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?Eh? VOLUME IL ANDERSON, S. C. FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 18, 1815. NUMBER 136. WARSHIPS TO AID AMERICANS IS YAQUIVALLEY THREE CRUISERS SAIL FOR SCENE OF TROUBLE ON MEXICAN COAST. TO LAND MARINES IF NECESSARY Indians Have Declared Independ ence and Seek to Oust American Settlers. San Diego, Cal., June IT.-The peril of American settlers in the Ya qui Valley brought ordert? ?oday for the despatch of three cruisers for thc Mexican west coast and the authori zation to Admiral Howard to land an expeditionary force if he thinks best. The flag&tlp Colorado sailed first, cai ry'";: '?.tiree companies of marines. On wireless the cruiser Chattanooga followed the Colorado. The cruiser Keleigh was ordered to sail during the night. The Indians, who have declared their independence, seek to oust the settlers. The three cruisers have available for landing purposes eleven hundred officers and men besides the marines. San Diego. Cal.. Cal., June 17. With three companies totalling 300 men of the fourth regiment, United States marine corps, aboard the flag ship Colorado, Admiral Howard com manding, sailed from here today for the Lower California coast, of Mexi co. The departure of the ship and ma rines followed orders from'the navy department ' to dispatch a force, if necessary, to rescue Americans men aced by Yaqui Indians in Lower Cali fornia. The Indians have threatened to annihilate all foreigners. State department advices aald the Indians had declared war on Germany. Mexico and United States. Admiral Howsrd has wide discre tionary powers ss to action. Washliu;lcL. June 17.-There ls r.virii HpecutattOu here today as to whetl.er fntrsnza will continue tight? im or modify l ib attitude 'and lnvos ttgnta Villa's overtures, for pence :n Mexico. Thc i. xt move in the situa tion depends co whether he will ac cept Villa's propoahls since he h?s already allov er three of Villa'? piu pot?is for n i race party to go ila heodc.l. VMa s iast offer was oisde through Unite/ States diploma!.. They safd " thai Carranza stated lu would not lip:;1- Hie object is anil to be tlie .oking of Mexico Cry. which i'JJs holds. He hopes to gain United States recognition thereby. AHERIGHN NOTE GEIS FRIENDLY RECEPTION Reports From Gerard Genes Still More Optimism is Washington. Washington, Juna 17.-The first official news as to the reception ac corded the last American note to Germany in official quarters of Ber lin, was csbled by Ambassador Ger ard to the state department, and gave renewed hope to off!elsis. here today ot a favorable outcome ot the issue between the United States and Germany. The ambassador's report id addition to giving his own comment, con tained German press comments, which sre friendly in tone. His com munication bore out the press re ports of a favorable impression made by the American rejoinder and said the sentiment of Germany seemed to be that lt afforded a basis for ad justment of the controversy. ?nod Cotton Weather. Washington. Jone 17.-Cotton had a-good week, the national weaber and crop bulletin of the department of agriculture announced today. "In all portions ot the soath." says the bulletin, "the continuation of moderately warm weather, with local showers sufficient for present needs. Kr'a u y favor ed the growth of cot . ton and squares aro forming in some southern districts. Delay in cultlva .tlon bas permitted the fields to be come grassy In a few secvlons. bat over most district? cultivation pro ceeded Hatiftfauoria'ty. the fields ire otean and Ut* crop continues ir, sat isfactory con di I lt-n." FALL TO DEATH FIRST AND ONLY AVIATOR TO DESTROY ZEPPELIN IN AEROPLANE. AMERICAN WRITER WAS ALSO KILLED Two Men Fell Five Hundred Feet When Explosion Caused Pilot to Lose Control. .Pari6. June 17.