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C^isiog ' Around : !' 1 with !; h ii "Skipper" | !> 1 - _ , i Tonight's the nlte. First game of 1 .jjb Bulldog schedule with Florence high i ho opposing team. < What does the 1939 edition of the Bulldog machine offer? That ques- J Hon will be auswerod tonight. A lot I of (lie i allblrds who have been watch, jug the gang In training at the ball park believe Camden will offer one of the best balanced and functioning teams In Bulldog history. Others Incline toward the belief the back field la the problem child of the 1989 mod4 ol. The line looks good, Is hefty and packs power. The backfleld Is more or less an unknown equation. Anyhow, we'll all know what X equals. * From all reports, Sumter expects to ting up a new football attendance record when the Camden Bulldogs tackle the? Gamecocks on the Sumter Bold October 6. And we'll wager' It will be a new high mark. Sumter Is reported to have a light team, but the critics assert it to be an alert, scrappy | aiul well-trained unit. I South Carolina blrdmen found that j Camden hospitality is all that It is I cracked up to be. Sunday's visit of | gome one hundred and fifty pilots and , passengers to the Woodward airport, ' with the subsequent ham and egg dinner at the Hotel Camden convinced the visitors that Camden knows how ' to entertain its guests In a royal manner. Not only was Mayor F. N. McCorkle on the Job at the airport to greet the pilots with a hearty handshake, but he also appeared before the meeting following the breakfast at the hotel and extended the well wishes of Camden to the group. * Councilman Joe McKain was another official to appear on the Job In greeting the visitors and seeing that their every want was taken care of. The city and chamber of commerce expressed deep appreciation for the magnificent gesture of cooperation extended by the Rotary, the Klwanls, the American Legion and many citi7r-na in providing cars for the transporting of the flyers and guests from the airport to the hotel and return. The request for cars brought out exactly twice the number the committee needed. If all the poles that are unnecessary adjuncts to the civic landscape In Camden were sent to Europe we know the ranks of the Polish forces would be greatly augmented. Johnny Gee. the lanky Syracuse pitcher who is now wearing a Pittsburgh uniform got his first major league action last Sunday. Johnny pitched six hit ball, but his team mates blew the game with some eight er rors. Advices from Syracuse Indicate the Chiefs will train at a Florida tamp next spring. ? ?i Already many motorists have started cutting corners at the intersections w here the pedestal signals have been r- placed by corner control lights. Is something the police will have ' hear down heavily upon to break it up, even tho It means wholesale arrests. Attention, state highway patrol: How about picking up some of the many one-eyed cars that roam the highways after dark. Counted six of ; ht-m between Camden and the Boykin p ?nd last Sunday night. i And a few tickets to some of the -onart-aleck drivers who dirve in the 1 ft lane on Broad and DeKalb streets. Australia To Put 20,000 Men In Field Canberra, Australia, Sept. 15.? Prime Minister Robert G. Menales announced today formation of an Ausiralian war cabinet whloh decided to ' nfse Immediately an Initial volunteer force of 20,000 men for "service in Australia or overseas." The cabinet also decided to increase :he current year's defense expendlt ures from 33,000,000 - Austrailian pounds (approximately $105,600,000) to 45,000,000 pound* (approximately *144,000,000).-? In addition to Menzlee, the cabinet includes William Hashes, Australian prime minister durins the World war J R. O. Casey. Brigadier G. A. Street, Bir Henry Gnllett and Senator O. Moi>eavy. - I... Washington 3s Growing Rapidly Capital Will Spend Fifty Million Dollar* for New Buildings. I WASHINGTON. ? Washington la America's fastest growing city. Planners and builders are clearing the way to add $50,000,000 worth of new buildings te "the world's most beautiful capital." They will inaugurate a new era in the development of the land set aside on the banks of the Potomac nearly a century and a half ago for the nation's central government. New workshops will spring up to house the army of government workers. Construction will start this summer on a $10,815,000 initial section of a new war department building. Projected for the future is an adjoining structure four times as large. Half again as much will be expended soon on homes for the social security