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V- V. ANDERSON, S. C., SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 9,1915. ._._ Wt NUMBER 232. FRENCH REPORT SAYS GERMAN] LOSSjSJEAW VILLAGE OF HAUCOURT IS REPORTED TAKEN AT A GREAT SACRIFICE IMPORTANT GAIN Gemans Claim Capture of Town is of Great Strategic Value. (By Associated Press, i London, April ?1.-After a bombard ment of extrem? violence German in fantry entered the vllluge of Haucomt. lying in tho Avocourt-Bethlncourl sector, northwest of Verdun. Tiie French claim the first attacks were cheeked wita heavy losses, and although tho Germans gained a foot hold, the village ls .dominated by French guns' The dormans say the capture of the village is of great stra tegic importeoce. The ?French in turn took a largo section of Ger man positions north of Avocpurt, known us Square Woods. Tiie French drove the Germantj. back two hundred meters along a five hundred meter front south of Fort Dauamount , and repulsed a German assault on Po per Hill. Tho French announce thir ty-five German aeroplanes destroyed in March and only thirteen of the French. The German? are violently attack ing tho British at St. Eloi south of Ypres. Tlte British report the capture of the town of Felahle. "Mesopotamia, bringing General Lake's forces clos er to tho English, force beselged ot K n t-el-Amara.. The Spanls''..' cabinet of council has been called to consider the question of torpedoing J5panlsh yessols. FISKE WANTS CHANGE CONTRADICT DANIELS Chairman of Naval Committee, Though, Refuses to Develop - Any Controversy. (By Associated Press.) Washington, April ?1.-F.^ear Ad miral Flsko wrote thc house naval committee today asking that he be permitted to reappear before the committee to contradict some of Sec- I ?etary Daniels' statements. Chairman J Pudgett sahl the hearings had been dosed and be believed "a public in terest would be subserved" by an In quiry Into the controversy of FiBke and Daniels. Fiske recently reslg/. <id as aide of operations because of differences with Secretary Daniels. * Steamer Torpedoed. Queenstown, April ?-Tho British steamer Zent was* torpedoed without warn'ng west of Fastrtet. Forty-eU:ht of the crew vie? tniwln?. asd frs supposed to bo drowned. Two were killed. .Captain Martin and nine of the crow landed here. BOY SCARCELY QUILTY WHI IN FEDERJ Greenville. April fl.-Charlie Pen land, a young man about 21 years ot age, was found guilty ot violating the so-called Manu wthito slave act by a federal court Jury at, 1:30 o'clock this af i or noon. The court had talton re cosa for dinner hut Judge Johnson, tn order to vaccommodate the lawyers In the cane, remained in his chamber until the jury arrived at its decision. Sentence will be imposed later. ; Attorney' Wells, of Asheville, who waS) assisted hy ? James M. Price of Greenville in representing the defen dant, stated that It was the Intention of the defense to appeal from; the,de cision of the jury to tfte ci rem i t court ' of appeals. Numerous objection? - co various points of law were noted duri ing^tho trial,'bul Mr. Wells announced that tho theory ot the appeal / Would bc based mainly upon the motion hy the defense that tho Indictment be ?et aside on the grounds that the.act did not cover transportation by auto mobile but specified common carrier*. 'The.motion was presented at the ta? ginning .ol the trial but was Over-ruled by jjtdge Johnson. The noted exec?ttim, t>*ought about an interesting arid novel phase of" this< particular case ind it waa ari Issue cf j .v-: . ..- . . ...!. \ :\ * -'Uro; THE VOLUNTEER PROVISION IN BILL GETS BY FEDERAL PLAN RETAINED IN ' SENATE BY MARGIN OF TWO VOTES ANOTHER WARNING Senator Chamberlain Much Exer cised Over Activities to In fluence Legislation. < Hy Associated Press. ) Washington, April G.