-Lieutenant Regi nald A. J. Warneford, who recently gained fame by blowing to pieces a Zeppelin over Belgium, was killed to day by a fall in his aeroplane at Due France. Warneford was piloting the machine. Henry Beach Needham, an American writer riding with him was also ki 11 ed. They fell from a height of o('0 feet. Warneford had come here to receive the decoration of the Legion of Honor. According to reports reaching Paris the accident resulted from an explo sion in midair which caused the lieu tenant to lose his control, the ma chine dashing to earth. Needham is known here as a magazine writer and correspondent for New York news papers. Dash-Warneford. a young Canadian lieutenant in the royal navy, sudden ly acquired worldwide renown by do Qtroylng a Zeppelin on June seventh. ThlB waa the first time on record that r*- Zeppelin waa wrecked by an aviator turan aeroplane:-- ?y a brilliant ftight. Warneford obtained a position above the Zeppelin, dropping bombi on lt. The Zeppelin dashed to the ground, burned, killing twenty-eight members of the crew. COMMISSION EXPLAINS NEW BAGGAGE RULES One Declaration of Value Suffi cient-Limit tc Liability of Railroads. Washington, June 17.-So msL/ inquiries have reached the Interstate commerce commission over the checking of baggage since the Cum mings amendment to the Interstate commerce ast went In effect. Juno 3, that the commission today made pub lic several letters written recently dealing with the subject. The letters make clear that one declaration of value ls sufficient for one persona baggage. no matter how many pieces and that each passenger ls enUtled to check with out extra charge the maximum free allowance of baggage belonging to himself. The commission has held that railroads have a right to charge an additional sum where the true value ot baggage ls declared ami ls above the ordinary liability accepted by the carriers. . .. EXAMINE EVIDENCE ON NEBRASKANEXPLQSIOM Naval Expert? Trying to Deter mine Definitely Cause of Explosion. . Washington, June 17.-Navy depart ment experts today began an exami nation of the evidence gathered by the American embassy at London con cerning the explosion which damaged the American steamship Nebraskan oft the Irish coast several weeks age. From the examination it ls hoped to determine definitely' whether th<> No braekan struck a mine or waa torpe doed by a. German tubtaarinc. Tank Steamer Soak. San francisco, June 17.-The tank steamer Desebte, under charter to Great -Britain was sunk by a Ger man submarino Monday off the North Scottish coast, according to a cable gram. "Vom Andrew Weir.- a British eli financier, to the treasurer of the General Petroleum company here Fute of the craw is unknown. The P'^abia held a charter from the Bank line, but wa? rechartered to Weir by tbs Brills t government. . Dr. \Dernburg So Dr. Bernhard Dcrnburg. f?rnie colonlaT''secretary of thc German em pire-, who han been In the United StateB for some months ostensibly interested in the Red Cross, but chief ly concerned with the . creation or pro-German sentiment, has sailed away from here. He didn't admit that hla leave was hurried, but it was a foregone conclusion, after his defense of the sinking of thc Lusitania that ho would not remain much longer. Thia photograph was taken on board the Norwegian steamship BcrgenKfjord. in which he was guaranteed safe couduc* Stoff Captain ot Ordered Passem London, June 17.-Inquiry today in to the sinking of the steamship Lusi tania by a German submarine result ed evidence showing that Staff Cap tain Anderson countermanded orders Captain Turner had provlously given to get the women and children in boats after the ship was t6rpedoed. A number pf. witnesses testified that they had got Into the boats and bad to leave them later on orders' from Capt. Anderson, who was henr shout ing "tho ship ls safe." That no life belts wore available on deck during the Lusitania's voy Bill Posters Ass* Prohibits Wh Chicago, June . 17.-Donald Ross, a, New York member of th-e Bill Pos ters Association testified today In the government's dissolution suit against the association that a large-port?n of the company's business will be dis continued because the organisation -voted to prohibit several classes of advertising, including liquor and 17. S. Mail Pom and Tampered Washington. June 17.