iwipes Ahead
( World War Peak
ty of V. S. Plants Is
icreasing Steadily.
lNGTON. ? United States
,o already producing mora
us than were made at the
production in the last war,
her capacity is under conaccording
to traders in the
1 field, who said that vast
.s of chemical materials
, used for production of
goods of all kinds were now
evoted to powder output.
, basic ingredient in trini,
the famed tnt, is being
nthetically from a petrolein
two large plants erected
lly for the defense promd
chemical experts said
ad been expected originally
;e plants, together with oth?r
construction, would suphe
toluol needed,
tly, however, largely bef
lease-lend shipments to
i powers, the United States
icnt has called upon the
toluol industry to turn over
ent of its production for exToluol
is a by-product of
j is derived from the cokeicess
of steelmaking.
;e part of recent purchases
to Russia for processing
sive plants,
also has taken large quanpicric
acid for production
sives. This material, which
in large amounts in World
for explosives production,
erted to "Other uses during
e interval, and its use here
)sives was not resumed here
have turned to use of
5S powder. Principal use of
rid here has been in producilastics.
a Peak* Receive
Names of Scientists
ERVILLE, CALIF. ? The
>f four renowned scientists
en given to major features
jquoia National park.
Elliott, park supervisor, said
S. board on geographical
ipproved national park servDmmendations
for naming
ures.
3f the names were given to
n summits, all more than
;et high, none of which is
an three miles from Mount
, highest point in the United
The summits were named
Chamberlain, Hale, Newid
Pickering in honor of the
scientists.
George Ellery Hale, for whom one
ot the features was called, organized
the Kentwood, Yerkes and
' Mount Wilson observatories.
A high elevation between Rock
and Golden Trout creeks in the park
was named Boreal Plateau because
plant life on the high, wind-swept
area is similar to that found in the
Arctic regions.
Elliott said the highest pass over
which a saddle horse trail passes in
the country, 13,600 feet, was named
Trail Crest. It is a sag in the main
crest of the Sierra Nevada two miles
south of Mount Whitney and on the
boundary of .Sequoia National park.
Britain Hopes to Ease
War Workers' Shopping
LONDON.?To help women warworkers
who have no time for shopping
during the week stores in Britain
may decide to serve only warworkers
on Saturday afternoons.
They would have to show their
factory passes before being served.
This is the idea of Miss G. M.
Cross, welfare officer at the ministry
of health.
She is trying the plan in the London
area. The food control committee
agreed to help and sent out
2,000 letters to shopkeepers asking
for their support. If the shopkeepers
agree Miss Cross will try to put
over her idea in other parts of London
and then in the North.
"The idea is to make certain that
women war-workers can go shopping
once a week if they want to," said
* ministry of health official.
Loses 14 Lbs. in Week
To Serve With Brother
I new YORK.?A feature of the
brisk enlistments here Into the
tnned services was the swearing in
?* 17-year-old youth who was 14
Pounds overweight when he applied
a week previously.
The too-heavy recruit was Donald
Covert of Ronkonkoma, L. I., a son
?f Lieut. Comdr. Graham Covert,
n?w on active fleet duty. Donald
?nd his twin brother Eugene appeared
at marine corps enlistment
headquarters and Eugene,was accepted.
But Donald, who is six feet
toll, had too much "beef," so he
went home, dieted and worked off
hstUgh to en?ble bim to enThat
Mosquito's Worse
Than Bite of Lovebugi
Washington.?Romantic u. sj
soldiers stationed-In Caribbean sea
.Ports should do their courting behind
screen doors, Dr. Ernest C. Faust
Tulane university advises prmy i
doctors. It's bad enough to be bitn
by the lovebug but the malaris
carrying mosquito has a sting just
bad. Tly swatters may bestandard
courting equipment,
with guttata,
Vitamin E Curbs Muscle
Diseases, Claim Doctors
Thy synthetic production of a '
water-soluble form of vitamin E, recently
found helpful in the treatment 1
or some diseases of the muscles, |
was reported before the closing ses
8ions of the National Academy of
Sciences. .<
1 he now form of vitamin E was 1
described by Prof. Lee Irwin Smith I
w . , Univt'rs'?y of Minnesota.!
natural vitamin E is soluble only in :
Iat and therefore must be adminis- I
tered by injection in order to be !
properly absorbed by the body.
The fact that the new synthetic
form can be made to dissolve in 1
water by the addition of a drop or !
two of hydrochloric acid, it was |
pointed out, provides for the first '
time a vitamin E which can be
taken orally.
