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1 Cruising 'Around with "Skipper" Oermans ?ver ruu out of Hitler would Uk? to have us give ' to our emotions, Maybe no, as ^ asJ we don't get within striking stance. , President Roosevelt is a man o?f his L A Week ago Sunday he said he Wouldn't hesitate to ask for more defense funds and Monday he asked for $750,000,000. Wilbur Shaw, the quiet, unassuming chap with whom we chatted several weeks ago when he was visiting in Cam den won the ludlanopolls 600mtle race classic for the third time. He pocketed exactly $31,000 as a result of tho victory; * Well folks, the Initial arrival In what may be a Camden zoo is with us. None other than Alice of Chancefteld, an 18 year old pachyderm from the Clyde Beatty zoo at Port Lauderdale, Florida. # kaat Friday in company with Mayor MoOorkle we visited the Boykin-Ferguson menagerie and had our picture taken with Miss Alice. * By the way, we have already inrited Alice to head the cotton festival parade next October. * Hie pachyderm chancellors have agreed she may do so. * On no occasion during this department's administration of* Camden publicity has any news release created the waye of excitement as did the acquisition of an elephant by Matthew Ferguson of Chancefleld plantation. The Associated Press, United Press, International service, American Weekly and exactly twelve newspapers called us for information on the debut of the paohyderm in the historic city. * * . I They did not let us rest Sunday, but called for pictures and feature itory releases. No race or other remit ever created such a stir in the mws world as has Alice of ChanceMJ We are informed that Alice had a royal session of court Sunday when many people motored to the environs of the Chancefleld area to get a glimpse of the big gal. * Now over to the flickers and screen celebrities. Up in Central Wisconsin there Is a beautiful little college bailiwick named Ripon. Here was born the present Republican party. And here Spencer Tracy attended- collage before he entered Marquette university in Milwaukee. This week Ripon college conferred the degree of Doctor of Dramatic Arts on the famous Badger state screen star. The appearai\ - of Tracy at the scene of his college Jays actually brought over 30,00" p-ople to Ripon. It took two companies of national guards, the colifcg It. O. T. C., the state, county and <T> police and American Legion m-i:i:t-rs to keep the traffic going and pro- , Tracy. Hip-ei is a place of many pleasant ni-:r. >ric.s for this writer. It is oiriys D miles from the city where we held j <Lw:. ::ie desk of city editor of an evening paper. Speaking of horses and those who ri(L 'hem. Camden, people and especially those who are winter residents, will b,- interested to read that Rigan McKmney, a gentleman Jockey who has spent several seasons in our miilsr [j, being sued tor divorce by his wife Jean McKinney. Jean Is now a temporary resident of Reno. Rigan is 3u years of age and has been married ?i* y-?ars. He was the scion of a steel family in Cleveland and has been interested in race and show horses all his life. Four Paris factory workers, two of them lS-year-old youths, have been sentenced to death by a French military court on sabotage charges. Two ?thera drew 20 years at hard labor. Churchill Describes Defeat in Flanders\ Ixmdon, Juue 4.?Winston Church-1 111 today wave British commons I and people th? measure of defeat uud I the epic of rescue for the Allied arm-1 los In Flanders, aud, with <blunt 1m-1 agery, hold out hope of help from I "the now world." or America, If ?rl-1 tain is broken by Invasion. j With tho plainest language, tho I prime minister, In a long war state-1 mont to tho houso of commons, pledg-1 od the nation to tight on ''alone If necessary," even from her empire out-1 posts, and declared the British gov-1 ernment would never couteut itself 1 with a defensive war on Germany. I The heavlset blows are yet to come I from the conquerors of the lowlauds, I he warned. They may come, he said, I "almost Immediately." [ Point by point Churchill told the I story of the German army sweep like I a "sharp scythe" around the Allied 1 forces of Flanders; how the Belgian I surrender Isolated theui and how a lost garrison of 4,000 men spurned I au ultimatum to capitulate and fought I to the death in Calais. He gave the British losses In Flan-1 ders as more than 30,000 dead, wound-1 ed or missing; ho estimated the Allied rescued, by the heroic work of an armada of a thousand 'boats, big aud little, as more than 335,000. I A week ago, he aud other "good I judges" thought only 20,000 or 30,000 J men could be saved from the German I