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i The Camden Chronicle ?54 """ CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1942 ' ' ... " JNUIVlBtK 24 * Kvs To Help Kin The War |L,rv t? *? ">? 10 1,B T'e WH1; Ulk l, >' low-Income (arm. ^ L'Vn Kcralmw county than ever be^Bl 1(1 H 1*. DeLoache, county su Kn'lKor of the' Farm Security adniinEriltion. today. K0r etiouW nay." euplalnml Mr. D? ;'L -that they are going to talk K,, ways of helping to win the war ML-working together. The farmers who Participate in the FSA program K' dv have pledged thomselvea alWr universally to produce more iatuffa Now, with harvest time ?? their group meetings will be Krned into councils of war. They E getting serious about how to ful those pledges. ^B Tonics of discussion among small Krmers in the FSA program, the Supervisor 8aid- w111 be: * ^B Rharing farm equipment and ac^ ..irlng jointly the machinery that Ev be shared and that a small farmEneeds but never has been able to H,v or use along, because his place too small to Justify the outlay. Lending a hand to his neighbors, Eoling transportation, buying and Eling together and planning new ^Boney crops together. I Exchange labor for harvesting, for Epairiug. building, clearing and doother jobs together so that the ^Etal Job of helping to win the war ^Kpiy be done more efficiently and Hulckly. ^B There has been a general increase f00l] crops among farmers on the BsA program in this county, Mr. De oache said, far beyond anything they ^Ber produced before, certainly beHore 1941. I "But raising food crops is one Bbing." he said, "and harvesting and ^Biarketing them are others. There is ^Bgrowing feeling that the small farmBr must work with his neighbor if the Bycle is completed from planting to ^ elling?or getting the foodstuffs to B^ces where they are most badly Beetled to help 'win the war and write Ke Total Vote Cast Bn State Primary I Columbia. Aug. 31? Burnet R. MayBak. South Carolina's Junior United ^^Btates senator, won renomination in Bbc last Tuesday's Democratic, pri^ narv bv a 6.460 majority over Eu^Bene S. Blease of Newberry, former ^frhlef justice of the state supreme ^Eourt. on the basis, of official reMums. The official tabulation in the gub^^^rnatorial race gave former Governor Hlin I) Johnston of Spartanburg an ^^B.451 margin over Wyndham M. Man^ftlng of Sumter, making his third race ^ or governor. Official totals for the senatorial wr-e; May bank 120,701 and Blease 114.241. In the governor's ^B'ace ti e totals were: Johnston 121,465 ^ m! Manning 113,014. I The tabulations completed by B'amt's Hunter. Jr., secretary of ^Bhe I), in", ratio executive committee Brill b> presented to the committee Bo be <b < la red at a meeting here toM The returns showed the total vote Bast in tlie senate contest was 234,B* 3,1,1 in the governor's race 234,^BT9 I!, South Carolina, a predomin^ ntly Democratic state, nomination ^B>y the Democrats is tantamount to ^ election. Post Office To Be Closed Labor Day I The post office will observe a holl* ^Bj&v Labor Day, September 7. The ^keneral delivery window will be open Brom s a. m. to 10 a. m. One city ^ delivery of mail will be made. The public is asked to rememher Bhls holiday so that no one will be ^Bnconvenienced by the closing of the ^ pos; Kufus R. Thurman Of Cheraw Dies I Cheraw, Aug. 31.?Rpfus R. Thur ?an. 49, died Monday in a Florence ^ospita] after an extended illness. He had lived In Cheraw all his life ^ *here he operated d laundry and cleaners plant. B Surviving are his widow, formerly Miss Nan DeLoache of Camden: a daughtor. Miss Margie Thurman, a tuder.t at Wlnthrop college: and hit mother, Mrs. Laura P. Thurman, of Cheraw; also a brother, Ben ? Thurman of Charlotte. I Funeral services jwflte held( at 4 clock Tuesday afternoon at the fraveside. in 8t. David's cemetery and *as in charge of the Rev. A. H. Mc^ Arn. The Thurman family resided in Camden for a number of years where ^ thf- Thurman brothers were engaged Bln farming In West Water ee. Rufua *as popular with his friend* and as ociatf-s who are grieved to learn of ^ is death. T<> Close Monday Monday, September 7, being Labor BgL and deslgnab^lttt^^^^^; When To Apply > For Enrollment Student* who Intend to enroll as; freshim a in eolU'KeH and universities which have Naval H. O. T. C. unita, were advised today to apply by let-j ter to enter the Naval