The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, January 06, 1939, Page PAGE TWO, Image 2
COLLEGES TRAIN PILOTS
They WIH Teach 20,000 Every Yea.
Ah Private Aviator*.
D-raa.-To provide
... notion's liichting
pit... 00 I., ".no - 1
Hoooevolt hoo approved a pl?n or
glvInK a couroo ot inatruclloll to .0.000
collage student* unnuully. ^
-Only by such an approach,' aalU
a Himultaneoua btutement from tho
Civil Aeronautics authority, "can the
United States adequately safeguard
Itself against the vast aerial militarization
program* now being pruaao^
with fanatic aeal by foreign power*.
Lloth the President, who announced
the plan at h!? press conference, and
,he authority, stressed llrsl of all thai,
the prospective pilot# would ho trained
first of all for civil aviation
The result, it was hoped, would be
tt stimulation of Interest In private
11 vlug and a consequent Increase in
the productivity of American aircraft
factories.
"It Is more in keeping wit t
American spirit of preparedness." (be
authority said, "to build up a grea
pool of men and machine*, dedicated
to and engaged in the pursuits o
peace, but yielding ttrst place to no
nation in flying or technical development
and quickly adaptable to military
needs in the event of war."
Mr. Hoosovolt said In answer to
questions that whflo the Instructors
would be army and navy flyers there
would bo no training In combat tactics.
However, he added. It was to be expected
thut a proportion of the men
would, -enter the army or navy reserve
forces, and receive further training.
The President's announcement came
as lie prepared t<> a?'ul to congress
recommendations for a vust expansion
of the national defense. High oftlciaiB
have said the administration contemplates
increasing the number of
the nation's airplanes to some 13,000.
Uy contrast with the program to
train thousands of new flyers, there
are In tho country* today less than
f>,000 military flyers, and a total of
only 20,000 pilots In all fields of aviation.
Thus one year's full operation
of the plan would double the number
of accredited pilots In the country,
officials declared.
While th? plan was worked out by
the Civil Aeronautics authority, much
of its administration was given over
to the National Youth administration.
The funds of the latter will by used
to finance it.
An experimental application of the
program costing not over $100,000,
was planned for the last semester of
the present academic year. From tho
colleges and universities now giving
courses of instruction in aviation
'' twelve or less are to be chosen and
300 students trained In them.
if the plan works experimentally, it
is to be extended to several hundred
schools and colleges in the 1039-1940
scholastic year
Editor Grist A Sucker
I Everything is lovely when the old
\ car. or the new one. is hatting it
1 down, or up. the road at forty to sixty
i miles p?T hour, and everybody is bapL
py; but not yet can any motorist foreJ
cast and foresee, just when lie Is gonig
to Kumt Old Man Avi-idrnt on the
highway, and In the fourth part of a
second find that things are not so
nice
A few days ago a young chap drifted
into tho offhc Of View a and Interviews.
and asked if he could get some
work in the shop for a Hole while.
When he was told that we did not
need him. he g.iv,- ibis >pi?d
"l hav I- le-.'U h.iv ;ng some had luck
I have l.i'.'ii i-'wu in Florida !??r a
week or two. and was going back to
home iit Tulsa, ok'.n A few miles
below i* dome.a. ! w vvm k-'d A
I / g r !. iv i:m a 'I m- 1"! ford, drove
' m -id. : '-id w o'iou! -topping.
/ llV!j,.- - ,.\d fo: > I could
/ .... had T.iT me fight '. H til* 111 1 <1 *
f N.. , Was hurt, lr.lt, it took
p'ov. r ? 12" to put my car In running
) jsha; igain. 1 wired home for money
% ;4ll J ..v ;i ; , a:u< . the 'olograph company
wouldn't turn it over to mo
wr'.eu- : h- it.g i o'-hed Well. I
,i- didn't know anybody In Columbia, and
x tn .... 1 isK*-* 1 : r th.' tti toy to
K be t' at. if- 1 H k":v. N. C..