and railroad retirement boards. The navy is arranging for a $5,000,000 medical center ut nearby Bethesda, Md. Memorial to Jefferson. Behind high board fences, workmen have started the $3,000,000 memorial to Thomas Jefferson down on the shores of the tidal basin. I Along the south margin of the Mall?the great open parkway extending from the Lincoln memorial | to the national Capitol?a new Independence avenue la in the making to match Constitution avenue on the north. Beyond the Capitol, the $10,000,000 modernistic annex to the classio Library of Ccjngress nears completion. More than $18,000,000 of public works funds are financing a start on la new District of Columbia munici[pal center, libraries, schools, stadia ! and other city structures. < Congress provided the actual ;fUnds for the big new federal buildUngs. Work is continuing on various i other structures, notably the $10,000,000 national art museum donatled by the late Andrew Mellon. 1 Capital Being Remade. Altogether, the national capital is I being further remade in almost as j spectacular a fashion as the recent (construction of the half-mile long [federal triangle block of buildings 1 along historic Pennsylvania avenue, i The remodeling is costing a lot of I money. Since 1926, when congress authorised a long-term development [program, upwards of $200,000,000 j [has been spent on major structures, j Officials of such agencies as the ^National Capital parks and planning ) commission and the treasury procurement division are convinced the 'results have justified the outlay. Even with the projected buildings, 'they say, there will be irisufficienti office space for the swarm of government workers. Latest records list 118 buildings in the District of Columbia as rented in part or whole by the federal government, and 120 , as government owned. Functions of the war department i alone are scattered in 19 buildings in the district and nearby Virginia and Maryland. Grammar School in New , York I. 175 Year. Old NEW YORK. ? Columbia grammar school is celebrating its 175th birthday as the oldest non-sectarian school in the United States. The school, founded in 1764 as a preparatory institute for King's college, now Columbia university, opened with 27 scholars, each of whom was required to provide "one load of nut wood for the use of the school" as part of his annual tuition fee. In 1776 the school went out of existence for eight years when it was seized for military purposes during the Revolution. It re-opened in 1784 with William Cochran, of Trinity college, Dublin, as headmaster. With the exception of Franklin's academy in Philadelphia, Columbia grammar school was the first school devoted exclusively to general rather than religious training. I ??? j French U*e Microbe* to Give Any 'Age' to Wine PARIS.?Good, aged wine?from microbes?Is the latest fad these | days. ( Through the help of the Pasteur institute, famous for its researches |into harmful microbes, winemakers I today are able to obtain supplies of microbes best suited for their particular brands of grape juice. ' The combination of these harm1 less microbes and heat will result in ! giving wine an "age" of 20 years '.'within 12 months. The same process has been developed for some of .France's choice cheeses, one com; pany even setting up a factory abroad to develop French cheeses from local milk plus Pasteur microbes. New Record* Are Claimed For Leipzig's Big Fair LEIPZIG.?The Leipzig fair re cently concluded was attended by 331,256 buyers from 72 countries, the greatest number in its history of over 700 years. The foreign visitors totaled 27,256 Including 277 from the United States. The fair comprised ft 804 exhibits including 667 from for eign countries, s gain of 383 over last year and 54 per cent over 1933. Exciting Chase Follows Auto Theft Afior the second car in tVo days was stolen in Camden Thursday morning the culprit was observed aboyt 10 a. in. near Kershaw by Patrolman Hennecy who gave ehaso and lu a wild chase over Route 621 to Heath Springs with the fleeing car making almost 100 miles per hour the thief managed to get away from the officer. Coming Into Heath Springs the driver of the stolon automobile turned off the paved road Just before reaching the school house and took the dirt road through the outskirts of the town. The car was observed going out the Flint Ridge road at a terrific rate of speed. Patrolman Hennecy stopped at Heath Springs to call I^ancaster officers as he had not observed the thief turning off on the dirt mad. Local officers got their high powered guns and patrolled the roads