-The senate retained the federal volunteer pro vision in the army reorganization bill late today by a vote of thirty-six tn thirty-four, rejecting Senator Lea's amendment to strike out that section of the bill. The vote ended a four day debate on this section. Tile narrow margin by wi1.ich the federal volunteer provision was re tained makes lt doubtful that it will ho in the measure when finally framed by a conference committee of two houses. Without the republican suu por* the provision would have been voiul* out. Twenty-four democrats and ten republicans voted for the i".?e amendment. Nineteen democrats ano seventeen republicans voted against IL. Senator Chamberlain again warn ed the national guard and said il officers continued their activities to .influence legislation he would op pose further fed cen l aid for the mili tia. The federal volunteer section provides for the organization by con gressional districts of two hundred and sixty-one thousand volunteers wholly under control of tbe pre3i? dent, to." be trained In government camps.. tm[\ FEAR IfiHi IQ DiSIURBjUSIKESS Cattle' Raisers Tell Committee That Conditions Are Good and Oppose Interference. (By Associated Press.) Washington, April 6.-Five cattle raisers, residents of Indiana, Illinois, .Texas and Colorado, told the nous* judiciary sub-committee today that the cattle business is prosperous and that an investigation would disturb lt. The committee ls considering the Borland resolution to investigate tho packing Industry. K. C. Clay, cat tleman, artrlbuted *he raisers trou* bles chiefly to tneir own weakness for profits taking. The committee closed the hearing temporarily today without nctlon on the resolution. ' Xe American Aboard. Washington, April 6.-The Ameri can consul nt Havre reported that four nsr!shed in thc sinking cf t*vc Norwdeglan steamer Daua presumably by a submarine. No Americans were aboard. OF AGE FOUND TE SLAVERY iL COURT passing interest among the legal con tingent. . The youthful defendant was accucrd of transporting a girl from Asheville to Greenville, for immoral purposes, having brought her here In an auto mobile. Ho waa-formerly employed in an Asheville'garage'. The theory of the defense was th.-.t the girl requested Penland to. bring her to - Greenvale and that he waa not involved in *?,3- ?repense of. the trip. The govora.ment. eougbt to up set this theory and offered thc testi mony of Mrs. Lou Hart who kept a boarding h ou so r near Poe mill ii. which the couple were alleged to have stayed.' "" .Penland, who was pnt on. ths itand Wednesday _ afternoon, was a feature of his own* trill, and aroused as muo'i interest ns the testimony of the girl . Carrie pjoberte, who ? waa, sword earlier tn the afternoon.' She Irt'd the bl?m? .wholly upon Penland, while he In turn sought .tp contradict her statement, declaring thut hfe could not release himself from- th? girl's affections - and that ai thor rev; quest he ' *oro?gh t. her i to Greenville Miss .Roberts said. Penland induced ber coin? hero auder tho 'promise of marriage. The, Comedy Pira Clarence Kr;; ?'iii ld ll nilson. Clarence Reginald Hudson, allua Ernest Schiller, and several comic German names, captured the British freighter. Matoppo. single handed from Captain Bargner and his crew of fifty-six, Just outside of New York harbor. Taken, to New York be proudly, told detectives he nnd three A SHAFT FOR PlCKENS HERO Movement Begun to Raise Monu ment Fund for Late Fred Griffin. Pickenc, April tl.-It bas been learned that the people ot Ala) ama nre raising a fund to erect .< mou raient to the memory of Prod A. Griffin, t..e first Amerlcnn soldier to die In the defense of bis country when the (.Mexican bandits attacked Colum-j buy, N. M., several weeks ago. Although .Mr. Griffin enlisted tho army from Alabama and bis body was burled lhere, he was ia native !?f Plckens county, having baen born in Pi?k?ns town. an., his grandfather, Capt. James A. Griffin, a herd of tho Civil war and r< construction days, is a nntive of t ils county, and lives near ! Plckens. He also bas many other , prominent relatives In Plckens county. ? ? movement has been clarted In Plckens county to raise a fund in South Carolina to add to the Alabama fund for the erection of a monument ' to this young hero and no doubt many ! will bo glad of the opportunity to con tribute to such a fund. No one will be ured to contribute, but an oppor-1 : tunlty will be given all. The Idea ls ; not to have very large contribution ' from any one person, but for mnny personB to contribute a small ?imou.it ' each. Plckens county should have . many names on the list. Anyone .wishing to mako z contribu- 1 tion for the erection of the monu- ' ment may send tho money to The ' Plckens Sentinel, or to B. R. Griffin | Plckens, who will make a proper ac counting for lt and turn it over to the ;1 monument committee. . j' THBPE? FOR LYNCHERS IS SPEER PLAN s A (By Associated -Prese,) .? ij . Augusta, ? Ga., April 6.