'wher>* 1 1 t. 1 who Ut.iked
jf. VViUl ;io a i to -v s J a 1 - r office
and : d-nufv ! w.i- -.m mv
, wa> ' > Hi k ir>. w Io n a U v mt'e out
v.f this vvn. the : ,tn?inissi..n of |
* ,n> , ar bust. !. and u >w I want ? ?
4 wire ii.y . :> ! a' 1 u;sa to send tit"
t soil)' m 'to V here. S" I < at) gel U)/ J
4 car fixed again 1 h.und that I had
y but J i'bis and tie- t.-,.-gram wi'T
^ cost me 9.*' eon!--, and that .s why 1
want -.one w ,rk t . g.-t the money
* to pay f r :!)? !< --gram
* He was given enough to make out
- the 9< ents. and he was 'coming
k bark" when he go', the money; but he
V hasn'i oeen hnrk which doesn't mat\ier
particularly Another w'.th a new
f^yiTSoiei, will be along tomorrow - -York\e
Enquirer.
1 V
ye-Ar enough tarbon dioxide
* \e 16U.000.000 ions of "dry Ice"
$'/%eed by the burning of gasoline J
-m 'J aoblles.
V i 1
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Woman Routs Rattler
With Boiling Water
Hcoldsburg, Calif.?Mrs. E. L.
, Shrivel hud read of the manner |
in which the population of (?e- I
neva, Switzerland, repulsed die j
dukes'of Savoy and thereby accjuired
a Fourth of July of their
own.
As a consequence, when a 17rattler
snake refused to get
her buck porch, she heated up
the tea kettle, poured the contents
on it and it departed for
j parts unknown.
GET THEIR SEVENTH
BANDIT IN 7 YEARS
Aged Brother* Know How to
Deal With Robber#.
Somers, Wis?The cracker barrel
is full, there's ? cheery fire in the
big stove and business goes on as
usual today in the Bullomore Brothers
general store while its aging
proprietors protest there was nothing
unusual about the way they
trapped their seventh burglar in
seven years and killed him.
Somers is a crossroad# village,
ten miles from the big city police
protection. The lights go out at 9
o'clock and everybody goes to bed.
For years the Bullamore brothers,
James, seventy-flve years old, and
Albert, seventy, suffered the depredations
of transients who slipped out
of box cars at night and raided their
store.
Then they rigged up rows of wires
across windows and doors, connected
with electric alarms in their adJoining
homes. Outside the store
they installed switches with which
they could flood the store with light
without stepping into it. At their
bedsides they stacked their guns,
loaded.
James, being the elder brother,
reserved the privilege of taking first
action against intruders. But when
James pulled on his pants and started
for the door with his shotgun
Albert was doing the same thing.
Seven years ago they trapped two
burglars that way and had to shoot
only one of them. Since then there
have been four others, without
shooting.
One night recently the alarms
buzzed again?quietly, so the Bullamores
could hear them, but not the
burglar.
James leaped froin bed, jerked on
his trousers, shoes and coat,
grabbed his gun and dashed from
his house. Albert did the same.
"You go out in front," James ordered.
Then he turned the switch
that lighted the store.
Inside, a startled burglar dropped
a bag filled with ham, cheese,
crackers and cigarettes. He picked
up a bundle containing a suit, underwear
and socks, and raced for
the rear door.
From a clump of bushes James
called for him to stop. The burglar
put on another burst of speed.
James fired one barrel of his doublebarreled
shotgun and the burglar
fell?dead.
"If I hadn't got him with the first
barrel I'd have got him with the
second," James said.
Gets Best Man All Right, v
but It's Wrong Husband
London.?Rev. J. H. Lyons performed
his first marriage recently in
Killeter, Northern Ireland, and by
mistake wedded the best man to the
bride. But it was not his fnult. It
was the fault of the best man who
stepped out of position and responded
for the silent bridegroom.
