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PAGE FOUR TME CAlipCf^aiRJJIICLl^AIIWWygUTH^AgUH^jnjlOAJ^AY^I^ Siff (Samirtt (Slirmtirb 1109 North Bromd Street CimdeRt S. 6. PUBLISHED EVERY ^'BIDAY - DgCOSTA brown Puhltoher SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: All Subscriptions Payable In Advance ^N&e Year 9bc Mofltns ^.M#*.****************^****************************************** 1*00 Entered as Second Class Matter at the Pest Office at Camden, S. C. All articles submitted for publication must be sifned by the author. Friday, May 4, 1945 YES-~EVEN SEVEN TIMES SEVEN Now comes the Seventh War Loan, officially opening on May 14, and ending on June 30. More tinfe devoted to it, and more money to be raised. Uncle Sam wants seven billions in this Seventh War Loan—and four billions of this ti be in E bonds—^the kind that moet of us have been buying. There will be ample reasons given in speeches, in stories in the magazine»‘ and the‘ press, and in newspaper advertise* ments, for this biggest of all individual quotas. We will be told of the task still to be performed in the Asiatic area when the job is done in Europe. We will be reminded that with a stepped-up war against Japan wihen Germany is licked, we also will have a much longer distance to transport supplies—and the Iwo Jima bat tle reminds us that the Japs may be expected to fight harder as we approach their home areas than they did on the fringe. And we know they were tough enough tJhere. Our selfishness will be greased when we are again re minded — as we will be — that for every three dollars we in vest we will get four dollars back. But all of these arguments and reasons fade alongside the very elemental one—that so long aA-our^oung men and women can take it in battle, and as long as it is necessary for them to take it—^just so long can we take it, and give it, at home. *— — Our money; their blood and sinew. Our extra hours to earn more to buy War Bonds; their extra hours to maintain the sovereignity and security of the nation that will redeem the bonds. Buy bonds in this Seventh War Loan? Of course we shall. And in the Eighth when it comes—and as many more as it will require to supply them and to eventually bring them home—even unto seven times seven. . * * —^National Legionnaire. ‘THE MAN WHO IS TWELVE YEARS OLD” ‘‘,The Man Who is Twelve Years Old,” a poem by Maurice Smiley, has become a symbol of the prayers and hopes with which countless Americans, and people of all nations, are following the International Conference at San Francisco. Mr. Smiley's verses, saluting youth, have been given nation-wide prominence as the result of a campaign under taken by one of our country's leading buriness concerns, to help center public attentioiL, on the Conference. Without mentioning tneir own business in any way, ex cept for a sponsorship signature, the General Cable Corpora tion has run. the Smiley poem in newspapers from coast to coast. An inspiring illustration of a twelve year old boy is used a4 a background for the poem. Because of this broad publicity in more than a thousand newspapers, delegates to the Conference as well as the gen eral public undoubtedly will have a clearer vision of the fun damental importance to future generations of the delibera tions which are taking place today. Mjr. Smiley's poem, which has found a place in the hearts of countless thousands, is given below: “There's a man that I know, and he lives near you. In a town called Everywhere; You might not think he'a a man from his hat Or the clothes he may chance to wear; But under the jacket with many a patch Is a (heart more precious than gold— The heart of a man 'neath the coat of a boy, A man who is twelve years old. We never may know what the future will make Of the boys that we carelessly meet, For many a statesman is now at school, And Presidents play in the street. _ The hand that is busy with playthings how ,, The reins of power will hold; So I take off my hat and gladly salute This man who is twelve years old.” MUST WE ALWAYS HAVE THEM? • A young mother is reported to have admitted drowning her baby b^ in a well. Another burned her child's hand over a gas flame because she suspected him of stealing her cigarets. A youth of 18 admits strangling his widowed mother. These are just samples from one day's news. “It takes all kinds of people to make a world,” runs the hackneyed comment. Will it be ever thus? ,Will the world always be filled with .