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The Camden Chronicle VOLUME 53 -CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1941 NUMBER 36, Coach Harrison Optimistic i | Over Prospects for Season i .11 i .1 The Town and Country foursomes 0( the Camden polo cltrb will renew Drum aeries next Sunday and If there is a heavy rain In the Interval the game may be played on No. 1 . field back of the Klrkwood Hotel. Without yaJn, the Seaboard field will be the scene of action. Manager Cyril Harrison of the polo club has announced the tattle fronts for tho Sunday fracas as follows; Country: Charles Robertson at No. 1; Kirby Tupper at No. 2; Carl Llght foot at No. 3 and Joe Bates at No. 4. . . - Town: M. B. Burns at No. 1; C. p. DuBose. Jr.. at No. 2; Cyril Harrison at No. 3; and Ancrum Boykln Hi No. 4. The first game In this series was played on Sunday, November 16, and found the Country riders hot enough to smash out a 9 to 4 win over town. U was decidedly an off-afternoon for the grey and red-clad riders and In next Sunday's game they will be out to even the series. In the Interval between the first game and the game scheduled for next Sunday, the Camden and Mulberry polo teams staged a two game series which wound up at the starting point, each team taking a game. The Mulberry group staged a score first in the game played on Thanksgiving day and won 9 to 5. But Camden came back last Sunday ahd took the second game 6 to 3 after onei of the most brilliant and thrilling polo exhibitions seen on the local field jn some time. Manager Cyril Harrison Is keenly1 optimistic over the prospects for an unusually successful season this year and into the winter and spring of 1942. As soon as the maneuvers are completed plans are being made to have a. ftfetles of games with the crack Essex Vtoop riders from the United States army. This will be possible If the troop remains at Fort Jackson this winter. In January a series will be played with the Plnehurst riders. Camden will send the Town team to Pinehurst to play while the Couhtry team will remain here for a series with a second Plnehurst team. Fort Bragg will appear on the local field for one or more games while an effort I will also be made to arrange a series with Aiken. The growing popularity of polo in Camden, with the record crowds of thousands of fans watching the sport all last season, has attracted more than ordinary attention. This Is evidenced by tho fact that polo riders from various parts of the country have made inquiry of the local club management as to the ppsslblllty of playing here. Coach Harrison believes Camden will have three teams In the field this season. Town, Country and Mulberry. This will be true especially during the holiday season. Harrison Leads In Scoring Of Goals Coach Cyril Harrison of the Camden polo club and No. 3 on the Town leads the riders of the polo personnel of the Camden ranks with ft total of 18 goals in the eight games so far played this season. But Klrby Tupper, the No. 1 man on the Country team Is giving Harison a hard fight for top honors with 16 goals to his credit. Carl Lightfoot No 3 on Country, Joe Bates, No. 4 on Country and Charlee DuBose, Jr. No. 2 on Town have posted ten goals each while Boykln, who has been doing a floe Job at the No. 4 backing Job for Town has sneaked down tho field to register a total of 7. Robertson has listed 6. Guest players with the teams 80 far this season and the scores made by each are: Whit Boykln, I, Robert Strawbridge 1. Grlssom 2, Williams 2 and Daniels 3. With the opening of the Camden Winter season of activities drawing fiear polo promises to be one of the outstanding attractions for the winter guests and will also draw heavily from the army and aviation groups in this P*rt of the state. Frank Heath, Camden Public Relations director and who has "covered" P?lo games In Camden for the past six 7?*rs declares that knowledge of the tune and players Is essential to a real (Please (M +9MC9AW9) . . j " Red Cross Drive Needs Public Help (By The Skipper) This is an appeal to the patriotic citizens of Camden to rally to the support of the Kershaw County Bed Cross chapter and in a spirited rally, travel the remaining distance to the goal line and ring up a victory for this community. The drive closes next Sunday, which leaves but today and Saturday for the last line plunge to attain the desired goal. On Tuesday morning this writer checked with the drive committee and we were astonished to find that the total membership to that time was 376 and total cash collection was $452.05. this amount $204 came from the Southern aviation school and included the British and American school rang the bell at- 100 per cent. Wake up Camden and help put this great humanitarian effort across. Let's make the "greatest mother in the world" happy, make her eyes glisten with tears of Joy, over the results attained in this drive to get funds to help the injured and the dying, the victims of war, hurricane and floods. Just picture to yourself how welcome the sign of the RedeCross would be to you if Camden was leveled by wind, or was torn by shot and shell. Let's make it a defense project of worth, of sacrifice in the greatest human offering we can give to man*kind at this time. Engineers May Not Return Here Mayor F. N. McCorkle is in receipt | of a letter from E. Harrison Williams captain of the 30th Engineers who states that he regrets that Company D having completed its present assignment in South Carolina will move to the vicinity of Washington, North Carolina, December 15, to start a new mapping project. "Our association with the officials