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fHE CAMDEN CHRONICLE H. P. NIL<I, Editor >nd PfggHgjgg, Published very Friday at Nunb?r 1100 North Broad Street, and tater*# at the Camden. South Carolina PosteSio* mm second class mall matter. Prio* par voar $1.00. No subscription* taken for less than Six Months. In all Jnitinitl the subscription prtoe Is due and payable in advance. All subscriptions ars om> rolled when subscriber falls to rsasvf. Hepreqented In New York by the Amerlriin Prees Association and elsewhere by all reliable Advertising Agencies. Ws (K-oept no advertising of a doubtful nalore and try to protect our patrons from misrepresentation by AdVsrtisf * Wo i.t^uor Advertisement* aocepted at any price. Church notices publlshsd free. Cards of thanks and notice* of entertainments where an admission f*s Is 'barged will be charged for. Tribute* of r? spect and obituaries will be charged for. All communications must' be signed, otherwise they will be destroyed. Friday, February 6, 1942 WELL DdNE KIWANIAN8 ...... . 0 Congratulations to the Camden Klwunls club for the successful trade urea baslcotball tournamout conducted lunt wook at the high school gymnasium. We do not know who was the originator of the tournament idea, but It j developed Into an all-club proposition j and this fine cooperation, the skilled handling of the program by the tourmi-; ineut committee headed by Joe E. i McKain, made it an outstanding event j in the Camden sport calendar of 1P42. j True, the Kiwauis club did not make ? u great deal of money on the venture i -?but never-the-less the affair was a' l success In a big way. It wus the llrst? concentfated and definite program of the kind presented In Camden and! it Is the eartiest hope,, of this paper that It will ho an annual event. This writer attended many of the games and we are impressed with the sportsmanship of the players and of the rugged loyalty of the fans. Sixteen tenuis computed from eight high schools of the Cumdeu trade area. Starting on Wednesday afternoon the tournament progressed to the tlnals played on Saturday night. Huron DeKulb boys took the boys title from u hard-lighting Central high team while the Central girls defeated Huron DeKnlb girls for the girls title honors. The games were started promptly on time. There was complete accord and harmony throughout between coaches and between players. The rooters made lots of noise and were free to applaud the work of the players. even tho some outstanding boy or girl may have been on an opposition team. It is competition like this, conducted In a manner of yhlch the Klwanls club can well be pr6ud, that breeds the best in the American boy and girl. j Arthur Robinson worked as referee in all games of the tournament and did a fine Job. Robinson was Impartial In his officiating and coaches and playerB united in asserting that this work could not have been improved upon. Again we say to the Kiwauis club that you fellows did a fine Job. You nre Builders. HE MUST BE A "BIRD" A few days ago the police locked up a black negro who goee by the gentle name of Dovo. Ho Is a rogular customer at the police court?this time It was for stealing wood from a householder's yard at night, to which charge ho plead guilty. He was In the clink sitting pretty, waitlug for his wife to raise the fine and got him out. Finally tho fine was paid and out he went, but an hour later a prisoner in the lockup complained to the police that when Dove left he took his good overcoat, leaving an older one on the hook. That night tho police were called to the edge of town whete a gambling game was going on and a complaint was made that Dove had been one of the players, hut when he lost he grabbed the money which wns on the table and bolted for the door, whereupon a playor took a pot shot at him with a pistol, but missed. The police rounded up eight men In tho place 1 and charged thorn with gambling, J with"* an extra dose for the pistol shooter. \Vlieu tho police reached | the lockup they found the two prisoners already In there drunk, and they disclosed that when Dove came back and exchanged overcoats he hud hidden a pint of whiskey, which the two prisoners had found. Now Dove Is back In the clink under a ' couplo of charges and as the policeman locked him up he remarked that | "Dove Is a bird."