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The Camden Chronicle . fOLUME 52 CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1940 NUMBER 12 By Enters War painst Allies Le, Jun? 10.?'Italy -tonight took Iplunge war at the side of t^ler Mussolini made the anCemeut in a bombastic speech E the balcony of thfe Pa la mo Veil before a wildly cheering crowd Egoists. Italy's declaration of Ekwaolini said, had been banded L upbassadors of France and EnIjjollni, speaking from a balcony Ed with cheering, shouting mem of the Fascist party, soldiers and or conscience is perfectly tran The crowds In the Piazza roarIpproval. All the world knows, he that Italy has tried in vain for The Allies should not have lied the peace offers made by L be shouted. ut all this is a fact of the paBt," ontlnued. K'ow we are ready to face all the L and sacrifices of the war." fcdn and again he was In term ptKj roars of the populace. great people is ready to face Benin? and mark Its own history Ke future," the premier said. Be want to break the chains that xate us in the . Mediterranean." ewipspers received instructions Irepare to Issue extra editions late he aftsmoon which presumably I publish the text of Mussolini's lord spread like wildfire when hii~ Ikahirt followers received cards U on them to gather in public owds stopped to-4isten to radios, lag for the broad cast call which Lund them swarming into the Br* for the command to the nam to mdbolize all its energies to Iter many crush Or eat Britain and (hers lined up at newstande to copies of new editions of newsIrs, such as II Messagero which lalmed: "The Italian people who royed the Hapsburgs will carry be war to the end against London Paris." w posters plastered on Rome i showed a soldier, rifle in hand, J>ore the legend: "Italy breaks chains which confine her In her sea." inouncement of Mussolini's intento speak followed Italy's resumpof normal relations with Soviet ila today, a move Interpreted by gn observers as a preliminary to Italian entry into the war. tee of Italy's largest liners, xwhile had disappeared. Dlploc circles assumed they had bei troopships. i Rex, scheduled to sail today for York, and the Conte Di Savola, 1 gone from Genoa. The Augus cheduled to sail from Trieste, left that port for an undisclosed nation. ipplng men said the Rex left Geseveral days ago, presumably for but she had not arrived there, formal announcement said that 1*1 Oorelchln would resume his ** Soviet ambassador to Rome t^at the Italian ambassador to ki Dr. Augusto Rosso, was relog to Moscow. le announcement ended a sixths period of irregnlar relations J*n the two countries daring each was represented at the r> capital only /by charge d'afF* < .- j jpiomatic circles considered the Fpatlon of this sltnatlon a natnr? ode to Italian intervention in i or, since it would be anamolous toly to^flght beside Germany u ^chnically estranged from Herr Hitler's Soviet partner. servers also speculated whether tt0Ve might indicate a Moscow* agreement over the situation 6 Balkans, where both have into. 'true* ral,1?d throughout the kingay to hear Premier Mussonounce Italy's long-awaited eninto the war?in all probability in spreading the Enro' onflagration to new front* in ^herranenan. ^ ?Pccted II Duetto anat Italy is already on the or that Italy baa sent an ultK a, FY?ich gnd Brltlah deconcession* tot contln *- - " -* ... 1. British surrender of Gibraltar, the historic guardian Vrock" of the Mediterranean, which Italians call "Mare Nostrum?our sea." Also the Suez canal, England's "life line" to India and Australia. 2. French surrender of Nice, Tunis and Jibuti. It was not immediately apparent where Italy would strike first?whether at France through tfee Alps or Into Africa. ? ? ?? ,s?.J . . _ _i. * + - ^ **- A y ... /_ ^ v ^ J;. Chamber Prepare To Entertain Caravan * The Carolina Caravan, consisting of four of the attractive daughters of North and "South Carctolna, on a tour of the resort areas of the two states, will be accorded a royal welcome In Canulon on Wednesday, June 18. The Camden chamber of commerce has announced the appointment of a committee consisting of W. F. Nettles, Jr., Jack Nettles, Johu Villepigue, Bob Kennedy, 3rd., William L. Good ale, Mrs. Jack Nettles and Mrs. Lee Mays to welcome the caravan when it arrives at the Camden hotel. ~ The committee is arranging for several features to grace the visit of the travel counselors and will also arrange for a tour of Camden's winter hotels, race courses, polo fields, hi?torlo points and the estates of the northern residents. The Carolina "Caravan was arranged primarily for the purpose of telling the world of the splendid vacation and resort facilities available In North and