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-5,rAbbeville Press and Banner! Established 1844. $1.50 the Year. Abbeville, S. C., Tuesday,: Sept. 10, 1918. Single Copies, Five Cents. 75th Year* II ALLIES ARE C< MAKING French Pressing Eastward Toward La Fere and Laon HUNS FIGHT DESEPERATELY Allies Gain Ground Between Vesle and Aiane Rivers, Where Americans Are Fighting With French. The British and French armies continue to cut their way into the German lines on various sectors of the lower part of the battle line in France. Notwithstanding the weather, whieh has caused somewhat of a slackening in the violence of the operations, Field Marshal Haig's forces have materially encroached upon Cambrai and St. Quentin, while farther south the French armies are pressing eastward on the old Moyon sector otward La Fere and Laon and - northward from Soissons in an aux: iliary manoeuvre with the same obectives in view. Between the Vesle and the Aisne rivers, where the American troops . are fighting with the French, addi tional ground has been gained Dy the Allied forces. Six Miles of St. Quentin. The British now are standing at Villeveque, six miles from St. Quentin, having .carried out an advance over a ten-mile front on the general line of the Epehy, Hesbecourt and Vermand. To the north the greater part of the Havrincourt wood one of the German strong points barring the way to Cambrai, also has been captured. So rapid has been the British advance along this portion of the front that they now are in the positions they, held before the big German drive of last March. In these . positions the Germans are offering stout resistance to .further progress by the British. Pn<?iwi?lin?r F avac f Gradually the French are working their way. around the St. Gobian forest north of Soissons in the movement that aims at the outflanking of La Fere and Laon and all the German positions east of this region. They have reached the outskirts oi the village of Sevais on the northern edge of the forest and two and a half miles from La Fere, while a short distance to the north they have taken the village of Mennessis, or the St. Quentin canal. This latter gain brings the French within little more than eight miles from St Ouentin. Huns'Fighting Desperately. North of the Aisne, near Soissons the Germans are fighting hard tc keep the French in check, realizing that the gain by them of much more territory in this region, in conunction with the manoeuvre that is ir progress around the St. Gobian forest, will place the entire German defense line eastward toward Rheims in a critical position. During the first week of Septem ber Field Marshal Haig's forces have taken more than 19,000 prisonerand large numbers of machine guns and quantities of stores. x That further big events are on th< program of the Eentente Allies ir the prosecution of the war is indi cated by the fact that Newton D Ba^er, the American Secretary o: War, is in France for a war confer ence. LOCAL BOARD OFFICE TO MOVE UPSTAIRS The Office of the Local Board ha: been moved from the Clerk o: Court's Office to the Office upstairs. Those wishing to transact busi r.ess with the Local Board, pleas* take notice. The Local Board's of fice will be the first office as you g< up the back stair case of the Couri House hall. Li-,- .. : 1NTINUALLY LONG STRIDES To Be Examined Before Local Board NINETEEN WHITE MEN TO STAND PHYSICAL EXAMINATION TODAY. Abbeville is going forward with its work of swelling Pershing's armies in France. The following white men have been ordered to report to the Local Board for Abbeville County today at 11 o'clock and stand the 'physical examinations: William Austin McCurrv. Reuben Baker Haddon. David Pinkney Grant. Alvin Dean Nance. John T. Moore. Richard Olin Darracott. Fred Nance. Joe Clarence McDade. Knox McDilL Ralph Joseph Tucker. . j Wallace Edward Lemon. George Alexander Ferguson, t j Roland Boggs Morrow. Fred Mason Uldrick. Albert Henry Kink. R. C. Self. I , Elliott G. Stokes. John Henry Caldwell. Fred Lee Ferguson. j i I .COURT ADJOURNED FRIDAY. ! ;J i j After a busy week in session, the| | Circuit Court was adjourned Friday ! evening by the presiding judge, J. ! W. DeVore, and Sheriff Burts there-' nnon left the f!niirf: TTrmste and lip. ' gan to look around for new worlds to conquer. The local lawyers tar-j ried to give one, long, last, lingering; ' look at the bar and also departed -from the Court House, where they; had spent such an exciting week! working and tired themselves out,' to take a long vacation on the I 6 ; ! square. II The settlement of cases up to j Thursday noon was given in the last | issue of this paper. On that day,; . Will Grier, charged with assault and .'battery, was convicted of carrying! J a concealed weapon and sentenced | ; to thirty days in jail or the payment