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r. . V.Jgl ? . v! Abbeville Press and Banner i V-j ( .; I Established 1844. $1.50 the Year. Abbeville, S. C., Friday, August 9, 1918. Single Conies. Five Cents. 75th Year. * '.'V-'' CRAVES WILL ( AMERICj . C Two Regiments of Regulars in Philippines Are to Go. OTHER TROOPS SENT FROM UNITED STATES General March Makes First Announcement of Details of Military i Aid to Be Sent Siberia for Pro itection of Rear of CzechoSlovrk Forces. Washington, Aug. 7.?First details of American military aid to be sent . to Siberia for the protection of the rear of the Czecho-Slovak forces in their movement westward against/ Germans, Austrinas and hostile factions were made public today with the announcement by General March, chief of staff, that Major General ? Win. S. Graves, will command the . * . American forces, the nucleus of which will be two regiments of reguluars from the Philipines. General Graves Z1 now is in command of the Eighth I - division at Camp Freemont, Cal. The regiments to form the vanguards of the American contingent, General March announced, will be the 27th and 31st, neither of which is recruited to war strength. This forces will be so^plimented by tropos from the United States, the number of which has not been revealed, the chief ofi ' staff said, however that the American I force will not be a large one. r 'In announcing the selection of General Graves to command th Amricau t fores, General March took occasion to state that so far as he knew no commander in chief for the whole expedition had yet been designated. He recalled that this could only be done by international agreement such as | was found to be necessary to con- J centrate the supreme command of all the entente and American troops in Europe in the hands of General Foch. From other sources it wasj ^leartied that negotiations are under! way to this end and that the chief i m ? ormu HptIn IOI Sl^H Oi UlC uo|/oavov | eral Baron Uyehara, has been sug-| gestfd and his name is under con-J sideration as commander in chief. No Advance Notice. Genral March said that the sailing of the expedition of General { Graves will not be announced, but that upon arrival of the forces the news will be made public. It was not stated whether an announce-! ment of the size of the American! contingent may be expected. Thej Japanese froce, conjunctino with! the Chinese which will act under' Japanese direction, probably will bej more numerous; in fact, Japan is preparing to send into Siberia ?ny number of troops necessary to carry! ost the declared purpose to give effective aid to the Czecho-Slovaks. ?? i , BASEBALL IN GAS MASKS "OVER THERE"j A full nine-inning baseball game with players wearing gas masks, and the spectators, as well, is the latest sport arranged by an American Army Y. M. C. A., physical director "over there" who brought the bats,| mits and balls by automobile truck; jto the men near the front lines in France. An indoor baseball was used to guard against injury to the gas masks. The size of the score Was not kept, due to the scarcity of adding machines. I OUR BOYS REAL SPORTSMEN. Statistics compiled by the Army nd Navy Y. M. C. A. Physical Deartment show that 165,156 games ? baseball, vollyhall, boxing matchb, track meets, etc., were conducted 1 the training camps of the Southfcstern Military Department during^ ie month of June. : I HAND m IN RUSSIA I T Army of Five Million Men Is Planned WILL BE USED TO SPEED UP PROSECUTION OF. WAR AND BRING IT TO EARLY CLOSE. Washington, Aug. 7.?In urging enactment of the administration's man-power bill extending selective service ages to from 18 to 45 years of age, General March told the senate military committee today that the war department plans an^army of approximately 5,000,000 men, to be raised as soon as possible. While realizing the importance of the measure, General March said he did not believe it was necessary to recall congress before the present recess plan expires on August 24, providing the bill could be reported at that time. ,? About July 30, General March said, the United States reached a decision to enlarge its military program to carry out the policies agreed upon at the recent inter-allied confernece at Paris to speed up prosecution of the war and bring it to an early conclusion. The chief of staff entered into a general discussion of the entire subject and the necessity for amending the present law. Much of his statement given to the committee behind closed doors was supplementary to that of Provost Marshal General Crowder yesterday. Questionued by senators regarding the apparent "change of front" of the war department in its /program, General March told of the government's decision in according with the Paris conference. For the new program Secretary Baker and other bfficials concluded that there must be an extension of the age. While about