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~1 jl Cruising j: Around : 'i 'i with 'i. popm : 'i CruwH'K 'lIound wlth "PoP" ? g(nce \be Feunell. sporting writer he Columbia State referred to this ,{er a!, Pop" In a sort of put-ouhttck comment over the promotion l(j carrying through of the atate ^ball league program, the folks jound the home bailiwick aa well as jjjfr points In the baaoball circuit ive picked up the monicker so It aa if column will have to , issued under the new appellation I ' Pop '" * Ark now lodgment Hien my time comes and I must leave lis earth for food and all j like to aorta smile and say Thank? for the use of the hall." friend Donald, who fought with the Canadians" during the World rgr if 11-1918, Is a rather witty sort f a chap. Donnie went with me ou motor jaunt the other day and we Wged an area that had been all Btak,d ollt as a subdivision. Near the oad was a little shack In which sat big fat fellow, evidently the sales g nt. Well, Don looked at the guy minute and then in that dry way of lis said. That fellow Is a man of rision." Whatcher mean Don?" boz "Well, sez Donald, "He certainly ias lots to look at. * We would suggest as the Polish theme song, "Danzig in the Dark." m 9 m m 9 Among some of the famous last words we have heard: "Cops, looks like we are out of gas." 9 9 9 Clark Griffith, owner of the Washington Senators has issued an announcement that the Senators' home games will not be broadcast next season. If Griffith has the same lineup has using this season, no one would bother to tnne in anyway. Looks as if the cotton festival will k bigger and better than ever this jat The committee was fortunate ft/retting H. G. Garrison as executive Jairmau. Mr. Carrison is a man of ronstructive ideas. * * t Dewey Crer*'. is going places In his annual county 'air program. Dewey ?ays the fair w;'.i be bigger and better than ever in all departments. till With as fine a gridiron as any high school team in the country, It seems a shame that the Camden football plant should lack thy common essentials of good entries and exits and a rrandsta^d that is not cluttered with uprights every ten or twelve feet. 9 Thy suggestion is made that the prance for customers who park their cars outside of the stadium be arauged at the south end near the preset exi* 'o the club house, that the present "nt ranee through the fair trnuri'D be closed and a new entrance or ks and autos be built In the ior:h fence. The concession stands could I-,- placed back of the grand itand. The garr.es between the Pro and MI--S:ar football teams are now all even K.i' h has won two games and *'o l.j., been tied. Up at Chicago as: w < .osday night the New York liar.-- .:](i football champions, de..; .ill-star team, 9 to 0. There ras : -.ouchdown made, the Giants . .. iielr points through the su: L'oal kicking of Ken Strong lnd \\ . Cuff, the latter the sensaDna ;.! rquette university wingback. r^r.' S3.567 people at the game, fhich - -ome crowd. " H. ,. reported to have made the 'hat once he has completed l!s 1 program for Germany ho '"oul-! .-.-ire and devote his life to )a:r'i: c :n oils. Our guess Is that . of Europe will get his opporsniyv oxercise his ability as a r sooner than he anticipates. It 'Gf> ' require much space to set up n * i - i a six/foot cell would be as'- lb si and this office will be glad 0 d'r.nco the canvas and the paint >njsh#-o you forget, old Kaiser Bill was / Adolph, but Instead of beting a painter he became the r?r!Ts champion wood-chopper. y-:' he Nazi regime crumbles as II :s r i.if] to do?what then. .WouldIII if be worth a laugh If one of the ^ns of the ex-Kaiser Iru called to throne. , ' I . * 0h ^orid, oh world, how Inconstant thou art. A quarter of a century England, Prance, Italy and a fr0QD of other nations fought Ger [ many to end monarchy. Now, we'll | bet a cookie the allies will fight to restore that monarchy?that?If Hitler and his gang of murderers can be j eliminated. ? * Enuff of war?a bit of sports for a change. Omaha defeated Berwyn for the national Junior Legion title? taking two out of three from the Chicago lads. * t t Just as we expected, the playoff In the Palmetto League got down to Hartsvllle and Sumter. Hartsville cleaned up Chester two straight in the semi-event while Sumter had to play three to get two from Lancaster. The title series started Monday and so far the games have been thrillers. Cr Sumter showed a lot of class by downing the strong Pacific team of Columbia in an exhibition game Saturday by a score of 10 to 1. The Palmetto legogers, with Turberllle on the mound never were in danger.: _ . i* ? . ' Santee Dam Costs Put At $6,187,000 Charleston. Auk 20?On the basis of bids Opened today by tlu< South Carollua Public Service authority. tho Saitioe dam, a major feature of the Sanloe-Cooper project, would cost at hast $6, 1 S7.32l.52, officials said Mlds front seven toon contractors! were opened by Tom It Pearcc, chair- j man of the authority. Figures were' submitted on nine schedules, some of; which represented combinations of I certain features of the work. Several concerns made bids on more than one schedule. Chairman Pearce promised tho 225 representatives of contractbrs, Insurance and bond coinpunies who attended the meeting speedy tabulation. It will bo several days before the contracts are awarded. Several members of the authority and Governor May bunk will confer In Washington tomorrow with officials relative to the re-settlement of 600 families along the project's route. 