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VOL. 2.J. NO. 70. SEMI-1
p THE TEUTONS HAVE
LOST THEIR SPIRIT
Ihev Now Waver and Halt in
the Face of the Allies'
m Hot Fire.
ITALIAN OFFENSIVE FAILS]
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The Battle Has Gone Miserably
Against Austrians and Allies'
Line is Being Held Firm AM
f Along Front.
& Tito Teutonic allies apparently
havt> lost their spirit of <lo-or-die.
Their atta ks everywhere iptely have
lacked *the tenaciousness of days
V gone by.
* Instead of ploughing through al/
A lied lines with stubborn indifference
Ik? to casualties so long as an objective
V was^gained. they "now waver and
thcji halt in .the face of the artillery
and .rifle (Ire of the men barring
their \yiy.'and with the points they
were trying to gain still far beyond
their reach.
Attritions attempts by the troops
of t|\e central powers in the past few |
woeks haVe p'ro.ven th ;s. Tho opening
of a gateway to Paris through
the western front. running from
Montdidier 'trj,*r Marne, failed oomph
tely; tbp^,rfensive on the Italian
liatt'e line launched by the Austrians
seVmiPgly has failed miserably in the
mountain regions and apparently has
almost been stopped along the Piave.
while a Stroke started by, th<*vGernians
against Rheims broke down in
Its Inception without the enemy tak..
ing a yard of territory.
And in these varied attempted enterprises.
the higher command of the
* German and Anstro-Hungarian arW
mies have seen their men literally
mowutddown until fields have been
clogged with dead or wounded as recompense
to the allied troops for
*? the small bits of terrain they yielded.
Tho Austrian offensive in the
Italian theatre is still in progress
along the Piave river but in th1
mountain region after tho sharp reaction
bv the Italian. Pritish and
Frenc h troops,, who in counter-attacks
puBhed^brfck the invader from
the points he had attained in his initial
rush, the eneuiy evidently is
fearful of attain trying out the mettle
of the defenders. ,
On Hhe Piave numerous attempts
have been made by th<- *Austriatls ta
, gay^ further bridgeheads on the
western lunik of the'stream but the
Italians everywhere are holding
them with their gunfire and also doing
sanguinary execution within the
? ranks of the enemy across the river
with bombs and machine guntlre.
k The Austrian war office asserts
that the Austro-Hungariun troops
have crossed the Possetta canal at
' some points where Tuesday it was
, claimed they had made advances and
also that several Italian lines at the
southern foot of the Montello plateau,
the key to the Venetian plain,
have been pierced. Home, on the
other hand, declared that all the
v. weak attempts made In the Montello
region were completely repulsed.
More than 9,000 men have been
taken by the Italians since the of-j
fenslve began and many guns and
several hundred machine guns have
been captured. That Intensive an
lighting has also taken place I*
shown by the fact that fifty enemv
planes have been shot down Only
two-or* three allied machines have
I to return to their base.
o,0tv^fc?tta?kB ?' near
w f ' resulted disastrously to
wl,' |o <ou'Mnardly had tfiey^hM't their j
V f%>mnt>lfwrn after one of the most term
' aT mimbardnrients with shells of all I
calibres, including gas projectiles,
| fl ^%\-er experienced on the western
Vj^yJ front, nearl^^y.000 men were faced
tV~ \by the Aelnforced French armies and
* WeTmHy^Cut?to pieces and forced to
% ^11 ba^it b?eelpltatedly. Only at
Jr Ae point, tif the east, of Ithdins. did
* JL] enemy succeed in penetrating
JnF French line. Here they were
almost Immediately The
4 official communication deI
, /the attack as a demonstration
* V mine throwers ^
't - y sjpumha^ of jyonien fat tor*
Michigan ha* ra< than.
\V itPIL^aast yeaif aecor ,ing to
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iR SAVINGS STAfl
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WEEKLY.