and citizens of Camden has been a source of continuous pleasure for my men and myself". "Their interest in our return to Camden is most gratifying. In four years of travel about this great land I have yet to visit a community that has as whole heartedly welcomed and cared for my command as has Camden, South Carolina. The many requests I receive from my men for permission to visit Camden is a manifestation of our appreciation of your hospitality," writes Captain Williams. "Should our plans for move to Washington, North Carolina, be changed oud our permanent station remain at Camden, I shall inform you immediately and take advantage of your generous offer to further assistance and cooperation." Thousands Jam City Week-End Thousands upon thousands of Red army soldiers took over Camden Saturday afternoon and despite a drizzling rain which halted a band concert in Hampton square, the soldiers Jammed stores and shops, restaurants and centers and so filled the armory where a dancing party was given that the dance area was of the the size of a big New York night club. 4 /ill* In the WPA center at the old armory on Rutledge street the total number of showers given was over 3,000 up to noon Sunday while at other centers where showers were available the total was about the same. The downtown district of Camden was Jammed with soldiers until a late hour Saturday and the Sunday rush began early when trucks loaded with the fighters started to rumble into the city in the morning hours. Traffic in the down town area moved with snail-like speed with police officers and military police seeking to keep it moving at all. The Camden chamber of commerce information headquarters received countless Inquiries from wives and families of Fourth corps officers for apartments and rooms for all of the ensuing week. Many citizens, appealed to in the matter, asked that some of the applicants be sent to Uieir (Please torn to page four ) Mayor To Speak From Washington Mayor F. N. McCorkle is leaving Cumdeu Saturday afternoon for Washington, where on Sunday morning he will appear on a Columbia network! program with Senator Jumea Hymen of South Carolina, Governor Itroughton of North Carolina and Mayor Fiorello LaGuardla of New York. The Camden mayor will speak for five minutes nnd tho nearest outlet for Columbia which can be heard hore is WBT at Charlotte. The time of the broadcast will be announced in the Charlotte papers Saturday and Sunday. The mayor of Camden is to represent South Carolina at this "The Carollnas" broadcast and will express his views as to what the southern people think of the northern boys who have been in the Carolines with the army during the jnaneuvers. Much has been said over the air of the reaction of the northern boyB to the south and it appears that the boys from above the Mason-Dixon lino entered the southern states with the idea that they were personna non grata and would be given a cool reception. What actually happened wftis the reverse of that idea. The towns in the south welcomed the northern boys with open arms. They were taken into homes, treated as if they were home-town boys and made to feel the affection of the southern group in no unmistakable manner. The northern, boys were amazed and they wrote long letters to their home folks extrolling the hospitality of the southern people. And northern mothers wrote to southern mothers and expressed their appreciation of this i kindness. That Americans, whether of the north or of the south are all brothers! under the skin, and that northern mothers are grateful indeed for the acts of kindness offered by southern homes was exemplified by the many messages that came from the homes of the soldiers. Vv i * Highway Advice During Maneuvers The Chamber of Commerce basj been beseiged with telephone calls from motorists who wish to make trips but who were fearful of encountering delays or stoppage because of the maneuvers. Chamber headquarters, being in touch with the army and also the highway department has been able to give valuable advice on the transportation matters. During the past four or five days motorists going to New York or northern points and who usually went out of Camden on U. S. No. 1 were routed to Bishopville,'thence to Raleigh via Highway 15 and from Raleigh north on U. S. No. 1. Inquiry was also made as to the transportation problems occasioned between here and Columbia on Saturday when many loca^ football fans plan on attending the South Carolina?Penn State game at Columbia. The Chamber is advised that movement of troops out this area would be by less-traveled highways than trunk routes and convoys having to use trunk routes would be moved under the direction of state police in order that there would be little delay for civilian traffic. | Cars of Many States Jam Parking Area They have been parking cars at the Carolina Motor Company parking area on Broad Street for a great many years. On Wednesday "of this week by a strange coincidence, there were nine cars parked In the former salesroom of the Stogner Motor Company which now Is being used by the Carolina Motor Company. The odd feature of the nine cars is that each was from a separate state, all of these cars belong to officers who are now quartered in Camden In conectlon with the war maneuvers. The states reported were Georgia, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Florida, Oklahoma, Maryland, New York, Connecticut and South Carolina. In the area of the open parking I lot in the rear of the company filling stallor. atfd Office were found cars bearing the license plates of Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Maine, New York, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia and Ohio. Christ mas Seal Sale Starts Monday The Kershaw County Christmas seal sale will gut under way next Monday with appropriate exercises at the Fashion Shop corner, DoKalb and Broad at 5.30 o'clock. Mrs. Leon Schlosburg Is chairman of the county T. 11. association and has her forces all marshalled for this important drive for funds to carry on the work of the society in the county during the ensuing year. In an interview this week Mrs. Schlosburg declared that the sale of the tiny seals is the sole support of tho society In the fight against tuberculosis. "Let us make tho fight against tuberculosis more deadly than war" said Mrs. Schlosburg. "Let us bring It close to home as a vilnl part of defense for our homes." "Our state quota this year," is the largest In history?$98,000. But we can raise it." /'The success of the 1940 campaign, when Judge E. L. Fisburne, associate justice of the state supreme court was state chairman, won national recognition for the South Carolina Tuberculosis association. The cash result was $90,581.44. This year, with the realization that tuberculosis always increases in war i times and that in South Carolina, the death rate from the disease rose from 44.8 per 100,000 population in 1939 to 47.7 per 100,4)00 population in 1940, the neces! sity for tbe higher quota is obvious. "The design of the 1941 seal, with its symbolic lighthouse, its wintry scene, and its doubledbarred cross in | red, is the work of Steven Dohanos, a native ot Lorain, Ohio, and a well. | known muralist and illustrator. Mr. [ Dohanos was chosen by the Treasury Art project in "Washington, D. C., to make paintings for federal buildings In tho Virgin Islands. He has also completed mural designs for public buildings in this country and is working on another for a postoffice at St. (Please turn to page eight) Closed Season For 14 Counties Closed seasons are now in effect in 14 counties on atcount of Army maneuvers and the number of immature quail reported, it was announced today by Chief Game Warden A. A. Richardson. The game department announced at the same time that an open season would go into effect on ducks and geese in Lexington county at the request of the county delegation. Closed seasons now in force include the following: Closed season on quail until December 1 in Bamberg, Chesterfield, Marlboro, Calhoun and Greenwood counties. Closed season on quail until December 2 In Richland county. Closed season on quail in Lee county until December 15. Closed season on all hunting In Lexington county (except ducks and geese) until December 1. Closed season on all hunting in Lancaster, York. Kershaw, Falrfleld, Newberry and Chester counties until midnight November 30. Further information may be obtained from the chief game warden's office. I " Camden Foursome Defeats Mulberry) While soldiers of the Red army lined the field and cheered the riders the Camden Polo club foursome, defeated last Thursday by Mulberry riders, 8 to 5, turned the tables on their rivals and won a brilliantly played game Sunday afternoon, 5 to 3. Some masterful riding and shooting by Cyril Harrison for Camden coupled with some excellent co-ordination on the part of DuBose, Burns and Boykln provided some Interesting scoring setups with Harrison working the trigger. The teams got off to an even start with each scoring In the Initial chukker. Bates for Mulberry and DuBose for Camden. The second was a duplicate of the first period, Harrison scoring for Camden and Tupper for Mulberry.- In Yhe third Mulberry took pie lead wheh Bates scored his second goal and Camden went scoreless. The second half of the game found the Mulberry riders finable to penetrate the defense of the Camden quartet, for not a goal was scored in the (Please turn to pace five) Final Ceremony [ Planned Saturday The final review and retreat core-! mony at the Public Relations headquarters here will be held Saturday \ afternoon at 4:30 o'clock In front of j the Kirkwood hotel with the members of Battery K, the band of the 109th | Field Artillery, and officers of the post participating. The battery will be reviewed by Colonol William Guneo. When the boom of the cannon resounds during the retreat ceremony it will mark the end of the maneuver activity in this area. Following the review the members of the Battery will bo entertained at a dinner in the main dining room of the hotel. The battery group is deserving of much praise and commendation for the fine cooperation that has been shown toward the city and citizens as well as visiting boIdiers in playing at band concerts and s for the dances at the old armory. The battery also has boen gener|ous in staging parades and drills at the high school football games and also added an impressive and colorful note to the funeral rites for the British cadet who died following a plane crash. Camdep people have found the "battery boys" and their officers outstanding in their deportment and demeanor during their stay here. Their departure wll^ be keenly felt. . Kiwanis Club To Plan Cage Tourney Cyril B. Busbee, superintendent] of the Baron DeKalb school has been elected president of the Camden Kiwanis club, Uie election taking place at the cflib meeting Tuesday. Oliver Rice, local attorney, Is the vice president, Marion Williams, treasurer and Joe McKain is secretary. Elected to serve as members of the board of directors are Team Gettys, Joe McKain, Usher Myers, Henry Porter. Dr. George Rhame and J. H. McLeod. Outgoing officers of the Kiwanis club are: Gene Pierce, president; Howard Speaks, vlco