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UlnjHinG^n I Wm. "VJ I.- r_ra wrrrntinn i?a m 1 concwf//man j p rIchpwd/ i % - *' ? ?Women's Army Auxiliary Corps Washington, March 20. ? After . strong opposition, a bill to create a Volunteer Women's Army Auxlllury Corps wuh approved by the House of ' Representatives tills week. The Army wus reported to be)lu readiness to accept women volunteers within four weeka after approval by the Sonate. Tho duties of members of the WAAC * would bo to perform tasks now being done by ublu bodied men, who could then bo released for actual warfare. Details of tho organization of the WAAC "military secrets", but It Is understood that' regular Army officers will bo In charge. Women will enllet at the name pay rato than men receive, under the provisions of tho WAAC. Uniforms will be worn by / enlistees but tho typo of uniform has not yet been announced! HIhIuk demands for a reduction of noiwlefenso expenditures hit the Agriculture Appropriation BtU this week. Amidst roforoncos to "Pullman car farming" and suggestions that we take part of tho funds now used for tho control of the Japanese beetle I ami use It In "gottlng control of tho Japanese", tho House wielded tho economy ax on several activities considered not essential to the war effort. Hlggost cuts wero In. the funds for tho Farm Security Administration. Tho proposed appropriation of the forty-five million dollars for tho tenant purchuso program wns cut to twenty-five million, and the appropriation for administration of the program wus cut in half. However, the main objectives for roal substantial assistance to tho farmers was kept In the bill. Tho provision prohibiting the dumping of Federal-held commodities on tho market at a price less than parity remained In the bill. This Is the provision which tho President has so strongly opposed. There Is no doubt but that tho senate will also rotalu tills provision, and this leads to tho question of whether or not the President will veto the bill. Congress has gone along with the President on the big majority of his wishes, but In tills Instance the Congress Is taking the position that It Is not going lo permit the farmer to become the goat by being kept on the bottom of tho pile. In order to provide the officers necessary for tho vast expansion of tho army, there Is a great need for men with suitable experience and educational qualifications. Tho rapid expansion of tho various Officer Candidate schools Is an Indication of this situation. For oxafnple, the Field Artillery, Quartermaster Corps, and Signal Corps schools are being lncreas-( ed twelve times in capacity; the Infantry, eleven times; the Engineer Corps, sixteen times; Coast Artillery Corps and Armored Force, eight tlin es; Chemical Warfare Service und Finance Department, five times; Cavalry, four times. Medical Administrative Corps, three times; and the Ordnance Department, twenty times. All schools will be operating at full capacity by June 30. 10 12. The War department emphasized that prospective officers must demonstrate outstanding qualities of leadership. Foremost among these qualities is tho ability to think rapidly, clearly and comprehensively. Above all. leadership requires a determination to carry one's actions through to n logical and satisfactory conclusion. These qualities being present, development of the remaining qualities is relatively easy. About 100.000 men and women will be trained in tho course of the next year for War department civilian jobs, the War department announced this week. For those who are eager to serve in the war effort but are not qualified for military service, a variety of opportunities Is provided by this program. Applications for train Ing under It may be made to any local office of the United States Civil Servico Commission. Training Is given In government and state-owned schools, scattered throughout the country. In all Its branches the Army of tho United States now has under Its ad'ministration a civilian army of over 500,000 men and women. As the military forces grow, this force too must expand. As a result of the Civilian Training program, men and women throughout the country who thought they would have to plav a spectator role, in America's struggle are now in the front lines of battle of production, and playing a vital part. IF YOUR NOSE "CLOSES UP* TONIGHT Here's mighty -FUHrOIf good news ... If MCDtCINI your nose "closes { t????? up" tonight and makes breathing dllllcult, put 3-purpose Vlcks Va-tro-nol up each nostril. Va-tro-nol does 3 important things. It (1) shrinks swollen membranes. (2) soothes irritation, (3) relieves transient nasal congestion. It brings more comfort, makes breathing easier, thus Invites sleep ...And remember, it helps prevent many colds developing if ? Wk used In time. Fol- VICKS ... low directions In wmaa mai * folder. VA-TRO-NOL CARE OF TRACTOR TIRE8 TO QIVE LONQ ' SERVICE Clcmsnn, March lfl ? In view of the present rubber shortage, tractor ownera should employ every possible measure that will tumi to prolong tho life and service of their tractor Urea, suys C. V. Phugun, extension agricultural engineer, pointing out that correct ail pressure In the most impeltaut coiiKideratIon in making tractor tires last longer , lioth over^Inflation and undcr-lnllutlon are harmful, 1'hagun declares. L'mler-inflatlou causes breaks In the cord fabric In the aide-wall area of tlrea, while over Influtlon reduces traction, which results In uxc/usalve slippage ami greater wear. Tire preaauro aa rocomineiided