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ft Join The Hundreds To View The Big Santa Claus Parade Here This Afternoon! The Camden Chronicle % ? fVOLUME M . CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29. 1840 ? NUMBER 36-?-. Jreate^t Parade in Camden History Takes Place Today ?i - _ ... Lad?ii'> Krofttert and moat apecT. pumde. leaturlng United JIl Army unit* from Fort Jackson, !Le of beautiful' floats, hundreds Tjidren in Christmas and fairy costumes, several bands, Boy M[s drum and bugle oorp and other Il^ea will be held this afternoon. Je event, stylad a ChrUtanas festlwas planned by the Chamber of amerce under the sponsorship of Camden Merchants Association 4 weather permitting will be one of ( moat interesting and oolorfUl pt? of the kind ever held to .South follna. Tbe parado Is scheduled to start at w o'cloc k and the route to -be foiled will be on Lyltleton Street Blh to DoKalb, Baet on DeKalb to jfi and South on Broad to King tet whore in front of the historic i Kershaw County court house the ftege will disband. preparations for this event have ien under way for weeks but it was U last Monday that officials of rt Jackson expressed permission to [cj several units of the afined forces the nation to add the preparedness peaoe time element to the flstmas pageant. _ Cunden Is gay with color for the Hlval affair. The Bell Decorating ?pany of Richmond have had a iv of decorators in' charge of lurice Allen here since Monday In easing the streets with Christmas mners and flags, which with the mdreds of trees carrying tiny e:?cic lights and several thousand colred lights over head, will offer a irltbale Santa Claus land aspect. The affair will inaugurate the openi of the holiday period in Camden, erehants have decorated their stores i an interesting manner while win0*8 are gay with Yule gift suggests as each merchant strives for the liver plaque to he awarded to the ost distinctive window. The parade will move in eleven livtsions. First will come the motor:yc\e division of state police as well s the Camden mounted police. Then the Camden schools band, in olorful gold and black with a proudigh-stepping majorette will bo next; i line and leading the division given | ver to the individual costumed chll-j en. In turn will come the group j dries. Then will be seen the Boy cout drum and Bugle Corp from olumbia loading the marching touts and in turn the division featurg the organization and club floats, j Next in lino will be the floats from le schools of the county of which >me five or nix will take^pirt. Then comes the units of the United tates Army, featuring Infantry, rtillery and Scout cars. The Lancaster band will follow and 111 lead the division given over to e baby entries. In turn will follow e municipal floats of Columbia, Sum* r and possibly several others and ?t but not least the beautiful Camfl float carrying Santa Claus. This 5?t will be under escort of state dice on motorcycles. 8llk-shirted riders from the Cama Polo Club will appear in the tade and precede the organization id club floats. Mayor F. N. McCorkle has announcflutt the police will clear all care ? DeKalb Street from Market to t>*d and from Broad Street from dialb to the Birchmore building At M o'clock and no parking will be nnitted In that area from 3 to 1:80 stock. ' i Immediately following the parade ill scan-the windows of Caxn0 ?hops and stores and will decide establishment will win the chants Association silver plaque r the most distinctive window. ^ran^ H. Heath, director of the fes*1 has announced that Moultrl9 B. general chairman has named Wot m \j Johnson, Representee (Please turn to page eight) few Residents Are taking Homes Here " k Snedecor, of L&urelton, Long N? secretary and assistant treas of NV'wklrk Industries Inc., bis rtT?*l In Camden and as soon as he Jj* to secure a house will bring his slly here to establish permanent "knee. ^ Grace Toney, ot Johnston, 8. *ho la private secretary to Lewis ls making her home to Cam* Aid-To-Greece Being Sought Here A movement started this week for ald-to-Greece in their defence of their country against Italian invasion has resulted in quite a neat sum being realized. The leaders of the Greek colony in Camden are the prime movers in this undertaking, but they have also met with liberal contributions from &U classes. The soldiers of this little country have been putting up one of the most remarkable fights in history against great odds. They were sorely in need of cash and the American people are responding generously. Contributions can be left at the First Bank of Camden, or at The Camden Chronicle. In doing so please 'leave your name so that your contribution can be acknowledged. Those who have contributed so far are: A,~W. Humphries $ 5.00 George Koumas ......; 10.00 .Reed Sarratt 1.00 A. C. Drawdy ..: 5.00 Gus Beloos 75.00 Chris Beleos 75.00 Peter Koumas 50.00 Arthur Metrokas 60.00 Pete Beleos 30.00 Harry BerlIs 10.00 Theodore Beleos 15.00 Helen G. Beleos ' 6.00 Voncillos G. Beleos 2.60 Panaglotitsa G. Beleos 2.60 Gonzola C. Beleos 5.00 Katina C. Beleos 6 00 Helen Theo Beleos 100 Kfemla Theo Beleos 2.00 Sophia Theo Beleos 1.00 Gotyge Theo Beleos 100 Jimmie Theo Beleos ;.. ? 