army, Its gunB and Its bombers, he I said. With the Flanders battle and the I rescue ended, Belgium and her army I lost and the continent's channel ports I In the invader's hands, Churchill told I the commons, 'There is always a I chance of Invasion." j "We shall defend our Island what* I ever the cost may 'be," he said. "We I shall flight on the beaches, the land- J Ing grounds, in the fields, in the I streets and on the hills. "We shall never surrender. "And even if, which I do not for I a moment (believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and I starving, then our empire beybndf the J seas, armed and guarded 'by the BrI-J tlsh fleet, In God's good time, the new world with all its power and might seta forth to the liberation and the! rescue of the old." He solemnly warned the British j against over-evaluating the brilliance I at the retreat from Flanders. j "We must be careful not to assign I to this deliverance the attributes 6t I a victory," he 'said. "Wars are not won by evacuations, 1 but there Is a victory . . which must! be noted. I "This was a great trial of strength J between the British and German air I forces. ? ? j "They tried hard and werb beaten I back. Frustrated In their task, we I have got the armlep away and they I have paid four-fold for any losses sustained. . . . Oven as he made this extraordinary I summary?counting up the gains and I wearily acknowledging the great losser to British arms inflicted by the J "the dull brute mass" of the German army, the British government made great preparations to stand to the 1 greater blow, If and when it comes: i Clement R. Atlee, lord privy seal, announced that Churchill as minister I of defense, would be assisted by a de- j fense committee comprising the heads of the lighting services?navy, army and air force?and their chiefs of etaff j as advisers. I War Minister Anthony Eden said J all the conscripts who could be train-1 ed would be called up this mouth, I doubling the normal rate. Volunteers, he added, wore available to defend 1 London and those now defending the I public untilitles are carrying war department weapons. j As to Interned aliens and prisoners J of war, Eden added, their transports-1 tlon to places remote from the British Isles?to prevent their possible coop- I eration with German aircraft or parachute troops?is under consideration. J The round-up of British Fascists |i went on; some 50 were arrested. Churchill himself, in his memorable speech in commons, promised that the "mallgnacy" of the fifth column I j would stamped out. He made no mention of the situa-11 tlon in the Mediterranena, where the British say. the Allies are always rea- , dy for any possible settlement. wWtli Italy. " 7 7 , r While putting the British losses In 11 Flanders at round 30,000 men, he add-1 < ed: "We may set a far heavier loss j i certainly inflicted on the eftemy, but I pur losses In material are enormous. < We have lost nearly one thousand 11 guns and all our transport and all i armored vehicles that were with the i army In the north. j "These looses will impose a further 11 delay on the expansion of our mill-|i tary strength. That expansion has not been proceeding as fast as ,ve 11 had hoped." |1 But, he went on, "already the flowli of munitions is leaping forward. I < There is no reason why we should I not In a few months overtake the 11 sudden and serious loss that ha* come I f - < ' ZZ*-* U. - - - _r A .7 upon us. "Nevertheless, our thankfulness at the escape of our army with bo many men, and the thankfulness of their loved ones who have passed through sn agonising week, must not blind us to the fact that what has happened in France and Belgium is a colossal military disaster. "The French army has been weakened, the Belgian army has been lost, and a large part of those fortified lines upon which so much faith was roposed has gone and many valuable mining districts and factories .have passed ipto the enemy's possession. "The whole of the channel ports are in his hands with all the strategic consequences that follow from that and we must expect another blow to he struck almost Immediately at us" or at France. "We have our duty to the Allies. We have to reconstitute and build up the B. E. F. once again under its gallant commander-in-chief Lord Gort. "There has never /been a period in all those long centuries of which we boast when an absolute guarantee against invasion, still loss against serious raids, could have been given to our people. There is always a chance and It is that chance which has excited and befooled the Imaginations of many continental tyrants. "We are assured that novel methods will be adopted and when we see the