-.United;' j S ta tr'J J?dge Embry Speer, ' charging [i tMe federal grand Jory - here. t?daV.i blamed jadges> for lynchings i He"i said t^o Judges could ..uso'their, p'. tycr. to run I sb for contempt, nnd soo,i end i .a.?iy-jencss. He declared ir 'ederal 1 prisoners were molested he-would fil :\ ?he Atlanta penitentiary with lynch -___, - ronni AT BMOI; , Pres?itall?n nf ?Maa and-Ul? Soul" , HI th Francis X. Bnobmon. ; Today at the Bijou will be scon, . PraricW X. ?bAhman and Beverly Bayne In "Man, and His Soul."'This la said to bo one pt the best pictures: which has ever,:been , shown in An-' derson. Jt is. a five, act-; wonderplay;! In which sublimo allegpry and ea-?j pr erne drams form o ?parvelous cod trast. - j I te and His Victim Captain Harmer of tho ."dutoppo. friend*.1 had planned to board tito Cunard liner Pannonia and Bink Sier Di nea. When Hudson, whose lather is British and mother German, stui k his pistol In the faee of Captain Barg ner in the cabin of the Matoppo he said the master of the ship was al most as scared ns ho was himself. TALKS BY DR. WHITE BIG FEATURE Anderson Minitta* to Close Each Morning Session Sunday School Convention. (S.pedal to The Intelligencer.) Spartauburg. April 6.-Prominent nien and .women from every section nf South Carolina will he on the pr> grnm for the annual convention * of the State Sunday Schcol association in Charleston .May 4 au J ?>. Some- of these who will take Im portant parts on tho program are Mayor T. T. Hyde,' of Charleston, Prof. R. C. Burts, of Hock Hill: Dr. B. H. DeMent,. of Greenwood; Dr. John E. White, of Anderson; Hov.. A.' E. Drlggers, ot Aiken; Sonator Charlton DuHant. of Manning; Bishop W. A. Querry of Columbia; J. T. Pain, of Rock Hill; FJ>V. M. R. 1 Murchison; Lieutenant Governor Beb'.iea; W. C. OWon, Mrs. S. N Hurts, of Spartanburg and many oth ers. This will bo the frist convention that Dr. John H. White, of Ander son, lias attended since he came to Anderson to become pactor of the Elrst Baptist church since tho last convention was held. Dr: White was rormerly pastor of tho Second Bap tist c?urch in Atlanta and was con sidered one of the most prominent divines in that city, life sormon .?t the Baptist convention in Greenville tns'l fall was considered tho ftature ??f tho convention. ? Dr. Wlilte is on tho program of thc Sunday School convention several times. In fact each morning session of the convention will close with "one half hour with the Bible by Dr. WHite" Mrs. S. N. Burts of Spartanburg, will also take an important part In the convention. She will preside ov ar tho elementary conference and will talk on "Training Through the Story.' She will also conduct the cradle roll conference. The convention theme UIIB year is "Increase." Prof. R. C. Burts, su perintendent of the Rock Hill graded BO'JOOIS, will speak ta this subject at the opening session of the convention. One of the great features of the convention will ho tho service of song which will open each session. This service will bo led by Charlie D. Tillman, which Is siffficlent to con vince nil that lt will bo a. treat. . The. people of Charleston are muK Ing. preparations for fie largest at tendance in tbs history of the as? Elation.. 1 ? Sexton a Suicide. ! New York. Aorll G-'Phillip G.- WaK ter,.63 years old, BOXtop of tho old Si. Paul's Cathedral formal years, today l.vpged himself from the stairway leading to tho belfry. Be recently complains that ho was ' tiring of the monotony of the. position. His-hotly was- dIs?Oi*fi*ed' by -.n^''assistant whn found a note Instructing'tho'finder to clinch tp^tho.room undfrjtl*e..belfry,, Evidence That Germany Other Vessels Carrying New Seems Conclus! President Wilson a si;ig in Co (By Associa Washington, April (>.