-formal no tice that United. States mail pouches destined for Sweden lied been b.okeu open in Bvgland and their contents tampered t Ith, was submitted to the state department today by the Swed ish minister with a request for ap propriate action. Tho minister de Mi-.,...y.,..-_^zZ-iZ-i.. French Take Gen Both Sides Rep Parts, Juno 17.- Tonight's war ?n tico communication describes Intense activity along the French front. Thc allied force sdeMvered powerful at tacks and toe , Germana counler-at* d?ng For Home by nil the wurrin-* oalZths. '*?.*? The doctor would nol talk abottt his leaving. He took the attitude that he had been very successful In his mission in the United States. Many Germans who went to the pier to see him off also believed that. Yet it is vfcry generally understood that even Ginee Dernhurg' has been fn the 1'nitod States his "presence has beou embarrassing to Count von Bernstorff. tho German ambassador to tho United States. It was understood In Wash ington that the German embassy would like lo see him get out. ' Lusitania \gers From Boats age was testified to by Bertram Jenkins of New York, a saloon pas senger. ' He said he haa remarked of their absenc to other passengers. "That you did not see them. I will believe; but that they were not there I cannot believe." said Baron Mersey, presiding at tue inquiry. D. A. Thomas, known at tho Brit ish coal king, who was on the Lusi tania, testified that Borne members of the crew did not obey the captain's >rdera to attend first to the rescue of women and children, but attempted si.v themselves. Delation iskey Advertising seme medical displays. IWhiskey Advertising Barred. Galveston. Texan. June 17.-The Texas Postera Advertisers' c'jsocla tlon In session here, adopted a reso lutt?n forbidding Its members ac cepting whiskey advertisements for posting after January 1. 1916., :hcs Opened With in England livered to Secretary Lansing a letter written at instruction of hiB govern ment, reciting instances of Interfer ence with mail for Sweden. The letter stated anch act? were, a violation of the provisions of treaty stipulations. The department did not dtacnss the minister's protest. man Trenches; ort Heavy Losses tacked furiously. North of Arras the French captured several lines of Ger man trenches,, two hills and are mak ing marked progress toward Sanchez. Heavy loases on both sides are report ed. RUSSIA TO cm ADVA BRYAN SCORES PREPARATIONS FORJONFLICT DECLARES PREPAREDNESS PROVOKES RATHER THAN PREVENTS WAR. IMO EXCUSE FOR U. S. TO ENTER Says Oceans Are More Protection to Us Than Any Number of Battleships. Washington. June 17.-Declaring that preparedness provokes rather than pr?- ^nts war and that the up heaval IJ Europe was the result ot fal;.i- philosophy that "might makes right," fernier Secretary Bryan today in the second of his three statements on the European war BUbmlts an argument against military preparation by thc United States, and praises the course of President Wilson in an in ternational emergency. . "Jtao'.uaU'.v ia without .an excuse, for entering luto tho mad rivalry with belligerent nations in thc pre paration for war lt ls the United States." says Brynn. "We are protected on either side by thousands of miles of ocean and this protection ls worth more to us than any number of bat tleships." i "We have additional protection in tho fact, known to everybody, that we have thc men with whom to form an army defcii3o if we wore ever attacked; it is known also that we .have thc money too. moro money than we would have had If all the surplus earnings of thc peoples had been Invested In armament." "Leading participants In the pres ent war are the nations that were best prepared, and I fear it would have been dillie ult for us to keep out of this war if we had been well pre^ pared as they." T. J. JARVIS DEAD; EX-GOV. OF N. C. Also Served in U. S. Senate and Was Minister to Brazil. (?reenville. June 17.