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' LOAN More Than Fifteen Million Pa triotic Americans Bought Bonds ?RS liO?N OVER-S?ESCRIBED IN ALL DISTRICTS The Wind Up of the Victory Drive a Great Success. Washington, May 11.?Fifteen mil lion Americans bought Victory Lib erty notes in the campaign which closed last , night,, according to esti mates received today by the treasury from federal reserve banks. This compares, with about 21.000.000 pur chasers in the fourth loan. 17,000.- j 060" in the third, 9.400,000 In the sec-f ond and 4,000.000 in the first. A few additional reports of sub-1 scriptions came in today, but no at-' tempt was made to .tabulate them, and) the treasury announced that the offi cial total probably- would not be j known before May 26. The total as j * compiled still stood at $3,849,000,000, but late reports emphasized the earl ier, indications that the loan had been! heavily oversubscribed. Banks will have until May 20 to report their subscriptions to federal reserve banks and the federal reserve feaxijts wi? report to the treasury bv May 24. -''Beports from all districts indicate that hi practically the entire country .the quota was taken without material assistance from; the banks," said a treasury announcement. ' Federal reserve district committees estimated the number of subscribers in their territories as follows: Minne apolis 1.000.000. Chicago 1,200.000, Cleveland 1,500.000, San Francisco S06?Qd?. Kansas City 906,000. The other districts could not estimate ac curately their subscribers, but based o_n...reduced totals as compared with , the fourth loan the remaining, five . districts should produce enough adT ditional individual subscribers to gj5gj$&~ the total up to 15,000,000. the .treasury announced. :0ie ?hica^and. New Tork district* ofeeSt^y ^ej^bsfcribed. "Tj;^jg5cial advices from the Atlanta. ; Sin Francisco and Dallas districts, all j of which had . lagged, indicated that _"r although- jiiere were no large ovcr suteer3p4ao?$ all .prohably . reached th*ir joniqtaa. . |n K^w England 904' cities and to^ns.had achieved their quotas be -,S?rp the closing hour. The Chicago feftrict /est|mirted Als total . at more th?n: J745,00O.^O0rf of. which the city of fchjeagosubscribed about $240.000, 0$$ without the aid of its banks. The figures from the Cleveland dis^ trict gave a total of $470.000.000, about $20,000,000 in excess of tht \ quota. . I ^The Kansas. City district reported a] total of $lo5,4?0.150. Atlanta estimated that every State in that district would reach its .quota, j^lhrida. Mississippi and Tennessee wer* all safely over and.it was ex pected that delayed reports would put Atebama;and Georgia, safely over. Te?ne$s?? led the States of that dis trict In oversubscription. The last total reported from the Philadelphia district Was $4*0,000.000. ? Washington, May 11.?Victory loan s?b?cription reports from 48 shipyards ^.thffet<*ountry received today by* the shipping board showed a total of SI 4>34?,000 raised by ..employees. The American Shipbuilding Company of Philadelphia .and the Submarine Boat Corporation 6f Newark subscribed moire than $2.00.0.00.0 each, while two others. Skinner & Eddy of Seattle and the fjramps Shipbuilding'Company of Philadelphia, raised m ore than $ 1 , ?00,000 each. Beer 2 3-4 Per Cent Alcohol . Chicago, May 10.?Chicago brew ers will continue to make beer con taining 2 3,4.per cent alcohol despite governmental prohibition legislation. Attorney. Mayer announced today af ter a conference with District Attor ney Clyne. Mayer conferred with the district attorney with a view to instituting a test case involving the right of the brews to make beer having more than oncthird of one per cent alco hol. , Mr Glyne said he would take up the matter . with the revenue department ahd Attorney-General Palmer. Tie said stich procedure by the brewers would be deemed a criminal action. No Discussion Of Allied Rights . - Paris. May 10?(P.y the Associated Press.)?The Allies can admit of no discussion of their rights to insist up on the terms of the peace treaty sub stantially as drafted. This is the reply to Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau. head of the Ger man peace delegation, who submitted a note to Premier Clcmenceau de claring that the peace treaty con tains demands which could be borne by no pcop!