South Carolina, show the residents of the two states what their home-states have to offer and to promote the greatest tide of travel in history as a contribution of the Carolina -Motor Club to the enrichment jof the territory which It serves. Last month the CMC launched a contest to select four "typical" Carolina girls?two from each state, con[duct them on an expense-paid motor tour of the Carolina vacational aeraa, ?whisk them along the coast from Maine to Florida and give them first hand Information of what goes on in the Eastern travel world. At the conclusion of the 10.000 mile tour the girls will be engaged as travel counselors, will be coached In all fundementals of tray.el-information. Sumter Legion Team Plays Here Tuesday Two exhibition games will be played by the Junior Legion team of Camden next week. v On Tuesday the locals meet the alert flumtet' Legion Juniors. The game will be played at the local league pSfk" and will begin at ropr o'clock. ^ Last week these teams met under the lights at Sumter and the Gamecock team won 10 to 9. McLeod, a southpaw from McBee, was on the pitching mound for Camden for six Innings and had given up only two hits when relieved by Johnson. It was only the seeond time MoLeod had been out for play this season and the Camden coach took him out t0 t1"6" vent him exerting too much strain on his throwing arm. McLeod is slated to face Sumter on Tuesday. On Thursday of next week the Epworth orphanage team of Columbia plays the Camden Junior Legion team here. WOODWARD AIRPORT CALLED TO ATTENTION OF AIR CHIEF Washington, June 6.?Congressman j. P. Richards, Fifth District of South Carolina, today had another conference with Major General H. H. Arnold chief of the air corps, war department, Washington, D. C., urging the Camden, South Carolina, air port for selection as the site for one of the aviation training units, under the new expanded army aviation training program. Richards stressed the fact that Camden has an excellent airport, which consist* of 180 acres of tiled drained land, and a fireproof hangar, which cost 113,000 to co?' struct, all situated on a paved road. There, also, are adjoining acres, which could he acquired, if necessary. He further stressed the level tetra^ of the Camden section of South/C^rollna, its highways, railroad connections and Its mild climate. General Arnold explained that expansion of the army air service la, only taking place, at present, In the vicinity of existing army aviation training fields, hut he assured r. Richards that Camden would he given every consideration when expansion plans are completed, under the new program. City Asks Aid For England and France T A resolution passed by the chy council at a meeting Monday aud wired to President Franklin 1>. Boosevolt, Senators llymes and Smith aud Congressman Richards requests repeal of legislation that prevents immediate material aid to (England aud France. The resolution also requests the enactment of laws which will subordinate all industrial production to the manufacture of planes, tunks, guns, ammunition, war shipa and war equipment deemed necessary for national defense. It further states the city to be in favor of all political parties uniting their energies for the defense of the nation and the 'Democracies of the world:. The resolution recites in part: "In view of the serious international situation and believing that the battles being fought by England and France are, tb a large extent, America's battles, since the ideals and principles, belief in liberty and freedom of the peoples, as it has existed in the United States since it became a nation, and believing that it is the purpose of Germany and Italy and their allies, to destroy all the privileges of political and religious freedom for which this nation fought for and stands for, as well as the good things for which all Democracies stand for? "Be It resolved, that the mayor and city council of the city of Camden, S. C., inform the President of the United States and our national representatives in Washington that we are in favor of: "Repeal of legislation that prevents immediate material aid to England and France. "Immediate maTeftal aid to England and France t>A wMptl will ?llbordinate all industrial production to the manufacture of planes, tanks, guns, ammunition, warships and all equipment deemed necessary for our national defense "All political parties uniting their energies for the defense of the nation and for the defense of the Democraaies of jtho world." ? Chamber Supports Soil Conservation Announcement has been made of {VjS appointment of a chamber of com-1 merce committee consisting of Moultrie B. Burns, Henry G. Garrison, W. C. MaCarley,_ Henry Savage, Jr.. C-_ P. DuBoee, Jr., and M. L. DuVal to attend a meeting of the farmers of Kershaw county at the American Legion Tiall here Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock to offer endorsement of the plan to organize Kershaw county into a soil conservation distrait is hoped that all fanners of the county who are interested In the proposed district organization will be present at this .meeting as it is hoped to be able to receive whatever assistance may be available by Federal, state or other agencies. The chamber of commerce directors have gone on record as favoring the i organization of the district and have pledged full cooperation. CAMDEN KIWANI8 IN CHARGE RIDGEWAY KIWAN18 PROGRAM Tuesday night, June 11, Fred Cunningham, of Camden, made a talk before the Rldgeway Kiwania club, bis subject being "Farm Youth of Today.' Camden's Kiwania club took part in presenting the program for the Rldgeway Kiwanlas which have only recently organized. Rev. Bryce Herbert had charge of the program. Camden's part on the program was the presentation of work being done by the club. The different types of work done by the club was named. The presentation of pure-bred stock hogs in different sections of the county to some reliable fanners, the presenter tion of a purebred Guernsey bull by the club to be used free in the different sections of the county, the nutrition camps, the corn contest, and an oratorical medal were some of the things named that the club had done. Cunningham was presented as one of the things the club had done. After Cunningham's speech Ames Haltiwanger of Columbia, made a speech on the work of Klwanis should be aggressive. . Those attending the Rldgeway meet were Bryce Herbert, Eugene Pearce, Huan Small, Sheriff McLeod, Usher Myers, Dr. George Rhame, Dr. J. W. Brunson, Lawrence Wallnau, Marion Williams and Howard Speaks. Absence of British shipping baa hit Portugal's trade. ^ Sermte Clubs In Support of Chamber Canidtm service and other club orKituixutioiiH have named aviation committee* to work with a chamber of commerce aviation group headed by John Whitaker, Jr., chairiuau. The chamber of commerce group working with chairman Whitaker consists of C. P. DuBose, Jr., Jaok Nettles, Dan Mackey, Stanley Llewellyn, John deLoach, Henry O. Garrison, Leo Maya and Frank H. Heath. The members of the Rotary club committee are Reed Sarratt, M. 11. burns, R. M. Kennedy, 3rd, and C. Grainger Kornegay. Members of the Kiwanis committee are J. Team Gottys, H. F. Speaks and Harry S. Porter, while the American Legion committee consists of Oscar J. Smyrl, Jack Mullen, Marlon Williams, Stanley ldewellyn and Marvin Roasonover. The chamber of commerce committee has been active during the past two weeks in attracting the attention of federal aviation authorities to the Woodward airport as a possible site for an aviation training school. In this particular the chamber is giving fine cooperation to the mayor of Camden and to the State aeronautic commission. Legion Post Wires Support To President Following a stirring and inspiring address relating to the European war by Eh*. Maurice Clarke at the Legion Hall Monday evening a telegram was dispatched to Preaident Roosevelt from the James Leroy Belk Post American Legion expressing the endorsement and tendering complete support of the policies and feelings expressed in the address given lby the President at Charlottesville, Vs., earlier in the c*a ici uOOm, One of the largest gatherings to attend *a Legion meeting in some time braved the heat and a threatened storm to crowd the hall for the session. Dr. Clarke's talk on matters relating to the European conflict and the threat Ihe situation offers to^ American Democracy was outstanding. H08PITAL TRAINING SCHOOL TO GRADUATE WEDNE8DAY The graduating execlses of the Camden Hospital Training School will be held at the Lyttleton Street Methodist church Wednesday evening, June 19, 1940, at 8 o'clock. The?program will ^be invocation -by Rev. J. B. Caston; special music by Mrs. James Gandy and A. C. MoKain; address by Henry Savage, Jr.; presentation of pine by Mrs. F. M. Zemp, | principal of the Training School; I awarding of diplomas by Eh*. John W. Coihett, president of the hoard of j directors of the Camden Hospital;' organ solo by Mrs. Gandy; prayer by Rev. A. Douglas McAro. I A reception will be given at the nurses home Immediately afterwards. The public is cordially Invited. The graduates will be: Misses Ida Irene Stuart, Helen Louise Vereen, Annie M. McLauchlln, Mary Waters. CAMDEN AGRICULTURAL CLA68 WINS DISTRICT FORE8TRY TE8T C. J. Shaeffer, assistant state forester, accompanied by Robert Campbell and P. G. Chastain, made an inspection of forestry projects in the Camden forestry district. Camden won Drat; McBee won aecond. Other schools that competed were Rock HU1, Chester, Oakley Hall, Fort Mill, Hlllcrest. Blackstock and Jefferson. The Camden forestry project Is located on Sumter highway four miles south of Camden on Mulberry Plantation. The members of the agricultural class invite everyone to stop by and see the project Several group meetings have been held with farmers and boys at the project?Dale Smith, reporter. 