The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, March 20, 1942, Image 1
I Camden Council Removes Barrier To Sunday Baseball ? Toronto Plays Army Team Here Sunday
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QLUME M CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1942 NUMBER 62
Ijster Through City,
Much Damage Is Done
rinK out of the northwest short.
E,re noon Sunday, a gale of tor proportions
swept a path severBks
wide through the north side
ntial section of this oity snapEff
scores of big trees and thou
^ again into the DuBose Park
l)uHoae park, roofs were torn
Bouses blown from foundations,
^K.h wrecked and thousands of
B damage caused by the suap off
and uprooting many of the
poles supporting truuk line con
lind wires of telegraph, teleB
and power companies along
^Kt states Highway No. 1 just east
twister struck Camden near
B irk wood area and the .swank
Bond hotel lost sections of shinBom
the roof and many window
B The wind was accompanied
I terrific barrage of hail stones,
I of them the size of small hen
Bowing a southeasterly course
^kh the north side, the storm deEd
many century-old trees and
tore down conduits carrying
Bone and power lines. The path
^Bed through the east edge of tho
Bee mill village, where many
were uprooted.
lose park was next In line and
roHtc.Hi damage to dwellings and
buildings occurred here. Giant
ripped up by the roots fell on
ngs, crushing them like eggEi
garages were torn apart and
^ Tuted over many blocks. On
F highway, the main trunk lines
power, telephone and telegraph
were put out of service when
poles supporting them were
off or twisted and bent over
lines snapped.
Bh fell across the highways but
fcrnoon all roads had been dears'
traffic through the prompt acEf
Sheriff J. H. McLeod, who
d to the county chain gang and
superintendent Qene Moseley
Ell his chain gang crews out on
tad clearing work.
the rear end of the Maroney
rea. the damage was heavy and
I was much damage done in Du park.
Throughout the area sJgn
B and the like were blown to
tornado lifted after reaching
Bermitage lake^ but struck again
^ niles out on the Bishopvllle road
B it went through timber , areas
i giant sickle. Near the Bran
plantation It twisted big trees
^Bnapped them like pipestems.
far we have not had any re^ of
anyone being killed or injur^ though
there 'were several inles
where people escaped possi njury
or worse because of beI
:iway from home attending
h," said Sheriff McLeod.
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Igoff School Is
fcically American
Borists^ driving over U. S. high- i
|o l five miles west of Camden
I noticed the .attractive little j
school building at the west aide ,
e highway near the Junction of
oderal highway and highway
s is what la known aa the Lu- i
school, wherein forty-one chil- :
are receiving their elementary 1
ion under the tutelage of Mrs.
Kelstler and itre. John Team, "j
Bculty staff.
h school Is particularly patio- j
> fact it can be classified aa i
one hundred pgr cent so. Somo \
'ting information reveals that 1
upils have knitted and finished i
' afghan for the Red Cross and
"M along over half of a second 1
eing finished. I
this is not all. They have pur- (
Bd to date ove? '|fi0.00 worth of i
Be Stamps, which In a school |
<: size is something the teach nd
students may well be proud <
Bt stilt this la not alfc (
students have keen gathering i
paper and scrap metals. They t
Planted a defense garden at $.
B in which they will raise on- 1
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Unique Program
At Kiwanis Meet
One of the moat Unique programs
offered by the Cuwdn KiwHnia club
whh that featuring the meeting held
luat Tuesday. The program, purely
an extemporaneous one, was in charge
of the club committee for "Support
of the Churches in Their Spiritual
Aims," of which Henry Porter is the
chairman.
In conformity with the sense of the
committee purposea^the speakers on
the program were firer ministers from
the Camden church branch?they being
Dr. Maurice Clarko, of the Grace
Episcopal church; the Rev. A. D. McArn,
of the Bethesda Presbyterian
church, and the Rev. H. D. Anderson,
of the Baptist church; the Rev. Henry
Chllins, of the Lyttleton Street Methodist
church. .
