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Abbeville Press and Bannerf Established 1844. $1.50 the Year. Abbeville, S. C., Tuesday, May 7, 1918. Single Copies, Five Cents. 75th Year. jM MAKES M FOR SHU - Less Than One Month Sees Big Steel Collier Launched. v REQUIRES ONLY 27 WORK x nAYS TO BUILD SHIPS President Congratulates Company and Workmen on Quick Construetion of Tuckahoe. / Philadelphia, May 5.?All records for rapid construction of ships were broken today when the 5,548 tons steel collier Tuckahoe was launched at the New York shipbuilding Corporation in Camden, N. J. The keel I of this wonder ship was laid on j April 8 and only 27 working days j were required to prepare the hull! for launching. The boat was 90 j per cent, completed when it slid in-j to the waters of the Delaware. In \ 15 more days it will be ready for a cargo. . * A distinguished company witnessed the launching including Charles M. Schwab, director general of ship construction; Chairman E. M. Hurley of the shipping board; Vice President Charles Piez, Francis T. Bowles and Senator Fletcher, chairman of the senate commerce committee. Miss Helen Hurley, Chairman Hurley's 12 year old daughter, christened the ship. Message From President. Mr. Hurley read a fetter from President Wilson, as follows: "To the Workmen and Executive Staff of the New York Shipbuilding Company: "My Dear Friends: I want to con-j gratulate you on the extraordinary record you have made in your work on the steamship Tuckahoe. I wish I could be present in person to express to you the feeling that I have that we are all comrades in a ereat enterprise and that you have played] your part with extraordinary skill1 and devotion, eliciting not only my admiration but I am sure the admiration of all who will learn of what you have accomplished. I congratulate you and bid you Godspeed. "Cordially and sincerely yours, "Woodrow Wilson." Mr. Hurley read a copy of a cablegram he had sent to General Pershing, which read: "Management and workmen of! New York Shipbuilding Company have just established a world record by launching a steel ship of 5,500 dead weight tons in 27 days.* The army of 550,000 men in the American ship yards thus show that they are working shoulder to shoulder with their comrades in the trenches. The patriotic spirit shownfVnc pnmnnnv! Iuy tlic *TVimuvi? v* VU*W w**?fv?Y?r 1 exists in every ship yard in America." Mr. Hurley announced that eachj man who worked on the Tuckahoej would be presented with a silver; medal as mark of distinguished ser-j vice. Mr. Schwab was cheered repeatedly by the thousands of workmen. He declared in an address that the record breaking work on the Tucka-j hoe is the most decisive blow admin-j istered to our enemy in many months. CALHOUN FALLS LIBERTY .j BOND SUBSCRIPTIONj Calhoun Falls, S. C., May 4.?Thej I following is uainoun raus suDscnp-| tion to Liberty Bonds: Calhoun Mills _$25,000 White citizens 4,750 Colored citizens .. 700 Total ?$30,450 I RECORD f BUILDING AUTHENTIC UWS (HI WHS Department Plans Improvement in Troop News. WAR REVIEW AT END Policy to Be Adopted Provides' l:or * Adequate Information About American Troops: Washington, May 5.?Early announcement of Secretary Baker's new plan for furnishing the country with adequate 'and authentic ' accounts of the doings of American troops in France was indicated today when the weekly war review, heretofore issued by the department failed to make its appearance for the first time in some months. In explanation, it was said that the news publicity policy was nearing completion and the old form of statement had been abandoned. It has been customary for the; statement to be given out on Sunday! fnr nnhlieation the following: day I and covering operations in Europe up to the preceding Friday or Saturday. The review was made up at the war college and the fact thati it has frequently been certain that it was founded largely on unofficial press reports in commenting on the situation has made officers here skeptical as to its value: It is now believed that a more official summary, dealing almost exclusively with the activities of Am-j erican troops as officially reported,! will be submitted. General Pershing has not entered upon the practice of issuing communiques up to this - time, it has been explained, because his has not been a wholly independent army as far as operations were concerned. The situation is