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. - . . . I | V- >;' -v; - .J- . t " | : :; V , . '' % ' Y'M Abbeville Press and Banner f Established 1844. $1.50 the Year. Abbeville, S. C., Tuesday, May 28, 1918. Single Copies, Five Cents. 75th Year. i RAILROAD WILL GET / Effective Next Satur*; day For Nearly 2,000,000 Men. * ANNOUNCEMENTS BY M'ADOO ' Increases Mean Over $300,000,000 Yearly?Large Sums Due in ' ? - ? b.;J Back Fay Win oe ram Soon. . . Washington, May 26.?General pay increases for nearly 2,000,000 railroad employees were announced today by Director-General McAdoo, effective next Saturday and retroactive to last January 1, carrying out substantially recommendations of the railroad wage commission. The aggregate of the increases probably [ will be more than $300,000,000 a year, half of which will be distributed within a few weeks as back pay in lump sums from about $100 to $200 each. The director general departed from the wage commission's recommendations in the following parrticulars: Time and Scale. The principle of the basic eighthour day is recognized, but owing to exigencies of the war situation, hours of employment are not actually reduced and overtime is to be paid pro rata; future adjustments of pay are to be made on the basis of eight hours. In addition to the ordinary scale of increases, day laborers employed mainly on track work are to get at least 3 1-2 cents an hour more than they received December 31. i A minimum of 55 cents an hourj is established for the shop traders, including machinists, boilermakers and blacksmiths. Same Pay for AU. Women are to receive the same pay as men for the same work, and negroes are to get the same as white men for similar employment. To work out a multitude of inequalities of pay among employes doing similar work in different lo* -1 ? j Cannes ana ouier tnjusutcs tauocu by varying rules of employment and conditions of organization, the director general created a new board of railroad wages and working conditions consisting of three labor representatives* and three railway executives which will conduct extensive investigations. All increases now ordered will be determined according to a percentor?o cnalo KqcoH nn nav rp^piv^H in December, 1915, and any incrases which have been allowed within that time, will be deducted. In many cases raises in pay in the last two and a half years are about equal to the increases now approved, and consequently these employees will get little or no more. To correct! just situations when injustices are apparent will be one of the principal duties of the new wage board, whose creation was suggested by the railroad wage commission. In r no cases are wages to be reduced. Men working on the monthly, daily, hourly piece work and train j mile basis will benefit by the newl allowances, and members of the| four leading railroad brotherhoods, j whose pay was raised through operation of the Adamson act are to retrmm ten tn -fn-r+v npr ad Iditional, a smaller increase than they had asked of the railroads. HOME FROM COLLEGE. Miss Ruth Howie and Miss Edna Bradley are at home from Brenau College, where they have both done well in their chosen line of study and have reflected credit on their home town. EMPLOYES MORE PAY Sec. Baker Raises Estimates For Army DUE TO INCREASED ARMY PLANS OF SECRETARY OF WAR BAKER. Washington, May 25.?The quartermaster's corps of the army will need a total of $5,781,910,383 during the fiscal year of 1919, according to the estimates submitted to " * m the i reasury i/epaiuiicuv This is an increase over estimates already made public of $1,335,100,347. The addition to the estimates is due to the increased array plans of Secretary of War Baker, which he already has communicated to the House military affairs committee. It is because he has known of this increase and of other increases which will be necessary that Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo has insisted that Congress must pass a new war revenue bill before adjourning. Secretary Baker's estimates went ? I m at once to the House military aifairs committee. The three chief totals in the amended estimates are: Pay of officers and men, $1,589,624,745; supplies and equipment, $1,184,098,819; subsistence, $920,527,236. Other items are about as originally sent to the committee by Secretary Baker two weeks ago. NEGROES AND RED CROSS _ On last Sunday, in