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Abbeville Press and Banner E?tabli?hed 1844. $1.50 the Year. Abbeville, S. C., Wednesday Morning, Aug. 28, 1918. SingleCopieg, Five Cent*. 75th Year" LATEST FIGURES ON ' STATE ELECTION' Votes Give Increase v For Dial and t Cooper. d d ^ POLLOCK AND retri-na i IN SECOND RACE . is AnotLer Primary May be Necessary ? 0to Decide Race For Lieutenant ^ Governor. b \ r Witk nearly 100,000 reported for ^ the senate in Tuesday's South Caro h lina primary Dial continues to main- d tain his majority over Blease and j tl Rice, increasing his lead over Blease is 22,903 votes, while his majority over the two is 18,989. Latex returns re- ii ceived showed Dial steadily holding s: his lead and his majority may be in- n creased by the votes yet to be report?J Tl? loaf nnto ehnnroH Dial K7_- D CU. X lie 1UOV ?vwv ?. ?% ? 698, Blease 34,795, Rice 3,914. For the short term a second prim- p ary will be necessary between Pollock p * T ]| and Peeples. Pollock continued to 3 lead as additional returns were re-: I c< ceived yesterday. The vote Pollock 29,597, Peeples 27,811, Benet 26,929. si Robert A. Cooper gained considerable ground during the day, increas-i ing his majority over his four oppon-j ^ ents to 14,533, while his- lead over; ? I P Richards, his 'nearest opponent, g, reached 25,000. The vote: Cooper, s1 50,625, Richards 25,619, Bethea 9,-is] 006, Duncan 963, DesChamps 504. Ie; The status of the race for lieutenant governor is still uncertain. It p is barely possible that a second race' t( is necessary between Liles and fi A ltViniio>k tVio OvflnCA- ' 1 If Igliuuoil. c - | _ burg man has a majority of the'votes c< thus far reported it is not so large ei that additional returns may not ne-!t( cessitate another primary. The vote, r' shows: Liles 43,385, Wightman 28,-[ ^ 306, Cohen 13,477. | i? Indications point to a second race SJ for railroad commissioner between, I tl Richardson and Arnold. The votes received yesterday placed Richardson; in the lead with Arnold second and j ^ Smith not far behind, with a chance j >f being in the second race. The rote for the first three: Richardson 82,636, Arnold 21,531, Smith 20,954. d * ' * 1 fl For commissioner of agriculture c kere will be a second race between larris and Garrison, both of Ai;der- ^ ion. The vote: Harris 31,213, Carlson 27,584, Morrison 19,822. ' je ROYE CAPTURED TUESDAY s1 The Hindenburg lines were pene- b rated Tuesday at a point east of p I en in el. h Troops of Field Marshal Haig are tl tdvancing astride the river Scarpe s< ind are pushing forward to the south si if Bapaume. Elsewhere along the ii British front their progress also con- n inuea. G There has been heavy fighting at ^ iOngueval and on the adjacent ? tttViora fVio flormnns lnnriphpH I heavy counter attack with fresh to orces brought up especially for the urpose from Sedan. ^ In the face of this counter attack w le British fell back to the edge of Cl I U ongueval. j ' J 0 In the course of the night the Newj^ ealanders, according to reports j ^ vept around Bapaume at the north j. j rid reached the railyay just north of j o le Bapaume-Cambrai road. j The Germans are offering stiff re-' 1f ^ stance in the neighborhood of Thil-J ^B>y to the south of Bapaume. Reports have been received from! Mhe advanced lines that British pa-1 jH-ols have again reached the outskirts n Bapaume and that there has been ftreet fighting between the British e: Hnd the Germans on the edge of the b 'Dry" Measure Seems Likely Agreement Reached to Hare Proposed Prohibition Law Effective in July Instead of January. Washington, Aug. 26.?Nationride "bone dry" prohibition, effecive July 1, 1919, and continuing uring the war at least, loomed toay as a strong probability through ompromise in congress. An agreement for passage of legslation to stop sales of all intoxiating beverages on that date, leadrs of both wet and dry factions in lie serate stiteri tonight seemed to e in sight President Wilson was epresented as not opposing the legslation and senators believed the ouse would accept the proposal uner negotiations. A definite "genlemen's agreement" in the senate 5 expected in a few days. The war time prohibition bill pendig in the senate came up for conideration under the consent agreelent made several weeks ago giving! ; right of way until disposed of,! ut was temporarily displaced while lie senate proceeded with the man ower bill. Then the leaders suporting and fighting the prohibition jgislation -proceeded with corridor nd dark room discussions on the ompromise. As it now stands the bill would top the sale of intoxicants January next. At President Wilson's sugestion, according to Senator Shepard, of Texas, prohibition advocates ostnonement