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VOLUME III. ANDERSON, S. Cv WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 19. 1916 " '-~" "J _ _______ NUMBER 94. WILSON V SUBMARI BEFORE_ ? Diplomatic Break Wit lieved imminent-Eni Laid Before Bot SECRETARY TUMULI WITH LEA! Joint Session Was Agree noon and Today At 1 ( Read Communicat Quei (By Associ; Washington, April 18.-Preside tomorrow at one o'clock and lay 'I l oth houses. A break in diplom: minent. The president has airead he will deliver to congress. Up t thought that he would send the cor tided, however, that more drastic leiterated that before taking steps president would lay the situation b ty went to the capitol after toda; with h.?use and senate leaders. B< passed resolutions for a joint sessic tow to hear President Wilson. ? SEVERANCE OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH ANOTHER | NATION USUALLY MEANS WAU At ten tomorrow the president will i receive, at the White House Chairmen j Stone and Flood of congressional for eign relations committees and Sena tor Lodge rind Representative Cooper, j ranking Republican members. WU- ? Kon's determination to. address con gress came suddenly after today's cab-1 inet meeting. He has guarded with unusual precaution the words ho will deliver. \To copies of the address will be given out in advance and it was said only the cabinet members sworn to secrecy know lils' intentions. Von Bernstorff called on Lansing almost at the moment President Wilson was arranging for a Joint session. The German ambassador waa Informed that" Lansing would not discuBs the situation at chis time. It was evident that Von Bernstorff was seeking in formation on the United .States plans. Willi ' the exceptions of the case of Germany and Italy in the present war there ls no Incident in history that the severance of diplomatic relations did not ?le-ir; a' declaration of- war. While it was Indicated that some sort, of communication would go forward to Berlin about the same time as the presiden t's address, terms of tho note ?were not clearly indicated tonight. WITH HIS BALLOi DARING YOUN ESCAPES J Paris1, April 18.-One of the thrilling,. . adventures of j the Verdun fighting was the escape from capture or death of a young lieuten ant whose captive balloon Was. set adrift when a shell severed -.ho stool cable connecting him with the earth. Though, already mentioned .in the oatie despatches the completo story from the T*a5ris,Journal Is interesting: "Yssterdsy afternoon a.report rah thrcrjgh the French lines that^ ;? rausago balocn was 'off. Thousands of anxious' eyes were directed toward the little speck which grew fainter and fainter in the !. distance os" the . southerly wind'-wafted' It toward; the ? German ,'positiona.. ' Four aeroplanes v at once started'in ?the vain hope of rendering assistance, but everyone . felt that the observer. ..'ns doomed. Minutes passed*. The . baloon kept I rising. Soldiers forgot to fire, the suspense was'LO terrible.. ? (, "Then suddchly a tiny gray speck w?s seen to <p^t':tro??' the balloon, . which shot up a .thd?sanf? feet,! but Instead of-falllng to earth tho speck seemed to be pulled up Sharp In rald n.'r. At last,-With, the aid. of glasses, ' observers twa that ; the speck . was a' S h u m an body suspended front a' 'para chute. ' A mighty cheer rose as the ' truth was realized, but a full ten i minutes of suspense lasted as the parat&ut? wHh its ' human freight slowly descended,, and 'finally landed close to tba French'.lines." *Hio young lieutenant thus describ ed "ht? ?XpeHeh^ "Tho first intima tion ?hat something ftad gone W*PJW . : waa whom I felt a ?Steht ehojek.. I thought "(tho telephone cable \ ?aa! h Germany te Now Be tire Situation Will Be h Houses Today ?T CONFERS OERS OF CONGRESS id On Yesterday After O'clock President Will ion On Submarine ition. lied Press) / nt Wilson will go before congress :he entire German situation beiorfe itic relations is believed to be liri y decided upon the communication o the present time it had been nmunication to Berlin, lt was de steps must be taken, lt had been leading to a diplomatic rupture the efore congress. Secretary Tumul t's cabinet meeting and conferred 3th houses this afternoon promptly >n in the house chamber on tonior f -1 ' I BY THE CENSOR London, April 18.