-Hor the Europe, Colonel E. M. House visite (erred with President Wilson and lined to make a statement. lt was learned tonight that the a.id Colonel Mouse discussed recei representatives on the submarine si in England, investigating the exph vex reported that metal fragments (tem?an torpedo. With this fact c the gravest situation since the war I tonight, however, that no definite s replied to the United States' inqu Manchester Engineer, and Eagle Pc oL?NELB? ON A HOT THE BA Commander of Tenth Cavalry Rcpt Are Now Headed South-Secre Possible Withdrawal of (By Associated Press.) San Antonio. April C.-A report from Colonel W. C. Brown of tho Tenth cavalry, received at Fort Sam Houston tonight, indicated thrt he believed Villa has fled to the Guerrero diBtr.ct and is proceeding BOttth. l?rown's report was 6ent from Cu='. hulrachle, west of Chihuahua City, t^o days ago. Brown Bays ho ls pursuing Slot; trail. ' Brown referred to ano'her Bkirmlrn April first with one hundred and Tilly Villa men in which three Mext Icans were killed. According to rail road reports reeotved at Tucson Arlz : ona tonight three Americans and one I Spaniard were killed by bauditB near Rosario, Slnaloa, Mexico. Ri PLANS OF P0S? AT FORT OGLETHORPE ON A GEORGIA NEGRO i ?. (By Associated Press.-) Macon. Ga., April 6.-Prints pur porting to bo army plans for tho proposed brigade post at Fort Ogle thorpe, Georgia, near Chattanooga, were found today by recruiting oPi cors on a negro here. The negro said a white man gave them to him. \ IN CONGRESS \ I (By Associated Presa.) Washington, April 6.-The senate met at noon. Resumed discussion on the army reorganization bill. Voted ddvvn thirty-six to thirty-foun Lee amendment to eliminate the federal volunteer provision of t'-.e army bill. Recessed at five-fifty to noon" to morrow. Jj House: Met at eleven o'clock. The meat packers appeared before, the. judiciary sub-comralttee to oppose the Borland inquiry resolution' They continued debate on the'rivers and harbors appropriation bill.' Pe tes H ed at flve-thtrty to eleven tomar lo W. ?> j Y.0RRI8 BAftfc PL.VN Sr. Lee ii. Hollemcn Chairman of Organisation Committee ! A plan In underfoot'to_establish n' Morris bank plan in Anderson and; f/lr. Lea G. Hollernun, chairman of. the . organization committee, has been con - terring <wlth . Messrs. Jes;' H?yt. and Arthur 3.-: Morris in Greenville' about the mi uer. Nothing definite. has yet been decided upon. ] jj Torpedoed Sussex arid : American Passengers ive-Colonel House, nd Secretary Lan nference. ited Press) third time since his return from d the White House today and con Secretary Lansing. Lansing de president, members of the cabinet tit reports from American foreign tuation. American naval attaches >sion of the channel steamer Sus found bore distinct marking of a onceded the United State is facing legan. It was said authoritatively tep would be taken until Germany liries on the Sussex, Englishman, ?int. IOWN IS TRAIL OF NDIT VILLA >rts Rapid Pursuit of Outlaws, Who iary Lansing Deifies Rumor* of Troops From Mexico. Washington, April G.-Secretary Lansing denied luto today the persis tant rumors ttiat American troops might he withdrawn from Mexico shortly regardless of developments in the hunt for Villa. Secretary Bake" also indicated (?lat there is no inten tion of changing original orders given Ceneral Funston. While trainload of supplies, shipped to .private concerns, wont to Casas Grandes headuuai ters today. Secretary Baker indicated that the motor truck lines will continue to be the main artery of supplies. The Btate department la investigat ing alleged activities in Mexico ol Hersa von der Goltz, a German spy. Tho reported revolution of Felix Diaz is-also receiving attention. CRISP WANTS TO HEAD DYE FAMINE Atlanta, April C.