of the debate was a reed to. The president, it was j tated, believes additional time i lould be given to financial and othr adjustments. In today's negotiations most of the rohibition advocates were Agreeable > fixing July 1 as the date. They rst insisted that it should be April but a majority were said to have ansented to the later date. Opponnts of'the legislation were declared! ) be convinced that it cannot be deeated and to be satisfied with the roposed extension of time. Formal conclusion of an agreement j s expected to pave the way for pas age of the bill by the senate late his week or early next week. lOING to take a long vacation now Louis Smith got tired of working own at the cotton mill the other day nd decided that he would take a va-1 ation. Now ,rest is all right in its lace, especially for tired | editors, tut idleness proved to be the root of 11 evil, so far as Louis was concernd. His was a restless idleness. The trouble was that Louis' salarv! topped when his rest began. Andj either the Lord sends or the devil j rings any food when Louis can't j ay the grocery bill. So he put oni is thinking cap and figured out that le ten dollars that Jennie Lou Johnon, another negro, had put in her tocking after a hard week's washlg would just about buy him a good; leal and two tickets to the Palmi harden in Harrisburg. So Louis po-| tely walked into Jennie's house and [unned the ten bucks. Louis had also been reading a dejctive story and appropriated a pisjl he found in a drawer. But sherf Burts and officer Jones decided it j 'as not for the best health of the' ommunity that he have it and kept for the county, when they arrest-' d him shortly afterwards. Though! e says he did not take the ten dolirs and the officers could not findJudge Hollingsworth bound himj ver to court on the charge of lar-| ency. Louis will probably spend a' >ng vacation on the chain gang. But, oh Law' wha's dat rest! SCHOOL TO OPEN SEPT. 9th The City schools will open Monday! torning, September 9th. All those children who are to stand xaminations are expected to assem-' le at the high school building on hursday morning, September 5th. CONGRESSIO COUNTIES Abbeville Anderson Greenwood McCormick Newberry Oconee - Pickens Totals The figures from all counties and Oconee, which vxn^ces it certaii S m m !i mnm mm luwl i FOB THE CAMPS Twenty-One Men Leave For Camp* ( and Training School During Five Day Period Commencing September 1st. Some to Camp Greene. The following white men have volunteered and will leave . Sunday j ( morning for the Uuiversity of S. C., c Columbia, S. C.i f Clarence Monroe Betts e Charles Walter Ellis ^ James Pettigru Evans . James Horace King James C. Kiugh Willie W. Knox William R. Speed List of colored men ordered to re- >s port to the local board at 9 o'clock t September 1, 1918, for entrainment c to Camp Jackson, S. C.: * Jesse Ely u Joseph Finley William Lomax t1 James Miller o William Murry h Joe Rapley b The following white men have v been ordered to report to the local j e board for Abbeville county, ?fn Tues-; ^ day, September 3rd, 1918, at 9:00j o'clock. These men will go to Camp Jackson, Columbia, S. C.: Charles Ambrose Bagwell Henry Marshal Forrester Claude Benson Morrow The following limited service men c have been ordered to report to thej local board on Thursday afternoon, ,'n September "5th, 1918, at 6 o'clock t for entrainment to Camp Greenleaf, o Ga: t William Erskine Agnew j 0 wli w n rjuues JLiugeiie ^aiupueu I q Charles Erskine Smith t Leonard F. Whitlock a John Pressley Young t 1 c REESE HALL IN FRANCE. j i, * I Reese Hall landed safely in France, j f It would be a sad day for the Yanks j if he failed to get there. For Reese j a 4. i.L. i j. tr:.i t? l P can turn out tne uest victory creau I athis side of the Hindenburg Line. | ^ Asd when General Pershing enters; Berlin, Reese is going to be right;c there as the prime cause of the Gen-j ' eral's good digestion and happy coun-! ? tenance. The only time Reese ex-1 b I A pects to let bread fall flat on him, is J R when he bakes that loaf to choke s down the Kaiser's throat. t( c MRS. BARKSDALE BACK After traveling luxuriously all over northern United States, Mrs. W. | b D. Barksdale has decided that Abbe- j s] ville is good enough for her and ,re- A turned to the city Tuesday evening. ft In the course of her journey she e touched at Detroit, Buffalo and Ni- y agara. p Mrs. Barksdale spent some time in w Lexington, Ky., where she enjoyed jh the hospitality of her sister, Mrs. J. v N. Thorne. h t] Lieut. Dr. J. C. Hill left for Camp ^ Greene last Monday.His friends give him up with regret and feel that they have been badly treated?in that he f: did not dress up in his handsome uni-j form and show himself off before he r left. T A* - _L* if' ? ?. >. ? . * . NAL RACE. \ Aiken Dominick 827 791 2,595 3,062 1,262 1,052 455 329 1,167 1,627 ?. 