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“O Kershaw County Cluq[»ter, American Red Croas, Prepares For Annual War Fund Campaign Camden Chronicle VOLUME 56 CAMDEN, SOUTH CAMOUNA,%R|DAY, MARCH 2, 1945 NUMBER 50 Locke Craig Is Victim Of Oil Explosion In Home Chief Forwter of Southern Kraft Dhrision Is Badly - Burned. Locke Craix, 29. chief forester for the Southern Kraft divlaion of the Intemstlonal Paper company, and re- sidins in one of the Hobkirk cottages, was sererely burned in an explosion at his home last Friday morning at 9; 30 o’clock, as be was starting a fire with the aid of kerosene. Mr. Craig bad arisen to start the fire and was clad only in bis'pajamas at the time. The explosion hurled blazing oil over him and he fled from the dwelling and into the yard at the rear where a colored senrant in the employ of Lt. Commander Shan non Heath, extinguished the fire by wrapping a horse blanket about the pain-erased man. Mr. Craig was placed in an ambu lance and taken to the bospiatl where he was administered ether to put him out of the intense pain caused by the burns. This in turn was followed by blood* transfusions. Attending physicians did not mini mize the extent of the bums sus tained and gare him but a fighting chance to lire. The city fire department was called to extinguish the fire which had started in the dwetttng and quickly reduced the flames before any great amount of damage had been done. Mr. Craig, with bis wife and two children, hare been residents of Cam den for the past two years. He was recently elected to the vestry of Grace Ih>iBCopel church. He numbers his friends here legion as bis charact er and ifliagrfty were commonly known and proclaimed by all, Re- (Please tom to page three) Desperate Need Is Stressed In Rotary Effort nnocent Victmu Of War Need Clotkinf Immediately. The exceaa clothing campaign, apon- ored by Rotary International and nder the direct supenrision in this ity and county of General Q. H. ’’ranke, is aimed to aave the livee of bousands of civilians, women and [’hildren, who have had the least to do whb starting wars—whose prayers tt bedside and in bomb shelter have >eea uttered with a faith that per- aps they and their loved ones might e spared. The goal of Rotary in this nation- ide plan for an Intcnalve collection ( used clothing of every description, ‘hild pen’s, women’s and men’s, is 50,000,000 pounds. All local organizations comprising representative leaders of all commun- ty interests will set up a local com- Ittee for the collection. The Camden Rotary club has aelec- :ed Roland Qoodale and Sam Karesb its committee, while Rev. Henry ?onins, president of the Kiwsnis tlub- hits designated Joe -McKain as ommlttee chairman and he will se- pct another member to work with ilm All churches of the city are xpected to name committees to work n this worthwhile project. The drive starts April lat, and* Oen- iral Pranke believes that the Camden nd Kershaw county effort can be mpleted In two weeks at least. General Pranke, in discuasing the rive, stated that innocent victims of e war are dying from exposure and disease. ‘T am confident.’* he aaid, il>at this campaign, about ten times eater than the goal of any prevloua mpalgn for contributed clothing, ill be reached.” There are already Indications that ^ Appeal made by General Pranke ill meet with eDthusiastlc response. Govenmient To Close All Curfew Violation Spots Uncle Whiskers Announces Drastic Regulations To Enforce Measure. , ’The govmument plugged the gap In the n6n-enforcible setup of the midnight curfew regulations which became effective on Wednesday. , Uncle Whiskers announced a series of penalties that it is believed will be enforoeri "of thtT curfew which was ordered by War Mobilization Director James P. Byrnes to conserve electrici ty, fuel, manpower and transporta tion facilities. The announcement listed these stern measures: 1. Placing of a “zero” empolment celling on an establishment, which means the proprietor may not hire anyone except maintenance employers such ss a Janitor. 