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turn VOLU1 ANDERSON, SC WEDNESDAY MORNING AUGUST 25, 1$15. MI niDBB ?A* OF AMERICI BRITISH I RELAXES TENSION WHICH ! WAS APPARENT IN OF FICIAL CIRCLES BERNSTORFF AND LANSING CONFER German Ambassador Also Asks Thai U. S. Reserve Judgment Until Facts Are Known. ' Washington, Aug. 21.?Relaxation of the tension growing out - of the German submarine sinking the Brit ish liner Arabic with a losa of " two Ar arican lives was felt.here tonight after the German ambassador had , communicated to the state department hlB government's regret and sympathy if American lives were lost. It is reported the German ambassa dor will discuss the matter personal ly with Secretary Lansing. The am bassador also asked jhat the United States roservo final Judgment^ until Germany is able to gather the facts and indicate', that the British version might not prove true. Officiais said Unit of course tho United States would await Germany's side before making a decision. Washington,. Aug. 24.?Germany through Ambassador Bernsturff today asked the United States not to take a.final slaud on the sinking of the Arabic until all 'the facts are known. It la the first word from Germany since the disaster. . BernstorJL wired tho state department the request made in the answer of his government, lie added that the German admiralty had not been able .to get'a report-on tho sinking. One overnight cablegram from Am bassador Page, London, brought some additional information. Officials how ever stated that the evidence is still too fragmentary and the government must await further, details before an* nounclng Its stand. One high official said it would probably be two or three days. Berlin/Auf. 24.-*f?o further de tails of the sluk!ng_of the Arabic by a, submarine have been published here. The Berlin papers do not com ment on the situation. What pur ports to be ? brief dispatch to the ] ondon Telegraph quoting Secretary Tumulty saying Americans are unitedly with the president and will If necessary offer .their lives to main tain the Inalienable rights of Amer icans on land and sea. The Kreuz Zeltung says: These inalienable rights. as known consist of. uslug British passenger, steamers. . Several papers . published tho Arabic manifest on her trip from New York beginning July 20 as con tained in tho report of the German American chamber of commerce of ?<ew York tbiB report says the Arabic "which was painted like ;* bat tleship had. twelve Americans ' as guardian angels aboard." Tho Lokol ?nttelger says this re port shows the Arabic was equipped for battle and therefore, was not to be considered as a harmless mer chantman, vl; The Tages Zeitung heads the Lon don Telegraph dispatch with the line "Wllson's- Secretary Threatens." TURKS CLAIM ALLIES LOSING S^r. Two Attacks Resulted in Heavy Losses By British Forces. Amsterdam, Aug. 24.-?An official Turkish statwesut received here to day says: "On Aigust 22 tho enemy attacked on hla now front near Anna farta, on Galllpoll Peninsula, but was repulsed with heavy losses'." On the Irak front the Turks attacked the British dt*achmont on the Euphrates, inflicting heavy losses." ARRANGE FREI OF TWEN Wer York, Aug. 24.?Brown Broth ers and company tonight announced that arrangements for a twenty mil ??^n dollar French commercial ex port credit had been chmpl;>ted sod the credit Issued. It was announced ImBHwaTCal 115 LOSS INS ABOARD IIP ARABIC FAVORS SIMPLE RULE M STATE Idaho Governor, in Address Be , fore Conference, Urges Eiirni [ nation of Useless "Boards" and More Power for Executive. Boston, Aug. 24.?Governors from nearly a score of states, attending the annual Governor's Conference here, today adopted and sent to President Wilson resolutions of confidence and support. Boston, Aug. 24.?Simplification of state governmental machinery was ad vocated by Gov. Moses Alexander, of [Idaho, in his address before the Gov-' i ernors* Conference here today. He j favored the "short ballot" elimination j of. useless state boards and commis sions, and vesting more power in the [ exccutlvo departments of the states. "There must be absolute responsi bility fixed somewhere," Gov? Alex ander nald. "Whlle it may seem good to the electo** *o have a'long ballot and to vote >i a candidate for every office, tho real is that Ute respon sibility is .