1.00 Gus Mlchlotis 5.00 BUI Alafrogianea 2.00 W. C. Pitts 100 John Borlnls 1-00 I?oui? -Sehouphan .; . 10.00 Nick Gaffos 6.00 H. D. Niles 2.00 Mrs. E. A. McLauchlln v.... 1.00 Schlosburg's 2.60 J. K. Lee 6.00 Elizabeth Reed 1-00 L. Lomatisky <...... 1.00 J. B. McGuirt 1 00 C. L. Rhealey 2.60 Bob Mayers 100 A. Sam Karesh 100 J. L. Guy 2 00 A. Michel I 00 R. E. Stevenson 6 00 Pat Orr 100 ( J. A. Hough 1 00 J. C. Bailey ,2-60 IL. P. Tobln 5.00 E. P. Guy 2.00 Miss Lola Haile Hilton 5.00 1 Father Burke 2.50 | W. O. Woodward . .-1.00 W. W. Bates 100 Chris C. Vaughan 1-00 B. H. Duval ,... . 2.00 \ ' ' Total $427.00 Martin Says Air School Is Certain i * According to a statement by Dexter C. Martin, State Aeronautical commissioner, work upon the establishing of the Southern Aviation Schools Inc., flying field and pilots training in Camden was started Monday. Mr. Martin, in a statement to the Camden and Kershaw County Chamber of Commerce stated that engineers were at ' work making surveys and lyaing out the plan as approved by the war department. Mr. Martin also stated tbat^ie was hopeful that one or two more schools similar to the one established bore would be located in the state. Already surveys are being made of the airportj facilities in other communities. "If the locations can be found," Mr. Martin said, "Suoth Carolina will stand a good ?iiitnfce of getting one or two more suctf schools. Such sites must be near towns that are off the regular airways and that can furnish adequate housing ffccUitfc* for the school personnel." All such schools must be In locations south of the 37th parallel, which extends on an east-west line through Fort (Monroe, Va., in order to provide suitable weather for year-'round training. The flying cadet school at Camden will be operated by Southern Aviation School, Inc., a civilian closed corporation khht will operate under a government contract, turning out about 100 pilots every ten weeks for more ad vaseed training at Kelly and Randolph fields. Here tt>? fledgita* wU'r*"'** tholr prolimtaM? gromwl instruction from between 30 and *. clvlian pllot-fnetmctors approved by the Army Air ; ' ; ' ' -'-/j "S' *' '* Artists Delight In Tuneful Recital i) ? 1 Several hundred people who gathered at The Hatgl&r Theater Tuesday evening heard ono of the ft net t musical programs offered In Camden lu years. Doris Peterson. attractive 20 year old Marimba artist with Florence Hasse, soprano and Robert Fitzgerald, | tenor offered a meet interesting and pleasing program of musical and voice features. The concert, the third of a series of entertainment events sponsored by the Camden K1 wail is Club should have been attended by a capacity house. It In true that a rain may have been responsible for many music lovers remaining close to firesides, but bad every lover of the finest in muslo known of the treat in store,-tile artists would have presented their talent to a crowded audltorlmum. Miss Peterson, is without an exception, the most skilled Marimba artist before the public today, Her technique is flawless and the audience sat spellbound during her playing of Schubert's Serenade and also In the rendition of- "Star Dust". Both of these numbers were given with the house lights dimmed and the beautiful tonal effects were enhanced by th? atmosphere created by the subdued Illumination. Miss Has so scored heavily in the appreciation of her listeners with her Beveral Vocal offerings, In particular with "One Fine Day" from Madam Butterfly. Mr. Fitzgerald, possesor of a tenor voice of rare sweetness and range, was aooorded much applause for his rendition of the Aria from Tosca, a French Aria entitled "Le Roi 'Dys" and the more popular numbers "Lindy Lu" and "Shoes''. As a closing selection Mr. Fitzgerald sang the Ballad for Americans, a medley of patriotic airs with Mlse Peterson and Miss Hasse offering an I obligato which was unusually effective. The Camden Kiwanls Club Lyceum course which will come to a close next Tuesday with a playlet offering has been one of the most culutral and educational ever offered In Camden, i Each number has been deserving