Studies which determined for the
first time the exact wave-length
bands in the ultra-violet radiations
of the sun which produce cancer of I
the skin by overexposure were reported
by Drs. H. P. Rusch and B.
E. Kline of the University of Wisconsin.
It has been known for some time
that over-exposure to sunlight is
an important casual agent in cancer
of skin. The high incidence of skin
cancer in sailors, the report stated,
"has long been known, and nearly
50 years ago 'seaman's skin' was
described as a precancerous condition
attributable to continued exposure
to light."
Date Seed Will Always
Originate New Variety
Due to the fact that a date seed
will always originate a new variety
but never reproduce its kind, the
only way to perpetuate a variety is
to propagate its offshoots. A date
palm produces at, or near its base,
5 to 25 offshoots or suckers during
the first 10 or 15 years of its life.
These offshoots are cut from the
parent palm when they have developed
a root system of their own and
are planted 48 females and 1 male
palm per acre.
The female palms bear the fruit
which will mature and ripen only if
the flowers are fertilized with pollen
from the bloom produced by the
male palms. The male flower alone
has fragrance, attracting bees, so
that it is necessary to collect its pollen
and pollinate each female bloom
by hand?a task beginning in February
and lasting until May. This is
closely followed by thinning and supporting
the fruit bunches. Later, each
bunch is covered with paper protectors
to guard against rain?their
worst enemy. From September until
Christmas the fruit is picked once a
week. Inasmuch as QlMh" dates On
a cluster do not ripens? the same
time, they must be picked individually.
A cluster cannot be cut in a
bunch like bananas. After the fruit is
picked, it is thoroughly cleaned,
graded and packed under the most
sanitary conditions.
When Cats Are Sick
When your cat bapke away from
his food, first examine his teeth. He
may have an ulcerated or broken
tooth that makes it painful to eat,
and cats are averse to pain. If you
find something wrong with his teeth,
have the veterinarian take care of
them. If his teeth are all right and
he seems well, wait a couple of days
for his appetite to come back. Check
on him to see if he is constipated
and, if so, give him a generous teaspoon
of mineral oil on a flaked sardine
and follow this with milk of
magnesia twice a week.
Continued refusal to eat, particularly
if accompanied by fever, dullness
and roughened fur, is a matter
for the veterinarian. Of course,
cats sometimes become bored with
what they are fed and want a
change. Old cats frequently become
choosy. In that event tempt them
with something dainty and nourishing,
chicken meat, beef juice, whatever
they fancy. Sometimes a cat's
lost appetite is restored by a raw
chicken head with the feathers left
on but the bill cut off.
Tung Oil
Dr. David Fairchild of the U. S.
department of agriculture first introduced
the tung tree to California
in 1905. Tung culture remained on
a small scale and experimental level
for 25 years, chiefly because manufacturers
could obtain all they
needed from China. But in recent
years the acreage of tung plantations
in this country has been greatly
extended, and today about 175,000
acres in southeastern United States
have been planted in tung trees. Of
: this area only about 50,000 to 60,060
acres are in full production of the
oil-bearing fruit. In 1940 the United
States produced 5,000,000 pounds of
tung oil, but imported nearly 100,000,000
pounds.
Defrost Often
For economy of operation, defrost
often; frost thicker than a quarterinch
acts as insulation, increasing
operating costs. Cool all c<>?kejj
; foods before storing is another thrift
hint. For quick defrosting torn the
current off, removing ice cubes from
freezing trays (they may be temporarily
stored in a bowl), flil trays
with hot water and replace. This
causes the accumulated frost to
melt quickly, after which the ice
cubes may be returned to the freezing
trays and the current turned
on again for normal operation. ,
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This Sergeant Acta ()ual Hole With Carrier t'igeona and Hayoneta
?U. 8. 810NAL CORPS PHOTO.
Sergt. Max BronkhorMt
A worker of miracles is Master
Sergeant Max Bronkhorst. At
Fort Sam Houston, Texas, he is
engaged in the dual capacity of
training homing pigeons for the
Sigual Corps and in teaching New
York clerks, Pennsylvania steel
workers and young farmers from
half u dozen states in the dexterous
use of the bayonet.