30,990 Workers On S. C. Relief Rolls Columbia, Sept. 1.?South Carolina had 30,990 workers on tho WPA rolls today as approximately 10,000 dismissals were effected and 5,400 new workers added from the assignment list. The dismissals were necessitated by a reduced quota and a new requirement that some other applicants be given work. State Administrator Lawrence M. Plnckney, explaining that the new total compared with 35,590 workers lu August, said that "4,600 workers had to be eliminated entirely and no one put In their places because of quota reduction. "The whole object of the new act Is to provide work for those who had not been able to get employment on WPA by eliminating those who have been working for eighteen months or more." Persons under the impression that It was intended as a "thirty-day holiday" are greatly in error, he said. A number of workers who were dismissed August 1, tried to regain their places here today. Death Penalty For Spreading News Berlin, Sept. 1.?A decree fixing the death penalty for spreading "false reports" broadcast to Germany by Foreign radio stations was issued tonight. Listening to any.Xorei?n station is forbidden, but the death penalty is reserved for "aggravated cases" of disseminating statements by foreign stations. The decree was issued after a Warsaw station, in an Lnglish language broadcast reported that Warsaw had been bombed by German fliers and that the city was burning. Berlin authorities said only military objectives bad been bomb^ War Commissar Kleinenti Voroshilov announced Thursday in Moscow, new army laws which observers believed might add 500,000 men to the Red army. (The Russian army has been estimated to total 2,600,000. The government, thru the official news agency, previously had disclosed that troops were moving westward thru Russia to reinforce the frontier on the Polish and Baltic states border. - Isa Miranda, Italian movie actress, was under a doctor's care Friday in Hollywood, after collapsing when a newsboy passed her film set shouting "War, extra, war!" She collapsed into the arms of Actor George Brent with whom she was working on the scene of the picture "Diamonds Are Dangerous" on location at Griffith park. Dr. E. E. Waddington said she is suffering from nervous exhaustion. The first subway, one block long, was built in New York in the 1860's. The fare was 25 cents. Richest Prize Still i On The High Seas^ New York, Sept 5 ?The $20,000,. 000 Herman liner Bremen. biggest uu-iihaut marine pi ize now on the high si'.'ja, whm still unreported u?n!i*In a fugitive prowling furtively toward a safe harbor, six da.\s alter i leaving New York without passeilgi is I Under normal conditions the lite] met) should have reached Mremerha- ' vcn yesterday, but sitae she sailed her wireless has been silent lest she bet i ay her whereabouts Because it is regarded as unlikely new that she would try to run thy British naval blockade, shipping men here believe tho 51,056-ton ship might be headed for a country likely to re? main neutral. Like another North German ldoyd liner, tho Columbus, it was thought the Bremen might head for Veracruz, Mexico. In any ease it was held probable that the Bremen with her 908 officers and crew would be safe from sinking because of the value of the ship. Their again, it was possible site might already be in the hands of enemy naval craft. While word of the Bremen was awaited, shipping schedules were slowed down further by tho fear of submurine attacks or capture at sea. The Gdynia America (Polish) liner Batory arrived from Gdynia, Poland, and Copenhagen via Mulifax. with 042 passengers and tied up Indefinitely at Hoboken, N. J., across the river from where the French liner Normandte and the Cunard While Star (British) liner Queen Mary are docked with no Immediate prospect of sailing back to Europe. The Batory's captain disclosed the ship had been escorted through tho English channel by two British destroyers and also down the coast from Halifax. The United States liner President Roosevelt, carrying 539 passengers | 125 above normal capacity, arrived i today from Cobh, Ireland. She carried $21,000,000 In gold. Cots lined corridors, public rooms and foyers. Moat passengers were Americans and happy to be back. The Cunard White Star liner Samaria, a day late, came up the bay | behind the President Roosevelt with I 693 passengers, 245 of them Americans. She carried between $12,000,000 and $15,000,000 in gold. Passengers