?Cheraw Chronicle. A man 40 years old was considered well past his prime only a few een, turies ago. ROAD CLOSED f This road's 13E?M CLOSED SINCE EARUY IN mi ! Unique Character Is Given Summons In (lie death of Marion (Duke) Williams, ago 57. at tho tourist home of John Lungford known as Green Gables, Camden hus lost a unfqufo and Interesting character. Mr. Williams was found dead when someone went to call him. He had expired during his sleep. i Little was known of him here, with the exception of his skill In the art of shoeing horses. He was well known to ever)* lover of the steeplechase,' Jockeys as well as race horse own* erB. Williams was able to take a pleco of stoel and weld It Into a shoe that would correct a horse addicted to caulking his leg. He was also able to tell, by scrutiny of a horse's foot *ust tho way the horse used his tags during a race. He was an interesting conversationalist and had a personality that won him many friends. He was employed by the Christiana stables of which Jack Healy Is the manager. Inquiry Indicated that he came from Hockvilte, Parke county, Indiana, and had been born there February 8, 1884. So far as is known, he Is survived by one brothor, Man ford Williams und a sister, name and address unknown. The body was taken to the Kornegay funeral home and later to Columbia where It was placed aboard a train to be taken to Terre Haute, Indian^ and thence to Rockvllle, twenty-\hree mllee distant, where burial will take place. Rev. Collins Guest Speaker At Rotary Rotariuna of othor clubo attending last Thursday's Rotary luncheon were Carroll Jones, of Columbia, and Nor-' man Armstrog, of the Kendall chain and whose classification '8 a "tree skinner." | New members were welcomed Into the cluhr?Dick Kirk, the cotton raiser; K. C. Etters, the cotton grower, and Sidney T. Zemp, the pharmacist; bringing the clubs membership to 47. Before the program,- W. Robin Zemp was given ten minutes to recite for the benefit of the new members the many reasons for Rotary, and to explain to them the Rotary code of ethics, and Incidentally the reason they were selected to become Rotarians and the contacts they will make here and at the meetings they are expected to attend at clubs in other cities?not merely as a privilege, but a duty in order to make up attendance since attendance on Rotary meetings is a cardinal ^principle and here's the reason why: You can't fraternize with an absentee member, so serve your club, for he profits most who eerves best. The program for the day was in charge of Lee Mays and his guest speaker was Rev. Henry Collins, who | deplored the brevity of Robin Zemp's 'dissertation?he wished it might have I been longer. The speaker then told of the situation of our country on account of war and of our complete unity and hopes and prayers for the end to come soon and leave us a country and a world we pray to live in. He said progress is conditioned upon our grappling with difficulties ?Milton, Dante, Helen Keller and the presidents Roosevelt's?all had difficulties which each of them were able to overcome with marked success. We are facing difficulties today un, known in the history of the world. 1 Let us not shun them but face them j with faith in C.od, faith in the Nation and faitli in tlie eternal righteous and I lastly, faith in ourselves and we will find that of it will come a stronger and a mightier world, j Tho Rotary club urges you to conI tribute generously to the Red Cross war fund, buy defense stamps and bonds in order to keep 'em flying? keep 'em rolling and keep reni fighting. Girl Dies From Internal Drowning V T Tbi>^ .t 1 ?Twfllvn. year old Margaret Boylan died today In Iter mother's arms a few hours after drinking 110 small glasses of water while playing party. Dr. Harrison Martland, Esse* county medical examiner, Issued a tentative verdict of "death from Internal drowning." lie said the girl drank al?out live quarts of water. Sergeant Thomas J. Birmingham of the Newark police casualty squad, reported that Margaret, her brother. Phillip, Jr.. and her sister. Kathleen. 14, had held a contest last night In the kitchen of their home at 19 Cottage street to see who could drink the most water. Phillip drank 140 whiskey glasses and Kathleen 120, they told Birmingham. Margaret drank 110 glasses in a short time. She died shortly before midnight. Doctor Martland said Phillip had a slight heart palpitation today but Kathleen showed no 111 effects For Alderman Ward One I hereby announce myself for reelection to the office of Alderman for Ward One. City of Camden. Your continued support will be appreciated. C. V MASSABRAU REPAIRS We carry a large stock of REPAIRS for FARMALL TRACTORS, and all other FARM IMPLEMENTS that we sell in this territory. BUT, we urge FARMERS to place orders with us AT ONCE for REPAIRS that will be needed this SPRING. Whitaker & Co. Telephone Four Rutledge Street . ??ni?m? mMmmwarniHBMi Civilian Council ( Makes Fine Choice 4 i Ralph N. Shannon, the newly elected chairman of the Kerahaw County Council for Defense is a native of Camden and received hie early education In Camden schools. Mr. Shannon, club man, an ardent and skilled golfer, Uotarlan and business man, Is well qualified to take over tho Important Job of leading In the civilian defense program in the county, He comes from a long line of soldiers and first fa mil lee, his ancestors having fought in the early wars of the nation, also the war between the states and be himself was a captain In a Held artillery unit and served lu France during tho world war. From a business perspective, Mr. Shannon Is vice-president