originality and malice and the Ingenuity of aggression which our enemy displays we may certainly prepare ourselves for every kind of novel Btrategem and every kind of brutal and treacherous maneuver. "If the best arrangements are made,, as they are being made, we shall < prove ourselves once again able to defend ourselves once again able to defend our island home an4 ride out the storms of *&r and otitlive tho menace of tyranny if necessary for years?if necessary alone." News of Interest In And Around Bethune Bethune, 8. C., June 5.?The real* dunce of I<ee Hilton on highway No. 1 in the eastern purl of town, ia Hearing completion. A union dally bible school U being held in the Methodist church under the supervision of 'Mies Mary Arthur, field worker of Bethany district. The school will oontiuue two weeks with sessions from 8 to 10 o'olock each morning. Members from the churches iu town are assisting. Eighty-three pupils have been enrolled. The federation of church women /net in the school auditorium Monday afternoon. In the absence of the president, Mrs. P. K. Morse, Mrs. (M. F. Helms presided. Winners of' prize* offered by the beautttioatlon committee last month were announced and were as follows: First prise, Mrs. R. L. Waters, greatest improvement in lawn and premises; second, Mrs. J. U King, prettiest and neatest; third, 'Aunt" Joanna Caston, cleanest premises. A number of other lawns received honorable mention. Subject of program was "Our Returning College (Students." Mrs. Frank Lee discussed the interest and responsibility the church should feel iu the returning students and a poem, "A Piece of Clay," was read by Mrs. Helms. Meeting closed by singing "Have Thine Our Way." Little Martha Marie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Clyburn, and Dana | Uiu, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roger Howe, of Colum/bia, were christened with an Impressive ceremony in the Presbyterian church 'Sunday morning. lxMinle McUiuchlln and S. B. Padgett, Jr.. of Kingstree, spent Wednesday with their mother, Mrs. S. B. Padgett. Mrs. R. E. .MoOasklll returned Tuesday from an extended visit to her father, R. E. MoChesney, at Waterloo. tMiss Stella Bethune left Monday for State Appalachian College, Boone, N. C., where she is attending summer school. She was accompanied hy Misses Anno Redman and Helen Snell, teachers of the Bethune school. Miss Jerry Davis returned home for the summer vacation Thursday from Columbia college. (Misses Carrie Yarbrough and Sat* and Elsie Mae Hammond have return-1 ed to their home here after the closing of their respective schools at Maye8ville, Lodge and Kelton respectively. Circles one, two and three of the Presbyterian church met Tuesday afternoon In the homes of Mrs. B. Z. Truesdell, Mrs. <F. R. Morse and Mrs. Mary Hough, respectively. Mrs. S. E. Belote, of Atlanta, Is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. F. R. Morse. Mrs. Daisy McLaurin and (family motored to Charleston Saturday and returned with John Dan McLaurin, who was a student at the Citadel. Recent guests in the McLaurin home were Miss Gladys Williams, of Salisbury, N. C., and Miss Kay Bentley, of Chicag.o. Marlon, son of Mr. and Mrs. Manning Parker, was admitted to the Columbia hospital Monday for an operation. ' Mr. and Mrs. Van Morgan and little son were Sunday guests of relatives here. Miss Mary Brannon, of the Providence hospital of Columbia, and niece, Jacqueline Atkinson, were week end guests of iMr. and Mrs. B. W. Brannon. tMiss Mary Alice Helms attended the graduation exercises of her sister, Miss Kate Helms, at Flora McDonald college last week. Mrs. N. E. Truesdell and little daughter, Althea, returned from Duke hospital Saturday where Althea had been a patient for several days. They were accompanied--home by Mrs. M. F. Helms, who had been a guest of relatives in Durham. Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Bethune and Miss Frances Bethune, of O&stonla, and Mrs. Maggie Lee of Monroe, were Sunday guests of the D. T. Yarboroughs. Mrs. Eugene iMcCoy, who assists in the Camden Penney store on Saturday of each week, and her two sons, Wilbur and Charles, spent the week end with relative^ near Camden. Miss Kate Helms is visiting relatives in Durham, N. C. Miss Kate Helms is visiting relatives in Durham, N. C. Miss Jane Black, of York, is the guest of Miss Margaret MdLaurln. Mrs. T. E. Hearon spent the week end with her sister, Mrs. Mary Sanders, in Columbia. Mrs. Sallie Robertson spent several days this week in tne home or ner brother, Dr. B. L. Norwood, in McBee. Camden Ball Fane At Sumter Tonight Camedu baseball faux will invade Sumter Friday evening to