of a capacity audience. Dr. Clarke Made Address at Rotary Dr. Maurice Clarke was the guest speaker at Thursday's Rotary meeting. Dr. Clarke was born in England and educated there before coming "to America. He spoke of conditions in' England as they now exist and he read parts of recent letters from relatives who gave vivid descriptions of trials the people are going through, but all did not overlook mentioning that their chins were up and they could still smile, and that victory would eventually be theirs. Gub Michiotes, a local Greek, was Introduced to the Club by Stanley Llewellyn, who had charge of the program, and he mentioned Gus's service with the Greek army during the first world war, and told him that the people of America were admiring the wonderful, stand of the Greeks in this second world war. Rev. Dr. Alex Mitchell, of Greenville was a guest of Moultrie Burns. The Camden Rotary Club will meet with the Kiwanis Club on Thursday night at the Court Inn. An interesting program has been worked out for this joint meeting. Elephant Expects Stork at Camden Alice of Chancefleld, the big goodnatured elephant at the Chancefleld plantation, a source of much activity among newsreel and newspaper men as well as magaxine writers last summer, has proudly trumpted to the world that she expects the stork sometime this winter. And so the midden' announcements for the departure of Alice to Atlanta where she will be confined in the zoo until the blessed event is over are now explained. But Alice wants to have her baby in ; Camden and when an effort was made to place her aboard a truck to be taken | to Atlanta, she protested with much vigor and loud squealing and trumpeting. The master of the. big pacyderm, Matthew Ferguson, who left his plantation home near here to ante* the service of Uncle Bam at Atlanta as a (Please turn to pa go four ) r _ V 7 V-'.v' ' V:" ''"Vil.1. J., i*- " b G - * , ^. New York Play Success For Festival fee?fThe famous Broadway comedy "The Bits -Pond" comes hero Ou Tuesday, December 3 to climax the Collins Entertainment Festival. sponsored by the Oamden Klwanls club, and opportunely sb in a year that has been marked in the theatrical world by many rovivals of successful plays. Thia play, by George Middletou and Auguatua Thoinaa, with its goodnatured but! keenly observant Jibes at the differences between European and American love-ntakiiiK. is a grand antidote for taking International affairs too seriously all the time. American business-man Henry BillI in&ft wife Emily and daughter Bar| bara, In Europe are assisted in sightseeing by French courier Pierre do Mirande. who falls in love, of course, with Barbara, to Father Henry's immediate displeasure?as well as that of Bonny Davis, young and coming employe of the Billings Rubber Cx, of Vernon, Ohio. Mr. Billing*' version of a good idea is to transplant romantic and Continental Pierre to Vernon, and show him up against a "real American" background, as a cure for his darling Barbara's attachment and interest. But Pierre takes to it: ''You sco, 1 ring up man in San. Francisco and And he )(*- out riding in his Buick. Marvelous!" Which is all very well for Pierre's business success, but quite another thing for his romance with the daughter of the house, as she tells him. In fAct, she tells him off, though In the last act the two con tenders for Barbara's heart coins thundering down the home etrbtch neck and neck, to a blanket finish. Mr. Billings' blood^pressure rises to a point where all he can say is: "But I'll tell you one thing: the next daughter I. have will be a bay!" . With five in the cast, and for the first time using two scenes, the Wells Players will re-create this Broadway success for the Festival audience with what New York ,/ind Hollywood are pleased to term "oomph". The management sincerely feels this to be the best drama for general enjoyment it has ever presented. Red Cross Workers Doing Splendid Job The Kershaw Chapter of the Red Cross is progressing In a splendid manner in the annual drive, now under way At noon Thursday the total sum already listed was above $600 and reports indicate that the drive workers will continue with their epleudid effortB and pait the county over the top. Daily the local chapter is receiving reports from the national headquarters as to the urgency of the situation in regard to relief for war sufferers. There is another angle that is being stressed and that is the fact that the Red Cross wishes to establish itself on the same defensive basis as the armed forces of the nation in the event of any emergency. A recent film at the Camden Theater extolling the career of Clara Barton, founder, of