and dltector of the First tyaMouAMKtnk of this city, is a director of the Palmetto Oil Company, of Dlshopvllle; a director of the Springs and Shannon, Inc., organization of this city. He is a lio* neer member of the Camden Uotary club and of the local post of the American Legion. He has served as vestry member of the Grace Episcopal church here for some years and is at present honored with that office. He is a graduate of tho University of the South at Sowanoe, Tenn., and holds tho honor of being a member of the board of trustees pf that institution. Mr. Shannon's popularity through the city and county will prove a valuable asset to him in his work as civilian defense chairman. Of pleasnat personality and engaging manners, he holds the trust and respect of the entire community and should prove a successful and enthusiastic leader In the preparedness program. Central Cagers Have What It Takes To epitomize a girl's basketball squad that did Its playing on a sand clay court and went into the recent Camden tournament and in competition with teams from schools boasting gymnasium facilities would indicate that the girls from Central high school in Lee county have what it takes. To picture this Central high girl's team one can take petite Esther Lee. Now Esther Is only 13 years old but she knows a lot about basketball and also what the attributes of a good player are. Esther went Into the title match with the Baron DeKalb team last Saturday night and while her work was mainly in feeding her taller sisters of the Central battle line, she did let go with a long shot that sent the ball slithering through the hoop without even a caress. This Central sextet took the girl's honors In the Camden tournament, rising above seven other high school teams in the event to grab the choicest plum. Said Esther Lee. "When we were invited to enter the tournament we wondered if we would have much chance as all our playing is done on a sand clay court in the school yard. Our coach, D. C. Hancock, told us that we would be able to play twice as fast on a wood floor, so we decided to make a try at it. We are glad we won" And the hunch of Coach Hancock was correct for her charges played fast, heady ball?in fact, were Just about the best all-around girls team to be seen on the local floor. The Interesting feature of this team is that only two of the players are from the eleventh grade. Most of them are in the lower grades and range in age from 13 to 15- years. A Miss Caughman appears to be the scoring star, for in the game against. Baron DeKalb she gathered 10 points. The Central high also has a boys team which was runner-up in the recent tournament here. The Central boys would have won and made the finals a clean-sweep but for tho lapse of Judgment in the closing seconds of play against the Baron DeKalb boys. Central was leading 12 to 11 with but five seconds to go. Instead of freezing the ball and stalling, the boys let down their defense long enough to lose the ball. A frantic shut-youreyes, pray and shoot shot went safe and the Barons won the game. The fine showing of the Central lads and lassies in the tournament should result in the school board out that way putting up an addition to the school building with a good gymnasium as part of the project. For Alderman Ward Five I hereby announce myself as a candidate for re-election to the office of Alderman from Ward Five, City of Camden. I will appreciate the continued support of the citizens In my Ward. JOE E. McKAIN As- a moans of saving steel some states are considering a plan to issue licenso plates good for five years. Members at the Hague peace conference, in 1899. decreed that aircraft should not be permitted to take a combative part In war. Essex Riders Won From Palmettoes A three-goal rally In the sixth and final chukker gave a hard-rldlng Essex Troop, One Hundred and Second Cavalry, foursome from Fort Jackson, a 7 to 5. decision over the crack Palmetto riders of the Camden polo club here Sunday afternoon. Several thousand spectators braved a 40-degree temperature to watch the contest. Hundreds of soldiers from the Fort rooted vigorously for the Cavalry team. Ironically it was a Palmetto team member who pulled the game out of the fire for the Essex foursome, Joe Hates, of Wateree, who plays the back position for the Palmetto foursome, was guest player with McOrath, Brown and Edgerton, of the Cavalry unit and it was Bates' two goals In the sixth that tied up the game and put the troopers to the front. Lieutenant Brown added a third for a clincher. In the early stages of the game it. looked as if the Palmettoes were going to stage a rout at the expense of the invaders. Tupper and DnBose each scored in the second chukker after both teams had registered a scoreless flrst. The Cavalry was also blanked in the second. McGrath of the Essex riders scored in the third as did DuBose of the Palmettos and the score at the half way point was 3 to 1 for the Palmettoes. In