-Congressman Orlr.p cf Georgia has called attention in congress to the necessity of some legislation to relieve the dye famine. The democratic member* of the ways and means committco held a conference and agreed to report a bill, urged by President Wilson, creat ing a tariff commission, Congressman (MBP, at this confarence, urged kant. leguv'atJon should be passed, which would cause dyCB to be manufactured In this country, and whlcn involved tro welfare of thousands of people. lacreasen Allowed. . Washington, April G-Increases of i five to ten cents a ton for freight on j coal from Alabama, Kentucky, Ten-1 nesseo and Illinois mines to Jackson, j Wattiesburg, ElHsvilla. Laii-el and Enterprise, Mississippi, wen- author ized by the interstate commorce com mission. "PEACHES" AND LEAD SCOU: TRAIL O , (By Associated Press.) Columbus. X. M,,'April 6.--Twenty ) Apache Indian scouts prepared herc tonight to'cross the border tomorrow to join General Pershing's command at Sau Geronimo ranch to trail Villa. Thirty years ago four of the twenty made a similar trip Into Mexico to assist'th?-United States; to capture an other outlaw, Geronimo, war cblef of the Apaches. Tio arrival of "Poaches", premier scout and trailer of tho Apaches; Ss awaited to make the -party: complote. "Peached' was far in the'mountains when a call ?&nt out. for Apache . ". ..>.?..-..-> . jj . : ;?. TH?S AMOUNT ACCEPTED AS PART RIVERS AND HAR BORS EXPENSE MEASURE HELD UP Fight Made on Appropriation Bili -Whaley and Lever Ask $175,000. (Hy Asnas!; toil Press',) Washington. April .'>.- Highly Ibou ? antl dollars for improvements tu !i ? Charleston Inn bor and n million do - InrB for thc Norfolk un! Beaufort in In nd wuterv.ny nrojocl was accepted ns ? art of the nnniml rivers hud har-; 1er: spproi'vlnt'cn bil! i:i Un? hon-e today. Sevenly thoutand dollars ol the Charleston appropriation will bo for a aea channel and ten thounnnd for thc Ashley river. T?o passape of the measure W?IH not in Bight wMMi the house adjourned, na lt is inoetlrt}'. vigoioun opposition. Representatives Whaley and Lever, of South Carolina, attempted unsuc cessfully to iueref>''u the Charleston appropriation to one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollnrs as a nu do H ul def euee proposition. GRFENWOOD1FETING A, ft P. PRESBYTERY Announcement Made of Week End Session That Will Be . gin This Morning. Announcement baa been made of a meeting of the Second Presbytery ot' tho Associate Reformed Precbyterlnn church with the congregation at Ibo Greenwood church at ll o'clock thia morning. April 7th. The session will continue through 'Monday. The mcd erator's sermon will bo fi ell vere I 1 v the Rev. E. B. Kennedy nf t/'.ie facul ty of Frsklnc college A conference on soul warning under, the direction of Rev. J. P. Dnlo wiU re a feature of tho meeting. The chief busincsB of the session ls in connection with finances' nud session al records, it was said. , Mr. G.. P. McConnell and Dr. J. M. Garrison will represent the Anv dcrson congregation. Dr. Garrison will return hore Sunday for the reg i lar services In his church. i PROPOSED RULE WOULD BAR FIGHTING ASHORE BY THE BLUEJACKETS Washington, April fi.-Admiral Hen son, nf the naval advisory. board, fans recommended to the bouse commit)co j ou naval affairs that legislation !.?.?? .enacted prohibiting bluejackets \ from participating in fighting nBhore, us nt Vera Cruz nud Tiny tl. The United States marines'* alone should take caro of al) land opera!loi:s In the admiral's opinion, for tho offi cers nnd men of the tiarinc corni .'lave been well-trained for tbe du'y and thoroughly understu.id bow lo take caro of themselves under tire, The legislation, if enacted, mil i>'>r prevent sailors from participating 'n land operations at times of extremo necessity. German tMJont. Parla, April 6-A German s?lnui rlne was sunk yesterday by a ?<tin??l" ron.of French and .'B'itlsh wnrRhi.>i the ministry of Marino announced lfl-lt night.. Tho crew was captured. "CHICKEN ' WILL r BAND ON F VILLA scouts' and ho Ms now riding hard to reach the border. "Peaches*, with an other scout barley, captured Geroni mo when he escaped from the United States eoldlera and went on tho w.ir path the second Mme. .,' The ranking officer of tho; band I(J Bakanbdcaie, bettor known na "clilck exi." Tho organization la known na Apache scouts and enlisted like Philip pine scouts. Tho wireless south of Colonia nul lan failed today., ?General /Por?hJnfc was unable to maleo reports" of Ntroopj> movement-s in Guerrero. .'Qttly u?o** f(blal and conflicting reports re acned the^rdaif..