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•f -V- )U;ME 56 CAMDEN, ^UTH CAROUNA^ FRIDAY, JUNE 50, 1944 NUMBER 15 taker State Cadet Is Winner Of Class Award Col 0. A* Hydrick On Inactive list; In Army 28 Years Howe Yeainr Receivea reled Honor At South ern Aviation. :tion Cadet Wlllte Howe Yeagy. f Lutber A. Yeagy, 1116 Sixth Harrisburg, Pa., waa preaented edal for being the outatandlhg of Class 44-J at an impresalTe I ceremony held Monday after- It the Southern Aviation school Presentation of the award was by Captain Leonard A. Semens, inding officer. ' jt Yeagy comes from New Ox- Ps. Previous to enlisting in the Air forces on June 4, IS48, ho flight instructor at York, Pa. enlisting he was sent to Oreens- N. 0., where he received his training and from there to the College Training detachment, State college at State College, Here he received his 'air crew ig at Yeagy Is a graduate of the iburg High school at Cfettyslmrg. rlth the class of 1996. He' Is and has a 16 months old ter named Mary Ellen. His wife, as been spending the past week mden was present at the exer- Change Made In Closing of Cleaners On page six of this Issue of the Chronicle is an advertisement, which states that the Drv Clean ing Plants of Camden will close Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. Since this page wis print ed, It has been decided by these Clesners thst they will close In. stead on Monday and Tuesday, July 3rd and 4th. Patrons art asksd to bear this change in mind. May Ytifiirn To WasKmgton At the Close of Present War. Col. Onan A. Hydrick, a native of Orangeburg, wl^ now resides in Cspm- don, has been' returned to inactive army status under a recently an nounced policy of the war departmmt. Attention Americans If you think you can’t buy more WAR BONDS, send yowr reasons lu American in a Jap prison camp. British Tommie and Pal Breath ot Camden Air John W. Hoover Has Made Fine Record At Southern Provided Outstanding Ground Work To Over 600(^ riym John W. Hoover' of Marion, Ala., who has sMwed as director of the _ Ground school at the Southern Avia- Monday when her husband re- Hon school here for the past three the award for being the out-lY®*™ and who has been identified me aworu • aviation post for three ig cadet iday evening the members of the iting'Class, their wlvps and s enjoyed a-buffet supper and at the Cadet club, n was in iture of a farewell aftak as all era of the class left this week nplfite their sooemd phase of ills. Bg St basic fields. Present at upper and dtance were Captain at, commanding officer, and officers of‘the anny personnel « Aviation post Much credit he success of the supper and I h due Cimtain Joe Riltqr, com. ant of cadets. Music was turn- by the Shavr Flew dance strs. It athletic championships have decided as the result of a series ■qirrti <<»ring the past week and h inroWed cadets, officers ana ted men. The contests Involved h football, volleyball, softball. letbsll. swimming and Individual rt «T«ati. Clhss 44-J lost to 44-K be swimming contest but captured bmun in basketball and touch MljTUss 44-K P squadron won dhki^^leniShrW the fri took the volleyball title with- I defeat. Individual champion were won by Cadet Lind In ihoe pitching. Cadet Blackman • broad 'Jump, Cadet Hertz In the It and Cadet Reed in paddle and a half years will, at \he closing of the aviation school here in August, Join the engineering and reeeareh de partment of one of the leading air plane manufacturing oompaniee. Mr. Hoover, son of Mr. and Mrs. K. Q. Hoover of Maiiom is a graduate oT Perry county l^h araool at Marion and graduated from the Ala bama Polytechnic Institute at Au hum, Ala., with a degree in Aero nautira, entineering in 1916. He taught physics at Marlon Institiite for a year and then worked as a dmfts. man and later as engineer fdr the Alabama Highway department, , He came to the Southern Aviation sdbool In 1941. Mr. Hoover was married to Miss Clarence Jpnes of Camden. Aim, and * niv tnnnthg rfd daughter. As director of the ground school at the Southern Aviation poef. Mr. Hoover has had oemplete supuNision Prisoners of the Japs To Receive Relief At Onjte Nip Gorenunent Agrees Accept Supplies Al Russian Port. To Executive Committee •'“‘■“v duiwi At Attitude of de M(^t