-The Russians have oiptured troUizond, Turkey's most important Black Sea'port. Trob lzond fell after a joint attack of the Russian land and cea. forces, a Petro grad official communication announc es. Trozlzond has been strongly forti fied since the fall of Erzorum and the Turkish garrison Is said to number fifty-four thousand. The Russians also are continuing to drive against Balburt to the southeast, the capture of which gives the Russians a solid line for an advance eastward into the Turkish province of Anatolia. ThlB ls part of tho Russian plan to Isolate Turkish forces at Mesopotamia. Inclement .weather has* Impeded ac tivities around Verdun. Tho British Infantry entered the German trenches at several points in Flanders. The artillery duel between.the Ger mans and Russians ls still in pro gress around Ikskull Bridgehead. That n grave British cabinet crisis exlats over the question of universal military service waa naden lcd to? ? night. While no rcslsnatlon of mili tary or minh;trial luis yot been ten dered, political gossip centers around the possibility of .Lloyd-George or Bonar Law as successors to Asquith. JN ADRIFT G LIEUTENANT [fi A PARACHUTE parted. All ai once I became aware that tho other balloons were grow ing smaller .and I grasped the fact that I wa3 adrift. A glance at ray barometer told me I was already f>. 000 feet up. I tried to pull Che cord working the hydrogen automatic con trol,'but lt bad become jammed ana refused to worl.. I tried to climb to it, but foiled. ''.Then I feared I . wa* lost My i first thought was *o destroy my pa pers, then I thought br blowing o?t my brainr to avoid falling into the ? bands of th* Germans.' Then* how-1 ovier, came. inspiration. Why not try tho parachute? I had to bo quick, for I.was row 11,000 feet up. 'The cord w?s ti *d around .my body-was..06 feo. long,, PO I had to jump that distance into 'the void before the box con taining the. parachute could open und set lt free. "For a . few seconds I held op i to tim. car by my hands. Then 1 let go: i must have dropped more than a hundred feet before the parachute unfurled, and it was not ail agreeable sensation. But after Ithat I -did no nrind. T was .able to look about-me, arid felt the sensation pf , complete security. When I waa,: ?bptrt ?.aOQ feet from the ground I be?an to see Gist the wind was carry "og-Jno to wards th? German lines. . Then h i .seemed. to loseconsciousness. When 1 I finally landed I -was only 800 yards from the German line. J had bs^?n 11- twenty -pilriut'es falling." ,-. 1 i . The bfjnc?r\; refused to -'-.allow .faH name to bo .^abllahed. "3i Would.fBe ^ nnicbf Pf a shock-tb. try m'otheV/' he .explained, *for vebe fabc??s. thst l a\?Ni? a safe ?liiet.?; > GIRL BADLY HURT AS DYNAMITE GOES OFF IN HER HAND Brushy Creek Child Was Told to Throw Explosive in Creek. ?Special to Tlie Intelligencer. 1 H rushy ( ! rr? k, S. C . April KS. Mi try, thc little 11-yoj -old daughter of Mr. und -Airs. Newt Hoe, met with a v?, ry painful. If not S-.TIOUB. acci dent Saturday afternoon when a : 'cl. of dynamite she lind found In tho yard exploded in he*.