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VOLUME 61 / CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1939 NUMBER 18
Miss Fewell Writes
Of European Travel
(Editor's note?Miss Margaret FeweD(
home demonstration agent to
pour-H club members of Kershaw
county Is traveling extensively in Europe
and it was thought the following
letter would be of interest to many
club girls and extension workers thruout
tho state.)
Bergen, Sweden, July 18
Dear Four-H Girls: Much to our
regret we wish to let all of you know
that the Kershaw Four-H encampment
for the summer has been called
off due to the infantile paralysis in
the state. Although at present there
are no cases in Kershaw county, those
In charge feel that it would not be
wlae to take a large group of boys and
girls to another section on a camping
trip- We fear one ot the f?llowlnK
things might happen: First?that
Borne child might develop a case in
the crowded camp. Second-r- that
acme child might contact a person
who might have been exposed. We
also desire to show our Four-H spirit
of cooperation with the various boards
of health.
Now. I know that all of you are going
to be disappointed greatly; however.
I am confident that the Kershaw
county Four-H girls as well as the
parents desire to do anything possible
to prevent any spread of this
dreaded disease. I am also confident
that each true Four-H clubster will
work Just as hard, if not harder, to
keep the record uptodate and finish a
real good year's work. A true Four-H
member never quits.
The state short course for girls at
Winthrop college, Rock Hill, has also
been called off.
Now I shall tell you a little about
the delightful trip I am having. Ev-]
eryday has been packed full of good I
things. 1 will try to tell you more
ibout these in detail when I see you.
/ bought native national costume In
Finland and will wear It for you.
1 crossed the Atlantic on the Queen
Mary which is the world's largest
ship and is truly a floating palace. It
has three smoke stacks and three
railway trains could run abreast thru
any one of the three and not touch
the sides.
The first country I visited was England.
There I felt I was really living
history and it gave me a queer feeling
to roam the halls that kings and
queen have trod for many centuries.
Westminister Abby is the burial place
of England's famous dead. I saw
where queen Eliabeth lies buried and
with scarcely the width of the Abby
between them lies buried Mary Queen
of Scots, her sister whom she had
beheaded. In the Abby. also is the
coronation chair where English kings
have been crowned since 1300. That's
just one of the many times I realized
I was gazing upon things in use be-j
fore Columbus was even born. No
trip to Ivondon is ever completed without
a visit through the Tower of
Ixindon and a visit across London and
Tower bridge. In the tower, well
guarded, are the crown jewels.
The crowns used at the last coronation
are exceptionally handsome. In
the country I visited Warwich castle
and so impressive was it that I should
not have been greatly surprised to!
fee a Knight in Mail ride out. We
visited Windsor ca'stle and lodge. Thei
latter ts the private home of the king J
and here we were fortunate enough
to ?ee the little princesses. They did
not look far different from you for
one is ten and the other fourteen. I
am sure if you could have gone with
me through England and have visited^
Shakespeare's home and seen Anne;
Hathway's cottage, you would love his
Plays and English history.
Lnough for England?for I have five
more countries to tell you about soi
hunt up your geography and let's have
a lesson. Denmark was the next countr>
and it was as neat as a painted
picture. Three acres is a large farm,!
but the land is very rich and theyj
farm intensively. We visited Copenhagen
and found it very interesting.;
We always knew the kind of weather|
to expect for the weather vane was
life size on top of the tallest building.j
If rain was expected a little girl carrying
an umbrella came out. If it
to be clear she/canto outriding i
a bicycle. Every one In Copenhagen |
rides a bicycle and it is almost impossible
to cross the street; there are
iffO.OOO bicycles in the city.
Sweden was the next country I visited
and we found it moat Interesting.
Both money and language change in
every country and it gives one a queer
feeling to hear those around yon
speaking in an unknown tongue. The
Gota Canal runs through the heart of
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the country and is a scenic route
worth discovery. The most interesting
part was taking the boat through
the locks (in other words down
stairs). We found Stockholm interesting
in many ways, but it was very
hard to keep a diary for it never gets
dark in these northern countries and
it is hard to know when yesterday
ended and today began. I can read
without light at midnight and then it J
gets light again for the sun rises at I
2:30 o'clock.
Finland was visted next and wei
stayed at Helzingfors, the capitol. The
Olympic games will be held here in'
1940. Finland has 30,000 islands and.
it is very beautiful. My time 'grows
short so I must hurry.
Tonight I am in Norway and many
thousand miles from home. We spentI
a couple of days at the capitol, Oslo,!
then crossed the mountains by rail.)