-Tho.ua* J. Jarvis, former governor of North Carolina died here tonight, aged sev enty-nine. He served a short term as United States senator, having been elected succeeding Senator Vance. He was former minister to Brazil. A LA BA V I'S ANTI-LIQUOR LAW IS CONSTITUTION AL Montgomery. Ala. June 17.-The Alabama supreme court today held that the nntl-Ilquor shipping law re cently passed the legislature Was con stitutional . * The law restricts the quantity of liqu or which can re shipped to con signees in Alabama within prescribed periods. Test cases resnlted from the refusal of the Southern Express com pany to nsceot shipment over the amount prescribed by law. Fall to Blight Dona Christina. Tampa. June 17.-Efforte to right ' the schooner Dona Christina, in .the cabin of which it is believed the bodies of the captain, his wife and crew are imprisoned. failed today. Tho schooner capsized In a gulf storm two months ago. and was towed here yes terday. Itali?.? In Sight of Trieste. London, June 17.--Latest advices from Udine renort that Italian out posts have arrived In sight of Tri?st. Along the line of the Isonro river the Austrians have many thou s und s troops holding strongly fortified posi tions, where hard fighting te now tb progress. ? I faltan Submarine Sn nk. London, Juno 17.-It ls officially annouoced that the Italian submarine Medusa has been torpedoed and sunk by an Austrian submarine, say? a Rome dispatch to the Stefan!, agency. The Medusa ordinarily carried four teen men. rvs UNA 2CK TEfJ NCEONl FORM LEAGUETD ENFORCE PEAKE, FAFF PRESIDEN! ORGANIZATION PERFECTED YESTERDAY IN HISTORIC INDEPENDENCE HALL. WOULD USE FORCE TO BRING PEACE Beginning of World-Wide Move ment to Bring All Disputes to Peaceful End. Philadelphia. June 17.-Within the historic Independence Hall on the an niversary or the battle of Hunker HUI,, there was formed today an organiza tion whose object will bo made to pro* mote the creation of a league of na tions, with the view of preventing wars, or to at least lesson the possi bilities of armed conflicts. "Leugue to Enforce Peace, American Branch," waa the name adopted by the organi zation . Former President Taft was elected president; A long list of represent?' tice American citizens were' named permanent vice presidents. The con ference for the moot part was com posed of those who believe In trying to bring about pence.even though they hsve to use force. BODY IS FOUND Believed to Have Been Assaulted and Then Murdered By * Negro Man. Cincinnati, Ohio, June 17.-The body of eleven-year-old Elizabeth Nolie, missing since noon Tuesday, was found In the" rear yard of the .Volte farm here today. Her throat had been cut. The body was without clothing and was wrapped In a sheet. The police believe she had been assaulted and murdered. In report ing the disappearance of her daugh ter 'to the pul iee yesterday, Mrs. N'olte Bald a negro, had given candy to the child . Tuesday moraine and, that she teared he hal kidnapped her. COMMITTEE REPORTS O* MORAL CONDITIONS No Evidence to Justify That War Has Caused Increase in Illegitimacy. London,. June 17.-"No . advice available justifies the belief that wa; conditions have resulted In any ex ceptional Increase In illegitimacy," Is the coneiur.lon reached by a committee' of which the Arc:.bishop of York I? chairman, which .has been Investigaa ting the war babies questions. The report states that special tnqulrlen sixty-two towns and districts brought no confirmation of alarmist rumors concerning illegitimacy. It declared lt had been considered unnecessary to organizo special agencies to deal with ' tho problem. THREK ?Kr? APRR?TM? rou WREfKJX? TR UN ?i-o ftlrmln?linni. Ala., Jone 17.-Tut j* mon. W. fc. It^nry, Amos Smith and Ar hi,. Loo, v.ere arrested today ty H.llc? sn.l ra'.:cad detectives chnr^ td with lb^ Murder int ?fran-V-t.->n with ereefclng a Seaboard Air l.^-e railroad last passenger train narr hfTe just Wt'iiusday night, whet, thftrt ino? j?nele killed and ?ev? u\ passengers lu.rt. rite er .tfj.ted men, who are cbirctvit burners and ^..idlers, reside in toe vicinity where thc rall was roniovd.l fi ave the track, causing the wre.:k. :fM& '??SSBBBS?B?? BLE TONS' LEMBEG DRIVEN FOUR MILES INTO THEIR OWN TERRITORY TOWARD TARNOGRAD. REAL DANGER ALONG DNIESTER Berlin Claims Austro-Germ?n Ar? Within Thirty Miles of Galicien Capital. london. Juno 17.