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Queen Selection To
Have Mystery Tinge
Deep Impenetrable mystery surroniula
the numiug of the queen of
the H?39 Cotton Festival, to be held
October 115, In Camden.
The executive committee 1h keeping
all details of the selecting of the
queen of thla yeur's fete a secret for
the present, but it Is asserted that
every girl in Camden who possesses
queenly qualities such ns personality,
character and attractiveness will be
given consideration.
It Is definitely known that the method
of naming the queen through balloting
at the theater, Is out of the
picture this year. Another method
will be utilized.
And the name of the queen is to
bo kept secret until the day of the
coronation. She will appear for the
first time on the queen'B float In the
big parade on the afternoon of October
12. With her will be her maids
In waiting.
In the evening there will be the
coronation ceremony during the coronation
ball, which it la hoped, can be
held in the gymnasium of the high
school. In this way many hundreds
of people who do not care to dance
may view the ceremony of coronation
from the balconies.
Already the contract for the decorating
of the city streets, store fronts
and the building of the queen's float
has been awarded to the Robert K.
Smith and Son. of Charlotte. This
company did a splendid Joh of decorating
last year and while many firms
were seeking the liblfi contract, the
committee authorized it being awarded
to the Smith company. This firm
has agreed to provide a throne for
tin* queen at the ball
The publicity for the festival together
with all of the detail work will
he handled through t ho chamber of I
commerce and the Camden News Service.
The success of the Camden program
In ll?3f>, was of statewide prominence
and this year a number of communities
staging festivals are using the
Camden idea of turning the city over
to the farmers of the county for the
day Camden will utilize this original
idea again tins year. Mayor McCorkle
and the i ity council to designate a
fanner-mayor and si\ farmer-councilmet
and a farmer-police chief.
\\ Iiile the festival is Still some j
in.II > weeks 111 the future tile executive
i oininittee. composed of Henry
C i airiMin. Mis John Mullen. Moul-j
trie i:iuii>. M M lohn<oii. Mayor F
N. McCorkb*. Frank II Heath and
Simon Kb It el. is rapidly getting the
ground work in line
Willi the festival coining on Wednesda
v tiio week will be a gala aftair
in Camden Children's day at the
countv fair on Friday and all ot the
m ho d children of the count\ will be
In the titv to attend the fair There
will be the usual children's parade.
On Saturday, the colored children of,
the county vvsli be ??f the fair;
and all of the schools will unite in a]
luirade to tile grounds in the mopping.'
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Camden tnei< haul's are arranging to,
offer attractive displays of men-han-i
dise in the windows of their stores
during the festival and the d.tvs o! the.
fair. Thursday. Fiulav and Saturday;
will h. special sale- da>s in all Cam '
deli sti?: eS a till shops.
Bey Scout Court of Honor
'I he ,i. ; i vut les of the Hov Scouts of
K # ... i a . v vv , 1 i : back under
w.i> . .i di- ; ' b.i-ss wt'lt a public
, .. j- ; h : - it- i !' Id oil Tliursd.i
S. ;-t>-ui eer 7 in the Farish
p. -,.- ,i. 11: .i 1-lpiM opal church
... . * net p -1
A 11 t 'i ::: < ' i :gs of t t oo
h.i v i ' - :i. who' curtailed during
the due ' v "he polio
(- .-1 ma. ...a:.;. of liie individual
S. ui.t- *-ive tr "e ahead with their
adv. :i< i: >v >i n and 'he meeting
on 1 liur-hi/ t.igh: is for the purpose
of making plume recognition of honors
earned
Tills (ourt is of particular importance
because of the fact that the
Eagle badge?the highest rank in
Bcouting, will bo a warded to Scout
Julian Culvern. of Tfroop No. 30. Camden.
There will also be awards to
other Scouts. The program will be
rounded out by a presentation of
scouting and will he most interesting
to tho?e in attendance.
All Scouu and parents In particular
are urged to be present and the public
cordially invited. ^
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("reed Predicts
Successful Fair
Dewey Creed, chairman of the Kershaw
County Fair Association. declares
the 1939 fair, to be held Octo|
her 9 to 14, will be bigger and finer
J In every respect than any fair ever
held In the county.