The ministers were introduced by
Judge N. C. Arnett, who offered some
interesting remarks anent the various
clergymen reciting some of the facts
in connection with his experiences
with them. ?
The speakers contributed a wealth
of inspiration and combined much
humor with deep seriousness. In
particular, each referred to the present
national crisis growing out of
the war against the Axis powers.
Each emphasized the need of all-out
defense measures and how every individual
must do his or her part to
bring ultimate victory to the Democratic
nations.
The program was perhaps one of
the most interesting given by the Kiwanis
club and was In line with the
proclivity of the club to offer the unusual
and interesting,
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Dog Show Will Bring
Out Many Admirers
Camden's annual dog show, sponsored
by the young people of Grace
church Sunday school will be held
on the lawn at the rear of the Kirkwood
hotel next Tuesday afternoon.
This event is always one of the
high lights of the season in Camden
and attracts a great many spectators
The entry list is usually large and
features some fine breeds of dogs.
There will be eleven classes exhibited
next Tuesday afternoon, they being
pointers, setters, springer spaniels
cocker spaniels, hounds including'beagles,
Boykin spaniels, terriers,
dalmatia'ns, miscellaneous and pupPlMis8
Bebe Blakeney is the general
chairman of the show and will be assisted
in its conduct by members of
the Grace church Sunday school
group.
The proceeds of the show are given
to the Lenten fund of the church by
the Sunday school boys and Kjr'8The
Judges of the show will be
Miss Elsie Shanks, of Camden, and
Mr. and Mrs. A. H. McCarthy, also
of Camden. The committee in
charge consists of Miss Bebe Blakeney
as chairman; Miss Meta Boykin
as co-chairman; Miss Meta
ander, Miss Mary Ada Chase and Miss
Louise Ancrum.
The committee reeerves the privilege
of revising or adding classes if
entries warrant
Shannon Asks For
Date of Blackout
Many inquiries have been made at
the office of the committee council
tor national defense as to when &
blackout praeticd may take place.
Commander'*alph N. Shannon of
the defense council In a statement
Wednesday declared that he had communicated
with the proper government
headquarters asking permission
.0 stage a blackout and also requesting
that a date be fixed for the first
week in April.
Mr. Shannon stated that he as yet
iad not received any word from the
irmy In regard to when such a black>ut
may take place, but that Just as
joon as he had any Information to _
give out he would make it pubHc.
In the meantime the organization
>f the civilian defense group is progressing
rapidly and satisfactorily
to Mr. Shannon. Dlscreptncles
and weak features of the re;ent
practice air raid alarm are bo- j
ng corroctod and Commander ShanK>n
believes that when the next
Oarm comes that bio gronp of over
hree hundred operatives wfll be pre?red
to giro on* hundred por cent
(orelop.
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Cgmden's'city council yesterday
paved the way for Sunday baseball,
assuring several games this spring
between the Toronto club now training
at Cumden, and other nearby
teams.
The first game?and probably the
ilrst in the state this spring?will
be played Sunday between the Toronto
club and the twenty-eighth infantry
from Fort JackBon and others
will be scheduled before the Leafs
head north.
There is a possibility that Camden,
as a result of Wednesday's action will
have some games there this summer
between teams representing the air
base there and other service teams.
The ruling, top, should go a long
way towards assuring a continuance
of one of the Camden parks as a
spring training site.?Abe Fennell, in
Columbia State.
The above item by Abe Fennell, uppoured
on the sport page of the Columbia
State Thursday morning. Inquiry
at the city hall verified it in its
entiretyThe
city council meeting in special
session Wednesday afternoon adopted
a resolution which permits Sunday
baseball in Camden for the duration
of the war.
According to the report of the meeting
the resolution received almost
unanimous support, but one vote being
cast in the negative.
The game Sunday will be called
at 4 o'clock, according to Oeneral
Manager Lee MacPhail of the Toronto
club and the team that will face the
International leaguers will be made
up of baseball talent from the 28th
infantry of the Eighth Division. In
eluded in the taloul will bo players
who havo hud professional and semi*
professional experience on many diamonds.
