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5 \ ? II . : II Food Will Win The War; Buy Liberty Bonds Abbeville Press and Bannera cc-KUchflHisM. $1.50 the Year ABBEVILLE, S.C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19,1917. Single Copies, Five Cents. 76th Year | EiO Kll/l ignvu m mm m ARMY OFFICER I TO FACE TRIAL OFFICER OF NEW YORK NA- I TIONAL GUARD TO BE TRIED. Four Non-Commissioned Officers Who ( ? ? i Are Alleged to Have Inflicted run- i iihment Will Abo Face Trial. Spartanburg, S. C., Oct. 17.? Capt. Howard E. Sullivan, com- a manding Battery D, 105th field ar- * tillery, New York troops, and four j* of his non-commissioned officers will 11 face trial at Camp Wadsworth today t' of?Jiaving brutally assaulted and c whipped Private Otto Gottschalk. * The private, according to the story ^ told by other privates, had been ill n and should have been in a hospital. s He was guilty of a minor infraction P of military regulations and it is alleged that at Capt Sullivan's direc- u tion, four officers took Gottschalk to p the rear of the kitchen tent, threw p him into a ditch, forced him to drink q the swill and then carried him to a d bath house, where he was scrubbed I with sand and then beaten with c n SUCKS. Military officials at the camp re- j fuse to discuss the matter today f other than to say that it has been s officially reported to Gen. Phillips, c commanding the 27th division. It f is reported that the four non-com- o missioned officers are under re-1 g r straint STATE STOICAL j ENDS FINE SESSION)! |t! ESTILL IS NEXT PLACE OF: a NIEETINQ FOR THE a SYNODICAL. jtl e Sixth Annual Meeting of This Body * Came tc Close Wednesday After ^ a Most Successful Session. ^ rm__ Inniiol mpptinc of the ^ J. lie OIAUl _ 0 Synodical Auxiliary of South Caro-1 0 lina was held in the Presbyterian ! church on Tuesday and Wednesday. . c There were twenty-seven repre-! Sl sentatives present. The executive j ^ . committee met in th? Sunday school J ^ - room at 9 o'clock Tuesday morning ? and at 11 o'clock the meeting was 0 formally opened by the President, J c Mrs. Andrew Bramlett of Clemson j n College. Greetings from the Metho-j^ dist church were brought by Mrs. j n Frank Nickles, the Baptist church,! Mrs. W. P. Y/fcarn, the A. R. P-^ church, Mrs. M. R. Plaxco, the Pres-1 ^ KTrfoMnn fhnrch bv Mrs. Gibertj^ u^"? Evans, and a response from the Sy- ^ nodical by Mrs. Reeves of Alcolu. ^ These greetings were hearty wel- S comes and were the beginning of A the good feeling and Christian fel- j ^ lowship that pervaded the meeting.!^ Rev. E. P. Davis of Greenville, j ^ chairman of Synod's Commitee . on V Women's work, was the next speaker N bringing greetings from Synod. One J ^ of the most uplifting features of | V ' the Synodical were the Bible Hours,! ^ conducted by Mrs. T. S. Bryan of ^ Columbia, the subject being "Stew- ^ ardshlp," the theme of the synodi- ^ In the absence of the Secretary, ^ Mrs. M. B. John of Bennettsville, V Mrs. T. E. Stribliiig of Seneca, was ^ chosen and proved a most capable ^ secretary. V k. On Tuesday evening in the ab- > sence of Mr. Pratt, Mr. Daniel, in V an impressive manner, conducted the ^ devotional exercises and the large ? congregation had the privilege of C hearing an earnest and appealing E address on "Mountain Missions," by I e Miss Mabel Hall of the Guerrant Mission. K ^mediately after the address the \ congregation accepted an invitation & to a reception at the manse, where n for an hour or more the many who F called had the pleasure of meeting n the visitors and their friends. The S manse was decorated with brilliantly A colored flowers, and the presence of tl these charming visiting ladies made E the evening a very happy one. Punch , was served by the young ladies of A ' Missionary Society. | v On Wednesday morning only rou- C tine business was taken up. Officers s for next year were elected and Es- v till/ S. C., was chosen as place of S next meeting. S OFFICERS. ft President, Mrs. Andrew Bramlett, Is I . MANY CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR .IEUT.