- hand, tenr'ng nway thrfo finger? ami bldly lacerating he face. The child, playing with a younger sister, found the dynamite to the yard and rarried it to their moth er, who. not not'einK the cup attach ed, told the children to throw lt Into a nearby creek. In some unexplainable manner tho dynamite was dlscharRed. Dr. J. <'. Mock of Piedmont was beast-" ly summoned and rendered every assistance possible. The phy sician va* unable to suv whether or not th?7." child would recover. JOHN BARLEYCORN IN HEARSE TO BE PARADE FEATURE Atlanta W. C. T. U. Planning a March of Triumph When Georgia Goes Dry.. Atlanta. April 18.-Tho corpse ol Old John Barleycorn riding in a hearse at tho hoad of the procession will be one of the striking features of a prohibition parade that is plan ned fo-* Atlant.i May 1st by the Wo man's Christian Temperance union. The members of the union will march ?in tho parado carrying banners of blue and white, which are the union colors ,and an effort will be mado to secure the permission of tho munici pal school authorities for public school children, who so desire, to be In the procession. in announcing the big parade, which wwi celebrate the closing of Atlanta beer sajppus and lockor clubs on tho day tho new Georgia prohibl ? tlon low goes in effect, Mrs. Mary L. MoLendon. one of the famous prohi bition leaders of the country, took oc casion to pay a tribute to Governor Harris o? Georgia. "We ietel that, the noble work of ouv governor," her statement says. "In making possible the enactment of the new prohibition laws, thereby closing near-beer saloons and other places where intoxicants are sold, Justifies a great public demonstration on the day the laws become effective " FINAL EPISODE OF BIG AUTO TRAGEDY TO COME UP IN GREENVILLE SOON Greenville. S. C.. April 18.-As a f>hal episode of the Knebel-Poe auto mobile accident on North Main street several years ago in which Prank Poe and Frank Knebel were dashed over the City Park culvert when the racing esr which they were driving collided With Dr. W. M. 'Burnett's car. will probable be staged in-?hil court this .Week in the action brought by Dr. Burnett against the city of Green ville tor damages. The case is scheduled to come up Wednesday. Dr. Burnett has entered shit against the c'Jtyv on ground that lt allowed the use of North Main street for practice racing and that lie bad, ao var tiing of such. Ho ia represented by Townes & Earle, and lainey H. Price, while Oscar Hodges, cUv attorney, will appear for the c"iy. -t PARKE1?'* WILL GAVE ALL PROPERTY Y? W?FE. AFTER PAYMENT OF HIS DEBTS Greenville, S. C., April 18.-Ths will of the late Lewis W Parker, who died -last Tuesday, has been filed for. record in the office of the jud ce of probate; "The willis brief, and di rects that the debts of the deceased bo paid ,any residue remaining aftei the jiiyment of said debts, whether same bo real or*personal Mr. Parker bequeathed to his wife, Mrs. Mar? gara et fl. Pdrker. Th? will named William Henry P?rk?r, of Charleston, a brother ot the deceased, and Hamlin Jienttie. of tnt* olty. ** executors ,and expresses the hope that both wtU servo. The document ie dated March So .1918; ..- ' 1 1 1 ?' ' " ?. 1 ! ' Trenches Bombsi'dcd. Pat!*. April 18.*-The French first line trenches in ibo Verdun region west ot the Meuse from Dead Man's Hill to Cummi?eres wer*- bombarded yesterday by the Germa??. Bast' of tbe>iver.waa relatively calm. -, * Fake Sussex Destroyer . London, April 18.-??Th? French bav? _eap?uredj?the submarine which torpe doed the Sussex and made tho captain and drew prison era* says thc Wnddu; baily ?fall. ? ; Held in Big it^.?;?JV!ij'.,4iJ!?77ffi?c.^*?,.'.s? ^^^^^^^^ S -- i ca#r <2rr?> mum? These th. ee Germans have hc:':i ar-? rested Ly the New York police in1 connection wita ?lots to blow-up ships! carrying munitions of war to tho] allies. Ernst Declter is lin elec trician I of the Kaiser Frodorioli ?1er Grosse, 3 "G?Kpt?NS" HELD IN S. C. Strangers Were Following U. S. Engineers Near Hardeeville With Photographic OutRt. (By Associate.l Press.) Savannah, April 18.