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XXI MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1919. N. OPINING DAY fOR S7AT[ SENAT[ A BUSY' ONE 'Three Bills Introduced in Upper Body Yesterday .THE GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE Of .the Fofty-five Senators Thirty nine Have Had Previous Experience. Columbia, Jan. 14.-The Senate of " South Carolina today had the unusual experience ;of having its presiding officer robeil both in the khaki of a retired soldier and in the royal purple robe of state. During the morning Lieutenant 'Governor Bethea was vot ed the robe -as a token of -eteem and to show how worthily he was worn the rple. In ten days Lieutenait Gov 7or-elect will don his new icgali .4 The Senmte lost no time in gettir.g its work started. Three bills have already been introduced. One pro vides for a new schedule of salaries for State officers; the other under takes to provide for the equalization of tax by the township boards, and the third contemplates the holding of o constitutional convention. All these bills were 'introduced by Senator Christensen and the latter with Sen ator McGhee. Before the session clos ed Senator Christensen called a meet ing of the finance committee and Sen ator Laney,-of the judiciary commit tee, indicating that the committees would get to work at once. Before Joint Session. The committee that waited ,on Gov ernor Manning through Senator Laney made a report which indicated that Governor Manning wishes to person ally present his farewell message to the General Assembly, and it 'is prob able that this message will be read in joint session tomorrow at about noon. It will be interesting and worth ile to keep This list of the members the present session 'of the Senate of the General Assembly: ndrew J. Bethea, Lieutenant 'Gov r until January 21; Junius- T. L , lieutenant Govcrnar-elect; Le de G. Walker, President pro tem f de Senate, and the follovrmg is t e personnel of the body proper. Members of Sensde. Abbeville, J. HIoward Moore. Aiken,. John F. Williams. Anderson, T. Frank Wuatkins. Bamberg, .James B. Black. Barnwell, .1. Henry Johnson. .B.eaufort, Niels Christensen. 3 Berkeley, Ed. J. Dennis. Calhoun, J. Arthur Banks. Charleston, Arthur R. Young. Cherokee, T. Both'well Butler. Chester, J. Hardin Marion. Chesterfield, George K. Laney. Clarendon, J. W. Wideman. Colleton, J. G. "Padgett. Darlmngton, F. A. Miller. Dillon, Preston L. Bethea. Dorchester, Herbert II. Gross. Edgefield, 'Ienijamin E. Nicholson. Fairfield, Thomas H1. Ketchin. Florence, D. Gordon Baker. Georgetown, LeGrand G. Walker. 'Greenville, Proctor A. Bonham. Greenwood, Samuel N. McGhee. iainpton, W. F. Lightsey. Ilorry, henry L. Buck. Jasper, H1. Klugb Purdy. Kershaw, J. Copeland Massey. Lancaster, W. C. Hough. Laurens, John i. 'Wharton. Lee, W. P. Baskin. Lexington, PEdgar C. Ridgel. McCormick, Frank C. Robinson.I Marion, Maxey C. Ilarrelson. Marlboro, D. 1. McColl. Newberry, Alan Johnstone. Qeonee, J. W. Shetor. * Orangeburg, Edward 1. Friday. Pickens, Frank Alexander. Richland, Thomas B3. Pearce. Saluda, Jeff D. Griffith. Spartanburg, W. 3. Rogers, Jr. -Sumter, John H1. Clifton. Union, Thomas C. Duncan. L~Williamsburg, Hugh McCutcheon. York, Jamnes E. Beamguard. It is a very inter~esting fact that' out of the forty-five Senators thirty nine of them have had previous leg islative experience, either in the Sen ete or in the House of Representa tives. Glancing over the list of Sen ators in the present bodly, the entire personnel have been law-makers, with the exception of Senators Alexander, ightsey, McCutcheon, Miller, Pearce, Watkins and Wideman, but many of these have heen wvatch ing legislation for years andl know what they are doing. Favor the League of' Nations. The first resolution b~y the General A esenmbly in the Senate was an en orsement of the p~rop~osed Peace ~agne of Nations. Senator B'mnks, oCalhoun, as~ked that the South S( .rolina General Assembly endorse th' ,proposed league as a safeguard a st future wvar, now that Amer .. is participated in such a glorious -y. The resolution itselfC calls 1, the South Carolina dlelegation to favor in so far as it can this policy. Tlhre will he good roadfs measures --real ones. The law-makers are dronly in earnest in their dlesire to give the peole improved roadls, be ea've they realize that this is the one nrgent and sincere dlesire-of the people. ------ "Unacle" Joe to Preside. Wnnhington, Jan. 14.