-GOV. BETHEA LA8T TO FMTFR THE RACE FOR GOVERNOR. lays He's Both a Conscript and a Volunteer and That He Expects to Win. Columbia, Oct. 16.?"I am bo*h conscript and volunteer in the race or governor in 1918, and I expect o win," is the emphatic and strikig way in which Andrew J. Be-: hea, Lieutenant Governor, announed his intention to enter the race or Governor next year. Mr. Behea stated that his announcement is lade at this time in response to inistent demands of friends in all arts of the State. "There is ample time," he contined, "in which to discuss issues arid ublish platforms, end besides, the eople know my position on the vital [uestions of the day. I have never 'odged an issue or shirked a duty, stand now, as heretofore, for a lean, orderly, progressive governlent within the State?a fair and ust government to be administered or poor and rich alike. I stand alo, as I believe 99 per cent of the itizenship of South Carolina stands or loyal and unquestioned support f the President and the national overnment in the present crisis. Mr. Bethea's announcement is the ourth made for governor, with at jast another in contemplation, loberi A. Cooper, of Laurens, made nown some time ago that he is an spirant for gubernatorial honors; 'homas H. Peeples, of Barnwell, atorney general, is unequivocally in he race, according to his statement, nd William A. Stuckey, in a recont nouncement said he would try for le governorship, despite whoever Ise was in the race. Mr. Cooper and Mr. Bethea have een identified continuously with ie anti-Blease faction and the other svo candidates have been supporters f the Newberry partisan leader. There has been a deal of unoffi-l ial talk in political circles that the o-cajled "reform" or Blease facion, at a contemplated convention ere, will nominate Maj. John G. Richards, of Liberty Hill, chairman f the-railroad Commission, as its j andidate for governor. However,! either Major Richards nor former! rovemor Blease will verify this rulor. VVVVVVV V VV VV W V' . w vj . FIRST AMERICAN FROM V PERSHING'S FORCES IS V WOUNDED IN ACTION. V V Washington, Oct. 17.?First V . Lieut. A. G. Graham, medical V . officers' reserve corps, attach- V . ed to the British forces, has V been severely wounded in the V . thigh by a gun shot. General V Pershing so advised the war V. . department without giving V. . details. Lieutenant Graham's V . next of kin was Mrs. William V J. Graham, 153 Park Avenue, V. . Paterson, N. J. , V 1 j If Lieutenant Graham was V shot while serving at the V . front, as is assumed here, he was the first American of the V. AunAJi'fiAnnmr ^Ar/toc f A VvQ W ? CApCUlWUliOi JT XV1VV0 w vv -m . wounded on the firing line. V V !lemson College; Secretary, Miss lettie Aycock, Wedgefield; Treasurr, Mrs. A. B. Morse, Abbeville. Vice President: Charleston, Mrs. r. E. Aull, Estill; Congaree, Mrs. 7. F. Madden, Columbia; Enoree, Irs. A. S. Libby, Spartanburg; Harlony, Mrs. N. Y. Alford, Wisacky; 'ee Dee, Mrs. D. McKenzie, Timlonsville; Piedmont, Mrs. T. E. tribling, Seneca; South Carolina, liss Annie Blake, Ninety Six; Be hel, Mrs. T. W. DeVane, Liberty | [ill. Secretaries of Causes: Foreign lissions, Mrs. L. L. Legters, Bishopile; A. H. Missions, Miss Edna Mclutcheori, Bishopville; L. H. Misions, Miss Louise Fleming, Greenrood; Ch. Ed. & Min. Relief, Mrs. !. L. Libby, Charleston; Y. P. W. & I. S. Extension Miss Harriet Moore, loore; Secretary of Literature, Mrs. I. G. Gonzales, Columbia. A GLANCE OVER I THE COUNTRY SHORT ITEMS OF INTEREST < The News In Condensed Form to Be Read Easily By the Busy Reader. I German plotters are at work in China. Bryan says that dollars must not ho Tilnpori nhnvA human blood. Col. Leroy Springs takes $100,000 of bonds. This is his second amount. John Madison DesChamps has announced his candidacy for Governor. Butter is bringing 50 cents a pound and eggs 50 cents a dozen in Greenwood. / The negroes in the lower part of the State are buying Liberty Bonds with their surplus money. B. R. Tillman presided at the Food Campaign in Columbia Tuesday night The slogan is "To Win." i v 1 Congressman A. F. Lever will ( speak at the Columbia Theatre for ] the Richland county Food Campaign. ] Laurens Baptist Sunday School did 5 not forget the orphans. $287.08 was ' the amount raised by the work day1 ( offerings. j' . I Marlboro county leads all others , in the amount collected for the Li-; ] brary fund. The quota has been ( over-subscribed. j ] The Kaiser was royally received 1 in Constantinople. Turkish girls of-! fered flowers which the Kaiser permitter them to throw. 