-Another twen ty-four hourn of fighting in Galicia ras developed nothing to stem the Au3tro-German advance toward Lem berg. Tonight Berlin claims the Russians are retreating over their own frontier toward Tarnograd, four miles from the Gallclan border. Thia meanes the invasion of Russian terri tory at a new point, but according to military experts the Teal danger tone from the Ru ??dan standpoint ta in tba Zurawana district and along the Dniester. According to Berlin the Austro G?rmans haye battered through Niem erow. thirty miles northwest of Lem berg and are advancing nearer the Galicien capital. British newspapers, while not min mixing the Importance of Austro-Ger man successes in Galicia, acclaim what is styled the Russian grand duke's strategy In Bb if ting his front from the north and south to north west and southeast. This, H ts as serted, haa deflected the Austro-Qer man blow to some extent, and- st the same time denied to thom s fell test of strength. The Russian retreat I? characterized hore aa strikingly paral leling the allies victory on the Marne. London, June 17.-German war campaign against the Russians is developing a violent attack In Russian Poland. At the sams tims the'Ger mans are pushing back the Russians in the Baltic provinces, while Aus tro-German forcea are performing : a similar task In Galicia. Official statement from Petrograd today admits that the Germana bars occupied additional villages near Shavll. in the Baltic region, but claims that the Russians have regained lost ground near Przaanynz. It is In. the vicinity of Przasnyss, which Uss north of Warsaw thttt the Germans are apparently making the most deter mined effort on the Polish front, al though the fortress Ossowetx Sf sui being attacked.) ~ The Galicien campaign haa reach ed a critical stage, bi view of con tinued Buccess ot tbs Austrian-Ger mans. . Petrograd'a communication says little c? the battle elong the Son, but'states that thc Russians have won some advantage In fighting 'further south In the Dniester region. In the western war region tbs air lies have resumed the offensive north of Arras. The French claim pro gress there, as well as south and southwest ot Souches and east of Lorette In the "Labyrinth." Official advices from the Italian army headquarters report the Italians as gaining advantages all along tho Austro-Itallan front, particularly In the Adlge valley, whioh lesds to Trent. On the Isonzo front where centert a battle for the possession of Trlest, Italian successes are also claimed. Turkish forcea on Gallipoli Penin sula have taken the offensive. Offi cial statement from Constantinople Bays heavy losses were inflicted on the French and British, but British. announcement here declare the Turks were, repulsed In sn attempt to recapture lost trenches. Accord ing to Constantinople reports a Tur kish, aviator has seen a British war ship of the type of the Agamemnon aground near the entrance to Dardan elles. Official denial waa mude here yesterday that the Agamemnon had been sunk. It waa expected that the munition cpntroveray will be settled today with the IntroductloA tn h* house of commons of a bill which bars com pulsory serries tn the manufacture of munitions, but provides for voluntary enlistment for auch work. ' These volunteers would be subject to military discipline with suspension of the usual trades union rules, and tho substitution compulsory arbitra tion for selling disputes. Regulation of war profit* ot em ployers la also contemplated In tha measure. London,. June 17.-Central News d!*pat:-h from Amsterdam today saja a-VS velor ;t^m Ghent, Beljlum, bringa report ?j at the inhabitants ?*1 Mallnor remited' last Tuesday and that TOO ctv.t'iu? were killed) by il??* man soldier*. Marers ?.< i ow said to have bren !fn:*:.d oy cn fieclrlfled wire fence. CorriM^unrtifct ?jay? there ia SM? COU ??> hatten of tho report.