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V- V. ANDERSON, S. C., SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 9,1915. ._._ Wt NUMBER 232. THIS TO BE CONTENTION OF ALLIES IN REPLY TO U. S. PROTEST ADJACENT NAfTIONS Right to Ship Goods Into Ger many Through Contiguous Countries Hardly Assumed. (Hy Associated Press.) Washington, April 20.-Tlio reply of Great Britain and France to the .I'nited States-' protest against, inter ference with neutral trade will con tend that the principles of Interna tional law have been given legal in terpretation and application by the allies In their blockade. According to authentic informa tion here, this position will be taken by the allies in a note to be handed to tbe state department within the next day or two by the 'British und French ambassadors. It is said tho allies will assume that the United States does not contend that lt has a right to ship' gooda without restriction into Germany and Austria through con tiguous neutral countries such as Hollaad. Shveden and Denmark. MEXICO TOLD THAT U. S. TO DECLARE WAR Chihuahua Papers Publish Reports That America and Germany . Wfii Have Rupture. (By Associated Press.) El . Paso. April 20 -Chihuahua newspapers Monday published des patches supposedly from Jut roz that President Wilson was about io deliv er ar. ultimatum to Germany and war would be declared within a -week. Tills information came today from Americans returning from Chihuahua wtth copies of the paper. Arrivals said the news of German American crisis was talked of in Chi huahua Sunday forty-eight boura be fore the facts were marin nubile in the United States. An official agency in Mexlc?. City, they said, ls keeping the Mexicans informed on American af fairs. , BKWS??GE LOSS KNOWN 11 C. Nearly a Million Dollars Carried on Lewis Parker's Life Say Companies. . . .",..i,,,. '<.'., Greenville, April 20.-In the death., of Mr. Lewla Wv! Parker, pf Green ville, lifo Insurance companies have sustained the biggest loss that has ever occurred in South Carolina, ac cording to information received from ono ot tho largest life Insurance com panies operating In' South Carolina. In 1910, 1* ls ?tated, Mr. Parker In sured for 5000,000, $500.000 of which was made parable to the Parker Cot 1 on mills, of which concern he waa \*ben president.. ' fey..,' '.. When he secured .the f 600,000 Mr. Parker already .had.1244,00 o?* Insur ance In force, making a total o' $844, 000 'on his Uf?,'distributed as follows: Aetna, $5,000;. American...! National, '$5,000; Equitable, $050,000; Mutual $5,000; Equitable $250,000; Illinois lifo $6.000; Mutual BonefU, $100,000; Mutual Life oM?ow York $120,000; New York Lifo, $112,000: New Eng land Mutual. $25,000; J- Penn Mutual! $50,000; Security afqtual $85,000; Southeastern life, $30,000;' SUi?. Mu tual, $25.000: V^rra velors, $H,000i linton Central *&,000. r Ot course the pfemlum? on the corporation insurance carried 'by,Mt;' Parker were paid by the Parker Cot ton mills. All of'thl-? insurance ;1faa ; ia force at'.th* -tun?; pf his dy*th ; the ?ioft.ooo '.4?^M?tMal,;.'iBsnefit--^e?;^r?' aoiiwl Insurance,. which waa also in . forte at thb tlnie of his death, and so far aa known all the other insurance ?carried by Mr. Parker has been kept 'In effects - ThW tolete** ? ls under stood, nra being settled ot the. present .:tune. :.;v'_- - " '.. ' . -. i SN WIEST "GREAT FLOTILLA OF TRANS PORTS" LAND HORDES OF RUSSIANS JN FRANCE THE GERMANS TO MASS BIG FORCE AROUND FORTRESS Large Forces Are Withdrawn \ From Fronts in Russia, Serbia and Macedonia. (Hy .At-M oe lat rd Press) London, April 20,--What IK descrlb ed us "great Hoiillu nf transports" lias landed Hussluns troops nt Marseilles to reinforce the western hattie line. How many HussiaiiN Emperor' Nich olas ..ns sent to nhl Hie french ls not ? 