--Representa tive Cannon, of Illinois, formner sneak er, was namedl today by Speaker Clark to nresid.a at the..Joint memorial ser wa for~ Theodo Roosevelt, to be held by the Senate and House on Fob vuary 9, SAYS OUR SODIERS LACKED IQUIPM[E Gav. Allen Tells Why 35th Suffere Heavy Casualties. - SOURES THE CENSORSHIP Says No ,Lack of Bravery on the Par of .Americans, But Huns Dom -inateil Air. Topeka, Kans., .an. 13.-Lack o equipment, airplanes and transporta Lion facilities were responsible for ti heavy losses suffered by the Thirty fifth division in its drive against thi Germans in the Argonne forest, de clared Governor Henry J. Allen- this afternoon in an address at the cit auditorium. This address, followinf the ~inaugural exercises, was the firs Mr. Allen has made on his experi ences on the battle front while in th Y. M. C. A. service. Governor Allen asserted that the Thirty-fifth suffered 7,000 casualtie: in the six (lays battle or half tl strength of the division. Governor Allen who spent tei months' in France for the Red Cros: and Y. M. C. A., also criticised the censorship charging that it "becam as .arrogant and absolute as the ecen sorship in Germany, lacking only th German intelligence. "On September 25 the Thirty-fift] division started to enter the Argonne, said Governor Allen. "By noon th next (lay the doughboys had gone be yond range of the artillery and the fought for four (lays without any ar tillery support. I went along th roads leading up to the battle line and time after time I saw the road choked with the bodies of horses tha had been killed or nad (lied in th harness in the efforts to bring up th artillery. The lack of artillery sup port was not (lue to the men or thei officers. It was lack of transport We did .not have enough horses an what we did have were too old an feeble to do the work." The Governor declared that ther should have been 6,000 horses instea of Y.,200 -which were available whe the men entered the battle. Many o those available "were old otrms tha the French has discarded as of n further use to them," he asserted. "Yet our army paid .x400 ereb fo these aninuds, only to lie forced , shoot them a (lay or two later. The were too old and feeble to :do th work," he continued. Gov.ernor Allen declared that th Germans maintained dontination o the air on the American front. "W sa". mtch in the papers that car to us M' American domination of th air. But we did not know tha throughnut the war it was going t .be a domlminationt of hot air," he saie "There was no . lack of bravery o ;thte part of our .aviators. .Often~time they wiem up knowing that one Arei J2:An lhm e and ane or two Amerie.a: a"%'.ators were pitted against torec ~ 'r or fin~e German planes. "Not, cnly (lid the airplane serve; pay the price but the infantry ,aly, pmid the price in ktunian life for th protection they expected and did. no get, ,for there was to airpiane gwr, for them." Gowqrnor A.llen sail . the A metric; soldiers are not popiijar with th British but fraternized deligbtfull with the F'rencth. C-I AJRIVFS AT BJl. I'NSWICJ( Spent Night at _.4eorgetiwn Becaus ef Itudgier Troubtle. .(3runswick, Ga., ,Jan. 14.-.-Th'Ie C-i the largest. dlirigile~ in t~he navy wh ich ii Ily3.ig 11031 f'Mr Rockaway N. Y, to K ey West, Fla., a rrjived her, at 3:45 this aifternooti from George tonS C.,.whe'.re she .rpent lasi night l1'he big airship left Ieorge4'wn a1 .10 o'ck'ck this morning and made th' journey to Briqswvick wvithout mnis kap), and3 guided by a weaplane fron t.he .local station, and rnade a siaf, landing .m the south end of the( city The C-I is schednied to leave IIer, on the last lap of its trip xii. 9 o'cluel tonmorrow morning and1( expects t< reach Key West about 6 o'clock .; the evening, ROOSEVEL'S GilFT TlO TOWN Gave $6,900 to F~rench Village Jus Before D~eathI. Washington, .Jan. 14.