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| I SPORTS SENSE ' AND NONSENSE ? HE* St<o by the imperii that Mahatma Uandt goes Into retirement for rejuvenation and carry ou, or dentine and carry out. ? ? . When your wife comments about her nelgbbor'a spring hat, the eaaleat way out is to tell her that if she aaan't no attractive already ahe would have to depend on new millinery as ^ the neighbor women do. . Progress made by scieuce aud medicine has lengthened the span of life sixteen yearn. (Josh, will some one tell utt how much the automobile has shortened it. ju-a?a? ??? Americans are getting soft.. . Do you remember the time When folks used to walk miles to hear a political windhay spout. Now ull we have to do is to stay at home, turn a knob on the radio and behold we have, It. ? < The demand of southern senators that any auti-lynch law Include all forms of mob violence resulting In death Is not out of order. * * A few men begin ai the bottom and rise, but a lot more begin at the tot-' torn and just stick there. * * I Now for baskfdfall. The Kendall Mills are slated to play the Atlanta All-Stars ou February 2nd. As a preliminary to this game Gertrude Zemp's Flashes will take on the McDowell Dames in a game that should be Interesting. It will be the first appearance of the girl's teams in action. We hope every basketball fan In Camden will be out for this doubledecker Wo saw the game between Kendall's and Hartsvilje team last week and it was worth watching. Full of thrills and tight as a drumhead. * * ? This lad Din wood Smith Is a tower of strength' for the Mills team. And when we say "tower" we mean just that, for Smith reaches into the o/.on and saves quite a few high passes. ? " ""tTrfTfWfPTTrgr Frank Mayer, council5-" man, tire lighter and a whizz as a ;-oI't drink manufacturer. We always '.nea Frank to be a good city official, and having sampled some of his soft drink productions, knew he was nee in that i-articular, but we re < Aeu our first g.lmpse of him in aiiion as a fire fighter Wednesday morning.v Frank was first up the lad ncr, firnt to get hig-hose line In actitm and believe me. he killed the blaze then and there. Good man to have around If you ask me. * Did you see the northern lights Tuenday night? They tell me that thin great Bight, ho common tu the north at all seasons of the year, la Hoen only at intervala down in the Houthlaud. The play of colors In the northern sky Tuesday night was something to talk ubout. The cold wave that swept the nation midweek took a shot at Camden, being preceded by a gale of wind that blew down signs, ripped branches from trees and in general made out of doors u struggle to keep erect und navigate. [ We're looking for some red-hot polo when Town and CopiUiy clash in the Dual game of the Sylvan cup event Sunday Field No. 1. Town won the first game but dropped the second to Country when Floyd and Watson were both out of the lineup. With these two Htar performers back 011 the ponies Sunday, anything, can happen. * Whisper it?we hear that another Columbia outfit is thinking seriously of offering a trophy for another tilt between Town and Country. Nothing definite as yet, so we'll not say anything more about It. * ? Some basketball In prospect on February 2 at the high school gym when Ewing's Millers take on the Mormon baskoteers from away out west in Utah. This llrlgham Young crew has been-winning a majority of their games In Florida, Georgia and other points and the Kendall crowd will have to go some to break even In the game here. As a curtain raiser, Gertrude Zeinp's Flashes take on Ellen McDowell's Dames. Two fine gal teams. ? I've been thinking that a dictator could go far in a land that yearns to kill a more umpire. ? And again mebbe the trouble wi n the old business pump is not in the pri ning. but in the way the pump handle is being worked. * # Life gives a photographic analysis of the Dig Apple. It turns out to be a high school basketball game with oyt the basketball. Well, well, well. A Chicago woman wore a 25 cent lampshade on one of 1 be main streets nf Pint city without causing anyone to look twice. Listen ellows, when the wife asks for money to buy a new hat, give her two bits and tell her to buy herself a lampshade. TOWN TEAM WA8 AN EASY VICTIM IN SECOND CUP GAME Minus the service^ of Captain Dick Floyd and back Wptpon Poraeroy, the Town team fell easy victim to a swiftriding Country team. "Sunday afternoon in the second game of the Sylvan cup series, the score being 14 to l. Town scored but one goal during the game and bad a three goal allowance. The lone goal was scored by i lyd,. Trumbell in the fourth chukU? r The largest crowd of the season ahhissed the game. Tow it piayed a strong defensive j gaiuu in the first period holding Couni: y scoreless. In the second chukker t i?untry opened a blazing offensive, wi;h Captain Joe Hates posting two goals and Doykln and Tapper one ach to overcome the three goal liandnap and forge one to good. Bates and Boykin each scored In the third and Boykjn and Tupper again in the fourth. In. the fifth Bates scored twice .?The sixth found Country adding three more, with Tupper scoring two and Lightfoot one. Tom Watson was referee. Floyd and Pomeroy trill be back in the lineup fcr Town in the final and deciding game to be played next Sunday. The score: ' " Town 4 l-Burns-Robinson 0 - ' 2?DuBose 1 |. 