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* "'?~~ A tf.IL?.J Arouud i with "Skipper" Register l>?U>ache Sherou among ,he big bt the Isaac Wah n ranks. Deloach? Invaded the Her. Milage lake domain last Thursday afternoon and On Friday was exhlblta six pound four ounce big mouth ilack bass as a demonstration of bis fishing powess. x t Our sincere sympathy goes out tov h h. Maddox, Johnny Hugglus and h l. McCasklU for the tough luck tefalllng them last Saturday mornlug when the fir* fiend Invaded their natty food shop. ? And we also feel., lota of sorrow 0ver the damage caused at the Western Auto shop, genial Niin Zeinp's drug store and the tonsorlal experts in tbo Central barber shop. * And a word of Commendation to an alert and clever fire department for preventing the spread of the flanios. Getting Into sports?have you ever watched Elton Reeves run? I'd like to clock that lad over a 100 yard course some day. Ix>oks like a second paddock to me. ?r wv ? If there is a sudden terminatlQU of softball activities around these dtgglns you may understand It is due to the fact that this department wants the sport conducted on a sportsman. like plane?and when this fails, we're through. see - Camden people interested In avi-atlon will remember Jim and Jessie Woods, who were at the Camden airport all season about two years ago. Jim and Jessie were interested In the building up of the local flying field, but they failed to get any cooper^; tion. In dlsguest they left Camden and located at Charlotte where today they are right smack in the spotlight of flying progress and fame. * Jessie, a real fellow If we may so style her.Js rated as the nation's leading lady flyer. We want to quote from a letter from Clayton, Patterson aviation expert, who says of jJessie: - .. ? ? "Jessie Woods flew here (Denver) in an Acronca, a long hard flight with few check marks?the country . covered after leaving the Smokies consist of wide open spaces, believe I me, with less than nothing to check by. Jessie is a wonderful girl, a flyer par excellent and a staunch supporter of the Nlnety-Nlners,. sincere in her desire to carry back to her fellow 99'rs her convlctious as to bow our national organization of women pilots can carry on the best way to be > prepared - to serve our-country when it needs us. If Camden and Kershaw county had bi'??n a bit more cooperative when Jim and Jessie were at our home airport, Camden would have been gettin^ all the glory growing out Of Jessie's air exploits. * * * * speaking of baseball. Camden fans, a; h ast a tew of thenj, will be watching the inter-district playoffs between Ho. k Hill and Pelzer for the upper sta'^ championship. Pelzer earned the: right to represent the third and four:)) districts when Spartanburg was found to have ineligible players "ti the team rooster. The first game hi the upper-state title series was played Wednesday at Rock Hill, the lloPAnH at . Da It o? rPKu voJaw o (1 tilA third game is being' played at Rock .Hill today. The series calls for next three out of five. * . Sumter, winner of the district title in which Sumter, Manning and Coi lumbia battled it out. meets the Darlington team, district winner in a three ; out of five game aeries for the lower state title, this week. * Anyhow, the state title rests between Sumter, Darlington, Pelzer and Rock Hill. And Camden trimmed Sumter twice. Is my face red? "Monk" Montjoy who worked in the Camden-Rock Hill district title games 8ays Camden certainly was Jlnxed. We sort of envy those baseball fans up iiv'Beniyittsvllle. A dozen of them will go to Scranton, Pa., on August 15, to be guests of the Scranton club at Bennettsville day game. The Scranton team trains at Bennettsville in the spring. * * ?We would sort of like to get a ball team to train in Camden next March and April, but to do so, we are going to have to have a lot more cooperation than was forthcoming last spring when Frank Lane and a few other baseball notables wanted to place a team here. I Camden, Kershaw county and the state pf South Carolina suffered a genuine loss in the passing of Nicholas P. Gettys, outstanding dairyman and citizen. "Nick", as he was affectionately known to thousands of admiring friends was a true exemplification of a southern gentleman. Always courteous and kindly, his passing will cause deep sorrow among a wide following. His progressive ideas and fine cooperation In all matter* of a forward nature will make for a real loss to the community and to the south. The grim reaper has taken two of the county's outstanding citizens within a short space of time. Louis i