Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I GAS AND ELECTRIC WELDING I on all machines?industrial or automotive GENERAL REPAIRS BICYCLE REPAIRS We sharpen lawn mowers, kitchen knives and other cutlery I DeKALB MACHINE WORKS I M. H. DEAL, Proprietor Inaure.Safety. Avoid Highway Haaarda. T*aval By Tialn, AifConditionad Coaohaa on Through Tralna. 81,209" Malaria Gates reported In the U. 8. In 19381 DON'T DELAY I ?Z ?Z ?Z Start Today with 660 Checks Malaria In seven days. FINAL DISCHARGE Notice Is hereby kIvoii that one month from this date, on August 28, 1939, I will make to the Probate Court of Kershaw county my final return as Administratrix C. T. A., of the estuto of Kate Haney, deceased, and on tho same date I will apply to tho said j Court for a final discharge as said Administratrix, C. T. A.. LOUISE GARDNER. Administratrix, C. T. A. Camden, S. C., July 28, 1939. FINAL DISCHARGE Notice Is hereby given that one month frrrrn?this date on August 26, 1939, I will make to the Probate Court of Kershaw County my final return as Administrator of the estato of Henry Wesley lirooks, deceased, and on the same date I will apply to the said Court for a final discharge as said Administrator. J. W. IIOYKIN, Administrator Camden. S. C., July 26, 1939 I FINAL bISCHAKGE Notice Is hereby given that one' month from this date on August 26.! 1939, I will make to the Probate Court of Kershaw County my final return as Administrator of the estato of Evelyn Mary Brooks, deceased, and on the, same date I will apply to the said Court for a final discharge as said Administrator. J. W. BOYKIN, Administrator Camden. S. C., July 26, 1939 NOTICE To the Stockholders of The Commercial Bank of Camden. Pursuant to a resolution of the Board of Directors of The Commercial Bank of Camden adopted August 2. 1Notice is hereby given to tho stockholders of The Commercial Bank of C.unden of a special meeting of the said stockholders to be In Id at the 1 tor'.-. Room of the said bank on the 2bth day of August, 193b, tit 10 a m . said nn eiing ;>> for tin* pur* pose of considering a resolution for the increase of the capital of said batik to a sunt not exceeding Oo" .in and also for the purpose of t lUr-ide! ing the deelaiiltion of a stoik dividend in the amount of the capital itu rease. and also for the purpose of considet ing any other acts reasonably liecessarv or incidental theret ?. W. R. ZKMP. President HENRY G GARRISON. Cashier 19 2'J s b. cheeks HHd Malaria \n 7 days and \J \J \J relieves Liquid, Tablets, Colds Salve, Note Drops 8ymptom, firlt day Try "Rub-My-Tiam"?a Wonderful Liniment SALES OF MISS MITCHELL'S NOVEL NEARING 2,400,000 Total Httlos of "Gone with the Wind," Margaret Mitchell's famous novel of the Civil War South, neared the 2,400,000 mark today, as arrangemeats were being made to translate the book Into Rumanian, the sixteenth foreign language In which It may be read, I Sales of the original English version of the book In the United States, the British empire and other English speaking communities, amount to approximately 2,000,000. Meanwhile, Selznlek Internatlontochnleolor production or the story is nearlng completion at Culver City. California studio. The picture stars Clark Gable, Vivien I,elgh, Leslie Howard and Olivia do Havllland, directed by Victor Fleming. According to present plans the picture will have Its 1 premier In Atlanta, Georgia, home of Mlas Mitchell and principal setting of her novel, early this winter. 1 Recent languages Into which "Oone with the Wind" has been translated Include Lettish, (of I^atvla), Japanese and, in Brazil. Portuguese It former ly had been published In France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Denmark. Poland. Czechoslovakia, Fin land, Hungary, the Netherlands and Chile?In the last country a Spanish version. Foreign language sales now total more than 385,000. In France, last major country to publish the book, sales of 12,000 In three months are reported. In Germany* the book has 1 been a best-seller since 1937, and the sales there exceed 140,000 copies. An estimate of 150,000 copies sold in Japan has been made, the book second In popularity there only to "Wheat and Soldiers," a book about the Chinese war written by a corporal In the | Japanese army. I Among smaller countries, Denmark I continues to hold the lead, as It has I from the beginning, with 17,000 coplies. Italy follows with 15,000, Sweden | with 14,000, and Norway with 13.000. In Finland. 