'own. Oeneral Joffre, In un order of doy? welcomed the Hussions und they wlU be hurried to thc front Coin, cldental with thc arrival of Russians comes the statement from Paris Hint the Hermans nre withdrawing large forces from their fronts in Russin, Serbia and Macedonia to mass them nt Verdun. Here, near Dead Man's Hill, the French have driven Hie Germans cut of portions of the trenches prev iously occupied by them. The Her mans admit Hie entry of French in tranches west of Vnux. Berlin says the Germans occupied six hundred meters of British posi tion around Ypres. British officials concede a slight gain there. . South of Blitiis. A?iatic Turkey, the Russians'are within' nlneiy miles of Diarker, their objective in an opera tion which seems to cut off communi cation between the Turkish northern and southern armies. Constantinople says British beseig ed at Nut-El-Amura have forced civ ilians to evacuate the town because of lack of food. The usual bombardments are going on a: the Austro-ltalian front. The British cabinet crisis over con scription lias been ended with an agreement that a resort be made to the plan of universal Bervlce until the present plans for enlisting men prove a failure. . DYESTUFFS EMBARGO IS TO BE MODIFIED Germany Agrees on Exportation of 15,000 Tons for Use Americans Only. (By Associated Press.) j Washington. April 20.-Some modv mention of the export of dyestuffs embargo, has been ' determined upori by the Germen government. A com-; munlcatlon on tho subject was dellv-v ered to the state department today. The fact -that eon-') action .would.be taken was made known after a visit to the stat o department of.AmbssadOr Bernstorff. Dyestuffs are sorely needed by American manufacturera "Germany, according to tho . note delivered i by Von Berhatorff, agrees to permit the exportation jto the fritted States ot fifteen.' thousand ions of dyestuffs, providing the dyestuffs shall be conf sumed foy American manufacturers and not re-exported to.Great Britain or. her allies." . : J GIRL LEAPS FROM HIGH CLIFF AND IS CAUGHT BY TREE; HANGS %7 HOURS -? ? . (By Associated Press.) Tokio, April 20.f-*>rlven to attempt milcSd? t)jf ?the failure Of her father on the stacie 'exchange,; and conse quent ..'poverty, - ?.'. young Japanese girl rec?nfuy threw heraetii td 'the ocean from the -top-most cliff ot the sacred ii sic ot ' ?noshima. She was, caught and pinioned by the biranCJCB bf a giant tree which leaned *fo?r. oat tiver toe sea-. It was . not antil sert en teen boura later that lier erica were heard by a fisherman passing J in ? sampan and she: wee rescued, eerlous ly but Vtol mortally;4iurt. 07,600 Vacant 'Ked*.* * L.^Londonj ?prj; 20.-rTher?jiaro , at present *6T,di?/:'Ta^i''-oeda/in ' the fMtlah hoepi??s, owing td the lack ?rf - really importa tn fighting during the winter on Jtoo xra.il front. i, American Line of Com ? General Persh'ng's force oT 12.000 men in Mexico-since Carranza hus not permitted use of the railroads foi supplies-T-is now menaced on a lin* some 400 miles long, reaching fi-om Columbus, N. M., to Parral, where Major Tompkins has clashed with a mob. This line over which automo bile trucks have carried provisions for his soldiers; reaches from Colum bus'through Casas Grandes Chihua hua, and Salevo. Whether or not supply autos aro on their way to Par ral to help Major Tompkins is' not known. ' :. Carranza has roany thousand sol diers scattered'through this territory. They would bo used ut. once against American troops if the .clash came. They are distributed as followc: At Chihuahua. General Gbtierrez with "i,000; dt Parral HOD; at Jlminez r>00; northern Sonora, General Galles with 12,000; at .Satevo, General .Herrera DEATH OB SON IN CA U?ES GKE?N\ TO QUIT CHU Greenville, April 20.-Moved by the death of his son, who fell while {fighting under the .British flag in .Gallpoll, iRev. H. -Buchanan Ryley, .?'tice last Jun? .recto]r . of the St. James and St: Andrew's Episcopal ; churches of this city, has .decided to enlist for service, at tho. front, and has made all preparations to go to Quebec nest week,, where he will en list in the Canadian ex pd I tiona ry force for service InEUropo. - Rev. Mr. Ryley was expecting to make the first public announcement of h(s pjans at the services at these churches Sunday, but the report that he had decided to join thc Canadian troops and go to Europe to fight under the British flag, leaked out In some way, :uul waB confirmed by Mr. Ryley when'Questioned about.it today. ?Mn. ?T)glQy is a native o? England, hut has (?ja?n a resident of tho United States lot'-.j?fom? fourteen or fifteen years paatW-'Not long ago, he made the first application for naturalization as an American citizen, but of course; sufficient thne has not yet elapsed to entitle him to full citizenship, and tie is still d citlten of Engram! .. *He 'is 40 years of ?g?;'add.