The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, September 12, 1941, Page PAGE EIGHT, Image 8
News Events In and
Around Bethune
Hethune. Hept. 11- Mrs. Love
Henron, of Camden. la visiting rela11
vvh her<| this. week.
Mrs. L. I), Hair Is visiting her
mother In Gilbert.
Mrs. Kalllo Robertson Is visiting
Mrs. Dan RethuiWi In the Clyde section.
Mrs. S. 1) Bailey, of Columbia, and
Mrs. 11. L. Norwood and Miss Mary
Norwood, of Mr Bee. were guests Monday
of Mrs. K Trueadeil and family.
Edward (Sammy) Stewart, who has
been working at the Mays' filling station
for a number of years, left Tuesday
to Join the navy.
M. C. McCaskill, of Charleston, arrived
Saturday to spend the week end
here with his wife and child. Sunday
night he was rushed to the Camden
hospital where he underwent an operation
.for appendicitis. Friends and
relatives will be Interested to know
that he is improving nicely.
Mrs. J. II. Johnston, of Tennessee,
and Mrs. Hugh Witherapoon, of
Mayesvllle, returned to their homes
Monday morning after u visit to their
parents, Mr. and Mrs. II. W. JJrannon.
MIsh J ua nit a Pa to, of Columbia and
Fort Jackson, spent the week-end here
with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. C. C.
Fate.
Boyd, Jr., and Peggy McKlnnon, of
Sumter, visited their grand-parents
here last week.
Circles numbers one, two and three
of the Presbyterian auxiliary met
Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. B. W.
Brannon, Mrs. F. It. Morse and Mrs.
Nita Newsom?
The work of paving the sidewalks is
progressing nicely, which is a groat
improvement to the appearance of the
town.
Notice of Second Primary
In pursuance of the rules of the
Democratic party, notice is hereby
given that a second primary election
will be held at the various voting precincts
in Kershaw county, South Carolina.
on Tuesday, the 16th day of
September, 1941, for the purpose of
nominating a candidate for the office
of United States Senator for South
Carolina.
The same voting places and the
same managers will serve as in the
first primary. The same hours will
prevail.
Polls will open at 8 o'clock a. m.,
and close at 4 o'clock p. m., except at
Camden No. 1 and Camden No. 2,
Hermitage and Watereo. at which precincts
will open at 8 o'clock a. m. and
close at 6 o'clock p. m.
One of the managers trom each precinct
Is urged to call at the county
Agricultural Building on or before
Saturday. September 13. to be sworn
In and receive ballot boxes, tickets,
nil necessary blanks and club llstB.
J. TEAM GETTYS.
County Chnlromn.
A. W. Humphries,
Secretary.
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Screaming Cargo It Too
Much for Truck Driver
COLUMBUS, MISS?Hearing the
scream* of a child as he piloted his
truck down the highway near here
guve Truck Driver W. H. Dubbs, the
"scare of his life," but when he
stopped to investigate, he found
John Wayne Parham, aged three,
hunging by one arm from the back
of the truck and crying, "I wanna go
home." ^
The boy had fallen asleep in the
truck and upon awakening had attempted
to climb out. He told the
driver he had been hanging on for
more than a mile before he was discovered.
The truck was traveling between
40 and 45 miles an hour.
'Part of America' at War
With Germany Already
BERLIN.?The German press discovered
'today thut "part of America"
is formally at war with Germany.
The Tuscarora Indian trjbe, of
New York state, part of the Iroquois
group, formally declared war
on Germany in 1917 as an "independent
people," the press said, because
they did not consider themselves
included in the declaration
of war by the United States.
But the Tuscaroras "never offered
to smoke the peace pipe with a German
representative" during the negotiations
and hence, still are at
war, the press said.
Boom Activties
Continue in Camden
(Continued from first pago)
On DoHalb street Mrs. Davis expects
to have her new beauty parlor
on the south side near the Camden
hotel ready for an opening In a few
weeks.