2. Withdrawal of power and fuel by the War Production board. S. Withholding of rationed food and other commodities by the Office of Price sdmlnlstrstion. A ban on deliveries by the Of fice of Defense Transportation. The midnight shutdown order ap plies to all public and private places providing entertainment, serving liqu or. wlnp and beer. The only exceptions are entertain ments '‘sponsored by responsible agen- clea” for mllltarr PMrwmhel (ibat would include the USO, for instauQe) and reatauranta cnstomarlljr open^aU night These restaurants, however, may serve only food and must not dis pense drinks. Coming within the curfew regula tions are nl^t clubs, sports arenas, theaters, dance halls, road bouses, aalooDS, bars, abootfag gaUertos, bowl ing. billiard and pool parlors, amuse ment parks, carnivals, circuses, coin- operated amusement device parlors, ■kailny Hnfca, afftvittns ' Ot clubs. dance studios and gambling estab lishments. Red Cross Vi^ar Fund Is Set At $17,900 Informal Horse Show Is Success; Another Is Planned Many Enthusiasts Gather At Marion DuPont Scott Area For E^nt. Important Campaign Is Now Underway In Kershaw County. As WMMded American beys seme baek from ths battls fronts thsy find Asneriesn Red Cross workers In all military and naval h TMe year there "wRt be niori aesdlhan over boforo fel^Ro^'Creos sorvleo .ready te.l^Jg hoagltsls. Scoot Paper Drive Gets Under way Camden Highs To Have 11 Games On the Gridiron Charlotto Tach Is Added To Schodulo. Season Opens Sept. 14. lief Hmgler Feeds A Grease Fob Immediately Coach Lindsay Pierce of the 1944 State Champion Camden High school football team, has announced an ,11 game schedule for 1946. The season opens on Sept. 14. with the Brookland-Cayce team Invading the Canuten stadium,, and closes on Nov. 22, when Glenn Military Acade my of Brunswick, Ga, play on the local field. The Bulldogs-iwiU get an acid test on 6^. 21, when the powerful T^lr High of Charlotte, N. C., plays here. The annual Camden-Sumttr classic will be dished up to the usual over flow crowd on ^pt. 28 at Sumter. ’The following Is the schedule ss given by Coach Pierce: Sept 14—Brookland-Cayce. here. Sept 21—Tech of Charlotte, here. Sept 28—Sumter at Sumter, Oct 5—HartsvlUe, here. Oct 12—Florence, here. Oct. 19—Charleston at Charleston. Oct 26—Chester, here. Nov. I—Harding High at Charlotte. Nov. 9—Orangeburg at Orangeburg. Nov. II—Lancaster at Lancaster. Nov. 22-^leaa MO. Academy, here. In ss much as Thanksgiving this year will fall on Nov. 22. Camden foot ball fans will, for the first time in several years, bsvs a turkey day after noon football feast Ag was announoud Iasi wash, dk# Boy Soofertg. afP foiaf out detorminad to ofdlact ewary psaca of gcrap paper .in Camden. -Thig campsugn U now under way a^ the ckixang ol Ca^an are raqnagtad to gawa thair paper fgr thaia bdyg who will call at the hoaneg and huginagg hooggs each Friday through April 30. Thig paper ig to 1^ gold and the procaadg will go to the Boy Scout Troopg in Camden. Record of Cams At Recent Court Session In the Gty Many Plead Guilty and Are Giwan Sentencag By Judge. The informal horse show, held at the Marion du,Pont Scott show area Saturday, Feb. 24, was one of the most interesting, colorfdl and largest attended of any similar event in re cent years. It was distinctly a local affair and hundreds of people from the Camden winter colony and city were present to witness the competi tion. -There were eight events on the af ternoon program which got under way at 2 o’clock. The judges were in the main, outstanding personalities in the equestrian world. In the com bination class the Judges were Mrs. Samuel Russell and H. Granger Gaither. In the shooting of lead pony class, Ancrum Boykin; in the working hunter class, H. Granger Gaither; in the hack class, James Ryan;' in the lead-rein claas, Richard (Dixie) Boy kin; In the pair ot hacks class, John Wall; in the horaemanshlp class, Mrs. Burley Cocks, and in the driving class. Mrs. Samuel Russell. The afternoon was ideal for the show, with bright sunshine and a mild (emperkture. Many of the hun dreds who were presMit came early and brought their lunches. The following wers the winners of the various'events, the table showing the name of the horse, together with owner-or rider. Combination ride-drive: Alcade, Mra. John Daniels. 