^unnaturat persons who commit unnatural crimes? Or, will medicine^edence, laws and public opinion ever advance to the point of enlightment where the production of such warped mentalities will be impossible?—^^e State. s' Notice.... In order that our employees may • attend church services on Sunday morning, we will he clos ed each Sunday unttt 1 o'clock. ★ I • Broad Street Lunch Slade To Have Court Inn For Season of 1915-46 Only Tourist Hotel Now CamdoB Will Open On Novombor 15 In Camden rejoiced this week when it became known that Arthur Slade, who has been lessee and manager of the Court Inn for the past several years and prior to that manager at the Hobkirk Inn has taken another year’s lease on the Court and wiU be ba^ early next fall to open the hostlery for the winter season on Nov, 16 Pfeparihg to iMve for the north where they will be in charge of an outstand ing summer resort at Lake Sunapee, New Hampshire. party was in the field to operate the hotel next year. The owners of the hotel on Tuesday however arranged to lease the prop erty to Mr. Slade for the ensuing year. The Court Inn is the only tourist hotel now operating in Camden. A few years ago the city boasted of the Kirkwood, Hobkirk and Court. 'The Hobkirk Inn was the first to disappear and now the Kirkwood has been about dismantled. The Court enjoyed a successful sea son, Just closing, and it will be grati fying news to the many repeat guests to know that Mr. Slade will be in charge next season. Regulations Fw Meat Slaughterers To enable meat slaughterers In South Carolina to oontfbne uninter rupted operation of thefar business during the Interim between the 'ex piration of War Food Administration permits and the Issuance of the new OPA permits, E. H. Talbert, state OPA director in Columbia today call ed attention to the interim quota pro vision of the meat control program. Between April SO and May 14, class 2 slaughterers will be limit^ in their slaughter of hogs, cattle, sheep and lambs to amount of each these types killed betwMn April 30 and May. 14, 1944. Between April 30 and May 14. 1946, they must apply to their Dls- Mr. Slade and his femilv ere ^nw trlct OPA office for a sUughterl^ Uiiola ~and~ permit to slaughter, Tal bert said. A class 2 slaughterer is a non-fed- erally inspected slaughterer whose an- For the past week rumors have beeh- rife regarding the future of the Court dressed, he pointed out. _ Inn and it was reported that a local FBI Conference At Sumter, May 21 An FBI Law Enforcement Confer ence will be held in Sumter on Mon day, May ^1, as_^e of a series of such programs in ^uth Georgia and Eastern South Carolina, it was an nounced today by D. K. Brown, Spec ial Agent in charge of the Savannah Field Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. All city, county, state, and federal law enforcement officers of this area are invited to be present. The Sum ter conference will be held in the Community Hall of the Coca Cola Bottling Company, beginning at 3 o’clock in the afternoon. Mr. Brown said program would Include a discussion of matters relat ing to the national defense, and oth er topics related to the investigation of criminal offenses. Since inaugu ration of these conferences several years ago, Mr. Brown said, there has developed an unprecedented coordi nation of police functions throughout the nation. In addition to the conference in Sumter, others will be held as fol lows: Columbia, S. C., May 17; Orangeburg. S. C., May 18 amd Flor ence, S. C.. May 23. Fair Street Home Sold To Banker i^om the North ’The winter home of the late C. E. Hellen on Fair street, has been sold by Mrs. Virginia M. Moffitt, executrix and thrustee, and Mrs. Shirley H. Cartwright to Mr. and Mrs. Samuel K. Mitchell of Wlllsbarre. Pa., ac cording to a conveyance filed with the -register of deeds at the Kershaw County courthouse. Other transfers include the sale of the old Rutledge street armory build ing, now the home of the Camden Frosen Foods, Inc., to the latter org- anlcktion for |7,500. When the freex- er