I. Guion had scarcely been laid to rest when Mr. Gettys received the final summons. It is fortunate that in both cases, there has been a son and sons to carry on with the splendid business acumen of the lamented fathers. SJnce Inditing the above paAgraph we learn of the death of Mrs. Sarah Babin, mother of our good friend Stanley. Mrs. McArn, mother of Rev. A. Douglas McArn, the beloved pastor of the local Presbyterian church has passed. Our deepeat sympathy goes out to those left to mourn the j passing of their loved ones. | MEN! Summer Straws *? ! At Give-a-Way Prices | | during our i Mid-Summer Clearance 'SALE I Now Going On Tri-Borough Loop * In Suiibaii Held A shakeup that resulted iu a complate reorganisation of the city softball league ocoured after the Thursday evening game between Kendall and the Wolves and begtnnlug last Friday with the Kendall-Hermitage game, the league began a ti l borough affair, with teams qf Camden, Watered and Hermitage taking part. The shakeup resulted In the eclipse of the Wolves team from the league ranks with Messrs. Carl Lightfoot, Jack Halsall, Billy Nettles, llllly Pitts and Tommy Bruce going Into the uniforms of the team known as the Haynes squad -and which In the future will be listed as the "Camden" team. The new organisation plan provides at two games a week for each club and It is believed there will be better balance In the teams. The elimination of the Wolves resulted from the continued failure of that team to have sufficient players on 'hand when their games were listed. Messrs. Lightfoot and Halsall, co-managers of the Wolves had been assured by all of their regulars they would be present for thq first game of the second half schedule Thursday afternoon and but seven were on hand at game time. This has occured so frequqmte, resulting in much confuslotb and the resulant forfeiting of games that it was decided that for the best Interests of the sport, It would be advls&ble to organise a trl-borough group with the Wateree and Hermitage villages and the city of Camden represented In the circuit. The Kendall team will In the future be listed aa the Wateree team. Thia team has announced the addition of Lester Robinson to the lineup, thus putting the three Robinson baseball aces, Benny, Arthur and Lester Into the spotlight. The Kendall team played a combination Wolves-HayneB team Thursday evenmg, winning by a'7 to 1 decision. The game was an air tight affair for five Innings with honors even, but In the sixth the Kendalls pushed four runs over to cinch the contest. The game was not a recorded affair. But provided plenty of thrills for a large crowd pf fans. Hicks and L. T. Taylor hit two for three while Baker, with a hbme run clout scored two runs ahead of him In the sixth. The schedule of the trl-borough league for the second half of the season is as follows: Friday, July 26?Wateree vs Hermitage; Monday, July 29?Wateree vs Camden; Wednesday, July 31?Camden vs Hermitage; Friday, Aug. 2 Wateree vs Hermitage; Monday, Aug. 5?Wateree vs Camden; Wednesday, August 7?Camden vs Hermitage; Friday, Aug. 9?Wateree vs Hermitage; Monday, Aug. 12?Wateree vs Camden; Wednesday, Aug. 14?Camden *vs Hermitage. Pots and . pans of English housewives may be turned Into - -deadly weapons against Germany. Lord'Beaverbrook. minister of airplane production. . a&ed..British. . liouse Ydves,.. J-9. "give us your aluminum for airplanes. We'll turn your pots and pans into Spitfires. Hurricanes, Blenheims and Wellingtons," ho said, Weekly. News Letter r firom liberty Hill Liberty Hill, July 23.? Rev. Mr. drove* of Oraasgrow, Ky.. preached hi tbe Presbyterian church ou Sunday i morning. A large congregation was out to hear him and seemed to enJoy his sermon very much. He was accompanied by his wife and a young ' grand sot* Miss Aunle Hlghton McCasktll, and < Misses Adella, Mary, and Sara Cunningham were Wlnusboro visitors ou Tuesday of last week. ' Miss Annie K. Thompson has re- < turned from a pleasant visit witb I relatives In Atlanta. Charleston and < Columbia. 