1st; The General, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Waller, 2nd; Jigger, Master Graham DuBoss, Srd. Shootiag Ponies: Siorty, Mn. Dtf< (Plsggg tun to pgfo soTsu) Wire Operators Of Seaboard Are Hi Serious Wreck County Teachers To Meet Mardi 7th iJUa WouKher Vum Poiutg Ohly In Ong Diruction. Said Either Chief Haiglar, the tall, onze Indian atop tho city hall. It very stubborn gentleman or else he '«d8 an oil and grease Job. For despite the sephyn that Mr. A. Brown, weather burean apsclal- directs at ths Chlst, ths latter finitely rsfoses to point his arrow _eiwlse than northwsst Buford Hancock, hlns-coated knt of John Law, “I think the old I needa a hit of ofl.” S^ George Cooley, who looks after “s and other things that require attention of an eftlciesit’pnrdias- department. ‘Til buy the greage > oh. but narr a bit will I climb yon tower to apply same to the hm Chief” Mayor P. N. MoCorkle, “That wn warrior Is a stobbon chap, 9nt I Said ids under hfau—hr that I mean, the way for him to gase hither, thsr and you.” .. *®Tent.membership of ths Boy of Ammieu Is ong minion eight thouMud boyt Slid On« Man Killed and Other Criticalljr Wosmded On U. S. No. 1 The “blotter” of the recent criminal |Court term at the Kerahaw county Ytinife house showed the following ease dteposltions: Partel Boykin, indicted for violation of ths liquor law, plead guilty and was sentenced to three months in Jail or $40 fine. Upon payment of the fine the defendant was placed on probation for three years. W. B. Fort, indited for violation of the liquor law, plead guilty and was sentenced to Jail for nine months or fined $100. 'The fine was paid and the defendant was placed on pro bation for three years. Joe Slas Caldwell indited for viola tion of the liquor law, plead guilty and was sentenced to serve three months on public works projects in (mease turn to page seven) The declsloB to add the 12th year to the public school system ot South Carolina was a forward step for edu cation in the state. In 194$ the Gen eral Amembly passed an act estab lishing the 11th grade and anthmrlied the State Board of Bducatkm to pro^ need to make the necessary adjust ments. This program does not mean another grade will be put on as an addittonal year ot work, but the entire educational program will be reorganised and adopted to meet the present day needs. Many problems and obstacles will arise and temporary adjostmeuts most oome first In order that a Aorough nnderstaodlng of these prob lems msy be reached the State De partment (H Bdneation under the di rection of E. W. Rashton will hold state-wide (xmfersnees to dlaeuss with teachers sad all other faiterestsd psr^ sons the importance of tnanguraUng the 12-year pogram on a sound basis and to provide guidance In the work for the 1946-46 sesskm. ^s*!! find some way to put thu The eonfereaoa for Kershaw Conn ty teachers will be held Wednesdsy afternoon, March 7, at S:M, in the Camsden City sdiool aaditerlum. The County Teachers AasoetetloD wfU be hM at the same thne sad an persons interested hi echool matters an aakad to bg The Seaboard Airline railway was without two telegraph operators Tues day, W. J. Jennings, 68. operator at Cassatt, being killed and G. C. Sharpe, age 60, operator at Sheppard, is tn a critical condition at the Ciamden hospital, as the result 'of a collision with a large pine tree at the roadside near the Junction of U. S. No. 1 and S. C. Highway 142, six miles north of here late last night Sheriff J. R McLeod wUl hold an inquest but is awaiting to see if Sharpe dies. Sharpe has a compound fracture of the right leg, a brokra right wrist s dislocated left hip and was badly lacerated about the head and face. Jennings died instantly, suffering a fractured skull. State police, investigating the acci dent with the SherlfTs office, report ed that Sharpe, whose home Is at West Columbia, was driving the car Mayor Accepts Gh^enge of Mr. Fiorello. LaGuardia McCorkle Safg Camden Will Raise Red Cross Quota Quickly Misunderstanding Cause of Tnrmoil In World Today Stanley Llewellyn Ghres later- Addregg fai