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r- ■■ /■ 1 ^AAt FOUK TMt CAMDIN CHUOWiCLl, CAMDlll, tOilTM CAWOLIWA,. rittPAY, AIH»L 14, 1f<4 (Satttikrn (StfninicU 1109 North Broad Street Camden, S. C. PXmUSHED lEVfiRYTWDAY - DaCOSTA BROWN Publisher SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: All Subscriptions Payable Advance One Year : $2.00 Six Months^ ^1.00 Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Camden, S. C. All articles submitted for publication must be si^ed by the author. Friday, April 14, 1944 COST WILL BE HEAVY THE LUCK OF THE IRISH 14 SHARE YOUR CLOTHES WITH RUSSI4NS” Another War Drive is on! South Carolina boys and girls are being called on to collect used, clean clothing and shoes during the week of April 24-28 for our Ally, Russia. Already these valiant people are returning to their homes, long over- .run by Nazi hordes, to find abject ruin and poverty. Often the only clothes they have are. th^gse they are wearing and 'Very often the children are in rags. ' Practically np”cmllan garments have been manufactured since the war. Can we help? Of course we can! ^ Qur.apring cleaning activities at this time into^ Iceland Maidens Are Attractive Bnt Teeth Poor Aviation Cadet Telia of Stay In Far North. Collier’s, in the issue for last week, has an interesting story dealing with the casualties that we may anticipate in a second front invasion, but the writer predicts that we will win even in the face of |^at obstacTes. ’There will be plenty of surprises,” says Quentin Reynolds, “plenty of unpredict able problems, once General Eisenhower attempts an am- S hibious operation the like of which neither Napoleon nor [itler, as eager m they were to invade and o^nbuer England, dared tp^. But when General Eiisemhower gives the word to go it will be because he thinks the chances are good. If we say we can do it, we can do it.” The writer contends that there will be heavy casualties, and that if we land a million men the casualties will rise sharply. No one questions but what this second front is going to be a real test, but on the other hand, neither the writer for Collier’s nor any other writer can reasonably predict at this time what the nature of the second front will be or when and how it will be launched. Mr. Reynolds ihas been a foreign correspondent for a great many years and has witnessed many of the bat tles in this second World War. No doubt he speaki^ with a degree of authority when he recounts what is likely to hap pen. In recounting this he also says that “the Germans are not loath to come out and trade punches and with tanks will come the German infantry.” Then he asks the question, “Are they well equipped?” a;nd answers this by saying that “Those I saw in France, Russia, Sicily and Italy were superbly equiped and their courage and cruelty matched the hardness of their weapons.” We all know that the final battle for victory over Germany will be a costly one, but it will be a priceless victory because it will lay low the hand of militarism and it will give to the nations of th^world, we hope and pray, a breathing spell with peace for 60 or 100 years. After the attack on Pearl Harbor Germany joined with Japan and Italy in declaring war on the United States. We are fighting today on many fronts because Hitler and.Tojo believed that they held in their hands the destiny of the world. * G. B. S. dwlares that the Irish arc justified in refusing to abandon neutrality at the request of the United States and Great Britain. The fellow who has the right of way at an intersection may also feel justified, but that does him little good if he gets in the way of a truck. The Irish are lucky that their neighbors are law-abiding. They are fortunate that they have America and Great Britam 'to contend with and not the Axis powers. Witness that when Czechoslovvakia, the low countries, Denmark, Luxemburg and Norway stood in Hitler’s path he made no bones of overrunning and attempting to enslave these countries. Nor did the Japanese hesitate to invade Korea, Manchukuo, China, the Philippines and the rest. Mr. de Valera, the American-bom premier of Ireland, declares that serving diplomatic relations with another coun try is a step toward war. In ordinary circumstances that is true. But in the case of Ireland there is no necessity that the country become an active belligerent. By severing relations and kicking out the official Axis spies Ireland would, in actuality, be infinitely more neutral than she now is, serving as an information outpost for the