the fourth DuBose scored for the Palmettoes and McGrath for the visitors making the count 4 to 2 at the end of the chukker. In the fifth Boykin of the Palmettoes scored bt the Essex gang came back with two goals by Brown and Edgerton. The sixth opened with the Palmettoes holding a 5. to 4 lead but Joe Bates went sour on his old team mates and slashed over the goal that tied up the game. A few minutes later Bates scored again and for the first time in the game Essex was ahead. Brown scored in the closing minute to give Essex the game 7 to 5. Relatives Autos Kill Pedestrians An unusual paradox in criminal procedure was recorded by a coroner's jury called bo inquire into the death of Booker T. Knox, who was killed when struck by an automobile driven by Henry Wood on state highway 34, two miles from the junction of U. S. highway No. 1 last Saturday night. Mltchel Portee, owner of the automobile which had been left parked in the center of the highway, was ordered held on a charge of manslaughter. According to the sheriff, Portee had left his car parked in the center of the paved highway, and I It was this situation that caused the accident, resulting in the death of Knox. Wood had swung far to the right to pass the abandoned car and just as he passed it, Knox stepped out in the trafTic lane and was struck and killed. Another unusual co-incidence in connection with the death of Knox was the killing of his father about a year ago on the same highway and within a few miles of the accident of last Saturday night; and strange as It may seem, the driver of the vehicle that killed the senior Knox was named Wood, and was a cousin of Henry Wood, whose car was responsible for the death of Booker T. Knox. All of the parties Involved are negroes. Suspends Tuesday Issue Temporarily Lancaster, Jan. 31.?Another item in the life of Lancaster changed 6y the presence of war and uncertain business conditions wm- be noticed when the Lancaster News, local paper. Issues but one. issue..* week for the time being. . Due to several factors afTecting -i the newspaper business the Tuesday issue of the heretofore semi-weekly paper will be suspended. The Friday j issue will be larger and fuller. Subscription prices will remain the same. \ List Of Players On Toronto Ball Team (Continued from first pace) ing the training period. Manager Burleigh Grimes has an- , nounced the schedule for exhibition opening with the University of South Carolina here on March 26. The next v home game is with Clemson college on March 30. Wilmington comes herd ? on April 6; Albany on the 7th; Columbia Reds on April 9, and Scranton on April 10. i Business manager Lee McPhail states that two or three more games will be* added to the list for early April. - -^j Work upon the Camden ball park is progressing rapidly. Sunday the~j groundkeeper from Dreyfuss field, the j home of the Columbia Reds was In Camden and went over the Camden ball park with Commissioner James Raley of the public works department, outlining to the latter steps to be taken to improve the present layout. The Columbia expert wps favorably impressed with what has already been accomplished and states Camden had a baseball plant equal to any in the state. GUARDiNG YOUR LOVED ONES A marvelous contribution by Medical Science, to the happiness of the average household, has been made In modern Health Education. Father* take more lyetematlc care of their own health, and check up periodically, either with the family phyelclan or through the Life Insurance tupjaer. Happier Mother#, whoee phytlcal well-being It looked after with understanding before, during and after the coming of the children. Children whoarefed,clothed, exercised and generally reared with an adequate appreciation of the value of good health. , Have you been keeping up with what thie kind of "guarding" le doing for the nation I Year* of activity and health are being added to human life. From every standpoint ft ft well worth your while to guard your health,?A pBW?IUII)6 PBfSCRffTIOBS IS THf ITIOSTIRC WWTffOUB WgWtSS MZKva aai at uiuum mfloCTA COMING ATTRACTIONS At The Camden Theatre >0??0????0????0p0000>0000< FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6 Wallace Beery?and his lady blacksmith?Marjorle Main "THE BUGLE SOUNDS" Added: Latest World Wide News SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7 ? Ray Bolder ? Ann Shirley "FOUR JACKS AND A JILL" Added: Winslow of Nary and Comedies SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7 LATE SHOW?10:30 Bud Abbott ? Lou Coetello Allan Jones ? Nancy Kelly "ONE NIGHT IN IN THE TROPICS" ? >oo?ioooeoooceooocccoede< MONDAY and TUESDAY FEBRUARY 9?10 Robert Taylor ? I>ana Turner "JOHNNY EAGER** With Edward Arnold?Van Heflln )hooboooeoeonowddHHHI WEDNWDAY, FEB. 11 Oracle Allen?Wflliam^Jgflatr- Jr- I Paul Kelly ? Virginia Oroy "MR. A MRS. NORTH** J > J juumoM> THURSDAY AND FRIDAY FEBRUARY 11-13 Kay Kia%r Jbha Barrymore Olnny Slmms ? Lap* Vahs r ^ "PLAYMATES"