<\ and many of them in capable of accomplishment Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau has also been in formet! in answer to his complaint that Germar>v was asked to sign the Allied plan for a league of nations, although not among the States invited to .enter it that the admission of additional member States has not bee'n overlooked, but has* heen explicitly provided for in the second paragraph of article 1 of th^ covenant I Withdrawal of American Troops Will Begin Early in June i I j . _-^? ANNOUNCEMENT MADE BY BAKER American Troops Have Not Been Engaged During The. Past Month. j I Archangel. May 12.?rTentative ar rangements are being made to begin! the withdrawal of all American troops from North Russia early in j June. The plans were taken up be-i causf of-the public announcement of! the plans of the United States govern- j mcut by Secretary Baker, but no deli bite orders have yet been received iry the American commander. The Amer ican troops have not been engaged onj a large scale in the past month's; fighting. Death in Texas Tornado Heaviest Toll of Life Claimed by Storm at Mission?Other Sections Suffer Corpus Christi, Texas. May 8.?Fif teen persons were killed early last j night when one of the worst torna- ( does ever experienced in southwest Texas swept the lower Rio Grande! valley, demolishing farm houses and] doing.great damage to growing crops, according to telegrams received here tonight from the storm stricken area. The storm took its heaviest toll of life at Mission where a shed iruwhich J. L. Vick, his wife and four children I and a number of Mexicans had taken j refuge from the hurricane, collapsed, Mr. Vick and two of his children were instantly killed while Mrs. Vick was seriously injured. The other two chil dren, a boy of .12 years and a baby, escaped uninjured.. Mrs. Vick i3 not expected to recover. ^;Nme Mexicans also are reported to hate been killed when the shed col lapsed, although this couid not be ver ified, as wire communication west of! Donna is'down. ! . :Six miles west of Mission at Madera seven persons and two children arc known to be dead., all of whom arc Mexicans. A Mexican and two children were killed six miles north of Donna. The wind was accompanied by a heavy hail .which did. great damage to crops. Many farm houses and other buildings in the path of the tornado were mi roofed. The damage to pro perty in the upper valley where the storm spent its greatest fury, .is esti mated at close to $100,000 while it is impossible to estimate the damage to crops. President Will Answer Woodrow Wilson to Reply to Germans on Fourteen Points Faris, May 10 (By the Associated Press)?President Wilson will per sonally., direct such answers as may be decided upon concerning German inquiries in the peace treaty differ ing from the president's 14 points. This was announced in high quar ters today In connection with the in structions which Chancellor Sehiedc inann ha3 given the German plenipo tentiaries at Versailles to address a note to the allies comparing the terms of. the. treaty with the 14 points and! making a counterproposal for verbal negotiations. Thus far. however, no such note or counterproposal has been received and it is the present opinion nothing is likely to fake such form for a week, as the Germans probably wili wish to study the trerty before taking action. The view is held by the American i delegation that Herr Schiedemann's j objections are not well taken thai the treaty is contrary to the presi dent's fourth point on disarma ment and fifth point on colonial qucs- j tions. It is explained while the treaty! contains a provision for Germany's! disarmament, this is preliminary to; the general limitation of armaments; by other nations and that the cove nant of the league makes a general i restriction of armaments. ! Herr Schiedemann's contention that I the German colonies are delivered to i the allies contrary to President Wil son's fifth point is met by the sta.te i ment that the colonies arc not deliv ered to the allies, but to the league of nations which administers them 'through mandatories for the benefit of j their native peoples. Concerning the proposal for verbal ] negotiation, it is said much explana j tory detail will probably be done ! verbally, but that any proposition for ;a general opening of verbal ncgotia j tions will be rejected. ! Shell Shock Victims ; Chicago. May 10.?Authorities in a '? number of central west cities have I taken steps to prevent motorcyclists and automobilists from driving with } the mufflers of their motors open. It