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V PAGE EIGHT 'i’HE NEWBERRY RUN FRIDAY. OCTOBER 4, 1940 NAZI ADMIRERS HAVE JOBS WITH DEFENSE PLANTS COTTONSEED CAKE IS USED AS FUEL NEWARK, N. J., Oct. 2—A Dies subcommittee spokesman announced today that questioning: of visitors to the German-American Bund’s Camp Nordlund had disclosed hundreds of Nazi sympathizers employed in mun itions, ship-building and other na tional defense industries. Chairman Joe Starnes (D., Ala.) made the charge in a public state ment on conclusion of two days of public and private hearings. Na tional leaders of the bund and state heads of the Ku Klux Klan had been called as witnesses. Bandsmen Questioned During executive hearings, Starnes declared, more than a score of per sons, “a cross-section” of 2,000 vis itors to the Andover bund camp were questioned and “without excep tion every witness was employed in defense work.” The inquiry unearthed evidence of sabotage, Starnes continued, re marking he did not choose to reveal incidents because that might hinder federal and local police inquiries. Questioned later concerning the September 12 explosion at the Her cules Powder company in Kenvil, several miles from Camp Nordlund, Starnes said he was “loathe to say onything about that because it might interfere with the investigation.’’ The Kenvil blast killed 51 and injur ed more than 100. Agent of Germany Starnes asserted the “abundance of the “testimony” showed the bund was an “agent of a foreign power whose sympathies and allegiance are to another government and its pol icies. . . . There is no such place in American life for such an organiza tion.” Starnes said he felt it was “blind ly idealistic and even foolish” to per mit aliens with allegiance to other nations to work in vital defense in dustries. Names of the Nordlund visitors, he explained, had been ob tained from license numbers of auto mobiles that frequented the camp. Klan Meet Mentioned In an open hearing, August Klapp rott, eastern department bund lead er and manager of Camp Nordlund, said the camp nronerty was used by the Ku Klux Klan for a groun meet ing August 18 last and bund mem bers attended just as individuals. Arthur Bell, who described himself as state grand dragon of the klan from 1923 to 1934, during which time he said the peak clan member ship was 300,000, said the purpose of the meeting was to “Americanize the bund.” He estimated present mem bership as one-fourth. WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—In the endless hunt to find new uses for cot ton, the Department of Commerce to day discovered this one. Egypt’s state-owned railways will use cottonseed cake as locomotive fuel, according to the report of a recent official announcement re ceived from the U. S. commercial attache in Cairo, James T. Scott. Scott reports that experiments have indicated that this product employed in conjunction with coal, brings satisfactory results, and con tracts for the purchase of 40,000 tons of cottonseed cake have been signed. No coal is produced in Egypt and the increasing restrictions imposed on shipping as a result of the war have made it more and more difficult to import supplies of this item. As a measure to overcame the fuel defi ciency, the state railways recently caused about 100 of its locomotives to be adapted for the use of fuel oil. The new development in connection with cottonseed cake is expected to result in substantial savings in fuel costs to the state railways. ANNE LINDBERGH DECRIES FEAR OF WAR IN AMERICA BISHOP WAKINS IS SPEAKER AT CENTRAL SUNDAY BRADLEY MUCH IMPROVED Floyd Bradley, who has been con fined to his home on Calhoun street for several weeks is very much im proved at this time and able to be out of bed at periods during the day. His many friends around town will probably see him back at the bank sometime next week. Bishop W. T. Watkins of the Meth odist churdh will be the speaker at the evening services at Central Meth odist church Sunday evening, Octo ber 6. Bishop Watkins is a mam of large experience and as a thinker has made a real impression on the churdh. He was for a long time con nected with Emory University in At lanta as head of the department of history in the Candler School of Theology. From this position he was elected to the episcopacy. Since that election he has rendered service in several sections of the church