The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, June 22, 1945, Image 1
SThe Gamden
VOUUME »7
CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROUNA, FRlDAllr JUilE^ IMS
NUMBER 14
iden Officer Went Bird
[anting In the Moselle Battle
^tam L. W. Boykin, Jr.,
“tke Mad Hunter
of Metx**
ver
it
BOB it can--be loliL Tlie-
lean offtc«r who ci^y wan-
^tween the battle Hnea during
flrttlng raging along the MoaeUe
, during NoTember, 1»44, shoqt-
rabbit* and Wrd* with a ahot
none other than Oat>Ula L.
Boykin, Jr., known to hte clone
, a* “Buck" and whwda a broth-
j W. C. (Stew) Boykin. R. B.
,) Boykin, L. D. (Daaa) Boykin,
B D. Boykin, Mm. T. L. Ale*-
^ Mr*. MeCtowan Holmes, all
,r8 of the Boykin family of
and Camden.
^ of “the mfd hunter of Motz"
came out of Bremen, Germany,
the effect that thia American
Muntered through machine
■e mine fields and mortar
carrying partridge and rabbits
from one arm and a ahot gun
_ other. Deaplte the fact that
l^e raged about him he fro-
dy halted In his meanderlngs to
a pot shot nt h btod*
paper cMTSspondeaU regarded
_ry more or IsM as a legend.
Me truth esme oat last Wednee-
ahw Captain Boykin admitted
Ma story was tr«a heeasee he
Me hunter In fseMtOM.
h the story as told by Captain
to a XJnltM Press
tu
I’t like to tell this atory—It
w seem anch a daamed fool,"
mhl In his Carolina drawl,
(be boys somehow got wind of
I had to admit it"
In his late forties. Is stocky,
and pleasant. He descrlbea
„ as a re-cap beca^ he also
a eaptaln In the first World war.
two sons both wear the Purple
seglneera* outfit iras
iTfle after the long pdsh across
1." ks said, “and I waa dead
When I am weary I don’t like
(Flsme tura to puMe tww)
Le Riders Are
To Keep
fraffie Lane
Ci^oiin Aiicmin,
Scion of Southern
Aristocracy, Weds
Fnnensa, Gnund Neice of Lato
Russian Csar, Wads Cam-
dan lieuL
Isauea Ordare To Curb
igeroua Practice Now
PrewaiKnf
owing complaint of the practice
ony bicycle riders of riding
Dot traffic regulationa on the
<8 of the city. Mayor P. N. Me-
^le has issued ordem to the police
tment to take action that will
It the situation.
other words the mayor declares
jbicycle riders will have to obey
Itraffic regulations just the same
required of drlvera of other we-
This applies to automobiles,
horse or mule drawn vehicles,
action of the mayor resulted
a leiies of complaints made by
rista against the practice of
bicycle rldem In riding against
traffic. Bicycle riders are nequlr-
law to ride on the rhght side
he street with traffic and not
>t traffic on the oppoaite aide.
»eral bicycle riders who were
^d by a Chronicle repreeentatlTe
[aaked why they were riding
*t traffic, stated with honest
tion that they had been told it
[the right way,
mayor also spoke of the In-
pg habit of autoists in beating
kipping the rod light of the traf-
kipial system. Jhe amber or
light is for the purpose of
ng vehicles in an Intoraec-
to clear before the red Ui^t
the stop signal. A majority
Mists stopping for a red light
te their motor t^ gnu when
. ^her cornea on, thus raiaing a
Id for cars clearing the intersec-
Princess Zeoia Romanoff, 2C, grand
niece of the late Ctar Nlcholaa n,
became the bride of First Lt Calhoun
Ancmm, Jr., scion of one of Sonth
Carolina’s most aristocratic families
at a ceremony that took place Sun-
day, June 17, in the Russian Orthodox
Cathedral in London.
The'affair waa one of the high
lights of the London poet-war social
season and waa witnessed by many
notables and dignaitarieo, including
many of the Royal blood of English
and Russian nobility.