6.500 copies have been sold, and approximately 6,000 each in Czech, Spanish and Hungarian editions. In the other countries, recent reports of sales are not available. The Dutch translation was published without permission of the author, j and she has carried on a lengthy fight in the courts of the Netherlands for | protection of her copyright. No sales figures are available In that country, but it Is published in a handsome three-volume edition, and Is said to be popular?Charlotte Observer. The Order river, In Germany, at Its highest flood stage in history, spread devastation through Silesia, early this week, while emergenrr-vrews recruited from the army, labor service and police sought to savo as much of the valley's harvest as possible. A flood commission estimated 50,000 acres ! were flooded and the entire harvest i (lestroved in the Ratlbor area, that! hit. The heroic efforts of Miss C wilhia ' Chapin. of Stony Creek. Conn, attrac-l tl\e socialite, saved the lives of 321 ' companions who were on a moonlight ! sail and the captain of the capsized fib-foot cruiser. While the others floated. Miss Chapin swam for nearly 45 minutes before her shouts attiacted the attention of an oil-tug boat J which picked her out of the water and ' sped to tho rescue. ' Male kangaroos continue to grow I until they die. i ? I FINAL DISCHARGE Notice is hereby given that one month from this dale, on August 25. J 1939, 1 will make to the Probate Court of Kershaw County my final return as ' Executrix of the es'alo of I airie i Heims. deceased, and on the same I date 1 will apply to the said Court for a final discharge as said Executrix, i SARA F WOLFE, Executrix Camden. S. C.. July 25. 1939. Sanitary Plumbing and Heating I TELEPHONE 433-J Eitimat?? Furnuhed on Short Notice ELECTROL OIL BURNERS World Looks at Mediterranean, I Home of Impregnable Gibraltar And Another Fortress, Corfu A viei&of the old fort at Corfu, strategic Greek-oivned island off the northwest coast of Greece near Albania. Though England warned Italy that seizure of Albania would be "an invitation to war," British ships stood by at Corfu when Italian troops were landed in Albania. (Prepared by National Olographic Society, Waahington. D. C.?WNU Service.) 'Rock' at Western End Guarded Jealously By England. Europe's general nervousness is being translated into action at Gibraltar, as warships gather and England rushes land and air defense for her sentry at the doorway to the Mediterranean. The Rock of Gibraltar, standing guard over the strait of the same name which divides the continents of Europe and Africa, is one of^the world's most strategic spots. * A great rugged finger pointed at Spanish Morocco from the Spanish mainland at the western entrance to the Mediterranean, Gibraltar is surrounded on three sides by water. On the fourth side, it is linked with Spain by a low, sandy isthmus known as "neutral ground," and bounded on the north by what is marked on official maps as an "Iron Fence" and on the south by an "Unclimbable Fence." Three miles long and less than a mile wide, Gibraltar's towering limestone mass rears its head etits highest point nearly 1,400 feet above the blue Mediterranean. Cut in its rocky sides are the famous i I "galleries," studded with camouj flaged guns capable of shooting five ' | miles across the Bay of Algeciras on the west, as well as across the | Strait itself to Africa some 14 miles i away. Prepare for Emergency. I Still more guns, heavy artillery | and anti-aircraft guns, are even now 1 being set up. Food supplies and | munitions are being stored in the ; heart of the Rock, and men are ' working on a bombproof tunnel to ' be used as refuge in case of emeri gency. Equally important in the defense of "Gib," as it is familiarly called ; by those who live there, are the vast 1 water reservoirs also chiseled out of I solid rock. Holding hundreds of I millions of gallons, these reservoirs i are filled by a simple but ingenious ' arrangement of "water sheds" i which catch rain water as it falls and direct its flow to the reservoirs. An odd feature of the Rock of Gibraltar is its monkey population. In caves high above the town lives a colony of Barbary apes. Gibi altar's history goes back more than a thousand years before Christ. The Phoenicians knew it, the Carthaginians, Romans, and Visigoths As one of the ancient "Pillars of Hercules" Gibraltar in the Eighth