He has been breeding barrier
pigeons since his boyhood in Rotterdam,
Holland, nearly half a
century ago. He brought 'a basketful
of his Dutch birds to America
long before the first World ,
War and with him they entered
the United States Army. Both
made good. Nearly everybody
knows how pigeons are used in
modern warfare for auxiliary
communications and for pilots of
airplanes whose radios go wrong.
Parachute troops and military intelligence
agents also need the
courageous feathered messengers.
Very few are downed by gunAre,
the sergeant says, but a good
many are killed by hawks and
cats. He declares that with the
best of food and care a pigeon
will serve the Army and the nation
for as long as 10 years.
Bronkhorst is equally enthusiastic
in his work as an instructor
In bayonet practice.- He acquired
his skill with the steel weapon
while serving in the Dutch army
and majored in its use in the A.
E. F. He is especially proud of
his bayoneteers in the squads at
Fort Sam Houston.
I have never seen anything
like them, he says. These men are
just superior, and that's all there
is to it. I've seen bayonet fighters
of all races but none will be
able to stand up against these
American boys.
Soldiers from the farms, adept
in handling the pitchfork, are
handy with the bayonet l?ut he
ingles out the Pennsylvanians
for the highest praise.
"Especially these Polish boys
from the steeijnills," the sergeant
grins. "The Poles have a perpetual
resentment of the wrongs
suffered by their native land.
They can come to grips."
NOTICE
State of South Carolina
County of Kershaw ,
In the Court of Common Pleas
Ex Parte:
Harold W. Funderburk, receiver of
the Bank of Bethune, In liquidation.
To all Creditors and Depositors having
Claims or Interest in the
Bank of Bethune, in Liquidation:,'
You will please take notice that
the undersigned receiver has petitioned
the Court of Common Pleas
for Kershaw County for an order to
Anally liquidate and wind up the affairs
of the Bank of Bethune and for
an Order Axing the compensation of
the Receiver and the compensation
of his attorney.
You will further take notice that
said receiver will petition the Court
for the conArmation of such settlements
as have heretofore been had
with depositors of said Bank and the
Anal Order excluding them or any of
them from participating in the Anal
dividends to be hereafter paid the
depositors of said Bank of Bethune,
and for such other and further Orders
as may be requisite in the Anal
closing of said bank. ?
You will further take notice that
all claims shall be Aled with said receiver
on or before the 27th day of
April, 1942, and all depositors shall
Ale with the undersigned receiver
within thirty (30) days from said
date their .present address and | or
the present address of any heir, distributee
or administrator of any deceased
depositor. You will also take
notice that failure to Ale said notice
and claim and said address shall exclude
such depositor and | or claimant
from participating in the Anal dividend
as provided by law.
HAROLD W. FUNDERBURK,
Receiver of the Bank of Bethune
l-4sb
CITATION
The State of South Carolina
County of Kershaw
By N. C. Arnett, Probate Judge
Whereas, Mrs. Bezella Shiver made
suit to me to grant unto her Letters
of Administration of the Estate and
Effects of Lester A. Shiver, deceased.
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish
all and singular the Kindred
and Creditors of the said Lester A.
Shiver deceased, that they be and
appear before me, in the Court of
Pribate, to be held at Camden, 8. C.J
on Saturday, April 18, next after publication
hereof, at 11 o'clock in the
forenoon, to show cause, if any they
have, why the said Administration!
should not be granted.
Given under my hand this third
day of April, Anno Domini, 1942.
N. C. ARNBTT, I
Judge o/f Probate for Kershaw County
NOTICE |
State of South Carolina,
County of Kershaw.
In the Court of Common Pleas !
Ex Parte:
Harold W. Funderburke, receiver of
the Bank of Bethune, in liquidation.
To all Creditors, Depositors and!
Stockholders having claims or Interest
in the Bank of Bethune,
in Liquidation:
The receiver of the Bank of Bethune,
having Aled his petition for
an order winding up the affairs of
the Bilnk of Bethune And for An order
for allowances for costs, fees and
commissions.
And the receiver having further
petitioned for an order conArming
certain settlements heretofore had
with certain deposjtors in said Bank,
Notice is hereby given that on the
27th day of April and on such days
IhefeaTter as said meeting may be
adjourned to, the undersigned will
take testimony and hold su<to hearings
on said matters as are required
bjr submit the same to the
court of Common Pleas for Kershaw
County .^together with his findings of
fact and conclusions of law thereon
I i* _,W' h. 2ePA8S. JR.
