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packers Needed To Save Odtm Cn^ From Disaster. The Camden ■ ' - ■ ,i'; .Father Burke Appeals To AH To Attend V-Day Service. VOLUME 86 CAMDEN, SOUTH CAiK>UMAei^|IDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1644 > NUMBER 25 Inclement Weather Would Cause Damage of $100,000 Public Appealed To In EKort WOfiams To Find Cotton Pickers For ’44 Crop. Badly Injured In Auto Accident Three Injured As Cars Meet At Street Comer Tues. UtUe Giri Badly Cut In Dire Thronfk Windahield; labor shorUg® promises to accomp-. Itah what the boU weevil failed to do hte season—destroy at least 1100,000 Uwner of Mulberry PlantatMB Under Oxygen Tenin^or 10 Days. this season—destroy worth of cotton. Inquiry at the oHIce of the county uent, of cotton brokers, and pf many tf the growers ladlcate' that the lack of labor to pick the c^ton has cr^t^ ^ Williams, na«onaUy known » most «*»Sinoer and owner of famousME tbto J ManUtlon. stately manorial belt All <»ks, areaoea and Chronicle newt wn^ declared that miles south of Camden, '*’*■ •«rtously injured In an automobUe rtin that accident August 17 In Panama, alone would aggregate at least flOO,-. information as to the details of the **?: . . w n ®®®*dent are not known but it is County Agent W C. McCarley WlllUuna was on a i tound^ project location when it occnrred. It ers this Hb appeal to being jg some time after the supplemented full page call s^- gccldent, which reaulted In Mr. WU* f■“«®rtng a badly «nwked cheat, den and appearing la this issue of The jjg ^gg im^er an piygen tank I Chronicle. I Mrs, Vnillams has been with him, it A confere^ WM calj^ the middle of the week at the office of Mayor Camden Youth bi Exodus For CoUege Season Wimtlirop Draws Largest Total Of Students From This p. N. McCorkle, at which President A. [C. McKaln of the Chenotber of Com* rce, H. H. Maddox of the Mcrch- lasts association and County Agent I McCarley were present Plana for e drastic actloa to take care of I the serkMU labor ahortage problem ere dtocnaaed. A trip throtti^ the eontryside abont lOsmdea by a Okronicle writer showed tttat plckerr are I bet they are few la number. One prominent cowon grower in die- •Ming the sitnatkm said that the Ijlsld thto yeer to abundant but that la heavy loss may be sustained unless rMtficient pickers are secured to get lit harvested before serious damage to Inffned by wind or rain. Stormy I weather, he declared, would ruin the iUat or damage it lo badly that it will I be graded lower. AH people wl|9 hare any spare time Ian urged to cooperate in the picking |ot the cotton crop. County Agent W. C. McCarley letated that all partlM interested In liaTing the cotton crop by volunteering |u pickers msy report to Arnold E. Workman, labw ssstotant, in the sgri- hnral building. t Mercury Soars To ^iHi^ of 102 Over Last Week-end TeofMgmtnxu Rims To 6l^lliim| Dagragg of rembert Fife Controlled By lying Field (kew >parhtus From An Auxiliary Hyrii^ FMd Neuxtry Roiii- e4 To Soeno. Inquiry at Mulberry plantation, whwe a daughter, Mrs. John DanMa, was located, wfui to the effect that Mr. Williams was improvlag. The summer residence of the WlUtoms family to at Tntoa, Oklahoma Three people, two of them children, were. Injured in an automobile crash at the comer of Laurens and Fair streets here Tuesday aftdmoon. The injured are: Mary Pranceo Barnet, age 10, injury to back cuts and brnisea; ClaHne Barnes. agO' 11, badly cut aboiU the face and hen|. and EdwlUa Hougn, age 24, cut, brul% ed and snffmdng from shock. The three mentioned were In car owned by Coley M. Hongb and driven by