The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, June 05, 1942, Page PAGE SIX, Image 6
-Bridge of Ships J
Rising Rapidly;
Despite Simultaneous Production
of 2-Ocean Navy,
Records Tumble.
WASHINGTON. I) C America's
"bridge of ships" is building fast, i
In steady procession from tin* hun- j
di eda Ut bhipNViiya along our At Ian
tic, Gulf and Pacific coasts, new
merchant vessels of many differ- i
ent types are descending to the sea
in token of America's pledge to move
all-out aid to the powers fighting
Axis aggression.
Each entering splash recalls the
critical days of the last war when >
our shipbuilders were engaged in a i
similar effort to offset the ravages !
of German submarines. Vivid is the i
memory of Hog Island, Philadelphia,
where 122 vessels of nearly a
million deadweight tons wery produced
by the most. gigantic' shipbuilding
plant ever built, despite
early discouragement, shortages of
men and materials and much public
impatience. Completed too late
to be of much service before the
first World war had ended, the hig
rnerc4itmt flotilla to which 76 other
American shipyards added another
13,200.000 deadweight tons before
the end of 1021, served to demonstrate
America's genius for volume
production
Shift to High Gear.
' Today American shipbuilders j
have shifted once -more into high- ,
gear production. This time they will
not be late, as they were in 1018. ,
This time they are primed to estab- !
lish a production record that will far ;
outdistance the emergency effort of j
the first World war. Already they j
are delivy^mg at the rate of three .
new merchant ships a week and ex- [
pect by the last part of 1942 to be
completing two a day. And they
arc doing so at a time when Amcr- j
ica is also engaged In building a
two-ocean navy of a magnitude i
never dreamed of in the last war.
Ninety merchant vessels of 1,000,000
deadweight tons ure scheduled
for delivery during the first three j
months of 1942; 14G vessels of
1,400,000 deadweight tons in the sec- :
ond quarter of that year, 154 vessels
of about 1,646,000 deadweight tons :
in the third quarter, and 184 vessels I
of nearly 2.000,000 deadweight tons
in the last quarter of 1942. The first
quarter of 1943, final year of the
present emergency project, will see i
another 220 ships aggregating 2,270,000
deadweight tuns placed m operation.
Ahead of World War No. I.
A recent report prepared by the
United States maritime commission
compares the present program with
that of the first World war. In terms
of deadweight tonnage, which best
indicates cargo carrying capacity, 1
the comparison reveals that in the
present program the production of
steel seagoing vessels of 1,000 gross
tons or more will, by the end of 1943,
be about equal to that produced
in the entire World war construction
period (1912-21); and that in
respect to speed of output, the cur- i
rent program which began in 1937 |
will, at the end of 1943, be three
years and more than 10,000,000 j
deadweight tons ahead of the corresponding
year 1918 when the [
armistice was signed.
An essential factor in the magni- \
tude and speed of the current pro- j
gram was the action of the mari- i
time commission in starting an or- !
derly long-range construction program
of 5o ships a year in 1937.
The report shows that the produc- I
tion of steel ships in 1942-43 will
more than treble that of 1917-1918,
while the production fur 1942 alone |
will exceed by 20 per cent and for
1943 by 40 pei rent the output of the !
peak \rai. 1919, when about 5,125,
000 deadwvig: t tons were produced. ;
New Zealand to Breed
More Horses for War Use
WELLINGTON. NEW ZEALAND, j
?The internal otTairs department, in i
a statement revealed that while the
country was busy mechanizing the
army with a tank-building program
and the organization of pools for j
motor transport with which to fling
all the oil-driven vehicles possible j
against an invader, the government j
is also pushing ahead with the raising
of suitable horses for use in
areas where auto transport is difficult.
This is being done under the Hemounts
act passed by parliament
during the World war.
The act provides for transport of
approved stallions around the country
to improve the quality of the
nation's horseflesh, tlie governrm t.t
paying subsidies to enable the plan
to be carried out
The department said that the
total number of stallions available
would be no fewer than last year,
when 800 foals were born.
Women's Hats a Tip-Off,
AIleged.-Burglar Seized
PHILADELPHIA ?Kappa Sigma
fraternity members almost were
convinced a youth apprehended in
Lhe.r house w as an engineer.n;f
tuder.t. as lie C'a.nud who was
Boking for a friend. Then some
e asked "Have you get t tur
es vet in your course0" ' Turj
! 'S0" came the reply. "What
; j 'd an eng.are: be doing with
; ?n's hats?"
flBwas held in $1,000 bail.