. Master tor Kershaw County
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GROW YELLOW CORN
FOR THE HEN'8 SAKE
Clemson, April 11. ? Yellow corn
Is better than white for all classes
of livestock, especially for chickens
because they are smaller animals and
very sensitive to lack of the right ingredients,
minerals, and vitamins in
the ration, says P. H. Ooodlng, Clemson
extension poultryman. Farmers
should grow at least enough yellow
corn for their poultry.
Yellow corn supplies vitamin A,
which white corn does not," Mr. flooding
explains. This vitamin Is necessary
to make hens lay well; to make
the eggs hatch beet; to make chicks
grow faster; and to prevent an eye
trouble known as Xerophthalmia or
nutritional roup.
About 45 bushels of yellow corn
together with other Ingredients will
be required to brood 300 chicks and
grow 100 pullets out of this brood
to laying age, and one bushel will
be required for each hen in the flock
per year. From these facts and the
approximate yield of corn per acre,
the farmer can tell how much corn to
plant for poultry.
Yellow corn is an early-maturing
corn, as a rule, and to get the largest
yield It should be grown on fertile
soil. Many have claimed that
yellow varieties will not yield as
well as the white varieties, but tests
indicate that if seed is used from
yellow corn which has been grown
In the Btate for some years, the yield
is as good as that obtained from white
corn.
Trials by the South Carolina Experiment
Station show that Mill's
Yellow Dent, Marett's Yellow Chief,
and Wood's Improved Golden Dent,
yield about as much corn per acre
as the common white varieties, and
there are probably other good varieties
of yellow corn.
NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND
CREDITORS
All parties Indebted to the estate
of J. W. Dunn are hereby notified to
make payment to the undersigned,
and all parties, if any, having claims
against the said estate will present
them likewise, duly attested, within
the time prescribed by law.
MRS. LILLIE R. C. DUNN
Administratrix
Camden, B. C., March 28, 1942
FINAL DISCHARGE
Notice Is hereby given that one
month from this date, on April 18,
1942, I will make to the Probate Court
of Kershaw County my final return
as Administrator of the estate of
Etta T. Perry, deceased, and on the
same date 1 will apply to the said
Court tor a final discharge as said
Administrator. R. M. PERRY
Administrator
Camden, 8. C., March 18, 1942
WOMEN!"
speak for
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Good Pasture
'Cheap Cow Food
Dairy and livestock products are
receiving first call from American
farmers under the Food-for-Freedom
program, V. T. Mullen, Work Unit
Conservationist of the Lynches River
District, said this week, and he pointed
out that for cows to reach maximum
production they must have the
best possible forage.
Good pasture is the cheapest feed
a farmer can produce, the conservationist
said. A good pasture can frequently
be made to produce more
feed per acre, at less cost, than many
of the other feed crops. Also, a good
pasture sod protects the land against
erosion.
However, on many farms, pastures
are subjected to greater use and more
abuse than any other portion of the
farm, Mr. Mullen adds. This accounts
for the failure of many pastures to
provide adequate grazing at a time
when It is needed.
The conservationist warns against
too early grazing of pastures in the
spring. Too early grazing and continuous
close grazing always results
in the plants of low vitality. When
grasses go into the hot, dry summer
months In a weakened condition, they
frequently die.
%
Other practices which Mr. Mullen
recommends include the application
of lime and fertilizer, spreading of
barnyard manure, clipping as often
as necessary to prevent weed seeds
from maturing, and the provision of
supplemental pasture such as pearl
millet, Sudan grass, or kudzu for use
during the summer months when the
regular pasture is usually short.
By doing these things, Mr. Mullen
points out, farmers will be able to
carry over livestock on fewer acres
and be able to produce more milk
and meat at a lower cost of production.
Patrick Men
Held In Forest Fires
-^heraw, April 8. ? Deputy Sheriff
Lee Melton arrested two white men,
Louis Gainey, 35, and Roy McLean,
25, who live near Patrick, and charged
them with setting a Are out in the
government-owned Sand Hill area
which burned over about 5,000 acres
of government-owned land which is
in charge of the forestry commission
of South Carolina.
The men were taken before Magistrate
J. W. Ratcllff, where Mr. Melton
said they acknowledged setting
the Are and explained that last Saturday
they were riding in the back
of a truck in area and struck matches
to light their pipes then threw the
matches out and the grass caught.^""
Then, Mr. Melton said, they continued
to strike matches and throw
them out to see if they would catch
in the straw, which they did.