Axis. The only reason the Irish would wish to res^t *the re quest would be through national stubbornness and pride because they hate the English-—with some justification—as Mr. Shaw has hinted. But, we repeat, the Irish are lucky in their neighbors. Sam Latimer, in The State. Arlatlon Cadet Charlev T. OoUerill, who haa Juat completed JiU primarv pilot training at the Southern Aviation acbool here, spent sixteen months in Counter Intelllfence work In Ic^and. Cadet Cotteiill speaks in an inter esting view of the period that be spent in Iceland and the people with whom he came in contact. One'of his mSst vivid impressions were the girls in Iceland, quite prettv when dressed up, have bad teeth, which is due to faulty diet. However, this condition is being materially helped through an improved diet which is possible through the use of hot houses, which are heated from the hot water springs for which Iceland is famous. It is interesting to listen to Cot- teriU’s description of Reyjkovik, the .capHol of Ic^and, which is heated by steam from the hot springs. While stationed at the Southern Aviation school here. Cadet CotteriU met and had physical training under the direction of Lt. Maurice A. Clay, whose father. Oliver 8. Clay, served as tobacco auctioneer on the Loose- Leaf tobacco markets in MaysvUle, Ky., for several years. Cadet Cot- terlll is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles T .CotteriU of Ellzaville, Ky., and his wife, Mrs. C. T. CotteriU, Jr., makes her home at 805 East 2nd strMt, MaysvUle, Ky. Cadet CotterUl Is a graduate of Flemingsburg, Ky.. High school. FVtllowing his graduation at the Southern Aviation school here, he has been sent to a basic school for further air training. Pulpwood Becoming Major War Industry Atlanta, Oa.—War needs for pulp- wood are arousing the patriotic inter est of ■ southerners from the share cropper to the large woodland owner as the South rises in importance as a center of pulpwood production. Pulpwood production has ris'kn steadily in the South in recent years until now almost half of the nation’s domestic pulpwood reoeipis comes from the ^uth. And the proportion of this wood which goes to war is much larger because most of the wrapping paper and paperboard boxes In which food, supplies, and equip ment are shipped to our armed fonses overseas are made in the South of southern pulpwood. T fsirt—a uaimssss as ifs ijVl 11 rw aiviii , IDnu/ ^ywvuiJOl -pulpwood producers since the in auguration of the Victory Pulpwood campaigns Indicate the growing inter, est in this war industry. Much of this correspondence is from new pulpwood producing prospects in areas that have been oi>ened up tor the first time. Among the new pro ducers, and there are scores of them, are a Judge and former candidate for governor of Georgia, a physician, the president of a welding engineering company, the head of a nursery, a con structlon contractor and a furniture salesman. Bethuhe Youth Is Killed When Autos Collide Funeral services for Bobby Garner. 19, of Bethune community, who died en route to the Florence hospital Sat urday night after a wreck, that killed two others, was held at 11 o’clock Tuesday morning from Bethany ebureb.'seven miles from Bethune. Young Garner is survived by bis parents, D. H. and Mrs. Lee Smith Garner; three brothers, Darr, Jr., ,Taek and •Wilson, and a sister, Peggy. Palmetto Fanner And Wife Adopt Many Foundings ^lumbia.—^Everybody has heard o< chalh~ Btorea, chain lettera and chain smoking, but a worker In the State Department oC Public Welfare tells an interesting story of a chain family, with some Si links, only one of which has ever been found to be defeetlre. Henry and Susan Abwcrombie— only that isn’t the teal name-Aare a colored couple of around seventy,years of age. They own a small farm in a South Carolina ooonty, thsT>ir« to aid from the Farm Security Admlnietra- tion, and rent a few additional acres from an adjoining tract They have never had any children, bnt for more than a third of a centory they have made a practice of taking homeless colored children into their home and rearing them aa their own. The chil dren are given excellent care, inclnd- Ing medical tests and treatment, are sent to school, and later are taught and required to work on the farm. When they reach' matnrlty they go their way, but Henry ftud Sqmn al ways find other children to take their plmcee. ’The one of whom Henry and Snsan are proudest hasn’t the slightest doubt that be is their own son, and they are careful to protect him