^)d from the practical head? of institutions and government to the minor and subordinate offi cials^, which are merely cogs in the wheel of government and not the di recting power. "It is essential that the executive department of tho state'government should be clothed with more power and more responsibility and held di rectly amenable to the people. What ever power is vested in the executive department a check could bo had upon the executive -through what Is com monly known as the recall, so that where a bad government Is selected by electors H can be corrected by them. "Boards and commission' ?:o often so constituted that they thwart the will of the executive and of the poo pie. They arc requently created for tbc purpose of aiding some particular interest and not to serve the general welfare. They give some special or ganization an opportunity to partici pate in the administration of public tiff tiirs* "With the short ballot abd with the people made fully cognisant that they' wove voting for a business manager as well as for an executive head, even it it were necessary to vote for two of three other executive department officers a workablo ' government, would result, but executive power must bo centered somewhere to bring efficiency and economy. The short bal lot will bring this about. "Tho placing of a larger appointive authority in the bands of a responsi ble official who ci?n be made ** dly answerable to the people increases, rather than decreases the power of tho electorate to express Its will. How often has it happened that tho peo ple have madn an'apparently suc cessful fight upon some issue through the election of an official whoso office was such as to Command their atten tion and whose duties and powers wore supposed by them to bo such as to enable him to accomplish for them the things they desired accomplished, only to find themselves blocked by some other official elected by them selves at tho very same time but Whoso position was believed to bo SO Insignificant as not to merit their at tention and therefore, did not receive It. "I believe in the right of the people that that will, having beep-expressed, should be carried into effect. I there fore, believe in enlarged powers for those officials whose positions demand and receive public attention and a les soned power for tho?o Officials-whose positions do not receive due attention from the voters, and hence, t favor the removal from the ballot of all names whosi* presence- can accomplish nothing bat to confuse." VCH CREDIT TY MILLIONS that the purpose Is to enable Ameri can exporters to get Mid is dollars In tho United States thus eliminating any risk of exchange and- facilitating exports. Preparations are belog made to ar range a British loan. ^^^a^a^a^aB United States Ar -?3? - If the Mexicans really intended, as has bnen declared to raid Brownsville, they h?ve now lost their opportunity. < OFEAB Reports From Constantii Don't Need Aid of Bal Fight Against Austria! EAustro-Germans Aimin siv'e Indefinitely. JLond?U3- Aug. . 2i_?.O|)tlm 1 st ic re ports concerning Galllpoll operations for the past few days and prophesies are freely made that a few weeks will see the close of the allies' most dif ficult task in the near east. Tho Turks, too, expect Anglo-French c\u> cess, it he new reaching Sofia from Constantinople Is reliable. Tho allies feel they don't need the aid of tho Balkan states In the Dar danelles operations, but do want them to help fight Austria. Serbia's de cision ou the allies' proposals for sat isfying Bulgaria's aspirations is ex pected tomorrow. It is believed here that Serbia will grant the necessary territory thus assuring the allies ot Bulgaria joining with them. This would open the way for Rumania to Join the allies. Fiumanla wants assurances that' Bulgaria will not attack her before she commences to move her troops. It Is confidently expected that all these questions, will