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|v v Abbeville Press and Banner Established 1844. $2,00 the Year. ; Abbeville, S. C., Tuesday, Margh 11, 1919 Single Copies, Five Cents. 75th Year. t (ARMY 10 RETAIN MM SOLDIER! Two Hundred Thousand Selectme Must Remain?Fault of Congress. Failure to Pass Legislation Works Hardship on Men Who Would Go Home. Washington, March 8.?Retentio: within the army of about 200,00 men, obtained originally through th drafts and by transfer from the Na tional Guard, is planned by the wa department in building up the tem * porary military establishment of th nation. This was definitely mad known here today by General March I> chief of staff, who announced tne ae cision of the war department tha the army would "not be reduced un de* any circumstances" below 509, 909 until some law was passed fixinj the permanent forces. "All the military problems tha confront us have been carefully con sidered, determining the number o men necessary," General Marc! said, "and we can not get along with out that number?509,900?and the; will be held." I Under existing legislation, th< maximum war strength of the perma nent army is around 298,000. Th< exact figure, officers explained, car not be stated since some of the staf corps, as the quartermaster corps ' for instance, are permitted wide lati tude in their expansion. Voluntary enlistment to fill the regular armj has been reinaugurated both in \hi: country and 'in France, Genera Pershing having been authorized tc transfer recruits obtained from th< expeditionary forces to the regula] ncrjaniznf.inns anH fn nn pnniv alent number of drafted men. Then will remain, however, a deficiency of 100,000 from the total declare< by the military authorities to be th< minimum consistent with the respon sibilities of the United States. Thes< men therefore will have to com< from the forces which the war de partment had planned to demobilize Secretary .Baker several days ag( in explaining the position of the wai department as a result of the failun of the Sixty-fifth Congress to pas: the army reorganization and appro priation bill, said his greatest regrel was that "a large number of mer will now have to be retained in the service." > ?m PROF. NICKLES DIES. Prof. W. W. Nickles, Superintend ent of the Greenwood Public Schools died at the Greenwood Hospital or Sunday. He had been very unwell lately, having suffered a nervous breakdown from over-work. Some days ago while he had temporarilj 'lost control of himself he inflicted s wound on his person which resulted in his death. Prof. Nickles had been the Superintendent of the Greenwood schools for about ten years. He was a successful man in the teaching profes sion, and was greatly liked in his home town. He was born and reared at Coronaca, and was buried then j 1 TT _ _ 1 * on yesieruay. ne is survived Dy z wife and several children. Mr. M. T Coleman, of this city, is a first cous in of the deceased. vv wvvvvvvvvvv V INCOME TAX RETURNS. V V It is announced that a repV resentative from the office of V the Collector of Internal Rev V enue will be in the city on V Tuesday and Wednesday (toV day and tomorrow), for the V purpose of taking income tax V returns. Those people who V have not yet made their reV turn* should call on him. V r; STATE PROVIDES FOR FEEBLE-MINDED HOME ^ 'Institution to Be Located at Dover k j Junction, Soon lo be Under Way / ?Buildings For Inmntoi to be Fire Proof Construction and Modern. n r The state appropriation bill as passed by the General Assembly last i Saturday, caries an appropriation of : $87,500 for the State Training School i for Feeble-Minded which is to be loI n cated at Dover Junction. The bill A 1 as passed by the finance committee e.of the senate carried an appropria l" tion of $110,000 but this amount was r reduced to $87,500 by the free conl" ference committee report of the two e houses. e The appropriation is now available l? and will be spent this year for build" ings and equipment. The buildings ^ to be erected will be of attractive "j fire-proof construction and comfort j. The executive committee which has 1 had charge of the proposition has ; made several trips to Columbia re cently in the interest of the school i and has worked untiringly to get the i proposition started off right. DISQUIETING NEWS. > : A rumor was current on the streets ; here yesterday that James T. Stev3 enson, of the overseas army, and son J of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Stevenson, t had died at sea on his komeward 1 trip. Mr. Stevenson had heard the i, news, which it seems came here from Due West. It was stated that . a resident of that place had seen an account of his death in a newspaper. Telephone messages to Due West I brought no confirmation of even this > Mr. Stevenson immediately wired l to Washington for confirmation or I a denial -of the news, and the Red * ' 5 Cross was appealed to, but at the ( time we went to press nothi.1": defir nite had been heard. l It is believed that the news is not 1 well founded. Had the young man I died at sea, the news would have . been furnished the War Department 5 on arrival of the ship at its destina. tion, and had the news been sent be. fore landing, the message would . have been sent to the War Depart. ment. In either case, Mr. Stevenson , should have been officially advised of t his death before news of it would have reached the newspapers. Mr. Stevenson last heard from his son on Feby. 11th, at which time o J: 4?J -- I-:- i ' - *'* c? jyuatai uncticu in ins narm-writing, but apparently written by someone else, advised that he was well, and , that he expected to sail for home in February. j The friends of the young man and of his father and mother are hope-1 ful that the report will prove to be a mistake in fact. HOME SERVICE WORK, i i