3?Uttle 2 4?Brumble 1 Country 8 1?Tupper 2 j 2?Boy kin 2 3?Ldghtfoot 2 4?Bates 2 Scores: Tapper 5, Bates 4, Boykln 3, Lightfoot 1, Brumble 1. Searching Party Finds Lad And Dog Newberry, Jan: zb.?Kalph Cromer, three and a half year old son of Mr. and Mrs, Henry Cromer, of near Newberry, was found late today in woods two miles from his home. The youth left home early this morning with bio shepherd dog and another dog and when he was missed a search was immediately instituted.A Late today a call was made 011 county officers and the COC camp. The dog remained with the little boy when : found by Mr. Price, a neighbor, they I were wandering leisurely through the woods. Despite the fact that the 1 many flurries of snow fell throughout the day the youth was apparently unharmed. He had gotten wet, however, in crossing a ?creek. He left at 9 o'clock and was not found imiP * o'clock. t wSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSmSSSmSmSSSSSSSSSSSSmSSmmmmmmS^ Be the f XOU Judge What is the right price for a funeral service? You be the judge. Complete funeral prioee are marked on each casket in the Kornegay display and patrons are urgfed to make there own selection in keeping with what they can afford to pay. KORNEGAY FUNERAL HOME I ^HpffiDMMUNiTY aenvicc atNCa tt; : | Phone 103 | Ounden, S. C. Six Men To Die In Electric Chair Columbia, Jun 22.?A verdict carrying the death penalty for all six defendants was returned today four and a hulf hours after the Jury retired to consider testimony in the uiur-, der of Guard Captain J Olfu Bandera in a daring attempt at escape from the state penitentiary December 12. At 4:31 p. in. the Jury returned a verdict of guilty of murder without recommendation to mercy. Attorneys for the defense nerved notice of motions for new trials immediately after the verdict was road. | The case, trial of which commenced Tuesday, weut to the Jury at 12: 0f> p. m., following tiie completion of arguments and the Judge's charge. Mrs. OUn Banders, widow of the slain guard captain, heard the verdict I announced. Mrs Hoy Buttles, of Simpsonvtlle, wife of one of the defendants, wept. Buttles, however, answered the verdict with a smile. J. V .Halrt of Slimier, another defendant, who sat next to him, put liis arm around Sutih s,' whispered something In his ear and both men smiled. The other convicts, William IS. Woods, of Diloxi, Miss., the confessed ringleader of the escape plot, Her bert Moorman of Detroit. Mich., Clay-1 ton Crans, of Rochester, N. Y , and I George Wiuggrd, of Columbia, were' palpably pale and nervous but showed no other reactions. The Jury decision was received quietly by a crowded courtroom after stern Judge Featherstone warned: "I want perfect quiet while the verdict is received and afterwards I don't want the slightest demonstra tlon of auy kind." Testimony of the state's witnesses and of the defendants themselves agreed In its uit^lu details of the attempted escape, tint the prisoners gave conflicting testimony us tw who uctually dealt the death blow Woods shouldered the toll blaiuo for hatching up the plot to osi^mc and for stabbing Sanders with a makeshift Ice-pick-like instrument, hut j Wlngard said Suit Ion also stntthed the! guard. After the verdict was announced, the Judge told Sheriff T. Alex litise and his officer*; "Gentlemen, take charge of tho prisoners " The sextet was lmintul ately manacled with handcuffs fastened to heavy leather belts about their waists. Officers at the Richland county jail said Wtngurd. Crans and Moormnu were being held there and that Ilalr, Woods and Sullies had been carried to the penitentiary. All will have to appear In court for sentencing. According to the testimony at the trial, the six convicts went to ("apt I Sanders office In the penitentiary yard about 8:30 on the pretext that they had matters to take up with Iron Once inside they tied him up and forced him to call othe" guard officers and transmit the prisoner's demands for an automobile and unmolested passage through the prison gates. The convicts were armed with a wooden gun, which Woods testified he carved, and improvised daggers made from scissors and odd pieces o.f metal. Officers on the outside did not know how heavily armed tho men were. Governor Olin Johnston was notified and Adjutant General James C. Dozler appeared on tho scene with in company of National Guardsmen. | Roth Joined penitentiary officers in pleading with tho men to surrender and release Sanders but without sue-' cess. \ i i a> "If you don't bring the car around we'll kill Cupt. Sunders," witnesses quoted the convicts hh saying. When persuasion failed, Dozler and state constable Frankie Meyer fired gas shells into the room. A smoke bomb was shot first to darken the room and was followed by tear and nausea gas. The men staggered out one by one. All of the (lofendunts testified they were struck'by guards as they came out. "We expected to be shot down," one of them testified. The men were serving sentences ranging from 18 months to 17 years. REPORT OF FOREST FIRES" IN CAMDEN FOREST DISTRICT Statistics recently compiled in the Camden District office of the South Carolina State Forest Service indicate | that 169 uncontrolled tires burned j over acres of the 1,033,053 acres of woodland uniler slate cooperative protection in the Camden District dur-, iitir the six month period ending Jam j uary I. 1 DCS. j the area under protection in the ! Caiad' n Forest District is made up of i ; Suiuti.i', !