While Lt Calhoun Ancmm, Jr., waa
not bom far Camden, he spent much
of his boyhood here and was a grand
son of Anna Calhoun Ancrum, with
wrhom he made his home mnch of the
time. He was bora fai the Philippines,
his father being atatlonod at the time
at Olongopo on the Bataan peminsnla.
Col. Clalhoun Ancrum waa a member
of ,the U8MC and was itatiooed in
namy fUfeign oountrles, inculding
Clhlnn, Hawaiian lalanda, Panama
Haytl. San Domingo and imjwrtant
poets in the Atlantic and Pacific
areas. He was at one time Command,
ant of the Marine detachment at the
Charleaton Navy yard, and wbUe
there his eon. Gelhoun Ancrum. Jr.,
attended the PorUr Military Academy.
Colonel Ancmm had reUred and
had moved to thia city to reside. He
waa called back into aarvke when war
broke out iu Ehirope. He had been
beck in uniform for one year when
he died at the Naval hospital In
Washington, his death coming Just a
month after the attack on Pearl Har-
bow.
Living as he did A so many dif
ferent countrlee. (hUhonn, Jr., picked
up fBMMj foreign languagec and when
he entered Duke University hla work
fai languages waa so outstanding he
was given fellowahipc at the Unl-
vsuslty of Muaidi sad also at Heldle-
hurg Ualverslty, hathrwf. these fam-
ou* lastltatlons being In Oenuany.
He studied in Germany for five years
sad lacksd Just two weeks work in
getting his doctor's degree at Heidle-
>nrg, which closed because of the
outbreak of war between England,
France and Germany.
He was then assl^ed as an assist
ant to the American embassador at
ierlin but when that worthy was
(coatinaed on page three)
Chronicle Is Happy Link
Between Home and Front
English Cathedral
Scene of Beautiful
Memorial Service
I
Letter Here Deacribea Imprea*
ahre HMurt-Tlirobbing
Spectacle
COTKN TBEASURT—TM B. Qaiubla.
Plaaaee Divlsisa, acoepta Ihe _
phslsgraphti, sec—d frem left, sa Ima
aai Lieut Ocueral ilfTautnr A. ▼(
la Ihe nh War
Fewer Soft Drinks
Will Be Available
Here Ibis Summer
S«i«ar Cat WO! kban
In’MaMiifafAare ct Thirst
Allajrera.
If your threat is parched now,
will be doubly so before the auauB#
la over, acoordlhg to soft drink ti
er.
QPlaint has also been made of
terous practice of some d^-
cars going la the same
(m the right. This is one
turn to pugu throe)
nisaae
d Cannery To
‘n Jane the 26th
to
^Men school cannery will be
0 the public on June M, and
J^wday and Friday for tha
of the summer. The can-
” be supervised hy Mies Hln-
economica Instructor, and
**« West, tgrtculture teacher
"'gh school.
;^nery u located at the old
school bulMlag In the
section of towm
5^*cy wm be epeu from f
5 p. ». but no
^ after t o'sh
vmd yrufurs his
and bring aiaag i
^ Hh! I „
from tha mmmmj
bopa yen wfli mtlu
Tom Mott Writes
From Okinawa Isle
Complaina Becauae He Could
Get Bol 1 Bath In 18 Daya
the fact remains there will be fewer
soft drinks for Camden people this
summer than ever before. AlreeMf
some of yonr favorite diinldag spots,
receiving their quota of coke one day
will find It all gone a few daya later
with the balance of the week glvaa
over to a deep thirsty feeling.
Faced with a new cut in sugar al
lotments July 1, soft drink mannfao-
torsTs are hoping they will be able ta
aatlafy at leadt a few of the summer
thirsts daring the coming months.
Operating since the first of the
wrviee BaU At
^ihory Brilliant
n the Extreme
Show, Fine Orcheatra
and Big Crowd Feature
Waak amd Affair
trancing music, an uproariously
sad entortatnlng floor show,
fonaa 'of the army, navy, marlnse
formation pleked np hither and thlth- aad air, force mingled with the bright
•1^ ol ladles formal* provided a
No matter which way you look at it, Mfoground for mte of the most in-
uump
Sfe
Tthe
ITom Mott, former manager of the
I Southern Aviation school hero and
now a lieutenant with the Marines,
writes to The Soutbernaire. official
publication of Southern Airways.