j is, declared that the .sudden explo j sions have the same effect as burst* j ing shells and machine gun lire on : the shattered nerves of returned sol idiers who are suffering from shell j shock. The authorities say that many shell ! shock victims who had virtually re I covered have had to return to hos i pita.ls as the result of the sudden I "pop-pop" of a motorcycle engine bo i hind them. j Sewanee Endowment Mr. F. E. Hinnant Chairman of The Suntfer County Committee Preparations are being made over Sooth Carolina . for the Million Dollar Endowment Campaign for the Uni versity of the South. This campaign was begun on the twenty-fourth of February with a conference of rep. resentatives from thirteen southern states, held at Chattanooge. Tennes see. Immediately after that confer ence the campaign was begun in the states of Tennessee, Georgia. Louisi ana and Oklahoma and is nearing completion in those states. It is now i bealgnunoonshrdhrd hmhm hmrf being launched in Alabama, Arkan. sas, Florida and South Carolina. The undertaking has for its object the raising of a minimum of one million dollars, which is badly needed for; proper maintenance. Major General Leonard Wood has appointed J. Nelson Frierson of, Columbia to lead the organization and he in turn is appointing a local chair- j man in each community to take I charge, of the movement. In Sumter Mr. F. E. Hinnant is local chairman land is making preparations for con j ducting the movement here. This movement is being conducted , in the thirteen southern states, the j j twenty-two dioceses of which own J and control Sewanee. These states in clude, in addition to those already; mentioned. Kentucky, Mississippi. Missouri. North Carolina and Texas. The University of the South, which is better known as Sewanee, is the only institution of higher learning south of the Mason-Dixon line, that is own ed and controlled by the Episcopal Church. It is situated on the Cum berland Plateau, sixty miles from i Chattanooga and is about 200 feet j above the level of the sea. The Epis copal Church possesses in this Uni- j versity an investment which must be ! protected, consisting of lands, build- j ings and securities worth more than j one and one-half million dollars and is practically free from debt. Like other colleges. Sewanee can not survive on its tuition charges. In addition to that, she has only th' income from a general endowment amounting to less than one hundred thousand dollars. The plan of endowment has three objects: 1. To raise a substantial endow ment fund for the University of the South (Sewanee). 2. To make Scwane** morr inti mately known in every community in fhe southern states. 3. To mobilize a thoroughly co hesive and coordinated Episcopal organization, such as never existed before. Wounds Cause His Death Chas. Markey Passes Away in Columbia Hospital : Columbia. May 0.?Charles E. Markey, an e^-soldicr. who was shot on Main street here last Saturday by his brother-in-law, Joseph W. Staub, a pressman employed by a local print ing: house, died in a Columbia hospital tonight from bis wounds. He was shot in the abdomen and leg. It is alleged that he had been creating a disturb ance around the home of his parents and had threatened the life of young Staub, who was arrested immediately after, the shooting and is being held in the city jail. Miss Sarah Owings. who accident ally was .shot in the neck by Staub, j? recovering. ??? Lewis Frightened By Radicals' Plans Chicago. May 11.?James .Hamilton ] Lewis, retiring Democratic whip of the senate, who was defeated for re election by United States senator. Me dill McCormick of Illinois, returned to Chicago today after a Western trip to . resume the practice of law. He expressed surprise at sentiment in the Pacific coast and mountain Stater complaining "against everything going oh with the administration at Wash ington." He said the West and coast demand the soldiers be brought home at once; that they are against soldiers being sent to Siberia or Germany, and are opposed to any European al liance. i They are for the United States tak ; ins: control of Mexican affairs and by i force stopping the. outrages on Americans and their property.'' In* I continued. In this only was there a j warlike spirit. Then he said he had j been "frightened** by "the boldly in augurated scheme of those opposed to i jail orderly government.to fill the l new army and navy with officers and. j men who on any order to