be settled satisfactorily I to the allies, and .that within the same period the Greek's policy, will be announced definitely. The announce ment of Serbia's decision, however. Is not expected to bo unnounced for several days. li^m H^iJffeqnwhilc tho Austro Gcrnia'Js are aiming more heavy blows- at Russia With the bopo of putting her on the defensive indefinitely, --thus permit ting the removal of Teutons to other fronts, particularly Serbia.and Italy. The Russians are offering stiff re OVERCOME BY SMOKE ~ -ON HORSE ?BEN SHIP ? in I .1 Analo-Cnlifornian Had Aboard Thousand Horses Consign ?d to Awes. Montreal, Aug. 24.?Fifty men, moatUy city firemen, were overcome by smoke today while conquering a fire of unknown origin, aboard the, British steamer AhglorCalifornian, which had a thousand horses aboard for shipment to tho allies. . Author Passes. Buffalo, Aug. 24.?Charles Austin Fojdlck, 72 years of ago, died at Ham burg, N. Y., Sunday, alt. Foadlck, under the name ot - "Harrys TCastlc men,H wrote many hooka of adventure for boys. .? Trawler Sloksi Three Lest. London, Aug. 24,- Three perished in the sinking of '-. Hull trawler k' .Tas unnounced today. Mine others of the crew were saved. lyautflsee ta San. Washington, Aug. 24.?5Ri? crul .or Tennessee with 350 marines will t>alt tor southern waters? from Phil adelphia Friday. Destination probably will be Haiti. my Troops to Pri Tola photograph Allows the arrival in Brownsville of thfe Twenty-sixth In fantry, ready fcrpc.lon. Since these --.-- : i? ?ANELLE lople Indicate Turks Exp ikan States in Dardanelle is?Favorable Action By ! g Heavy Blows in Effort I sistance. At. almost ovcry point In the Baltic provinces", tfho Austro-Ger I nans-claim progress on all sides ot Brest-Litovsk, as well as other ad vances. Paris reports much artillery ac tivity both in Belgium and in Prance. Thero has also been heavy fighting in Vosges but no changes are report ed. A report from Switzerland says Germany is preparing .tu send addi tional troops and supplias to Al ,?ace. A statement from an authoritative British source Bays Germany on July 31 had one million eight buudred thousand on the eastern front, while Austria had a million, one hundred and twenty thousand fighting aguiunt Russia. It goes on to State that while it estimated Germany cor.'d raise ! eight or nlno million men, it is not believed she can arm and keep up more than what is nov/ the total or .both fronts, estimates Germany's total casualties to the end of June I at one million six hundred and seven I ty-two thousand men, of whom three hundred thousand were killed, fifteen thousand died of disease a.\d the. oth ers'are missing, wounded and pris oners. .London. Aug. 23.?The latest de tails of tho Riga naval L>ttlo have nol cleared the situation. Petrograd dis patches indicate that tho. Germans in et with a Bcvere reverse though of t . ?~t-t ?! - j Thousands of Women, Children, Civilians, Veterans and Wound ed Cheer Von H?llweg. Berlin. Aug. H4.?(By WirclcB-j to I Tucker ton.)?The Overseas News Agevcy announces that thousands of {persons of all classes gave a patriotic demonstration before - the home of I Chancellor Von Hcthmann Hblwcgg In [drder to show their approval or the Reichstag's, act in passing tho war loan demanded by the government. There were men. women, and children [of civil lifo, and hundreds of wounded 'soldiers home from the. iront, as woll many veterans ot th? Franco-Prus ulan war. ! BITMAP'A READY j* Ixmdon. Auk. 24.-It is re ' ported here that Romania has ordered that all railway roll- -if ' Ing stock In the- kingdom bo * placed at the disposal of the minister of war by September fourteenth. ? * ?*? * ? a************ i rtect Brownsville Itroops have reached the scene tho raids by Mexican brlganUs on the border have decreased in uumber. 