Next Monday Colonel Hydrick has had over 28 years of service in the army. A 1910 graduate of Clemson college. Colonel Hydrick Identified himeelf before his graduation with the South Carolina militia by enlisting in the Ttttisan l^^Oiintdera and later in the Edisto Riflee, both of Ori^eburg. At the outbreak of the World war, he entered tMe first officer training class at Fort Oglethorpe^ Qa.. ■ and waa commlsaSdned a captain in the In- infantry in August, 1917. He trained at Fort' Jackson with the S23rd In- of thO 81st (WUdeatf divleion >r the first time since the war in thS Pacific began in December 1941, the United States government and the American Red Cross have received werd that Japan is going to cooper ate in the establishment of a prt^ram of relief for prisoners of war. This is the information received at the headquarters of the Kershaw County t Cross chapleri ~ Japanese government has fin- alls agreed to send to a Soviet port atfregular infcrvals a Jap ship to pick ui^ relief supplies which were shipped to Vladivosto’r last fall. They also offered to pick up addtiional relief supplies and mail intended for dis- trflmtlon to Allied nationals Interned in the far east. ^ The Soviet government * haa con sented to t)ie arrangement the report indicates. ' The Kershaw County Damocra- tic Executive Committee will nrest at tha County Court Houae, in Camden, on Monday, July 3, 1944, at 11 A. M. The purpooe of the meeting la |o axamina-and purge the Demo cratic Club Rolls of the varioua preolncte ef the county. Each member la urged to be present. J. H. McLeod, Chairman. Attest:- * A. W. Humphrlea, Secretary. Valei^ Gates Ford Farm Falls Prey To Flames An inquest to investigate the death of^ of class room work connected with the tralninf of approximately 6.000 American imd British milltjary pilots. This hna tbclpded lutruedon in Air- orall.^-' Akcraft engiaem nicvIglAitM; metonrfogy attd aircraft recognition. The ground school, under Mr. Hoover, has never received a rating below ex cellent and haa one of the best ratings in the Mtire training program. and later saw service overseas with that diviaion. He was discharged from active tervice June .19, 1919, and was omlhlslloned a captain in the In fantry officers reserve corps in Sept. YVhen- -South- Carolina National Guard waa reorganiipd In 1920, he was comraissioped a major in the 118th Infantry'of the 30th dlrishm. Coloner Hydrick was on active duty I ^ for a year and a half tn 1926-1928! Tl»4™day -- house, with Coroner Purdy .L4| Stephen Connell Dbers of the various- teama wlioJ_ ^ Injured In Battle vmu^attg^—uJVaiki^Jk O V* '—z ■■ 'z; — ' — a made their selections luiown reek. Captain Joe Riley of the (kinship officers' voUyball team, » C. H. Wagnw and J. P. Turner 9 cadets voUyball team. Cadet nburg of the championship tbaU team and Cadet Zongohv the runner-up cage team were [ those named. (in touch footbaU awards werS to Cadet Cohen of the cham- lip team and Oadet Hayes of the r-up team. In at^tbaU Cadet During the Invasion with the war departateo^ generalMUttt^' -Wjariiingun.^ As t| urTMt servidi he wah pldded' on the general staff obrpe eligible list Coloaual Hydrick was again called to active *du^ as a lieutenant cqlOnel with ^ 118th Infantry in September, 1940, and was stationed at Fort Jack- son. Ha served as staff Judge advo cate frith the 30th division and as Port Jar^son post Jud^ advocate until Mardi, 1942, when he was trans- - ferred to Port Benning. XiaL, War Depaxtm«it Notifiaa HU Father, B. R. CoanelL Broadus R. Connell, residing on route 2, has received word brom the office of the adjutant general in Washington to’the effect that his son. Corporal Stephen W. Connell, haa ^ been slightly wounded In action In the of the title team and Cadet, CoiUral CWll Is one of five chU- Cadets dren of Mr. ConneU who are wearing tmifonn- of- Ondu Bam in -Ihe conflict. So far as is ■Jtlon in the nmnlng off of the ^ ,rom Kerahaw panto •^tteCadat tJlTe won ®®‘ajre»dy given hie life in the war. He rontest Th^uU^dlng Ivey Connell, who met hit r./!.* conteeta |j| Italian invasion last Oc- Cadet Zlebe ^ D squadron, Other sons who are in tha ^flenburg of C aquadroiL gg^vic* aye LleaL Norman ConneU jvaiker (A ^ B sqnadron g^t. Roddy ConneU, both of whom ^ la??"l?Sieai: "nie fifth member of matches in pocket biUanto.L|^^ family Is a dau^ter whp Is a Uen- ton and ping pong havo yet corps. 