1,505 1,179 1,226 1,449 -9,037 9,489 are official except from Pickens i that Dominick-is renominated. SEgy government Regrets Clash With the Americans. .Caranza Orders Military Governor to Meet United States Army Officers . Washington, Aug. 28.?Arrival of Jen. Elias Calles", military governor f CnnAro of Mnr?o1ao +a -r\vr\ X UVUV1U) C*U XlVgClACO bU piuound regrets of 'the Mexican government for tfce clash Tuesday beween Mexican and American troops] ti the border town is expected to put ,n official close to the matter. The; ction of President Caranza in or-j ering Gen. Calles to proceed on a pecial train to the scene of the dis-j urbance for this purpose was ac-| epted here as a formal admission | hat the blame for the affair rested; pon the Mexicans. At tlte state department it was said hat n^official notice would be taken' f the clash until military authorities1 ad made a complete report based on1 elieved that Gen. Calles' apoligies rould be supplimentei by similar j xpressions through the Mexican amassador in Washington. In military circles, the disposition! ? xt? 1? o.i /<xz> tu view me nu^aics event ao nore or less natural ^development' long the border which the authori-! ies on both sides have difficulty in; ontrolling. At the same time there is no incli-j ation in military circles to dismiss, he matter utterly. The deaths of, ne officer and one enlisted man and he injury of 28 soldiers and civilians n the American side furnish a serius reason, officials said, for viewing he affair in the light of future prob iDinties. rne nope was expresseaj hat the conference between Gen. i Jalles and Gen. Cabell, would result, n a formal understanding which irould remove most of the chances or recurrence. Official dispatches to the war deartment made it plain that the Amrican troops were not used until the ring from the Mexican side had beome so general that the sentries aang the border were in danger of eing overwhelmed. Orders have een issued giving Brig. Gen. Willianv l. Holbrook, commander of the; outhern department, full authority: o act along the border, Gen. March, | hief" of staff said. MRS. SIGN TO LEAVE Mrs. Gertrude Signs is leaving Ab-; eville next week for Alcalu, where ka V?oe rt \n rrri4-Vi fVa T\ W uc uoo a pvoiuuu yy itii biic JL/. I ildemah Sons Co., as bookkeeper. Irs. Sign has kept books for the wat-j r and light plant for the past eight: ears and has served the people com-; etently and pleasantly. She has a1 ide circle of friends who will miss er cheerful presence and bright conersation, and in her church where er sweet voice has added much to J he services. Her friends deplore | er leaving. Mr. R. S. Galloway came down rom Due West Tuesday night and> ras an interested listener to the. eading of the election returns last J 'uesday night. / 186,779 Men Called For Army Service i Four Separate Draft Calls Constituting First of September Call, Issued. Washington, Aug. 26.?Four separate selective draft calls, constituting the first of the September calls and requiring 186,779 men to entrain for training camps between ,August 30 and September 6, were iiiued tonight by Provost Marshal General Crowder. Every state and the District of Columbia is called to furnish men for training to augment the forces abroad. For general military service 125,000 white men and 21,170 negroes are called; for limited service 40,503 white men! are called. The Calls by States. The calls by states, with the camps to which the men are to be sentf, include: General Military Service (White): Entrainment September 3, 1918, to September 6, 1918: Alabama, 3,000, Camp Pike, Ark.; Arkansas, 3,000,i Camp Pike, Ark.; District of Col-j umbia, 500, Camp Lee, Va.; Florida,! 500, Camp Jackson, S. C.; Georgia, 2,100, Camp Gordon, Ga.; Louisiana, 4,000, Camp Beauregard, La.; Mississippi, 2,000, Camp Pike, Ark.; New Jersey, 4,000, Camp Humphries, Va.; New York, 5,900, Camp Jackson, S. C.; and 5,900, Camp Gordon, Ga.; North Carolina, 700, Camp Jackson, S. C.; Rhode Island,! 8,000, Greenleaf, Ga.; South Caro-1 lian, 900, Camp Jackson, S. C.; Tennessee, 3,000, Camp Wadsworth, S.i C.; Virginia, 200, Camp Lee, Va.;j West Virginia, 5,000, Camp Lee,1 Va. Call for Negroes. General Military Service (Color-1 ed): Entrainment SeDtember 1.! 1918: Alabama, _50, Camp Dodge,; Iowa; 500 Camp McClellan, Ala.; 1.350 Camp Funston, Kan. Arkansas,) 500, Camp Pike, Ark.; 4_8 Cam^ Dodge, Florida, 181, Camp Joseph E. Johnston, Fla.; Georgia, 127,^ Camp Dix; 500 Camp Meade; 500 1 Camp Gordon; 500 Camp Wheeler; : 219 Camp Joseph E. Johnston, Fla.;! 