Colundbiau The challenge of Mayor Fiorello La- Guardia of New York City, to the mayors of all the cities of the United States, that New York will complete its Red Cross War Fund quota before any other city In America has been accepted by Mayor F. N. McCorkle of this city. *’If it is possible to determine Jnst what the city’s share of the Kershaw county quote will be, I am accepting the defy ot the New York executive,” said Mayor McCorkle. “I have every confidence that the ettisens of Camden will cooperate with me in making good my acceptr ance of the New York mayor’s chal lenge.” he continued. “Camden and- Kershaw county as well, will sneoessfuily complete this Red Cross drive, because every single individual has a deep snicerity* and bellsf in the project” Although the national quota for tho Red Cross War Fund campaign, now underway in tho nation, having start ed last Monday, has been fixed at two hundred millioii dollars, with a quota of $17,900 for the Kershaw county area. National headquarters has announced that unless these cam paign goals are substantially exceed ed, the requirements of the Red Cross for the ensuing year will not bo met. The stepping up of military cam paigns, with the constantly Incrraaing casualties, expansion of war areas, the requirements of additional rest and recreational facilities and in creasing demands on the Red Cross for service to the military forces and their families within the continentlal United States, all point to the need of grorwing financial demands to keep pace with the expansion of the war machine both at home and abroad. 'The campaign was opened this week with personal appeals over the radio by President Roosevelt and top ranking military and naval officers. In Camden and Kershaw county the campaign will be initiated with ap peals for advance gifts. Since o<m- tributiona to the Red Cross sre de ductible for income tax purposes, H is expected that industries and itorss will be desirous of making contribu tions commensurate with the Inrrngs ed needs of the Red Ooss and with due regard for the tax savings effect ed by such contribution Every business •and civic organtss- (Plsase tom to page three) “In Agin, Out* Again, In Agin” Three Soldiers Just Out of Hoepilel Figure In Auto Wreck. Camden Plays In Invitation Meet At Sumter High Nine Teenu Entered Class A Invitation Classic In the Gamecock City. For three soldiers from iy>rt Jack- son, who put forth Thursday evening for Virginia and points north ' on s furlough, it was Just a case of ”in agin, out again, in agin” so far as the Fort Jackson hospital is con cerned. ^ One of the soldiers had Just been released after being confined for months with a broken leg. The other still carried bis arm in a case and the third had a thumb in s cast. All were In a car riding toward Virginia and points north when the machine went into a skid on U. 8. No. 1 highway just east of the Wst- eree river bridge. The car dove down a high bank and turned over in a ills nki .... 'The soldier with the broken arm re- ceived a fractured nose and was otherwise cut and bruised as were his companions. The car was badly dam aged. Taxi Lines Are Warned Against Violating Law Cnauot Tlmnapcit People To Or From Spots Not Ob serving Curfew. Guest spssksr at Thursday sven- ing's, last weak, dinner meeting of the Pacific Mills Foreman’s club at the Jefferson hotel was A. Stanlsy Llew- elljm, vice president and eeneral man ager of the Inman Riverside Mills and a prominent member of the Sooth Carolina department of the Ameriout Legion and the 40 and t. “The greatest cause of sufterteg, strife and heartaclM,” Mr. Llewellyn declared, “Is ndsanderstendlng ot the broGiemiaa. Misunderstanding cansea wan. separates fasillas, eausss strikes and spoIlB frtoadaklps.' It is the mother ef snspickm and tt bleed hatred. Hatred breaks down hsalth and efficiency and lends le min.” Mr. Llewellyn cited from his en- perlenee cases where the npinser knew that the boes cardsr was taking out twists to run him oft, and the ver by the seam token knew the Highway Patrol Sdeks To Reduce Traffic Deaths A goal of 16,000 personal contacts with pedestrians tn rural