The chairman states there la every
aaaurance that all exhibits will be
larger and more elaborate than In the
yearn peat. Recent buildings added
to the fair group will enable the exhibitors
to present larger and more
attractive displays.
The first two days of the fair-?Monday
and Tuesday?will be given over
largoly to the putting on of the finishing
touches to the exhibits, although
the amusement features will be in evidence
on the midway afternoon and
night of every day of the fair.
The Judging will begin on Wednesday
and this Is expected to be a big
day In point of Interest and attendance.
On Thursday the fair attractions
will be augmented by the many
features that will bo in evidence at
the cotton festival.
Friday will be children's day and
thousands of youngsters from all over
the city and county will flock to Camden
to Jake part In the parade that
will feature the program. This parade
will "march through the streets of the
city to the fair grounds late In the
morning and the children will have
the entire afternoon to enjoy the various
attractions.
Saturday will he colored folks day
and there will be the usual parade of
children from the colored schools of
the city and county in the morning.
Chairman Creed is enthusiastic
over the prospects of a high mark of
success this year. With Mr. Creed
on the official staff are Elthu Schlos[
burg us sssltant chairman; Murdoch
! M. Johnson, as secretary, and Oscar
J. Smyrl as treasurer. These officers
withNM. M. Reasonover, SherlfT J. H.
McLeod and Wiley Sheorn constitute
the executive committee.
.YOUNG BASEBALL TALENT TO
GET TRY-OUT AT GASTONIA
Cast on la. N C . Aug. 31.?Hob Clements.
business manager of the Cardin-;
til-owned Gnstonla club today announced
the scouting personnel of the
j ti-yout camp which the St lstttis Cardinal
organization will hold hero at
High School stadium, beginning next
Monday. September 4Tin*
Seoul inc staff. ('bum-nt-i s:rd,
will be headed I?> she veteran v.harlie
i Hop) Kelchner. discoverer of Joe
Medwick and oth r well known players.
Assisting Kelchner w.!1 be Wld
Matthews, Hob Rice and He Roy Pissing?r.
Matthews, an exceptional judge of
baseball talent, is not only a scout
but also a field director in the extensive
system of Cardinal minor league
clubs lie supervises the playing operations
each season of from seven
to ten mitioi league clubs Matthews
was formerly ati outfielder with the
Athletics and the Washington Senators.
Rice, now business manager of the
Ash' ville club of the Pbdtnotlt league,
was formerly a player and managed
minor league clubs in the Caidinal
s\ stem for several years. Dissiuger.
'also a ke? U judge of young players,
is, outs the New England states for
> tit.- Cardinals.
To receive tryoiits. boys merely
have to present themselves at High
School stadium here at o'clock the
morning of September 4. bringing
their shoes, glows and uniforms Hoys,
between the ,ig'"S cd 1' UHcl 33 UI'O
invited to attend the camp The only
r- suirencTi' - are that out-of-town
beys finance their own trips to Gas
tenia and living expenses while here.
No fee is charged Tryouts entail a
stay in (jastonia of three or four days
for out-of-town boys Players signed
to contracts while in camp will be
refunded their expenses. The camp
' will last approximately one week.
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1'nited Stales army officers sail
mobilization day orders wore in the
hands of all regular army officers and
officers of the national guard The orj
ders. they said, are sent out each year
and therefore there was no special
significance In the fact that this year's
notices had only recently been dispatched.
The orders name a mobliij
zatlon point for each officer at which
ho must report as soon as possible
' after the "M. Day" proclamation has
been Issued.
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Lancaster Upsets
Dupe; Whips Sumter
The opening games In the Palmetto
State league playoff series resulted In
one of the battles being a complete
upset of the dope bucket.
Sumter with Stoddard on the hill
was rated a heavy favorite over the
Lancaster Hoses Wednesday, but the
lads from "Dick" Richards' bailiwick
were at the big end of a 4 to 3 scoro
when the smoke cleared from the field
of swats at Lancaster.