greatly changed now and American units are scattered throughout the battle line. Some of them face the Germans with the French left wing near Amiens; others are brigaded with French troops at various points to the south. \ Efforts probably will be made to { get reports quickly from all of these! units as well as from the American' sector itself. I BRITISH GENERAL MADE , LORD LIEUT. OF IRELAND London, May 5.?Field Marshal Viscount French has been appointed lord lieutenant of Ireland. Lord French succeeds Baron Wim-i borne, who was appointed lord lieutenant of Ireland in 1916, serving) to May 1916, and reappointed the| following August after the Dublin j revolt. In connection with that up-; rising Lord Wimborne gave testi- j mony' before the investigating com-j mission which later absolved him \ from responsibility for the out-i hronk Field Marshal Viscount French was commander in chief of the British expeditionary forces in France! and Belgium at the outbreak of the war, in August 1914, until the end of 1915. In January, 1916, he was appointed commander in chief of the home forces. The official announcement of the appointment of Field Marshal French as lord lieutenant and of Edward Shortt, member of the house of commons for Newcastle-on-Tyne as chief secretary for Ireland, was issued tonight. OUR RETURN (Henry Dr. Talmage has drawn for picture of your returning armJ pomp and circumstance of war ing with proudl and victorious nation's eye! Will you bear w army that sought its home at army that marched home in del and not in splendor, but in git hearts as loving as ever welcon to you the footsore Confedera faded gray jacket the parole his children of his fidelity and ward from Appomatox in Apri Think of him .as a ragged, feebled by want and wounds; surrenders his gun, wrings the and lifting his tear-stained anc the graves that dot the old V over his brow and begins the i does he find?let me ask you, find in the welcome you had j four years' sacrifice?what doc the battle-stained cross itgains death not half so much as sur left so prosperous and beautifi his farm devastated, him iUtm empty, hit trade destroyed his tern, feudal in its magnificence law or legal status, his comra ers heavy oil his shoulders. C tions are gone; without monc or training; and besides ail tli problem that ever met human a status for the vast body of 1 What does he do^this her< Does he sit down in sulleianess Surely God, who had stripped 1 \ in his adversity. As ruin was never was restoration swifter, trenches into the furrow; hor guns, marched 'before the plot human blood in April were g women reared in luxury cut up for their husbands, and, with women always as garment, ga was little bitterness in all this, ailed. "Bill Arp" struck the ! killed as many of them as the; to work." Or the soldier returi ing some corn by the roadside, comrades: "You may'leave th going to Sandersville, kiss my a Yankees fool with me any mor< to say to Gen. Sherman?who parts, though some people thii about fire?that from the ashes a brave and beautiful city; tl caught the sunshine in the brie have builded therein not one I I Officials Jubilant Over Loan Succesi Washington, May 5.?Analysis o the Liberty loan reports today show ed that probably 17,000,000 pe^-son bought bonds in the campaign whic] closed last night?7,000,000 mor than in the second loan and 12,000 000 more than in the first. Latest tabulations showed $3, 316,628,250 reported subscriptions 1 i. i.1.. i- +V, uut uie ticttsury nuw ucncvca ui< actual total, which may run to $4, 000,000,000, will not be definitel; known until May 12, four days af ter individual banks are required fr report, to federal reserve banks. "Whatever the money total," sail a treasury statement tonight, "th loan just closed probably is th most successful ever floated by an; nation." Bank resources, it was pointei out, have been drawn on compara tively little to make the loan a sue cess and the prospects for futur loans are brighter as a consequence An added reason for iubilatio: 1 ~r~ among treasury officials is the indi cation that the government bon< buying habit is becoming stronge among people of small means. Miss Rebecca Jones of Winthroj spent the week-end here with he ! parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Jones. I \ ING SOLDIERS. * > ' W. Grady.) you, with a master's hand, the ies. He has told you how, in the , they came back to