1 The small children enjoyed a story 1 hour at Liberty Hill library Friday 1 afternoon. The followlug stories were ' told: "Angus and the Dflcks", "How Mr. Blue Peacock Won the Prise", J "Dick Wittlugton and His Cat", 1 "Mother Qoose Rhymes". Games ' Were played. Mrs. J. W, Portrum, Jack Portrum, Jr.. from Columbia and Mr. and Mrs. 1 Rollins from Tenn., were Sunday ' visitors at Idberty Hill in the home ' of Misses Clara and Ixmise Johnston. John Henry Clements spent several days last week In Itock Hill as guest of his aunt, Mrs. O. W. Deatou. He 1 also visited other relatives while in 1 the good town. J Mrs. C. D. Cunningham, accompanied by Misses Mary, Sarah and Adella Cunningham, and Miss Annie Righton McCasklll were in Sumter on Friday of last week where they ' visited friends. ? ... Mrs. I*. P- Thompson and sons, Pat, Jr., and John, spent Sunday at Santee-Cooper project, with Mr. Thompson, who holds a position there. j "A. L. McCasklll and Miss Annie Righton McCasklll were business vis- 1 itors In Wlnnsboro on Thursday, last. They were accompanied on the trip by Mrs. C. D. Cunningham and Mlsku Clara Johnston. Mrs. A. C. Cureton' who recently returned from a pleasant visit of ten days with her sou, A. C. Cureton, Jr., and family, of Dillon, and alBO Including a visit to the beach, was confined to her home several days last week by Illness, but medical attention was secured and she Is now improving. ' Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Hertot of Blahopvllle were visiting relatives here ou Sunday. Congressman J. P. Richards took advantage of the adjournment of I congress, for the Democratic Convett*, tion, and came home to see his parents. On account pf the long session of congress and his membership in committees, he will not be able to take a very active part in the campaign. Mrs. Marlon R. Hodges left on Sat' urday for Montreat where she will chaperon a house party for ten days. Her nieces, Misses Carolyn and Sus-ann Herlot, and Miss Virginia McCrae, will be members of her crowd of girls. ? Misses Mary and Sarah Cunningham and their uncle, E. J. Cunningham. visited Winthrop College Tuesday. . We learn that Miss Callle .Tones of our village, who is a popular member of the Columbia city school facultj, has purchased some desirable residential property in Camden. Yes, it's hot up here?U?0 today (Tuesday). MrsTSkipper Of Lee County Dies Hartsville, July 23.?Mrs. Victoria Skipper, 68, resident of the Stokes Bridge section, Lee county, died yesterday at her home after an illness e\t. ijiraa wftAlta. . She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. J. I. Gainey, Hartsville, and Mrs. J. K. I>ayton, Oswego; three sons, H. E. Skipper and Newton Skipper, Stokes Bridge and Jferome Skipper, Hartsville. 1 Funeral services were held today at 4 p. m. at the Gum Branch Baptist church. Interment was In the church cemetery. The British navy Is maintaining a patrol about 14 miles off Martinique. The French are said to be determined to react energetically against any British aggression against the West Indian island but are also desirous of respecting the neutrality sone as laid down by the 21 American republics at Panama last October. Martinique is in that rone. * Goodrich Tires?Batteries EASY TERMS RADIOS ? BICYCLES ECONOMY AUTO SUPPLY CAMDEN. S. C. JU J !' ' Ml ' . Hill. Will*. Uncle Swrj To Have Most Powerfuf Fleet Washington. July 20. ? President Roosevelt has signed into law a bill authorising a $4,610,000,000 expansion of the navy designed to give the Pnlted States a "two-ocean" fleet capable of meeting any possible combination. The White House annouuced the iinguing today, while Mr. Roosevelt was cruising on the Potomac river. The chief oxecutlve already had asked congress to provide $83,000.D00 to start work ou the new program which, when completed in 1946 jv 1947, would give the nation a total of 701 fighting craft built around l h e world's most powerful single aggregation of capital fhips?35 lreadnaughtS, In addition to about 200 new surface ships and submarines to cost H.010,000,000 with the additional facilities they will require, the new law authorised the navy to acquire for 1600.000,000 a total of 15,000 airplanes, fifty per cent more than the previously authorised maximum. If the president deems them necessary even more may be ordered. To expedite the construction of the mammoth fleet; the new act authorizes an appropriation of $150,000.000 for essential equipment and facilities and either private or naval shipyards, an additional $65,000,000 for expansion of facilities fofr the production of ordnances and munitions at either government or private factories and $35,000,000 to expand the nation's limited armor-making plants. * Besides the 200 combat shtps the law also authorizes construction or conversion of 100,000 tons of auxiliary vessels such as tankers, seaplane tenders and repair ships, and a $50,000,000 rieet of small paTrbT and escort vessels and motor torpedo boats. The huge armada, with greater range and striking power than any, other In the world's history, was de-| signed to enable the navy to meet attacks In the Atlantic and Pgciflc at the same