in that belief. Susan tells with pride how she kept hts bottle In the bosom ot her nlgbt clothes to keep the milk warm, and Sam distinctly remembers when he was ‘‘nursed” by his “mother." He Is now in the army and sends an al lotment to the old couple every month. He has also financed an electric pomp and an electric refrigerator in the hdme. No social agency induced Henry and Susan to establish a chain family. It was undertaken to gratify parental instincts which had been'denied the satisfaction of actual parenthood. Only by hearsay did the welfare worker learn their story, when it became necessary for her to find a home for six colored children, all under eleven years of age, who had been placed under the department’s guardianship by the probate Judge after they had been deserted by their mothers The father of the children is serring a term in the State penitentiary. When brought to the attention of the wel fare worker one of the children was naked and the others were in the last reranante ef their tags, but Snsas took theiq in. Her first problem was to reassure them when they showed some astonishment at being required to remove their filthy clothing and seeing it put into a boiling “wash-pot” —a proceeding they had never seen before. The only "defective link" in the Cotton Contest . Be Held Again, 1944 Clemso^ April.—Tfie'stole flve-acro cotton improveoient contest vrlH be sponsored again In 1944 by the Cofr ton Manufacturers’ Association of South Carolfua, Sbctenskm Director D. W. Watkins announces. The Cotton Manufacturers’ asaociar tlon, through its treasurer, Dr. W. P. Jacobs, of Clinton, has notified Direc tor Watkins that a c<Hitribation ot |1.- 000 has been made by the Association to furnish funds tor prise money. ’This organisation has provided the prise money fnnds for 16 yq|te, and expres ses its pleasure In having a part In ths good work, which was sponsored in Its first year, 1924, by the State Publishing company, Columbia. Itor a number of years the prises have been |750 tor the first state prise, $276 for second state prise, $200 each for three district fliet prises, and $126 each for three district second prises. During the 16 years in which the cotton contest has been held, jibout 12,000 farmers have entered the com- petition, have reaped the benefits de- rived from tBe r^uired use of better seed and the improved practices, and have helped to spread these benefits among other farmers. So, as the extension agronomists who conduct the contest express it, everybody wins In this contest, not Just those whb get casta .prizes, but all other contestants, all other cotton manufacturers. It Is hoped, there fore, that again/this year many cotton growers of the state will enter the contest and help to maintain profit able cotton production In South Caro lina. Greenrilk Man Begs Mr. “Box A" To Send Letters IN MEMORIAM Filtered Into life .eternal April 1. Am^ia Boykin McCaa, daughter of the late Dr. John McCaa and Mary family rhnin wAy nna nf tjyft I Whitaker McCasr—She Is survlveTl'b: who drifted into bad company and has been convicted several times of petty thievery. Among the younger members of the present family are two children of former members of the group—"grand children” of Henry and Susan. One of these, born with clubfeet, was kept in Columbia for several months for treatment, the expense being home by Henry and Susan, chiefly from the allotment received from Uielr soldier GUY SCOTT, MERCHANT MARINE, LEAVES FOR NEW ASSIGNMENT Guy E. Scott, who Is In the Mer chant Marine*, left Wednesday for Charleston, S. C., where he will ship out again. Scortt went to Ehigland on bis last trip. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Scott, Broad street, Camden. “son.” 'This child, now about three years old, is Just learning to walk. An official report from the county welfare office ends with the following sentence: “When asked why she had devoted her life to rearing 36 children ot other perentsv she nsnally suys with an humble and shy drop of her chin, T am always glad to do what I can to help make better citizens’.” He Too» Se^s He, k ^ I<o6ie>ome Mao. Mr. "Box A,” whose dreama ^ women have reached a point wlZ shuns the post office, which k turning over to him scores ^ seedling eplsUes,/ to response n advertisement for a life mate (tf der, loving disposition. The d came Wednesday when the tan earthed something new in mat^ replies. ^ j Actually the letter was from a dle-sged man to Greenville, who * that In as much as ths law allM man to hare bnt one