For miles we rode through snow and
got off and snow balled. We went
through miles of wooden tunnels to
keep the snow off the tracks. We 1 eft j
the train an^J went to Flaam. We rode
In funny little two wheel carts behind
small ponies. The road became so
I steep we had to get out and walk
jdown the canyon two miles.
I I then saw my first Fjord, which
as you know is Midsummer night and
the natives stay up all night, building
bonHree and dance all night It was
interesting I assure you. I am re[
maining in Bergen five days then will
| go to the North Cape to see the Mld>
night Sun, so you see I wjll have lots
| more to tell you when I see you and
I've only hit my trip in high places.
Hope you have enjoyed your geography
lesson and spend a pleasant
[ vacation.
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Smith Tells Young
Demos. About Rights
Myrtle Poach. July 21.?Senator K.
D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith told the stute
Young Democrat!* convention here tonight,
"Certain rights belonging to individuals
are guaranteed by the con*
(dilution and these cannot be taken
from the people by any ruler or dictator."
"Few people realize the constitution
is t>he protection of the minority,"
Smith said. In the first ten amendments
are embodied the bill of rights
and power given by states to the federal
government.
"These powers were dearly defined
and few in number. Never in all
history of human government has
there been a more perfect system for
free men as in the dual form of gov-|
ernment.
"There are some who say we have
outgrown the constitution. If that be
true we have outgrown the truth, the
proper relation of man to man; we've
outgrown human nature.
"I think any violation of the three
co-ordinated branches of our government
is a crime against our social organization.
There should be a stinging
rebuke from Americans to any
branch of the government which attempts
to usurp the powers of another
and there should be a like rebuke
to the branch that allows it."J
Senator Smith waB introduced by
Spot Mozingo, of Columbia .
Three Sumter People
Are Killed In Crash
Dr. I. D. Pinson, president of Morris
college, his son, Sylvester, and
MrB. C. A. Lawson, wife_ of Professor
i C. A. Lawson, principal of the"Lincoln
school, were killed and Dr. Plnson's
wife and three sons seriously injured
yesterday in a head-on collision with
another car near South Hill, Va.
The colllsiofi occurred during a driving
rainstorm. None of the five occupants
of the other car was killed, but
all were taken to a Richmond, Va.,
hospital for treatment. All five were
said to be from Brooklyn, N. Y.
Dr. Pinson is survived by his widow
and three sons, James O., David and
Eugene. Professor Lawson and one
daughter, Mrs. Williams Clemons, of
Charleston.
Dr. Pinson and his party were returning
from New York when the accident
occurred.
Professor Lawson left last night for
Richmond and later in the night the
ambulance also left the city to get
the bodies.
Funeral arrangements had not been
completed this afternoon.
Dr. Pinson's death is quite a loss
to his race ip South Carolina, as he
' was recognized as one of the state's
I leading negro educators and had raieed
the standard in many respects at
Morris college during the time he held
office there.?Saturday's Sumter Item.
All-Star Game Here
Tuesday, August X
The six Palmetto State league
teams are oiling their siege guns and
working themselves into fever heat in
preparing for the big all star game to
he played at Camden on Tuesday, August
1. The star performers will be
chosen Wednesday evening of this
week at a call meeting in Camden
between the team managers and other
league officials. The stars for the two
teams who will cavort for'the all-star
title will bo taken from the first, third
and fifth place clubs in forming one
combination which will be Hartsvllle,
Chester and Camden, and the Becond,
fourth and sixth place clubs who are
Sumter, Lancaster and Kershaw to
form the other outfit.
Managers of the respective all-star
aggregations will be present managers
of the first and Becond place teams in
the league standing. They will be
Fred Ritchie, of Hartsvllle, and Burns,
of Sumter.
Northeast Faces
Water Shortage
(By The Associated Press)
With scant relief in sight, the
drought-striken northeast faced water
shortage today in some communities,
and an increased hazard of forest fires
in tinder-dry woodlands.
The damage to crops in ten states'
stood in the millions. In parts of
Pensylvania, -a 50 per cent crop fail-1
lire was predicted as a result of Its
worst drought in nine years.
Scattered electrical storms brought
a little rain to parts of New England.;
Hailstones resembling golf balls fell
last night in the arms"of Farmingham
and Clinton, Mass., smashing nearly
3,000 window panes and flattening
parched crops.