WOMEN OF COUNTY ARE
SELLING WAR STAMPS
< 'oiipiiiltoes \pointed in Kacli
School District Are Hard
at Work.
The following school districts
have been visited l>y Mesdanies
Perry, Crawford ??nd Taylor and
teams have been nrcani/.ed to work
up the pledges for sale of War
I Savings stmaps:
ltiifnr<l School District.
Miss Lily Usher, Captain.
Workers: Mrs. W. A. I.ingle, Miss
I Ellen Porter, Miss Myrtle Thompson,
Miss Maude Catties. Mrs. P. < . Neal
Camp Creek School District.
Mrs. Hirchel Plyler, Captain.
Workers: Mrs. Sain ltobertson.
Miss Jtachel Steel, Miss Bessie Steele.
Miss Janie Hoberstsou, Mrs. Robt
Williams.
Unity School Distri<-t. '
Miss Adelaide Nelson, Captain.
Workers: Mrs. W. W. Boyee
Miss dOvelyn Mellow, Mrs. 10. E. McCain,
Miss Martha Neal.
Zion?laekson,,..i. School District.
Miss Ethel \fc.Murray, Captain.
Workers: Miss Nannie Todd
Mrs. J. I> Nesbitt, Miss Bertha McMow,
Miss Essie Cllenn, Miss Ivah
Huejjj
Mew Bethel Scliool District.
Miss Mat tKiti'i ite Sapp. Captain.
Workers: Mrs. Fttrman Plyler
Miss Louise Sapp, Miss Leola Sapp,
Miss Ada Sapp. Miss Kit, Plyler,
Miss Lou Thompson, Miss Carrie
Curnes.
Trailesville School District.
Mrs. J. C. Funderburk, Captain.
Workers: Mrs. Ida Funderbruk,
Mrs. Nettie Funderburk. Miss Lulee
Funderburk, Miss Dezzie Funderburk,
Mrs. Lula Pope, Mrs. Hazel
Funderburk.
ill,:.. <..i > ??'? -
.M HHU| IMMIU1.
Miss Buelnh Porter, Captain.
Workers: Mrs. J. C. Duncan,
Miss Kunice Steele.
Oak hurst School District.
s. Maude Mobley, Captain.
Worlv .-a: Mrs. 11 B. Rolliim,
Miss Sit. - Csserey.
Vim \\ yrk School District.
Mrs. J. K. Nesbit, Ciiptain.
Workers: Mrs. J. M. Voder, Mrs
J. A. Wyatt, Mrs. J. H Crenshaw.
Mrs. W. P. McGuirt, Miss Odelle
C.ritlin, Miss Kthel Vaughn, Miss
Kthleen Dates.
Riverside Seliool District.
Mrs. C. J. Slstare, Captain.
Workers: Mrs. itufus Thompson.
Miss Adelaide Thompson. Mrs. Sam
1). Lathnn. Mrs. C. N MeClintoek
i'miKvlllc School District.
Mfss Janie Craig, Captain.
No workers reported.
Tobv .;4' le School District.
Miss Iler, Captain.
No workers reported.
Oak llill School District.
Miss Lois Neal. Captain.
Workers: Miss Beckie Belk.
Ferguson School District.
Mrs. F. O. Harris, Captain.
Workers: Mrs. A .1 Thompson,
Mrs. It. O. Hudson.
Heath Springs School District.
Mrs Moore. Captain
Names of workers omitted.
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M'ss Kstelle Dailey. Captain.
Nantes of workers omitted.
The above workers have entered
into this campaign with the propei
spirit, resolved that they wilt
"make Kill Kaiser sadder and
wiser by buying and boosting War
Savings stamps."
They know that every time they
buy or sell a War Savings stainn
they weaken the Hindenbcrg line.
< ?tbe) c'iooI district committees will
he published just as soon as received
llclms School district.
Miss Klla Steele, Captain
Worker: Mis Mable Steele
Douglas School District.
Mrs. .! T Hunter, Captain.