but is now the resident bishop for South Carolina. Central church at its morning ser vice Sunday will hold a service com memorating the years of service for from several names suggested. Cen tral. The church Has had several names since its founding in 1833. In 1900 it was decided to change the name and the congregation selected, from several names suggeseed. Cen tral. A cordial invitation is extended to the public to attend either of these services. People having no evening services in their churches are es pecially invited to attend the even ing service at Central, which -will be at 7:30 o’clock. DR. KINARD AT FLORENCE Dr. James C. Kinard was the fea tured speaker at the first meeting of the Florence county education asso ciation, held at Florence yesterday. TREASURER BETTER Treasurer Raplh Black who has been abed at his home in Prosperity for the past ten days is reported im proving. He is expected back in his office this weekend. NEW YORK, Oct. 2.—After ana lyzing the war in Europe as a strug gle between the forces of the past and the future and putting Germany, Italy and Russia in the latter oat- goi r , Anne Morrow Lindbergh sug gests that this country pursue a oou’-se which took advantage of rather than opposed the great forces pushing in the world.” “Wave of the Future” The wife of Col. Charles A. Lind bergh states her views in her third book, to be published tomorrow by Havcourt, Brace and company. A little volume, it is entitled “The Wave of thi; Future,” expressing in her words, “some new, and per haps even ultimately good, concep tion of humanity trying to come to birth, often through evil and hor rible forms and abortive attempts.” She cannot see the war, she writes, simply as a struggle between the “forces of good” and the “forces of evil.” “If I could simplify it into a phrase at all it would seem truer to say that the ‘forces of the past’ are fighting against the ‘forces of the future.’ The tragedy is, to the honest spectator, that there is so much that is good in the ‘forces of the past,’ and so much that is evil in the ‘forces of the future.’ New Forces Used “ ... It is not to claim that the things we dislike in nazism are the forces of the future. But it is to say that somehow the leaders in Germany. Italy and Russia have dis covered how to use new social and economic forces; very often they have used them badly, but neverthe- Isss, they have recognized and used them. They have sensed the changes and they have exploited them. They have felt the wave of the future and they have leapt upon it. The evils we deplore in these systems are not in themselves the future; they are the scum on the wave of the future.” Mrs. Lindbergh decries the war fear she says exists in America, and expresses hope that we may meet the demand for reform without bloodshed Reforms in Jeopardy “We may ask ourselves whether,” she writes, “we must jeopardize the reforms already started here in our own country by plunging into the turmoil abroad; whether the efforts of our present pioneers also shall be wasted. Or might not a course be found Which took advantage of, rather than opposed, the great for ces pushing in the world.” Draft Boards Called ATTENDS DESOTO SHOW BACK HOME Night Football!! Newberry Bulldogs A meeting of the two draft boards of Newberry County, with Clerk of Court, H. K. Boyd, and County Superintendent of Educa tion C. E. Hendrix, is being call ed to meet in the Grand Jury room of the court house Mon day night, October 7 at 7:30 for the purpose of setting up regis tration centers for enrolling reg istrants on October 16. This meeting is called by H. K. Boyd at the request of Governor Bur net R. May bank. The members of the board are as follows: Dist- trict number 1, Jake Wise, Wil liam Scott, Frank Hunter. Dr. E. G. Able. District number 2. John A. Mayer, Virgil O. Shealy, George W. Harmon and Dr. Von A. Long. CIVIC LEAGUE GRATEFUL TO WATER COMMISSION The following statement has been issued by Mrs. J. H. Summer, presi dent of the local Civic League: The Civic League wishes to express its deep appreciation to the commis sioners of Public Works for making it possible to have a Davey tree ex pert to supervise the necessary cutting if H ubs from the trees in Newberry just now. On account of the increase in population it has become necessary to place larger poles and in some instances to re-route the