you, marchtread, reading their glory in m! ith me while 1 tell you of another the close of the late war?an fea.t and not in victory?in pathos iry that equalled yours, and to1 ne?l heroes home. Let me picture te soldier, as buttoning up in his wliich was to bear testimony toi faith, he turned his face Souths I, ji 865. half-starved, heavy-hearted, enhaving fought to exhaustion, he hands of his comrades in silence, I pallid face for the last time to irginia hilln, pulls his gray cap. ilow and painful journey. What who went to your homes eager to justly earned, full payment for I ts he find when, having followed j t overwhelming odds, dreading render, he reaches the home hq il? He finds his house in ruins, i free, his stock killed, his barns money worthless, his . social sys* i, swept away; his people without des slain and the burdens of oth-l ruihed by defeat, his very tradisy, credit, employment, material lis confronted with the gravest intelligence?the establishing of lis liberated slaves. i in gray with a heart of gold? and despair? Not for a day. lim of his prosperity, inspired him never before so overwhelming, llie soldier slipped from the ses that had charged the Federal r, slid fields that ran red with reeu with the harvest in .Juine; i their dresses and made breedhes a patience and heroism that fits e their hands to work. There Cheerfulness and frankness prekey note when he said: "Well, I Ir did of me, and now I am going I aing; home after defeat and rcasti who made the remark to his> e South if you want to but I nm wif<? and raise a crop, and if the / if I will whip 'em again.'' I wcint is considered an able man in our nk he is a kind of careless man he Heft us in 1864 we have raised bat some how or other we hare k ?.nd mortor of our homes, and ignoble prejudice or memory. Many More Names i On Casualty List f Washington, May 5.?The casual ty list today contained 119 names, s divided as follows: Killed in action h. 10; died of wounds, 1; died of ace ciient, 2; died of disease, 1; died - of other causes, 2; missing in action, 10; wounded severely, 26; wounded - slightly, 67. i, Six officers are named, including e Col. Richard H. Griffiths of the Na tional Army, who was killed by a y shell as he emerged'from a dugout - j or. the front in Picardy several days 0 ago. Maj. Hiram Ross, Danville, 111 was wounded severely, and Lieuts. 1 j Frederick C. Abbott of St. Louis, e Mo., Frederick L. Gregory of Carie bou, Me., James C. McCoy of Pierre y S. D., and John E. Smith of Fond I du Lac, W:s., were wounded slightly. 3 The only Southern men in today's - list are: Private Anthony Gibson, - Lawton, Okla., who died of accident e Private Willis Boothe, 'Hanson, - Okla., who was severely injured, n and Corp. Lester P. Wilson, Parai gould, Ark., who was slightly woundi oA PrnrtifAllv nil the men named in r the casualty list are from New England or far Western States. ViVVVVVVVV^V^VVV >, V COTTON MARKET V r V Cotton 28c V HUNS MAK TOSTRII AMERICAN GUNNERS MAKE HUNS RETREA > Germans' Complete! Chased From Front ii Sector at Luneville SHELLS WORK GREAT HAVC Teuton* Abandon Territory Point Behind Their Second Line*. With the American Army Prancp Mnv S Dnrinof f.VlA In three days the American artillery the Luneville sector has complete ehased the Germans from the front positions and have wiped ce tain sections of the targets in tl enemy area off the map. This the same artillery that not lOi ago gave a similar performance another Lorraine sector. On the present occasion, so f as all investigation shows, the Ge mans have entirely abandoned tl territory at least as far back as point beyond their second line. T] only signs that they are there at ? are a few machine gun posts hidd< i in out-of-the-way places in the bai j areas, which cut loose when the o portunity offers. Big Guns Play Havoc. The sections affected by the wo of these American artUlerymen a: the line south and southwest of Hz loville. (This town is approximate thirteen miles almost directly ea of Luneville, and about six mil from the German border at its nea est point, to the northeast.)' T1 American raiders have found th the shells had worked terrific hav< at many places plainly visible whe: the big projectiles from the heai guns had fallen. ABBEVILLE COUNTY DEMOCRATIC CONVENTIO The Abbeville County Democrat uonvennon men nere yeateruay twelve o'clock in the Court Hous The meeting was called to order