program co-1 Incident with the tiling of application for admission. j The Naval application letter should! he submitted to tlui Professor of j NavAl Science and Tactics at the: Institution involved. In the Sixth Naval District the! Naval It. O. T. C. program is available at Duke University, Durham;' Georgia School of Technology, Allan-1 ta; University of North Carolina, i Chapel 11111; and University of South, Carolina, Columbia. The Naval u. O. T. C. quotas are! usually tilled prior to the start of the freshman year and Individual students j may he accepted under the quotas as. soon as they have been finally accept-1 ed for entrance to the college. The I actual enrollment Into the Naval H. | (). T. C. unit w ill be made during the first few weeks of the freshman year, j .Students enrolled in the Naval R. i O. T. C. may apply to the Professor| of Naval Science and Tactics on the i campus for enlistment by him in the; Naval Reserve as apprentice seamen, and remain on inactive dyty so long, as they are members of the Naval R. O. T. C. They are not required to so enlist, however. Those who do enlist and who fail either the Naval Science or other college course or are disenrolled from the Naval R. O. T. C. for any reason, will be discharged from the Naval Reserve at their own request, or may be transferred to any other class (VI Accredited College Program, V-5, V-7) for which qualified. Shaw Field Plane Lands Near Westville A plane from Shaw Field. Sumter, made a forced landing In a cotton j field or. the W. A. Edward's plantation) north of Camden Friday afternoon. I The pilot's name could not be learned. but it is stated he was unhurt. It is also Rtated the plane was not badly damaged, but was unable to get off on its own power. A giant I wrecker was sent up from Shaw Field ! Saturday, the wings of the plane were detached, the remainder of the craft placed aboard the wrecker and car-j ried back to Shaw Field for repairs. The huge wrecker, bearing the crippled craft, attracted considerable attention as it passed through Broad j street enroute to the port near Sumter. Beard Buys Beautiful Estate The beautiful twenty-three acre estate lying northeast of Camden, bordering the Wateree Lake and | known as "Millbank". was purchased by Henry E. Beard of this city. This property was formerly owned: ! by the late John Boyktn and was later sold to' Ralph Ellis, then to the late Samuel Russell, who made It j Into one of the showplaces of Cam-, den. , , , , I It is located on a knoll, overlooking a body of beautiful clear water, and; has acres of hedges and shrubbery. After Mr. Russell's death, Mrs. Russell sold the property to Warren A. Smith, of New York and Venezuela I who closed the deal with Mr. Beard i a few hours before his return to. Venezuela on Tuesday. September 2. Located on this property, besides the eight room residence, is a Jveroom cottage, two garages, about eight of the finest stables around Cam-1 den A beautiful brick walkway leads j to a bathing pool and fish pond. This property lies east of the city I limits and an overhead bridge spans the entrance to the driveway. Open Meeting Of Garden Club CaLhdeenflOardeen Ucfub wllTb I held^n the Presbyterian Sunday school rooms at 4:30 p. m. Monday, September 14. (The second Monday of the Since the program Pla?n^Q^yw^!.?' T I Gulon, president, and Miss Helen Phelps, chairman of the program committee is especially interesting and Instructive at this time, as It pertains to the victory garden program, the public is invited to attend. A sound motion picture will be shown and the subjects will Include. "Seld Dispersal". "Root Plants", and Flowers at Work." The program will take about thlrty n^uteB _ The regular business tnerunK be held after the picture? have been shown. _ Lufloff Boy Get. Promotion Joseph C. Branham, known to bia H^folks aa "J. c.", Who Is now | stationed somewhere in the desert of California, has been prpmoted to CorL ii He Is In training with the United States ah* forces. He was call^ mtoTervlce April 2. Since then he has been . " haw, in the VnUed ^ateajle to Nice Contribution To Boy Scouts * ? ( Arthur L. Humphries, a former ( aimlen boy, has written a letter to rUotuuu Ancruui. Who haa charge of the Boy Scout work In Camden. He atarta his letter by saying: "1 retneinber a little poem?"Woodman spare that tree, Touch not a single bough; In my