electric lines. These changes will necessi tate much trimming of trees. The tree commission consists of Charlie L. Trabert, Chairman, Frank R. Hun ter and Z. F. Wright. All citizens interested in preserving trees in New berry appreciate very much the ser vices rendered now by this strong tree commission and Davey tree ex pert. Mrs. J. H. Summer S. C. DRAFT BOARDS TO MEET MONDAY T. C. Chalmers, local DeSoto-Ply- mouth dealer, attended the 1941 De- Soto show at the Ainsley hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, Thursday. Deputy J. C. Neel is back in the city after several days in the Colum bia hospital where he had an opera tion on his hand. VS Orangeburg Hi Friday, Oct. 4, 8 p. m. Municipal Stadium Registration Areas Will Be Defined and Registration Points Will Be Chosen Columbia, October 2.—Governor Burnet Maybank and General Holmes B. Springs, state selective service (draft) director, announced today that the 83 South Carolina ' draft boards would meet for the first time in their county courthouses at 8 p. m. next Monday. All county clerks of court were notified, Maybank said, to arrange for the meeting. He explained that the draft act imposed mandatory du ties on the clerks of court. “Also we are asking all county superintendents of education to be presents,” he continued, “with the view that the boards will determine, at these meetings, the places in the counties where registration will take place, and in order to make registra tion as convenient and as easy as possible for all citizens who must register.” The boards will be asked, the gov ernor said, to define the registra tion areas in their counties “so that these areas can be aproved at the statewide meeting of draft boards in Columbia, October 9 and 10.” Officials Will Assist Maybank said that members of the state military staff would at tend the board meetings in those counties having more than two boards in order to assist in setting up the machinery. The governor himself will go to Charleston and General Springs will be at Greenville. 4TH CHILD BORN TO. LINBERGHS NEW YORK, Oct. 2.—A daughter was bom today to Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh at Doctors hospital. The child was tiheir fourth including their first-bom who was kidnaped and killed in 1932, and their first daughter. Both the mother and infant were reported in good health. Mrs. Lindbergh is the former Anne Morrow, daughter of the late Dwight H. Morrow, former U. S. senator and ambassador to Mexico. She and the aviator were married in Englewood, N. J. on May 27, 1929. Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., was kidnaped from the nursery of their Hopewell, N. J., home March !, 1932, and several weeks later was found dead Bruno Richard Hauptmann subsequently was convicted of the crime and died in the electric chair at Trenton, N. J. The Lindbergh’s second child, Jon, was bom August 2, 1932, and their third, Land Morrow, on May 12, 1937. FOR SALE — Good used 10 pc. wal nut dining suite. Good used piano. Heaters and Blankets. Be com fortable on our comfortable terms J. J. LANGFORD & SON. MRS. VINA PRICE Mrs. Vina Salome Price, 59, died at her home Tuesday night after a lingering illness She was the widow of the late Sidney Price who died some years ago. Van E. Price, Mrs. Neola Gibbs, and J Ohn Price, children of New berry survive. Mrs. Victoria Goings, a ®* s ^ er ’ living here also survives. Funeral services were held yester day being in charge of Rev. Glenn Smith, assisted by the Rev. J. B. Har man and the Rev. R. O. Corvin. Burial was in the Welcome Ceme- tery, near Greenville. COTTON EXPORTS DROP 50 PER CENT FOR AUGUST PERIOD iinnaiia Exports of American raw cotton de clined in August to less than half the volume and dollar Value of July, the Commerce Department reported. August exports totaled 65,000 Dales with a value .if $3,482,000, compared with 137,000 bales with a volue of I $7,748,000 in July. I Compared with August, 1939, ex ports decreased by 150,000 bales or 69.7 per cent in quanity and $7,- 718,0C0 or 68.9 per cent in value. Exports to Japan and the United Kingdom, normally America’s best | cotton customers, showed sharp de- I creases. No cotton was exported to I Continental Europe during August. The Dollar You Spend AT HOME Helps to Pay The Cost of Your Schools, Churches, Parks Streets, etc. Spend YOUR * J 4 Dollars AT HOME!!