11 Chaflin wants to buy Liberty'1 hfinds to the amount of $10,000 asj* an endowment fund. All the citizens 1 of the State are appealed to aid in 1 this. j ( The City Council of Columbia has! been requested to allow the movies to run on Sundays for the benefit * of the soldiers. It is being consid- j1 ered. . : t y At Thomson, Ga., 800 tons of cot- ( ton seed was destroyed by fire Sun- ^ day, causing a loss of $100,000. It > l is supposed that the fire originated from a spark from a passing train. ^ Two hundred and fifty persons lost their lives when the Medie was torpedoed in the Mediterranean Sea in | September. Five hundred passengers j were on board including soldiers. ) In Kansas City the stockyards were burned resulting in a very haevy loss, 11,000 cattle and 3,000 hogs. It is rumored that the fire a was of incendiary origin and de- ? tectives are investigating. ~5 liama vj. woo, is tne name ot thejk first Chinese baby born in Aiken IJ county, perhaps in the State. Her J a father is a naturalized American t and a member of the Presbyterian a church. The mother is a native of China. ? t The coal supply in Greenville is v serious. According to the News only P a week's supply is in the city and * very little in transit. A representa- ^ tive from the Chamber "of Commerce s has gone to Washington to see what 0 can be done to relieve the situation. 0 i 1< GERMANY MAY EXCHANGE 3 FOODSTUFFS WITH DENMARK V n f Copenhagen, Oct. 16.?Germany a has offered to supply a certain quan- a tity of potatoes to Denmark, :n ex- a change, however, Germany will ex- v pect Denmark to supply her with ar- a tides of which she is in need. a vvvwvvvvvvvv^v! V sf COTTON MARKET V f Cotton 28 V Seed $1.00 V a >2 wwwwwwwwP ' >t . J-BOAT TORPEDOED I B. S. DESTROYER Dne American Killed and Five | Others Wounded, But None Seriously. SUBMARINE MADE' ' UUUU Twelve British Merchant Veueli Destroyed in One Week; Number of ( Warships Observed. Washington, Oct. 17.?An Ameri- , :an destroyer on patrol duty in the ^ arar zone was torpedoed by an en?my submarine yesterday and Dne man killed and Jfive wounded. , She managed make port in spite if severe damages. j Vice Admiral Sims cabled a brief ^ report of the incident to the navy department late today/ He gave ( few details, but it is assumed there ^ was no fight and that the u-boat ^ made good her escape after launching a torpedo, without showing ( herself. Gunner*!) Mal:e Killed. Gunner's mate Osmond Kelly In- < jram was the man killed. He was < blown overboard by the explosion I and his body was not recovered, [ngram's mother, Mrs. Betty Ingram < lives at Pratt City, Ala. v if In accordance with the policy of i secrecy concerning American naval 1 11 * 1? A J?J - J. I I jperauons, tne department qiq not ' iivulge the name of the destroyer 3r the exact place of the encounter. < None of the wounded was seriousy hurt. They are Herman H. Pankratz, gunner's mate, St. Louis; Wiliam E. Merritt, seaman, New York 1 Dity; Frank W. Kniz, fireman, To- J edo; Patrick R^tledge, oiler, New ' Sfork City, and William Seimer, firenan, Dundas, Minn. < 1 Twelve Ships Sunk. j London, Oct. 17.?Twelve British , merchant vessels of over 1,600 tons j vere sunk by mine or submarine in r ;he last week, according to the statement of the British admiralty to- * light. v ? Six vessels under 1.600 tons and * me fishing vessel were sunk. ( 1? Copenhagen, Oct. 17.?The No- I ;ional Tidende's Malmo, Sweden, cor- i espondent in a dispatch says:- ' "Between Monday and Tuesday a jreat number of German warships; I vere seen, including submarines andjl leutroyers. It is believed here that; ;he Germans are reinforcing their 3altic fleet." i t ? r VOMAN CONVICTED 1 \ AS ^PY EXECUTED dlle. Mata Hari, Dutch Dancer, Dies af: Dawn for Betraying Great i i xr_ " 11 Paris, Oct. 15.?Mata-Hari, thej )utch dancer and adventuress, ,whoi wo months ago was found guilty by ) courtmartial, on the charge of esilonage, was shot at dawn this mora-i ng. Mata-Hari, otherwise known as larguerite Gertrude !2elle, was ta-jc en in an automobile from St; La c Saire, prison to the parade ground c t Vincennes, where her execution \ ook place. Two Sisters of Charity 1 nd a priest accompanied her. s Mile. Mata-Hari, long known in 'urope as a woman of great attrac- c : j ? j* _ t_?