In the residential section of1 the
city, especially In the new Court Inn
area, there is much activity. The
rumble and roar of exploding dynamite
as tree stumps were being blown
out, the rattle und clank of tractors
and scrapers as new roads were luld
out, all bespoke the opening of what
should be one of the most attractive
residential sections in Camden.
It Is reported that already Bome of
the lots in the new residential development
have been sold and the owners
are .. planning the erection ol
homes.
Red lanterns hang from the chimneys
of farmhouses and cottages In
Italian Switzerland as a general reminder
to all to pray for peace. The
lanterns are displayed whenever war
rages between Christian countries.
Beloved Character
Receives Summons
1 T"
('umdeu was saddened Thursday
morning tu leurn of the death of Mary
Jane Hough, the beloved wife of J. A.
Hough, who succumbed Wednesday
night at 10 o'clock after an Illness of
three years. The funeral was held
Thursday afternoon ut f> o'clock from
the First Baptist church of which she
was a devout member, ltev. H. I).
Anderson officiated at the flnul rites
and burial took place at Quaker cemetery.
Born at Hock Hill, on December
27th, 1888, Mary Jane Ingram was
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J
Ingram, South Carolina pioneers. She
has been a resident of Camden for
29 years and her fine personality
and charm of manner, her devotion to
her church, all won for her the sincere
esteem and respect of the community.
Besides her husband J. A. Hough,
she leaves four sons, J. A. Jr.;* Of
Charleston; J. C. Hough, Columbia;
Joby Hough and John lleury Hough
of Camden; two daughters, Willie
James Hough and Julia May Hough
of Camden; four brothers, Sam
Ingram of Danville, Va.; Tom Ingram
of Kannapolls, N. C.; Spain Ingram
of Boston and Walter Ingram, whereabouts
unknown; also three sisters/Mrs.
Will Snipes of Hock Hill; Mrs.
Curse Moore of Charlotte and Mrs.
Jumea Austin of Salisbury, N. C.
Woman Hangs
Self In Home
Fort Motte, S. C-. Sept. 10?Coroner
D. E. Hlldebrand of Calhoun county
said he (o\ind the body of Mrs. William
Peterkin, Jr., hanging early, today
from a Joist in a second floor
room of her home here.
The former Miss Elfrelda Barrow
of Savannah, Ga., Mrs. Peterkin was
the daughter-in-law of Mrs, Julia
Peterkin, well-known author, whose
home is near that of her Bon's.
The coroner said that Mrs. Peterkin
was hanging by a bridle rein which
had been thrown over a Joist In an
unfinished room. He said that he
found a chair from which he said
the woman hud apparently stepped
No inquest will be held, Hlldebrand
said, unless subsequent Information
should indicate some conclusion other
than suicide.
Whalers Fade
To Lone Fleet
Great U. S. Force Century
Ago Included Some
800 Vessels.
WASHINGTON. ? America's last
whuling concern, the remnant of a
whaling foroe that included about
800 ships a century ago, soon will
be pursuing Moby Dick off northern
California.
The San Francisco Sea Food Products
company recently received a
license from Secretary of Interior
Ickes to operate a shore station at
Humboldt bay, California, and is
making preparations for its next
trip.
The company is the 4?st whaling
company in the United States, although
there is another one in British
Columbia. According to reports
received here, the Canadians also
plan to go to sea this year.
Season Now Open.
The ^vhaling season.on the West
coast begins about this time of the
year and lasts until well into the
fall.
Last year American whalers
caught 29 whales, including six finbacks,
19 humpbacks and four sperm
whales. A 70-foot finback was the
largest caught during?the season,
most of the others measuring between
50 and 60 feet in length.
One hundred years ago the United
States boasted the largest whaling
fleet in the world. Between 600 and
800 ships flew the Stars and Stripes.
Modern whaling ships differ as
much from those that sailed the seas
100 years ago as the stratoliner differs
from the Wright brothers' first
airplane.
No longer do whalers have to lower
their whaleboets when the man
in the crow's nest cries, "Thar' she
blows!"
Nowadays, the whaling ship,
equipped with special engines that
< will not emit strong sound waves
through the water and disturb the
whale, slips up to the mammal and
discharges a harpoon from a harpoon
gun mounted in the bow.