Dwindling supplies of water for
drinking and power harassed parts of
New York state. Residents of Schnectady
were advised to "go easy on tbe
water," a temporary chlorinating system
and water pumped from a nearby
village relieved an acute shortage at
Naseau, where residents were without
water for six hours yesterday.
New Jersey farmers reported heavy
losses In dairying, field crops and produce,
and increased damage to fruit
trees.
Forest fires in New Jersey and
Pennsylvania were checked.
Fifty inmates of an institution for
delinquents and one hundred CCC
members aided in fighting New y ork
state's most serious blaze at Stony
Kill falls, near Ellenville?a fire which
destroyed an estimated 1,000 acres of
forest in five days.
The United States weather bureau
said in a special report to Secretary
Wallace in Washington many sections
in Middle Atlantic and New England
states were menaced by fire hazards
growing out of drought conditions as
serious as in 1936.
Santee Development
May Be Endangered
Columbia, July 20.?State WPA administrator
Lawrence M. Pinekney
declined to comment today on a report
that the future of the $27,500,000
Santee-Cooper development might be
seriously affected by the recently
passed relief act ordering considerable
reductions in WPA rolls.
He issued a statement Tuesday saying
that South Carolina's quota would
be reduced to 35,590 persons by August
1, but declined to say how many
would be cut from the rolls.
Approximately 6,000 WPA workers
are expected to be used for clearing
work, in the Santee-Cooper basin.
Reports said assignment of several
thousand men to the work on the project
might cause a shortage of ablebodied
men on other projects in the
state while the continuation of the
other projects might handicap the
Santee-Cooper work.
Baptist Church 8ervices
The following services are announced
for the week beginning July
30, at the Camden Baptist church:'
Sunday school at 10 o'clock tfith V. J.
Rector,, superintendent, in charge.
Public worship conducted by the pastor^J.
B. Caaton, at 11:15 a. m. Message
on the subject: "Christ Coming
To Us In The Storm." The evening
service is called off. B. T. U. with
picture At 8 o'clock with Christopher
Vaughan, director, in charge. Prayer
meeting Wednesday evening at 8:30.
The public 1# cordially invited to attend
all services of this church.
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"Rush" Job
Captured Burglar
In a manner of speaking, it was a
"Rush Job," when Deputy Shorlff
Qrover Rush", Chief of Police Alva
Rush and Rural Officer Gib DeBruht
arrested a young white man who had
been systematically stealing from the
tilling station operated by Julian 13.
Rush on east DeKalb street.
No algns of windows or doors being
jimmied, so the officers suspected
a pass key. They kept vigil for several
nights and a young man was seen
to enter. Officers closed in and placed
Harry W. Russell, 22, under arrest.
He did possess a pass key and had
entered the station several times.
According to officers who investigated
the case, Russell admits that on
the night of July 3 he got 134.00 in
cash and cigarettes. He is also said
to have admitted entering the place
with the use of a key about one year
ago, and also four tithes in recent
weeks. The latter times he says he
only stole cigarettes.
I The arrest was made Saturday night
and fingerprints told that Russell had
left the state penitentiary about three
weeks ago, after serving a year on a
, bad check charge.
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Seven Prisoners
Escape From Bus
Thornburg, Va., July 26.?Seven of
twenty-two federal prisoners en route
from Atlanta to Pennsylvania escaped
from g department of Justice bus
near here today after overpowering
four guards, taking their arms and
commandeering an automobile.
The guards were beaten and stretched
on the floor of the vehicle while
the prisoners donned their grey caps
and drove for about a half hour over
side roads off the heavily traveled
Richmond-Washington highway until
they encountered a private automobile
driven by Mrs. Ruby Lee Thurston,
of Guinea, Va.
Stopping her car, they forced Mrs.
Thornton into the bus and one of the
group followed in the automobile for
several more mlleB before she was
released unharmed. The other six
then deserted the bus and made off
in the car. (
State WPA Quota
To Be Cut Shortly!
Columbia, July 18.?South Carolina's
WPA quota has been ordered reduced
to 35,590 workers by August 1, and
this quota must include workers engaged
on projects not previously Included
In the total, Administrator
Lawrence M. Pinckney announced today.
There was no indication today as to!
how many workers would lose their!
Jobs under this quota. Pinckney said
the reduction would be accompanied
by a proportionate cut in administrative
personnel.
The new quota, however, must Include
projects such as the Charleston
navy yard, U. S. Marine barracks
at Parris Island, Port Moultrie, soil
conservation, naitonal park service
&nd other agencies whose workers are
paid from WPA funds but who were
not previously included In the general
quota.