The Chronicle has been advised by
Sport Editor Fennell that followlug
the termination of the exhibition
games played by the Toronto club,
outstanding teams from Fort Jackson
will use the local park for Sunday
games. These teams will constitute
member teams in the military post
league and will offer high class baseball.
' In addition, teums from other
army posts will appear at Intervals
during the baseball season.
At Sunday's game, announcement
w;ill be made relative to a second
game to be played against the Fort
Jackson team on Monday. No definite
announcement of a Monday game
Is made at this time for the reason
that it Is not known whether the
soldier players will be able to come
J&jQ&inden on that day.
The games Sunday and Monday
jaill not taterefero with Camden day
program arranged for next Thursday
when .the Maple Leafs play the University
of South Carolina here?game
time being 4: IB o'clock.
Upon the request of the Toronto
Globe and Mall, news coverage of
the Toronto team training activities
and exhibition games will be handled
through the medium of the Camden
Naws Service. The Toronto Star has
a writer with the baseball group.
Camden will receive a great deal of
excellent publicity in Toronto as well
as nearby Canadian territory through
the medium of the news releases as
well as many pictures sent from here
by a photographer who is with the
club.
All-Star Foursome
To Meet Essex Riders
One of the most spectacular polo
matches of the season will be played
on the No. 1' field here next Sunday
when the Essex troop of the 102nd
Cavalry riders take on the Mulberry
team featuring two Yale placers, a
well known polo artist from Indianapolis,
and Charles P. DuBose as guest
player.
This all-star outfit will feature the
initial appearance of a father and
son combination, inasmuch as Thomas
Daniels and his Bon, Jack Daniels,
of Indianapolis, will wear the colors
of Mulberry plantation. Jack Daniels
is a member of the Yale team
as is David Williams, Jr., of Camden
and Tulsa, Okla.
According to Cyril Harrison, Charlie
DuBose will play No. 1 position
for Mulberry. At No. 2 will be Da\/id
Williams, at No. 3 Jack Daniels and
at the No. 4 or backing position, Tom
baniels.
For the Essex riders, yMaJor McOrath,
who combines polo skill with
demonstrated qualifications as a high
class Jockey, as evidenced by the
manner In which he rode gadfly to
victory In the final all-army event of
the Generals' races last Saturday,
will play In the No. 1 spot. Lieutenant
Brown will be in the No. 2; Lieutenant
Edgerton at No. 3, and Joe
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Mttgh Activity In
Red Cross Work
(By Sadie VonTresckow)
"There is always something new
under the sun" in Red Cross work and
the Kershaw County chapter is kept
on the "qui vive," another way of
saying "on the alert."
Miss Helen Harman, chairman of
the motor corps, had a surprise for
her efficient workers last Sunday afternoon
when Captain Skldmore of
the 102nd Cavalry, Fort Jackson, formulated
for the corps a course in
black out and convoy driving. The
course will require twelve weeks?60
hours, and will be held in the Red
Cross room at the Court Inn every
Wednesday night and Sunday afternoon
from 2:30 to 6:00 o'clock. Much
of the Instruction will be practice
work. About thirty members of _the
corps met with ifim last Sunday afternoon.
A new first aid class under the
able tutelage of Miss Elizabeth McEfbwell
was begun last Monday night
in the Red Cross room at the Court
Inn. The classes will be held every
Monday and Friday nights from 7 to
9 at the Court Inn room and new
members will be accepted Friday
night as the first lesson can be made
up. Please send in your names or
call Miss McDowell, phone 52, and
enroll or go to the class on time.