_j iveness ana wim a romanuc History, a ras, according to official press dis- x 'atches, accused of conveying to the e Jermans the secret of the construc- 1 ion of the entente "<ianks," this re- c ulting in the enemy rushing work h n a special gas to combat their v perations. She was said to have t ?ft Paris last spring and to have r pent some time in the English town o rhere the first "tanks" were being lade, afterwards traveling back and n orth between England and Holland \ nd later going to Spain, where she c roused suspicion by associating with a man whom the French secret ser- j a ice long suspected. When she re- a ppeared in Paris she wa3 arrested, v contributing circumstance, it ap- v ears, being the fact that she was b een there with a young British of- n icer attached to the ''tank" service. Her conviction was'confirmed by t . revision court and on September't 8 the supreme court confirmed the C revious findings. )m seHnois' i tf B I V V II V V kV < FIRST HONOR ROLL HONOR ROLL OF THE GRAD- ( ED AND HIGH SCHOOL OF ABBEVILLE For the Month Ending on October 1 12, 1917?No Honor Roll of First Grade. \ ____________ Children must make 90 and above 1 >n scholarship, 100 on attendance, LOO on Deportment.' Grade II.?Olive Brock, Teacher. tVilliam J. McComb, Adair M. Aiken, Martha D. Calvert, Fannie M Greene, 1 lean W. Milford. 1 Grade II.?-Flora' M. Timmons, ' Teacher. Leon auis, manei uraaiey, A.gnes Eakin, Susan Minahall, Mary : Norwood Perrin, Minnie Ella Swetenberg, Sara Wilson.* ' 1 Grade in.?May Robertson, Tea- 1 :her. Elizabeth Corley, 95; Mary ' Hill Ferguson, 95; Alma Gaston, 93; Ernestine McCord, 90. j 1 Grade III.?Annie Richards, Tea- 1 :her. Sara Cowan, 90; Margaret Flynn, 90; Irene McMahan, 92. Grade IV?Sarah Edwards, Teach- I sr. Julian Ellis, 91; Annie Bell 1 Greene, 93; Martha Mann, 93; Mary 3tailings, 94. Grade IV.?Etta L. Allen, Teacher. Rose Lee Anderson, 95; Margaret Harrison, 97; Rubie Hughes, )1; Rachel Minshall, 96; Elene Wil- : iams, 95; Edna Dawson, 91; Ena 1 Cunningham, 92. 1 Grade V.?Blanche Tarrant,v Tea- 1 :her. Anthony Tennant, 95; Jack J rhorason, 95; Sarah Edwards, 95. * Grade V?-Miss Kennedy, Teacher. ' rom Bradley, Carl Hall, Frank Neuf- ' :er, Estelle Gaston, Francis Gilliam, ] Kathleen Schroeder. 1 Marv *Sweten- 1 jerg, Lucile Welch, Jensie White. Grade VI.?Miss Tennant, Teach;r. Donald Harris, Grace Milford, Mary Jones, Marion Wilson. Grade VIL?Miss Lillian Swetenjerg', Teacher. Edwin Barksdale, iVilliam Cox, Celia Chalmers, Maria tfeuffer, Emmie Haigler, Elizabeth rhomson^Claton Shirley. Grade VIII.?Miss Sadie Magill, ^ reacher. 95 to 100 per cent, averige, Mary White, Hal Moore. Dis;inction Roll, 90 to 95 per cent, average, Helen Milford. ( Grade IX.?Miss Lynch, Teacher. Hary Greene, Helen Eakin, Katherne Faulkner, Victoria Howie, Mary Stevenson, Bruce Fant, Ralph Lyon. Grade X.?Miss Woods, Teacher, j tfargaret Cox, Alpha Graces, Helen ( laigler, Mary Reed Moore. ( Grade Xil.?Mr. Lever, Teacher. : f 5EC0ND CALL FOR ! DRAFTED UNCERTAIN! i DATE IS NOT YET DEFIN-I ITELY SETTLED FOR THE ! SECOND CALL. i Nat Department Now Discussing! 'Deficiency in the Seventeenth | Army Division. Washington, Oct. 16.?Discussion >f the advisability of expediting the all for the second increment of the lraft army now is in progress at the var department and it appears likey that the date may be fixed for ome time in December or January. Mobilization of the first increment if 687,000 men is now far enough dvanced to show clearly that there rill be a big deficiency for the Sevmtenth national army division, a ?Iore than 250,000 of the first in- t rement are still to be assembled, a olvAo/ltr io fVi oro n lUv lb ail vauj 10 ^tiuviiv m?uv viiva v ? rill be available at the sixteen can- t onments quarters for an additional f egiment at each post and at some f a full brigade of two regiments. 