hto dau^ter, Edwilla. Tho two little Bamea girls are grand* daughters of Mr. Hoo^. The other car figuring in the col* Itoion^oms driven by Paul McOowall. also of thto city. Police Officer Joe McManus In* vestigsted the accident and hto rM port shows that the Hough car wan going east on Laurens street whfla the car driven by ths McDowell boy was going south on Fair atreot. Tbo McDowell car crashed Inta the loft side of tho Hough car. causing It tt awing completely aronnd and np on the porkway at the aoutheast comoir of the intersection. The sido of tMO Hough oar was badly driven in. Some fifty Camden boys and girls, gradustoa of Qhmden High school in tbo pnot. one or two and three years ytn leave thto week to take op college ’9r uhlveraity careers. Winthrop college at Rock HUl wUl havo 14 Camden belles on its rooter 11 thto year. They are Molly RuUi. Red,* -’^feara, daughter of Senator W. T." Red' foam, Betty Wwt, Carolyn Pitts. Betty Muller. Sybil Drakeford, Marg aret Salmoad, Hallie Clarkson, Betty Blakeney, SyMI Joye, Lucy Smyrl, Emily T'eam, Botty Jane Barnett, Vir ginia McCrea sad Marlow Burcb. Tbe last two mentioned are from Liberty Hill and DeKalb reepectlvely. To Converse go Mtos FYancea West sad Mickey Langston; to Holton .Anas, WashiagtcHi, D. C., Barbara and ^ly Olovor; to St.. Mary’s at Ral- qigh, N. C., Sidney Jones; to Citadel, Ttippett Boineau; Rivenfde Military Academy, Mickey Joaoa; University !of Sooth CoroHaa, Cary Guthrie sad Vtoy Lomaaaky; Stratford Collego. DaavU^ Va.; Joan SchlMburg; New beny. hankie Rush, Rhonda Brown. Catholic Priest Outlines Program For Hampton Park Three Camden Men Are kijured In An Auto Collision Friday Machines GreaY Crash On Ckester- Falis Highway At Night. , Three Camden men were injured la an automobile wrefk oa tbe Chester.^ Great Falls highway two mllea east of Chestw Friday evening. Sheriff William H. Peden of Chao- ter identified the men as being George Wilson, Paul Brannon and Mendel Ray, all residents of thto city, Wilson to married and resides on South Lyt* tleton street. Brannon to married and reaidea on Market street and Ray, tingle, makes hta home on LytUeton street. According to the Cheater report Wilson was drivntg ths car In which be bad Ray and Brannon aa oom- All Clergy City In Thanksgnring onatration. To Unite Dem- Camden's observance of V-Day will bo devoid of any oratory. Quito the contrary, as tho program that has mapped out by Rev. Edmund Burke, priest of the Catholic church of Our Cady of Perpetual^ Help, who to chairman mf the V-Day'observance hero, will bo a service of Thanksgiving to God. In an appeal to the cItUena of Camden Father Burke requests that when V-day comes, that all the peo ple, young and old, gather at Hamp ton Park at 8 o’clock in the evening. Here a program of prayer and com munity singing of well-known hymns and national airs will be coddacted. It will be a simple program, accord ing to Father Burke. All of the min- totsra of the city's churches will be present, each accompanied by his own jehnrch choir. Etoch minister will be sllqwed seven minutes for a short ad- jdreas and prayer and tbe respeetl^ paaions, when it crashed with a car choirs will be granted an eight minute Clarlne Bamea was in the frex| Rube vniaon. Jack Boykin and AUea t with her aunt and when the evaMl Hmius; Clemaon, William Reason* came she was hurled thitwth ther.over, T. O. Boykin and Joe Tobin: windsbleld and into the atrhet Mary.IiMMry Uhiveralty, Charlie Semp; Frances Barnes was alone In rear seat and was badly eat by I glass from the ear windows. ■^AIL-lhrae ooenpants -of-the tear were taken to