J of a fine of $25. Nathaniel Calla-j I han and John Sherard plead guilty ;'to using an animal without the con-i II sent of the owner and were sentenc- j J ed to three months in the pen or to jpay $25 fine. Mr. Geo. Tate doeSj ? not see where this is going to do him i , any good, however, or his horse ei-| . ther. In the case of the State vs. I ; William Thomson, the jury decided) that the defendant was not guilty of! assault and battery as charged. The charge of murder registered} against Alfred Gray was never al-j , lowed to be decided by the jury. At; r the conclusion of the States evidence! , the court directed the jury to bring | . I in a verdict of not guilty. Gray had j , | been advised to go into his own I I . house and defend himself if his ene-: . my ^entered. This he did. The 5 court held that this was a plain case of self-defense. Three cases were disposed of on J ? Friday. Ike Jones was convicted of; 5 non-support and sentenced to sixj 5 months in jail or to pay a fine of( {$100. The court directed that inj ; case he paid his wife $8.00 per. II month, sentence should be suspend-( .'ed. Weston Richie plead guilty to . j house breaking and larceny, a twelve, fj months sentence being imposed up-; . | on him. Finally, W. T. Thrasher, j Ixi _:_i. ?J " ' " * 1 I naruet muore, ana /<acn yuinn, ae-; ! fendants in a liquor case, were dis-; j charged upon the jury's verdict of | j not guilty. All business having been ,i disposed of, the jurors were dis-1 p charged and the general sessions were adjourned until October. I j ; Miss Helen Eakin has returned to - Abbeville and resumed her studies > in the High School. She is one of t the especially bright pupils of the tenth grade. NEW PRIORITIES LIST MADE PUBLIC Master Key Governing Issuance of Priority Certificates. ANNOUNCEMENT BY CHAIRMAN BARUCH Announces New Priority List of In*dustries and Plants Essential to the War?Will Form Basis For Industrail Exemption in Relation to Draft. ' Washington, Sept. 8.?The new priorities list of industries and plants' essential to the war or the civil popu-' lation was announced today by Chajr- j man Baruch, of the War Industries Board. It was described as the "mas- { ter key" governing the issuance /Of; priority certificates by the priorities; commissioner of the board for fuel supply or electrical energy, transport tation, material facilities, capital and: labor and as the basis for industrial. exemption for the draft. "The inclusion of industries and; plants on this preference list", said the announcement, "does not operate as an embargo against all others, but the effect is to defer the requirements of all other industries and plants until the requirements of those on the preference list shall have been satis-; fied. "Industries have been grouped in-; to four classes according to their rel-| ative importance. No distinction, how-' ever, has been made between any of the industries or plants within anyj one class, and it was explained that | no significance .is to be attached to' the order in which they are listed' with any class. The industries or! plants undev class 1 are of exception-j al importance and include those most! vital to the prosecution of the warj and the public, and their require-i ments must be fully met in prefer-J ence to those in the three remaining classes. Fuel for domest'> consumption, residences, apartment houses, restaurants and hotels are in class 1.- In' I that class also are food, railways op-j erated by the railroad administration, j the army and navy, aircraft ships and [ ship yards, war chemical plants, coal ] mines and by-product coke plants, j certain public utilities, ordnance and small arms plants and ammunition and explosives. "Requirements of those grouped un der classes 2, 3 and 4 will be given priority over those not on the preference list, but as between these three classes there is no complete or absolll + o Palnfiira iw_ ^ portance of the industries and plants; within each group will be the basis : operation. Each plant listed in the three last classes will be required to file with the War Industries Board before tho, 15th of each month a report of its activities during the preceding month. Failure to comply with this order will mean removal from the preference list. ABBEVILLE BOYS GET SCHOLARSHIPS In the award for scholarships for| Clemson, John Richard Swetenburg.l of the city, and Clarence Crowther, of Antreville, were given the four year scholarships, George Cann was awarded the one vear scholarship. while J. Hallis Williams will take the one year agricultural course. These young men will leave in a few days to take up their studies. William Marshall of Boraville, Ga. who has been visiting his aunt, Mrs. C. S. Jones, left for his home Friday mornin. He no doubt wanted to stay longer. But even the most