locker outGt took over this prop erty, it was on a lease which stipu lated that the city would sell at the 27,600 figure at any time within the first- year. The Wateree Building and Loan as sociation sold to Pearl H. Workman 228 acres of land; Lloyd B. Rush sold to J. B. Rush 41 acres; Martha Brown sold to H. E. Brown a house and lot: WllOe Richardson sold to David White and Sallie Bell White 1 acre. Driv* a Li^a. 3 farm slaughterers are permitted to kill these same types of meat in an amount not to exceed their slaughter of each type during period between April 30 and May 14, 1944. After May 14. these class 3 farm slaughterers may not kill for sale or transfer any* of these ^types unless they have re ceived from their War Price and Ra tioning Board a quota and permit for farm slaughter. If he does not wish to kill and transfer any meat between May'14 and July 1 he may apply to his War Price and Rationing Board any time prior to July 1 and receive his quota and slaughter permit. A class three slaughterer is a farm slaughterer who kills for sale or transfer less than 6,000 pounds of meat annually, he explained. At the present time, class one fed erally inspected slaughterers, do not come under the meat control order, Talbert said. WAR PRISONER RUMORS MOSTLY LOT OF MALARKY (Continued from first page) of rebellion at the camp. Only three prisoners were involved and these Tesumed work when placed on a bread and water diet. One inmate escaped from a work gang but there was a general belief that he would return in a few days or starve to death. He did return. The prisoners do not receive any fancy food. What they receive is suf ficient for proper nourishment. The canteen at the prison camp cairiee many items as are found in post ex changes. Prices are also the same as at post exchanges, which are below prices paid by civilians^ Complaint that the GeiTaans' on work trucks passing through the city to and from work camps have called to Camden girls was reported and it was stated the trucks would be routed on back streets in the future. The personnel of officers and guards at the Camden camp, also the officers at the head of the-South Carolina prison camp group, did not formulate the rules regarding the op eration of the camps. ’That was done by the war department in Washing ton. The reports of coddling of German prisoners spread through the com munity and gained added color in the repeated telling. These reports were discussed at bridge parties, cocktail parties, in the honses and on the street corners. A prominent civic leader who had been regaled with some of the un founded statements declared that a mass meeting of citisens of Kershaw county should be called to protest to tbs government. To investigate the many stories this writer contacted parties in au thority at the Fort Jackson head quarters and on Saturday' personnel from headquarters came to Camden Foltbwing a careful checkup, this re porter was requested to hear a report According to a report in one of the metropolitan papers Sunday It is now proposed to turn the camps in this country over to the American Service men who were confined in German prison camps. Red Cabbage To keep the red color of red bage and beets, add a tablespoon of vinegar to each pint of cooking whter. Pvt Elbert Byrd In IMvision 11^ Receives Citation Pvt Frank E. Byrd, aon of Mr. and Mrs. J, D. Byrd, and a 1944 Camden High School graduate, servtaig with the 78tb Lightning Division in Oar- many, bM recrived a Citation from Major Omieral E. P. Parker. Jr. Pvt. Byrd sntsred the service June SO, 1944. He completed his Basic training In Anti-Aircraft at Fort Blisa, Texaa, later being transferred to the Infantiy and taking advanced Infan try training at Camp Maxey, Texaa. He waa sent overseas in February and assigned to the Ninth Army, Seventy- Eighth Division. 