youth It sheltered mo, And I will protect It now." My boyhood days In Camden wore pleasant. The people have always been kind to nie. You are giving of yourself to the young manhood of the town. This Is nty small contribution, In the spirit of the above poem." 1 he Boy Scouts of Camden are very grateful to Arthur L. Humphries, of Columbia, for a substantial gift of $25, ijnd the fine letter that accompanied it. Mr. Humphries graduated from the Camden high school where he was a mombei of the baseball team. He later graduated at Wofford college, and was captain of the baseball team there in his senior year. After his graduation he taught school In Camden and Rock Hill, and entered the army as a lieutenant and returned from France as a Major. He then entered a bank in Rock Hill and continued there for several years, when he went to Columbia to take charge to the Carolina Wholesale Company, a livrge concern, which does business in several states. Mr .Humphries parents and a brother, Thomas Humphries, lost their lives in the Cleveland school Are. He Is a brother of Dr. A. W. Humphries of Camden. Mr. Humphries has never lost his love for Camden and he frequently comes back to see the Camden high school football team perform In an exciting game. He was a classmate of John Villepigue. coach of the Camden high school team. Mr. Humphries Is prominent in Boy Scout work dnd Is an official of the Central South Carolina Boy Scout organization. Colored Selectees Ordered To Fort According to announcement made by Local Selective Ser\ ice Board No. 47, thirty-three colored selectees reported to Fort Jackson on Saturday, August 29, 1942. They were: Fred Jones, Walter Taylor. Richard Lee Metley, Johnnie Addison, and Obie Harrison, of Blaney; Lewis Frazier Robinson and Edward Brown of Liberty Hill; Otte Williams, Herbert Grant, John Workman. J. D. Harris. York Fleming, Joe Watklns, Jr., Henry Halle. Jim Spencer Harris. Charlie Zeigler. Thomas Clark Gladen. Oliver Cunningham, and Robert Thomas of Logoff; James Columbus Knox, Jr., of Ridgeway; Hubert Dinkins, Farman Massey, Joe Alexander Robert Drakeford and Harden Dinkins of R. F. D.. Camden; James Jones and Lewis Wright, Jr., of Heath Springs; Dalton Perkins of Bethune; Arthur English, Jr., of Cassatt; Robert Missouri, Jr., Hueston Pate and Willie David Mickle, Jr., of Kershaw; and Harry Therman Sowell of Jefferson. Northern Editor Writes About Us (By E. M. Perkins In Leroy-Gazette News) Someone once said "A good country weekly newspaper is the best mirror of a community that Is obtainable" . . . which expression came to mind this Saturday afternoon tvhile back at the office browsing through the exchanges ... as I frequently do, especially during the winter months . . . among our exchanges Is the Camden Chronicle, published at Camden, South Carolina, by H. D. Niles ... It is In Camden that the Ernest Woodwards have their winter home and Camden is, I believe, the birthplace of Miss Rosa'' McLeod, Mr. Woodward's secretary . . . Jt was during* a brief visit at the Woodward home, returning from Florida, that I dropped In upon Mr. Niles to pay my respects as a northern editor to a contemporary down where the cotton grows ... It developed during our conversation that the place held by Mr. and Mrs. Woodward In the esteem of the Camdenites and the members of the winter colony Is analogous to that in their home town ... an exchange of papers was suggested in order that Mr. Niles might be advised of the activities of the Woodwards during their sojourn here and I, In turn, be able to keep track of their doings in Camden ... the Woodward's gifts to both LeRoy and Camden have made them more desirable communities In which i to reside . . . speaking generally, I have an idea that when the present Congress gets through its taxing program, gifts to colleges and communities^ by those possessed with wealth wjll not greatly exceed In number orange blossoms at ttfe North Pole . . .tand in Mr. Woodward's own words, "the day Is coming when millionaires^ will be sq scarce you will pay a dme to look at one." I fiP jot know the normal popnla. ^^^eaes^at eatlmau AH Schools Of County Opening All schools of Camden and Kershaw county will resume their work utter u three months vacation. Although a large number of (embers have been called into active service or Into c'vil service, the school authorities