cotton. About enough room for-a. good day’s buying for one buyer and we have four buy ers on the market here. "In comparison look at the public platforms in other towns, Sumter, Kershaw, ChesteF—and see the splen did outlay for the efficient handling of cotton. Ton should be ashamed of Camden. What la the matter with our civic leaders? Our politicians? Our Chsnu her of Commerce? What ia the matr ter with Camden?" NUMBER 31 « Women dd Meeting in State Capital KgFihaw ‘ Aoaociatioii la Ex pat^ To Bo Wall ' RopTMontod AiPerias of meetings is being plan- ned by the Baptist Woman’s Mission, sqr UalOB of South Carolina to be held in the various dJyisions. Mary ChrisUah, Birmingham. AMh is to ba tha speaker represent ing Woman’s Mlsslonsry Union, auxl- Harr to tha Soatbani Baptist eonven- tloi^ Mn. L N. iBttaraon. missionary to Ajbrlea, will bo tho missioniuT speSor. and Miss Wilma Bucy. At- lantA Ua., wDl rapresent the Home Mloilon Board of the leathern Baptist eonveintlon. Antral division will meet at the PaTO Street Baptist church. Columbia, on Oct M. beginning at 10-«;clock. a. m., and will be In charge of Mrs. W. S. Brodke, vice president tt Is hoped that Kershaw associa- tloo W. M. U. will be well repre- ssskol at this meeting. Ico is now the biggest Latin lean customer of the United Army Refuses To Pay Claims In Tragic Accident National War Fund Cairipai^ Deserves Community Support County Drhro la Underway and Will Continae B or Month The National War Fhnd campaign Is underway thronghont the United States to raise one hundred and fif teen million dollars for the many agencies whjeh share In the fond. Kershaw county’s campaign, which has been in progress since the first of the month. It progressing well. The campaign committee Is making every effort to contact the public in geamd. but as this is an impossible task, the request Is made that con tributions be made without awaiting the call of a solicitor. Contrlbntions may he addressed to Lee Mays, treat, nrer of the Kershaw campaign com mittee. Ihey may be made payable to the National War F\ind. It is the concensus of opinion of army, navy and government officials that the nrat six months will be one of^the most critical periods In human history, and that the agencies which share in the National War Fund can play a vital part in preventing com. plete chaos, as well as starvation and suffering in war tom Fktrope and -Asia. Of course the USO for American soldiers at home and abroad and United Seaman's Service for the na tion’s seamen will still be the back, bone of the campaign. These agen cies deal with the millions of men still In service or in cmmpB at home and abroad and those in process of demobilisation, but there is greater (Please turn to page savmi) Mather Gridders Smother Avery Under Big Score Blue Eag lee Orerwkdm Use Charieeton Team 43 to a The Mather Academy Blue Eagles overwhelmed Avery Institute of Charleston Ihunday night at Zemp Field by a score of 4t to 0. Tha Eagles received the kick-off on their 80 yard line and lost it. They held Avery for four downs and bsgsB to rdll. Two runs by Cooper and Stratford brought the bidl up to Avmt’s 40 yard line and from there the flrst toa<^down was made by a long pasa from Roas to Stratford, the conversion was not good. Alter Uekliig off, the Ea^ea again took the ball and ran It back to Avery’s SO yard line, where Allan Kirkland scored the second touch down. The Eagles then kicked off and held Avsry’s feet hot to the fire and to(dc over on Avery’s Si yard UnA where Roes carried the hell over for the third touchdown, eonverslon again was not good. Tha fourth touchdown was made by a short pass across csttter from Ross to PlcksUt oonverskm fafled. . l%a fifth tomh- down was msda hy Ooopsr and tha converslott was go^. During ths second half the Baglaa made only two tonehdowdA The tth one was nude by Brooks Qnkk, who eoversd ths ban after bstng touched hy Avery hehhid tte goal. Tho Tth tonchdown #as rnado by Coopmr, Tbero was good bbudring and tadtl- lag by the Mniimwi, M. 1)syt,tn. B. Dia^ W. Dow^. Bl Qaiek. 8 CMger, M. Whltnknr and JL Klitlaad The game was elattad late of tardy arrtfal ef Avery. Cleimh Priwato Had Taken IVuck and Wan Riding Although an army traci, driven by a colored private was responsible for one death and aerious Injury to two Heath Springs residents, the United States srmy has refused payment on two claims which were filed. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley ReevM of Hsath Springs, both seriously Injured when the car they were In was sjtruck by an army track driven by Pvt Benjunln Daniels. colored, flled claliie against the Army In the amoints of |75»J5 and •LMS.92. this covsrlng property damsge and per sonal injury. Mrs. Ruth Hunter of amm Springs waa killed In the crash. The Army, In refusing payment, held that "although the soldier driv ing the army truck did cause the collision by his own negligence, he was not within the scope of his em. ployment at the time." The soldier involved was tried by court msrtial. found guilty and sentenced to three years imprisonment and dishonorably discharged from the army. The collision occured on U. S. 521 in Heath Springs. There is a curve in the highway at this point which first goes to the east and then veers to the west. The army track with Daniels as driver was being driven at high rate of sp^d according to witnesses, failed t6 make the curve, mounted the curb and ran along tfae sidewalk until It struck the Reeves car. In which Mr. and Mrs. Reeves and Mrs. Hunter were seated, and which waa parked at the side of tfae With Daniels In the track at the time were three other colored sol diers. According to the Army findings on the damage claims of Mr. and Mrs ReevsA Daniels and his compnlons were an what may be described as a “Joy ride" with tha army track. New Implement Firm Bnuding On East DeKalb Mygra amd Gillin To Hamdlo Pamoag Fotd FargusoD Missing Piggies Add To Thrills of 12 Hour Drai The Sunny Hill Plantation Via ted By Fires Last Friday Abaaoca oi Wind Sawad Coatly Hmna and Buildings From Boing Dostrojod Only tfae tact that the wind hap pened to blow sparks and embers away from main buildings at Sonny Hill plantation, saved' that tine plan tation from being completely wiped out by raging flames last Friday sven- ing. A large stable several hundred feet from the plantation liome was destroyed, entailing a loss estimated to be in excess of $8000. The fire was discovered shortly after 7 o’clock by one of the planta tion foremen. At the time it v^ss burning the cupalo of the stable bnildlng. It spread with great rapidity and an appeal for help was sent to the city by Lt Jack Brown, caretaker. Mayor F. N. McCorkle readily con. sented to having a pamper dispatched to the fire, a distance of approximate ly 10 miles. Fire Chief Buddy Denton bad gone out in his own car long before the pamper reached the scene. The firemen were unable to do much as the building was practically consumed before they arrived. An. other stable nearby had shinglea and tha wall boards at one end blistered by the heat Four horses and two mules, stabled in the building burned, were removed to safety shortly aftsr the fire was discovered and before it had pene trated to the lower floor of the build ing. Considerable corn, etc. stored in the building, Was burned. The Sunny HUl plantation Is owned by Clifford M. Leonard of Chicago, who ' recently purchased Chancefleld plantation at a coat of $75,000. All of the buildings at Sunny Hill have juat been repainted and decorated. Mr. Leonard acquired the property In 1988. Jack Netties In Letter From Iwo Jima Gives Facts Croaaea and Dantruction Beach Head and Forta Tell of Struggle A Wise Tsai Driver Brings The Culprit Back To Justice A one-story sales and store room building, SO 1^ 60 feet in sIsa Is nn- der coarse of construction on East DeKsIb street, scross from the Myers OaragA and will be occupied by the firm of Myers sad 01111s, daalers In farm Implemoiits sad antomobUes. Mr. Myers statss that the building wQl be completed within a month and that tha firm will install tha famoas Ford Fsrgnson tractor line. As to what automobile wlU be handled, tiie oompsay to not preparod to state, bnt hopes to have a contract signed with one of the leading car mannfactnrers of the nation within a few weeks. Ths new building will have a show romn tor display purposes and back of tbto win be a store room. The Chronicle news department to in receipt of an Interesting letter from Pvt Jack T. Nettlro, former city councilman, who is stationed on one of tbe Pacific Islands where the fighting was fiercest In the invasion of Japan. The island In question happens to be Iwo Jima and In his latter Jack says that while the place to far from the spot where any sane person would want to be, he is glad be is staflbned there, because by being there and looking around one can realize what a iduistly price the American soldiers paid for It Tf only*the people in the States could get one look at this island and see the destruction that modem war fare can do, tiiey would get a pretty good idea of wliat to going to happen to all the world If and when another war comes. When you look out on the rows ef crosses In the Srd, 4th and 6th Marina divisions and thMi at the beach-head they had to take and the fortifications that they say were the strongest the world bee ever known, the American people can well be proud of these men they sent to defend not only America bnt tha whole world." Jack says he hopes to gst back home sometime around the first of the year bnt he remarks "you can’t tell what will happen to yon In this man’s army." He statec he to feeling batter than h# has done In many years and while a bit ti>in, to getting along ftaiA In oonclnslon he says: "Tell aU the gang hallo for me and hope to nee them all befmw very kmg." Ootiiing CoUeeted Here Now Overseas B^rory pound of clothing con- tribotad by Camdaa and Kershaw eooatjr peoplo In tbe natioB-wlde clothtef eoDeetkm last spring and will ba In tbA bands of war a by ChristmaA It to annouiMsd by Henry J. Katoer, aa- tlofaal ekalnttaa ef