WPA workers employed for eighteen
months or more will be the first
to feel the effect of the reduction. A
clause In the relief act makes this
mandatory, Pinckney said.
Thirty-nine administrative workers
have received notice of release effective
July 15, Pinckney said, and others
will receive release notices effective
August 1.
TOOK ADVANTAGE OF MAN
WHILE ATTENDING CHURCH
Bill Duren, who conducts a small
store and also sells Ice on lower Main
street, near the corner of York and
Broad streets was the victim of a
sneak thief and cash to the estimated
amount of $9.00 was taken Sunday
night.
Duren was at church when Jerry
Withers, 21, entered his place through
I a window and got the loot. Chief of
Police Alva Rush had his suspicions
and arrested Withers and placed him
In jail on a burglary charge.
Bathesda Praabytarlan Church
Sunday; July 30, Sunday school at
10 a. m., with classes for all persons
thirteen years of age and up. There
will be no preaching services in thia
church until the last Sunday in September.
The Sunday School Is Id
charge of F. N. McCorkle.
Karon DeKalb
Faculty Named
The board of trustees of the Huron
DeKalb school bus announced through
Superintendent Cyril D. Bus bee the
following faculty for 1939-1940 session:
Miss Minnie Breedlove, Howesvllle,
and Miss Kltus McOraw. Newberry,
tlrst grade; Miss Ellen Boll, Due West,
and Miss Roberta Wooten, Chester,
second grade; Miss Gertrude Sweatt,
McBee, third grade; Miss Martha
Hawthorne, Abbeville, fourth grade;
MIbs Jennie Kyle, Rodman, fifth grade;
MIsb Beatrice lx>ckerman, Salemburg,
N. C., sixth grade and manual training;
Miss Ruth Thomllnson, Olanta,
high school science and history; Irville
Jones, Galllvant'B Perry, commerce;
B. E. Divings ton, Prosperity,
mathmatlcs and social science; Miss
Luclle Hewlett, Allendale, English
and librarian; F. N. Culler, Westvllle,
agriculture; Miss Ida West, Branchvllle,
home economics; Cyril B. Bubbee,
Westvllle, economics and citizenship.
The piano teacher, who serves
on a part time basis, has not yet been
named.
Eight of these teachers are new to
Baron DeKalb school. They are:
Misses Roberta Wooten, Jennie Lyle,
Ruth Thomllnson, Martha Hawthorne,
Ida West and Irvllle Jones, all having
at some time graduated from Winthrop
college; Eltas McGraw, a graduate
of Newberry college; and Miss
Beatrice I>ockerman, a graduate of
Berry college.
Trustees of the BChool are: K. C.
Etters, chairman; P. A. McDowell,
clerk; F. N. Gay, H. L. Smyrl, J. W.
Sowell, Sam Truesdale and R. H.
Young.
Man Wounds Father
Then Kills Himself
Greenville, July 24.?John Watson
Holland, 26. shot and wounded his
father, W. H. Holland, and then committed
suicide at their farm home
about seven miles east of Simpsonj
ville shortly before 7 o'clock this
morning, Deputy Sheriff Frank Keidj
reported.
The elder Holland, shot from tho
back with a .22 calibre rifle, was reported
in fair condition at General
hospital later in the day.
Deputy Reld, who investigated with
Deputies Sam Pollard and H. G. Page,
said the younger Holland used the
same weapon to shoot himself through
the heart a few minutes after his father
was wounded.
Reld said he was informed Holland
came home late Saturday from the
state hospital In Columbia. A hospital
attache reported young Holland was
first admitted in September, 1938, and
had been an Inmate since. He left
Friday without permission, as he had
on previous occasions, an official said.
Coroner George W. McCoy did not
immediately Indicate what steps would
be taken regarding an Inquest.
JACK CORBETT WOULD PAY
UMPIRE MAGERKURTH'8 FINE
Eddie Breltz, In his "sports roundup"
carried the following (n his column
one day last week:
"Jack Corbett, president of the National
Hot Sto^e league (a fan organization
with 50,000 members) sends
this bureau a five-spot to start a fund
to pay Umpire Magerkurth's $160 fine
and the salary the National league
will dock him during his ten days' suspension
. . . Corbett, former owner
of the Syracuse Internationals, says
If all the Stove league members will
chip in a few cents each they can pay
the fine and have dough left for the
Old Ball Players' Fund ..." 'Good
umpires are scarce enough now without
making the going tougher fori
Chose we have with courage," he says
. . . Yet Ed can't handle the fund what1
with having to make bond and one
thing and another, but If anybody
wants to get on the list Corbett can
be reached at 9007 Daymon Way, Beverly
Hills, Cal.