--Three strang ers, namcB not learned, but sold to be Germans, wore arrested at Hardes ville, S. C., today,at the Instigation of Lieutenant -A. P. Cronkhite, Unit ed sunns engineer, who Suspected them of espionage A search of the pjrlsoners is unlit to have revealed maps giving ileta:ls of forotltlcationn along the coast. Cronkhite and a par ty of engineers have been making mil itary map s In this section. Tho strangers have been following them with a photographic outfit. Cronk hite reported the affair to headquar ters here. ?The strangers are held at Hardeaville. M'GOIICK OFFICERS BE ELECTED ll NOV, County won't Begin Functiorts in a Legal Sense Until Jan uary 1917.. Greenwood. S. C., April 18-Mc Cormick county will be a county in thc legal sense of tho term on January 1. 1917. The act creating tho new coun ty provided for a special elec/ioh on April 11th for the election of county officers, but as the supreme COUP, did not reach a decision before that timo the. citizens of tho new county will h?v?. to wait until the general election itt-November to name their officers. Those nominated in the primaries this summer and elected in November wilt, therefore, assume office on the -first ol January. EUROPEAN WAR TO SEND THE PRICE OF BIBLES UP SAY VH? PUBLISHERS Atlanta. April IS-Southern head ? quarters of a number ot large pub lishing concerns, which oro located hero, hive notified dealers that the price of Bible? will soon be' raised in account bf tho European war. This action followB a recent an nouncement hy tho largest, publishers of Bibles tn the world that their stock * of Bibles printed it? European lan guages and imported from Germany b?foTO tho war. la practloally exhaust ed.' An increase ot $730,000 in thc next year's supply ot whito paper is gtv?n by the Methodist boon concern aa the reason for their, advance lh Bible prices. Practically every ma terial emeririg into tue publication of a Bible hap felt the effects or the war.,,: Paper ls helier, aa all news papers can testify,1 anti so iv ink; .while the price of ' loather bindings and glue have'also advanced, accord ing46 Bible Pub!ishers., ? ?' ',--r-T Liner Forced Bock. London, April 18.-British linea on the routh.bank ol he Tigris .In.Meso potamia were fr reed b?ck by th? Turks In sonic .pla * five io>lght hun< dred yards says a btetemcnt,given ?u$ hy the o?lchjl. preiw ; fiu??aui ? i.'. .?'* ..... . .. X Bomb Plot to Blow Up CAPT CMS wv JCLZfSTi Internet! m New York. He is believed j c to lia ve nvide sn;nc bomba o't th'.- < liner. Captain Charles von Kleist is i a retired Cern?an captain who man- j 1 a?ed the lacio .. where other bombs I;] wore mud.', lie bas eon fessed. He J STOCKHOLDERS ?G??? ON SALE OF HAMPTON MILLS _Al_$3,O0OfO0O? Eight Big Plants Involved in Huge Deal Planned By the Par ker Company. ' Greenville. S. C., April 18.- Stock-1 ? . holders of tho Parker Cotton M'Us j company, tn session this1 morning kt, the .Monaghan V. M. C A. adopt e.I by a large majority, a resolution io sell the tlamptou Mills for a price not < less than $;'.,00?,000. . | Thc meeting was lurgely attended by ooth loe.il and out-of-town stock holders In the company. Thc meeting 1 bad been called to consider the ad visability of selling the Hampton mills | group. The resolution authorising tho , sale, lt lr. stated, wa* adopted with , but two dissenting votes. While ni announcement o? a definite proposition for tba sale of these mills could be se- i cured, it ts announced that the stock- . I holders will meet -again on the 28th 1 cf April at 12 o'clocK, to consider any ' other phases of the proposed, salo that 1 ' may come up. The price fixed for. the Bale of the Hampton Mils group is around $11, per spindle. "The group includes tho Olympia, Granby. Richland and Cap ital City Mills at Columbia, tho Bea ver Dam Mill at Edgeileld, tho Pine ('reek Mills nt Camden, the Fairfield Mills at Winnsboro, and the Wylie Mills at