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Abbeville Press and Banner I Established 1844 $1.50 the Year ABBEVILLE, S. C., Wednesday, April 11,1917 Single Copies, Five Cents * 76th Year FOR CO-OPERATION IN OCEAN SERVICE Plan* for Working With Entente to SnppreM Submarine Activist ties Not Made Public. Washington, April 9.?Naval co* - -operation with the entente allies was the subject of a conference today between President Wilson and Secretary Daniels. It became known afterward that the government already is taking steps to assure the fullest measure of co-operation. The part to be played by American warships was noti revealed. One element of the plans undoubtedly deals with the question of supplies for the entente governments. ? Officials of the Bethlehem Steel corporation and other steel and ordnance companies were in conference with Secretary Daniels today in this regard. An agreement for the apportionment of the facilities of the plants between American army and navy orders and the furnishing of war supplies to the entente nations was reached. Mr. Daniels also was able to outline to the president the steps that have been taken to establish a submarine-tight coast patrol in the shortest possible time. Some part of the coast patrol fleet already is in operation and later when the new coast patrol boats recentjy obtained are delivered it will be possible to extend the scope of the patrol, insuring merchant craft the most thorough protection possible. The navy department has been showered with requests from coast towns and cities for the stationing of war craft in these localities. There is no intention of breaking up the navy's strength in this way. The Mfvnl and aront. mrstem. however. soon will be sufficient to insure swift mobilization of fighting units at any threatened points. Numerous bills related to the navy were introduced today in the house and senate. . One proposes to raise / the maximum age limit for officers in the naval reserve from 35 to 6G years; another modifies restrictionf on nationals of nations at peace witi the United States who wish to enroll in the reserve. One by Chairman Padgett of the house naval committee would add another midshipman at the naval academy for each member of congress. NO DESECRATION OF FLAG Department of Justice Issue* Warning to Aliens. Washington, April 9.?Warning against desecration of the American Hatr Kir nliAnn WM loaned tftHftV bv thf Department of Justice. The following notice was sent to federal attorneys and marshals: "Any alien enemy tearing down mutilating, abusing or desecrating the United States flag in any way will be regarded as a danger to th< public peace or safety within th< meaning of regulation 12 of *th< proclamation of the President, issuet April 6, 1917, and will be subjectec to summary arrest and confinement SUBMARINE SINKS AMERICAN SHU Steamer Seward Torpedoed Withou Warning?Crew Saved. i Washington, April ?.?ine Amen can steamer Seward was reporter torpedoed and sunk without warninj in the Mediterranean by a Germai submarine in a dispatch to the Stat Deprtment today from Consul Gua lin at Marseilles. All of the crew o thirty-one was said to have beei saved. COL. MILLER BACK AGAIN. Col. W. L. Miller is back in Ah beville after a short visit to friend in Anderson. Col. Miller has ri pnwrpH from a recent sDell of sios ness and is as handsome and /? happy as usual. I" LECTURING IN GREENWOOD. Rev. H. W. Pratt went o\ft t Greenwood last week and deliver? his illustrated lecture on "P^aceft France" before the Civic Leigue o that town. While in Greenwood h was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. A. I McKissick. ... The lecture was a success in ?v*r way. BREAK BY BERLIN'S ALLY MEANS ANOTHER ENEMY FOR AMERICA Auatria*Hungary Severs Diplomatic Relation* With United State*? Representative* Called. Washington; April 9.?AustriaHungary, under the pressure of Ger ? rela many, uao oqtvavu tions with the United States, and war-bound Austrian ships in American ports have been seized. Baron Erick Zwiedinek, charge d'affaires of the Austro-Hungarian embassey here, called at the state department today and asked for pass ports for himself and the embassy staff. Almost at the same time a dispatch was received from American