Rebecca Cunningham, the bride,
and Christopher Craig, the bridegroom,
were unknown to the ministers.
The bride arrived at the
Presbyterian church with Albert
Muldoon, the best man. The church
sexton was pressed into service as
bridesmaid. While awaiting the
ministers, the party got mixed up.
the best man taking the place of
the groom. He made all the responses
until the time came for the
words "I will." The bride said it
for him.
Not until the party went to the
vestry to sign the register was the
mistake learned. The ministers decided
the ceremony could be performed
over.
Only the difference in names prevented
the best man from being le- j
gaily married to the bride.
K
Tail Mak es Fly-Swatter |
So Hartebeesta Die Out 1
Cairo ?Among natives of Africa,
the tail of the hartebeest is in such
genera! use as a fly-swatter, and
so many of the animals have been
slaughtered to aid the war on thes,
that the species is in danger cf extinction,
according to F. A. South of
the American F.xpress company.
Hartebeest hunters get up to about
2?> cents apmce for the tails.
City Hall Steps Sealed
Until a Cat Complains
St. Louis ?Three days after workmen
had completed sealing up the
, brow of toe Hty hnt! steps, passersby
were attracted by weird cries
coming from the steps.
P'iremen chiseled through the concrete,
found a half-starved cat
that had wandered under the steps
while they were being repaired and
apparently had gone to sleep. ,
A saucer of milk restored the cat
to purring normality.
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BULLETS REPLACE
CUPID'S DARTS IN
CASE OF COUNTESS
Former American Society Girl
Has Hectic Experience
in Matrimony.
Paris. ? Pistol shots provoked
much ado in the swirling dVowd of |
Saturday afternoon shoppers at the 1
Gare du Nord. A youth and a young
woman lay wounded. He was the (
youngest son of a noble English
family that traced its descent from
William the Conqueror. She was
the American wife of a French
count. In her hand wub the pistol
which had shot Capt. Raymond Vincent
de Trafford, lion hunting son of
the rich sportsman, Sir Humphrey
de Trafford, and brother of the captain
of the same name.
The bullet wound near the flery
heart of the twenty-eight-year-old
adventurer manifestly was critical.
Equally serious was the wound ip
the abdomen of the little Countess
Alice Silverthone de Janze, wife of
Vicomte Frederic de Janze of
Dieppe and Paris, daughter of
George Silverthorne of Riverside,
111.
Enter Handsome Officer.
In the fall of 1022, a significant
social event was the marriage of
Alice Silverthorne and the affable
Freddy de Janze. In a few day a
the couple sailed for France on thelt*
way to spend the winter In Morocco.
While on one of these African
hunts with the viconhte in Kenya colony,
British East Africa, the Chicago
girl met a former Coldstream
guards officer with an equal yen for
adventure. It was Captain de Trafford.
They fell in love and Alice
planned to divorce the Fxenchiriiii
for her new-found Englishman.
Back In staid Europe, however, It
was the chagrinned and crushed
Freddy who instituted the divorce
proceedings. Meanwhile young De
Trafford's attentions to Alice became
less and less frequent. At
last he told her that his family opposed
his marriage to her and that
he was there to say good-by.
They had lunch together, then
sauntered to a sporting gooda store
where the Englishman bought a couple
of hunting axes, and listlessly
watched his companion purchase a
pistol and some cartridges.
She Presses Trigger.
Then they went to the Gare du
Nord where De Trafford was to
catch his train for the channel. As
the engine whistle blew, Alice
pressed the weapon against her, admirer's
chest and pulled the trigger.
Then she shot herself.
For days the bullet victims were
expected momentarily to die, but
they finally pulled through.
Alice was charged with attempted
murder, but De Trafford refused to
testify against her. French justice,
after some legal shadow boxing suggestive
of American court procedure,
decided that Alice was temporarily
deranged and let her off with
a $4 fine.
It was only a few months until
gossip had it that Captain de Trafford
and the countess De Janze
were going to ba^marricd in Paris,
quietly. Five years elapsed, however,
before this marriage actually
took place.