Eighteen-Dollar Wage i
Weekly Enough, Say Girl*
Eighteen dollars a week is a quite
adequate salary for working girls,
according to the women themselves.
Interviews with 5,000 working
girls In the lower wage brackets,
earning an average of $18.21 a week'
has just been completed by the Bu
reau of Business Research at the ,
University of Southern California .
and reveals this to be ft majority j
opinion. . , . . .... 1
About 88 per cent said they v\eie ,
making enough to maintain a de- j
cent stnndnrd of living. And of those ,
who said they needed more money. ,
02 per cent were making in excess i
of the average wage.
Most of the women said they were I
well clothed, with 0 per cent claiming
they were always in need o? ,
clothes.
"The higher wage group com- .
plained more about the need for |
clothes than the minimum wage j
earners," pointed out Dr. Thurston .
H. Ross, director of the bureau. I
"That is, those who spent most men- i
ey for clothes seemed to be in great- j
est need for them at all times, while .
those who spent least had no com- j
plaints to make with respect to the ,
quality and quantity of their .
clothes." '
The purpose of the survey, Dr.
Ross stated, was to find out what j
these women spend money for and j
how much they spend on the various ;
items. .
A typical yearly expenditure rec- |
old for other items disclosed that
street dresses ($83.75), transportation
($40 12), amusements ($20.40),
and stockings ($19.32) made the
most sizeable bite into the remainder.
Buy Quality Soaps Under
U. S. Specifications
Buy your toilet soap to U. S. government
specifications on a price
basis, if you wish to secure a good
quulity soap at the lowest price.
To comply with federal specifications
a sonp must be pure and cannot
contain an excess of free fatty
acid nor alkali, which may irritate
the skin. Further, it cannot contain
an excess of matter insoluble
in alcohol or water. The purity of
a soap is judged more or less by the
percentage soluble in water. The
smaller the insoluble portion, the
better the soap.
In making soap, fats and oils are
treated with caustic soda (lye) and
unless this is washed out it remains
in the finished product as
free alkali. To ofTset this danger,
too much free fatty acid is some- |
times left in the soap. The most j
important requirement for a good ,
toilet soap is that it should have no
excessive free alkalinity.
Sodium chloride or salt is used
in the soap-making process and is
also an impurity which should not
appear in the finished product.
The two main types of soap are
framed or floating and milled.
Framed soaps contain about 25 per
cent of moisture when new and dissolve
more rapidly in use than do
milled soaps which contain about 10
per cent moisture.
Cats Get Pyorrhea
Wrong feeding often is at the root
of many digestive ailments in cats.
Then again some cats, like people,
may be born with weak stomachs.
Digestive diseases in cats run all the
way from pyorrhea to piles, and include
stomatitics, which is an inflammation
of the mouth, pharyngitis
(sore throat) and colic, dyspepsia.
hairballs in the stomach,
worms, gastritis, toxemia, infectious
enteritis, colitis and several others.
Constipation, while not so much a
disease as a condition, is likely to
cause toxemia. Diarrhea is really
a symptom, hardly a disease.
A chill may bring on gastritis.
Enlertis. which is an inflammation
of the tenal invasion. However, it
must not be forgotten that the wellfed
cat is best able to resist illness.
Manchus Invaded China
Among those who have invaded
China in the past are the Manchus
Three centuries ago they came in
from the north ar.d conquered the
country. A Manchu took over the
throne of China and ruled as emperor.
After him came many other
Manchu emperors and they kept
power until a revolution brought
about a republic. While the Manchus
were in power there came into being
a great number of public officers
known as kwans or kuans. That is
what the Chinese called them. In t
the outside world they came to be
known as mandarins, a name from j
the Hindu language. There were j
nine kinds, or grades, of mandarins J
They often were rich and some were I
greatly feared by the plain people. '
Broiled Foods
Broiled foods are a lit or. g the most .
healthful of all the cooked foods, i
By this method of cooking we pre- I
serve food values more easily and j
surely titan by many other rr.eth- !
ods. Tito direct flame of the broilei 1
may be graduated to '.he desired ir.-M
tensity for the j..h to be done.- And j
the distance from the fl one is de
pendent upon the thickness of tin I
food to be broia :
In the well-dcs.gned br -.icr u > j
find the smokeless type of broiie:
pan This ntcar.s that the rxcesfnt
drops away fr. rn the food elirt.i
rating the deadly disintegration *o'
frying. And the smoke consumer
flames do away u :th c !;.nr
fumes as well.
Great Britain Has
New Secret Weapon
,
Proves Effective Method of
Protecting, Convoys.