accordance with plans made by the Red Cross management in this county, several teams were sent out to the churches in the county for the purpose of presenting the claims of the organization to colored citizens. The result of the work was the raising of more than three thousand five hundred dollars fdr the cause. The names of the churches are given below, with the amounts subscribed at the several churches: Glovers Chapel $882.50 Flat Rock $626.00 Salem $562.00 St. Peter $463.50 Fairfield $423.65 Campfield : $160.00 Mulberry $158.00 Long Cane $137.00 Cypress Chapel $ 79.00 Mt. Calvery $ 56.00 Rocky River No report Total reported $3,549.65 The speakers at Glovers Chapel were: Messrs. J. M. Nickles and E. M. Lander; at Flat Rock, Messrs C. D. Brown and Herbert Allen; at Salem, Messrs J. S. Morse and R. L. Dargan; at St. Peter, Rev. H. W. Pratt and Mr. W. L. Peebles; at Fairfield, Messrs C. C. and Geo. C. Gambrell; at Campfield, Rev. J. L. Daniel and Fred Cason; at Mulberry, Dr. Neuffer and Jas. S. Cochran; at Long Cane, Wm. P. Greene and Dr. C. H. McMurray; at Cypress Chapel, C. E. Williamson and Otto Bristow; at Mt. Calvery J. Moore Mars and R. H. Key; at Rocky River Dr. Moffat and Dr. Anderson. IN JAIL FOR POISONING. Eula McCaslan, (colored) is in jail pending further developments on a charge of poisoning Supt. W. C. Haddon, Foreman J. T. Stevencrtn a vicifnr Mr. .Tn<V D. Mcll wain, at the County Farm on last Sunday morning. Eula McCaslan, a trusty, was detailed to help at the Farm. All who partook, of coffee were made very sick. On being questioned the woman admitted putting some insecticide in the coffee. There seems to be no serious results from the poisoning. Dr. J. R. Power rendered medical aid. Attention! YojunjEi All young men who hare be< i , since the last registration,J or w 5th, 1918, are required tw regit plicants for registration will ap tration for Abbeville County in of Court, on the day named. I | to properly register. FINE ENVIRONMENT FOR OUR NEW ARMY Splendid Moral and Physical Protection, Says President. BEST IN HISTORY OF WORLD Mr. Wilton's Statement Made Public by Commission on Training Camp Activities. Washington, May 26.?No army ever assembled in history has had more painstaking thought given to the protection and stimulation of its mental, moral and physical manhood than the new American army,! President Wilson declared in a state ment made public here today by the commission on training cam* activities. -m "Every endeavor is being anade to surround our fighting men?.with I +Via lrinrl of environment a deniacra cy owes to those fighting: tit i# behalf," . the President said. "I do not believe it is an exaggeration to say that no army ever before assembled in history has had more conscientious .and painstaking thought given to the protection and stimuj lation of its mental, moral and physical manhood. In this work the commission on training camp activities have represented the government and the government's solicitude that the moral and spiritual resources of the nation should be mobilized behind the troops." The President's statement appears in "keeping our fighters fit for war and after," says an official account of the educational and recreational activities in the army and navy training camps, written by Edward Frank Allen. A striking contrast is drawn between the demoralizing conditions obtaining on the Mexican j border in 1916, when American ] trops were concentrated there, and | the conditions of training camps toI day. . MRS. TRUMAN STEPHENS. I The many friends of Mrs. Truman Stephens, who has been in Chester hospital for three weeks, is improving rapidly from an operation-~for acute appendicitis and expects to return home this week. Mrs. P. J. Leach will go over to Chester tomorrow to return home with her. RECORD-BUILT BOAT COALS IN QUICK TIME Washington, May 25.?Another i J J.? T1.0 Knaf record ior uie i ut&auuc. iue uvuu that was built in the astonishing ' time of 27 days has hung up a coaling record by putting in 4,992 tons in 2 hours and 53 minutes, it was announced here late this afternoon. A NOISE. The dull rumble and roar and occasional booming heard over the i county Sunday was not a fleet of airships nor a lonesome Zeppelin. It was Abbeville's expert orators making addresses to the colored pepole in their different churches. C Men! Register! come twenty-one years of age i rho will become 