fight dis- J 'order or lawlessness would mutiny J j and take charge of the government ! j after the mariner of the Russian sol ! dicrs and navy." I A Real School Garden ; In commenting in yesterday's Lssue jof The Daily Item on the home-school I gardening under the. supervision of j Miss Obenshain. the statement was made that there would be a seri^y of : short articles on this subject. I wish to (uill particular ? attention I today to the school garden on the lot j of the Hampton school building, su ; pervised by Miss McNally and worked j entirely by the boys of the Sixth [Grade. It was decided to devote that j whole garden spot to the cultivation j of Irish potatoes this year in order j that the boys might see the crop in i its. completion by the end of school, j rhis crop will be gathered and dis posed of before the l*'th of June, j Under Miss McNally's leadership 1 these boys have evinced the keenest I interest in their garden work and ' have watched their crop grow day by ; day With evident delight. This pro j jeer, has proved profitable in every [ way. Respectfully submitted, j S. H, Edmunds, superintendent. r 111111,1 ,.MWI|IIHIIW^BIIMWII|?I WIIBIWII lljl I DOCTORS SAY THE NEW CALOMEL IS BEST MEDICINE New Variety, Called Calotabs, Is Purified and Refined From Nauseating and Salivating; Effects?Medicinal Virtues; Retianed and Improved. Accord ins to the world's great est physicians and medical author ities, calomel was the best and most: universally useful of all medicines. Medical authorities prescribed calo mel for almost every disease and ex plained that it was the best and surest of all system purifiers. They say that calomel cleanses the liver, stomach, bowels and kidneys and purifies the blood from all poisons, making the system pure and clean so that nature can. quickly restore tin health. Now that science has purifed calo mel of all its nauseating and danger ous qualities, the new kind of cale rnen called "Calotabs." is even more popular than the old. As a liver cleanser and system purifier Calo tabs are more effective than the old style calomel, yet are entirely de lightful in effect. One Calotab at bedt time. with a swallow of water?that's all. No nausea, no salts, nor the slightest unpleasantness. Next morn ing you awake feeling fine, with a hearty appetite for breakfast. Eat what you please and go where you please?there is no restriction <>f habit or diet or danger of salivation. Calotabs are sohl only in original, scaled packages, price thirty-five cents Your druggist recommends and gu arantees Ca! tabs, and will refund your money if you are pot delighted with them.? (adv.) British Airmen Wait Conflicting Reports Received at St. John's of Conditions in Midocean St. Johns, May 9.?With unfavor able weather still preventing the trans-Atlantic flight of the British avi ators here, tomorrow is expected to heighten local interest with the arri val .*f the steamer Diby from Liver pool bringing Col. John Cyril Porte's Hying boat for entry in the air race for the London Daily Mail's $50,000 prize. This giant plane, a Hadley Page, designed for the flight by Colonel Porte and named by him the "Felix Stowe Fury," will attempt the "big hop" from Harbor Grace. 50 miles down the coast. Maj. Arthur Partridge Baffas, ad vance agent for Porter, returned from Capo Broyle today after inspecting the site of Porte's base there and rer ported the beach in virtually the same smooth condition as before the storms of the winter. .With little preparation it can be made ready for an airdrome, he said. Conflicting reports of wind and weather in midocean were received to day. The British air ministry's mete orological service sent in favorable ac-1 counts while wireless reports from j >;hips at sea showed an easterly gale) with storm indications sweeping farj out. A low pressure "trough" was j reported off the Azores, which should] move off "in a. day or two." according) to calculations. Harry Hawker, the Australian flier, predicted again that the full moon scheduled for May 14 would see the start of his flight with Ilaynham. his English rival, probably starting at the. same time. T. P. A, Convention j _ i ? Chester, May 9.?The South Caro- j lina Travelers' Protective Association! closed its annual two day convention j in Chester this afternoon after one of the greatest conventions in its his- j fory. Much constructive work was ac- j eomplished which bids fair to help South Carolina in many of the