Bays Mott: “Thanks ao much for
yonr nice lettor giving me all the
news from Southern Airways. It la
so nice to hear shoot and from one’s
friends.
"As for ‘me—I have had no sleep
and only one good bath In the last
It days. We landed at Okinawa on
D-pIus S day aad went to work ae^
ting up operatloas on Yontaa airport
The Japs aren’t partlcnlarly pleated
about our being here and don’t give
ns much rest (Jur boys ars doing
well and have about 40 Japs to their
credit
‘’Everyone on the Island was sad-
deaed over the death of our President
aad shortly after of Ernie Pyle. Both
will b* missed.
’Tm well aad happy. Ragards to all
•-Pom A. Mott. Jr.-
Bottling company, in a statement
Wednesday said: “I am informed that
this angar shortage Is world wide and
not merely natlonel and is directly
attributed to the confusion In the
production and distribution of sugar
occasioned by the war.
"The supply of Coca Cola In Cam
den definitely will be affected by fur
ther curtailment after July 1. That is
due to, the fact that my company will
(Plaaae turn t» paga thraa)
ting social tvsnta of the Camdsn
mer season, th* dance given, by
Qmapany B. 812 Taak Battalion from
Jackson, under the anspicea of
Service ^nter.
e affair waa held In the new
anikory and was attended by fully
hundred or more service men
iM Camden girls.
^e Mg hall was ariiatlcally decor-
in red, white and blue. The
nee to Uie ball room waa throngh
aisle formed by two pine trees
the dance tree, also used tor
year with 88 per cent of the quote of R* ftatiug show, was banlatered off
1841
looking
crease
prodnetkm
of the 1841 quota. and cold drinks
All of the soft drink people state Muaid waa furnished by the 80th
emphatically that no sugar substitute A. O. F. Co. B, Srd Battalion. With
wfll be used In their drinks and that the orchestra providing music also
they would prefer to shut down their for the floor shew, the big crowd
plants ftrst applauded the beautlfu voice of Corp
R. E. McCarty, manager of the Kerr, who before going Into the Army,
Can^en branch of the Coca Cola waa a soloiat at Trinity Episcopal
Service Men Like To Hear
What la Going On
Back Honte
Although announced as “by invita
tion only’’ three mldweatern soldiers
managed to get into St Paul’s Cathe
dral In London ^ and witness what
they described as the most impres-
live and thrilling religious event in
their lives, the Memorial Service that
was held for the late President Frank
lin D. Roosevelt i
One of the lads, S..Sgt. Harry
Forbes, whose daddy Is a World war
1 veteran and who lived neighbor to
the Skipper at Fond du Lac, Wis.,
writes the Skipper of the episode.
His letter packs a lot of drama and
la an outstanding word picture of the
memorial service.
In part he says: ‘‘We managed to
get passes into the Cathedral from
the American embassy and we start
ed tor the beautiful church, 4e found
ourselves In a parade of thousands of
people and ataoet as many cabe—all
headed on way—that being to the*
memorial servlM. The ESngliah ‘bob
by,’ was on goard at every turn, but
when we showed our tickets they
passed ue with a polite grin.
“We had never been In St. Paul’s
before, although we had been over a
year In London. I wish I could de
scribe this exquisite, beautiful and
vast edifice. The immenaity of It
almoet took our breath away.
“We were shown to seats and we
aat for halt and hour or longer listen
ing to the strains music that came
from the beautiful organ. All the
time people were pouring in—gener’
ale, admirals, nobility.
•We saw a atrlklng figure walkiok
down the center aisle. It waa a tgll
man, way over six feet, raven blaek
hair and a strong face. It was Am-
baasadore Wlnant. ‘Then egme mem-
bera of Parllment, Ambaasadorea.
diplomats, from all over the world.