The game was a pitcher's battle
between Hugh Stoddard, of the Gamecocks,
and lienuie McKlhany, of the
Roses. Sumter gathered nine hits to
seven, made by Lancaster, but the
Roses managed to get their blows
when runners were on the sacks.
Both teams played a major brand
! of ball, not a bobble being committed
j during the fracas. Reeves, Plyler and
Thomas, of tho Roses, combined to
offer an airtight defense when the
Gamecocks threatened,
j Lancaster got away to a flying start
with two runners over in the first Inning.
Reeves' homers with Thomas
on was the scoring punch. Sumter
scored a run In the third and in the
seventh pushed over another to tie
up the count. Sumter then forged
ahead by a one run tally-in the eighth
but in the last of tho same inning
Callahan hit the ball out of the lot
for the Roses with one oil to take
a 4 to 3 lead, which was the codnt
at the end of the game,
i The teams went to Sumter Thursday
afternoon for the second game of
the series and If a third is necessary
it will be played at Sumter on Satu
rday.
The score:
Sumter 3 9 0
4 7 ()
Batteries: Stoddard and Wilder;
McElhaney and Warren.
Hartsville Downs Chester
At Hartsville Tuesday, the Sonocos
won the first game of the playoff
series from Chester by a 5 to 2 score.
Clifton, of Hartsville, baffled the efforts
of the Cardinal batters to collect
enough blows to push more than
two runners home. Thompson, of
Chester, pitched a fine game but the
Sonoco batters were hot and' hit his
offerings freely.
The second game of the series between
these two teams was played at
Hartsville Thursday. If Chester won
this game a third game will be played
I in Camden Saturday.
"Pop" of The Palmetto's
Back in June, a semi-pro baseball
league was organized with Camden,
Sumter. Chester, Hartsville, Kershaw
and Lancaster entering teams.
This week, the top four teams are
launching their playoffs after a most
successful season.
Going back, however, you can always
find one man who, more than
any other, has been responsible for
rho organization and success of such
a league.
And so, we nominate Frank Heath,
of Camden, as the "Pop of the Palmetto."
Fi-unk has worked untiringly for
the benefit of the league and has seen
to it that the papers have been kept
advised of the doings in the league.
Many obstacles have arisen in the
league, but have always been hurdled,
hugely through the efforts of Frank
ir would be idle, of course, to say
! that no others have helped. Ray
Blanding of Sumter, Major Thompson
i of Chester and many others have put*
I their shoulders to the wheel and help-j
led make the league a success. Next |
I year, plans are to try for a Class I),
league. If the sponsors of this year's
| Palmetto league go after it with the
same enthusiasm, you can pretty well
bet the Class I) league will become a
reality.
But returning to Pop" Heath, he
has not only done a fine job on the
Palmetto league, but has been largely
instrumental in putting Camden s
sports program back on the map Polo,
horse racing, golf, the cotton festival
and many other events have been
made more successful by the efforts
of Frank Heath.?Abe Fennell in the
Columbia State of Wednesday.
M L Annenberg. his son. Walter,
and two business associates, surrendered
to the Pnited States marshal,
in Chicago. Thursday night, posted
bonds totaling 117,000 and were released
until their trial on charges of
evading Sf?,.r.48.384 tax, plus penalties,
on the publisher's income.
(>anie and Fish Men
To Meet At Cheraw
Hunters and fishermen of this state
organized under the South Carolina
Came and Fish association will jneet
in their ninth annual convention this
month at the Cheraw State park, according
to announcement from West
Jacocks, of Columbia, state secretary.
Delegates from the county chapters
throughout the state will gather at
the park In Chesterfield county on
Thursday, September 21, for a full
j day's session. (
i The forenoon la devoted to the business
of the convention while the afternoon
Is given over to recreation
and sport's contests, with a big barbecue
dinner being served at noon. Papers
dealing with subjecta Interesting
to the conservationists will be presented,
committees will report, officers
elected, and outstanding speakers and
performers will appear, continues the
announcement.
While the gathering Is the annual
business session of the association,
sportsmen generally are Invited and
urged to attend the convention, states
the officer's of the association. The
Rev. Bob S. Hodges, of Union, state
president of the association will preside.