5tic :essin P fight ect Allies to Win?Allies s But Want Them to Join Serbia Expected Today? to Place Russia on Defen . : . \T X ' ' - I.' tidal Berlin reports are silent. Tho. Russians state that additional cruis ers tnuct be added to those reported sunk or put out of action. Whether the German battle cruiser attacked by a British submarine was sunk remains to be told. Tho Petrograd official report merely says that she was torpedoed. Except far the the marine ministry j report from Paris concerning, the sinking of a German patrol boat off Ostend which Berlin admits, no offi cial hews has been received of the ro su'ij of the allied bombardment of the German positions on the Bel-, glan coast. Tho Russian armies have not stop* r<-d the Austro-German advance al though they are stubbornly contesting every step. Severo encounters con tinue between. Brest and Lltovsk but the Baltic campaign is making little progress, although a decisive stroke ! there by con Uindeuburg has been long expected. As in the western front, except j far an infantry attack 1 nthe stages where the French claim to have won some German trenches, the warfare is marked by comparatively lneffect- ! ual artillery, bomb and mine com bats. Berlin, Aug. 31 .?(Wireless to Say- j ville.)?The German admiralty an nounces that a German submarine torpedo sunk a Russian auxiliary ship at entrance of the Finland gulf. EASTMAN KODAK CO. DEOLAREDJiQNOP?LY Decision by Judge Haze! of U. 9. District Court Save Illegal Monopoly Exists. Buffalo, Aug. 24.?The Eastman Kohak company of Rochester, is held to be a -monooly in restraint of trade In violation of tho Sherman anti-trust law. In a decision today by i Judgo John R. Hasel of the United States district court. The decision grants the company an opportunity to present plans '"for, the the abrogation of the illegal monoply" on tho first, day of the November icrm. Judge Hazel stated that while It appeared that no irremediable hard ship would result from a separation of the present business into two or more separate companies, it was net in tended now to Indicate either a dis solution division or reorganization., MarnwIJae in till Mining. New Orleans, JLal, Aug.-. 24.?The United Fruit company had no word today of the h%te of ' the steamer Marawfljne. eight days Overdue from Belse. A wireless yesterday said that steamers searching the ; Cuban coast found no trace of tho missing ship. OVER MORGAN Spartanburg Man Elected to Con gress for Unexpired Terra of Judge Johnson?Carried Three Out of Four Counties. Greenville Aug. 24.?WHh nil save eight boxes in the Fnurlh Con gressional District heard iront and with a total vote of 18,573 accounted for Sam J. Nichols of Spartanburg appears to have defeated B. A. Mor gan of Greenville by a majority of 4G7.vote8. The boxes outslandl-.<; aro small and there Is little likelihood that the vote will bo materially al tered . Nichols carried Spartanburg, Union and Laurens counties while Morgan carried Greenville. The vote by counties Is as follows: Greenville, two boxes missing, Morgan 4,292; Nichols 8,145; Laurens, four boxes mlsBlng Nichols 1.473; Mfrgnn 1,131; Spar tanburg, two boxes missing. Nichols 4,583; Morgan 2,699; Union, complete Nichols 1,319; Morgan 991. Greenville L?gislative Ituce. In the Greenville county l"jtisla tivo race J. Terry Wood, an advo cate of. the $950,000 bond issue de feated Marvin R. Reese, opponent of the bonds, by a majority of 669. The congressional, race was for the seat vacated by Jos. T. Johnson, re signed. In Greenville county the'legislative race wa sto fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Allen R. flaw kins. KAIIIEHS REFDtf TO [RECOGNIZE PRESIDENT Inform Admiral Caperton Na tives of Northern Section Will Support Bobo. Washington, Aug. 24.?Virtually all the natives In north Haiti refuse to recognize Presldjnt-Blect Dartl guenave ari will support General Bobo. General Morenel one of the revolutionists, told Admiral Caper ton, according to a dispatch to the navy department. The admiral cabled that the Inter view with Moreno! was without de finite result. No open threats against Americans, but Morenst p.*oinl?ed nothing beyond ossuranc?c that na tives will bo allowed to enter the village for marketing. Most' of the revolutionists aro gath ered near Cape Hatrieu. NATURAL GAS MAINS BROKEN Little Rock, Pine Bluff and Other Arkansas, Towns Without Gas Because of Flood. Little Rook, Ark., Aug. 24.?