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WHEREAS, the Toronto Maple Leafs of the International
Baseball League are in our city for the spring
training season, and v
. WHEREAS, a part of the training period is given
over to exhibition games with other outstanding baseball
clubs, the first of which will be played on the afternoon
of Thursday, March 26, beginning at 4:00,
THEREFORE, I, Francis N. McCorkle, mayor of the
city of Camden, do designate Thursday, March 26, as
Camden Day. at the baseball park, and do request all
business establishments manufacturing institutions, and
offices to close at 3:45 o'clock that afternoon in order
that all employers and employees as well as professional
men may attend the baseball game to be played between
th^, Toronto Maple Leafs and the University of South
Caroline. All city offices will be closed at 3:30 o'clock,
I urge every citizen oif Camden and vicinity to make
every effort to attend this baseball Kama at the Camden
ball park on Thursday afternoon, March 26.
Signed:
F. N. MeOOBKLB, Mayor |
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"Easy Money Boys"
Are On The Make
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"The easy money boys" are apparently
losing no tlmo In taktiiK advantage
of the proaeut emergency. Patriotism
htiH apparently become the .
No. 1 "easy money" deal.
There are a number of flne organisations
and movements aiding In the
war work but there aalso fraudulent
promotions which net the racketeers
one hundred per cent of the
total take. Camden people are urged
to stop phoney deals by calling the
Chamber of Commerce for factual
information before parting with their
money.
The Chamber of Commerce upon
advice from Better Business Bureaus
and nutional Chamber of Commerce
organisations warns that a rush of
rackets tied In with the war can be
expected at this time, some of them
already operating.
Among some of them are agencies
which promise for ?a fee to, obtain
birth certificates for persons born in
other states or countries; fake doc-,
tors, sometimes In army uniforms
who offer selective service registrants
advance physical examinations for a
prepaid $2.00 fee; plumbers who prepare
furnaces for air raids operating
parts at fat profits; and pdddlers selling
sand "specially tested" for its effectiveness
in extinguishing Incendiary
bombs. There are also bigger
swindlers, including those formed to
promote phony charities and benefits.
Over five hundred organizations
claiming to be engaged In foreign
war relief work are reported to be
currently soliciting the American
business men and the public for
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Police Ball To Be
Attraction Tuesday
The time, Tuesday, March 24; the
place, the new armory; and the event,
third annual policemen's ball. ;
The minions of the law will be
hosts to Camden dancers next Tues- 1
day evening at the new armory when ;
the annual ball is staged. The Clar-'
ence Brazelle orchestra of nine pieces j
and a husky-Voiced blues singer will ]
be present to offer the inspiration1
for the dancers. |
The decroatlng committee headed I
by Sergeant Dallas Mahoney and traf- '
flc lieutenant Beckham Russell will |
Bee to It that the hall is beautifully!
decorated for the occasion. Dancing !
is scheduled to begin at 9 and continue
for five hours.
Under the flne supervision of Donald
Morrison, general chaidman, all
details of the annual hop have been
carefully taken care of. The ticket
sale, handled by the boys in blue, has
been splendid with many purchasers
taking double and triple doses. All
this is indicative of the cordial feeling
on the part of the general public
toward the men who walk their beats
and protect the community.
Chief of Pollc Alva Rush, and Mrs.
Rush, are to lead the grand march
which will take place shortly after 11
o'clock. In the line with thefo will be
Sergeant and Mrs. Mahoney, Comqoiis^.
sloner and Mrs. J. E. Ross and other* '
in the executive ranks of the city administration.
Camden Horse Show
Set For March 26
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The thirty-second annual Camden !
horse show will bo held at the Marion
duPont show grounds near the ;
No. 2 polo field on Thursday, March i
26, starting at 2 p. m. Entries close !
on March 23. Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose .
Clark, of Westbury, Dong Island, will
be judges of the event.
The Camden horse show is one of
the most picturesque of show events
in the southland. The*show area is
located on the Scott estate in a clearing
amidst a dense woods of pine
and 4ak. The scenic feature has
been the occasion for many artistic
efforts in painting and with the
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There ere .to be eleven classes
shown in this 1*42 event. At the
eihehnm of the last clsss the Sam- i
eel Rnasell memorial challenge trobe
awarded to the eetaten*
tag horse of the show. ;
Baseball Season Will Open
With Camden Day Classic
(liy The Skipper)
"Take me out to the huU game." .