1 * . ^ ..v ji CorpOTsl Stephen ConneU |s the wch Interest to the csdets ^ .on, to Join tha ool- at the Southern ^viation Ppstjn,,.^ l,nt 19 years of sge. Jirt. He entered the service a year and a (tioM headquai^^ tothe effwtlj^mj ^ overseas last new uano of k*r bonds in flO Inatlons at the Issno price ofi - - re avaUable for pnrehasa This'^ 'm.Ki tlflAL, • available only to military per- S-Sgta AQUIS Wit” •es ^iWCIose Day July 4th ^31 Remafai Open All '3&es<Uy, Aceor^iMf To Biraibri' Sqnadrmi len stores and bnsin< ' ^ protestioaal oftleee win he Ml day Taesday, Jrty 4th, ao* to annoeneement made this 4 a^ stated that haodnae of I? ®*«*4d Tneeday that •••'▼ediseday afternoon doa- that weak weald be Jf «k»ee to Temaln Nfatesday. One of these 4ayi 8-8gt Dewey W. Mims «f Oamden, hopes to stert eatdi- tag np the sle^ he has lost since the toraslon startod. SgL Mims is an pmameht flight chief in a Mustang nghtor bomber squadron, which makes him lesptmslble for the work lag mrder ot the madilne gene end bomb racks of several Pfls. He Is a HMaaber of toe groep oommanded by Oek John B, Henry, Jr- *»» Antonio, Four Year Old Is fktally Injured tbder Car Wheels M^ry Elaine Hasty Dies After Aecidemt la Wateren . Vaiaie. ary Elaine Hasty, four year old bter of Mr. and Mrs. J. K Hasty, Waiere* Village, 'Bled daijgh dritoe waieree village;—wiro Satorday noon as the result of .■over by received when the waa an automobile, was in- ran held D. E. Bkidey toiea Hwarily la Costly Blaze Sunday Ewening. Fire of an undetermined origin destroyed two large barns and s warehouse on the D. B. Baxley farm in the Gates Ford asetion of the county Sunday night The loss ot the buildings and contents aggregates between 110,000 and 113,000. The fact that the dwelling and sev eral outbuildings were saved was due to the efforts of Kershaw County Forest Ranger fire fightihg equipment under the direction Of Ranger L. E. Smith. Over six hundred gallons of water were poured on the roofs and sides of the buUdingi to guard against fire being started by flying einbers. Mr. Baxley, who is g wall known business man at Kershaw, had been He was a British Tommy sural enough. In fact there were two of. them, but the crisp sharply accentu-^ ated manner ot Ipeaking mai'ked the taller one for a Johnny Bull. Hie other spoke with a different accent and for a time we were at a loss Jto describe his nationality. W'ben and- denly we remembered way back.many years When we used to play^ball on the Second Ward team and had a lad named. FYankle Brennan as captain. Down through the ages we could hear that delicious Gaelic brougs that Prankls used. The two lads—apparently about 16 years of age, stepped from a north, bound Seaboard train last Tuesday afternoon and walked up and down the platform. Being somewhat of a Johnny Bull oursehres we made IvoW to approach the two lads and intro, duced ourselves. Sure enough the one in the shorts was British and tha other was a genuine South Ireland lad who is fighting under the colors of the Union Jack. Where they came from and wheaM' they were going was no concern of ours. We Just chatted. And of course we expressed surprise that two n*. tlonalitlea such as an Ehigllahnian and a gent from Eire should be on such friendly terms. We were assured by the lad with the Gaelic brooge that there were a hundred thousand of hie kin fighting with the British Tom- miea. The Britisher was more direct gad declared the people in England aiw pleased that Americana are beglnnlnf ' to iinderataad th^ British dlfficulttee with Southern Ireland. ‘*Mgoh of the trouble is ^ eourse Sunday eveoiag found one of hla barns ou firs. Tbs only cause that can be ascribed la that of spontaneous combustion. In the buildings .destroyed and adtf- ing to the total loss by some 66,000, were 14 baiee of cottoiL 16 tons of cotton aged meal, 16 tons .of cotton seed hulls, 260 buahela of Oign, 6300 worth of crotalera seed, 6 tons*of nitrate and considerable faizg equip. meuL all which wgs d Aecording to TTndersheritf J. m w mroirgaM McLeod, who investigated the aooi-ll^K** xB* ff IlIiclAX7g dent, the child waa rtm over