"The situation on the Giants Is such
that at one stage In the opener with
the Pirates, Terry had a first baseman
pitching, a fullback playing first, a
Greek on second, a rightflelder on
third, a second sacker at short and
the president of the Amarillo (Tex)
I club In left field."
To Hold Rally At 8hamrock
The Quarterly Baptist Training
Union rally for the Kerahaw association
will be held at Shamrock Bap?
tlst church, flunday, July 80, at 3 p. m
i The program will be In charge of W
J. Jennings, of the Malvern HiU B. T
i U. All churches are urged to senl
delegates.
Wateree Village
Elects Council
The Wateree Mill community electtnl
the following council for tho coming
year:
Mayor, Y. l>. Montgomery; councilmen:
J. C. linker. W. D. Brunsou,
j. 8. Klll?, 1>. C. McKeiule. Willie
Morris, Charlie Conyors, W. H. Reeves,
Sr., Ansel Shirley, Hodges llrown, J.
W. Boyce, Floyd Parker, J. K. Moore,
W. H. Reeves, Jr., and M. L. Berry.
J. \V. Boyce was appointed recorder
and J. C. Baker was appointed Mayor
Pro Tern, at the first meeting of the
new council which was held on Saturday
morning, July 22, at the community
house.
Several matters of Interest to the
community were discussed. Thsre
has been excessive speeding In and
around the village which endangers
the Uvea of the children of the village.
The council ordered that "stop" Blgns
bo placed at Intersections of the main
arteries, and that vehicles coming into
these main arteries observe those
signs.
Lighting facilities at the bathing
beach and on l^ake Shore drive were
taken under advisement, and more adequate
lighting will be recommended.
A sub-committee was appointed,
with Wallace Reeves, Jr., as chairman,
to take a census of the younger
boys on the village and plan a program
for these boys. It may be recommended
that a club house be assigned
to each group, according to their age,
where they can organize and meet
as a boy's club.
The council reported that generally
speaking the condition of the village
Is In very fine shape. The citizens
have taken an unusual Interest In
their yards and gardens.
The Wateree Mill's council l? a
Democratic organization "of the people,
for the people, and by the people.
All Inhabitants of the village of voting
age vote for a resident of their
ward to represent them on the couucll,
and the mayor is elected by the people
of the village at large.
The main purpose of the council,
as explained by Mayor Y. D. Montgomery,
la to keep the Wateree v 1lage
a wonderful place In which to
live, and the people themselves caa
best govern this.
The new officials will cooperate
with the council In carrying out thOBethings
which will rebound for the betterment
of all the people.
The next meeting of the council will
be held Saturday morning, August 6,
at 8 o'clock at the community house,
at which meeting the sub-committees
will report on their respective duties.
Loans To Be Made
For Farm Purchase
In accordance with provisions of
the Bankhead-Jones farm tenant act,
the Farm Security Administration will
receive applications from farm tenants,
farm laborers, or share croppers
for a limited number of loans in KerBhaw
county for the purchase of
farms, It was announced by B. P. ueLoache,
county RR Supervisor However,
It was pointed out by Mr.
Loache that, unless satisfactory farms
can be obtained at reasonable prices,
no loans will be made in this c0^nty'
but the funds will he made available
to other counties that meet the requirements
of the tenant purchase
PTmb'suggested that owners of *ar?B
Who wish to sell them for cash Indicate
that fact to Mr. DeLoache Of
course, there is no assurance that any
particular farm will be apptoved for
purchase since many things Rare'W
be taken into account In making final
choice of farms.
Among the Important oonalderatlons
In the selection o f(arms by the
applicants arc the fertility "! p
dactivity Of the farm, condition of
Improvements, accessibility of good
road., schools and marketing facilities
In the community In which t
farm Is located. In some caaeal.may
be neceasary to make Improvements
on farms before they are In shape. for
operation. In <""* ??ee
prices should be reduces to offsetnecessary
improvement coets. Farms
must be so priced that the loan ^t
be repaid by the borrower 'rom e^
Ings from the farm. Farms shoul
be family-site units or
division into f.mlly-.tte
: ?U1 not be considered on which p
vlous operators have consistently
failed financially.
What has become of the old-fash
ioned wife who felt sorry for her has- ?
I band because he had to too
hard?
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