near this city. As this paper goes to press word has been received that the stolen machine was seen going through Pageland In the direction of Monroe. One report was to the effect that the car was seen at two or three different points botween Flint Ridge and Pageland but the officers were not In pursuit. Mr. Hennecy Is said to have picked up the trail but as far as local officers know he did not again see the fleeing car. This stolen car is said to have been the demonstration car belonging to the Redfearn Motor company of Camden. As this machino was a 1989 ..Ford and had already been broken In the machine was fast. Mr. Hennecy Is said to have beeu outdistanced from the start so that he was unable to overtake the flying thief. As the road makes a sweeping curve just on the other side of Heath Springs Hennecy was not able to see the car taking off on the dirt road. When this was stolen it had dealer's plates on It but the thief changed these to a set of North Carolina plates. For that reason Mr. Hennecy did not know that the car was the stolen one until the driver of the machine started off at high speed. The patrolman noted that the license plates were fastened only on one side with the other side hanging downward. This caused him to turn around for the purpose of making an Investigation and as he did so the car stolen at Camden speeded up until it had obtained a momentum of almost 100 miles an hour. This terrific speed was kept up all the way from Kershaw to Heath Springs. Officers at Monroe were notified that the car was headed In that direction but at 2:30 p. m. no word had been received here as to the whereabouts of the stolen car after It had left Pageland.?Lancaster News. Hit-and-Run Driver Kills Young Man McBee, Sept. 18.?Officers sought some clue today to the Identity of a hit-run driver whose automobile struck and fatally injured George T. Delacorte, Jr., 23, of Monmouth Beach, N. J., in this village late Saturday night. So far as could be learned, no one actually wlttnessed the accident. Attendants at a filling station heard the crash d half block distant about 11 p. m., and upon investigating, found the youth crumpled beside his bicycle. Young Delacorte and his brother, Alfred. 25, were bicycling from New York to New Orleans. They had parted here temporarily, while looking for a place to pass the night. Alfred was about a block away when his brother was struck. The Injured youth was taken to a hospital at Hartsville, 14 miles from here, where he died early Sunday. His brother returned to New York yesterday by airplane. Arrangements were made to send the body home this afternoon. Chesterfield, Sept. 18.?Sheriff Jack Douglass said today a 20-year old negro who gave his name as Dan Nelson had surrendered to officers as a hit-and-run driver In an accident at McBee Saturday that resulted In the dea,th of George T. Delacorte, Jr., 23. of Monmouth Beach, N. J. There were fewer cars on the highways during 1938, but those operated were, on an average, driven 2 perceut farther than In the previous year. Robert Allison borrowed a cat when he discovered a 12-inch rat under his baby's crib. The cat took one look at the rat?and retreated. A neighbor advised Allison to chloroform the rodent?but a druggist refused to sell him any chloroform. Finally a policeman armed with a vacuum cleaner, trapped the rat in a closet and finished him off. Reports that Italy is sending troops to Libya were circulated^ Tuesday, after long columns of soldiers in olltc gray, with khaki sun helmets, how ever, Italy still was silent as to hei intentions In the European war. Plans For Festival Are Growing1 Apace Plans for the 1930 edition of the Camden ami Kershaw County Cotton Festival continue to expand and already members of the executive committee are declaring the event will be outstanding. The finance committee will go into action this week In raising of the fund with which to curry out the tine program arranged The publicity and advertising group will also begin active operations to round up the merchants who are planning on participating in this part of the program. , Chairman II. O. Carrlson has announced that the Judges who will puss upon the prize winners In the various divisions of the big parude will be John Whitaker, Jr., Mrs. Alice Marye, Mrs. Maxiue Nettles, Rev. A, l>. Mo Arn and Major A. M. Urallsford. The various civic groups who will submit names of young ladles us candidates for the honor of being queen of the festival have until September 30 to register their respective queens. Already several groups have named their favored