Workers: Mrs. J M. Green
Miss SaUie Stogner, Miss Annie Addison,
Mrs. J. Y. Chambers. *
Jones Cross "^Hon^Jbhool District.
No ladles'committee,- *
* Dry Greek School District.
Miss Norma Canthen, Captain.
worxer: M'hs l.ouise Bell.
Pleasant Hill Mrhnnl District.
\>i?s Nannie Robertson, Captain
Workers: Mrs. E. Fh. Beckham.
Mm. M. W. Cauthen. Mn. M. L
Beckham, \
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nleut. Safrie \ \ / S
No. I>?\?dkt?.., < ~Ca]Mfclp\
ilatt)e
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/fPS TO HELP Th
ANC$
LANCASTER, S. C.,
AGE LIMIT LIKELY
TO BE EXTENDED
Secretary Raker's Withdrawal
of Opposition Roosts the
roposal.
LOAFING IS ON DECREASE
Inofficial Reports Show Improvement
in Lab V Market
and Decrease in Number ol
Vagrants and Idlers.
Washington, June 20?Withdraw
al by See rotary Maker of his opposi
lion gave fresh impetus today t?
consideration of the proposal befoia
congress to extend the draft age
limits so that the war department
will have available at no distant datr
ample manpower to carry out President
Wilson's program of an army
of unlimited size for the war on
Germany.
Olticials in the office of Provost
Marrshal General Crowder ?m' tediatety
began preparation of statisticshowing
results whl flight be ex
ported if the draft is^ extended tci
various ages between IS and 4"
years, the limits fixe in a bill by
Senator France, Republican It iexpected
that this information will
lie presented soon to the senate military
committee which is considering
the France bill.
Karly reports on the results of the
reclassification of men hy local
boards indicate that more than
250.000 men will he added to class
one by this means, as aeainst ?iw
original estimate of 200,000. Operations,
which become effective July
1. also is expected to add to the total
in the tirst class. Kach district
is expected to have near the national
average of 28.7 per cent, of its total
registration, in class one when the
reclassification has heen completed.
These estimates were pointed tc
by some officials as hearing out their
contention that theie is no inline
diate necessity for changing the ag?
limits. (leneral Crowder, however
does not share this view, and recently
told the senate military com
mittee that extension of the age limits
was necessary because at tlu
planned rate of calls class one would
he exhausted early next year.
Members of congress from mininp
districts were informed by Clenera
Crowder's otlice that there will he n<
re-consideration of the decision noi
to grant deferred classification t<
miners as a class. This will leave tlx
matter of miners' classification witr
the local boards.
Announcement of definite ruling;
on what are to he termed useful employments
under the work or fight
regulations is expected soon.. An
opinion on the status of baseball
players now is await ine (leneral
Crowder's decision. Il is undcr/t%od
that the game will, he classed as a
sport, hut that t' ,opinion his pro
.
visions to uuuMfl nc'fklnvi i.it... i...
with professional league schedules
this season.
Results of the government's ultiniatum
that loaling woiiM not he
tolerated during the war already are
heing felt in various parts of the
country. Unofficial reports from
several states show the immediate
improvement in the labor market
and decrease in the number of va
grants and other idlers.
Hoard Want - la-t?.
To the I'uhlie:
The local hoard is about to begin
a r? -< lassilieat ion of all registrants
In e'asses 2 3 ; ml I \Ve wish tloco-operation
of the public in this
matter, if you know that any registrant
has misstated facts roncerniiu
his dependency or iiis income we
v. ill thank you to give this board
such information. We wish to be
fair t^ every one and in order to do
so we need your help Upon proof
we will lake and all registrants
from class 2. 3 and 4 and place them
fn class 1.
i
iwuilin, rearl JOllia.
No ,2?Carrie Beckham. Cnptain;
Ada McQhee, Florence Anal in, I'ertel
Boykin.
No. 3?Goldle Gahln, Captain:
F.mniA GtrBin, Carrie Latin, Fannie
Mcllenry.