\ers!ur.v. Richland and Dec fiounties and 2.V3JC acres in Fairlicld i t uiiiuy, j The number of tires by causes and j i!io lesulting acreages burned arc as follows: railroads 15 fires, 182.8 acres; campers 10 tires, 71.8 acres; smokers 48 fires, 740.4 acres; brush burning 22 fires, 4iu.z acres"; incendiary 8 fires, 103.1 acres; lumbering 2 flres( 18.2 acres; miscellaneous 11 fires. 136.3 acres; the origins of 53 fires which burned?yrf>ver 655.9 acres were unknown. From these figures it can be seen that for the six month period ending January 1, 1938, more fires occurred and more acres were burned as a result of careless smokers than from any other cause. . c Only a small amount of judgement and care is necessary to prevent smoker's fires. If smokery would take the simple precaution of extinguishing their matches, tobacco .from their pipes, cighrs and cigarettes rather than throwing them down while still burning .the damage resulting from woods fires tvould be greatly reduced. The cause following smokers in the number of iir? s and acreage burned was cat'eiess burning of brush. Woods fires originating from brush i burnings are usually the result of carelessness. Rangers have frequently reported instances of woods fires occurring because some one started a brusli fire and left it during noon hour.' This is an example of extreme carelessness. A brush fire should not be left until it has burned out or it has been extinguished with water or dirt. Many brush fires become woods fires because people burn on extremely dry, windy days. Brush burning should never be attempted on windy days where there is a poss'blllty of its developing Into a woods fire. A safe policy Is to burn brush in the late afternoon when the wind has lolled. Every one of the fires occurring on protection units in the Camden District from July 1* 1937, to January 1, 1938. w&e man-caused and thus preventable. The Sj^uth Carolina State Forest Service urges the public to cooperate trt keeping fires, . the destructive agency which brought about, in_the South during 1936 a loss of approximately forty-five millions of dollars, out of the woodlands or"Sdulh Carolina. .. ... ..... i. . .. ! C The house on Tuesday voted to give the President blanket authority to jreto single items Of groups of Items f?i ivny appropriation bill passed by Ihe bouse, except Items of allotments to veterans, without entirely vetoeing a given bill. When the measure ADVERTISING Does Four Things If you conduct a retail store, there are four things you wish to do: (1) You wish to HOLD all of your present customers (2) You wish to sell more goods to your present customers (3) You wish to REPLACE with new customer* the old ones who move away (4) You wish to INCREASE THE NUMBER of your customers. Thus you have four objectives. Not one of these objectives can be reached by doing nothing. None of these objectives can be wholly realized without advertising in The Camden Chronicle . . _ Phone 29 Camden, S. C. I FORD OFFERS TWO NEW CARS J ' I and keeps their PRICES EOW 1 I Right ? the Standard Tudor Sedan 60 or 85 boraepower Below ? tka Do Lmt Ford or flailaw a5 borao?o?og ^ There are two new Ford cars for 1938 ? the De Luxe and the \ Standard?differing in appearance, appointments and pricey but built on the same dependable Ford chassis. Both bring you the basic advantages of a V-type 8-cyUnder power-plant? smooth performance and compact design. The De Luxe Ford has the 85-horsepower engine. The Standard Ford pro_i ' videe a choice of 85 or 60 horsepower. Both new cars are economical to operate. The Standard, with thrifty "60" A..-iWg " ~ *'" Jjgja engine, costs less to run than any other Ford car ever built. fl And both new cars are priced low. Low price, like economy, is a Ford (ra* dition. Ford founded the low-price field 30 years ago and keeps Ford prices low. .. " . . # . . 4 The De Luxe Ford costs slightly mora S . T - <***? than the Standard Ford, but provklft# - more style with extra room In the closed J ' . { v' ^ sedans. Both cars, in proportion to price, represent unusual values. Both are bu3t~ to the flame high standard of mechanical excellence. There's a dealer near you* " .1 ? -..-S?I/.V? ..ani.tx :*. *>. i ? -i i ".TV i i. ii i i -* - " - i " * X I i,; ' ; . . 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