The Are burned for three days, said
Randolph Lee, the director of the
area, for the forestry commission, and
did thousands of dollars damage to
timber and young trees that harve been
set out In the past few yegrp^
The magistrate imposed a Ane of
$16 on each of .the men or 30 days
on the road.
Mr. Lee said several days ago a
Are which started on a farmer's land
homed more than $.000 acres of the
government-owned area.
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Negro FBI Agent ]
Wins Commendation
Now York, April 8. Oao day back
In HUil Theodore taking
hia daily cantor through Washington'*
Itook Crook park, turned to the Negro
nunmtod policeman accompany tug
him and naked:
"Have you got a hoy who would
liko to go to work"?"
Officer Joseph A, Amoa noddod
Tvo got one 1 can t control", ho replied.
"All right," rejoined the President
el the Lulled States, "that's the one
I want."
Jatuos K. Amos, the boy whoso pappy
couldn't control him, for ulinost
II years was Theodore Itoosovult s
bodyguard, Jack of-ull-trndus and
ehief idolutor.
At 68 James K. Amos is ono of the
Negro agents of the Federal Bureau
of Investigation. Not once but several
j times ho has won the personal commendation
of FBI Director J. Edgur
j Hoover for Jobs well done. ^
He played an important role In the
nation's biggest spy case, in which
3 persons wero sentenced for helping
steal Uncle Sam's secrets for
Hitler. ^
He Joined up with the bureau to*
August, 1921, and has Bervod in Washington,
San Francisco, Cincinnati,
Chicago, Detroit, Boston and Miami,
as well ns in New York. Shrewd, patient
and observing, bo once apprehended
a man who hud killed another
on a battleship, after the bureau bad
been hunting him for 16 years.
Among his choicest memories Is
his association with Theodora Roosevolt.
~ ^ -7 "He
was one of the moBt regular '
men 1 ever worked for in my life,"
he says.
An expert on guns, Amos always t
tried out T. R's before the latter
would use them. If AmOB said a gun
was no good, It was sent back. He
wrote a book about Mr. Roosevelt,
"A Hero to his Valet" which won t*
him an honorary membership in the
International Mark Twain society.
His knowlodge of the White House
during T. R's tenure of office evoked
an Interesting bit of testimony during
the spy trial. Frederick J. Duquesne,
one of the defendants, said
he was a frequent visitor to the White
Houbo when the first Roosevelt was
president. The government called
Amos to the stand. No, Amos testl- ?
fled, Duquesne was not.
An expert marksman as well as a
specialist in guns, Amos regularly ^ '
reports for work at 7 a. m. He la not
required to be there until 9:30.
Seaboard Celebrates
Return,Of Road
Norfolk, Va., April 18.?Maybe April
is a day of no special' historical significance
to you, but it is to the Sea- .
board Railway, On April 20, 1865,
General W. T. Sherman wrote a letter
which returned to its owners part
of the railroad, then known as The
Raleigh and Gaston, which had been
commandeered for use by the Northern
forces during the War Between
The States. Now, 77 years later, when
all 'of America is united against a
common enemy, the Seaboard feels
this date has increased significance
and piognancy.
Written "In the Field" at Raleigh,
N. C? in General Sherman's ownhand,
this letter was recently discovered
in an old tin box at the General
Counsel's Seaboard office at Portsmouth.
On the back was the potation,
"Letter of Gen. W. T. Sherman In
regard to the Cedar Creek Bridge"?
one of the bridges over the Roanoke
and Tar rivers in North Carolina
which had been burned by Confederate
forces to stop the northern advance.
General Sherman writes, "My construction
party is now equipped and
can repair the Cedar Creek bridge
very quick. If you will meet Colonel
Wright there he will agree with you as
to Repairs and c."
He goes on to say that he has no
objection to the return of the railroad,
but "would like to borrow or jjyl
rent of you for a few days some locomotives
and cars" ? presumably for
ending bis troops back north.
He adds, "Any arrangements made
with Colonel Wright will be respected
by me, and I think I am safe In the
assurance that Gen. (Joseph B.) Johnston
will approve any bargain we
may make."
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FINAL DISCHARGE
Notice is hereby given that one
month from this date, on April t7,
1942. Mrs. Emma HlHon Jordan WW -J3
make to the Probate Court ot Kershaw
County her final return as Executrix
of the estate of L J. Jordan,
deceased^, and on^^MUnsijlate^she
Camden, B. C., March M, 55. -jfe
Officers are toveatigalto* the origin
of other recent flree to this area,