0 The strength of the new regi- g nental organization is 3,600 men. f Vith a regiment lacking it each c antonment this alone would mean c , shortage of nearly 50,000 men. In a ddition there has been authorized t! , separate division of negro troops, v /hich means nearly 30,000 men v rithdrawn from the original num- v >er assigned to the sixteen cantonlents. s The shortage is due partially to a he necessity of taking out of na- n ional army men to fill up National C Juard divisions. r Two complete national army divi-1 s r . \" v. &. - ' ...? l*i. 30LF OF RIGA IS INFESTED BY HUNS Serman Fleet Preparing For^ Jrl Demonstration?German Trenches Bombarded. ENEMY HOLDS ALL OF OESEL ISLAND Expected Renewal of Allied OSmm-" ,ij*j hre in France and Belgium Hti * Not Developed. Petrograd, Oct 17.?Regarding the situation* in and around the Golf yf Riga, the semi-official news agen-7-*v|| zy today issued the following summary of conditions there as cominff ; from a competent naval authorityr. "While our fleet in the zone of operations is beinc nressed hv CJ?iw 1 nan forces four times its strength . ;f| our army finds itself in a more vorable position, the strength of the^-^ German troops landed being insignificant Taggo Bay, the only place where reinforcement can be disembarked, is exposed to the northerly ';?| ?ales, which have been blowing, for' two days. The transport of our reinforcements to the island of Oosel, however, does not depend upoft $ weather conditions. Attack Imminent. "This explains the persistent ef- ^ forts of German destroyers to pene? p| trate as far as Moon Sound, thereby? :' %& threatening our communications, ani ;?J5 the enemy's desperate attacks igainst the troops defending thesa;'^? communications. The matter should . be settled before long, as we aror^^ fastening the dispatch .of reinforcenents for a counterattack, which is ^ imminent." :^|aH LIBERTY LOAN 13 ' FOUGHT BY SPIES ORGANIZED EFFORTS TO DEFEAT LOAN EXPOSED 1 BY COL. LORD. Colonel Lord Describe* Four Chhnnels Through Which Spies Work. Washington, Oct. 17.?Pro-Gernan agents in the United States, ac-. :ording to reports to the treasury department, have directed their er.er- .V % *ies toward defeating the Liberty oan. Their organized propaganda : las borne fruit, from Minnesota to rexas, it is asserted, in scattered Io- 'fM ralities where weak efforts have been /> ?nade, not openly, but by "indirect via nethods, to discourage subscriptions. ; a| The work of 'the. pro-Germam igents, officials assert has been car- ?;> -ied on for more than two weeks. 3ome of the workers have had the ;emerity, the^reports indicate, to con- 1 > luct their operations here in the Na;io?al capital. .ions of Southern troops have bee* f) ibsorbed in this way. The remmts of three other Southern na- r ;ional army divisions will be con- > r<i iolidated to form a single division \ .,,2 init and the surplus men from other 'yjzM :ampswill be sent South to* make up | he missing divisions. 4-V/\ MA^amaI ** ?^ ?si ax uo uii buc iiai/iuitai uluij orces also must be made, to fill up ' he enlisted personnel of the aviaion service, the medical corps and he service battalions needed behind i he fighting lines abroad. Eventutlly there will be 250,000 men is ':J he last named service alone and iviation and the medical service 0$ vill take nearly as many more, kmirvll nil r\ P imll Kn f 11 Tr n ? uvugii xivb an vx uicui win uc voaco rom the national army. Operating to delay the calling out f the second increment to make ood these shortages are several : actors. Clothing and equipment is oming forward only at a rate that an meet the demands of the forces Iready called and the railways of """'-jl he country have been overburdened nth the job of moving the army without hindering freight shipments ital to the allies. Fixing the date of the call for the econd increment probably hinges lso upon the careful study being lade by Provost Marshal Gen. Jrowder and his assistants of the esults of the plan followed in asembling the men called first.