by the ltubher Manufacturers Assoclatlon, Inc., ami udopted by the 'fire and Hint Association are given below: Four-ply front tiros, all sizes, 28 pounds Six-ply front tires, all sizes, 3 G pounds For rear tires a minimum pressure should be 12 pounds, except for smull section; dual tires, which require a minimum of 20 pounds. In order to further Increase the life and service of tractor tlreH, It Is highly important that farmers give attention to the use of proper wheel weights, either liquid or solid, and also exercise great care In driving to prevent mechanical Injury or damugo to tires, with proper attention to cuts ami .bruises. How to protect tires when not in use is another Important point to consider. Further information on the proper care of- tractor tires Is available In a now Agricultural Engineering Leaflet Just published entitled "Make Your Tractor Tires Last Longer." Copies of this louflot may he obtained from county agents' offices or by writing to (he Extension Service, Clumson, S. C. Army Deserters Kill FBI Agent ' Abingdon, Vii.? Two young urrny deserters, waving an Improvised white flag after a gun battle which resulted In the death of one F. D. I. agent and tho wounding of another, stumbled from a tear gus tilled house hero Friday afternoon and surrendered. The soldiers had been sought since early Friday morning, when F. 13. I. Agent Hubert J. Treacy, Jr., 28, was killed J and Agent Charles L. Tignor, 29, wounded as they sought to arrest tho pair In an all-night Abingdon cafe. The fugitives, listed by the F. B I. as deserters from Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., were Charles J. Lovett, 21, Philadelphia, and Edward Tosterman, 22, of Cllnchburg, Vs. They escaped through a cemetery after blazing away?service pistols In each hand?at the F. 13. I. agents, and Immediately, became objects of an Intensive search by more than 100 Federal, State and . county officers, who rushed here by car and plane. Cotton blossoms are white, but after the first day they may turn to lavender, pink or yellow, depending on the variety. I LOST 52 LBS. From 170 Down to 118 Lbs. Wear S/ze 14 Again Befort After SlJ-x ~ * SIMPLE 1 EASY I NO L.*UCSt , ' ! wiw r. >n t inually trying diflrrrnt things to reduce, ?!io dieting. with no reauit*," write* Mr*. C. I). Well*, Fort Worth. Tex. "I a*w i *n advertisement for the Candy Plan using Ayds. My weight wa* th.n 170 pound*. I ] now wiDgk 118 iMiuniU. I lost 62 pound* In k-i* than four month*, and now wear aixc It drres. Couldn't woor ?tie 20 before." You ran l<?< ugly pound* and have a (lender. , graceful figure. No drug*. Nd exercising. Simply follow the nujr Ayd* Candy Plan? and grow thin. Ay da contain n are* nary vitamin* and nutriment*. Dull appetite for fattening food*. Money Back If Not Satisfied Lot u* toll you about our guaranteed Plan for kwing weight. I warn how aome toae up to. ( pound* a week. You take no chance*. Oaly 12.tt a bo*. SATISFACTION OH MONKY BACK ON FIRST BOX. For A YDS. pboee DeKalb Pharmacy, Camden, 8. C. 4 Ox Power vs. 6,000 Ox Power ? ?Sm ???m&tmfiamm????humjjb^^bb Depicting a century of progress In Florida transportation, this oia-styie ox cart commonly In use throughout the atate one hundred years ago poses with the modern 1942 streamlined Diesel locomotive of the Seaboard Railway's "Orange BloSsom Special." This ox oart would take approximately two months to travel the distance between New York City and Florida which the "Orange Blossom'/ makes In twenty-four hours. Many Unused Acres Put In Cultivation Athens, ,0a., March 20. ??. Small farmers of the southeast are responding dally to the War Board's appeal for conversion of farms to war purposes. Food and feed production has been stepped up already in rural communities In Georgia, Florida, Alabama and South Carolina, Federal Security Administration officials said toduy. Much of the Increase has been due( to community planning, the FSA said. Skyline Farms, in Jackson county, Ala., for example delivered an average of 1,000 pounds of milk a day, to ?cheese plants in Scottsboro, and j FSA borrowers on the project plan to raise 8,000 baby chicks this spring. Eighty 4-H club boys of the Escambia Farms, Okaloosa county, Fla., and contributing to the food for freedom program by raising 4,000 laying hens. Sale of eggs on this project already averages $6,000 a month. Oho hundred and twenty-live acres of beans will be grown at Escambia Farms this year, and the farmers will plant 150 acres of peanuts for oil. Georgia's Piedmont and Briar Patch farms will do their pnrt, fifty-seven farmers have added 100 cows to their dairies. A goal of 80 laying hens per family has been set up. Fifty families cooperating with the FSA on the Orangeburg Farms in Orangeburg, S. C., will grow 600 acres of beans and tomatoes for market^ this year. Ashewood Plantation Farmers near Bishopvllle, S. C., will Increase their food crops. ' Eighty-six negro farmers at historic Gee's Bend on the Alabama river, are putting 300 idle acres of land into cultivation this year, to raiso more food for Uncle Sam. They will Increase their acreage in sorghum by 50 per cent, peanuts by two and one half acres per plow, and will add 2.000 laying hens it) their flocks. Man Dies in Chair For Killing Six Montgomery, Ala.. March 13. i Esker Washington Gibson. 