LONDON. ? Latest of Britain's
secret weapons, the tighter catapult- .
plane?-which is shot into the air |
from the decks of certain ships to
combat attacking bombers ? has
proved an expensive, if effective,
method of protecting convoys,
Considered by pilots as one of
the toughest jobs in the R.A.F., the I
plane Is launched by means of a
catapult from its storage place
aboard the vessel. After shooting
down the raider?or driving it off?
the plane attempts to reach shore, |
or, if it is too far at sea, comes down
into the water.
The pilot is usually picked up by
ships in the convoy, but the plane is
inevitably a total loss. Costing more
than $20,000, this is an expensive
way of combatting convoy raiders,
but when it is taken into consideration
that the four-engined FockeWulf?chief
long-range ocean bomber
of the Luftwaffe?costs more j
than $200,000, the dividend is relatively
high.
Pilots ? all volunteers for this
work ? realize that their only
chance of safety lies in either reaching
shore or being picked up by the
convoy. When the plane hits the
water an automatic dinghy is released
which provides?except in
very rough weather?the pilot with
some means of buoyancy until he
can be picked up. Despite the dangers
of the service, men from ajl
sections of the R.A.F. flock-to volunteer
for it.
One of these pilots?a former
Grand National jockey, and winner
of the 1939 race ? Lieutenant Robert
Everett has just been awarded, the
Distinguished Service Order for
shooting down one of the FockeWolfe
Condors.
Voodoo Cults in Haiti
Are Found to Be Waning
WASHINGTON, D. C.?The Haitian
voodoo cult, famed for its "black
magic" religious ceremonies, is
nearing its last days, according to
Dr. Alfredo Metraus, Smithsonian
Institution archeologist, who has
just returned with one of the finest
collections of voodoo ceremonial
paraphernalia.
The decline of voodooism is associated
with an intensive drive by
missionaries, who discovered that
some of the most ardent members
of the cult were prominent in various
Christian churches. They recognized
no essential discrepancy between
the two loyalties.
As a result of the missionary endeavors
a great number of voodoo
objects?vases, drums, pipes, wooden
bowls, satchels of earth, stone
axes, rattles and images of saints?
have been discarded. Sacred flg
trees are being felled and large
posts representing African gods are
being destroyed.
The voodoo cultists also are taking
oaths to forswear any association
with the African deities of their
forefathers, and only in the remote
jungles of the West Indian republic
is voodooism still practiced as before.
Dieting Adds Pound a Day,
Gets Him Into Air Corps
LONDON, ONT.?Recently a slim,
good-looking young Londoner applied
for enlistment in the R.C.A.F.
as a pilot observer.
"You are an 'A' medically, but you
are four or five pounds underweight,"
the medical officer advised.
"You had better fatten up
and come back in a month or so."
So the young man studied up on
fat-producing calories, doubled up
on his meals and went to bed early
each night.
A few days ago he returned to
enlist. A surprised medical officer
weighed him and found he had |
gained at the rate of a pound a i
day. Being several pounds over the
minimum requirement, he was immediately
enlisted.
A careful search failed to produce
any lead weights.
Only Curiosity Keeps
British Taxpayer Alive
LONDON.?London business men
are chuckling over this letter which
is circulating throughout the financial
district:
"The Collector of Taxes. Dear
Sir?For the following reasons I am
unable to meet your demand note
for income tax.
"I have been bombed, blasted,
burnt, sandbagged, walked upon,
sat upon, held up. held down, flattened
out and squeezed by income
tax, super tax, tobacco tax, purchase
tax, beer tax, spirit tax, motor
tax.
"The only reason I am clinging to
life at nil is to see what is going to
hnppen next."
Last Minute Entries
in State Campaign
(Continued from first pugo)
ficc |n the prlmar*'/*Cven Johnston
appeared lt> ho undecided when ho
filtered the secretary's office.
As he sat down at u desk a hush
I? 11 over the crowd which hud galh,i.(|
to watch last minute dovolopmeht
s.
'Give ine a hlauk", Johnston said.
Which one?" Hunter asked.
(Jive ine tlio one for" and then
after a dramatic |?mohh added
for governor."
Jolinston a Spartanburg attorney
served a four-year term us governor
from Hi3l to 1938.
. mease's decision to seek tho U.
S Senate seat, caused a stir of excitement
in what had promised to be
an otherwise quiet political campaign.
There will he contests also for tho
offices of lieutenant governor and
for comptroller general.
The three who will seek the lieutenant
governor's position are C. Coke
Bridges of Lancaster; George K.
Laney of Chesterfield and ltansome
.1 Williams of Marion.