three million men are now under arms, army officials think there should be approximately five million men at home and in France. In order not to disturb the present system and to avoid calling men who | had been .given exemption, extension of the ages is necessary. From General March's testimony and other information received, the j committee has gained the impression j that while all men between the ages ! of eighteen and forty five would be j subject to military duty, under the I new law it is proposed that those between eighteen and twenty years oi age De Kepi in tnis country unui the last. _ DEATH OF MISS STRICKLE. Miss Rebecca Stricklje, sixty-five years of age, died Wednesday morning at two-thirty of Brights disease, death overtaking her at the home of her sister, Mrs. T. J. Douthart. She has lived with her sister for a number of years. The funeral services were held Thursday morning at twelve o'clock at the home of Mrs. Douthart, Rev. H. Waddell Pratt officiating. Interment took place at Long Cane cemetery. The deceased left three immediate relatives, two sisters and a brother. Mrs. Douthart and Mrs. W D pi cf Y? ?T . X jucaxu w CiC U1C Old LCIO. iUi. Geo. R. Strickle of New Orleans, is the brother. All four were born in Wilmington, Ohio. MR. AND MRS. ROSENBERG GONE TO SALUDA Mr. Sol Rosenberg and wife took their little child, George, to Saluda last Tuesday. They will remain there some-time, to see if the mountains will not imprvoe the health of the litle boy, who has suffered a great deal this summer. It is certainly hoped that their wish is grati-j fled. i ; \ . . ; S if. * . ? 'FRIEND OF BLEASE ON TRW BENT Tries to Use Pocket Knife On Pollock. SCENE AT NEWBERRY Serious Difficulty Narrowly Averted at Senatorial Campaign Meeting Wednesday. Newberry, Aug. 7.?The tensest situation of the entire senatorial campaign developed in Newberry today when the shedding of blood was nOrrowly averted. Throughout the meeting the atmosphere was surcharged with excitement which a single rash word or act would have caused to flare up into bloody wrath. Once the strained circumstances got to such a pitch that John Henry Chappell, ardent supporter of Cole L. Blease, attempted to get at Pollock with a pocket knife after Pollock had concluded his speech and was getting a breath of fresh air in the rear door of the court room. The Chappell incident had its inception near the conclusion of Mr. Pollock's speech. Mr. Chappell aBked the speaker if he had said the supporters of Cote L. Blease were disloyal. "I am not charging anyone as being disloyal." Mr. Pollock I said. He was simply putting the record of Mr. Blease from Blease newspapers before the voters. This did not satisfy Mr. Chappell, who I said something about Mr. Pollock I being too much of a coward to *y so and started towards Mr. Pollock, who made an effort to answer, but only got-ao far as to say* "Now, look here, my friend," when' he was . admonished that his time Was up. I Sheriff Cannon G. Blease and others j forced Mr. Chappell back into his | seat. j While James Francis Rice was j speaking Mr. Pollock and a number ' - ^ "^1 mama of fll A rfllT j Ui UUICfS WCIC OWlllUliig aw bUC ivui of the court room. Mr. Chappell came back thrugh the rear room with a large knife in his hand and when he came on Pollock began to , give vent to his wrath by cursing. I Sheriff Blease and others pulled him i away before the knife could be j brought into play. j Candidates had been forewarned | of prospective danger at the Newberry meeting just as threatening letters have been received, relative to pending meetings in the Piedmont. Harry H. Blease, county j chairman, also appreciated the ugly j mood the followers of the ex-goverj nor were in, as evidenced by his ur1 gent appeals that the candidates be i ? j j j allowed iu ueiiver men aj/cctuco. I "" CHEESE SPECIALIST TO BE HERE Miss Elizabeth Forney, State Cotj tage Cheese Specialist, will be with I Miss Martin on Monday, Tuesday j and Wednesday of next week, Aug. . 12, 13, and 14th. j The following meetings will be | held at the times stated below, and | all ladies in the various communities are urged to atend these meetings: Warrenton?Aug. 12, at 9:30 o'clock Monterey?Aug. 12, at 4:00 o'clock. I Cold Springs?Aug. 13, at 9:30. | Sharon?Aug. 13, at 4:00. Mrs. Wham's?Aug. 14, at 9:30. i Arborville?Aug. 1? at 4:00. ! DISTINGUISHED NEGRO TO SPEAK HERE Bishop W. W. Beckett, negro missionary in South Africa, is spending a few days in tcwn with Rev. D. A. Christie of the colored Methodist Church. He has been in and through the war zone and has numbers of experiences to relate. He will speak of his voyage and observations in Africa Monday evening in St. James Church. The public is invited. LEGIONS OF SLAVS 1 10 IRAININ STATE European Races Mobil- S ize at Wadsworth. BY ORDER OF MARCH j I ' 1 Oppressed Peoples of Central Powers to