tbe United Ka- tkmal CtoOilng etdlaetlon. Mr. KAhur'a ststeimnt waa reeelv- •d tomu by Qaa. O. H. Fraalm. local rialrnw of tho dotUag ooBocilou, who Mg«a tt pnblto. A group, consisting of tbe Camden police, tbe FBI, the family of a taxi driver and a newspaper reporter, plot a missing truck driver, a blonde girl and 138 fat piggies, wM-e in tbe cast of a twelve hour drama In Camden last Friday. The story had best be told in chap ter form. The action starts in the wee small hours of FYiday morning. The scene, the Stein filling station on Bast DeKslb street. A tractor, not a farm tractor, but tbe motive end of a big truck, pulls ln|o the station. }n the cab is a man and a girl, a genuine blonde dame. In the next fifteen minutes the driver of the tractor had sold the sta tion attendant a Smlthfleld ham— and they are good bams—for five bucks, purchased five gallons of gas, summoned a taxi—(Burney Hinson, driver) and asked the attendant to keep an eye on the tractor until he came back. It was 3:15 when the taxi left with Savannah as a desti nation. It was 5 o’clock when the police were summoned to the filling station, the attendant having become sospicioos of the extended absence of the tractor driver and his girl friend—and also becanae he had dis covered that tbe ham he had purebae- ed had bad the OPA stamp cut away. In chapter 2, Officer N. C. Shebeen arrivee at the filling station—gats excited over tbe story told him—does some fine dednetion stufl—calls the SmithfMd company at Smlthfleld, N. C, and learns that tbe driver of tiie truck was ons Chester Lee Murphy of SmRhfleld, a 84-year-old married man, whose wife and child awaited his return from a trip to Jasper, Fla., where he had loaded 188 piggies to take to Smlthfleld to be made into Smlthfleld hams. These piggiee, the officer was told, represented a value of $8500. Officer Shebeen got busy and notified tbe F’BI. A few hours later the owner of the Smlthfleld company had arrived and shortly aftel* the FBI operatives put in an ap- I>earance. CSiapter 2: 12 noon. Wife of Bnraie Hinson wondering why her taxi line iHibby had not returned. Came 12:80 and another nsember of the Hinson (PleuM tarn to page mtob) G. W. Brunson Dies; Funeral Is Held Sunday^ Oct 13th Fomanr NewH>Aper Writer end Editor Succmnba After Long Illneaa Sks. George Creed Heads Christinas Seal Campaign Mrs. Qeorga A. Creed will be Conn- ty Beal Sale dtalnnan for tha 1946 C^hriataias Seal Sale of thq Toberea- loeto association. Other chalraien will be announced later. Mrs. Oeed ad- vtoea that seal sale snppllea have been received, and plans are now being made for this important drive for funds. ' Mrs. Creed and other chairmeA with McMaster, will attend tha annual meeting of tha Sontts Carolina T. B. association in Columbia on Nov. 8. Miss Jennie McMastcr. enecntlva secretary of Karsbaw Oonaty T. B. asaoclatkm, to taking colored m sale workers to tho Peo Dee dtotriei of the annnal meeting ot otdorod T. B. worken Bitnriny, Ctot M. Thto meeting will bo held tn DUlon. . Funeral services for George Wash ington Brunson, who died in the Cam den hospital Friday night after an extended illness, was held at his resi dence on Fair street at 4:80 Sunday afternoon, conducted by Dr. Maurice Clark. ~ Mr. Brunson was 69 years old, born March 16, 187$, at Orangeburg, the son of George W. Branson, merchant and planter of Orangeburg connty and Sophia Steidiens Branson. He attend ed Wofford college and the University of Oeorgia and was a member of S. A. B. fraternity. He was editor and publisher of the Greenville News for 18 years. In 191$ he Joined the firm of Bryant Griffith, and BrnnsoA newspajMr represent ative, as junior partner and was In charge of the Chicago office until his retirement In 1986. He to survived by hie widow, Mrs. Harriett Shannon Branson of Cam den; one son, Capt. George W. Bran- soA U. 8. Medical corps; two danght- en by a former marriage: Mrs. Alice a Hoggins of San Francisco, and Mrs. Ernest Vlton of MobilA Ala. Aethra pallbearors ware Commander Shannon Heath, RaliHli Sbannon. BLlrby Tupper, B<dlvor BoyklA C. P. DoBosa Jr., P. H. NMeon, Tbmnas Ancram and Henry G. CarrtoOA Sumter Field To Be Retired Sk. * CAiBAcoch CRy RhjoicM That Big Sue WOI CoBlimw ' Maadeo dty ill year, to have motars $ho mid of tlb Four air bases'ln the Carolinas, in cluding Shaw Ftrid at Sumter, are in- clttded in the lint of 86. flying fields, depots, hospitato and other establish ments the Army Air forces has recom mended for retentioD. The War department, in mzkitig the aanonadement late yesterday, said tho Hat of stations to based oo maxlmnm requirmnents tor the air force to be attained tn the interim between war’and eventual peacattana needs. If a field to not included on the Ust. the AAF said, its status re mains qpehsnfed fbr tha preoent. Statiete In ths GaroUnss roeoss- for retention, by type, are’ ComIQtt nnitA Seymoar-Jobnmm flaid, CMdsboro.j^. a; flbsw FWd, “ ter, 8 C. Air transport and troop nnitA Firt Bragg, N. a OenersI ranges and tsstiag gredA Myrtle Bead), & C Army 4Jr Wyif