feel that s< hop!s wijl be well orgunlzed and the teachers are well equipped for their respective Jobs. Emphasis in the high schools will be placed on ? mathematics, social sciences and a full course of physical training for both boys and girls. The school buses in Kershaw county at the present time will operate on the usual basis, but school officials advise that all the care and economy possible be exercised, and the full cooperation of the public is urged in order that the future transportation may be taken care of. The rental system for textbooks will h" used again, and books may be secured through the school superintendent. Charlotte Thompson will open Tuesday morning, September 8. The teachers there this year will be Mrs. Ethel Murchison, Miss May Boykin and Mrs. Anna Sanders. The high school children from this school district will report to the Camden city schools Tuesday morning also. Mt. IMsgah, Gates Ford and Ned's Creek have Just completed a six weeks Hummer term and will resume work in October. Midway, Antioch, Bethune, Blaney, Lugoff and Blue' Grove will open Monday, September 7. Pine Grove will have Mrs. Nannie V< Sullivan of Columbia, aB principal, and the other teachers will be Mrs. John Manuel of Columbia; Miss Haxel Morrow, of Campobello; and Mrs. Irene M. GettyB, of Lugoff. Baron DeKalb, Providence and Thorn Hill will open Thursday morning, September 10. Kershaw City schools will open Wednesday, September 3, and Camden public schools on Tuesday. September 8. All parentB and members of the community are invited to attend the opening exercises of the school they patronize. W. H. Truesdale Dies At Kershaw Kershaw, Aug. 27.?W. Hamp Truesdale. 74, died at his home here at 7 o'clock Wednesday night. Mr. Truesdale had been an invalid for two years. He 1p survived by six sons and four daughters, Mrs. CurtlB Truesdale, Mrs. Juanita West, Mrs. >H. R. Horton and Mrs. Curtis Horton, all of Kershaw; Grover C. Truesdale of Durham. N. C., Bryan Truesdale of Spencer, N. C., Alburtus Truesdale of Camp Chaffee, Ark., and Roy Truesdale. Eldrldgo Truesdale and W. H. Truesdale. Jr., of Kershaw; also two sisters, Mrs. Sallie Gardner and Mrs. Ida Rutledge of Kershaw. Funeral services for W. H. Truesdale, who died Wednesday night, were conducted from Sandhill Baptist church at 1 o'clock Saturday afternoon by the Rev. B. A. Davis, assisted by the Rev. Matthew Rabon and the Rev. J. T. Dabney. Interment was in the churchyard. After The War? Jobs For All Clemson, Aug. 27. ? Jobs for women in industry who wish to continue working after the war is over and jobs for the men now in the armed forces depend upon our ability to maintain the sufficient demand for production, said Dr. Frank B. Ward, of the University of Tennessee, speaking at the South Carolina District Conference for Agricultural workers, in Session at Clemson recently. This demand can be upheld by the need for rebuilding devasted areas; for repairing and replacing normal wear in machinery, etc.; for meeting an accumulated consumer market; for aiding the underprivileged third of our population; and for resuming postponed public works projects. Dr. Ward suggests a gradual demobilization of the armed forces on the basis of specialized industrial training. Such a plan would allow men to be placed where they are needed most and would prevent unemployment caused by a surplus of laborers. Unemployment resulting from strikes can be avoided by meditation between labor and management and by better personnel direction, handled through U. S. employment agencies. Technological unemployment growing iout of more efficient machinery and , shorter working hours, cannot be prevented. Educational institutions must assume the training of people to meet such a condition. Whether or not we have a depression unemployment following the war depends on the government's economic policy during; reconstruction. Production and consumption must be equalized. Inflation must be prevented. Government subsidy where it is needed; tax credits offered to industries achieving such goals as improving their manufacturing process es or putting more people back to 11work; new uses and fields of invest Harvest Crass And Legume Seed Calling on farmers to harvest all tho grass and legume seed possible ihls summer and fall, V. T. Mullen, Work Unit Conservationist of ibe Lynches Klver Soil (Conservation