I Hon. M. J. Ashley, who was elect* chairman. W. M. Barnwell w; elected Secretary. The'Hood Resolution was adop ed, it being offered by J. M. Nic les. The officers elected are: M. J. Ashley, Chairman; J. ] Jones, Secretary; ( H. J. Powe: | Treasurer; J. M. Nickles was elec ed Committeeman on Credentials State Convention, W. W. Bradh on Executive Committee to Sta Convention and Wm. P. Green County Chairman. The delegates to State (Jonve | tion are as follows: Messrs. M. ' | Coleman, Dr. G. A. Neuffer, R. 1 j Moseley, S. J. Wakefield, J. I ! Nickles, Joseph Hicks. I The Executive Committee of tl county clubs are as follows: Abbeville No. 1?T. P. Thompso Abbeville No. 2?A. F. Calvert Antreville?H. J. Power. Calhouns Falls?T. V. Farrar. Donalds?R. L. BarmoTe. Hillville?J. D. Bowie. Central?W. E. Morrison. Keowee?J. H. McMahan. Level Land?A. F. Carwile. Absent clubs were: Abbevil Cotton Mills, Hampton, Due Wes Cold Springs. TWO WINDOWS. Some of the window decoratioi are fine. Mrs. Kirkwood has a fii window and Dr. Hunter of Hunter has fixed up one of the L. \ White's windows with a few of h collection of guns and pistols. UNG READY tE ITALIANS ! Austrians Assemble Im J ' mense Army From T Other Fronts WILL TRY TO REACH |S v PLAINS OF VENETIA :M ^ Blow Forced by Economic Condi- |1 ^ tions Throughout Dual Monarchy. Quiet on French Front. >C Over the battle lines along the i lave xviver aim 111 uie mountainous "fi to region in northern Italy, where the \ri allied forces have been holding their positions since last November, after ^11 in the great Italian retreat from the ,st Isonzo, there is increased tension ' M iD aijd the threatened blow at this 'J| ly front may be launched by the Teu?ir tonic allies within a few days. For ;M >r- many weeks the Italian war office ne has been aware that the Austrians -'|j? is have been assembling the legions ig withdrawn from the Russian and ^ 1T| PrtllTMonion fl'Alifo "TAI* O of 4-UA .^5X1! J.J. \Sllbi3 A V4 a VAX IT V ai Uic * 311 Italian armies and i,t is believed that .$M ar it will not Ue long before the cen!r* tral powers will make another at- ' *&? he tempt to reach the plains of Vene- ;Ji| a tia, break through the allies' line . he and seek a decisive combat in that . vmB *11 theater. Jn Emperor Karl of Austria, accom-k panied by his chief of staff and -;?*j P" high German and army officers, is Ji reported on his way to the Italian J9 front and the great movement of S-|| rk troops in Tyrol and Trentino would re seem to indicate that vast bodies ot ? men are being taken from other 'jrM ly fronts to be hurled at the Italian ;3| st positions. . -yS M "'Blow Expected in Mountains ^ | r The blow, it is generally believed, ia will fall somewhere in the mountain- M ous section of the front, probably B re in the Lagarina and Astico Valleys. These sectors face the north and, if fl . broken, would permit the foe to W penetrate into the lower foothills of itt j the mountains, or even reach the N plains. If this should occur the armies along the Piave River would ,ic be compelled to fall back, probably ' -* at as far as the Adige River. This ^ e. would entail the loss of Venice and >y a vast expanse of country to the v Ja ;d enemy. j 3H as The decision to launch an offensive of grand proportions in Italy ,* ^ was doubtless forced by political and : r| k- economic conditions prevailing in Austria. An offensive campaign that yields of ground might serve . ^ r> to still the elements which are seeth v; P" iyg throughout the dual empire and would postpone the day of reckon- /jj jy ing that seems in store for the rul- VS te ers of Austria. ^ HESPERIAN CHAPTER. r. The Hesperian Chapter R. A. M. held a meeting here Friday night and two noted guests were present. Past Grand High Priest, George T. ri;|| *e Bryant of Greenville, and Grand High Priest William A. Giles of /||| n- Graniteville, and other out of town guests were Messrs. Thos. Cothran, Henry Higgins and Dr. W. E. McCord of Greenwood were present. They entertained the visitors at a ; delightful supper which was served by the A. R. P. ladies in the K. of P. Hall. Several degrees were conferred. le it, REST ROOM. The moving picture show on the corner will be used as a rest room for the old veterans. It was clean1S ed up yesterday and put in nice ie order. V. Mr. Lester Ellis of Cedar Springs is was a business visitor in the city Saturday for several hours. i m ' & . '