Chester. The stockholders feel that with the Hampton mills sold advantageously, tho company wll be In excellent flnan cial condition. Tho company proposes to retain and operate the Monaghan and Victor groups, which, lt is under i-tood, have* been tho most profitable of the throo groups embraced In thc Parker, merger. Approved Directors Actiou Tho stockholders of the Parker Cot ton Mills company met In response to a oil to consider Ibo action taken by the beard of directors of the Parker Cotton MJHs company, and of ths Hampton Cotton Mills company, to sell the Hampton mills group. Th's was practically tho only thing of im portance taken up at the meeting. The eight mills embraced in the Hampton mills group contain approx imately 275,000 spindles. The eight remaining mill? in the Monaghan ?Ind Victor groups havo approximately 240,000 spindles. Only IMijsIcal Property'. .Tho resolution to sell the Hamp ton mills groiip authorizes the Sal?i at this Agare, er only the physical property-the lands, buildings and machinery, stock in process end all other assets ol'the milly ure to bo disposed of at market value. Geo graphically! the mills are separate from, thc Monaghan and Victor groups and authorities of tho compaby, con cede' that- tim* Monaghan- and Victor groups are tho better parta of the property/- :??.u 4 ? . . Tho meeting of the stockholders Arts adlourh?d 'to rrtoet the 28th ot tHlS month at J 2 o'clock to take Up any, further .mattera that might need the-stockholders attention. ? m Steen . We? Represented Three-fourtha of..? tho stock ot ?he Parker Cotton Mills; company waa represented, finpefsoV.br by proxy. A .large hunjbeV ot stockholders . fr?ni (CONTINUED ON PAGE ?TVB.) Allies Ships E??rV&ST'-BB?3SSSS? 1 lnlms to be a brother-in-law of (len- ; ?ral Von Brossen, killed some time ago ind a relative of Bismarck. Captain kVolpert IB superintendent of the Atlas [-lue, a BiibHldlary ot the Hamburg Vinci tenn Line. 5 MILLION TO STOP FLOODS Sill Would Provide Huge Sum for Prevention Work on Mississippi. (By Associated Press.) Washington, April 18.-Porty-tlvo millions for flood prevention work on tho Mississippi rivers distributed over nt period of five years, will bo provid-> fd by a bill ugreed on by tho ho:Ji>-e Committee on flood control today. Humphries of Mississippi, chairman af tho committee, and members visited the Inundated sections of tho lower Mississippi river recently. The bill also curries an appropriation of five million, six hundred thousand dol lars for the Sacremonto river In Cali fornia, providing. California contri butes a Uko amount. fr*?*?>?*#***4444444><?4** j ? ?I ? THE SALOON. MEN ONCE 4 ? KICKED HIM AKOI?ND AND 4 j ? HE'S GLAD TIIEIK PLIGHT 4 ? -, . . ? I ? Atlanta. April 18.--That a 4: .fr prohibitionist is sometimes a . ? ? man who has had experience 4 + with liquor ls proven by the 4 \ 4> following very remarkable let- ?> 4 ? ter which Police Recorder 4 ? Johnson of Atlanta has receiv- 4 ? ed from a. "friend of his" who 4 j ? has served many sentences in 4 + the city stockade: * ? "Bear Judge: I Bee m tho ? ? papers where they aro going 4 + to make a kick to get beer 4 + back here. 1 trust they will 4 .fr fail. Let tho saloon men go to 4 + work. They aro not .better 4 ?fr than I am. 1 work for a liv- 4 ? lng -now; but when I was ? + broke they kicked me. out. 4 + Now they aro getting fired 4 ? from their Jobs by law. And 4 + I am glad of lt. I am sober. 4 4 Trusting you aro the same, I 4 4 remain, 1'our friend, etc." fr 4 *4444*4444444444444444 ABABYf^CRIES Fi LED TO DISCOV AND FAMILY Augusta, Ga.. April 18.