“As we waited. Ule entire assembl
age rose—wa did atoo- Then w* paas
church in (foiumbia. CpI. Winans and
Pfc. Harris also pleased with thetr
vocallilng.
The skating act was sensational.
Cpl. Flsbnick, who was garbed 'as a
lovely luid dainty chorine, together
with two other expert skatera, gave
thrilling and gracefnl exhibition
which drew rounds of applause from
the crowd.
(himpany B was moat generous in
(continued on pace two)
Husband of Camden
Girl Badly Injur^
On Flgdt^S Fridit
War Efforts In
Kershaw County
Lagging Badly
Blaney School
Cannery fa Now
h (^ration
The nieurr school community can
nery and ihop are open for operation
ou Mondays. Wedneedayt and FHdaya
of such week daring the sununer frooi
8:88 to 8 o’clock. No eaimlac wUl
he accepted after 1 o’clock. Thoeei
desfainc to can vegetebles, fruita aad
meats Should make appolutmeuta to
do (heir work <m these days. Also
anKdntmeata should he nude fw
buteharing and cariag ef BMsta. Tm
school community shop Will be open
oo theee days so that far mars may
coma tu aad repair fhrir form aqp
^'^AMribBitiDeBto ahouM he mad#
taalle liMk. ^
TheOPAMaaklBCthatalltte
be moret tor sahmea. eo as a pa»
ea save an tla eaaa aad
mto th# caaaery with you,
ttey win be crileeled aad ti
ei ovar to the proper aathoritiee.
otic
la ahmri stad ia
Loft Lag aad Am k Brokan
Whaa Four Shaik .
Lot Go
Marine Gunnery 8gt Joseph Olteer
Coveney, 27, of 84 8to street, Chleora
Place. Navy Yard. 8. C., a casualty of
Iwo Jims, has arrived at the U. 8.
Naval hooplUl. Charleston, by Navy
hqepital vAa» via Salpoa, Pearl Har-
bor aad Oakland. GaUt.
Sgt. Cevenay suffered a fractured
left let aad laft arm when four shrile
explo<M oa an- Iwo Jfana road as he
aad hla enmpaay were movlag up to
ward the freat lines. Thiae of the
aun were wounded aad the officer In
command was killed.
Sgt Covmiey eallstad In the Ma
rlas eorps at Spartaaburg. la April.
1888. He M a naOra of Oowpeas. He
is married to the foramr MIm Gladya
Hardin of Oraden. They have two
children. Lena PaamHa and Katherine
ArlfaiA
Sgt Orveney wears the aeeoad
Nicaraguan campalgu bar, the Ameri
can Defease ribbon.
Theater of Operatuma ribbea. the
AalatloPaeitlc campalga har aad is
cUglhla for the Purpla Heart maial
for wounds reeslvud tat
Sgt J. E. ftrinhun
jE^FromEnn^
ago
Staff Sgt Joauph
88, nuB of Mn. ,
uMo mMm oa aonta t, Lagslk has
bemi earrsatly ssslgnsd to ths AAF
rsdIstflhntloB station at Santa
OaL. Air hasn
M a
Mb Ahr temoi smd
M April,
t svirstas A May. 1848, and
Ottatisn and fa onliMod to woor Iho
n 1
could see him very clearly and he
looked Just like be does In the pic
tures. Knowing what a truly great
Tw»ti he is, and also realising that he
was Rooaevelt's cloeeat and staunch-
eat friend, it made us emotionally nn-
stable and we all had tears running
down onr faces. Churchill looked
tired, he looked like a man who had
(Please turn to page two)
“My conHtant pleaaurt* during my
two years In Rngland. France and
Belgium haa b«en The (’amden
Chronicle which comes In regularly,”
writes S. Sgt. U. C. Scarborough from
Verniers, Belgium, in a letter to the
editors of the Kershaw County News,
the service men’s newspaper that la
sent out every month to the men and
women In the armed forces.
Sgt. Scarborough likes the Kershaw
County News and saya he has passed
It on to his friends who imrae<liately
aet up a clamor for one like it from
their own home town.