21 before June ter on the last named date. Appear before the Board of Registhe office of J. L. Perrin, Clerk ieary penalties follow a failure AMERICAN RAID ON HUNS sum "Sammies" Accomplisl Work Quickly in Montdidier Re gion. THE HUNS \ CLAIM iREPULSI Berlin Telegram States Hoary Lost es Were Inflicted Upon American Raiders. With the American Army ii France, May 25, Saturday'.?Ameri can forces in the Montdidier regioi carried out a silent raid upon ene my positions yesterday, killing si: men and capturing one. Withou the assistance of the artillery th / Americans slipped into the enem; trenches and quickly accomplishes their work. German Account*. Amsterdam, May 26.?"Heavj losses" Fere inflicted upon the Aiji ericans on the Picardy front in th repulse of strong American patrol yesterday est of Montdidier, it i claimed in a semi-official Germa: report received today in a Berlii telegram. The report in the course of i description of yesterday's militar; operations says: "West of Montdidier strong Am erican patrols advanced against ou front. One American patrol wa entirely cut up by our fire. Th others were thrown oacK Dy coun ter-attacks. The Americans thereb; suffered heavy losses." Militarists vs. "Yankees" Amsterdam, May 26.?Regardini the American "hordes" training ii the French camps the semi-officia North German Gazette, of Berli; remarks: "Fresh reinforcements are mean while maturing in our recruiting de pots behind the front and we wil wait and see whether the lightning trained Yankee will hold his ow against the German lads who hav j naa military training lruiu iucii | youth." I A PLEASANT PARTY. On last Fridya afternoon Mis Ethel Perry entertained the younj set at her home on Washingtoi street. With the Victrola furnish ing the music, dancing was enjoyei till a late hour by all present. Othe games of much interest were als played. During the evening puncl j was served on the porch by %tw I liffl a mwla / Misoao A nrrol UCUIIby glJLiO, \ 1T1ISOCO nilgvn Roche and Margaret Penney. Be fore the guests parted they als' served delicious ice cream and cake It was a source of pleasure fo those present, but it was a very sa< occasion when the friends began t bid Miss Leah Thornton farewel before departing for her new horn in Greensboro, N. C., in a few days Those present were: Misses Helei Haigler, Mary Reed Moore, Margar et Cox, Annie Roche, Leah Thorn ton and Mary Hill Harris, Messr Davis Kerr,- Jim Bradley, Richari Swetenburg, Frank Roche, Charli Calvert and Wallace Cheatham. <? NO SIGN Of GER V* * b ; * \ X-\ Hun Troops Are Promised to Iris] BRITONS FIND COUNT VOl BERNSTORFF, FORMER AMBASSADOR, PLOTTER. London, May 25.?Count vo Bernstorff, former German Amba: sador to the United States, ah Captain von Papen, arch Germa plotter in America, were involve in the conspiracy to start a revoli tion in Ireland in which Germa troops were to participate, it is o: 1 ficially known today, as the resu of the issuance of a statement o the Sinn Fein situation by the Goa ernment. This month a German submariu cruised off the west coast of Iri land, ready to unload (missing) fo a new revolution, it was reveale* It was planned tnat me uermar Irish plot was to come to a head e a the same time as the launching c the offensive on the weBtern front a which would drain England of he y armed forces. K The arrest of a man,who had bee landed on the Irish coast from e German submarine, and the arre* y of the Sinn Fein leaders nipped th J conspiracy in the bud. \J Bernstorff Started Revolt. Fomenters of the ' contemplate rpvnlt in Ireland were an Irish con mittee and an "Irish revolution d 7 rector" in America whose identit has not been revealed. John Devo; p operator of a successful Irish-An erican line of communication, wi involved as well as the Rev. Fathc John T. Nicholson, an America citizen of Irish birth, Von Pape and Bernstorff. a Bernstorff, it was learned, star ^ ed reorganization of an Irish rebe lion shortly after the Dublin uprii i- ing two years ago. r Thus it is seen that negotiator s between the Sinn Feiners and Gei e many were virtually continuous fc i- three and a half years, says tb y statement. At first the second r< bellion was planned for last yea but the plan broke down, as Ge: many was unable to send troops. ? - n GERMANS RENEW J OFFENSIVE IN WES n ? Germany has resumed her dri* i. for a decision on' the Western froi >- after a lapse of nearly four week [1 striking in the south betwee ?