Minister Stovall at Berne saying the, dual monarchy had broken off diplomatic relations with the United States in Vienna yesterday. It is presumed this was done by hbnding passports to American Charge Grew. American Ambassador Penfield, who had left Vienna on Saturday, probably did not know of the government's action. By pre-arrangement Spain will take over the diplomatic and consular interests of the United States in Austria-Hungary. All Austrian consular agents will depart from the United States with the diplomatic mission, as was the case with Germany. Up to the time Charge Zwiedinek asked for his passports no similar action had been taken by Bulgaria and Turkey?Germany's two other allies?and their representatives here disclaimed having any knowledge of the intention of their governments. It is expected they will follow by ; breaking diplomatic relations. BRAZIL LIKELY TO BREAK TODAY German Ship* Will Probably Bo Seized Immediately Following. " ? Ria Janeiro, April y.?An eany , rupture of relations between Brazil , and Germany is expected?by to( morrow morning at the latest. The , break depends solely on the formal, ity of the reception of the official ret port from Paris on the sinking of [ the Brazilian steamer Parana by a German submarine. The break probably will be fol! lowed by the seizure of German ships in Brazil; Dr. Lauro Muller, foreign minister, has refused to receive the German minister. Dr. Muller gave urgent orders that a steamer in Rio Janeiro be made ready at once fox a mission abroad. Dr. Muller conferred with the wai , minister and chief of staff. He also | urgently requested a report from the Brazilian legation in Paris. SPAIN REMAINS NEUTRAL , Madrid Government Publishes D? f cree to That Effect. | Madrid, April 9.?(ViaParia.)? , The official journal today' published I a decree declaring the neutrality ol ] Spain in the war between the Unitec j States and Germany. A GRANDSON. > Mr. and Mrs. M* T. Coleman received a telegram early Monday ? mornine announcing the birth of i on to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hemp hill Coleman, in New London, Conn. - on Sunday, April 8. The little bos i is named Robert Reid Hemphil ? Coleman, and friends here send i their congratulations, and hope hf e will live long past the three-scor< years and that he will be just a: f handsome aa his father. / BACK AMONG US. , Mr. C. A. Bott3 has recoveret / sufficiently from a recent sever* L mall of nneumonia to be on oui h streets again. He was down towi > Monday afternoon looking as livelj * as usual. His friends are glad ol his recovery. THE CIVIC CLUB. ? 4 The regular meeting of the Civi< Club, will be held Thursday after ? noon at half past four o'clock, at th< ? home of Mrs. W. P. Greene. Thi, \ meeting will be social in its naturi and will be in charge of Mrs. E. C y Horton, the chairman of the Liter ary Committee. ' . TInMi/'i-'s. J - t WILSON PLA< Cir.MATIIR tJlVAl lXT, M. DECLARE Washington, April 6.?President Wilson has signed the war declaration and the United States is now at war against Germany. The senate met at noon on Friday and Vice President Marshall immediately affixed his signature to the resolution declaring a state of war exists between the two countries. President Wilson's signature was placed on the resolution at the White House at 1:13 p. m. The resolution had passed the house early Friday morning and the senate had adopted it late Wednesday night. The house roted 373 to 50 for war; senate 82 to 6. Thirty-two Republicans, sixteen Democrats, one Socialist and one Prohibitionist roted , against the resolutuion. Budget of $3,401,000,000 asked for army and nary. Bond issue of three and a half billion proposed. German ships in American ports seised. Thirty-two thousand indus- ' trial plants offered for govehiment service. More than a score of German submarines are already in the Gulf of Mexico, according to reports. It is now believed that nt least a part of Zimmermann's plot in Mexico has been achiev> ed. U. S. officials at El Paso believe northward movement of Carranza troops is a forerunner of hostile action against border settlements. Brazil is likely to declare war against Germany. vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvs V * V TO THE MEN OF * V