century saw the first Moorish invasion. Its present name is a '1 corruption of the Moorish "Jebel Tarik" (Hill of Tarik) in honor of the conquering chief. Seised by England in 1704. Contested at different time? by Moon and Spaniards, the "Rock" was seized by England in 1704. Nine years later it was ceded to Great Britain by Spain; but the struggle for its possession was not yet settled. The most ambitious attempt to regain the territory was made by French and Spanish forces in 1779. In one of the oldest ceremonies at Gibraltar, the key sergeant locks the Land port gate. Much activity has taken place at Gibraltar during this years repeated, crises. Greek Island Played Important Role in Many Wars. The Greek island of Corfu (Kerkyra to the Greeks) took the leading place in news headlines w"hen Italy as a part of her Albanian adventure, seemed bent on seizing it, and when Great Britain demanded hands off. The island, 40 miles long and 20 miles across at its widest point, resembles a huge cornucopia, slightly squeezed out of shape by a giant hand. ? Corfu lies at the head of the Ionian sea like a watch tower over the Strait of Otranto, door to the Adriatic. The northern or wide end is but two miles from the Albanian shore, while the south end is about 10 miles off the coast of Greece. Corfu should be callous to wars and rumors of wars. For 26 centuries it has played a part in many of the major political upheavals in Europe and the Mediterranean. Romans, Venetians, Genoese, Persians, the Normans of Sicily, British, French, Turks, and even Medi? terranean pirates, at one time or another have had long or short control of the island. Once American Naval Base. During the World war it was an important naval base, with British, French and Italian ships thwarting any attempt of German or Austrian submarines to venture out of the Adriatic sea. At one time 39 American subchasers temporarily were assigned to Corfu waters to aid the Allied fleet. The most recent militant occupation of Corfu was by Italian forces. In 1923 several Italian officers were killed near the then vague GrecoAlbanian border. Italy demanded an apology and an indemnity of $2,000,000. The government of , Greece submitted counter-proposals which were refused. For Ave days Italian troops poured onto Corfu. Italy and Greece came to terms before the occupation was a month old and the Fascist troops evacuated. . ? . In range of altitude, as well as in plan, Corfu resembles a cornucopia. The northern part of the island is a region of high mountains, the midsection undulating hills and the southern extremity low plains. Bathed in Mediterranean sunshine, Corfu has long been, between wars, a pleasure ground. One of the island's prominent vacationists was Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany Who purchased, in 1907, the Achilleion, a ' palace-villa built for the unhappy I Empress Elizabeth of Austria. 'Idyllic Lotus Land.' Homer described Corfu as an idyl1 lie lotus land of beautiful people and scenery, where figs, grapes and officer fruits grow in abundance. One of those other fruits today is olives, which cover large areas of the island. When the Venetians held sway for 400 years from 1401, a bounty 1 was paid for each olive tree plantI ed. This aroused in Corfu agriculturists and theiV descendants an interest in olives that persists today. The town of Corfu is about midway the eastern side of the island. While there are a few reminders of the occupation of the island by its numerous landlords, the lower part of the town does take the traveler back to the Middle ages. A labyrinth of streets, some too steep and narrow for wheeled vehicles, wind through this section. French and Italian architecture predominates but there is a bazaar that recalls the flavor of the East when Turkey had her heel on Corfu and its neighboring islands and mainland. I1""" - - - ,? Sale of Estate Property ' ' ' 'H * ' r *> %t IN ORDER TO PARTIALLY SETTLE AN ES. TATE, WE ARE OBLIGED TO DISPOSE OF THE FOLLOWING! ONE LARGE LOT WITH SIX ROOM DWELLING ON MILL STREET, NORTH OF DeKALB STREET. EXCELLENT CONDITION. NOW RENTED. BARGAIN. ANOTHER BARGAIN ? LOT AND DWELLING ON YORK STREET, BETWEEN MILL AND FAIR STREETS. RENTED. GOOD CONDITION. FIVE (5) ROOMS, BATH, RUNNING WATER, ELECTRIC LIGHTS, METAL ROOF. HOUSE AND LOT, FORMERLY HAROLD PROP. ERTY, COLORED OCCUPANCY. NOW RENTED. CHEAP. TWO (2) BUILDING LOTS, COLORED SECi TION, AT GIVE AWAY