Receive Military Instruction to Enter War. s< Washington, Aug. 7.?The Slavic j Legion of the United States, author- j a. ized in the army appropriation of ^ July 9, will be sent to Camp Wads- S( worth for training preparatory to g service in Europe, according to gen- a. eral order No. 70 of Gen. Peyton C. t( March, chief of staff, which will be made public in aday or two. The Le- ^ gion will be compose dof Jugo-Slavs, Czecho-Slovaks and Ruthuenians, yj Ukrainians in the United States who -r are not citizens of the United States j j but are desirous of engaging in the ^ war against the central powers. For ?, the most part they are of the races! jr under oppression m AustriaHungary. | y Officers of the United States Army ^ j c. who so desire may be assigned to | these regiments provided that all of- ^ fleers below the rapk of field officer' ^ must be able to speak both English ^ and the languages of the race in the! tj regimen tto which they desire trans-1 ! v: The Legion will be organized as j rp infantry regiments of the National j Army and so far as practicable the j ^ companies will be composed, of the 3ame race. Enlistment will be vol-1 g untary and will be handled through! ?__ _. . # i a, the regular recruiting stations. Proof! j i of loyalty to the cause of the Unit-1 ^ ed States and of a desire to fight i ^ the Germans and the Austro-Hun-i I o garian government will be required. ^ The recruiting of these regiments!^ is expected to be begun at once as j f the Slavs in the United States were i * ,b anxious for the arrangement au- j j thorizing them to raise regiments i of their countrymen in the United J States who are not citizens of the I United States and therefore not subti ! ject to draft, but who are anxious I, j to get into the big war on the side! ^ I of America and her allies. I . i n WRECK ON SEABOARD. ; y . k Late Wednesday afternoon, a! a ! freight train on the Seaboard was, H I derailed just this side of Elberton, j h { Ga. Eighteen cars were thrown off i a j the track. Masses of wreckage, j h cars overturned at various angles, A and jammed freighters greeted sal-jst vagers on their arrival. Travellers. S from Atlanta, had to spend the night j S in Elberton and walk a mile up the; a, track the following morning to con-; tinue their journey northward. j d The wreckage was cleared aw*y j d: and the track fixed by noon Thurs-, c< day, however, and trains ran on: fs their regular schedule. j j< I :F ! ERNEST PENNAL C] PROMOTED QUICKLY w j It is no longer Private Ernest Pennal, and he has only been gone' six weeks. But Corporal Pennal, the son of Mrs. H. M. Pennal, received i a his promotion the other day and has T ;been transferred from Camp Jaek-jlc j son to Camp Cusseta, Michigan. If "W he gets a promotion like this every b: j six weeks ,it won't be long before D j General Pershing will have to look tl | out for his job. j t( . D CORPORAL KENNEDY j t( SAFELY OVERSEAS n, ? . ! ti News has just been received thati Corporal W. P. Kennedy of the 62nd Artillery Division has landed safely! on the other side. Not only his imi mediate family is glad to learn of S his safe arrival, but a host of friends ei in Abbeville and Troy, who are fol- z< lowing his career with interest, are b< delighted to know that the first per- ei ils if the great game have been safe- i* ly passed over. si fHREE BATHE SEE ALLIEI Si Sixteen Fine Soldiers Left Here Wednesday HREE ARE ABBEVILLE BOYSKING SOL ON HAND AND MOST BOISTEROUS IN FAREWELL The miraculous is marvelous only ) long as it is not commonplace, his is a theme for a sermon, but we pply it only to the small crowd that ade farewell to the latest group of )ldiers sent off by Abbeville to the reat war. Only a few people were t the Court House when the roll call )ok place weanesaay morning, dut ley, like the selected men, possessed le quality of greater quantity. The sun had already hailed Abbeille with a boisterous "Good mornlg" when the event took place. The hosen few, who are now hep, hep, epping at double quick time, abouticing, and?^I'll bet a dollar?wishig they were back in dear old Abbeille with all its Coca-Cola, found it icpedient not to make too many efirts in geting around, but sat quietr on the shaded portions of the Court [ouse steps, or in automobiles filled ith sisters and sweethearts, or in le Greek's?name unspellable. rnree 01 tne young men were addcille boys -mre an3 proper. James . Stevenson, one of them, was made aptai and had charge of the rest uring their trip to Camp Wardsorth. He is the son of the County upervisor, Mr. W. A. Stevenson, nd is just twenty-one years old. ohn Magili is a* son Of Mr. and Mra.' 7. T. Magill. He used to work in i. W. White's and has recently been n the road. The third, Manning iryson Cochran, likewise is one of ie latest registrants. He is the-son 3 Mrs. S. H. Cochran and is rememered as the efficient clerk*in