the Red Cross oaused many citizens to do some profound 'thinking. It brought home to them Just what the Red Cross means to the soldiers at the front. The film evoked much favorable comment from all/who witnessed it. Town And Country To Clash in Polo The Town and Country foursomes of the Camden Polo Club will play the first of a eerie# of three games on the new polo field opposite the new Seaboard passenger station and on U. S. Highway No. 1 at the western city limits Bnnd&y afternoon, the game to start at 3 o'clock. Last Sunday Town and Country staged an exhibition game, it being the first to be played on the new field, Town winning by a 7 to 0 score. Sunday the two foursomes will go into action with all old favorites of the polo fans In action, alt With the exception of Carl Ldghtfoot who has to wait for several wdbks before he will be able to play. Light foot, a colorful rider fractured a bone in his neck several months ago and up to a few days ago has been wearing a * - ** X - -_ >. - . vxxtSu. Joe Bates la In An* shape for th? (Pleas# turn to page four) ?:? !.<* ? Camden?Bantams Battle Here Tonight My the Skipper Camden football fans will flock to Zemp stadium tonight to take a last look at the 1940 edition of the Bulldog football team. It will be a farewell to some of the wearers of the Cold and Black of Camden High and It la fitting that the homo guard pay homage to a group of boys who have made a splendid record in ftiotball circles this season. The Bulldogs tako on a worthy foe, a Charleston powerhouse that can pit state title honor claims ugulnet any team In the state. While few local fans give the Bulldoge much chance of victory in tonight's tilt, all are ready to look for a hand ..fight. Charleston has made a fine rocord this season, losing only one game and that to Greenville. The Banilea have taken the measure of such teams as Columbia and Sumter and but for the setback by Greenville would have had an edge on a title claim for state honors. Greenville has since dropped a game to Purker high and In as much as Parker has been more or less kicked around this season, the defeat has put a fylg dent in the title aspirations of the Spinner gang. If by chance, a hard-High ting determined Bulldog team should tlpj the apple-cart and score a win tonight, it would put the locals right up in the running for the mythical state honor. Anyhow it is going to bo a good game and with the embellishments that will be dished up by two colorful band organizations', it ought to pull a big crowd of. fans to the stadium. Many of the out of town visitors, hero for the festival parade, will remain oVer Tot the game. The I>ancaster band la coming to take part In the afternoon parade and then aid In the between halves ceremonies at the football -fteki. Director Bill Proctor has announced that his band will offer a fire drill that will bo a distinct novelty. All of the lights in the stadium will be turned off and the band will march with tiny lamps on their caps. As a grand finale the band will offer a medley of melodies mixed with a display of fireworks. Director Newell Wlmberly, whose reoord In building a fine Camden band In less than a year, has won him the plaudits of every Camden citizen, will have his band on parade and the crowd will give the boys and girls a big welcome. . Tho Camden-Charleston football struggle Is being watched with much interest by high echol grid fans ull over tho state. In the season which closes tonight a light but hard-flghting Camden team has made an Impressive record. The first of three defeats came from the Sumter team, which caught the Bulldogs with several of their star players on the inJury list. The second defeat was at the hands of Richmond Academy and the third came from Gaffney. In both the Richmond and Gaffney games, it was just a matter of the other guys getting the breaks that decided the issue in eafch Instance. Camden has takeq the measure of.six opponents and played a heavy Rook Hill team to a scoreless tie. The season's average to date Is 667 per cent. If Caxnden scores an . upset, the dopeters will be chewing their finger nails and the state title will be on the merry-go-round. > . The game starts at 8 o'clock. j Henry Gardner, of - Cassatt, Dies Here Henry Karl Gardner, & memjber of Company C., 21st Field Artillery^ ,^nd resident of Cassatt, died at the Camden hospital Wednesday morning after a long Illness'. He was a native of WestvOle, 8. C., his father having been George Gardner and his mother Sarah Morton. He belonged to the Baptist church at Cassatt. Funeral services were held Thursday from the Sandjf Grove Methodist church, Rev. C. P. Floyd, of