ABBEVILLE COUNTY: * V * V Since a "State of War" has * V been declared between the * V United States and Germany, * V and since a call for 500,000 ^ V men, between the ages of 19 * V and 25, will soon be made, it * V is evident Abbeville county * V will be required to furnish * V several hundred, and I have * V been requested by a number * V to call a meeting to be held * V in the Court House on Friday * V evening, April the 13th> for * , V. the purpose of organizing a * V company of Abbeville men in * V order that all may go to- * > V gether and be officered by * V Abbeville men. Companies * . V are already being organized 1 , V in many towns of the State, 1 V and it is the part of wisdom 1 V for us to organize and volun- 1 V teer and not wait to be con- 1 V boripted. ' V Married men and men with 1 V dependents will be exempted 1 ' V but all others are liable. 1 V There are a number of men 1 . V in Abbeville that had experi- 1 1 V ence as officers in the Span- 1 J V ish-American war and it is 1 I V much better to go with your 1 V own people rather than to be V forced to go with strangers. 1 ill V- 1__1J .1 I V The meeting win pe ucm ?t V 8 o'clock. .V C. C. GAMBRELL, j V Mayor or Abbeville. 1 i V . VVVVVV'vVVVVVVVV ' DR. CLINKSCALES TO SPEAK. 1 ' Dr. John G. Clinkscales of Wo: 5 ford College, will speak in the Met! ' odist church Sunday morning i 3 eleven o'clock. Dr. Clinkscales is popular in A1 beville and his coming always giv< pleasure. 1 " ? BERLIN PRAISES MEN WHO r VOTED AGAINST WA 1 f Berlin, (Via London), April 7.^ The votes against war by six Unite States senators and fifty represent tives have given comfort to German according to the Berlin Tageblat nrUi/tU aOl/4 +A/1 tk\7 W IIIV. II iaiu bvuwj % "There is ground for satisfactio ? in the number of votes cast in coi s gress against declaring V state < 9 war with Germany exists. It shov ' that a peace party exists and th must not be undervalued." :ed his E TO WAR iTION FRIDAY Army bills call for: ? 1-- ? /..n .1^ it _ rieguiar army iuu nr?|ui 287,646 men. National guard full of' strength?440,000. Two half million units by draft under universal service plan, 1,000,000. Total, 1,726,846. * Authorized strength of navy increased from 87,000 to 150,000men; marines from 17,000 to 30,000. All the naval militia and \ naval reserves were called to the colors with the president's signing of the war resolution. By the signing of the resolution, the war which Germany has actually been making on the United States for many months, is recognised in official form, and the United States thus announces to the world its determination to take up what President Wilson characterised in his address to congress as Germany's challenge te all the world, her war against humanity. Speaker Clark had signed the resolution soon after it passed the house in the early hours of the morning and Vice President Marshall had signed it soon after the senate convened at ' t noon. The engrossed copy was sent at once to the White House. It was waiting for the president wheq he returned from a short walk with Mrs. wiison. The president also signed a proclamation, formally declaring a state of war between the United States and Germany. In the proclamation he called upon American citizens to giro support to all measures of the government. SEIZURE OF SHIPS FIRST ACT OF WAR BY UNITED STATES American Armed Forces Seize All German Ships in Every Port of Country Early on Friday. Washington, April 6.?In seizing the ninety-one German ships in American ports, the United States acquired vessels purposely built foi conversion into auxiliary cruisers. It was learned at the department of commerce today that most of the Dassenger ships are built as naval auxiliaries with gun platforms, reinforced. decks and other equipment for offensive purposes. Officials said seizure of these ships has increased our transporting ability tremendously. Fourteen of the larger vessels seized will transport at one time about 40,000 troops. The American merchant fleet available at present can carry only about half oi that number. MUNITIONS BOARD TO MEET DEMANDS Plan if to Have Arm* and Am muni. tion Furnished With Least Po?