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VOL XXXIX MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1919. GERMANY TO PAY IN COLD HUNDR[D BILLION MARKS Final Figures on Reparation Given Out After Weelis of Negotiations by the Alied Nations DIVIDED IN.THREE BIG SUMS After Paying the Hundred Billion There Will' be Other Billions Figured Out for Germans to Pay. Paris, April 14.--(By the Associat ed Press.)-One hundred billion gold marks is the amount Germany must pay the Allied and associated govern ments for losses and damage caused in the war, plus other billions to be determined by a special commission on which Germany is to be represented. This is the final and definite conclu sion which has been reduced to writ ing after weeks of negotiation which took a wide range and involved fre (uent changes and modinications. The payment of the hundred billion gold marks is to be diveded into three distinct amounts, as follows: First, twenty billion within two years. Second, forty billion during thirty years beginning 1f'21. Third, forty billion when a commis sion shall determine how it shall be (lone. In view of the fluctuations through which the negotiations have passed, an authoritative statement was ob tained to.y concerning the final terms of the settlement. This sums up the conditions as follows: Summary of Conditions. ('ermany is at the outset held gen erally responsible for losses and dam ages in accordance with President Wilson's fourteen points and the Al lied response at the time the armis tice was concluded. To determine the extent of the payment under this re sponsible a commission is set upto tike testimony, assembie data and ar range all details of the payments from the enemy and distribution among the Allied and associated pow ers. While the commission will admin ister the details of the payments, suf ficient is known to permit the deter mination that an initial payment will be required of twenty billion good marks, payable in two years without interest.' It has also been determin ed that forty billion goid marks shall be payable in bonds extxnding over a period of thirty years beginning 1921, with a sinking fund beginning in 1926. ' Rate of Interest. These forty billion marks draw 2% per cent interest from 1921 to 1926 and 5 per cent interest after 1926. In addition to the foregoing pay ments, Germany also will be required to deliver additional bonds for forty billion marks,when the commission de termines that this shall be (lone. These three payments of tweaty, fci ty and forty billions bring the total to one hundred billion gold marks. Beyond this total, the commission is empowered to fix anything further that may be required to cover Ger many's indebtedness. "In other words," concluded the eminent American authority, who framed the terms and furnished the foregoing summary, "a commission set up with tower to collect from Germany to the utmost of her capac ity to pay, within the limitation of her indebtedness." PAXVILl[ NEWS NOTES Mis L'ila Corbett spent the week ened visiting Mrs. Elma T isdale .in Sumter. Dr. Trhos. WV. (Gunter wvill go to Flor ence Tuesday to attend the meeting of the S. C. Medica: Association. Mrs. Bascumbe Lannair has return-~ ed to her home at Scarboro, Ga., after a short visit to her sister, Mrs. J. C. Bryant. Soldier Manly Geduings came homne last week after having spent several months oiverseas. Mrs. C'. C. Hodges and baby boy from Sandersville, Ga.. are v'isiting at the home of her brothe-r, Mr. C. HI. Bradway. Rev, and Mrs. M. J. ityzer of Co dlova visitedJ at the homne of Mr. G. H. Lackey last week. Rev. fKyzer has rece:itly accep'tedle a held in ('olleton county, and w;ill begin work ther'i the early fall. hlenfo Mrs. Marion Cox and ldrnfo Florence are visiting her mother, Mrs. Mary A. McLeod. ( ATT~lENTION! Service Badyes are t.o he g:len b~y Headquarters to all persons clanning 800 hours work and service for the Red Cross. * All those who feel that they have given this amount of time andl would like to claim a Badge please commnu aicate with the Chapter Secretary. WOFFORD GLEE CLUB The Civic League has been very fortunate in securing the W'offord College Glee Club to give an enter tainment in Manning Thursday even ing, A pril 24th, at 9 o'clock, at the School Auditorium.. Be sure not to miss this opportun ity of enjoying a musical treat. These young men come highly recommended by other towns. Give them the biggest house -eyer aeen in .Mannirng. Adnlts. 