said the Samaria observed blackouts at sea and zizzagged in accordance with wartime precautions! The sailing of the President Roosevelt was advanced to tomorrow to speed back to Europe for more American refugees. Fifty men were as| signed to paint giant American flags ' on each side of the ship fore and aft and to paint big flags on tarpaulins covering forward and after hatches. The name of the ship was also painted in big letters on the sides. The Champlain of the French Line arrived with 1,178 passengers, 748 of them Americans. About 60 slept in cots set ui> in tho gymnasium and lounges. v' Blackouts were in effect during the crossing; wooden covers and black paper covered port holes and upper deck windows. Passengers said the British and French statements of war, were announced en route but none reported seeing naval craft at any time. ' Six hundred signed a petition praising the liner for "the perfect discipline, Incessant care and unfailing courtesy" and expressing "our firm faith" that the "defense of democracy in France, England and elsewhere will be 'sans peur et sans reproche.' " (Without fear and without reproach.) Among the signers were actresses Helen Hayes, Madeleine Carroll and Ruth Draper; Dr. George Hamilton and Dr. Alfred Feuillerat of Yale and Dean Paul Ship Andrews of Syracuse university. Miss Carroll said she had turned over her 300-year-old chateau, situated 26 miles southwest of Paris to the Sisters of tho Poor for housing 200 orphans taken there when Paris was evacuated. Two other French liners were enroute here; the De Grasse is due tomorrow and the lie -De France] which left Havre Saturday with more] than 1,000 passengers Is somewhere at sea. Premier Mitchell Hepburn of Ontario summoned his cabinet into special session Friday to arrange the provincial government's co-operation in every possible way with the dominion defense department at Ottawa. Ontario's anti-sabotage program and lta utilities and industries were ordered protective force for essential public operative immediately. General George C. Marshall on Friday assumed the rank of chief of staff of the armies of the United States. He had been acting chief for nearly two months. He succeeds General Malin Craig whose retirement WM announced earlier this year. GERMANY PREPARED FOR 'EVEN A TEN YEAR WAR"! Berlin Sept. 2 In a long attack i on Ureal Britain, litnmin political circles through I 111- official hows agency declared today Ucrniauy ready to tight t'Nt'ii a teii-y t'Ur war for its lights and the final peace of Europe Answering what li charged were English efforts to put ihu blame on Germany lor failure of recent diplomatic negotiations in ilio l'olish con Hid, the commentary said. "England did not play fair. When one considers thai England, through unconditional support of tho l'oltsh standpoint, Immediately removed every possibility of German-Polish understanding and tho strange diplomatic at tit udo of England during the last days, then one realizes (hat England wants a European and intentionally prepared it." "England today still faces the choice of whether it wants to plunge the world into misery, but its politics of the last months and the alms it thereby pursued leave no doubt that it will not be deterred from the consequences of European catastrophe. "The only reul aggressor, therefore, from the political and historical viewpoint, is Groat Britain, while the Polish government functions only as u sub-worker." These political quarters said "England didn't even have a desire to accomplish an understanding." England "will pay tho bill" if It enters war, the commentary said. Scattered throughout England are some 400 "camping coaches," or remodeled railroad cars, in which about 50.000 persons each year spend their summer vacations. The coaches permantly located on beautiful country sidings, accommodate private parties of from four to ten and cost from $10.00 to $25.00 a week, which Includes linen and tableware. When excavations started for a new department store In Raleigh, N. C., hundreds of curious gathered to watch Ijater the construction company boarded up the scene of operations and there were dozens of unofficial protests. Now the construction company has sawed out neat peep boles at eye level. Some wag has laboriously labeled them "giraffes," "baboons," and "monkeys." Rome, Sunday, night, hnd a partial blackout, the first since the current crisis began. Many streets were lighted only by tiny blue lamps. I Tiio National Women's Relief corps, in Washington, an auxiliary of the (Iraml Army of the Republic, adopted a resolution expressing disapproval of President Roosevelt's proclamation advancing the dato of Thanksgiving by one week. The Navy department Is preparing for the establishment of two air bases In Alaska, by awarding a contract to three firms for $12,739,000 for dredging and other preliminary work. The air bases will be located at Sitka and Kodiak. 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