daring of Boy Scouts must surrender unconditionally to that stern and harsh soldier General School-teacher ALfED MANPOWER I: OffTGROWING HUNS Anierican Army Will Outnumber German Forces By Spring. CENTRAL EMPIRE HAS ONLY THE CLASS OF 1920 LEFT United States Soldiers Sent Abroad | Each Month Equal Half of Recruitment of Huns for Whole Year Says Late <- - Dispatches. wasmngton kept. i. ? Lrerman| manpower is being rapidly outgrown j. by^allifd arrivals in France. By spring the American army a-! lone will outnumber the German' forces, according to battle front dispatches reaching here today. America's monthly contingent is half the entire annual recruitment of the Germans, dispatches say. Between July 15 and September 1 about '50 divisions were used by the Germans, advices say. Germany has atfnost completely exhausted her cj|tss of 1919 and has only the class of 1920 left. She is postponing sending this last levy to the front and instead is cutting down the battalion strength to three companies instead 01 iour. . ] Both class 1919 and class 1920, consisting of boys, are underfed, reports indicate. These significant figtires, coupled yith state department Information as to Teuton political /onditions, spell the end of the Boche dream of a Germanized world. * The department significantly admitted today that there is more than' the usual Teuton propaganda to re-' ce;nt press accounts, which mean asved as a whole show possibilities of a dismemberment of much of the Central empires. Folish aspirations; Czecho-Slovak dreams backed by American recogni-, tion; threats of Bulgarians trouble; Baden's and Bavaria's discontent;, Austria's crippled economic situa-j tiori all point toward the inevitable ?a crumbling of the Teuton hopes! similar to the dashing of the ambi-' tions of conquest-crazed monarchs of other centuries. Government authorities warn that the United States must not relax its j efforts on the sole thought that the) end is right at hand. It takes a strong punch yet to down the last, of the hungry military monster Germany has reared, they say. But on the other hand, they do see thej signs of Bolshevism in Germany,! murmurings of discontent and dis-! satisfaction. All dispatches fromj abroad show that the German lead-1 ers are striving hard to keep the DeoDle in line and that not the least of the leaders' worries is the enger-j ness with which soldiers digest the j American-Allied truth propaganda, j MRS. HORTON PASSES AWAY, i l Mrs. L. L. Horton, mother of Mr. i E. C. Horton, editor of The Medium,] died at her home in Williamston on, Sunday morning. She was an agedj lady and had been in feeble health1 j for some time. Her death was not, ! altogether unexpected. | i ; The funeral services were held, i yesterday afternoon at three-thirty in the Baptist church. Mr. and Mrs. ; Horton are in Williamston attending j the sad ceremonies. They have the, ] sympathy of their many friends. | I The deceased had the honor of] i having one son and seven grandsons | in the service of her country. ; COTTON GINNINGS ALMOST DOUBLED Washington, Sept. 9.?The census! cotton renort todav shows 1.039.620! 'bales ginned from the 1918 crop up! I tc September 1, 1918. The same period in 1917 showed 614,787 bales; ginned and 850,668 for the same | period in 1916. j SECOND STATE ISBE1NI Men Must Register On September 12th FAILURE TO ACQUAINT ONESELF WITH CONDITIONS OF REGISTRATION NO EXCUSE Columbia, Sept. 7.?Thirteen million men are called by President Wilson and the War Department to register, for military service on Thursday, September 12th. The State Council of Defense calls upon the members of the county organizations and all citizens to spread the information throughout the State, in order that no man who is liable for military service under the new manpower bill shall be unadvised or ignorant of his obligation. Every man who has reached his 18th birthday and who has not reached his 46th birthday on September 12th, must present himself and register, unless he has already registered or is in the military or naval service of the nation. The registration in one day of the millions of men in the new class will _ _ ?. .1 ,1 T*. oe a trernenuuus unuertajving. n ia important that all who are liable for military service should be ready on September 12th, and that they should register as early as possible on that day. The penalty for failure to register is one year's .imprisonment, and no man can exonerate himself by the payment of a fine. SCHOOLS OPENED YESTERDAY It was a cold, dark morning. A sweet smile played around her lips as she dreamed blissfully.- But grim reality in the form of mama appeared at the doorway and to her, dimly conscious, came in low but firm tones, "Elizabeth, it is eight-thirty." And the fateful addendum, "You know, you must go to school today." As the hymnal says, "The summer is ended, oh Lord." Old Man Winter has not awakened yet and arisen -Pv?