When the weapon strikes the
whale, it is discharged by a shot of
powder and four njpngs open within
the whale. 9
Modern whalers usually operate
within a radius of approximately 150
miles from their land station.
Oil Used in Soap.
Whale fat is processed into oil,
which in America is used primarily
in the manufacture of soaps. It also
is used in perfumes, as a base for
face creams and fly sprays, as a
lubricant for machinery, and in
leather tanning. In Germany, where
all possible ersatz foods are used,
whale oil is used as a shortening,
replacing lard.
In the United States, whale meat
is used for cat and dog foods, but
in Japan, the interior department
said, it is used for human consumption.
The world catch last year was estimated
at 35,000, most of which
were taken from the Antarctic by
English, Norwegian arrd Japanese
whalers.
In 1935 an international agreement,
signed by 26 maritime powers
who agreed on whale conservation
measures, went into effect. Killing
of calves and females accompanied
by calves was prohibited.
Census Report Shows U. S.
Accident Rate Is Lower
WASHINGTON.?The census bureau
has come out with the cheering
news that the United States is a
pretty safe place to live, and getting
safer.
The 92,623 accidental deaths in
1939, it said, represented a decline
of 1.3 per cent from 1938. And the
death rate from accidents was only
70.9 for each 100,000 of population,
the third lowest on record. Both
1921 and 1922 had better records.
From its data the bureau figured
that you have only about one chance
in a million of dying from a poisonous
snake's bite, a fate that befell
102 persons in 1939. And your
chance of being killed by lightning is
only one in 338,000. Lightning took
390 lives in 1939. ' .
As many people no doubt suspected,
highway mishaps were the prin-.
cipal cause of accidental deaths in
1939. There were 30,468 fatalities in
automobile accidents. Falls, the
second chief cause, killed 22,878.
Other causes and the number of
deaths were drowning, 5,450; railway
(other than crossing mishaps),
3,394; firearms, 2,582; burns, 1,794;
agricultural accidents, 1,604; mines
and quarries, 1,540; suffocation,
1,226; sunstroke, 527; motorcycles,
439; airplanes, 396; lightning, 390;
streetcars, 356; attacks by animals, ,
279; excessive cold, 190.
Rhode Island was the safest state
in the Union, with an accident death
rate of 51.3 for each 100,000 population,
while Nevada had the highest
rate, 203.1.
Recruit Misses Adieus
And Turns in Fire Alarm
BRIDGETON, N. J.?A 23-yearold
army volunteer was unhappy
about the empty train platform and
lack of farewells at the depot as
he left for his induction station, so
he turned in an alarm at a near-by
fire box.
Sirens, bells, scores of townsfolk
and firemen complete with hook and
ladder and chemical truck greeted
him as he waved good-by from the
departing train.
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Fort Protects
Pacific Outpost
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Defenses on Oahu Island
Are Believed Equal
To Gibraltar.
WASHINGTOIfv3cThe defenses of
the island of Oaim\|B th* American
Territory of Hawaii "fife regarded by
some experts a$ superior .tb those
of Britain's Gibraltffihwhich for a
century has been regarded as a
synonym for naval and military impregnability.
Major defense construction projects
have been undertaken in Oahu,
numerous outlying islands of the
mid-Paciflc, and the Aleutian islands
on the northern rim of the great
ocean. These devt^a>fnpnts will
have the cumulative" effect not only
of contributing to the air-and-naval
defense of the mid-Paciflc fortress,
but to the possible retention of Oahu
for an extensive period even if the
U. S. Pacific fleet should be shattered
by an enemy power.
Military and naval experts are
reported to have "explored" every
contingency that might arise in the
defense of the Hawaiian islands, major
outlying bastion of West coast
defenses, and to have second and
third plans of action even in the
event of serious early reverses in
event of a possible war.
Last Word in Defenses.