50e; Cildren,.Blic AIR OF UNCERTAINTY ABOUT PROHIBITION Legal Advisers Can't Find Authority for' Enforcement SEARCH RECORDS IN VAIN Revenue Bureau's Hands Tied With out Early Legislation by . Session. Wushington, April 14.- :. ad visers of the government agencies in terested in liquor regulations ex amined statutes and Executive orders today without finding specific legal authority by which the Internal Revenue Bureau might enforce war time prohibition after July 1. President Wilson, under the Over man act giving him power to transfer functions from one department to an other, might delegate the authority to the revenue bureau, some lawyers de elared. However, this still would leave the bureau without adequate funds to pay the costs of maintaining a large federal police force, unless there is some legislation at an early special session of Congress. Air of Uncertainty. Suggestions received today did not change materially the air of uncer tainty over the question of how pro hibition is to be enforced after July 1, as caused by Internal Revenue Commissioner Roper's announcement that his bureau had not the authority nor the funds to carry out the en forcement measures properly. Many telegrams received at the commis sioner's office today reilected keen in terest by individuals and organiza tions throughout the country in the status of war-time prohibition. Mr. Roper added nothing to his statement in rcply to these queries, it was said. . Former Order. Legal advisers of other agencies to day discovered that an executive order of the President, dated September 2, 1917, issued under authority of the Overman act, delegated to the revenue bureau and the customs division the enforcement of the provision of the Food Conservation Act of August 10, 1917, which prohibited the use of food materials in production of whiskey and paved the way for restriction of beer brewing. The amendment to the Agricultural Appropriation Act of November 21, 1918, by which war-time prohibition. effective July 1, was established, did not become law until long after that executive order was issued, and con sequently the order would not apply to the prohibition measure. The act of November 21, 1918, pro vided "that after June 30, 1919, until the conclusion of the present war, and thereafter until the termination of de mobilization, the date of which shall be determined and proclaimed by the President of the United States. * * it shall be unlawful to sell for bev erage purposes any distilled spirits. * * *v" The act also specifies that in this time "no beer, wine or other in toxicating malt or vinous liquor shall be sold for beverage purposes except for expcrt." MRS. MARY TINDAL DEAl) Former Clarendon Woman Dies at Hcr Home in reenville. Greenville, April 11.--Mrs. Marv Martha Tindal. widow of II. F. Tindal, of Clarendon County, died this after noon at 1 o'clock at ner home on IItherford street. She was orn in 1824. She was the daughter of H. F. Rhame, of Clarendon County, who luring his lifetime was one of the largaet planters in the St te. and serve: thirty years in the State Sen at o. Mrts. Tindal's husban'ld di''l in 1875, and in 1P8'i, with a large famnily, she moved to GrIeenIville'. Her suirviv ing children are: L. R. TI'ndal. of Cla rendon; Mris. M. E. Staggers, o Spartanburg, andl H. B. Tindal, Mrs. B. M. Shuman Mrs. lanues L. WValker, Mrs. J1. F. Richardson. Sr.. Mes Eila Blro:-k andlN Mis- Lou Tfindal, of Gron'' ville. First. of Series of Script D~ances; ( En lFridlay Evening. The Youny Men's Club gave the first (of a series of Script dances a (Central Warehouse Friday evening. Quite a number of the younger set from nearby towns mlotoredI over to attend the affair. A mong the dancers were: Misses Pearl Davis, Mabel Davis, Fairy Pitts, Emaline Woodlruff, Myrtle Allen.An nie Louise