.No, *-rs|C '\Chrlaton, Captains
? *; ' ?^.v?U?key. \fAr
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IE CAUSE OF LIBE
lSTER
FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1918.
PROPOSES STAMPS
' FOR BANK CHECKS
I New Sources of Taxation Submitted
to Congress Will Raise
Over Million Dollars.
! STAMP TAX ON INVOK ES
All Transactions of One Dollar
or More Will Call for Revenue
I Stamp?State and City Oflicials
to Re Taxed.
Washington, June 2".? New
- (sources ol taxation wit it increase I
i taxes on present sources estimated to
raise more titan a billion dollars
> v ere suggested to the house ways
t and means comiuitt< e by Joseph J
Klein, a public accountant of New
York 'City, who has been associated
with the council of national defense
i 'I he committee was holding hearings
on the new war revenue hill.
Proposals made by Mr Klein in.
eluded:
. A tax of one cent per <;all on all
toll telephone messages below 1
( cents which are not now subject to
, tax.
A flat lb-cent documentary tax on
( all legal documents not otherwise
I;taxed.
\ stamp tax on each mercantile
invo'ce on transactions of $l.nn or
more.
A Hat 2 or .1 cent tax on bank
checks or a graduated tax beginning
with 2 cents per $100.
A 1-eent tax on every car fare on
St TP?'t r.iilwiIVS fil* Infnriirlmn linoa
A tax of 1U per cent to 2i? per
rent on tuition foes for private
schools, not including colleges and
universities.
A tax on state or city officials, including
high salaried judges and the
great corps of public school teachj
ers.
Collection "at the source'' of a
I graduated tax on all salaries and
wages in excess of $2" per week.
A 2 per cent on all gross sales.
Many other witnesses appeared
before the cotnniittei Mouthers
hope to conclude the hearings this
week.
' T1IKEE PRISONERS OI T
SOI 'Til CAROMN \ PEN
1
, \ it I liorit ies I'milde . Kind \ ii\
'I'race ot Three Men Who
i
Made (inlaw at.
i
Columbia. S. June 2d. ? Absot
lutely no trace has been found by the
. penitentiary authorities of T. Frank
(Irifhth. Clarence Davis and John
i Monroe, the three prisoners who es|
raped Tuesday about noon front the
| state penitentiary. The authorities
have kept wires hot in warning police
and other officers over the state
of the escape hut so far they have rei
reived nothing that wou'd g;ve a
|rlw" ns to the whoi cuhouts of the
mon.
Many people in Columbia are in
't lined to think that the senatorial
J campaign will not continue vorv
.! Ion tr. Only ft ft \ people were present
' t t be Chester meet itie when it open
il an?1 about half of them left beton
the meeting concluded
The inouesf into the death of
.(aires M< i .aiighlin, steward of the
Cng'es' club, who was found murder<1
in the i tub room, will be held to
night tit the foiiuty court house.
Quite a number of witnesses have
I >^ 11 summoned There are rumors
afloat con net ting certain parties
with the crime, but whether the authorities
have any evidence against
them is not known.
The Columbia city exemption
hoard has announced a large number
of reclassifications. The board is
| going vprv carefully over the entire
, list of registrants arid many more
reclassifications are expected during
the week
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.1 \S. M. ( K\l(i API?OIXTFI>
STATF liAXK FX AMIXFK
Columbia, S. ('., Juno 2h Jas. M
'"rair. of Anderson, was today appointed
by Oovornor Manning as
^tate bank examiner to succeed Co'
o. K. LaRocque, who resigned to
inter the army Y. M. C. A. wrap
overseas. The appointment' of
Vrnig was fcnraraeiMMd by^Mfrstato
Jlro^ers' >ouncii. " 'vC ^.A*
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RTY, RIGHT AND
. Nev
sr
SENA TORI A L CAN 1)1 DATES
HAVE SLIM ( HOWI) HERE
Dial and Ii?< ?* Spokt1 in Court House
'I liis Morning to Thirty-five
People.