'The Citation reads as follows; “On the 28th of Tebruari the first forces of the 78tb Division croMmd over the Roer River. By the next day you had secured and established a bridgehead on the east bank. In the six days which followed you slashed forward 35 miles to the Rhine. “In those eight days you captured 46 towns, over 1500 prisoners, and much valuable equipmenL' You clear ed 87 square miles of German ground. By seising five bridges over the Ahr River, you assisted in sealing off large forces of enemy troops and in sured the capture of all the ground northwest of the Mosel River, r “Throughout that fast moving, hard driving phase of the battle the bold fighting spirit which carried you for ward was unbeatable. “On the night of 7-8 March the first Lightning soldiers crossed over the Rhine River. It was more than fit ting that you—who by the capture of Schwammenauel Dam made the great drive to the Rhine possible—^were the first Infantry Division soldiers to cross that river. “Tour actions since have been coa^ stantly heroic. In the face of the greatest dangers and hazards, in the face of massed concentrations of ob served enemy artillery ;flre, you never faltered. Tour personal courage haa bee n_ the greatest jzlngle factor re- sponsible for the successful securing of this bridgehead—the foens of world attention. “My sincere congratulations and commendations to each of you for your magnificent accomplishn^ents. “I bare said before and wish to re peat that I am humbly proud to be able to lead such men as you. With God’s help we shall continue now, on to the final complete victory which cannot be too distant’’ Cong. J. P. Richards Leavs For Germany Washington, April 23.—Congrets- man J. P. Richards of the fifth South Carolina district, left Washington by plane this week for Germany where he will aid in gathering tint hand evidence of Nazi atrocities. - Ho will travel as a member of a 12-man committee, appointment of which was asked by President Tru man and Secretary of War Stimson after Oen. Eisenhower requested that an official congressional committee study the atrocity evidence. Richards, who made an investiga tion of lend-lease aid in Ekigland and France last summer. Is fourth ranking member of the important foreign af-< fain committee. He probably will be overaeas about 10 days. Lancaster Men Visit Freezer Plant Here On Wednesday A group of Lancaster'merchants came to Can^en last Wednesday to visit the local freezer locker plant on RuGedge' street" The bo|rd of county commisslonen of Lancaster county has started a movement looking for the construc tion of a freezer locker plant at Lan caster. The Lancaster Merchants associa* tlon took the matter up and requested the executive committee of the group to come to Camden and view the plant recently erected here. Fifty-Five Towi» Gose Stores On Wednesday P. M.’g Fire la Stete Choae j And Two Solect Toe*. d«]r Wednesday aeems to be the ! day for the midweek cloelng ' In South Carolina commuuitw^*** I Out of 100 qneetlonnalres mi 1 89 replies were received andirf 5!’ total 66 towns are closing nesdays. 12 on Thursdays and mTn Tuesdays. The two with the dosing are Cheater and Ro^^j 'Tkone dosing on Thursday aftm^l are Allendale, Beaufort, Bennetorffl Cheraw, Hampton. TAmfli- Orangeburg, RMgeland, NoittrJ George and Wglterboro. ^ Wednesday closing wlU be ohwir,- In Abbeville, Aiken, Anderwm^ drews, Bamberg, Barnwell, Bate^ Belton, Bethune, Blshopviiie vine, Branch vine, Camden. ’cmS ton, Cbeetertield. Clinton, Darlington, Denmark. Dillon Eui’i Edgefield, Florence, Fountain iS’l Georgetown. Greenwood, Hartziml Johnston, Kershaw, Klngstrse, ^ drum, Laurens, Leeisvllle. Uxl*m McBee, McCormick, Newberry kw ols, NlnsJx-Slx. OlanU. ProspwteJ Smoaks, Society Hill, Spartanbwl Springfield, Sumter, Tlmmonnml Union, WalhaUa, Ware Shoals minster,* Williston, Winnsbom ^ Woodruff. Scout Troop 38 Enjoys An Outing Local Scont Troop Number uj which Is sponsored by the Bzatht] church, of Camden, had a nice ottm Friday nlghL April 22ad. Tv^i boys of the Troop hiked to ^ Club camp at Lake Sbamokhi w bad a real taste of camp life by caaH ing out for the night .The group v»( accompanied by John Henry M Dowell, who had the boys In duriu] RECEIVES CITATION Word has been receive by )mj Loma H. Ledford that her son, T.-8| H. Arnett Ledford, and each mu his company has received s OMti.] torious citation from general o( 9th Air Forte. Sgt Ledford says the 9th Air Force is the largest u,. anlsation In the world and as (ar ■] is known, this Is the only nnit gruM] this citation. Bay War BomU and SCsapi Ambulance Think David H. 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