The Kershaw News has made a
diatinct hit with the boys from home
who are on the front lines of the
gigantic World war 2. Pvt. Francia
N. McCorkle, son of Mayor and Mrs.
McCorkle, writes to Mary Pitts, who
had a lot to do with the getting out
of the April and May iaeue*. Pvt.
McCorkle says he like* the News,
do all ths rest of the O. I.’s. He states
that he la atatloaed near Munich,
once a beautiful city but now nothing
but a heap of brick and stone rubble.
He is engaged in guarding German
prisoners, he states.
From far away India comes a note
from James DsTrevflle, who states
that he thoroughly enjoys the Ksr-
Misw News. Pfc. Don L. Crolley of
the 824th batalion of the 88th division
states that It la sure nice to get such
Intimate news from home. He says
h* enjoya Don’s Joke*.
Pfc. Ross B. Bblrley writes of his
plsasure at getting the News. He
says that the Yanks sure tore up
Germany. “I don’t think, they will
try it again,’* aaya Ross in speaking
of ths Germans.
8gt. Rufus Corbett writes that the
News was a surprise and he sure
appreciated gtttlng it. Lester and
Forman Rogera write a Joint letter
tsUlng how glpd they were to get the
News, fo dOM Roy Rogers who to
statlousd In Rrankfurt Oernmny.
Scout Meeting
Records A Kg
Ateentee Man
♦ J
Kgrahhw Dbtrict GatlMriiif
HowvTur AccompUsbes
Much Work
t
Lightning Hits
Tree Near House;
Descends On Roof
Bond Driro and Ako Sakaco
Shows Mafkad
Slowinf Up
The Mighty Seventh War Loan
campaign will come to a cloae one
week from tomorrow and unless thers
to a marked change in the bond buy
ing ou the part of Kerriiaw residents,
the coamty to not going to attain the
quota assigned to it
E bond sales ara lagging In a moat
d^reaslng manner. This bplng the
toaue that the goverameut aeaka to
featuTe la tha sales program, failure
to attsla the goal will he a aotoea of
much dlsappotaiUBaBt ta all latoraatod
Mr. sAd Mrs. Albort Fithur
Tkoucht NoicUbor*8 Dwol-
linc Afiro
Kershaw eouaty has not failed to
go over tha top la any bead drive ta
the peat aoertaMf far over la all pro-
ceding six of tha war loaa efforts.
Bat It to going to mesa a home
stretch finish at top speed in order
to remain In the over-the-top ranks
this time.
Thera remains one full week In
wbldi to catch up in the campaign
of tha Seveath War Loan. In the
next seren daya the county chairman
aad hla workera ara kopefnl that the
gap Buqr be dosed imd the end of
next weak find Kershaw county aa-
swsrtag tha roll call of -4h8 counties
alrsady Itotod as having attained
their goaL
pointed out on a number of
odssioai bi the past several weeks
by Oenpljr Chahrmaa M. H. Heymaa,
tt la physloBtty impoaalble for the
bond sale workers to contact each aad
avaiT dtlMB. ‘Ihare Jast isn’t loffl-
to perform this teat
Aad an the chairmaa to appealing to
aO wba have aat hcaa coataetod ta
go ta tha.’WUAfuat bond aeUlag offloa
Aad to those who
hgaad caa bead, Mr.
BsMUMMlW.greap make a
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Ftoher, who
occupy the caretaker’s cottage on the
Pomeroy pre^erty at Broad and Green
atraeta expertonoed some of the ter
ror that to aiaally foand In the radio
drama "Snapsaae.’*
It happened a'week or so ago dor
log a heavy storm, a elemental dis
turbance that was featured by much
vivid lightning and crashing volleys
of ffinnder.
lltore waa a particularly brilliant
flash, followed by a thunderous crakh
that falriy lifted the Fishers from
their bed. Mr. Fisher latar stated
that when he looked out of the win
dow of hto cottage, which adjoins the
General O. H. Fanke home to tha
wsit, H appeared as If the Franks
hooM waa ablasa.