-baa'Had experi ence In military affairs which will be of much value to him. Son Killed Recently. 7 Rev. ' Mr.! Ryley's son, Lieutenant Donald Ryley of the Shropshire reg? intent, dj?d about three, weeks ago as a result of ' ' wounds . ' received while fighting around Gallipoli. His father has not received-tull details of the? Im mediate; cause of his death, or the cir cuih?lances of his wound. Rev., Mr? F.yley'B wife died some yeats ago?.and he .has . now. no one' dependent ' upon" him, ?hd feels'that some one of his name should take the pl&e of his son', ho has decided, after, much delibera tion to-leave lils work here,; and- en-' list for ??rvlc?" in Europe Served lu Territorial Army. Y Mr. .Ryley was during his younger years in England a. captain \ tn the territorial urmy.. an -organisation which 'corfc&pbhds somewhat to the Natl?h?l :OuWt?0rlt?nttaU'>ne In tttls ctfuttry. While a moniber of the tr.*"- - ift?ff?r. arftiy .he . wa? at liberty* to; follow hie studies ?nd oUier vocations, much In thV aime' manner that Na tlcnnl Guard members.do in Wils ceyn-" tryi^rittrthg fels sertie* With this ofe imunications Menaced with 1,200;' at Jw&$bs*.' General Gav ira with 1.S0O; . at* Madera, ! General Bnrtanl with 800; at Xamaqulpu, Gen eral Cano with ROO; at Guerrero, Gen eral Cavasson with r>00, nnd at Casas Grandas. General Gavillo with 1.200. At Torre?n, southwest of Parral, I General Trevino hun 4.000. The Ar-' riela brothers are operating In DU* rango with about 3,000 men and thor, there are thc Villa bandits. GREAT WAR riLLE RECTOR RCH AND ENLIST ganlzatlon, he attended drills and be came proficient tri many, of the ' sci ences of warfare. One of his reports show an excellent series of marks or. varloua drills and military strategy. Mr. Ryley was captain in the "Queen's Westminster Volunteers.' Whilo he goes to Quebec with the in tention of serving wherever he is placed, he hopes that he may. be able to rank as an officer corresponding to that which he held in the terri torial army. Mother Still Alive. Rev. Mr. Ryley was born tn the 8c,uthcastern part of England, and his mother, about 72 years of age is still living in' England. He studied al St. Olives' School at London, and at Ox ford University, London University, and Trinity college at Dublin. He re ceived the degree Of Bachelor of Arts, and Master of Arts. He is especial^ interested in music, and has recently had published a bock' containing * number of religious, songs, tho music for which was composed by him. ' Ordained In COlorM*?, ' F<ev. Mr. Ryley's first service a? an Episcopal minister was tn this cdun try. 'He was ordained by Bishop Spaulding in Denver, dorado, about 16 years ago. at . Colorado Springs, where he remained about two years. Mr. Ryley came to.'Qreonvllle to aa Mimo charge of st. James' and St. Andrew's, churches last: June, from Tafts school at Watertown. Conn.. where he 'was a master, or instructor/ Horace. Taft,, a brother bf ex-presl* debt William.?.; Taft," ls prlnc'?ai pr tibi? school. Mr..?Ryley, a day or sp ago, received a letter' frbitt Mr. Taft f lating that he had: .beard he wa? expecting to enlist in the Canadian army, abd Wishing him."God Speed;'' Mr. Ryley. Was a master st Groton school in ^Mas?achus'etta. Xj'ifor? his connection/ with the- ; Taft, school. Th?s>'soh?ol? are w?li Known among tba Episcopalians In tK? north. Writs to Fight For Krig?and, vit' wt? the death of my eon prob* ably inoro than anything else thal moved me to enlist under \he British tti?." said Mr. Rylef tod ty. corri meriting upon his acthih. **I feel thal some one of th? name arid ' family ought to' be in 'the ranks. Ahd then 1 un?. (Vf course, thoroughly in" RJ'lnpa tb? with,', tho English, canse. V U. s. HAS NEW PROBLEM FRESH SEA DISASTER AT THIS TIME WOULD LIKELY CAUSE RUPTURE BRYAN ARRIVES AT WASHINGTON TO URGE PEACE ? War Would Be "Unspeakable" Says Ex-Secretary--Von Bern? storff Visits Lansing. (Hy AfrHnclntetl Frons) Washington, April SO?