by an member of the Fourth Service com mand reclasaification board. He was legal adviaor to the president of this board and lectured at the Infantry achooL He received his full colonelcy in February, 1948. Befsre being called to active duty in 1949, Colonel Hydrick fsrved as a membto of the South Carolina legla- lature for a term in 1921-1922 and aa a member of that body was one of the authors of tha military code of the itate. He la a member of the South Caro, lina bar and was holding a respon sible legal position with the depart ment of Justice In 'Washington, D. ,C,, whenYSe enlel^ oa active duty; He waa^ granted a* military leave from the work and he may return to it on the termination ot hla a^umulated military-leave. Colonel Hydrick’s only son, Lieut Claude K. HydrtCk, is stationed at Fort McCIrilan, Ala. Juniors Ctieraw 17 to 2 The Camden Juniors made good use of their war clubs Wednesday afternoon, swatting three Cberaw pitchera |pr 14 hits, four of tosm donhlas, which mixed with 12 bases on bans issued by the opposition bat tery, netted 17 runs. Ther game, a hecU<r attalr wbkk Iras delayed for automobile driven by Charles Wil- Hams. The undersheritt stated that according to eye-witneases the child ran back of the Williams car aa the driver wae backing into a drive to turn around In the -murrow street The chili waa rushed to the hot- Bim. after the 'Scetdent but was dead upon aririVal there. The child la survived by the par enta, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Hasty; s brother, James P.' Hasty, and tha |S^ A. liluti Reported Missing grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Case, and Mrs. Roaa Hasty, all of Camden. Pnneral aervices were held Sunday afternoon at 6 o’clock in the Baptist church. Rev. John Dabney offlcistlag. “Safety First” ^ Proven Slogan' In SfiU Village ElgElmaii I>o^ ICiltidl Waterae F<dks Altar 'T RiabSes 86 mtentss by g begvy ndn storm, to Oi^sa 17 to 2. TexM 8ft Mhas is too son of H. D. Mlmfi of Cgmdsa. ALATHIAN BIBLE CLAM HOLD REGULAR MEETING Tbs Alatolga BOto clsss bsd tosfar rsfidsr monthly meHlng lost Friday ■tabt oa too cknrto town. Tbs r—" iilmsswanattaadsE Tbsyfirst , BBRVI • wiiibsa aUnas ta''tlm mala auMtortmapl tl toe ebnsdk went Lefty Baott waa on toe hurting line for toe locals sad In ssvsa tonlngs had ylsMsi bat fsnr bits. Aa addUka- al fiva vara ebseked to by Cheraw in tha last two framss when Booty eased «p. SeOU fannad 14 ototow vtstton and lasnsd bat two walks. Tbs tsstares of toe game ware spec- tacnlar onekand stabe of fly balla by Ntreas of Cberaw, playing left field, and Paiker of Camdan CamBM tocklea the Snmter team asoct Waiaeoiij oa too toeal lot. Ciaa. dsn has two vllo ooWtos Gatoi during tbeGtadttos sasapa Tbs neat weak aboaM brine oat a icrowd. John C. Mnnn IXes Near Jefferson Mm. Community safety and welfara are outstantong among the resldants of Wateree village. The village la one of the inill auhurbs of Camden and la InhaMted by familiea who are em- ployed m the Wateree bnmeb of the Kendall MUlA When a dog owned by a villager went mad n few dayk ago and raced througB the village, snapptog and biting at other dogs, the villagers, after dltoatchlng toe mad anlmaL calmly preseaded to extormlnate some 18 dogs which they knew had bssa bittsn by the rabid anlmaL . The vtllagers did not need any •uggeatlon or help from the authorl-. ties or Kondall company officiala. Praetimily all ot the famUlaa In the vinacs-^ SSSM 409 or mars psopls havs amaioa. Many bava dogs as liiili ipnT of tbsaa do not bava tbalr cantos pals any mors. Tha mwasrs of tbs dod suspeetod of having bean bitlan by tbs rabU anlamirdU net taka say chanoss. Bach imd every out of them proceed, ed to Bgsiists too family 90L It was a safety measura and out in tha Wkiaraa vulaga safety flrst N ana of too oardbml virturaa. Juliaa €. Psin^lHad of toa KonisB ftoat t of toa enmiur Rotary club tiindii Mayor F. H. McOarkls of Ctondan, that tbs vlUaga was wf' psrad in aougsrsta wito toa City tn toa siiiKisnisat of toa tows wbito too Innoestotlon of all dogs m an dags must be on a toaah kba psnmttod to nm nt tyrge. Scion of Distkifuighed Family Disgppaart In the ItallaM .Campaign. _ 4ga 4o^a Valsra,* be daciiigd. *'f»>w away tok-fliatJHiG jraoa nis