Asbill, Kathleen Bain, An nie Vordeman, Miss Fischer, tall of Summnerton. Miss Ward of Charles on, Miss Esther Murden of Marion. M'iss Kennedly oif Gable, MIiss Rion of Columbia, Dr. and Mrs. Scott IHarvina, Mr. and Mrs. Leon Weinberg and their guest, Mrs. WVm. S. Ehrich oif Elvansville, Indl., Mr. and Mrs. 1H. H. B~radham anrd their guest, Miss LouisE Walker of Columnbia College, Miss| Rounette lHirschmann, Miss Irma Me-' Kelvey, Miss Lucile Felder, Miss IEsther Berger, Mr Welch of Green ville, Jim Bowen, John Bowen..John Gentry, Ulysses Brunson, Pete Chew- I ring, Chas. Pitts, John Joseph, Wat-|I son Cantey, Harry Brown, all of Sum mettm, Mr. Floyd of Lake City, Ryan Woods of G;able, Carl Kennedy of Sardinia, David Diulose of Sardinia, Raymond Wells of Mt. Car-mel, Leon Burgess, Ed. Reardon, Dud Plyler, mlarence Isernan, Scott Bagnal, Brownie Bagnal, Chas. Bradham,l Thomas Bagnal, Paul Floyd, G. T. Ployd, Richard Plowden and H~orton' Rilrhv. Jr. Fhigiy-li ve thoi(usiil G ermiani hieil fdera district committe I in thlie \''i ing the best sellilg records ande) school on1 the ''ieasury steps in Wushingtou, director of War Lean Orghanization ( nllotiient from the Wai r IDem1rtment fi each one of the helmets. These helmets were a iecial supa there by freight. ADDITIONAL LOCAL HWS Mr. Stcwart Harvin has sold his hone to Harry Steinhardt, and we learn the price was about $4,000. There will be a Matinee at The Pastime Friday afternoon at 4:30. Night show at 8 o'clock. Miss Louise Walger who has been visiting .irs. Herman Bradham left this morning for Columbia College. W. M. Bomar of Spartanburg is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Born a r. TIe funny comedy "Spies and Spills" and beautiful Gladys Leslie in "The Beloved Imposter' at The Pas time Theatre tonight. Lost or Strayed-One male calf, bhack with few white spots, about one year old. Any information leading to t' revery will be paid for by P. C. Geun ings, Paxvilk, S. C.-11t-pd. Mir. arid Mrs. Cary Smith, Mr. and .r I Herman I)uBrow and Kissler Wtaitherford formed a congenial party who maotored over to Sumter last night to see "Twin Beds." The Wotlord Gle Club will be at :he School Auditorium Thursday, Apyri! 24th. This is first-class at traction and the Ci . League was vry- ie:cky to get thr. M .s Francis Weaver and AMiss (;rac N immer visited Charleston last Sunuia'. They were guiests of Mis;ses M11arvla'rite anrd HIelenu N immer an:d wnil" ha the city by the sea visited ahignla Ga rdenus. Sir. JR. H. Dav~'is retulrned hiomle 5 uin. lichmondj last Friday, where he \.'vnt for medical e xaIminiation. Hie tvill returan toi the hospitaul ini a fewv (iays to undergo at very serious stom .er- oprat ion. .daingll is a pretty town anid ai JOodt towvn to l ive in, but somie pieople ot town. ai.re miiig hity careless at4out kieeping their prhies 110 clean. (lean up before and (iticer forces you to do 5o. All Rled Cross Knmit ters are tugedl tou continue knitting. Knittedl gar imnte areU greatlIy iin need. Quite a stupply of wool is 0on hand arid the knitters have greatly dliminished. Virginia Wil-on, Sec. r.ndMr's. .J. D~uPre A lsbrook; had .i their guests Sunday M~r. and ~Mr. Wm. F. Nettles, Miss Olive Netles M1isa Virginia Lee Nett les and Wm. U. Nettles, Jr., of Camden, Dr. anid Mr s. L. WV. Nettles and1( Mrs. For M (iwh r and little Elizabieth Caro !Jne r owlerI of Columbia St. Peters Lodge No. b4 will con 'c' the E'nteredl Apprentice Degree F ridav evening, April 18th, at 8:30. The. Mlasonic friends anid relatives of Miessrs. Junius Scott Bagnal, Bennie Ness andl Joel Luke Rlidgeway are resnpetfully reqluested to attend the Messrs. R. B. Terrill and F. G. Satterfield the new tobacco ware housemen were here the latter part of last week, looking after tihe cree.. tiont of their warehouse. With ware housemnen like Messrs. Chark, Cothran, Terrill & Satterfield and E. W. H~ar ris, Manning is sure to show up prettyv well at ^.he front this venr. TRIUMPHAL GERMAN HI ne'ts, capturd by\ allIe"d troopis in Col lory Libertiv Loan campaigln. Thelly wIll ch1ibiren.t writing the bcest esstt} ton) the I Ay shown ('rank It. WIlstn, dirercor of ight). W1ilson created at panuie in the he# ,r $1. It emr.t thne Gtern,;an gcver~nw-nt ml dly held In reserve for at triumpclhal entr; SHOUTS TO HELL WITH U. S. F-LAG .