after war problems that will come up with the next year. Interesting talks were made today on hotel accommodations in this State and a strong hotel committee was ap pointed. L. (). Kirby of Anderson was elect ed president of the State T. P. A. J. Walter Moffat. president of Chester's Post I. was elected first vice presi dent and J. P. Noblett of Anderson, secretary and treasurer. The next con vention will be held at Greenwood. Mr. Sherman of Charleston made an interesting talk telling of tho unsur passed terminal facilities of the City by the Sea. The delegates voted thanks to the local post and the people of Chester for their hospitality during the con vention. Vice President and Mrs. Marshall left this morning and a large crowd was at the Southern station to see them off. He said that he and Mrs. Marshall had spent a delightful time in Chester. Vice presidents elected by the State organization were: T. U. Dick. Colum bia; T. H. Pope. Greenville; C. B. Al len. Anderson; H .T. Puckhaber. Char leston; J. D. Green. Greenwood: U. A. Moses. Sumter: Frank Pcgues. Dar lington: R. r>. Smith. .Fr. Xcwberry; J. C. McCrory, Rock Hill: E. II. Gaiues. Gaffncy. and the Rev. B. it. Turnip seed. Greenwood. State chaplain. Delegates to national convention at NTew Orfeans, June 10-15: J. H. Dud ley. J X. Watkins. William Schlerm cr. F. S. Evans, H. F. Scarborough. ! Frank Pcgues. William C. Miller, j Henry Massey. H. J. Russell and the 'president and secretary and treasurer, ex-oflicio. An appetizing barbecue was served the T. P. A. in the grove at i the homn of Solicitor Henry. Tonight a delightful concert was given at the Chester Thenter by the Woman's Tollere Glee Club of Due West. Goulds Clash Over Big Estate Family Quarrel Taken to Court I New York, May S?The heirs of Jay Gould, the railroad financier, who ac cumulated one of America's greatest' private fortunes, are in a quarrel ov"T the administration of the $83,000,000 i estate he left them. His son. George! J. Gould, chief executor of the estate! is required by a\State supreme court] order signed today to show cause why he should not be removed. Gould is charged with frauds "per-; petratcd by him even on his own ; brothers and sisters." and "which re-; suited in an aggregate loss to the es- ; t?te of $25,000,000," in affidavits filed ; in the supreme court by his brother, | Frank J. Gould; his sister, the Duch-; ess do Talleyrand. formerly Anna; Goud; Countess de Castellane and the, guardian of a number of the Gould-! j children of the third generation. In answering affidavits Geo. Gould denies the charges and is supported! I by a deposition made by Mrs. Holen i ! Shcpard, his sister, formerly Miss Hel len Miller Gould. Mrs. Shcpard de ! dares the charges are "inaccurate and i distinctly misleading. "Four of the 'six children of Jay Gould?George, : Helen. Edwin and Howard?are co I trustees of their fathers estate. Frank and Anna were not included as both are residents of France. Frank Gould ! lives in Paris where he recently ob ! rained a divorce from his second wife, Mrs. Edith Kelly Gould a former ac tress. The affidavits were filed in connec tion with a petition by Frank Gould and his associates to have George Gould removed as executor of the es tate. He was appointed under the will [of his father, who died in December. I 1 spL'. and who bcQueated him $500, ! 000 in cash and .$4.500.000 in securi | ties, as a reward for his services. This ; was in addition to a sixth share of the ; main estate, which was vested in a : trust fund for the benefit of his six ! children. When the case was called in court today the array of counsel almost fill ed the court room. Subscribe to The Daily Item. Oc week, delivered. Only TheMotori stFriend A NYONE can say "the best." It means nothing /\ unless you know who says it. In this case it is the - ^Oldest Service to Automobile Owners in America, and when they say the Prest-O-Lite Storage Battery is "best by test" it means just that. ?"best" because it has more "pep" and power, more endurance for the daily grind. ?"best" because it is backed by the kind of service that keeps troubles away?service that satisfies. But whether you carry "the best" battery or not, we will keep your battery in better condition if you will let us inspect it from time to time. No charge for this service. We have competent battery men ready to recharge or repair all makes of batteries. 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