- . ible Disturbance. Washington, April 9.?Creation o1 a general munitions board was an nounced today by the council of na w tional defense. It will be headed bj . Frank A. Scott, a Cleveland manu . facturer, and will be charged witl . supplying the army and navy witl ? munitions and equipment. One of it . chief functions will be to decide be . tween the country's military and in . dustrial needs. The board's establishment puts in to the hands of a group of army ant navy officers and industrial leaden virtually the same task given th< British minister of munitions. Ii i- creates machinery for a governmem it department of munitions with it" head a cabinet member if conducj. of the war brings the need. Activ< ;g military and navai parucipuuui in the conflict, many believe, wil produce that necessity. FROM CHICORA. Miss Virginia Stuart, of Chicori _ College, Columbia, came up las Thursday nad spent the Easter sea :(* son with her relatives, Rev. and Mrs i- H. W. Pratt. Miss Stuart* teache; iy art in Chicora. t' THE PARADE. n The Easter parade was knocke< ?- out of the ring Sunday morning bj * ' t- -X | >f a steady cola ram. ijoua nat oanus r8 loud ties, mustard suits and chin . chin hats had to be abandoned an< 18 rain coats and rubbers were in de mand. \ LANSING IN ELOQUENT I MESSAGE TO RUSSIA DENOUNCES GERMANY I Declares That Germany's Autocratic Government is Greatest Enemy to Democracy in the World. Washington, April 7.?America ( today sent to Russia a greeting in which she declared, "this country arrays itself in opposition to the greatest enemy of, and menace to the democracy in the world," and ex- i nraaoa/l vafnimnir flint thff npnnlp ftf ( Russia have merged into a mighty r democracy. . t The message , was taken to the t White House for approval. <; The message said: r "American embassy, Petrograd: r Inform the foreign minister that the United States congress on AprilV 6 t made formal declaration of war be- c tween the United States and the t German government The presi- s dent's proclamation to that effect t was issued on the same date. I Say to the minister that this coun- t try arrays itself in opposition to t the greatest enemy of and menace ( to democracy in the world, confi- f dent of the final victory of those principles of liberty and justice up- I held by it for nearly 150 years, and in conservation to which by all of the civilized countries rests the ex- ( nitufnfinn nf nniui rs?1 nflftCfi. , JpCVWIVlVU VA ? **> ? r A Please, also inform the minister E that the government and people of ( this country are filled wiht rejoicing j that the people of the great Russian f nation have merged with the mighty j democracies engaged in the struggle j of opposition' to autocracy and de- < clare to Russia their honest grati- \ fication that thus a new tie of amity is united with those peoples of the , two nations. It is the ardent hope and anticipation of the government of the United States that the Russian na- 1 tion of internal concord so will 1 realize more than ever before the ' obligation due from it to mankind ( and the need for preservation of in- ' ternational concord so that as a patriotic and united country it may 1 vanquish the despotic power which by violence and machinations men' aces the democracy which the people < of Russia have proclaimed. ] LANSING.' I 9 i TO CONFINE EX-CZAR 1 IN ISOLATED FORT I Police Claim That Plan Wa* to Pro* ; claim Grand Duk* Nicholas Emperor. I Petrograd, April 1?-(Via London) . Orders have been issued by the Rusi sian provisional government for the j transfer to the fortress of St. Peter - and St. Paul of all personages now with the deposed Emperor at Tsarskoe-Selo. Thus the ex-Emperor and , ex-Empress will be completely iso' lated. The recent arrest of the Grand Duchess Marie Pavlovna, a cousin of the former Emperor, and divorced wife of Prince William, of Sweden, r and a group of personages in the en. tourage of Grand Duke Boris has . led, according to the police, to the ?l-S.l. r discovery of a plot in wmcn tUO I . Grand Duchess and two grand dukes 1 were involved for the proclaiming of ! Grand Duke Nicholas as Emperor of 3 Russia. Grand Duchess Olga, of Russia, . sister of the abdicated Emperor, who divorced the Duke of Oldenberg, has . just married Capt Koudikowski, of j the Russian cavalry. The officers of j the captain's regiment have asked 