-Little Rock, Pine Bluff, Hot Springs and a number of smaller towns will be wHh oit natural gas tomorrow as a result of a break of the main caused by the flood. Newport, on the White river, Is inundated say the dispatches. Vir tually all the Inhabitants aro account* ed. Reports that five were drowned in SP oll trough bottom near Newport are denied. ^iy--? ^-r",r-rfr-rV?'y?ir^ri-rYB rV^ DIDN'T ADVISE DECLARE i Washington, Aug. 34.?The Chinese legation Issued.a statement today de claring that Dr. Frank J. Gocdnow. the American .adviser to President YY ;t Sbl Kal did hot advise the pres ident to become emperor, but that In an academical discussion of the mat BH^MflnTa^Mnfflilftlr^^ JUEST FAILS IDENTITY OF INCHED FRANK t JURY DECIDED FRANK WAS LYNCHED BY UrYCNOWN PARTIES VERDICT REACHED IN FEW MINUTES One Man Admitted Seeing: Men in Automobile But Didn't Rec ognise Any of Them. Marietta, Ga.. Aug. 24.?The corn* oner'B inquiry here today brought no testimony relative to the identity of the mon who lynched Leo M. Frank. The verdict was that Frank was lynched by unknown parties. J. A. Benson, a local merchant, testified passing some mon in an automobile and il aw the lynchers leaving their cars near the tree where Frank was hnnged, but recognized none. Marietta, Aug. 24.?"Frank came to his death by hanging at the hands of parties unknown." This was tue ver dict of the coroner's Jury here this morning. .They heard eleven witness es. There was no cluo of the Iden tity of tho mob elicited and the ver dict was given three minutes after the Jury retired. County :md state otliclals testified and endeavored dili gently to got the facts. Their efforts are so far unavailable as these tangs arc kept nrettv closo, and are hard to fnd out sad Mayor Doch*. Deputy Sheriff 1 licks of CoBb county sad City Msfiha) I.ion ay stated they wer? working bard on the caso but could not throw auv light on the Identity of tho lyncncr??. The near est disclosure was mgd-i by J. A. Ben son, a Marietta merchant. He drove by Fr?y'?( going soon after the lynchers .topped there cars by (be roadside and ted Frank to a cesth. ueo. Ho said he had a pretty good Idea ot what wa? going on. Ho did not stop in the t.lly and. did nut recognise anyone. W. J. Frey In v 'tore woods tho body a>as found was oi'/ing in the fieit near ir.e tree whKi: three of fou' maehlnrs passed g?:?ij! fast. His brother had tele phoned that Fran*, was taken from tho p'ion farm. Fray tnought be saw Frank in the back of one ma tili .e and ha?(.>ni"i to the house and atier breakti . i ?'r?.{s to Marietta. 'I? went to the eeia^tSry wk?.r0 Mcr> Phagan w .s burled. Nothing ' tit there and hit returned to M??l et*a tnd mot Benenn, wh?? told h|m the rvutomobl'. t'.rned into l?i3 TO'i? Ile drove to lli/? grove and '.nuu'i -he body. L?i. C D ' Eller tSs tlflcil that arrivi!,;, at the seme tho l?-.?y was still warm Half a down pc.Kle were thete 'At 1 * if. fc.?w any.Mng about tl?e> lynching. Thd ?ltsr persons he ?av/ were two news piyo: men runn ug I'i :n the wood?. Or W. M. Kemp testified that Fra:?k .?? d of stran?ui?...ion. .1. Hnrtwing, of Oohb comity, . commissioner was amr' < th'i first tr roach tub body. M l>ncw iiothl.i>; of t;?c tr.Vnglt'g- Ke ' r.-l ic sita r.o.'trM miM.n i?.?:** en l.e K^BOweU r.'ipu -;. tm- ?tr?i - ii mi of MarleUa vh*,vo 6:30. and 7:00 In the n?prnioj5. EX-PRES. TAFT WARY OF "SUFFS" Declined to Receive Party From Congressional Union at Hotel in Portland. Oregon. Portland, Oregon, Auk. 24.--That 'former (President Taft declined to re ceive a party of cougresyional union suffragirita at the hotel here yester day becomo known today. A dozen women sent word that they wanted to lav before him tli*>ir propa ganda. Prof?saer Taft sent word that the schedules ftr tho day's engage meats were full and he could not pos sibly receive them. ; SHI KAI SELF EHPEROR tsr, Dr. Goodnow said a monarchie, form of government would, be better for China than the republican. Me did not say whether this was the pro per tfme for such a change. Mali reporta roaching here Indicate that efforts are being made to perfect the republican form ot government.