-llheodor< Roosevelt several days before hi: dleth reqluestedl the A merican Re< Cross to dlonate $6.900 of its share o the Nobel peace prize money receive< frotm him to the French village ner which his son, Quentin, is buriedI. Il nmaking this annouinceme'nt today thb Red Cross said Col. Roosevelt did no designate the form of the gift an: th'at the wishes of the population o the village are now bemng consulte< bty the Red Cross commission t France. --o C'OL. IHOUSE ILL IN PARIS President's Adviser Indisposed fo Past Several D~ays. Paris, Jan. 14.--Col. Edward 12 House has been slightly ill for th past few dlays. IHe was better toda' however, and expects to be out agal: nhortlv. 1. 1 tat.a ,Ltd i * ,y .Y , \ ~ t f The large saw mill of The Black completely destroyed by fire about si: 6th. The fire gained such headway control of the fire apparatus of the mi This mill was one of the most mode struction entails' a heavy loss to the In conversation with Mr. C. P. Gi of The Black River Company, he state the re-building. Everything will hay the erection of the new building and machinery has already been ordered take at least four months to get the SUPREME COUNCI NOW CONSIDERING T[RMS Of NEW ARMISIIC[ ..Inpan is Admitted to the Great I Gathering-All Other )elegations r .aterially Increased . I( CH PRESIDES AT ONE SESSION Complete Agreement is Reached ('on cerning All )emands to Ie Made of Germany. I'aris, Jan. 13.-The supreme coun til of the peace congress resumed its t asions at :3 o'clock this afternoon at the French foreign oflice, wiith the dis tinguished gathering of yesterday r .siugniented by the presence of Japan I mnong the great powers represe'inted Y il a notable gathering of miliia'y, naval. economic and financial renre mntattives of .the various powers. e Those present included, besides f 1'r.!sident Wilson, Secretuay Lansing, e Gen. Bliss and Ilerbert C. Hoover e f.a theiU;iUited States, Premier Clem e enceau, Foreign Minister Pichon, t Fiiance Minister Klotz, Mhiister of o Commerce Clementel, Miiiii.er of Re I. comet ruction Ioucheur, Ianrsha I lech, i Ge. Weyganld and Admiral De Ron, s for !France; Pmreroier Lloyd George - and Foreign .Secretary Balfour, for a Grewe Britain; Foreign Miniter Son nine, for Italy, and Viscount Chinda and A\nibassador Matsui, fer .1apxn. -All members of the Versailles war 0 council also attended, includling Ge n. Sir Wcson, the British menaber. Armistice Etensiion. l The :first, husiness before the su. preme -noeuncil was the new ttrms for the ettmsion of the German armis tice. Th terms had been 1ormally drawn up at a meeting this mor.ning of milita ry, naval, econiontic an d financial experts of All ies and the United Si es. The morning meeticng, vWhich was presided over by Marshal Foch, reacbudl at complete .agreersent on the new armistice terms. Th'We proceedings today were divided into two di'rinet -stages. The first, the morning ieetmog, was prtesidied Iover by Marshac Foch, at v/hich the illitarmy, naval and ecocni c aut hor ties rechedl an agreement on .ne'w w rms' for the amrimistiee expiring on - c.lunuary 17. The Unaitedi States was .represenitedl by Major Ge'n. Bliss, Ad t maral Eenmson and IIerbert C. Hfvover; e G;reamt Britain biy Geni. Sir hlenry Wil .son-; Fresce by M arshacl loch, G'en. 1 Weygand, his chief of staif, Ml. luiotz, in miiister of i niace, anl M1. Leyguies, miinister oIf marine, andl Italy by Ge'n. Robiilanit. Th C(oimplete Accord. Teac~ordl reciIhed~ is said to hv been comp llet., embhrancing financial terms wheireby G;erimany musit restoire the sunall takleti from the cities and~~ towns in the dlevastamted regions ; imilI itary, whereby Gverimany imust restore the gnns taken and prompt)1ly deliver I Lup rolling stock anid locomotives, and econoimic, whereby footl relief will reach the farunishedl regions. It was this progrm, completed' in Sthe morning, which conIIfronted the council wvhen it convenmed ait 3 o'clock. Notable Increase. As the statesmen gathered, it was seen that their ranks were unotablly inicreased by the twon. Japasn he (dee gates, Viscount Chindla and A mbassa dor Matsui, wVhile Gen. Bliss, Mr. Hloover and Rear Admiral Griayson faccoilmaniedl President Wilson and Secretary Lansing wvithi Bernamrc. M. Baruch and Edward N. Humrley later a(dded to