girls. A conuplttoe will handle the selecting of the queen by a secret ballot, the result of which will be known only by a committee of three who will prepare the queen for the coronation program. Mrs. Keuben Pitts, jr., wuo as Miss Margaret lautd, won' acclaim for Cumden and South Carolina by being Miss South Carolina at the Atalantic City beuuty contest, has consented to supervise the coronation ceremony. This Is an assurance that the ceremony will bo impressive. An out of city band will play for the coronation ball In tho high school gymnasium. The hall Is to be beautifully decorated with greens, cotton and small white and blue electric lights. The dauco committee announces that the coronation ball will begin at 9 o'clock sharp and dancing will cease at midnight. There will be no lutermlsslon during the evening for. .the coronation ceremony is to take place at 9:30 o'olock. Mayor Owens, of Columbia, Mayor Creech, of Sumter, the mayors of Chester, Ridgeway, and Kershaw, together with Senator M. M. Johnson and Representatives Clyburn and F.stridge are all going to be in Camden for the festival. The University of South Carolina band, the famous I^ancaster high school band and the Charleston police band have all expressed the Intention 1 of being present. The executive committee has lasuod a statement to the effect that If the weather on Thursday, October 12, Is such that the parade and other i festivities cannot be held, the program will go over to Friday, the 111th. And the committee declares It Is not superstitious In any respect. ' The executive committee and the several sub-committee leaders are to meet at the Legion Hall Tuesday aft ternoon at 4:30 o'clock for furthor report of progress being made, j Mrs. John Mullen, who Is In charge of the organization float feature of the parade has Informed the executive 1 committee members that she has met with a splendid response from those approached In the matter of floats. I The decorating of the streets of the i city will be started on October 10, and the decorations will remain up until Saturday afternoon. Representatives of the decorating company ?^????? from Charlotte will be lu the city ou October 1, and open up a festival headquarters In the store formerly occupied by the Cut Rate drug store on DeKalb street. Decorating material will be on salo to those planning | floats or other forms of decorations. ONE BODY MISSING FROM 8ALVAGED SUB Portsmouth, NT. H. Sept. 15?A possibility that tho sou might hold frtrever one of the 26 victims of tho U. S. S. Squalus arose today when grim naval officials were able to find only 25 of tho bodies entombed for 115 days in the battered submarine now lying in drydock here. None could say for sure. The search still went forward. 13ut officers did not deny the chance that tho body of one man might have been given up to the open sea through a hatch found open during difficult and dangerous salvage operations. Selling Electrical Goods It is the little things that count to the modern minded housewife, from irons to lamps and for heating and cooking to<\ she prefers electrical goods. Why not get her one of those Waffle Irons, the kind that tells when it is done? THINGS ELECTRICAL?we have them for sale at resonable prices. See our window display of up-to-the-minute ELECTRICAL dOODS. BARRINGER HARDWARE CO. P hone 21 1 I BELK'S I I Will Keep Faith With The Public I I It has been the policy of the Belk organization at all times to carry large stocks of merchandise. j The same policy prevails at the present time, and our buyers have combed the markets for four months preparing for the Fall season, which is right oh us. This merchandise has not been purchased at advanced prices, but was selected carefully as to style and quality in a J very calm manner during this period. Today we have all of our stores j teeming with merchandise. j Goods have been too cheap. The manufacturers have not been able to make any money for several years and have been forced to sell I their goods at prices that have not netted them a profit. I This whole picture, however, is changed today- There has been j | wild speculation in merchandise. In some instances prices may have I j been advanced all out of proportion. j However, we wish to state that it shall be the policy of the Belk I ; i organiaztion not to advance one item in one of our stores a penny unless I i we are forced to go on the market to replenish stocks, and then we J i will price same in proportion to the purchase price. ' i W. H. BELK, President P 17 T ? ' G I I Jo * j I jV ij I I DEPARTMENT STORE I