8peakere For 8unday In the absence of Rev. J. B. Caston, the pasted Dr. C. B. Draffin, of Columbia, will be the speaker at the Sunday morning services of the Camden Baptist church. G. C. Robinette, also of Columbia, will be the speaker at the Baptist church at the regular evening Sunday services. Rev. and Mrs. Caston, accompanied by Mrs. Charles A. Stogner, are In Baltimore, the former attending pie Southern Baptist convention being held in the Maryland city. A donkey belonging to a breeder in Bristol, England, Is said to be the smallest in the world. Only two feet six inches in height, it weighs twenty pounds. -> -r: - - - xpr-* y ? > ' '"V. t' i * ? - * .> ' * I). A. R. Pays Tribute To Baron DeKalb Brief, but Impressive ritual featured the dedication of the inscriptive feature of the Baron DeKalb inounmeat on the site of the Battle of Camden on June 8. . This granite inonuTnent, placed upon the exact location where liaron DeKalb fell mortally wounded August U'?, 1780, has never carried an inscription as to who the donor of the iponuiuent was, even tho it was put in place in 1909. On June 8 the members of the Hobkirk Hill chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, visited the monument and with appropriate exercises celebrated the inscription "Krectod by Hobklrk Hill Chapter, D. A. R., Camden, 1909," recently cut into the boulder. In additon to this exercise of inspection and acceptance tho Chapter ropledged themselves'and the Chapter to "Home and Country." The exercises at the monument followed a final meeting of the 1939-1940 season of the Hobklrk Hill Chapter of the D. A. R., held at thfe home of Mrs. W. J. (May field on Broad street. The affair was in the nature of a flag day cele/bration with the members reciting the pledge to the flag and also a prayer for all nations. One of the interesting highlights of the meeting was a talk on flags ad given hy Mrs. Sadie vonTresckow, who declared that flags are as old as history and recited facts to trace standards through the Egyptian, Assyrian, Jewish periods. The speaker pointed ont how every family had a "standard" and how every man must pitch by the ensign of his father's house. In connection with the visit of chapter members and honor guests to the DeKalb monument, it will be recalled that the Battle of Camden was between the British winning forces under Cornwallls and the Americans under Yates, the British winning the light. The guests of honor at the gathering June 8, were Mrs. Paul Villepigue, Mrs. Oeorgo Taylor and Miss Margaret McDowell, mem/hers of the original mouninent Committee, it was (pointed out that -the boulder which constitutes the monument came from Heath Springs and wis carrlhd on a flat car of the (Southern?thence placed on a wagon and with frequent changes of four-mule teams, dragged through sand and trees to the location where It now stands. The haul-' lug wa? done under the direction of L. L. Clyburn and the boulder was placed upon_ the brlcfc _awL_9Pn crete base by J. B. McNinch. One of the Interesting features of the gathering on the old battlefield site was the reading of a portion of j the original dedication speech of j the late Hon. Bratton deLoach, as I given May 29, 1909. Bratton deLoach | was the father of Attorney John K. i deLoach of C&mden, and In the absence of Attorney deLoach, the parts of the dedication speech were given by Mrs. Von Treeckow. They were as follows: "He sinks under his mortal wounds, truly a soldier of America, and is today one of her monuments of the Independent spirits that have made our nAtton what It is, the greatest natlon on the globe?a nation sending out from the devastated fields found by DeKalb sufficient food to feed the hungry of the world and cloth to olothe the millions. A nation that can polpt with pride to great statesmen, who, after American independence framed Just laws, under which men oould live with a spirit of liberty, serving God as directed by the dictates of conscience, paying all allegiance, not to crowned heads, but to a constitutional goverment made by the people and for the people, sending Into ell nations the gospel of "Peace On Berth; Odbfc^Will To AM Men!" "And as thd' American Goddess of Liberty, lifting high her torch shows this to all nations, there