-The nessi* lilllty of another allnrk on n ricer* elinnininn currying Americans h?fore Meralany replies lo the American note, ?as one chief source of concern here today, lu cane ?if MU b un event, it Wis admitted that an lia med inte rup ture could he prevented only by proof Hint (Jeruinny lind been unnhle to I'oninumirnte with her submarine commander?. Officials said today that while the abandonment of Germany's present Illegal methods nt once ls essential'to continuance of relations, the United Stales might agree to German aubma rlnes operating under strict restric tion In cruiser warfare. Such war fare would mdke imperative tho exer cise of tho right to \is',t and search, passengers and crews teing accordod adequate safety. Tbe mere placing of passengers in small boats far frqru land and in dangerous sons does not meet with American refiulrVm?nts. Vou DernstorfT visited Socretury Lansing today with a. suggestion re garding the <reply of hi? government, but Lansing seemed not to regard his views as official since President Wil son Laid down the condition that there . . ?t be. ao abandonment of present ^thods* Secretary Lansing said thore must be a direct and formal re sponse from the German government Itself before further negotiations; ore begun. William Jennlnga Bryan? Who said ho broke Kpoxking dates a: Now Or leans to hurry to the capital, arrived here today "to bo some assistance In preserving of pence." "War" he said, .would bo unspeakable." MAN U FAGTURERS ARE YET cRinpior Narrow Skirts Cut Business, But the "Balloons" Overlap the Supply. Paris, April 20'.-For years the cloth manufacturers of {France have been crying ruin owing to the vogue of the narrow and split skirt. Now that. women have jumped to the op posite extreme and wear dresses that measure oeveral yards around, the samo manufacturers declare that tilings have gone from bid to worse. In ordinary time*, tho cloth rann. ufacturera would be rubbing their bando with glee at the change of fash ion; aa it is they greet it with ill concealed apprehension,. "Our best min s are in the hands of the enemy.' explained M. Alfred Damez, secretary of one of the big Traders' Committees, "and those that are left to us are so hard at work on army orders that they have little, tithe to devote to their5" ordinary- trade. Thia simply means that if .women will insist in walking about tn skirts kt? big na baloons, French factories will be unable to keep peace with the dc marni." ; ' . A mooting is to be held -, to Seo whether the "union sareec." which has been applied to most things? Since the war began, can be extended ^ln j some way to .Controlling fashions. j ? WlTir?ItAWAM . ? ? CBv Associated Press.! \4f j ? Torre?n ?"April 20.-M2olonel ,;.> ? Brown, In Labequilia, Is re>- \4> ?por&d her&.iito-ha. ?rranghte j , with. Oener?FHerrera4 at IPar- $? i ? ral for the use of railroads ?to ; ?S-- facilitate the wlthdi&wftH of ? American U'pops,?i : . ?-?4? lt ililiSIl Tom Pence's Successor Vf. lt. Hollister. W. n. Hollister, of Jefferson (.'Hy, I Mo., clerk to tho senate committee ott Foreign' ItelnUons, of which Senator Stone ls chairman has been acting j secretary of thc Democratic National committee since tho death of Thomas I J. Peace. Ile was appointed assistant by Mr. Pence and handled the office | under Mr. Peace's direction for sev eral weeks. Mr. Hollister has con ducted two campaigns' for Senator | Stone, was with the Clerk pre-conven tlon forces in 1912 and after tho con vention helped to elect President "Wil son, li ta believed Ikely that his ] present position will bo ni ado ?perma nent at the democratic convention 1n| June. Mr. Hollister is unmnrried. SIX BANDITS ARE TO HANGI Villa Followers Convicted C Miller's Murder in Colum bus Raid. of (By Associated Press.) .El Paso, April 20.-The six Villa bandits placed on trial at - Doming, Texox', yesterday, charged with the killing of Charles D. Miller In the Columbus raid; wore convicted - of first degree murder itoday, according to word received hero. Jury W?B out thirty minutes. ONE KILLED IN TORNADO] Cyclone Sweeps Across Country | Near Mobile in 100-Foot Path. (By Associated Press.) Mobile, t April 20.