\an Interrupting Sen. Chamberlain's Speech Almost 'Mobbed. New York, April 1-5.-A sensational incident marked the close of an a adress, by United States Senator Geo. A. Chamberlain at a dinner of the Sphinx Club at the Waldorf Astoria tonight. His peroration was a poem, "the American Fhag." As the Oregon Senator" recited the closing lines one of the dliners in the rear of the grand ball room half rose from his seat and shouted: "To hell with the American fhag." Diners from several other tables started towards the man who had de nounced the flag, but Edward W. Mitchell, vice-president of the Texas and Oklahoma Oil Company, was the first to reach him. Swinging with his right arm, Mr. Mitchell landed a clean blow on the chin of the di s turber and knocked him down. Several friends seated with the man attempted to interfere and there was a lively scrimmage in which Mr. Mit chell himself was struck in the The disturber was rushed out a side door before any serious damage was done, however. Eddmund 1). Gibbs, former president of the club, and Robert. S. Scarborough, treasurer, who immediately began.u an investig-ation, delared t a enunbet e termne he mn'sidetitybuttha les ei r irlI,alled for .i. C Camp. iit Deparutmenti oln the Sou'th Caro3i li tna camps I wich the gerne~n islii un dern tauping Se:n. hCamperlaick on E.W.o, ofi Ro.-A Isenatndl. inidn m'arkefo the cntire oamf ampa A.ver Chmerli atrakin on ofth tniant.olis $4er0 oro entir ajom, $1t0ile esifa theag.overnme rean w~or Newie trecoing mpne, one $oft00 derste interof the grnen beains rothal rosenti staiat and, 000 ellte vitf the Aoveriment fre-. tans( toehosithenl. ad(C nCuicago th prlag 1.btoding ovr theledic fhicciail no th heas ftrst him rthah him. wifeihadbu ith days rt live, Wilia Maitzllssidet lan loase o tHinae of thuburb, tdaybhr and kocked him dwn.,faal Seunral hies s eated with than sixteare o daugterr andl ther coa amitel scine.The inhicre died Mitn ahl hnaimlf tuk i h LMETS ~~mh~s~~~mammmru. enz/, lre to be t warded ap rizes iy be given to \'ictory noite sal4"esmeniak 1mn. II the p'iture shown bovi, ta kin lcblilcity (left). and Lewis 1t. 'ranklin. himct macrlot 'y buyiug the entire 85,000 ore tlhun t'.: a t;uocnt to iminufacture into I'tris. 1'ventutlly they arrived INVITATION SENT TO HUNS To Meet Allies April 25th at Versailles. Paris, April 15.-A formal invita tion was sent by the council of four today to the German government t<. send representatives to Versailles for the meeting of the peace Congress of April 25. No reply had been receivved up to tonight, but it is expected tnat the German delegation viil reach Versailles about April 24. ------o -- ROUMIANIANS DRI\EN RACK Compelled to Retreat. Before Soviets in Podolia. London, A pril ]5.-Russian Soviet troops, after heavy fightin-, having compelled the Rumanians to begin a general retreaet into Beessarabia fron the line of Kamenetz-Mohilev along the Dneister in Podolia, a Ru's:ian wireless message Says. Further north in Western Ukraine, the message adds, the troops of Gen. Petlura have been driven from th' line of Kamelnet-Proskurov-Sepi tovke. ------o---- - PRESIDENT R E'lEINS SON^ To Come Iome A prli 27 or 2. .'y" Paper. Paris, April 15.--Hlaves. t.-.}'esi. (lent WVison intends to stii f *r the United States April !7 (Jr 28, after being present at t he op~enmn: numin of the peacei confgr.se' at \'.ral~ei TIhe E'cho D~e Paris vys to-ht. y. After his deparI&ture(. Co. E. .