-Mr. WV S. Mathis was hard hit by. the fire Sunday night which destroyed th? roJ sJd?nce in which ne lived. He badi insurance on.tiAs household effects but none on ;a dew piano, for which he had just paid S400; on his wife's Jew elry; including a $500 diamond ring and other valuable personal property there was no insurance., Mr. Mathis also lost $40 Mn ciir rencjr which he had' under ?;pf|low en the bed oh.'which"1 he wa? Steeping. The house belonged to Mr: A. J. Mar tin : It was situated at 1522 Central avenue,, ami was worth about $3,*00 It was pretty well covered.by ineur-f ance. .' .-. v- .^4 (Mr. M?thlfc ami hie family \ had a narrow escape.': Hie lUtfe 2-year-old boy made lt hhown tb his fattier . that' he wahtod a Grin* eft .waltf, this was between 1 and 2 o'clock and while tho rUNSTON ORDERS 2,300 AD DITIONAL TROOPS JOIN PUNITIVE EXPEDITION NATIONAL GUARD Large Force in Texas Ready for Duty if it Becomes Nec essary. (By Associated Press) San Anotnlo, April 18.-Funston to night ordered twenty-threo hundred additional troops to Join the punitivo expedition In Mexico and there Is roa son to believe hero that even a great er Torco will be placed at Pershing's disposal If tho Villa hunt IB continued. Troops ordered to Columbus to rein force Pershing were the sixth cavalry from the Brownsville district; seven teenth infantry from Eagle Peas: Texas troop L of tenth cavalry from Fort Apache, Arizona; batt ali I on of twenty fourth Infantry from Marfa and rab cnn Texas. In addition > to these Pershing has eight hundred men as his base guard at Columbus, but at leaBt that many will remain there. What troops will replace these com- . monds in border patrol was not stat ed. It mny be the war department will order the few remaining regular? j In United States to tho southern de i portment. The availability ot tho * I Texas National Guard lor border duty I was discussed, but - It ls not i known hero what course will be followed. INDICATIONS AT THE WAU DEPARTMENT ABE THAT THE CHASE IS AT STANDSTILL (By Associated Prese.)?? . Washington, April 18.-The- admin istration ls awaiting further reports from American oin cern in Mexico bo- ? fore deciding whether the expedition will be withdrawn. Indications at the war department, however, confirmed preSB dispatches that the Villa hunt seemed to be at a standstill at present.. President Wilson ? and the cabinet discussed the Mexican situation brier ly today, bater lt was announced -that tho situation is unchanged and the administration's policy is unal-. tered. Reports that General Funston had ordered forces from the birder points today to reinforce General Pershing's line of communications are sold .to bo entirely within tho discretionary pow er given him when the chase was be gun._ GUBERNATORIAL RAGE ?AI KM Ruffing Pleasant ts Leading in New Orleans and Claims Victory. New Orleans, April 18.-Incomplette returns from one hundred and thirty Ave out of fifty-two precincts in New Orleans and from thirty-four cut of sixty-four parishes, exclusive bf New Orleans, gave Ruffing Pleasant thirty five thousand, five hundred'and three and John M. Parker, ol gb teen thou sand, eight hundred and sev?nty-nlhi? In tho gubernatorial election today. )RWATER ERY OF FIRE BARELY ESCAPED entire fire department was fighting the Harrison building' fire. Mr. Mathis started to tho bathroom to procure water fo.*. the child. As tie opened the bathroom door he waa greeted by a volume of smoke His 8-year-old daughter was jg sleeping in a room nos! to the bathroom. Mr?. Mathis rushed-to hi? daughter's bed 'and found lt.was on fire. Me.secured the, Bleeping child and- called- to hts \T.'ie ns he ran back into his own room to take the baby and get out bf tho house. The entire back patt or the building was burning 'furiously and before Mr. Mathis hod gotten back Into hta own room tho flro was eat ing through the colling overhead. He and Mrs. Mathis each paved a ault ot clothing. - "I have much to bo thankful for." said Mr. Mathis yesterday. *That ?re got out with our liy&* ,??':'bvblessing. But for th* HtU? '?boy's desire for a drink of water, i shudder to Abink what