The senatorial candidates, J. F
Hire, of Anderson, and N. 15. Dial
of I.aniens, spoke in the court house
here this morning at 11 o'clock,
thirty-live people composing their
hearers. The meeting was called to
old* e by County Chain an K S.
Stewart, and Itev. \\*. S. Patterson
led iii prayer.
.Mr Iti e was the tirst speaker and
aft.r mentioning the fact that he
taur.ht here some twenty-one years
ami. to ilev?iiixi i. . ...i.i. .. . .
. - . . .... ...I.I IIII 1 * I i 111
tin c.ipii who In* is and what li?'
stands for.
Mr. Dial spoke of Mleaso "jumping"
and campaign yesterday at
York and holding Ills own meeting
after the others finished 11?? said
the ex-governor thus "read him el!
out of tlie party " Mr Dial said ti
was running for the senate because
lie wanted to he elected and felt t; at
he could represent the people ac
ceptahlv
Itoth the candidates spoke if Senator
Tillman's "feebleness'" and Mr
It ice suggested that he he s.-nt home
to live in peace. There was absolutely
no interest displayed here and
the campaign was entirely devoid of
enthusiasm.
SOLICITATION BEGINS
TODAY FOR W. S. S
< 'oniiiiit lee Held Meeting Vr-.tndii.i
Afternoon and Perfected
All Plans.
A meeting of tin- War Savings
committee for Lancaster school dis
trict \\;is yesterday afternoon
in the court house and plans were
| perfected for the solicitation of the
! district, which began this morning.
"There are several -r Mots. each
having a list of people t? see, and ft
the response measures up to expectations,
a large amount in stampv
ill be sold during the next few
days.
There is but one week six work
ing days after today to raisi
Lancaster county's quota of
100. It has been impossible to so
t ure the figures as let amount aire ul\
sold because of the fact that at anj
time the total at headquarters onl>
represents a part of the sales. th?
directors in each district making re
turns to headquarters only whet
their books of pledges are tilled
ITobaHy by Tuesday The News wil
he able to print a tabulated state
meat of sales in the county by districts.
PETIT I. \KCEN V ( II \K(JR
liKINCiS MOKE TROUiEE
I
Spartanburg Man Mni llavr to \nstver
the t li irge of t ailing to
ICegister on June
Spartanburg. S. ('.. June 20.
Jon'e Klibv. a young white man ol
this county. was arraigned befor
Magistrate Jenili' gs oil the charee ol
petit larceny The defend int pb ad
ed guilty and was fined *" or '
i1 days. During the course of the t- li
monv it was brought out that tl
young man i-' of militarv age but thai
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Ill 'I ' If l?T Oil I 'I. . ill
mother testified i hilt ho \v:is 'J 1 Vi'ir.
I ol nee, from the tox-iinion\ v.
the defendant it appears that lie
I'-' yours old. In nil probability
fi (li i nl warrant will bo issn.-.:
| against him at once. charging him
with evading the draft.
; SECRET V RY Me A !)(><) JS
ORDERED TO A RANCH
(fillet (iossip in Washington y to
tlie KtTrct Ttint Ills Thru'
V
Is \tTeeted.
Washington. Jane 20?Anniehen
sion in felt In official circles here
concerning the condition of William
(J. McAdoo, secretary of the treasury
and director general' of railr^ s.
J?rom authentic sources thjere
.Alports that, Secretary MfAdoc
t^ecn ordejred to go a ranch ^
Vtast for fcis health and that he,
>He nway aieveral weeks or for
'definite ptViod
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JUSTICE V
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VI WHIP ITATtl
U ^^ XXVUNMENT
INSCRIPTION $2.00 A YEAR
DECLARATION WAR
WITH TURKS NEXT
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xmerit'iin .Missionary Hospital
in'Tabriz, Persia, Looted
by Turkish Troops.
IT. S. CONST LATE ATTACKED
Act Believed to Pit sn pre Long , ?