Dlstrlct, said this week that seed of those t'l'ODH ILlUSt he harvested on the f^rui If an adequate supply Is to he available for plantIng next year. "Leapodotn. eowpeas, soybeans, erotalarla and serlcea lespedexa need are the most Important legume seed that ran be saved, and for pasture improvement Dallls grass seed can be harvested." he said. He points out that adequate suppiles of these crops that will bo required In carrying out farm conservation plans and also In establishing soil conserving practices may not bo available through commercial channels. "Tho war has closed the European seed-producing areas to the American markets. Then too, he adds, farmers will need large supplies of forage. soil-conserving, and pasture plant seed next spring to add nitrogen to the soil to make up for a lack of commercial nitrogen and to Insure the sustained production of food for freedom. / ''There's more than enough legume and pasture plant seed to take care of next year's planting needs If harvested." the conservationist said, "but unless this seed Is saved a shortage may develop. Averting that possibility falls directly on the shoulders of the farmers themselves." Enlistment Story Of Interest Here Special to Spartanburg Herald? Norfolk, Va., Aug. 23.?A good publicity story was all that Dewey l.ee Jones wanted when he began enlisting recruits for the United States navy. And Dewey thought he had one. Jones, a 44-year-old former pcstofflce clerk from Spartanburg, enlisted in the navy to Join the recruiting staff of the local navy recruiting office in Spartanburg. His publicity story?which he thought he would "keep" until he graduated from a recruiting training school?was having his own son enlist as his first recruit. Rut the patriotism of Dewey's pon messed up the works. "I Just couldn't wait, dad," said Ihe son?Douglas B. Jones ? when he calmly walked Into the naval training station at Norfolk and announced that he hud already enlisted. "I know its a disappointment to you, but I figured the navy needs every man It can get as soon as it can get them." "Son." said the "old man", "I'm proud of you. Sure I'm disappointed, but I can understand the way you feel. We're both here to do a Job and the sooner we start, the better." If you were that anxious to get In, then I wouldn't have wanted you to wait." Officers of the training station? sympathetic with the elder Jones hecause he had lost his first recruit? said the father could be proud of a son with that much spirit and predicted that he would be a credit to his father and to his country. The two Jones' underwent training within a few blocks of each other. The senior was undergoing a course of instruction that prepared htm for recruiting duties In Spartanburg, and the son is starting a course of recruit Instructions which will prepare hira for duty at sea. Both Jones' were employed by the government prior to their enlistment. The elder was a postofflce clerk, and the Junior was employed at near-by Camp Croft. Last May the father decided to offer his services and was given a rating of chief specialist for recruiting duty. Young Jones, 21 years old, and a graduate of Spartanburg high school, enlisted in Columbia on August 3, and reported at Norfolk on the Cth. Their home Is on route 4, Spartanburg. Dewey Lee Jones mentioned in the Norfolk story was for about sixteen years overseer of weaving at the Hermitage Cotton mill near Camden, and Douglas Jones was born In Camden, and both have many relatives and friends residing here who will be interested In this story. Revival Meeting At Blaney Rev. H. D. Anderson, of the Camden Baptist church will be at Blanej Union Baptist church, from September 7 to 11, where he will conduc revival services. He will be assisted by the pastor, Rev. R. O. Johnson The services will begin at 8:30 night ly- . . Election Returns Next Tuesday On Tuesday evening, September 8 The ^Chronicle will again asserobh theVfcturns for both state and county but wing such a short ticket the re suits Ahofild be known before nightfah i therefore we will not use the screei and electric slides. Three local can didates are to be voted for, the hone > of representatives, coroner and mag Urate for QeKalb township., /x; [Two races are to be decided maty 1 s^te-wide primary?these Japs Deadly, Grew Warns Washington, Aug. 30. ? A Holenin warning that the Japanese will