the A merican representation. TIhe British forces wvere similarly increased by Andrewv Bonar Law and Gen. *Wilson, whmile France, besides Premier Clemenceau and Foreign Min r ister Pichon, had its ministers oif ma inie, commerce, finance and recon ~truc tion and Admiral D~e Bion, chief of the French naval staff. . Vittorio Orlando, the Italian pre a mier, was the only absentee, having !, b~een called to Rome, but Blaron Son a nino, the foreign minister, was pres ent with Gn. Rnbhmnt. River Cypress Ca., at Gable, was C o'clock Monday morning, January n a short time it was beyond the 11 and it was soon a heap of ashes. "n plants in the South and its de owners. Lble, president and general noinager (I that they already had commenced to be cleaned uip, preparatory to this is being done now. The new mld Mr. Gable stated that it would new mill in operation. how 'T'hey Appeared. The scene was again interesting as .he distinguished persona I ties gath red. President \Vilson motored to .he foreign office with Admiral (;rav son, and again carried his large leather portfolio, while the British w'ine minister, Mr. ILloyd George, had vith hini his despatch case. Marshal Poch was puffing a large (igar as ie arrived, suggestive of Gen. Grant. The meeting was held in M. I'ichon's private office, as the large Salle De Paix, with its huge horses ;hoe table still awaits the gathering )I" the" full delegation. The session was protracted with indications that the new terms of the armistice were receiving very full discussion. Military Experts Leive. At 5 o'clock Marshai l"och and (Gen. WVeygand, M. Kilotz and the various military experts filed out of the con ference room, while the members of the inter-Allied gu preme war council settled down to a discussion of the diplomatic <inwstitns involved in the Lonter'nce program, the first anbject taken ip 'being the representation of the nations at the peace con fereice. The session of the war coup il closed about fi:50f o'clock, an M. Clemenceau was the first to leave the council room. lie was followed in nrder by Secretary Lansing, Pres ident Wilson and the other delegates. Presi:lent Wilson stopped for an in stant at the exit while a flashlight Was takten. To Occupy German Ports. London. Jan. 13.-At today's ses sion of the Allied military advisers in Paris, presided over by Marshal loch, the suggestion was made that the Allies occupy some of the Ger man ports, according to an E'xchange 'T'e'legraph dispatch from Paris. The occupation would be undertaken as a guarantee for the carrying out by Germany of the armistice conli tions and as punishment for Ger many dilatory nethods iin comnpliyng with some of the armistice terrm. ATTENTION "RED (CROSS -WORKERS Now that the war is o'ter, come. the Red ('rost' hardest werlk. ''he hurgest allotment that this chapter has ever received from headiuarters hcome. into the work( ro. It is the m(akig of 3(0 skirts for t'.he sufr fems oif the devasted dijstricts of the war zone. TIhe skirts are very ,impmle to nmilke andh must he madle it miice, hel(ce the officers of the Red .ross chapter biegs every woman in town to come to the wvork room at mece andh get mat (ial Iande the siple :hiriections for no(k inig some oif these skirtis, which any (one who can sewv t. all cnn make with ease. With this new refugee work has c'omle o)rdlers to stop .knittinig. That is, thore is to be no more wool given (out from the wvork room, but all those who iave inlcolm pletet garmilent s on hiand, wvill please finish thema up as soonI (5 possible andl retu rn to headqua111r kra. 'Those who haven 's enough wool to complete u 11finished galrment with, w~ill lelase go to heatdqu~arters for utme, as there is a qluanitity of r'mi lant3 of all shades att the work room, Lo he u~sed up in this way. Pleas!', laies(', doni't read thxis plea oxr workers and1( th inik no~ more of it, ut let mis each continue t~o do0 our ut, andl keep uip our good standard'( n1 the Red Cross Work. Y. M. C. A. MiEN ARIRESTEI) ?harged WithI 1)efalcat Ion of Fundtms of Association. Paim, .Jani. If.