Last spring, Alice de Trafford,
who now lives in Kenya colony,
filed divorce action in London. She
Charged adultery. De Trafford did
not defend the case ana the other
day the English court granted the
American her conditional decree.
Recipes for Poisons of
Borgias Bared by Girl
London.?Recipes of the deadly
poisons used by the Borgias have
been placed in the vaults of a London
bank to prevent them getting
in the hands of the wrong people.
They were discovered by Miss
Kitty Shannon, daughter of Sir
James Shannon, when she went to
Italy to discover material for a
book.
Miss Shannon advertised in a
newspaper of Rome for somebody
who knew the recipes.
First callers were the police who
had to be reassured that the recipes
were not to be put into actual use.
Next came a chemist, who
claimed his ancestors had prepared
poison for the Borgias. He gave
Miss Shannon ten different recipes.
I v. as appalled by the simplicity
of some of them." Miss Shannon
said
"One is prepared by boiling down
three common weeds.
One drop of it can kill in fifteen
minutes."
The recipes will be kept at the
hank until destroyed.
Dog Ought to Qualify
for Spelling Bee Place
Longvicw, Ore ?"Monty," threeyear-old
police dog owned by the
Frank Baker family of Longview,
can almost qualify for a place at
a spelling bee.
The dog has been taught during
the past two years to understand
the meaning of 14 words as they
are spelled out by his master.
Other words familiar to him include
pan, keys, dog, cans, meat,
check, clip and cat.
Snake Rouses Napper
j St. Johnsville, N. Y?Seward
Smith felt something tickle his
j cheek while napping. - Opening his
eyes, he saw a snake beside him.
| He killed the reptile with a flatirou.
SEA TELLS IT8 SECRETS BEST
TO TH08E WHO RlDt UPON IT
Somehow there la no subgtftut* for
tt uihii'h boat. The call of the sea to I
those who really hear It in Irreefitf
hie. It can he studied and beat ay*
predated only Nty ihe bout owner.
Knowing ihe sea la not necessarily
a mutter of distance covered. Malure
ineh, who drpam of their boats
all winter and practically live on
them In aumiuer, may never .have
extended their cruises beyond the
boundaries of beautiful Caaco Hay,
Maine. Yet one cannot know the
sou from the shore. j
Anchor far down the buy in some
Isolated cove where holding ground
Is good, wild* ilfo is abundant, and
evidences of clvlltatlou are far away.
Dig dame or (juahogs from the flats.
Take the water Jug Ashore and fill It
at a little spring that bubbles out of
a rocky crevice, the same spring a
sea captain spotted years ago.
Hut the kettle on the fire. Steamclams
and boullllon are tasty
enough, particularly when personally
prepared and served alfresco.
The tide has now fallen to Its lowest
ebb. Scores seem very near, yet
when you anchor you can swing a
complete circle and still be 100 feet
clear of all land. Yet you know this
cove And feel secure. It is well protected,
and no wind that reaches It
can make the anchor drag out of that
blue clay bottom. Generally after lying
a few hours at anchor while the
mud hook digs in, you have to heave
short on the rod line, make it fast,
and start the motor to break it out.
Sea grasses are green now and
growing eo fast you can almost see
mem reacn upward ana ouiwara. m
your dighy you have fairly to push
and pry your way through them. All
sorts of creatures hurry and scurry
away in the fiistuossc- cf this marine
forest.
In autumn when the crops ashore
are harvested the crops of the sea
have also attained full maturity.
Grasses are the thickest, longest and
strongest, but when the cold nights
come they wither and drop down Just
as the fleldB of waving grass do on
land. Probably you have noticed
many a narrow passage choked with
eel grass in August so you can barely
push through it. Yet in November j
It Is as free and clear as the open
ocean.
And the creatures one finds In his
cruises about the bay!