- Rheims and Sousons and in Flandei "i?n ?li? Northerly side of the Lys si e lient. r While it is tob early for the tru German intention to be, diicloiei the effort apparently in siumltan< ously to push through to the Chai | nel ports in the North, thus breakin j up the British front, and to strili s! for Paris in the South In an effoi % aimed mainly at this French. Tl n main field of the German attack b< l"| gun last April?the Somme regio ^ | in the direction of Amiens?ha r been neglested by the German cor 0 mand in this new thrust. The poss ^ bility exists, however, that th 0 fighting will be extended to thi a area as the battle develops. o OVER FROM CLINTON. l r Rev. J. L. Grier spent a day c J two this wek in Abbeville with hi 0 friend, Rev. M. R. Plaxco. Mi [1 Grier is just home from Prnicetoi e and during the summer will be s i. Clinton in charge of the Associat n Rformed Presbyterian church. Last summer Mr. Grier and M: - Hunter Blakeley went to Canad s and spent the vacation doing mi.? 1 sionary work in the great Nortl e west. Mr. Blakeley is to be sts | tioned at Wrenn's, Ga., this year. 1 i : $ MAN DRIVE Gen. Foch's Armies 1 Ready for Huns When ever They Strike jf _ ONLY MINOR ENGAGEMENTS $ ^ Steady Flow of Americans to Front Serves to Reassure British and French?Much Aerial B AC,iTilT . / -V J * '/ Still another week has passed and !" the Germans have not begun their , ; n expected new offensive against the Allied forces in Flanders and Picaif- ' > ^ dy. And there is nowhere any indln cation that it is the early intention r~ of the enemy again to try to break | the battle front. ie It is' not improbable,, however, i that the blow wiUj be launched at r any moment. Meanwhile, the Allies are ready. Every hour is being l~ utilized by them tostiengthen stra^ tegic positions and every hour finds '' them the better prepared to withfc? stand an enemy onslaught; The T morale of the troops is of the high- < est, and confidence reigns among the ? .-jj n men of the unified command of Gen 'M a Foch that the enemy will not be '' % * %i . .,'. si able to carry out his program to /,$ ie the fullest and that whatever ground -#8 he may gain will be dearly paid for. '' 'jrS America to the Front. .j;| ^ On the work of strengthening the ^ x~ battle front the Americans are i,%| l~ playing no secondary role. The steady strength of the - -khfcki-clad .7^3 lads from overseas to the fighting J 1_ line has served greatly to. reassure \*3 18 the British add French contingetna \>M !r that have heretofore so valiantly n held their own against tremendous 'i.TOj n adds. Those of the Americans already in the trenches have given' and ^ are still giving a good accounting of - ^ 1* themselves, harassing the Germans ' 3" with their artillery and out-gaming: them in combats in the open. 'i&M 13 Even the Germans at home, prey- V.3 r" iously adopting the tactics of sneer- V.'Jl ,r ing at the Americans, now are be- .4$ ie coming aware of their strength and -5 virilty. No less an authority than ' -'i r? the semi-official North German Ga- T-| r" zette is remarking on the 'maturing | American reinforcements behind the Allied line." A T RED CROSS DRIVE. e Abbeville County Goes Over the ' i lt Top, Nearly Doubling the *' Allotment. n The Red Cross campaign,1 which -yJ ended last night, has ben a great success in Abbeville County and '* over the entire State. In Abbeville County, not including Due West , | e" and Donalds Townships, with an al*" lotment of $8,000 the subscription* 8f amounted to $14,500, while in the || :e whole county with an allotment or r* $8,600, subscriptions amounted to " between $16,000 and $17,000. s"| The people have responded well ni to this patriotic call. It indicates . A 111 that the people are thoroughly interested in the war and its outcome. >* The ^Caiser may take notice that it e is a fight to the finish. is! . A SOLDIERLY SPIRIT. I ft,0 first-. suhscriDtions to Vilt vx Viiv >. . t the Red Cross Fund was that of t Raiford Foster McMillan, who drew is the interest on his Liberty Bond r. and gave to the fund of mercy. This i? required a soldierly spirit, equalling it that of his brother, Lieut. Leslie e McMillan, who is making such an v excellent record for himself at r. Camp Jackson and Camp Sevier. a e 3-WVVVVVVVVVVVVW 1- V COTTON MARKET V t- V Cotton 28c. V Jit -ttj