/\rv? erirkwrr Korl Knt Vio ViqH bad dream last Friday, nearly woke up, and yawned prodigiously. As a result, a cold rain began to fall. And a cold fall began in rain. The skies lost their saturated brilliancy, clouding over in a dull, dark, faded awning, which even a chilling wind could not drive away. The girls put away their rainbow jackets, donning all wools, and some of the town dandies appeared in overcoats and mufflers. Old man Winter can't enjoy the joke because he's not awake; but this is not to say that he is sound asleep yet, by a long shot. At any rate, Professor Riser opened the schools exactly as the clock struck nine, Monday morning, and lived un to the schedule. Four hundred sixty-six pupils were in attendance at the graded schools and one hundred ten appeared for enrollment at the High School. No special exercises were held and ambitious young heads are already bended over lessons given out the first day. Professor Riser is well satisfied with the way in wihch the ses* sions began and has entire confidence in his corps of assistants. Mr. McTyiere Daniel, whose return from Camp Jackson again made him available, will act as first assistant and principal of the High School. The other teachers are: Fii'st grade: Misses Epting, Philips and Kennedy. Second grade: Miss Timmons and Mrs. Riser. Third grade: Misses Robertson and Kortjohn. Fourth grade: Misses Carter and Best. Firth grade: Misses Logan and Hart. Seventh grade: Miss HwofonVinrcr TTifrh School! Misses W..VVV..MU*0. -r Magill, Lynch and Wood. Wallace Cheatham and Tom Harrison Forded to Troy in the rain last Saturday and said goodbye to relatives. PRIMARY G HELD TODAY Chief Interest In PoK 1 lock's Candidacy for Senate. .'?m : 1 EARLY VOTING IS URGED^S -? . . >!ill Offices of Attorney General, Rail'* road Commissioner, Conptroller General and Others Also to Be a Filled. Charleston, Sept. 9.?Democrats || i of South Carolina will tomorrow / I choose nominees for United States 1 ' * *!?>? YHS ( Senator, short term: Attorney GenI eral, Railroad Commissioner, Comp- ' J I ti oiler General and Commissioner of i Agriculture, Commerce and Indus- % i tries, in the second primary election. I With the exception of Comptroller General the contests are brought ' over from the first South Carolina. ; ; nrimary held August 27. Carlton W. ' Sawyer, candidate for Comptroller - a General without opposition, was ac- '= ; -identally killed three days before the primary and this, as a special .. J primary, will nominate his successor. Three candidates are in the race, , Rutledge L. Osborne, appointed by Governor Manning to serve until the "j election, E. C. Elmore, of Pickens, ''r{ and James A. Summersett, of Colum-, -| Senate, Short Term. i William P. Pollock, of Cheraw, <5 ! and Thomas H. Peeples, of Barnwell, i i are the candidates for the short . Senate term. Sam M. Wolfe, of /i 1 Anderson, and Claude N. Sapp, of . : Lancaster, seek the nomination for Attorney General. B. Karris and 3 ; W. D. Garrison, both of .'Affitanon, [ ] 1 are the candidates for CommiBSten| er of Agriculture, Commerce *and ^ ' Industries, while the race for Rail road Commissioner is between H. H. Arnold, of Spartanburg, and A. ( A. Richardson, of Columbia. In the fourth district a second,^ race for Congress will be decided be- !jj tween the incumbent, Sam J. Nich' ols, and Horace L. Bomar. Both can3 didates are from Spartanburg. In the first primary candidates . ?' were nominated for the United:.^ States Senate, Governor, Lieutenant < Governor, Superintendent of Education, three places in Congress, and : county offices. The official ticket follows: H I (Vote for One and Scratch the |B9 Others.) H U. S. Senator, Short Term. 9| | THOS. H. PEEPLES. , * 9 I W. P. POLLOCK. B Attorney General. B9 i CLAUD N. SAPP. m S. M. WOLFE. Railroad Commissioner. |B H. H. ARNOLD. A. A. RICHARDSON. g| Commissioner of Agriculture, Com Hfl merce and Induatries. W. D. GARRISON. :;fl j B. HARRIS. H Comptroller General. E. C. ELMEORE. S RUT. L. OSBORNE. 9 JAS. A. SUMMERSETT. 'S | CHIEF JUSTICE GARY SPEAKS. n Saluda County is about to comnipf-p a new sixtv thousand dollar I Court House. The dedicatory exer- HH | cises are to be held there on Sept. ! 23rd on the opening day of the ! Court of General Sessions. The prin- Ml , cipal address on that occasion will B9 . be delivered by the distinguished Chief Justice of the State. Hon, Eu- .KB 1 n ^ HBOf , gene B. Gary. |H3 Saluda is making great prepara- BB tions for the occasion, and a full ! day awaits them, as well as a day of 1 enjoyment. fHI Chief Justice Gary always has something worth while to say e* SRI these occasions, and the public will await this address with anticipatiom. fifl ?