3 Koudikowski to resign owing to his t alliance with the house of Romanoff. t i CUPID GETS GREATEST t' NUMBER OF RECRUITS 5 ? Chicago, April 9.?Cupid obtain1 ed more enlistments in Chicago today than any other recruiting office, 1,132 marriage licenses being issued. The day's business was the largest in the history of the county court. * Throughout the day long lines of uroifincr hrideeTooms thronged the ? license office. Many rebuked the s young men, calling them "slackers." Orders were issued to exclude from te corridors "runners" for county justices of the peace, rej ported to have been soliciting busij ness. , Most of the prospective benedicts ~ denied that the call to arms was responsible for their rush to matrimony. WAN TROOPS RUSH TO BORDER sermans Displaying No Sign* of Hostility Along tho Border and J Texas Guard is Mobilizing. 1 Jaurez, Mex.t April 9.?-Eight Caranza troop trains are en route from 39 Chihuahua City to Jaurez today car- k| ying approximately 9,000 de facto roops, according to'an official an- - .:,|i louncement made at military head- > /M [uarters. The first train with 500 nen on board arrived in the rail- .yjg uttu yaru? at uuun. - / 1 ?H[ General Murguia, commanding he de facto troops in the north, is [;ji in the last of these trains ac irding o unofficial information. The re a- '.M on given here for the movement was hat an effort would be made to '?l| irevent Villa from approaching the ' . >order west of El Paso. It was said yM he troops would be sent to Casas rrandes, Chihuahua, to take the ield against Villa. j 'erahing Reports that the Situation if Qufet. " . ' ^4 San Antonia, Tex., April 9.?Gen- 'f iral Pershing announced today that eports at department headquarters ihow the border situation to be -' luiet According to General Persh- ^ ng advices indicate that Germans ire not displaying hostile activity in he border section. Mobilization of. he Texas national guard at Forjt I 3am Houston, will be completed by . amorrow. '; 250 Mexican Cavalry Are Opposite J| Laredo. Laredo, Tex., April 9.?Two hunired and fifty Mexican cavalrymen, aj issigned, it waa said, by direct or- J iers of Generfcl Carranza, arrived. opposite here today for patrol duty along the Rio Grande river. ? Fire Destroys Field Ambulaace ''1 Equipment. . ( Fort Bliss, Tex., April 9.?Fire destroyed the camp of field ambnlance company A, of the United States army today near the fort An i investigation is being made. The ambulances and males were saved but the men lost all their equipment* J i SAFETY OF AMERICA DEPENDENT ON DRAFT President Throws Full Weight of His Influence Behind Conscription System for Prosecuting Wan Washington, April 9.?President Wilson threw the weight of his personal influence into the scales today in an effort to overcome opposition in congress to the administration army plans based on the draft system. SuMmoning Chairman Dent of the <'-4 house military committee to the v--,': White House, the president made it . 'i clar that he believed the safety of ": the nation hangs on the action of congress in this regard. He will" make a similar explanation of the military situation tomorrow to Rep reientative Anthony of Kansas, wno ?i has led opposition1 to the draft plan among Republican members of the military committee. In his action todya the president recognized the fact that there may be a strong feeling in congress in f A favor of adhering to the old volunteer system and sought to bring , | home to Mr. Dent, one of these who hold that view, the lesson to be drawn from the great war into which J fha TTnit?H States now has been plunged and which all point, military advisers of the government declare, to the absolute necessity of facing the issue squarely and summoning men to the colors by draft. A compromise plan may be offered | by the opponents of compulsory service. * $ ENTERTAINING FOR MRS. GRIER ?? Miss Maggie Brooks entertained .> a few ladies last Wednesday moraine at her home, complimentary to Mrs. M. B. Grier, who was in town for a day or two speaking before the, missionary society of the Presbyterian church. The ladies invited were delighted to hear of the work in China and to know Mrs. Grier per* sonally. ; Miss Brooks served a delightful luncheon during the morning. * i/S ' " v