tight "with all the force and power at their command . . , until they uro utterly crushed" and that great sacrifices are neceasary by Americans to avoid a stalemate was delivered tonight by whlfe-li aired Joseph C. Grew, xho former ambassador newly returned from Tokyo. From the background of his ten years' service In Japan, drew declared that "we are up agalpat a powerful fighting machine, a people whose morale cannot and will not he broken even by successive defeats, who will certainly not he broken by economic hardships, a people who individually and collectively will gladly sacrifice their lives for their emperor and their nation, and who can be brought to earth only by . . . complete defeat In battle." This ominous report, delivered in an address prepared for the Columbia Hroadcastlng system and constituting Crew's first public utterance since his return on the Orlpsholm last week, was lightened only by a declaration that we could win the conflict through "the. exertion of our maximum capacities, Individually nnd collectively. In a war of offense," At the same time Grew gave his official confirmation to the accounts of atrocities reported by returning newspapermen and others, Including a detailed nccount of the "water I cure" administered to three elderly 'American missionaries and a recital of the bayoneting to death of captured soldiers. The diplomat also recounted the deceitful manner In which Foreign Minister Togo treated his presentation of President Roosevelt'B eleventh hour message to Emperor Hlrohito, keeping drew In "entire Ignorance" of the attack on Pearl Harbor even as conversation took place. The atrocities, Grew said, represented "the ugly aide" of the Japanese people?"the cruelty, brutality nnd utter bestiality, the ruthlessnees and rapaclousness of the Japanese military machine which brought on this war." Personal friends of long standing, he related, tried to ease his days of Imprisonment after December 7 with gifts of food, 'sometimes a piece of meat, which was the most precious gift they could confer because they themselves could seldom get meat. They were personally loyal to me to the end." But at patriots, he continued, even these Japanese "will fight for their emperor and country, to the last ditch If necessary." Suggestions About Feeding Peanut Hay The quality of hay produced by peanuts, a hay with which many farmers have had no experience, depends largely on the stage of maturity and the manner in which the crop has been handled, says County Agent W. C. McCarley. If harvesting has been accomplished before the crop becomes too ripe, so that most of the leaves can bo kept on the stalk and the green color retained, the feeding value will be materially higher that that produced from overripe and weather-damaged crops. The best green leafy peanut hay is not greatly different in feeding value from cowpea hay. and is acceptable for feeding cows, mules and other farm animals. The greatest dangdr lies In feeding mouldy and weatherdamaged hay and that to which considerable sand has adhered. Mules And horses are more subject to injury from mouldy feed and forage than are cattle. Hay containing excessive sand often causes difficulty when fed to work stock. A feed rack floored with s'ats 1 Inch to 1 1-2 inches wide with 1-2 inch cracks between the slats permits some of the sand to pass through and helps to reduce the danger. Savings Loans . Show Gains Chicago, 111., Aug. 24. ? Savings, . building and loan association resources In Camden gained $65,343, orl3.61 per cent last year, it is shown in com. parlson between the national directory of associations Just published by the United States Savings and Loan League and that of the preceding year. Two member associations pf the " League are listed In Camden and aggregate assets as they entered 1942 ' t were $545,343. M. M. Hewell, GrednI vllle, who is South Carolina's national - executive councilman in the United States League, says that these associations had 289 investing and savings members as they started the new tw year, and were lending money to?=? 5 385 families to pay for their homes. I "For the country as a whole, he said, l, JWLwaa.the best year savings*. tatiU!a lng and loan associations have had " since before the depression juuf th# 6 net expansion for the system as a whole was probably a little less than a the proportion of ggin