Lust minute entries ran the total
to four who seek the post of -comptroller
general. They are: State Senator
Q. 10. Hrltt of York; Lott Lawson
of Columbia; E. C. Rhodes, Assistant
comptroller general, and D.
A. Smith of Oconee, at present a secretary
in the office of Governor It.
M. Jefferies.
State officers who will be renominated
without opposition are: John
M. Daniel, attorney general; W. P.
Black well, secretary of state; Jeff B.
Bates, stute treasurer; James C. Dozier,
adjutant general; James H. Hope,
state superintendent of education, and
J. Roy Jones, commissioner of agriculture.
g_e?ug maa 1 w ? ??
There will be contests In three districts
for congress. Last-minute entries
kmvo opposition to Rep. James
I*. It it-hards i>f the 5th district, and
Hep. Duller II. Hare of the 3rd district.
Opposition already had been established
for Hep. John L. McMillan
of the 6th district.
(I, F. (fatton, for L'I years superintendtuit
of the Wtnnaboro high
school, entered the race against Kdwards
shortly alter 11 a. in., John
C. Taylor of Anderson, a former member
of congress, tiled his entry at
about the same time as a candidate
in the 3rd district to oppose Hare.
McMillan will he opposed by (Maude
T. McDonald and Fred W. Willis,
both of Florence. McDonald Is now
a member of the state legislature and
Willis is a real estate man.
Congressmen who will not he opposed
are L. Mendel Rivers of Charleston.
tlrst district: H. I'. Fulmer, of
Orangeburg, second district; and Joseph
It. Hryson. of Oreenvlllo, fourth
district.
Only in 1 lie ninth and twelfth circuits
will there he opposition for solicitors.
in the twelfth. Hubert Yarborough,
of Florence, will oppose* in-j
cumbent J. iteuhen Long, of Conway;
Hussell MeCJowan will oppose Incumbent
Robert Met'. Figg, Jr., in the
ninth.
Solicitors without opposition include
Frank A. McLeod, of Sumter,
third circuit; A. Fletcher Spigner, of
Columbia, fifth circuit and W. CJ. Finley
of York in the sixth. The terms
of solicitors in only five of the eleven
circuits expire next year.
Boards To Call
3-A Men For Draft
(Continued from first page)
of men who registered 011 April 27,
since they are not liable for military
service.
Cautioning against arbitrary re
JJH I
classification of a registrant. natlonnJ
headquarters pointed out that
current policy does not authoring
the classification of a married
in Class 1-A merely because hhj
financially dependent wife is workl^jfl
or is capable of working, and, on th?S
other hand, classification of a mnr.lj
ried man in Classes 3-A or 3-B is not I
justified unless there is actual flna#.a
cial dependency on the earnings
the registrant."
FINAL DISCHARGE^!
Notice is hereby given uuu i I
month from this date on jt,ty 3 .S
11 will make to the Probute Coiin*
I Kershaw Coduty my tlnal retina,!^?
I Administratrix of the estuto 0t gJB
Anna Smith. deceased. und 0t, ,!
date 1 will apply t|lt.
Court for u tlnal discharge ^ rfl
administratrix.
DOROTHY 8. HEATH,J
Adinlul8tratr'u 1
I Camden. 8. 9., June 3. ?
FINAL DISCHARGiT*
Notice la hereby given that on- I
month from thla date, on JtntijH
l'942. T. B. Clyburn will make to SM
Probate Court of Kershaw (\nilltyl^^B
tlnal return as Administrator ot 21
estate of K. F. ltlce, deceased, aod
the same date he will apply to 2^1
said Court for a final discharge y|
said Administrator.
N. C. AKNETT
Judge of Probate M
Camden, 8. C.( May 15. 1943.
NOTICE TO DEBTORiTANDl
CREDITORS 1
All parties Indebted to t h. estate of H
Mrs. Mary M. Poarce are hereby
tied to make payment to the undeJfl
signed, and all parties, if any, havi* H
claims against the said estate
present them likewise, duly atteg'JI
within the time prescribed by law
LUCILE MICKLE, ' J
Administratrix I
JOB W. MICKLE,
Administrator
Camden, S. C., May lti, 1942. 1?
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Florist Pulls Gun;
Skunk Is Too Fast
"K NfPOKl A, KAN. ? Greenhouses
ordinarily wear a pleasant
perfume. That's why Mayor Ora
Hmdom. who is a florist, sniffed
suspiciously.
He opened a desk drawer and
out jumped n skunk The mayor
grabbed a gun, but the maladorous
kitten beat him to the draw.
AH his roses couldn't help.
"Here's an Electric Mixer
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