r^- xtatfoa treat vritlr ptwpto who irmff^— turn at 7 oclock Sunday aveoiagl^^ by-gonas ba by-foneaT Is Eire forever going to hold Xngland fuep^slhto for what our grandllathars add' great grandfathers did to Iretond, oven supposing that the evils they commit^ are m bad infmi Alt* Sgt Andrew G. Whitaker, 24, Is missing in action, according to word received by retotivae here Saturday. A sister. Miss Malsie Whitaker of Waahingt<m, reoeived the information from the war department and in turn notified toe Misses LouUe and Janie and Lawrence Whitaker of this city. Sgi. Wbttakir is a son of the tote Andrew G. Whitaker and May DeKay WhUakaf. Ha is a cousin of the Misses Loulie and Janie and Lawrence and a nephew of Caleb C. Whitaker of this city. Sgt 'Whitaker has two other brothers in tha service, they being Johh and Cheenut while a third brother is residing at Clinton whaca ka is augagsd^ to an ssssnttol-Job. Jla also leavki a wlfa who rssldas In California. -Tha soldier has been eftoer tikeh prisoner or killed In the Italian cam paign, as tod tost heard of him was from that theatre of war. The young man comes from one of toe traditionally old families of the ststo, a fgBlly that traces its f<ws. bears back into tha asrlfast history of toa nation Md Hats among ito dlstlngulihad ancsstors tha Chesnuts. Sgt. Whitakar has baan to tha sarv- ica sinaa bsfdra Paail Harbor. as aanatn aactkms of tbe Itriah ma^ tatot Tha world will navsr saa paaaa if that Is the philosophy lasbeddsd to the Irish leaders. The revt^l of Bit* ternesa and hatred bronght about and sorry business. Generally speak, ing the people of BUgtond are so dis gusted that they have cessed men. tloning it any mors.’V About this time there wens several short blasts from the whistle of the locomotive, and our new.fouhd friends hastily shook bands and leaped aboard the train. As the long train dis appeared in a cloud of dusL we men- -taUy cussed ourselves for- not havlPE gotten m “big story” out of the two overseas chaps, for they obviously had seen plenty of service. Perhaps they would not bars told us. Kershaw Workers Jubilant Because Ship Led Invasion Dnlwgatioii ot Ship BiiilfUn Fnmi Hmw Baih PT-Bont. Logoff Marine, Now A Referee, Has High Honor Wamuit Oiftour Domtld tViMadailg, Lodi Hig Ann In Warrant Officer Donald L. TVnes- dale of Lufott, who is attsebed to Camp 1>JsaiMS N. C., carrfss a dis. tinctlOB possssssd by ftw service by rsBaelag tks eg. uumsblsp W It Is. tost of bsing a rsfsrae at « boxing match. Thsss boxteg matches are bald to coaneetkm wito tlie Camp roattoe anl Warrant Offlesr Trass- dale rates as one too best reCere to toe Camp., His graator diattoetlon «MS howovsr from the toot that be Is always introduced from the ring as “one of tbs few livlag Msriuss wbo boMs too Ooagrssalenal Modal of TTueodalo rscolvad too Modal Honor for attossptlBg to rsmovi bond grsnodo wbiek toll to too rnaks bf bio oum MnriM groap. Tho gro- Tmpp—odPm A SCOTS or more^rCszndon men who are employed at too Higgins Shipbuilding pbcnt It New Orleans, staged a noisy demonstratkm on re- oeiving news that n Higglns-tmllt PT- boat lad the invasion of Franco. What mado too Koiabaw oonnty group so elated was that, this par. tlotflar boat was one they had all helped to build. This boat led tbs nrpedo. boat flotilla wbioli made fho listorlc campaign. Commander John D. Bulkeley, in charge of toe flotilla was aboard tbe PT-boat The PT flotilla went ahead of all other vessels to "clear the way fmr the minesweepers, which in turn cleared the way for the large troop ships sad hOsTier combat vasssta. Conunsoder Bulkslsy becams ons of tbs flrst hsroes of tot war back to 1942 when it was. dlscloted that ho oommandsil too torpedo boot wkieh oarried Oeuqral Dooitoe MacArthur out of too Fvllintnos. New Restrictions On Hiring Labor Local business Interests smployl^ mors than eight employsos are la- tsrssted in. to# recant ordmr Issued, by the M4a Bower oomalsaiou wktob Im poses new lastrietlnMi en too hbrtag of Kelp. In gensral toe <ndor provMso toad no mslo workers with tos saosytiMi of sgrieultwsl siuplnpsss may bo hbUd ozoopt torputfh too Itoltod Btotas. EmiNupmuit iwwies or nagetosMi a|»iw#6i- bT tost loo. v.» f MRB. WILBON MIULB ENTERTAINB ifrs,|Wltoon u 11 lUMia at 4