\l. Hoa-t wi. Germans at H1ambu~trg Sacid to H1..' Looted Ve~.sel. steaminship Phlden with f1 ood for P oian was pillaged at Hamburg by t he 4,ar matns, accordinog to a dlispaItch fro WaT~rsaw~ received in Zurmih arn t ran mitted to Tlhe Echo lDe Pari To' the Distr&t Roadc( ( i j (I. (f ( larn dilcn (out :' Un'cder the new-~ roadi hls c. district is t o have cruedit for the rcmi tax collected for said dyst rietd :- Ia dreds of peophi in t h (ountyv do not know what w~'hoocl dirt riot Iy v e :n, aind if left to, 'ome to thev tr'.asurer lo pay, cofusliionl will acrist and thu listrict niot get proper credit. A very simple wvay to avoid this .vill be for the variousw boardls to tol eet this road~ tax, issue the ir re't ipt ror same, and then turn ocver tc meW, and I canI then issueC rec'eipt to (cover. By doing this way, it will gi eatly neilitate matters. I shall acppreciate tour cooperationi. V.ery 'espc.tfully, L. L. Wells, Counto Treaurar JYO HUNDR[D MILLION TO HANDLE COITON Cotton Men Indorse Proposed Market ing Corporation MEETIN IN COLUMBIA Conference Between Congressional D~elegation and Delegates to Cotton Association. Columbia, A pril 1 5.-Meeting here today with members of the South Car olina delegation in Congress, the twenty delegates from the South Carolina Cotton Association to the convention in New Orleans next month, headed by Governor Robert A. Cooper, passed a resolution endorsing the proposed cotton marketing cor poration, but suggesting that its cap it::l stock be made $2(0,000,000 in stead of $10(0,000,000, as proposed. To fu.ther enable the South to fi nun:f:. the cotton crop1 the committee also uritd that batiks be urged to increase their capital stock 50 per cent. Attending the meeting were the (overnor :;? the ILieatenant Gover no:' of South Carolina, two United States Senators and three members of the house of Representatives. A committee was appointed to take charge of the question of securing large government warehouses to han dle cotton, and after a discussion of possible amendment to the national banking law this question was placed in the hands of Representative W. F. Stevenson. The resolution summing up the re sult of the meeting is as follows: The Resolution. "Resolved, That this special com mittee appointed by the South Caro lina Cotton Association do heartily endorse the proposed organization of a cotton marketing corporation, with a capital stock of one hundred million dollars ($100,000,000), and its scope be enlarged to deal in and with cot ton seed. "This committee believes that it would be practicable at this time to raise the atrount of $200,000,000, es pecially if the stock be made payable in liberty bonds if desired by the sub scriber. "It is essential, in the judgment of this committee, that the majority of the stock be owned by the farmers of the South, and this committee recom mends that proper provision be made to secure this enl. Will Do Their Share. "This committee is confident that the people of South Carolina will take their proportion of the capital stock of this corporation, whether it be $100,000,000 or $200,000,000 and pledges its full support to see that aid stock is taken. "'T'his committee reconends that all banks in the South increase their combined capital and surplus by 50 per cent, or to such an amount they may find to be practicable, for 'h" purpose oif enabling them to make Jakrger loans to irndividual borrow ers. up~on cotton collateral, and to meet the increasing demands upon all beanks for financ ial assist ance. "I: is suggested that there is a ver; large investme~nt in liberty bonis in the South, which mayv be. caee into th:N in1crease of capitail, with ad(vianta(ge biot'h to t he !?no ter andI the bank. "State banks in the SuthI lnot mem.)1 bers of the federal reserve syste, are urgedl tod join the federa resIi*uerv sysem. The South will ma rket and Iin~ance its~ cotton erop. Thiis will conmpletelyV revolutioni)ize the e'nt ire business inte4rests of t h South. It mEans ounercia! free lo~ . prje 'css anid [ros erit y. MIINEFRS' 811tlK E; C.~.l.F2l) In Sub.-Jlasd MIines in A rkansa~s anad Fort Smilth, Ark., April 15.--.Striike orders were issuedl today calling out to4morrow mniners em ployed in all sub leased mines of the Cent ralI Coal and roke' (ompany in Arkansas and K(ant sas5, supbplemental to an order issuedl eve.ral dlays ago for a strike in the nines owned by the Central Coal and 2oke Company in Arkansas, Okla loma and Kansas. It was stated that Pproximately 6,000 menJ will be af ectedl by the combined strike ordler in he three States. The strike was call d as a result of a controversy over he time of day machine miners should eport for work.