‘“The reflectfam of tha almost con
tinuous ligntoing wap such that
gathered that the Franks place wes
on fire and It certainly gave me
a scare,” said Mr. Ftoher. ”It w
moat itartilag.”
It was not until mornlag. when the
storm had snbslded and Mr. Ftoher
ventured forth that he found that
MyiiHiiiig had struck a larke tree
cloee to hto cottage, shattering a
heavy branch that was fully 14 to 18
Inches in circumference and causing
It to fall on the cottage.
Mr. Ftoher said that the crashing
of thunder waa so loud that neither
be nor hto' wife heard the heavy
branch fall on tha roof.
With an attendance of 6 members
while the absentee roll listed 21, the
Kershaw District committee meeting
of the Boy Sconta held at the office
of Henry Savage, Jr., June 14. made
up what it lacked in quantity repre
sentation by antbnalaatlc action on a
number of actlvltiea.
,0( the members of the district com
mittee, the six per cent were M. Q.
King, George Mickle, John Murray,
Henry Savage, Jr., R. B. Stevens and
W. B. C!handler, Jr. The absentees
wera Rev. Henry Collins, Thomas An
crum, R. B. McCarty, J<din Oresn,
Jack H. McLsan, Sam Kareah, A. C.
MeKaln, Frank H. Heath. Gtoannon
Heath, W. C. McCarley. D. M. Gib
bons. J. C. Ewing, C. T. Baldwin.
Lindsay PlMrce, Joe F. Cline, A. D.
McArn, Rev. J. B. Caston, Lawrenoe
Jonas, C. R. Blakeoey and J. H.
Haltiwanger.
Field Executive Chandler In making
a report for the Ciampiag aad Activi
ty committee stated that the senior
Scont eocpcdlllon had been called off
due to lack of number of boyi io
register.
In regard to the Phillips foondation.
Executive Roeooe Stevens reported
that at the meeting of the dtotrict
chairmen in Columbia It was decided
that Kershaw coonty’a quota for the
foundation fond would be $2,000.
Letters were read by Vice Chair
man Maxle King from Chrlstio Benet,
etato chairman of the seventh war
loan drive, theaa lettera concerning
tha plan to have the Boy Scoots help
out with the sale of ■ bonds in Cam
den. Upon the motion of Henry Sav
age the dtotrict committee accepted
this responsibility.
The transfer of Kershaw from this
area to the Lancaster counfo area was
dIeeaaMd and It waa ftnaDj^ decided
to accept the trenafer.
Maxla King reported that the Cam
den troopa had a balance of $218.08
in the bank to be divided among the
ftve troopa in Camden In proportion
to the amount of waste paper col
lected.
A tke
An A
ef the city
:)
CpL McNeeley Wins
^nze Star Award
CpL Berehal L. McNeety. Jr.
of Mrs. Blandie C. McNeely, Bethune.
has been awarded a broim star in
lieu of a second purple heart, tor
wounds recalved March 10, 1848, whDs
in combat against, the Japs an Lnaan
Island In tiw Fhlllpplttas.
CpL McNaaly . Is hi tha Medical
eorps In tha 48rd«’’Wtaged Yletory"
dIvMlan. Durtag 81 atooths ovareaas
tha 48rd has partlelpatad hi tear eam-
QaadnasaaL Warthara Sole-
New OuhMA end
Camden Usted
On Aur Ronte
As air line between Charlotte end
Charlaaton with stops at Lancaatar.
Camden end Snmtar la embraced In
the progtmm of the Sontheeat Air-
Itaea, Inc., as evidenced In the testi
mony <m the air Unea application at
a BAB haarfng at SadgefleM this
week-- ‘
Tbs' Southeast AtrUnas, Inc., aeah
autbarity to eparuto 18 local aarrlea
air rontaa tilrough the haart of the
ladaetttal South with Chaiiotte ua
tha oparutiona heae.
The Ceaidfn mtrport wm he e eAei
ulei slag for the plaaea opetOtiag oa
ithla route.