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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Washington 3s
Growing Rapidly
Capital Will Spend Fifty
Million Dollar* for
New Buildings.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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BELK'S I
I Will Keep Faith With The Public
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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
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