32, convicted of burning his wife to death and accused of destroying his live children In the same fire, died in Kilfoy prison's electric chair early to-J day. Gibson's wife and five children! perished in the family's flame-swept! home in Irvlngton, Ala., the night of April 24, 1941. Before he died. Gibson told witnesses : "I have five babies already gone on, the ddarost things on earth to mo, ami I expect to meet them. I have already made my restitution." Negro Dies For Florence Murder Columbia. March 13. ? Monroe. Bounds. 32-year-old Charleston negro, | paid with his life in the electric chair | at the state penitentiary this morning j Tor the slaying in 1935 of S. W. Farm- ; rr, Florcnco county merchant. Bounds i was pronounced dead three minutes and 45 seconds after the switch was ' :hrown. The negro, who was baptized vos- j terday. went to his death calmly. J "I am sorry for the great mistake I [ made," he said falterlngly. "I be- j lleve I overcome it, 'cause the Ixard ' 'orgivo me." LEMOCO L> paint YtSisY PRODUCTS \ 0[g7 Camden Hardware A Supply Company j South Carolina's newly authorized special contingent fund for national defense totala $260,000. Of this money $108,000 will be paid to the various counties to assist them in defense work. Tho towns' and coun' ties' share o^ the state beer tax in 1941 amounted to more than $315,-. 000. Tho South Carolina state tubercu-' llosls sanatorium expects to spend in tho current fiscal year $388,000, ac- j cording to tho state budget cominls- 1 slon. In 1941, the state tax on beer brought the state, its cities and Its towns $1,668.000?or enough money to support thd sanatorium for four years without any other Income. i Welles Sees Hitler's Downfall Washington, March 16.? Sumner Welles, acting secretary of state, asserted today that Adolph Hitler now knows that his downfall is near. Welles made this statement commenting on Hitler's speech in Herliu yesterday. The German leader predicting the "complete destruction" of Russia's armies next summer and went on to say that President Itoosovelt not only would fail to create a new Kuropo hut would "bring ubout the collapse of bis own world." Thoro was a time, Welles told a press conference, when Hitler could hurl a "monstrous Ho'' around the world with devasting effect, but gradually the world has become uwaro | of his technique and now the lies come back at him like boomeruugs. People have learned, Welles explained, to pay less attention to Hitler'# boasts and predictions and more attention to the inadvertent admissions of his own fears und weaknesses with which his speeches abound. The significance of Hitler's Sunday speech, ho said, Is to h6 found not in its boasts and promises but in tho fact that "thoro is implicit in every word and every phrase Hitler's own recognition of his impending downfall and of tho inevitable conquest of the German armies." "The magnificent resistance of the Russian armies and the defeats which they have inflicted upon tlie forces Hitlerism," said Welles, "have in great part been responsible for bringing this to pass. There are tho very armies whose annihilation Hitler. announced many months ago." As for Hitler's excoriation of Prosident Roosevelt, Welles asserted, "it is only natural that the kind of world In which President Roosevelt end the American people wish to live should be termed 'a new, detestable, alien world by Hitler. . "The kind of world for which the t American people and Uheir govegn 1 ment stand is a world of interna* tional decency and of justice in which men and women will be free to wor* shjp, free to think and* speak, and_ in which they will be free from j fear. That is the oqly kind of world ' in which permanent peace can be established and the Germans and Italian people, like the peoples of the United Nations, know that no such i world can rise into being until Hit. ] lerism and the gangsters who com* * pose it are Anally crushed and de- I feated." ' (\ FARM GARDEN* Director D. W. Watkfua, of th# ; Clemson College Extension Service has urged every farmer la South Car. ollna to plant a well-planned garden this spring "iu order that there may bo no deficiency In the family's diet. As part of the all-out war effort." he said, "each family must make the farm as Independent and self-Kutti. clout from the food standpoint as science and hard work can ninko it." This newspaper during the past ten years has urged the planting" of Tarnf" gardens that cap be made to produce food throughout the year. Good soil, to which needed fertilising elements aro added, good seed, careful planting and traaplantlng, Intelligent cul? tlvatlon, allowing no idle spots in the i garden jplot, and preservation of those vegetables that may be carried from one season to another will go far toward providing an abundant and healthful diet for the family. Such a garden will make for lioalth and lndepTetrdence and a savings ac: count. This year above all in the nation's history, demands it.?Spartanburg Herald. f * l "Here's an Electric Mixer Someone Wants to Sell Cheap" The Chronicle Want Ads Carry Messages From Family to Family in Camden and Kershaw-County Have you ever thought of the Chronicle Want Ads as a sort of clearing-house for the messages of Camden and Kershaw county families? Well, in a way, that's just what they are. Because they tell everybody what everybody else wants to buy or sell or trade or rent or hire or use or lost or found. , :f That way every seller finds a buyer, every employer finds someone to hire, and the Want Ads accomplish these errands quickly, and best of all, economical ly. Get acquainted with the advantages of Chronicle Wamt Ads today! 2 *. . - It Pays to Use the Want Ads ? ??r. _____ 1 . _ -y. .-,'rr% The Camden Chronicle