Yes, slr-ee-o lads-^lt's baseball time
again unit what ft feast of high-class
baseball Lee McFhall and Burleigh
Grimes of the Toronto Maple Leafa
wtU dish up for the edification of
Camden and Kershaw county baaeball
fans.
" For the opening game of the Toronto
oxhlbltlon gome period will bo
served piping hot to a big crowd of
fans at the Camden ball park next
Thursday, March 26, game time being
4 bolls in the afternoon.
It will pit the International boys
against the alert University of South
Carolina diamond taleut and they do .
tell me that uone other than our tall
friend, Johnny Gfce, late of Syracuse
and still later of Pittsburgh, will do
the mound stuff for the Leafs.
It will bo Camden day at the ball
park and we have a hunch that as
the game will hot start until 4 bells,
that there will be a goodly gang of
fans present In stand and bleachers
to pass upon the performance of the
pros and the dbllegians.
The Leals started their spring
training grind last Monday and despite
the cloudburst of Sunday, Manager
GrlmeB had the boys out on the
greensward of the football field strutting
their stuff in running, hitting and
the like. It was two a day for the
weary warriors for the week and next
week it will be a Jam session on the
baseball diamond every day from 11
a. m.. to?well take ydur pick of the
time.
Messrs. MacPhail and Grimes cannot
say enough in praise of the fine
cooperation that has been extended
to the Toronto group by the city, the
public Relations Bureau, Joe McKaln,
Don Morrison, Jim Raley and all the
lAda. The field Ik * ifi hettbf khape
than It has been at any time while
the club house?almost good enough
to make a permanent home In. Talk
about splc and Bpan. It Is that and
nothing more.
Manager Grimes and MacPhail
have been getting around meeting the
homefolks during the past week and
the Camden verdict has been "tops"
for both of them.
MacPhail, son of the famous Larry,
of the Brooklyn Dodgers, and a most
likeable chap. Burleigh Grimes, the
terror of the umpiring profession, but
a really swell fellow, together with
trainers, friends, newspaper 'writers
and players?they are a cordial out
fit and we admit with a heck of a
lot of emphasis that we like them a
lot. /
This Is an appeal to all baseball
fans of the city, the county and the
surrounding area to turn out en
masse for the home games of the Maple
Leafs. Remember?the opening
game Is on Thursday, March 26, and
your Skipper would like to see the
old grand stand groan with a load of
humanity for the event.
Arrangements have been made to
have the Canylen school band present-?
at this unpning game and concert .
numbera^wlll be played before the
game ud between Inning*., American and
Canadian flags will fly from the
flag pole In center field.
All In alL weather permitting, it
will be a gala day for Camden?some(Plea*#
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Thirty-Five Out
For Grid Work
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Coach Lindsay Pierce, of the Camdan
high..school football team baa
a squad of thirty-five boys out daily
in spring grid practice. - ' ;
Of last year's splendid team which
lost but one game throughout the season
and that to Charleston, he
has some outstanding players. At tlm
center position he ha* Part in, Council
and Hancock, while in the ranks of
tackles are Marshal), feoykin, Cox,
S. Council, and Alexander. Candidates
for end position* ar^yE||bi Hoggin*,
Parker and Jons*, la the guArd position,
T. O. Boykln is the only one
from the last year's squad who has
reported. J,. Boykln, Cox, Rush Mullen,
and Waters are 1?41 squad members
who are listed as backs.
The new talent reporting for the
squad at the gprlng workout are WHIL
ford, O. Hoggins, Cooper, Sheorn,
Clyburn, Tobin, Creed, Campbell.
Jennings, Teem. Laraoy, B. Sewell,
Hunter. Brown, Gaudy. Wilson, Drakeford,
and Norrl*.