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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.
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Notice....
In order that our employees
may • attend church services on
Sunday morning, we will he clos
ed each Sunday unttt 1 o'clock.
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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
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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. Bavii
Headquarters for Hoq>itsl>’|
xation, H^th and Ac
Insorance.
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We have one new Dodge Truck and
will get,a limited number all along. If
you have priority come in and let us sell
you one, but we can install a new motor
in your Dodge Truck or Dodge and Ply-
mouth Passenger Car without any prior
ity ... and it will last you for the duration
or longer. We are prepared, to service
your car and Use Only Genuinely Guar
anteed Factory Parts.
WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED A NEW SHIPMENT
OF SEAT COVERS . . . HAVE SOME TAILORED
plaids.
Service Motor Co.
Telapkone 109
ca
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