Senator Josiah W. Bradley, of North
Carolina, chairman of the senate commerce
committee, will be one of the
speakers on a nation-wide broadcast
of the launching of the America at
the Newport News Shipbuilding and
Dry Dock company on last Thursday.
The vessel, largest ever constructed
in an American yard, will be sponsored
by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, and
will go down the ways Into the James
river at 11:50 Thursday morning. A
luncheon for the sponsor and. other
guests, will be given by the shipyard
at 1:30 at the Chamberlain hotel.
General News Notes
The Hungarian press still re/ruined
front direct comment on the foreign
minister's talks with Gorman and Italian
loadora Sunday, but one political
weekly reprinted a foreign dispatch
declaring "German pressure on Hungary
is still Increasing."
Talmadge Sayles, 44, negro, was
crushed to death late Tuesday on the
campus of the woman's cpllege of the
University of North Carolina, at
Greensboro, when a pine tree fell on
him while workmen were excavating
at the site of a new dormitory. Sayles'
leg and body were crushed. James
Nelson, negro, also was injured.
Brimful of pep, 97-year-old Charles
S. Riggan stepped off the train at
Trinidad, Colo., after a 2,000 mile
journey, jigged nimbly and inquired,
"when do we dance?" The. Vaughn,
N. C., veteran was the first arrival for
the 49th reunion of the United Confederate
veterans which opened Tuesday.
Miss Maria Shenk , an American
missionary, was lost overboard from
the Union Castle liner Carnarvon i
Castle, seven days ago, ship officers
said when the liner reached South-1
ainpton. Eng., last Friday, from Capetown.
Miss Shenk, traveling with a
party of other missionaries, had listed
no home address in the United States.
A tornado tore through McCullers,
a village south of Raleigh, N. C., at
noon Friday, killed an invalid negro
woman, injured two persons and damaged
a few small buildings. Heavy
rains fallifig throughout the state during
the day, sent many streams toward
flood stage. No serious damage,
however, was expected, except to
crops in bottom lands and to dirt
roads.
Injuries suffered in an automobile
mishap July 20, proved fatal Sunday
in Washington, to Brigadier General
Calvin B. Mattnews, u. 8. M. C., pres.
ldent of the marine corps, examining V
board. General Matthews. 6d,
in a naval hospital of complication* V
from a fractured pelvic bone. He B
won the distinguished service medal '-B
for his work aa chief of the Nicer*guau
guard iu 1U32. B
Awaiting arraignment In New York
on a technical charge of homiclder H
James Hazzard, 38, has pleaded that
he wag merely trying to revive hi*
friend, Thomas Martinez, when he - fl
placed him in a bathtub and allegedly ,
opened the hot water faucet. Martinez
died in a hospital of a scalding
police charged, several hours after he '^K
was taken from the apartment where V
the incident occurred. - - ~B|
The return of prosperity to the Unit- B
ed States hinges upon peace and cessation
of war threats in Europe and B
the Orient, Assistant Secretary of B
Commerce J. Monroe Johnson told the B'
Tennessee American Legion meeting B
in Memphis, Tenn. Sixteen hundred B
legionnaires at the state ^convention, B
heard the South Carolinian, a co- B
founder of the legion, assert that "our B^
economic disturbance is due to the B
rest of the world whose expenditures B'
for armaments and preparations for B1
war preclude any possibility" of an B1
immediate return /tb large-scale com- Bf
merce between nations. Hil
The president of the American Fed- B
eratlon of Teachers on Monday In Bi
Buffalo, N. Y., urged the federation I
to struggle against curtailment of education
facilities "foi; the continuation J [
of democracy itself." Dr. Jerome Day- B
lis, of West Haven, Conn., former pro- B
fesspr in the Yale Divinity school, ! i
said in an .^ddress prepared for de- fl
livery at the federation's annual ccn- Be
I ventlon the "depression has resulted B^
in launching attacks on American edit|
cation, which, if successful, would an'
dermine the very foundation upon,
which free public schools have been
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