tbe hoepHsL |X«ray was taken of the back ef yaar-old Mary Frances Barnes to termlne M any bones had been brokeukReie. Va., Betty Blanchard. ghd^yierican Art and Dramatic achool. Ixftnfew York, Jane Thomas; fYienda >1, L. I., Louise Ancmm; Stone Woodberry Forest, Va., Mert taker; Garrison Forest sebo<d, d^K^ Williams and Bennington col- . September came into existence with a buming: fever, for official weather recordings Saturday and Sunday show ed the maximum on both days to have beevlOl Thto to within two degrees of the aeaaon’a high of 104 which was reached on June IS. A week ago last Sunday the weeth* er was in reverse, tbe mercury never liqing above <S degrees all day. while the minimum was 58. That was the Bulldogs Prepwring For OpoiBig of jthftiGrid Season with aweaters and ooata while the daily greeting on the street was ‘TIosh. but it's cold!'* Last Sunday the mercury topped the figure of the week before by 44 degrees. Weather Observer H. A. Brown, no tified the Chronicle- Tuesday that Sirms Wail imd Gty Gets Set For Victory Celebratkm TW onlr *• r soB Op—■ With Bftooklaiid- Cay— J—t Two W< driven by W. D. Black, a farmer who reaidea near the scene of tbe acci dent. Wilton was the more aerioualy In jured of the group, receiving knee and cheat Injuries. Ray was badly cut about tbe face and bend and Bran- nbn was also lacerated shout hto bead ud face. All three were taken to the Pryor boeBitj|I .At OMXtar.^ The T^amden police were notified of the accident and Chief Alva Rush con tacted the retativea of the vietlms. Black, the driver of,tbe other oar, received an arm injuty while bis small son and daughter, who were In the car with him. were slightly cut uaj period for the singing of hymns. Mayor P. N. McCorkle who hat fre- queatly occupied the pulpits of church es In the community, will be another to be heard In a coBcIudlag prayer. “I am asking the good a<ml8 of Ckmden to meet with ns In Hampton Park at 8 o’clock oa the evening of the day that Germany capttulntea,’* sai<i FaBter Burke. ’*WS«1S that day will come none of ua know, but when It does come, I hope that every man, woman and child In Camden and com- mnnlty make It a point to gather nn- dar God's heavenly sky and give thanks to God for our wonderful vio- •nd bruiaed. sottnatig ef fh#' fire siren aboui cayce gmne comes a aeries of other maximum reading. Thto was the third day in a row that the mercury cllipbed to tbe 102 mark Th^ prompt arrival of fire fighting Iquipment from the auxiliary Dying field nearby prevented a costly fire the cotton gin of Annie Keels at tembert Friday morning. When the fire was discovered an fppeal was made to Uie auxiliary fly- Bg field, where fire equipment usM case of a crash landing or a plane Bking fire to maintained. A call for lelp was also sent to the Camden nre department but the appeal was onntermanded When it was dlscover- that the Shaw Field equipment, to gether with a backet brigade, had bed tha blase. The call to the Camden department ■ulted In tbe sounding of the Are ens here and aa tbe party pushing contact button did so in a man- to make the siren offer a fluctnat- : sound, Camden people were stirred Bto a high pitch of excltment in the »llef that it was the* "anrrender of srmany" signal announced aa forth oming by Maymr McCorkle. The loss at Rembert was confined ' s small area of tbe gin and damage « few cotton bales. * \ ilumbia Sport Wer Veiy Dl tiing Booth* Woil - Known Here, Is Giw— Japanese Carbine On Exhilntion Here Ton* Joow Hu War Ralic ^ From Brothor-In-Law. [^mden friends of Deling BooUl lumbfa sport writer frar yean Btly made night editor for the ctotsd Preaa in Columbte, will re- to hear of his serioni IQnesa In Columbia hospitaL Booth was taken ill last Snadej 1,*^^ internal bleedtag ind waa ?