Noith, officiating with burlhl In the adjoining cemetery. * t He leaves his widow, who was Miss Jessie Stokes, a daughter, Wllhelmlna, two sisters, Mrs. Joe Croft, of Bethune, and Mrs. Ida Talbert, of Cam( den, and a brother William, besides several nieces and nephews. Deceased served overseas with the | Fifth Division in the World War. ' if : . .. Dike many other fish that live 18 the open sqa where there are no obstacles to bump into, the Spanish mackerel cannot back op. Mayor McCorkle Is Optimistic vr I * i* 11 k tho regions wlth|n the Arctic circle where tho winter auu seta and ataya "aot" for u period of months, Camden, the biggest 111* city in South Carolina, looks forward to the coming of tho winter ann for one of the brightest seasons of its year. And this winter season promises to bo one of hto hustin'est bustlln'eat in Its entire history as a resort city, accord lug to Mayor F. N. McCorkle. Mayor McOorkle was in Columbia yesterday along with Frank Heath, executive secretary of the Camden chamber of commerce, and paid a visit to Columbia's mayor, Dr. L. II. OwejiH. Every sport even remotely connected with'a horse, from the saddle down to the shoe, will headline Camden's winter program now upcomlug and Mayor McCorkle was enthusiastic to the "nth" degree yosterday when asked how he felt about Camden's 1940-41 winter. "Greatest prospects in our history," he beamed. "Race horses and huntera are arriving dally and will go into training as soon as practicable at stables in and around "^Camden. We hope to open ouivpolo season in a few weeks and once started there will be o games at 3:30 every Sunday afternoon. What'e more, we hopo to run the season well into April." Everything in Camden, howqver, will not be "orses", according to the mayor. Not by any means. "There should bo a great deai of golf played there this winter," he said. "Tho now Kirkwood course is in perfoct shape. I venture to say its condition will suit the most exacting golfer. Why, it'd even be a pleasure to hob* Or slice oft those links." " As to the race meets the mayor declared, "It's a bit too early to say much about the horse shows, hunter trials and race programs. I can safely say, however, that there Is every Indication that these equestrian events will surpass anything of the kind ever given Xhere before. We are all sincerely hoping that the Washington Birthday races will be resumed, They were cancelled last year, you know, because not enough horses were in condition for o&mpetltJon." "Drawing a bit noaren to the pre(Please turn to page eight) Camden Business Supports Directory E. C. Stothart, representing the Baldwin Directory Company, of Charleston, S. C., reports fine progress in his canvass of the merchants and busj iness and professional men of Camden and vicinity, in the interest of the Standard City Directory 8ervice proposed by his company for this area, which service was originally announced in this newspaper in the November 22nd edition t^nd endorsed by the Camden chamber of commerce and local organizations. During the past week many of the business interests of the city have subscribed to the directory and advertising representation therein, among the businesses already represented As reported by Mr. Stothart, in addition to the chamber of commerce, the city of Camden and the Camden Chronicle,being banks, hardware stores, lnsur- t ance agencies, telegraph companies, hotels, automobile agencies, mills, attorneys, auto supply companies, coal, wood and ice dealers, electric supply companies, laundries, dry cleaners, furniture stores, pharmacies, gas and oil distributors, service stations, building and loan associations, department stores, lumber companies, bakeries, plumbers and electric appliance'deal era and contractors. ,'ioJs i>?. Many others operating businesses in the above classifications, and operators of businesses of other types have expressed their willingness and desire to cooperate in this movement, and Mr. Stothart is confident that through their cooperation the business men of Camden will make this valuable and far-reaching service available to Cam'den and place Camden in the large, and rapidly increasing list of progressive cities who ate,u<)w enjoying the Standard Baldwin Directory Service which so vitally affects the business, social, educational and other phases of community life. The local organisations endorsing the seryioe, those who have already subscribed and the publishers of the enrice, urge, and will appreciate the cooperation of those who have not al| raady subscribed to the end' that the! I publication might be completed and delivered as early in 1941 as possible.