The tremendous, gnd ever-expanding
naval and military concentration
at Pearl Harbor and elsewhere on
the island of Oahu take into account '
the effective defense of all other .
islands of the Hawaiian area, the
systematic operations, and the "last '
ditch" harassment of any enemy
fleet defense of Oahu even in event
of major reversals for the Pacific
fleet. f
The view that Oahu's defenses are j
even stronger thdn those of Gibraltar
rests upon the fact that the
strictly military defenses of the is- f
land are supplemented by a land (
area large enough for the swift *
maneuvering of large military 1
forces and by conditions of surf, (
beach and coastal indentation which t
increase the odds against the effec- (
tive organisation of enemy force* that
might make a landing.
Aviation and other coastal de- 1
tenses are being developed on other 1
Hawaiian island* theoretically avail- t
able for enemy landing which would \
make an invasion attempt prohib- ,
itively costly to an enemy. t
Enemy Losses Estimated. j
The successful organization of an
enemy landing on Hawaii, for example,
would entail an initial enemy i
loss of from 250,000 to 300,000 men.
Even if the landing were effected, 1
the enemy still would have an ex- <
tremely difficult problem of main- t
tnining communications and supply, , t
since there would remain many
points from which harassment operations
could be conducted by air. f
The defense plans take into ac- 1
count the problem of subsistence for
the half-million military and civilian 1
population in the event of a long t
siege. This problem frequently has <
been the subject of unofficial com- 1
ment and speculation, but evidently
has deceived more official attention 1
than is generally known.
Besides greatly accumulated re- t
serves of foodstuffs and fuel, it is 1
understood that the defense projects
include vast "seed reserves" which ]
would enable quick planting of food
crops in emergency times.
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Penguins present stones, herons ^
give sticks, and warblers offer twigs (
or leaves, all nesting materials, during i
their courtships. '
Farm Meeting ?
Is Well Attended
(Continued from first page)
amilies correctly than It was to feed
ivestock.
Following the talks by Mr. Massey
ind Miss Neely, County Agent McParley
and Home Demonstration
\gent Margaret Fewell gave sumnarles
of the wo/k that had been
lone up to this time In the matter of
he better farm living program in the
:ounty. ;
They pointed out that 504 farmers
)lanted wheat whereas only 215 had
Wanted wheat a year ago. It was alio
pointed out that 7,000 mattrasea
lad been made to date in the coonty.
W. T. Holley, W. F. Estridge, FIotjnce
Elliott, Mrs. Ira Ellis and Mrs.
. J. McKenzie all spoke briefly and
liscussed what had been accomplish;d
in their respective communities.
Following the program of addresses i
S. C. Turner explained the pledge
lard to the committee members pres?nt.
These committee members are
;o make a canvass of the farm men
ind women in their communities to
jet them to cooperate in doing one or
nore of the things listed on the card, j
These Include planting of wheat for j
lome consumption, planting of fall M
gardens, planting of winter grazing J
?rops, destroying of cotton 6taiksrob-~?
aining lime or phosphate or bothJa
inder the AAA program, planting ol M
tvinter cover crops for soil conserva- *
ion and the planting of small grains jfl
ind legumes for hay.
Publicity Bureau
Offers Sport Plan
(Continued from first page)
Camden sport program will arouse
nuch interest and enthusiasm, not i
jnly in town circles but also in the
-jinks of the winter guests, visitors
ind residents.
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STATE THEATRE
KERSHAW, s. C.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12~|
"THE BIO STORE"
With Marx Brothers?Tony Martin
SATURDAY, SEPT. 13 ,
"SHERIFF OF
TOMBSTONE"
With Hoy Rogers? Sally I'ayne
SATURDAY, SEPT. 13
LATE SHOW 10:30 P. M,
"THE GET-AWAY"
With Robert Sterling?Donna lieed
MONDAY AND TUESDAY
SEPTEMBER 15?16
"MEET JOHN, DOE"
With Gary Coopelr?Barbara.
Stanwyck '
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 17
"GAY VAGABOND"
With Roacoe Karus?Ruth
Donnelly
CASH NIGHT
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY
SEPTEMBER 18?19
'CAUGHT IN THE DRAFT
With Bob Hope?Dorothy Lamour
ADMI88ION: I
Matinee, 20c; Night, 28o
Children lOo any tlmo
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