PRICE, NEAR ABOVE. WE INVITE INQUIRIES AND BIDS. SALES MUST BE FOR CASH. /.i KIRKLAND & deLOACH, Attorneys. ???? ???! Durham Is Robbed Of One-Hit Game (By Skipper) Ferdinand (The Bull) Durham, hefty right-hander of the Chester Cards, was within greeting distance of a nohit pitching performance last Thursday at the Camden baseball plant. For eight and two-thirds Innings the big fellow had held the Chiefs hitless. With two down in the ninth, two strikes and two balls on the batter. Durham fed Benny Robinson, the Chief shortstop an out curve that broke Just where Benny's bat was circling. And the apple arched over between first and second In a lazy skier that fell into unguarded territory. Durham not only pitched a good ball game but he also registered two hits, a single and a double, scored one run and annexed himself a stolen?base, the latter feat being probably the} most spectacular, as Durham isn't( | built for sprinting. Richard DuBose, of Hillcrest, debuted on the mound for the Chiefs and it must be said of the lad that he pitched nice fcall. While nicked for ; eight blows in the seven and a third frames he worked he showed a lot of stuff and with a little more experience and acquaintance with the local style of play, should fit into the lineup nicely. David, another new-comer, started on the firing line for the locals and got by the first inning and was headed for a scoreless second when Biggs, Estridge and Durham solved his slants with two doubles and a single. DuBose was sent to the hill at this Juncture but he had little to worry over as Durham was nipped in an attempted steal of third to retire the side. Chester scored two runs in that inning. Two errors, both by DuBose, but caused chiefly by a wet and slippery ball, with a single and an infield out accounted for two more Chester runs in the fifth. In the ninth the Cards again went places with three blows, an error and a stolen base scoring two more runs. The game started late because of , the rain jinx again taking over the show a few minutes before regular game time. Because of the wet grounds and the necessity of constantly having the ball wiped dry the battle dragged over two hours and a half. The score: Chester 020 U20 002?6 12 1 Camden 000 000 000?0 1 3 Batteries: Durham and Estrldg?Davis, DuBose and Cox. 4 Game Patter Camden had a chap named Mabrr working on third, Munn In right field, Truesdale at third, and Kelly, the Junior Legion pitcher at second. ? Mabry plays a good defensive game but he looks weak with the willow, fanning three times during the Thursday quarrel. # DuBose is a nephew of our Jack Richards of Camden high school fame. Munn looks good in the outfield while Kelly played a bang-up game at second. Benny Robinson was there with bells on In taking care of the shortstop. If we may venture our own little ? speech on the ways and means quel tlon, It looks as if the Chiefs needed* a wee bit of practice stuff, especially? in view of the fact that there are sow? changes in the lineup. A sort of vtfl acquainted sort of affair. How abw? Statewide observance of Constile? tlon day in North Carolina in Sopten-1 ber under the auspices of the RepubM? can party, with a non-partisan, p*tri? otic mass meeting at Charlotta, vul arranged Tuesday in Charlotte At I* conference of state Republican lead? Two men tried to hold up Max Wit* tors' drug store In Kansas City, bit? all they got was two doors slammed? In their faces. Mr. and Mrs. Walt#!? were locking up when the men poked? revolvers at them. Walters Jumped? Inside and closed the door. Mrs. Wit* ters dashed to the entryway of tbelf? living quarters upstairs and slammedB that door too. The holdup men nlfl I From gas pains, bloating, lad'" I i gestlon, headache?, nervousness, fatigue doe to delayed eUmias* * tlon 7 We recommend H . I = I ' I* will sherd speedy r*U?*- I or yotr money bs*' * , *l.tt SIM, $1.19 I I Speeiol Sold By DeKalb Pharmacy J NOR FOLK! Portsmouth * Virginia Bead I Saturday thru MConday I Aug. t9~2l $3.00 I Ticket* good cotHg on Friday and 8atarday trains, except Numbers 10, 44, !0t. > Returning leave Porta mocrth as Late aa 90S P. M , Moaday evealaf- Tickets good in coaches oely. No bwt* checked. Commit yoer Seaboard S0SB* (or other details. ; .. .round trip adult fare to m mouth. Fares to Virginia Beach 766 higher. Children 6 under^ S half fare. Plan a glorious wetkm m at the seashore - via Seaboard * W these drastically ant ?