- --It blecamiie knownu Loday that three Younig Men's Christ an Association workers a re undler rre(st in Paris chlarged with d (efalca-. tion of funds of the association. The men are George Schoeff'el, for ner secretary of the Chamber of Con'i merce of Rochester, N. Y.: the Rev. R. Atkins, of Eagle Pass, Texas, andl -- Mansfield, said to h-ive been a formecr secretary of the Sailors' Union of Newv York City. The total amount allegel to havec been mi sappronriated a pprox ima tes $38.940, most of whicn has been re coveredl. OCAL FARMERS TO GET NITRATE [overnment to Sell Nitrate for Fer tilizer Through County Agent. Washington, D. C., Jan. 13.-Notice has been given to C. A. McFaddin Agricultural Agent for Clarendon County, that the U. S. Department >f Agriculture will sell at cost a sup ply of nitrate of seda to farmers in Clarendon County. The nitrate will be sold under the authority of the Food Control Act and subsequent legislation relating thereto. The price will be $81.00 a ton, free on board cars at loading point or port. Farmers are to pay in addition freight to their shipping points. How to Obtain Nit r ate. Applications for a part of the ni trate bought by the government will be received only from actual farmers or owners or holders of farms for use on their land, and may be made thre".rh County District C. A. Mc a 'dir or through, any member of a loca. committee consisting of C. A. McF'addin, N. I,. Broughton, Pine wood, S. C.; Robt. Reaves, Alcolu, S. C.; and R. C. Wills, Manning, S. C. No money will be required with the application but upon niozice from the authorized representative of the De partment of Agriculture farmers who have signed applications must deposit with a local bank, association, or in dividnal, designatedi by the Secretary of Agriculture to act as the farmers' age'nt for that pup1'lose, money to cover the cost of the fertilizer ex cept the freight charge. In practi cally every case the money will be paid to a County Nitrate Distriibutor designated by the Department of A riculture. Nitrate will be shipped to distributors on sight draft with bill of lading attached. Distributors will pay drafts, take up the bills of lad ing, collect money from farmers and distribute nitrate to farmers. Ar rang-ements have been made to se cure a large quantity of nitrate and it is believed that all reasonable r(. (uirements cnn be met. As soon as the application blanks are received by me a supply will be sent to every bank in the County and to ('ech member of the loca.] coommit tee for the convenience of the fa rlers making application for nitrate. Ap plication ca also be mlde at my of flce in Manning. .NO applications will be ac('e'pte I aft'r .lanu'lar" 25th. S. W. Bairron, County Distributor. --------( --. AM ERIA('N FIEl-D OF IIONOR Baker Submits Bill to Buy Cemetery in France. Washington, .Jan. 1-I.---Secretary Baker today submitted to Chairman Dent, of the 1louse military commit tee, a bill to authorize purchase of land in France for a military 'eme tery, to be designated "The American Fieid of IHonor." Soldiers, sailors and marines would be buried there unless their relatives otherwise re quest. S'TOlRK K IN D T1O II IS l'A IIt'? Nine Children in Four Yc:irs is 'ain - ily's Recor. Sycamore, Ga., .ian. I-.---Nine chil dr(tt in four years Im the record es tiblished by a f:inily near here. I,ast I Thursday Mrs. Mary Dukes, wife of a farmter, gave birth to four babies. allivmg and doing nicely. it 191.-, lMr. Duhkes bec'ame11 the molither( oif triplets; in 1917 the famnily was ini <'r'(asedl by tile ar'rivail of twins, ando the st ork('s laite(st visit gave Mr i. andi Mrs. D~ukcs foui' babies. Are You a Citi of Clai .Just wha t imt th Cl (ounty Maniiiing ('nn and1 shlould take County ( ourit IIlose on liTursif Mis~s Miary A\nl Abel, whoti A fler' C'ai' for' Iisabledl Soliet 1 iome Service prtogramltts. There is mu ich mtisu nderist ani have been made for thoise' of e fit for serice'. Th'iese planis wvill be d)Iiscuisse prog ramil of fthe Go~ vernmenI)t'f its Emph~tlasis will be' laid on ti< tile Warii car'e for' disaibled solii of tite man11 aloneit, butt is one c'ounty, thleror, the war t is the fa't that coin eloser' toge'ther' inl work and1 il goitg tio he mor'e a unit. thall arlmy hlave tautgh t us thitat we one0 big na~tionattl asset ofC publi howv Clarendon County ennt begih Miss Abel is a Souttthern git' beetn doing tubtlerculosis tand 1)ubI She has 'omte to Atlanta to dii the Soutthernl Division of thle A in the Southern Division are Georgia, Tennessee and1( llorida. If you arte itnterested int t youtr colors" by attendling this rr No collectinnn to bintaen o: IANCE McCORMICK QUITS AS CHAIRMAN Democratic National Committeeman to Be Ambassador 1'0 BE GIVEN POST AT PARIS Reported Ambassador Sharp's liesig nation is Already in Hands of the President. Washington, Jan. 14.