areas In South Carolina te remind them of man ton and to give the heavy pedeet rules for walking safely Is ztnl lag set by tho state highway pai for ths next few months. Pedestrian deaths and injariss In the state were far too numerous dur ing 1244, said J. B. WUliamson. chief highway oonunisskmer. Accident reo- ords shew that Itl pedestrians were killed In South Carolina last year and 122 other walkers struck down and Injured^ WsBurs on rural hl^ways are now being contacted by patrolmen whether they are walking oerrecUy or In- eorreetly.. If the pedestrian Is waft ftg In such a moaner as to. bring (Plenes tarn 6o pgge sevia) Added teeth were added Monday to the new federal curfew regulation, effective Monday, when It was ai nonnoed from Washingt^m that taxis carrying people from places violat ing the midnight cloetng wbnld be de nied gas rations and their license cancelled. Thia, it waa explained, would apply to an casee Involvlnf the transporta tion of persons to or from a night clnb, dance hall or any other place coming within the provisions of the curfew law. Camden is not only observing the new curfew law to the letter but the brownont obcervance is most astound ing. Downtown Camden is reminis cent ot blackoot iMriods dnrhlg the airraid drills held at intervals during the past several years. The Camden high school basketball team played In the second annual South Oarolina Invitation Class A high school basketbsll tonmament held at Sumter yesterday, today and Saturday. There are nine teams entered in the event with Olympia of (Columbia, drawing a bye in the first round of pairings. — Thursday the tournament opened with Spartanburg playing IHorence at 3 p. m.. Charleston meeting Green wood at 4 p. m., Columbia battling Sumter at 8 p. m., and Camden and Greenville staging the 9 p. m. fea ture. On the performance of the teams in games played during the season coming to a close, Sumter appears to be outstanding and sbonld win the tournament. Fall of Germany May Happen Soon; Camden k Ready In case theYweral public has for gotten. the fall of Germany, which may come at any Ume now, will be heralded in Camden by the ^blowing of the fire and air-raid slre^. The sirens will not blow with the waver ing sound of the air-rsld rehearsals, bnt will be detached and steady. Ihs sirens will blow at hourly intervals up to 8 p. m. At 8 o’clock In the evening a com munity Thanksgiving meeting will b# held in Hampton Park, this to be in charge of Rev. Edward Burke of the Catholic chnrch. Choirs of the city churches will be present to lead in Uie singing ot suit able hymns and patriotic airs. In the event of rain the mass meet- ing for prayer will be held In the auditorium of the Grammar ecbooL All cburchea at the city wOl be open on Victory Day, tn order that people^who wish to offer prayers of thanksgiving may do no. ANNOUNCEMENT Bsglnnlng nsxt wssk, Ths Chronlels will add a nswr fsiture to Ha news eevsrags. It will bs a column under the eap- tien “He's Home."' Camdsn and Ksrshaw eeunty par- enta of boys In the eervlce, alec the wtvee ef husbandc en duty, giris who have eweet hearts in the army, navy, air forea or ataHn^ wtio le homa, or dua to ba hama aeon, art aaked to eali ar write the “He'll Homs” editor ef Tho Chrontote, glvtrtg[ the name of the ratarnod aarvlea man. Alae whara ha la staying and If paaalbis, tha tala- phena mimbar. That wlH anaMs hla frianda to eall on him, ar If nat akte ta da tha^ ta phena him. MaU Carriers To Have P^tection From Vidous Curs Govnmmmt Ordnn Mafl Dn- livnrjr Stoppnd In Cnana Likn That Do you have « dog that anapa or bites at the mailman when the latter oomee to deflver your mailT If you hava and you still want Uncle Sam to leavo your mall at your home, you had beat get rid of the dog —or keep him chained up eo that he cannot molaot the uiafhnsn. The Post Office department haa called tor strict enforcement of tte regulation barring matt dallrery to homea having rldons Thare hava bean a nnmbw of oc- caalona srhan Chmden mall carrlaro have been badly bitten by dogs. AoL ing nnder wdera from Washington, local earrlsn win peas ap aU I whara vlcions doga art at larga. J.-.-