*hed to the hospital, where several transfusions were given. While ^ndltlon waa repmied Wednesday «»d Bis Can- fsotlna fens ell set to waadir eat te Zsmp ^ ^ ss^ uid watch thslr ftvorsd Bnlldogs dtoe Calwng for mo r—bis over ths tir< In the fi'Ml battle of ths ssasoau The Brookland-Cayos team, reported - ' - to be one of ths boat outflts the West Camden came does to staging a Colombia school has put out in many [real V-Day cetehratlon Friday morn- yean, will be tbs opponents of the Ing. And it all cams about through Bulldogs. .Fdlowing- the Brookland- Ration Values Of Meats Same F«r Sqitodber Am R—lsad Bjr O. P. A. wwnwa t:80 a. m. Tha siren sounded twice, interesting cootssta. featuring the each time with a fluctuating tone. Charlaaton and Somter High teams. People in the downtown area cams reportedly to be outatandfaig in state to a sudden spop. Clerks and custom- hi^ school football ranks, en erupted from stores and rushed The tip over of the dope bucket just to tbe street curb. a year ago at Sumter to a catastropba ’’Was it the signal for V-Day.” Po- that Camden football tana will never lice Sergeant Dallas Mahoney, on get over and aa a rdhnlt the game be- duty at the police booth at Broad and tween the Bulldogs and Qamecocka on DeKalb streets, was the target for a September 29, looms up as one of tbe barrage of Inquiries. Sergeant Ms- moat outstanding contests in South honey just shook hto head. Oarollna football htotory. Camden will An excited woman dashed across he oot to wipe out the tragedy of a , ,, . .the street shouting “Hitler has san yaar ago and send tbe Gamecocks meat cutter and ^ newspaper reporter te>mu~irtth GreHr^bSfOe feathers in made a hurried dash to the city fire disarray. On the other hand ths Sum station on Rutledge street ' ter lads, under a new coach, will be The siren signal had been sounded out to demonstrate that beating Cam in an effort lo contact Fire Chief Bud- den to just a Gamecock habit Thme dy Denton, for headquarters had just will be the added incentive to make received an appeal for help from Rem- a good tohowtaiif for the new coach. w • * u belt, where a cottg^x^-IM ftlaiMt,-—-No dope baa beea fortbeowlng troni g^TgrAlt The auggeatioh baa been made that the Bulldog camp as to the team pros- -Aaek AsIDI^Cu in the future the siren be sounded p<^. ,Coach Pierce lost some excri with a steady note. It seemi the lent giaterial when some of hto out- mayor had announced that announce- standing INS start went out of the Tony Jones, ager of the market in the Atlantic and PaclDc tea company store here had something besides ^ops, steaks, fri ers, etc., to show customers at his counter last Friday. For Toney had a Japanese Carbine, which had been taken by hto wife’s irother, Moirto McMackm of branch, sxmI sent tq hto sister here. Morris McMackln Is a Marine and the Carbine, which to a 25 caliber, affair, was taken from a dead Jap in a South Pacific battle.aran. The Carbine is ^evidently of Ger man manutadture. judging by the markings on it Tony Jemss win be glad to show the Jap weapon to any interested parties. He resides at 728 Walnut sti—t. Point valnaa of ratloaed main unchangod forv the tour period beginning last Sunday and ending Sept 80, bnt aome varletlea of cheese and canned mUk will coat more pofaits. The 1)101 values of gronp 8 sudll ak Swiss, Italian, Mlatoter, rargsr, Camembert, Liederkrans, grated-debydrated. Brick," Gouda, Ed am. Bleu and Brla to increased from