?
Anticipated P' c"arat'on of
Existence of State of War ' v
With Ottoman Empire.
Washington. Junp 20. An attack
I l?y Turkish troops on the American
| consulate at Tabriz., Persia, and the ,
{looting <>l' an A in erica n > missionary
hospital in that ? it> . reported to tho
tate department yesterday, was believed
in some quarters here to piesi.i-e
the lone anticipated declaration
o? the existence of a state of \\^i lieit
ween tlie i'nited States and the Ot-*
toman empire.
Diplomatic relations between the
two government have been suspend- ^
<1 since April 2", 1 ' | 7. when Te'-kev
| withdrew \lidu 1 link liusse'
I who have be. n actim: as charge or s
I the Turkish embassy here since ihe / * "
oitipuls.>rv ret .'-enient of the regit- f
! 1 ar in ba-sailor wbieh followed hi3
I''ii < i? -m of ilie r^iited States x .
Lovernni'nt Ny Amer
I v ml.as-;oloi Al^Jenthau was
i to leave Distantinople ancV since
'that time tW* relations between the ^
two ^oveitjpents have been just J
. short of l<mual' formal enmity.
Hecen^jjr tboie have been vigoroils
demands in congress for a de- ">
claration of a state of war between
the I'nited States an<P Turkey and '
liulgaria, but President Wilson an 1
the state department have not regarded
this stop a*~ necessary or desirahlo,
since then? lias boon nfl. actual
collision between American anil
Turkish iin<l Unitarian troops.
On the fa< of the reports front
American Minister Caldwell, at Teheran,
officials were inclined to he'
lieve that the sacking of the American
hospital, a Presbyterian institution.
over the protest of the Spanish
' consul, in charg- as representative of >
\merican interests, furnished tho
necessary pr \<xation for open hostilities
between America and Turkey.
The advices, however, were menger
and the ministei explained that
he was onh transmitting reports of
* matters not of his own knowledge.
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In view of Mi s r was realized th.;N t*
i later reports miglit show that theoffenses
were not as grave as now
I represented American doctors and
- nurses who have been stationed in
the hospital were believed to have
left Tabriz '-afore the Turkish troops
arrived (iordon Paddock, the APieriean
consul in that city, reported m
the department last May 29 that l\e
and all of the Americans and Rrltlsh
| were prepared to leave the eity lie- ?
fore the advancing Turkish anny,
co - ecnertly t -vis net believed tiiat
\mericans ictaaliy were molested.
Some otil'-ui's pointed out that
since an at .<*k on the consulate and
h "it -1 -cit'i <t jo tv-s|ji g.
I'n ted S- t<- i'!-st must bold the ?
I'et an I'inpi anient to ac-nurt as it"
?
| is "esponsihle for the safety of fore
"d tin r pro* s w?h *
it < ,|. How ever because of 'io?
peculiar and n- '-rtni" re'ations bet\v..e?i
T...L- ....1 o ?
-?n ' t ^
Sovereignty <>\ Persia. a I P'o wot* "'
reeouni/oil inablitv i i1 ' **? r to
resist |he Turkish troops, there Is
litt'e i! ult hero that tli? Washington
itovo' anient will hold tjiat 'ho
' responsibility for the outrages h ?
1 passed to Turkey, anil thfit 'f *
tirst reno't> / re substantiated p
oxlsten e of i ,state of war betwee
Tiirkov a oil t.o 1'nlted States must
ho doolarod.
iiitt imstii t,i\>j tn ti it
IdMlKl) IN VOUK POI VTV
York, S P, Juno 2u T' p
moonshiners have boon elyier the?r
trade wfth'n four miles of the county
sect of York was discovered
Monday when a distillery was captured
in the Moth ShUoh community.
While not in operation when found
there was abundant evidence that it
had recently been in use. The distillery
was one of the largest ever
aptured In York county and waa lo- '
*jited in a section where moonsWQ%ig
has been unknown ^or many
^?ars. mm
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