witness the opeuing gome of the Junior legion baseball teams of Camden and Sumter, to be played on the now lighted hall held of Sumter. The game will not have any bear lug upon the record of either team in Legion elimination play, tut the two teams are In separate districts. U will be the first of a number of Intor-district games for tooth clubs. The game is to etart at 8 o'clock and will no doutot attract a big turnout of fane. The Camden delegation la planning on leavlug here at seven o'clock and all cars will go direct to the ball park tn Sumter. There promises to toe a marked renewal of Interest In legion games here this summer. Coaoh Smith bad his talent together for the first time this week and of the squad of twentyfive players reporting, there are but seveu from the 1989 team. There appears to be some good materia! available for outfield and infield 'positions, but the coaching staff admits worry regarding the pltohlng staff. For the exhibition game with Sumter, It is believed Coach Smith will start Monkey tHigglns, the classy Camden high school, hurler, who during the high school season, pinned back the ears of the Sumter clouters in a game played lu (Sumter. The Camden Legion post, sponsoring the Junior Legion team here, has made arrangements to conduct a city-, wide ticket sale of season pasteboards early next week. These tickets will admit the bearers to all home games of the I^egion team, of which there will toe eight or more during the season. I For calling Prime (Minister Churchill "Butcher" In an address (before communists in London, Charles Findlajr, 23-year-old mechanic, has been sentenced to three months In Jail and filled 60 pounds (>176). FORMER PRESBYTERIAN PA8TOR AT BI8HOPVILLE DIES IN WEST On SundajTj May 12, Rev. U L. Leg* ters, esteemed former pastor of the Blshopville Presbyterian church and devoted servant of Cod, was stricken with a heart attack while visiting In Portervllle, Calif. He lingered until Saturday morning. May 18, when he quietly fell asleep. Funeral services were conducted from the Presbyterian church in Chambersburg, P., _ last Thursday morning. His many friends tu this community will be grieved to hear of his passing.' Rev. Legters served the Blshopville Presbyterian church during the years 1914*1920. During these years he, with the help of the church officers, raised about $15,000 and paid off all indebtedness of the church. In 1917 the church was dedicated under his leadership. The handsome church manse was built by him In 1917. During his pastorate here several yonng men entered the ministry from this church, and several young men ! and women entered foreign mission j service. In December, 1920, he went to the country of Ouataumala to establish a medical mission. Since then he has visited and established medical mis*' ions in several South 'Central American countries and In Mexico. He was a native of New York state. After finishing his college training lie spent the early part otf his ministry in medical mission work In Oklahoma. He is survived by Bralnard D. Leg tors, a son, now In Yucatan, Mexloo, translating the Indian language Into a written language. He is also survived by Mrs. IQdna Hofer Legters, to ' whom he wq.s married Slept further 8,? 1931.?Bishopvllle Messenger. I I III! Illl ? Mrs, Stewart Died 8aturday Mrs. W. C. Stewart, 62, passed sway * at the Baptist hospital, Columbia, ou Saturday, June 1, after an Illness of several months. She Is survived by her huaband and the following sons and daughters: Bddle Stewart, Fuman Stewart, of Camden; Miss Agnes Stewart, oX Clin* I ton; Mrs. J. T. Raibon, of Columbia; one brother 'Robert J. Bran ham, of iBlaney, also survive*.. Funeral services were held at the Hermitage Baptist church, Sunday at 3 o'clock In the afternoon, with Rev. A. S. Ix>ckee officiating and he waa assisted by the Revs. A. L. Willis amd James O. Jennings, both at Columbia. Interment was In the Quaker <jemetery, uv.. Goodrich Tires ? Batteries EASY TERMS RADIOS ? BICYCLES economy auto supply CAMDEN, S.C. ATCENTIO^FARMERSM Stop the Boll Weevil NOW I Blackstrap Molasses: j j In 67 gal. Barrels, 13 l-2c per gal. Smaller amounts?you furnishing container?14 l-2c per gal. j Calcium Arsenatet \ | In case lots or more, 6 3-4c; Smaller amoupts, 7c. j E Extra nice lot of Biloxi Beans. \ Priced Right. j We have installed Machinery for ? j j Cleaning and Treating Cottonseed \ Wheat, Rye, Oats, Peas, Beans, \ Lespedeza and Crotalaria Seed. I Very Reasonable Prices. I BAILEY DISTRIBUTING and I MILUNG COMPANY I BLANEY, S. C. I j y* V Hh I flNlhi ik IIiflkiII*11 ?Ak ' H ''yV-t&Jl yj!SS??^\ / 1 LANGSTON MOTOR CO. Phone 123 N. Broad St. Camden, S. C.