There are sea cucumbers, sea mel
on?, sea pumpkins, sea lemony
anemones, sea acorns, sea spidery seal
adders, sea kittles, sea hogs, m|J
minks, sea njice, fiddler crabs, and m|
manner of fishes. With your oirn
boat you may discover these and doaens
more if you hunt carefully.
60, too, you will come to know thn
wild birds and soon can classify an
amazing number after a while. Herring
gulls, mackerel gulls, phalaroper
black duck, coot, sheldrake, cormorant,
and a host of others. At night
from your bunk you hear pattering
noises all around as if someone were
dropping buckshot in the water and
realize it is only the finning flipping
of CK ithwt of BWi'TTHJ. I
Then comes a wailing cry. Only
the baby seals over on Drunker's
I^edge crying for their mothers who
have deserted them temporarily on a
forage for food. An almost human
cry!
And, when It comes to the humans
of the out-of-way places. Then indeed
do you need your boat to make you
one of them. You will And warm
hearts beating beneath rough exteriors.
Their colloquialisms, their superstitions,
their ability to forecast
the weather by rightly interpreting
signs, their knowledge of the habits
and whereabouts of the fishes of the
sea?all these traits are vigorous.
Most of them are lobstermen, clammers,
and hand-liners.
No, there Is no substitute for a
boat.?Christian Science Monitor.
of Chartfilonf1 1* to be^g^. Hh> 1Ubh
Mary i on I>yt?eton M "'? ll>
Father Burke, the newly sA 'l t t
paetor of the Catholic ohnrch X i?ulu
l^ady of Perpetual Help, on MA. ll
venlnif, January 9, commencing ">
I nliui oVltK'k. \
invitations are being sent out t6
leaders of tap civic, social and busiiiohh
life of Camden of all religious
faiths many of whom hate already
extended the city's traditional hospitality
to Father Hurke.
A committee has been appofntedtO
manage the reception, under tfepj
chairmanship of Mrs. Woota^i|Bi^P
son. Mrs. John Mullen and
lord Tucker. The committal# to e#?
cort the bishop Is F. N. McOorkle. the
mayor of Camden; John Mullen^-A|UM
tin Bheheen and Gaylord Tucker. "?j?|
jAgd'Veteran Dies
Sita "Waster Count,
Ht.l Co*un7y !,>??
jjyl olrtwBt Iteiis 01l r,lurl 'U; ? H
udUmbo#, ln ? > Wl DoW
Ka who iiu , f (,tK)'?o
ni,rl ? VtMl f" tho aK, of a:,
1,0 wu? ?*>". U? Of tou
?un Of iho late Uov
u> or the Taxa'!'
Ho live,, there all
W the time ttpeut in
^ Baptist church,
L a o'clock by his pasYoods,
after which the
carrieU to the Blackfor
burial,
aurvived by the followad
daughters, Robert
of Tuxuhaw; JohD, of
tuel, of Lancaster; and
Jshorne and Mra. MaKerahaw;
alao a good
children and great'as
quite active for a
eara and waa able to
is and nelghbora until
ago. He had dlatiuct
' the great war be?
and waa able to give
of some of the batran
aaw some of .he
j of the war aa he
iy of the great bat glnia
campaign. He
the fighting that took
i eraburg, Va., In the
line before his death
t battle in which he
Antietam where the
tic on both Bl.lea. It
?p was the bloodiest
the war as the casUer
than duriug any
?attle of Gettysburg.
of Mr. Palle but
e left in the county,
and Lewis Rowell.-*/spaper,
organ-of Hiting
"Jim Crow" cars
tlon of traveling Jews
i B. Blodgett, of Scheannounces
the discov1
of coating glass that
a Invisible, disappears
dinary thicknesses of
i clear as air.
I__ Announcing the Liquidation^
Potter, Wing & Con|any
Aiken, S. C. Camde
John T. Potter John P'
D. Wing
Successor to the abow.
POTTER & COIpany
f WINES AND SPIRITS ? AIKEN,
S. C. CAMDE ? ''
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