time, If necessary, and to meet the enemy 1,000 miles or more from this country's shores. In reoommending the unprecedented Increase, which the house and( senate approved with less than three: hours' debate, the senate naval com-j mittoo declared It was necessary because "the possibilities confronting , the nations of the world today, Including those of the western hemisphere. are of a most serious uature." It added that "our present navy, Including the vessels and planes now authorized, may tie Inadequate to <' meet successfully possible or even probable international situations ? which may occur In the near future." I The new law authorizes a 70 per > cent expansiou of the fleet which ' would add 1,33b.ooo tons of combat- I ant ships to the navy. For reasons 1 of military secrecy, the exact num- i ber of each type of ship In the new I program was not disclosed. Hy ton- 1 uages, however, the Increase In each 1 major category would be as follows Battleships, 300,000 tons; aircraft carriers, 800,000 tons; cruisers, 480,- < 000 tons; destroyers. 250,000 tons and ' submarines 70.000 tons. I The oompleted navy of 701 fight- ' lug ships would lnolude 35 battle- 1 ships, 20 aircraft carriers, 88 oruls- i era, 378 destroyers and 180 submarines. Congressional sources estimated it i would post about $2,000,000,000 a year ! for the next seven years to construct 1 this gigantic fleet and maintain--the ships and facilities already In exis-' teuce, and about $1,800,000,000 anuaully thereafter to support it. , All Attempts Against Isles Were Defeated Although there has been no successful invasion of England since 1066, numerous expeditions have since been launched against the Islands. All of these have turned out to "be round trips for the survivors according to the bulletin from the National Geographic society. John 1 Paul Jones, the naval hero of the American Revolution, and a French 1 prince who actually ruled England for a year are among the attackers whom tho society's bulletin lists as rushing against England and then j backing away. "On a brief one-boat foray, John Paul Jones sailed Into the Irish sea In 1778 and raided the port of White- j haven on the northwest coast of England, then withdrew to a base" In , friendly France," says the bulletin. | "Napoleon didn't get even that far. < He drew his army up along the ; French side of the English channel ( then marched In the opposite dlrec-|] tlon to Invade Egypt. "Small-scale attack* ovv England were ao numerous in the reign of Henry IV that Shakespeare assigned to him the famous lament 'Uueaay lies the head that wears a crown'. Within ton years, 1400-1410, England was attacked from every direction. The French brother-in-law of Henry's leposed predecessor led a French fleet swarming around the eastern fhores, making raids here and there along the coast. Scottish clansmen trooped in from the north. The French repeatedly pillaged southern mrts along the English Channel?' Plymouth, Portland, Dartmouth, Hastings. Then with a Trojan Horse' Welsh attacked from the west hut were driven off. "Sailing frdtu France at the head )f forces raised there In 1557 young Thomas Stafford led au expedition Into Yorkshire against Queen Mary, who shortly had him beheaded In London. The uext time invasion threatened, 20,000 home-guarding Britons stood watch along all coasts against the Spanish Armada, but the Spanish attack was called off on aooount of bad weather. "Bonnie Prince Charlie, Scottish pretender to the throne on England with French backing, led his army of Highlanders from Scotlaud In 1745, to l>orby, 110 miles from .London, before being turned back. "The only halfway successful invasion was launched by invitation. Furious at King John's evasion of their brand-new Magna Charta, the British lords invited Prince Louis ol| Frauce to sail ovor and become their king. His fleet and army were welcomed Into London In 1216. When fugitive king John died of indigestion four months later and his 10-year old son offered no opposition to Magna Charta. the pro-French lords became pro-British again and drove out French' Louis In 1217. The first women conductors to replace men In London busses serring country routes have already begun their Jobs. A giant new air transport called a stratolluer, roared Into LaGuardia field at New York Tuesday morning to set a new west-east continental record for commercial planes. The four-motored Boeing, a 23-ton $450,000 craft, spanned the continent from LoS Angeles to New York In the elapsed time of 12 hours and 14 minutes. 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