-Mrs. Utile Cochran was killed and another wo man injured when their house wael blown down in a tornado twelve | miles west of here this afternoon. Tlie tornado, traveling northeastward, passed through a path not moro than j a hundred feet urida. BIG TOBACCO KING PASSES! Fulton W. Clare Dies at Losing- j ton at the 40. Age of, 1 (By ' Associated' Press.) ' -Lexington, Ky.. April 20.-Fulton W. Ciar*, iorty-six, president of tile Lexington Tobacco compiiny, board ot trade and one of the best known 'to-' hacco men in the south died here ot beari disease today. He had. manag ed tobacco plants at Rocky Mount and D.-.nv-iilo, vu., and Durham and Greenville, North Carolina, and Flor ence, 8. C. Guard Wireless Brittons. ! ; Washington, April . 20,--The-,::'wor department has dispatched marines tri guard tho German 'owned wi re less stations at T?ckerton, N. J.,' and Sayvllle, Long island. . secretary, Daniela said the. marines would not sols*} the wireless. "They will Just watch,-* ,he said; ,"and ?hf? may.,b0 an excess pf,causon.' HiUt?^bttiB;-!^.:''; Heatings, ? Y; .; AM;'! ?MtaJ militia; charged the', strikers ot, ^ Nallan*". Cable Conduit comply, ff* day an^ ?ftttW-three., VX-^M-Yi Ll MORTGAGE BANKS IS PLAN OF HOUSE BILL COMMITTEE PERFECTS MEAS URE CREATING 12 RE GIONAL INSTITUTIONS TO COME UP SOON Proposed Bantu Would Moke Loans Through National Farm Loan Associations. ('By Associated Pceaa.) Washington. > April 20.-A hill to establish twelve regional land mort gage banka aa a pin or tho admlnlH- . trat lon's rural credit legislation pro grum was perfected today by tho Reuse banking committee, lt will be urged for pasange next week. Proposed banks would, make loans tlirough National farm loan associa tion?. Stock would bo taken by tho federal 'treasury, but under an amend- ? ment approved today no payment would bo on auch stock until tho bank in question received applica tions for loans from at l??Bt ten loan associations. Tn o loan associations may bake stock 1n the banks, but ot least twenty per cont of the capital stock ot any .land bank in by (the loan associ?t iona must consist of ?ash or securities approved by a fed eral farm loan bank. SITUATION AT ? STANDSTILL AS TO MEXICO Negotiations Wit?i ?|^{?K?p^^ Pursuit of ing Scott's Probe, t.i.i (By Associated Press.) j Washington^. April 20.-Diplomatic negotiations with Carranza as well ay-'tho pursuit ot Villa ate apparently at a standstill while Provident Wilson Awaits General Scott's r?pbrt on the situation. ' Scott arrives at San Antonio, to- ?'. morrow night and hts report will , be gin coming forward at c??s. Additional reports' from General pershing outlined In border advices today will probably foe ready for con sideration at the cabinet moot lng to morrow. . . . The Mexican situation will prob ably bo given full attention. The cab- - incl meeting nt the last aesslon con sidered only the G crinan cr isla. 74 PERCENT OF YOUTHS IN HOLLAND'S PEOPLES SCHOOLS USE TOBACCO (By Associated Press. 1 Le-den, Netherlands, April 2f>. Holland Is the paradise or the boy , smoker. The extent ot. the .?lga?r-? > Smoking habit among Dutch lads is shown by an inquiry Jiunv made ' in j the schools ot this famous* o!d un|-> : versify city.' Of 2.360 boys attending tho baiter cinsy schools if wai found tlint 64 per < c?nt smoked^-22 per eefct ' regularly * 'md 4-2 per cent more spas raoul cal ly. in tho "People's*' schools the pereen- g Lago was fi till higher, yaventy-rour per cent of the lads Indulged in to-',"' bacco, 30 per cent being regular sinokdrs. Coming finally to tho schools where education is free, all but a fifth of the youngsters were to bacco devotees;. and hilf their num ber were regular smokers, in'threo . Schools nil the (boys in' the nighest . . plass smoked. , on' the average 92 per cent of the highest classes In the| 'peoples" schools were'smokers. VIORE THAN SO PERCENT ? ; 'OF'- U. S. MAMINE1-C^W5k '< Washington. ,D. C.,, A^r|l:.?<>. More than fifty parcenV $t tl?Vm?mr bera* of -.tile'-"??Wttft < .vSt4iU? : -Marine ; ?rps are skilled riflemen, according ie a table Just compiled. > In the llttlo corpa of 9,521 men. ftere ur* ;fBS5.ojmert ^flamen, 2.438 j . ?haipshdfeters and "-tSU, marksmen. Th? marid? corps ?las ? excellent 'acilUlea for email anno target prac Ice and ?very effort ia made to qua? ftr tho new recruit, snob "Jot ter bis eh? r ?ry into?- the service as ? "deft?l-sboi ?* soldier.? v^^^'' .",,.:." 1K3B