wife aid “Box A" bad received lovinjT municatlons from so many “Box A” please send a wldow^ years the letters he. does not i for which he will be glad to iJ per letter and slsb take care d poatage expense. Some people never go Into ae a dinner party undl the body innocent absentee Is pat on ihi tog block. the following brothers and sisters: James and William McCaa, Mrs. Wil liam Rosborough, Mrs. Lewis Mickle and Miss Mary McCaa. In her sweet, gentle and unsdfish life, she leaves a memory cherished by all who knew and loved her. “He gave, and takes them when He thinks it best, for them to come to Him, and take their rest’’ — Contributed. Subscribe To The Cbronicle COMING ATTRACnOit —AT— Camden Theatn FRIDAY^AT^ April 14. Belita with James Ellison and ft great bands! «(i LADY LETS'DANCr Henry Busse, Mitch Ayers, g* LeBaron and Lou Bring SAT., APRIL 15, 10:30 Dona Drake, Robert Lowery, t and Irrae, Sidney Miller “HOT RHYTHM” »oooooeoocooo»oooootsi SUNDAY, APRIL If Mecca of Melody and Glaaom “TROCADERO” Rosemary Xahe and Johnny Do* Extra added attraction—the Unit States Government pressiu “WITH THE MARINES A TARAWA” Filmed in Technicolor lOOOOdiOOOOOOOOOOQOOOtM MON.-TUES., April ITU Ginger Rogers,' Robert Ryu u Ruth Hussey ’TENDER COMRADE” 2p»toesooooeooooooops66i WED..THURSn April IM Loretta Young, Oeraldine Flti gerald, Anne Gwynne, Dfauw Barrymore and ElvMyn Aiken “LADIES COURAGEOUS* AFTER EASTER JOHNNIE COOKE HAS BEEN PROMOTED Johnnie Cook of route 2, box 39, Camden, has been promoted from Pfe. to technician fifth grade. In Cimp Ijee’s Quartermaster Itoplacement Training center. Cpl. Cooke is the son of Mrs. Ethel Cooke of 817 Market street, Camden. li III a wartime treasure hunt for the benefit of these .destitute Russians, starting life anew in the liberated but devastated villages. In practically all our homes there are many pounds of wearable garments that we can easily dispense with—^that ' all never miss—that will be eagerly received by our we shal courageous ally. Any garment that is clean and in good condition, of any size, may be given. Dresses, skirts, blouses, jackets, topcoats, aoits, shirts, trousers,* vests, overcoats, capes, caps, shoes—all are needed in as large quantities and as quickly as possible. Do not send underwear, hose or hats. Do not send worn-out or soiled garments. Let us do our part in this patriotic undertaking that will do much to alleviate the suffering Russian civilians and at the same time serve as a good-will gesture that will further the neighborly relations between our two peoples, without which there can be no enduring peace. STAY ON THE JOB Some textile workels may say they cannot buy any more war bonds than they are now buying through the payroll deduction plan. And that, in some cases, may be true but therisTs a way in which these workers can aid the war effort if ^ey are not already doing so, and that is to stay on the job EVERY DAY. There’s not a great deal of absenteeism in our mills but even any, however small, is too much now. Tiresome, unpleasant, wearisome, you say? So it is with the Boldiers fight^ plus the danger of being blown to pieces the next minute. It is the expert consensus that the coming invasion is tb be no picnic. This is true also of some pknks. reflect tiiat 1, Hoh. Japanese who loses face ious daily ittiave is no longer in order. wUl FRIDAY^T.* APRIL 14-15 “THE VIGILANTES RIDE” Watch “em outshooL outride the outlaws Russell Hayden with Dub Taylor, Shirley Patterson, Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys. Chapter 8 “The Mask^ Marvel” Also Comedy MON.-TUES., APRIL 17-18 Errol klynn and Alexis Smith —In— “GENTLEMAN JIM” “It’s a Knockout” The Story of James J. Corbett Jack Carson and Alan Hale Also Latest World News koopofteoeooooooeoooeoeoo* WED.-THURS., April 19-20 It’s A JUlion-DoUar Holler! Those bowery block-busters are cleaning up the town. The East Side Kids “MILUON DOLLAR KID” with Leo Gorcey, Hunts Hall, Gabriel Dell and Btily BenedicL ChaptM 4 “Adwenturea of the Flying Cadets” Latest ^otUL^^ HAIGLAR We must make room for incom ing stocks of hot weather ap parel, so we offer these fine Spring vatees at great savings. Coats and Suits Regular Price .Sale Price' $ 9.75 now only - $ 7.95 $14.95 now only 10.98 $17.50 now only .rr.t.T.. 1B.50 $19.75 now only 14.75 $22.50 now only 1850 $2750 now only 21.95 \ A ACL DRESSES ARE REDUCED Your Choice of Any Dress On Our Racks 10% Also Special Prices On All Other Items of Ready-to-Wear. 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