to 10 points. Canned milk, botk condensed and evaporated, costa one point per pound instead of two-thirds of a point Here tofore a fingle can of milk has taken one point but three cans have taken only two points. In aimounclng September red point values the OPA said that eonaumera had been buying gronp 8 cbeeae In exeess of. allocation for civilian use and that sales of canned milk were running abend war Todd admlnlstra. tlOQ allocations. Creamery butter continues to cost f points a pound although Ssptem- >er charta show a value of 20 points. “If” must be .pasted over the ’’20-'* Among Wounded ment of the anrrender of Germany would be made known by the aoubdlng |of the siren with a fluctuating sound. Temperature Up To 103 Degrees Tues. Afternoon Weather Ohservsr H. A. Brown, Broad street, notified the Cluronlele Taeaday night that a maximum read- tag of 103 had bami recorded Tnesday afternoon. Thto has made tbe present heat wave the longest, moat anatained and bilbest in temperatnre reading of any this year. Saturday a reading of 101 waa recorded. Sinkb^ tbe reading was the same and Monday it was ag*la repeated at 1P2 d^re^ A Imguff temisr deelarad that ox Monday afternoon be carried a flier- Apathetic People iFaUToBackUp : Waste Collection l^air. Frank Sh^a—n Makes Appe^ Waste Pi4>er. Far picture through graduation. Hs how ever baa asveral of the 1041 stellar lights back and hopes to be able to bnild a good team abont them. I To hops for a continuance tho marked success that has featured the football rseord of the Bnlldoga over a series of years to a Camden habit (Plsnse turn to pegs six) Kersliaw Youth is Rnnner-Up |n State Con^t Negtk CaroHpa Eairjr b Wfas- Ip 4-H Cenpetition. Water— VBIaf^ Blanep and Kerskaw Soldiers Named. FFank Bbeheen, chainnnn of the laalvage committee of the County De- Ifenae oouncil to again appealing to! the dtlasBs of Oamden twcooperate ini ths coUccUon of all waste paper. ^Bil n cans and other salvage so necssssry ^ for the defmse effort. 1 Alruady the Wodnesday salvage omtmica! contest for the ae^d ^ ooUsotkm by city trucks has been the biggwt kind of a fallulw-not because SSiJSi ths trucks did not make tbe rounds f®—®* » KersMw county, repreaeiu- , jj'^’^Jtaj^ved, Jt to still^s^o— poi|e^ to kto cotton fMd ud placed y,, dty but because oaly a log Booth CyollnA w«s wsa a fraxnsat vtoMor b| II fllMist a uotton plant. In a short l^en during the polo, borae ahoir, •tc.. aesLaon. At that time lu ■poria editor for tho qolnmMX m * ..5“^ cooperated with the Osan- [^nbiicity unit in giving newspaper to Camdmi sport events. kney School To -n Mm^ Biusy puhtte mSbatAm wfll- V, BepsesOMr 11, at • o'( jtopua are urged to be p—w ^ to reglstar and got ttose it waa ragtotering 122 degrees. ■arly Wednesday morning tha tem- paratnre atartsd to drop aa4 at s’d^ iwr *8 Tt Store • few reaM^ pisced their wsale paper i » oox of Mr. W and tlna for pick np. 'S2 S! In other cities thto form of salvage tgle A Prominent F»nre^ eoUeetkm to proving a big sncceaa ^ many tmckloeda of waste pap^, are gathered every week to be tum^ over to the war dapggtn—t Bntls ®> oontsst, pcobebiy hmi assse or Mss next smntin SSmV m^Zterud ksa than at Btrfleld’a Subject was “Food As ths tee tassn rmlfsil eedi of TToiiqii of War,” and Oarsth Miller of iPTr--yrrtrrq!roono<^■ Br^lpswatsr. Va. tte otherd^timt. oe .. ^ sn /*yitnre FarSMim, Why Are 1H4 crxdexts of Rich was qslodlalorjax ul bis etsas, of |te ITA elMptsr there if tte North flfFFA. moats rs- “It will be a simple service of thanksgiving and prayer. I am asking all ths ministers. Dr. Manrlcs Olaihs of tbs Episcopal