1 Louisiana, 1,318, Camp Grant; 500n Camp Beauregard; Mississippi, 2,r|; 043, Camp Funston; 2,000, Camp! Shelby, Miss.; New York, 513, Camp'j McClellan; North Carolina, 475, Camp Lee,, South Carolina, 500^ Camp Jackson; Tennessee, 2,304, Camp Sherman; 1,000 Camp Taylor; Virginia, 25, Camp Lee. THE OFFICIAL COUNT Votes Cast in Primary Tabulated by Executive Committee to Declare the Results. The Democratic Executive Committee met yesterday in the office of j the County Chairman to tabulate the^ vAfoc noaf in rvrimowy I V vvw vvtuw 4U V*iV |/J. UMUJ. J WW UUV1UIV the results for county offices. The results of the races in Abbeville county are as follows: For United States Senate, Blease 692, Dial 898. For Governor: Bethea 80, Cooper 889, Richards 557. For Lieutenant Governor: Cohen 236, Liles 756, Wightman 632. For Supt. of Education: Rector , 531, Swearingen 1,079. For Attorney General': Sapp 688, Searson 291, Wolfe 638. For Commissioner of Agriculture: ] Harris 743, Morrison 369. j, For Railroad Commissioner: Ar-n nold 341, McLaughlin 221, Richard-1, son574, Smith 359, Vowell 119. !( For Congress: Aiken 827, Domi-! j nick 791. j, For House of Representatives: j Ashley 949, McAdams 1,256, McGeel 898. I Huckabee was declared the nomi-i nee for Magistrate at Lowndesville,! 1 Vermilion for Long Cane, Tribble forj1 Donalds, Carwile for Level Land; J. i Howard Moore was declared the nom-j' inee for State Senate; R. H. Mc-'j Adams and M. J. Ashley for the: 1 House of Representatives, and J. F. 1 Miller for Judge of Probate, James j: Chalmers for County Treasurer, and; 1 Richard Sondley for Auditor. j < i GERMAN SOLDIERS ARE FACING PERIL Violent Counterattacks Born of Desperation Fail. . HUN LINES CRUMBLE BEFORE ALLIED LINES Hindenburg's Position Well Oat flanked With British and Frend Closely Pursuing Teutoas. The Germans facing the allied forces from Arras to Soissons everywhere are in direct peril. On almost every sector of the battle front, the enemy line continues \ to crumble before the allied attack, 4 ? notwithstanding the violence, bora of desperation, of the counter offensive tactics. Near Arras the old Hindenburg line now is well outflanked; from the Scarpe to the Somme the hostile line is gradually falling back while from the south of Sommee to Soissons the enemy front has literally been smashed ani the , German hosts are apparently caught in two distinct traps, escape from which, without . heavy losses in men made prisoner and guns^and material seems almost impossible of achievement. Scores of additional towns have oeen capiurea Dy tne tfntisn, *rencfc and American troops, the Americans having entered the fray with the French northwest of Soissons while all the old German salients in the allied lines now have been flattened out and the allies have themselves dug deeply into the enemy's terrain. The first trap into which the enemy finds himself is the triangle formed by the sharp curve of the Somme river with Peronne its apex and witk Curlu on the Somme and Fresnes, respectively its northern bases. This triangle is a little more than three miles deep and six miles wide and in it the Germans are fighting with their h DO Ira fVi a finmma /\? hnfl* vv VUV WWJUMiV Vil WV MK north and the east. Desperate resistance is being of- ? fered by the enemy in order that his men may have time to reach a have* v of safety across the stream but the British are har dafter their quarry, and with the French a little to the "south almost up to the river to aid them by an outflanking movement, it would seem that odds are heavily against the Germans. "ON THE WAR PATH" Miss Carrie Cochran, the very proficient linotype operator and newsgatherer of the, Press and Banner, is spending a few days near D. W. visiting relatives \and eating fried A / OL ~ 1.1 J uiiicneii aim wateiiiieiuiis. \oiit: tuiu is that they had a late patch of the latter before she left.) No doubt Miss Carrie will return to us next /. week feeling much improved, as we understand that she has been on the iob for some spell without a vacatiom. And a vacation is something that & woman (in our estimation) has to have. We came near forgetting to mention that she was accompanied by the keyboard artist of the Medium, who, we understand, also needed a rest. We do not know whether V to expect a copy of that valued sheet sr not. _ I Thanks, for your attention. VISITING IN DENVER Miss Jessie Hill left Abbeville last week for Denver, Col., where she will make an extended visit to her sisters, Mrs. Thomas and Mrs Baldwin. Miss Hill stopped a week in. \tlanta before her trip into the west. Miss Hill will be greatly missed by a lost of friends, and in her churck society where she has been an enthusiastic worker. Every one wishis her a pleasant stay. - v a