is in It that spirit of the noble DeKalb which shall live and although days, months, ages and centuries shall roll away, yet Baron Dekalb shall live in the hearts of llbertyloving American people, ages he can rest in the ahadown of the Great Beyond and the Daughters of the American Revolution will be the guardian angels that shall protect from forgetfulness his . noble character and patriotic unselfishness, and lest we forget, they will continually revive his liberty-loving spirit." ? FOR DIRECTOR 1 hereby announce myself for reelection to the office of County Director from Flat Rock Township subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. Will greatly appreciate youi support Very respectfully,. I J. C. FAULKHNBBRRY -r - - - - ? ? ?? -- ?. - President Calls For 'Full Speed' Charlottesville, Vs., June 11?President Roosevelt's address at graduation exerolHes of the University of Virginia: Kvery generation of young men and women in America has questions to ask the world. Most of the time they are the simple 'but nevertheless difficult questions of work to do, opportunities to And, ambitions to satisfy. Hut every now and again In the history of the republic a different kind of question presents Itself?a question which asks, not about the future of an individual or even of a generation, but about the future of the country, the future of the American people. There was such a time at the beginning Qf our history as a nation. Young people asked themselves In those days what lay ahead, not for themselves, but for the new United States. There was such a timo again in the seemingly endless years of the War Between the States. Young men and young women on both sides of the line asked themselves, not what trades or professions they would enter, what llvea they would make, but What was to fbecome of the country they bad known.Tbere is such a time again today. Again today the young men and the yoUng women of America ask themselves with earnestness and with deep concern this same question: "what Is to become of the country we know?" " Now they ask It with even greater anxiety than before. They ask, not only what the future holds for this republic, but what the future holds for all people end all nations that have ibeen living under democratic forms of government?under the free Institutions of a- free people. It is understandable that they should ask this question. They read the word* ot those ^wbo are telllag them that the ideal of individual liberty, the Meal of free franchise, the ideal of peace through justice Is a decadsjit Ideal. /^The^read and hear the boast of /those who say that a belief In force ?foroe directed by self chosen leaders?Is the new and vigorous system whleh will overrun the earth. They havo seen the ascendancy of this philosophy" of force In nlUfiirafter nation where free institutions and individual liberties were once maintained. It Is natural and understandable, , therefore, that the younger generation .should first ask itself what the exten1 slon of the philosophy of force to all the world -would lead to ultimately. We see today in stark reality some of the consequences of the machine age. Where control of the machine has been retained In the hands of mankind as a whole, untold benefits have accrued to mankind. For mankind was then the master;' the machine was the servant. But, In this new system of force the mastery of the machine is not in the hands of mankind. It Is In the control of infinitely small groups of individuals who rule without a single one of the democratic sanctions that we have known. The machine in the hands of irresponsible conquerors become the master; mankind Is not only the servant but the victim, finch mastery abandons with deliberate contempt all of the moral Vkluea to which even this young continent for more than 900 years has been accustomed and dedicated. ? _ 0 Surely the now philosophy proves from month ,19 soonth that it eonld have no coxtoept of the way Of life or the way of thought of a nation whose origins go hack to Jamestown and Plymouth Rook. ' Conversely, neither those who spring from that stock nor those who have come hither in later years can be indifferent to the destruction of freedom In their ancestral lands across the sea. Perception of danger to our Institutions may come slowly or It may come with a rush and shock as it has to the people of the United States in the ptfst few months. This perception of danger has come to us clearly and overwhelmingly; and we perceive the peril In a worldwide arena?an arena 1 which may became so narrowed that ? only the Americas would retain the ! ancient faiths. Some indeed still hold to the now dbvkras delusion that we of the Unl(Continued On Page Six)