ehnreh. Rev. A. D. McArn of the Presbyterian chnroh. Rev. Henry Collins of the LytUeton Street Methodist chnrch, and Roe. J. B. Caaton of the Baptist chnrch, to- fether with Rev. Boykin of the colored churches, to gather on tbe platform in Hampton Park at 8 o’clock, tech chateh will be repieeented by Ua te- speetlve obolr, the members to gather (Plsnse tarn to page atx) New Gasoline Ceiling To Be Effective Sunday HCnroi^ie . juid Dutillatn Fiinl Oil IncIiMlnd lo Pri— Cot New price cetHags on gasollno, kerosene and dtotlllata fuel oils wbl^ effect aubatantial reductions becomes •ffeettvt next Sunday, Sept. 10, ao- oording to an OPA announcement The gasoline ceiling in South Ctoro- lina waa ordered reduced four tenths of a cent on the gallon while kerosene and distillate fuel oil ceUinga were reduced three-tenths of a cent These redncttpns wOT'be reflectsd in the price of' gas and oil paid by consumers since most ot the products Involved have been sold at the ceilings by most dealers. ' The 'reductioas resulted from re duced costs for war time methods of delivery for the petrolenm products ■ffbcted, Vt war cxNUBed: " ■'■T Register For November Election"^ Several soldiers reported wounded n action in the Enropean aree are from this community according to an official bulletin just tosned by the war department. Pvt Basel R. Myers, whose wife, Mrs. Mary Myers, resides in the Wateree vRlage, was arntmt those wounded in the foqtheast Pacific nraa. Tecdi. 8ft Baadln, non of Mru. Beatrice Hamlin, who reaidea in Blaaey, waa injured in the French in vasion fighting, as was Pfo. Carl Gan dy, whose mothen Mrs. Minnie Gsndy, resides near Kershaw. AD Banks To Redeem E Bonds Bl R. Alexander, execntlve secretary of the South Carolina Bnnkera* asso ciation, paid last Satnrday that effec tive October 2, owners of sMrlas E war bonds could cash them at any quali fied oommeroial bank in the state. Alexander said the treasury dopnrt- meat had advised the association banks would be uthortoed.to redeem the seriea B war bonds as wall a« berlaa A. B and C and D savings bonds tn order to simplify redemption pro cedure. Heretofore. Alexander sdld, it has been necessary to have mgaaau ledampflona certified before aa tharfsad oCtieer and after osrttfleatten forward them tp • oMteht aig ■nic it.if'MiF Sheriff McLeod calls attention to tha fact that not In many years has it been so vitally important that all' clttoena regtoter for and vota in tbe General Election as It la this year, and he earnestly urges all votsn of the necessity of registering In order to be able to oast balldta in tbe No vember election.' He tniita ttiat the matter jpay have the thooghtfol con. aideratlon of our entire white ciUsen- ahipk i Regtotration of voters who are eli gible are Obtained from the Board of Regtotration at the County Court House. • Sheriff McLeod, while chairman oi the Kershaw County Democratic Bxe* entlve committee, is not connected with the general eleotion, navartha- leas he fe^ that this matter cannot ba too strongly emphaatoed. Antioch School Oj^ns Mon., ^pt 11 The board of timateea and Sapt B.- E. Livingston annonnoe the opening of Antioch High school, Monday, Sept. - It, at f o'clock. The fa^y to as foOosrt: First grade andllbararian, Mrs. J. L. WflU- ford; second and third grades, Mrs. Lonlas P. Mclnod; fourth and fifth gradss, Mrs. Vashfl J. Smlfli; sixth M ssventh grages, Mrs. Vasco Mllkr. Ridh school: Bn^sh and social aai- sa. Mrs. Georg* fUAinaeu: homa Mb. * itw- Joe BtaiMk: in dMuite of flia hsash raoas. XMlsIad kf Mra, Basala Coak and Ahm Rag- arc Tte ftene Is dsHBang IvrRsd. ■: -Vi mV A--Ay