--Vance C. Me Cormick has resigned as chairman of the Democratic national committee nd it is understood that he is under consideration for appointment as American ambassador to France to succeed Wm. Graves Sharp. Mr. Sharp's resignation, it said, is now in the hands of the President, but no announcement of the fact has been made. The fact that Mr. AleCormick had resigned became known here tonight although there had been no sugges tion of it when he sailed for France two weeks ago to assist with work in connection with the peace conference. le went to Paris in his capacity as the chairman of the war trade board, a position to which he was appointed last year. Oflicials at the White House de clined to discuss the report that Mr. Sharp would return home to he sue eceded by Mr. McCormick, but it seems to have credence in other of ticial circles. Mr. Sharp was under stood to have desired for some time to return to this country for a rest after his arduous duties as the.Amer ican representative at the French capital duin g the long years of war. Sharp Now in America. Air. Shiirp, whose name is at Elyria, Ohio, was appointed ambassador to France on .June 12, 1914, and resigned from Congress to accept the post. Re. cently he was callel home by the illness of his brother and is now in the United States, although it is understood that he expects to return to France soon. \lr. MlcCorm ick, who is a newspaper publisher, of 11arrisburg, Pa., was Democratic candidhte for Governor oF Pennsylvania in 1914 and was select ed as chairman of the Democrati' national committee in 1916, conluoct ing President Wilson's campaign in the fall of that year. U pon being appointed ch-airman of the war trade board, after the United States enttel the war he devoted all his time to that work. It was said here tonight that lo ner S. Cummings, vice chairman of the Democratic national committee, very probably would succeed Mr. Mr C'ormick as the chairman of the com mittee. INDIIVU)UAL ('ONIEREN(ES Continued by President Wilson at tl urat Palace. Paris, Jan. 14.-President Wilson contiued his individual conferences at Mu irat Palace today with British and lrench representatives. These discussions are informal, such as will he constantly held from now on. Those who met the President this afternoon included the British prime minister, Mr. Lloyd George, and Andrew Bonar Law. The President also received Dr. M - IR. Vest niteht, the Serbian minister t, Fiance and Mrs. Vest iteht. Voted in Almost Inanimously. .\lienale, Jan. I1.---The new Coun. ty of A llendale was voted in today al most unanimonsly. Out oft a total v'otte of 404t only ine votes agaoinst. lhe prioipositin) werte east. The frie nds Of the count doli not. e'xpec't any op Positi n' rconotest of anyv kind t'o fol low. T' court housi' will 1e at Al Zen endon County? in the after't-t he--war plans f'ot' he Itopic for diiscussiont att the ay night, Januaryt c ltth. s theI DiretorIti of thle lHurteau ot s will speak on the' subject't oft lintg as toI th' pr'visionis woh ih nr disabledt soldiers and1( sailor's it' A rmt~y ando Naovy ats no lontge'r to ttedic-al car'e, mttioey' cnompen' fat-I that.tepolm fAfe Sm ino an itndiv iduoal prtoblemii mv'oolviing the' entire towni andt it is ton, that. is to ('(ote out tof uinitie's arte going to he drauwnt ty. The County and townt art' L'ver't. Th'ie lessotis of It'e dra ft have tneglect ed shamencfulliy thle -hiealth. M iss Abhel woill *shtow now. to prtofit, by the'se lessons. e health woork for sevoeraul year's, toet I.the woritk of a fter' care for meiricain leed Cross. Th e state 'orthI Car'olitna, Sontth (Cariolitna, e uplift of your countty "show eetimg.