president; Ames Cooper, treasurer and Charles Sowell, secretary. The Camden club will sponsor a : Camden Trade District basketball tournament this year. The event will take place on January 28, 29, 30 and 31 in the high school gymnasium and an Invitation will be extended to all of the high schools of the county and In the Camden trade area to enter teams In this classic. The club in sponsoring this tournament has a two-fold purpose in mind. First, to foster relations between Camden and the trade area; and second, to raise funds to aid under-privileged children within the area. Suitable awards will be given to the winning boys' team and also the winning girls' team In the tournament classic. Inasmuch as the proceeds of the tournament will be used for charitable purposes each team will be asked to bear Its own expenses. I . (Please turn to pace four ) 'Class B Title \ Game Here Today A record crowd of football enthusiasts will jam the grand stand of Zemp stadium, Friday afternoon, when the Marion and Saluda high school teams battle for the Class B state high school crown. Camden fans, in particular, accustomed to the fine brand of football played by the Vllleplgue-coached Camden high school teams will turn out en masse to watch the highly touted Saluda team In action. In particular the fans are keen to watch the ' performance of Bettls Herlong, the sensational triple threat of the Saluda ! eleven. While the general opinion here seems to be that ths gams will be a nip and tuck affair, Saluda is given the nod as possible winner. I In view of the fact that both of' these teams are reported to possess a powerful offensive, the fans look for a scoring fast. -r-e-r-77v~ ? - 7 . . Thousands Witness Daring Parachutists Drop From Sky Camden Uhh experienced a series of war time thrills during tho past several days, during which thousands of oilIzcus gazed skyward to waleh hundreds of purchuto troops leave soaring transport planes and plummet down to earth. And later thousands of eyes gazed skyward in amazement as scores of fighter planes of the Red and nine forces mixed in ding-dong dog-fights overhead. The skill and ingenuity with which the pilots handled these swift buttle birds was a source of much wonderment. All day Tuesday hundreds of bombing planeB roarod over tho city as efforts wero made to destroy the pontoon bridges placed across the Wateree by the Reds. It was late in the afternoon when swarms of huge transport planes went over the city and when a littft westerly the figures of the parachutists began to dot tho sky. The planes discharged the armed troopers In tiers and hundreds were seen In the air at one time. jSomo _pf tho parachutists dropped this side of the Wateree and wero quickly taken prisoners by the Red I army troops. Hut some one hundred ! and fifty landed on the west side of the rlvor and all day Wednesday Rod scouting parties combed the area in the effort to take them prisoners. Throughout Wednesday hundreds of trucks, guns and the like rumbled through the streets of the city. Ambulances hurried through carrying wounded soldiers? Nightly Camden residents have had the opportunity of witnessing brillInfTt electrical displays as the powerful search-lights of the urmed forces swept the skies from tho south, southeast and west. At times as many as six or more shafts of fire, reaching far into the zenith darted about the heavens, blinding stars and the moon into oblivion by thoir brilliance. The week has been one that will never'bo forgotten in Camden history. As to whether there would be any groat number of troops in Camden tonight and Saturday it was impossible to ascertain. Some of the soldiers were expecting to spepd tho week-end here, but others declared that they would probably be on their way to a base from whence they would be sent to their regular locations from whence they came to take part in the maneuvers. There has been considerable speculation in the city as to the number of soldiers in Camden last Saturday and Sunday. Fourth Corps officials are authority for the statement that on Saturday there were some 8,000 brought into the city by truck or came from adjoining bases afoot. On Sunday the astounding total of 17.000 was reported. Beauty Contest Is Great Success On Tuesday evening the Junior class of Camden high school sponsored a beauty contest and kiddie parade staged in the grammar school auditorium, proceeds to go into the class funds. In the kiddle parade first place went to Billy Pitts, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Pitts; second, Marietta Williams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marlon Williams; third to Leila Grace Roseborough, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Karl Roseborough. First place In the junior beauty contest was Won by Jean Mayer, sponsored by Mrs. Frank Mayer; second, by Sidney Jones, sponsored by DePass Drug Store r and third, by Carolyn Llndler, sponsored by Hoffer Jewelry Company. Next on the program came the Impersonations, "Sonny" Sowell as "Dorothy Lamour", won first prize; "Shirley Temple" as portrayed by "Buddy" 8heorn was second; third place went to the "Andrews Sisters" as played by Jack Boykln, K. T. Price and Dargan Jennings. In the amateur contest first place was won by the "Harlem Jive Band," composed of the following high school students: Francis (Mac) McCorkle. . conductor; Jack Smyrl, Bill Burns, Joe Tobin, David Melton, Bill Clyburn, James Creed, Robert Thompson, and Mickey Langs ton. Second place, Earl Taylor, guitarist and third to "Two Jitterbugs", Recta Haleall and Harry Hyman. (Please fata to page eight) ?. (j