S. J. ,ink's?the man whose shoes Max mith is now wearing. All said it is a fine looking bunch f men that Abbeville sent away this me. Pinkney Anderson stood every it of six foot two and Benjamin [ing did not fal far short of the same lark, not speaking of several other oung giants. And J. A. Magjll is nown around these parts chiefly s the lusty wielder of the pigskin, [e ought to hit the Hinderberg line ard. Well, John Alewine went too, nd so did Calvin Aeheley, despite is salt and pepper suit, Lycurgus yers, Hertford Cann, Andrew Fergu jn, James Gilliam, William Keller, loan Pruiutt, R. L. Speer, Henry mith, and James Walter Watt. They II were fine fellows. At the station the canteen ladies istributed their usual gifts and aditionally some well iced water, in jnsideration of the weather. After irewells of all descriptions, jocular, >yful, husky, and tearful, the "Dixie Iyer" for Hodges pulled out and the rowd turned towards the square ondering who is t ogo next. PAINFUL ACCIDENT. Mr. W. F. Malone, of Greenwood, lineman with the Western Union elegraph Company, received a disrated arm and a severe jolting onj Wednesday, when he fell out of the ig hickory tree on the premises of r. C. C. Gambrell. It is presumed iat the belt, by which he was fasjned, broke and caused the fall. r. Gambrell gave immediate atjntion and no serious results are ow expected. Mr. Malone has reirned to his home. . ? , THE HOME TOWN MAP. Large scale maps of the United) hancinc on the walls of Am-| rican Y. M. C. A. huts in the war jnes are being "flagged" by our oys in Khaki. The maps are covred with tiny, American flags markig their home towns in the various ;atee. It's a great game. ; : FIELDS | ) ARIES WIN Americans, French and British Score Successes Over Germaiis. GROUND MAINTAINED ACROSS THE VESLE Haig's Men Strike Hard Blow Along Five Mile Front in Famous Ly* Sector and Advance to Depth of Thousand Yards. Petain Sue* ceeds in Triangle Effort. ??? ? ' j ~Tk The allied armies have obtained further successes over the German* in fighting in the Soissons-Rheans > - : , sector and to the north in the Mont- , didier regoin and still further nortih in Flanders between the Laws and m uiaicutc JLWVCIO* East of the town of Braisne om the Vesle River, midway betweea Soissons and Rheims, American and French troops after the stiffest land ' * 1 of fighting have crossed the river and held all the positions gained. The French to the north of Rhenaa V have penetrated the German poa- i a tions for more than 400 yards ia the railroad traingle beginning at* Rheims and running northeastward toward Rethel and northwestward toward Laon. In addition all the v ~ positions previously gained by the allied troops throughout the entire PlmJmc-.QniccnriQ s?n?fr>r have solidly held, notwithstanding counterattacks and the heavy artillery fire the enemy has poured dotn? from the heights north of the Veiit -ty upon their antagonists. Near where the Vesle enters the Aisne east Soissions the French have overcome the resistance of the enemy and taken the village of Ciry-Salsogne. <, In the Montdidier sector the Frertch south and southeast of the town have further advanced their line on this important sector, which > represents the junction point of ther armies of the German crown prince * and Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. It remained for the British, however, to deliver the hardest blow against the Germans Wednesday, following up a previous advance ia the famous Lys sector northwest of La Bassee, Field Marshal Haig's men pushed froward their line over a front of nearly five miles to a depth of a thousand yards betwee* the Lawe and Clarence Rivers. The details of this advance are not yetf in hand but the maneuver doubtleat will go a far way toward lesseningthe point of the hasty salient that has stood as a menace for months to the British line north and south of it. DEATH OF BILLY DARRACOTT. Mr. William Darracott, commonly known to his friends as Billy Darracott, of McCormick County, died oa 6th inst. at his home, in the sixtyninth year of his age. The funeral services were held on the following day. Mr. Darracott was an honest, industrious citizen. Denied the benefits of an education, he learned in the school of experience those ten| ets of right-living and right-think| ing which make for good citizenship. I He was possessed of a modest fortune, and sought but little of the world's goods. He was interested in the welfare of others and of his state, and sought to serve it r.s it was given him to see the truth. | LIEUT. DEVLIN j SAFELY OVERSEAS Moure Vkoe a-rrivorl frnm T.iplltl J_ Roddy Devlin, stating that he ha* arrived in France, after an uneventful trip across. He is remembered here as being for years connectei with the Milford Drug Co. His many friends are glad to know of the successful termination of the first lap of his journey. ; -