Mrs. M. T. Coleman is leaving to- j 1 day for Jacksonville, Fla., where she 1 goes to take a course in Red Cross, ! Home Service work. She will be j away for about six weeks. "(ably equipped for the inmates. Dr. = ,B. 0. Whitten, the superintendent is j now on a Northern trip collecting t data and formulating plans in order - j to begin work at once. The board f: of regents will meet at Clinton at an h, early date at which time the program -I n-f nrnporliivo will V>o annmincii(l | V* X?M*. X* ***** M**..VI*4.VVW. / j The site at Dover Junction is an | ideal one for the location of the new e institution and consists of about a - thousand acres of land. A subscription of $18,000 was contributed by i citizens and business houses of Clinf ton to procure the site which was ,' donated to the State. It is expected that the first building / will soon begin to go up and that / the growth of the institution will be 3 rapid during the next few years in 1 order to accomodate the several hun) dred children now needing its care ; and protection. It is sure to prove r a big asset and one in which the peo pie of the entire state will become i intensely interested. i PRIZES ARE AWARDED TO SUCCESSFUL CLU Abbeville Home Demonstration C! Wins First Prize of $25?Second is Taken Ly the Cold Springs Club. Merchants Again Contribute. At the beginning of last year 1 Abbeville merchants contribul funds to be used as prizes for \ boys, girls and ladies in the Ho: Demonstration Club work. Th< were numerous prizes for boys a girls and two for the Clubs maki the best and next best records. 1 first prize, $25, was won by the i5 beville Club, and the second, $15, v won by the Cold Springs Club. T . money is to be used in purchasi some article to help all the club dies in the communities, and th have decided on tseam presure a ners. The Abbeville report is such excellent one that the County Dem< onstration Agent wants the peo] of the county to see just what th< ladies have accomplished. The f lowing is their report: ; Amount sold by Club $ 914. ' Average for Each Member . 38. Value of Canned Goods._ 402. Value of Preserves 242. Value of Pickles 103. Value of Jelly 43. Value of Brined Vegetables 5. Value of Dried Vegetables 6. . Value of Vinegar 10. ' Value of Preserved Eggs-_ 39. ' Sales of Member Reporting Late 30. Total $1,835. The merchants have contribut ' money for prizes again this year a 1 similiar prizes are offered, includi a prize for the girl making the b< display of seeds. Any club meml can win these prizes, therefore, . all the members get hard at wo ! right now trying to win out next it i JULIUS H. DUPRE DEAD. | Julius H. DuPre, died at the hoi ! of his sister, Mrs. W. C. DuPre, [ Sunday afternoon, March 9th, four o'clock from paralysis, nev having recovered from the stro which he suffered some weeks ago. Mr. DuPre was in his sixty-seco year. He was a son of the late J. C. DuPre and was ?born and rear in Abbeville, and lived here all 1 li-P/a TTr*rvr? rnonliinr* V?o c Ill IHUllliUV/U l A w V tered business life being at one tir book-keeper for the old firm . Wprdlaw & Edwards and later f R. M. Haddon & Co. For more th; tw3nty years he was Cashier of t Farmers Bank of Abbeville, perfori ing the duties of that position wi conspicuous zeal and fidelity. He i tired from this position some yea ago on account of failing health, a: since then has been out of busine except for the writing of fire insv ance, which he had been doing f several years. In early life Mr. DuPre was hap] ly mnrried to Miss Josephine Hill, sister of Messrs. James A., and Wi E. Hill, of this city. Four childr were born of the union, but thr 1 -T 1 ? T._i: TT T uieu m miancy, leaving juuus n. d who survives his father. Mrs. D Pre died about twenty-five years a? Mr. DuPve was a member of t Methodist church. For many yea he was an officer of the church, b in the last years of his life, his heal forbade the holding of any offici connection with any organization. Funeral services were conducted the residence yesterday afternoon 3 o'clock by Rev. J. L. Daniel. T interment was at Sharon Churc about four miles from Abbeville. ATTENDING THE CLINIC. Dr. J. R. Nickles leaves tomorrc for Atlanta, where he will spend t week attending the Mid-Winter Cli ic-of the ?dental fraternity, now session there. He is accompanied i the trip by Mrs. Nickles, who go along to see that he does not stU' too hard. I jse'parently the German headquarters lo bl-l staff in Kolberg is directing its ener-^ oi j gies again towards organization on lo 94 the Baltic front in the confidence'A 12' that there is no longer any immedi-! ai 50 ate occasion for concern over the'oi 35 Polish front. Field Marshal von'ot 001 Hindenburg is in Kolberg and the! 35: commanders of both the northern and; m 00 southern armies on the Eastern front d< 00 are presumed to be applying most of. c: 00 their efforts at present to the or- to 50, ganization of the forces available. j 01 Great numbers of volunteer com-j SO panies have been raised throughout ' rinmvinn.T flin n/i ^ n 1 uciuiaiij xui nic uasLCiii xxuxiUy 66 cording to information here. Scores 0( ed of these small units have been iden- cc nd' tified proceeding eastward, but b( ng whether they were organized into lo jst divisions afterwards, or whether they w ler'are undergoing training and to what m let locality they have been assigned has er irk not been established. ill. i The. total number of volunteers I . m i now on the Eastern front or about \ to proceed there is estimated at near| ly 100,000. Some of the old army w, ne troops are now on the Eastern front.' p. on iio . : at NO SICH A MAN. j ce er m ke , th : Col. S. J. Link, who doos the fur-'^. niture business on the Press and j. ? Banner Block, has increased his , F. tu , stock of goods. He now is showing ed . , ? , , . . ;m . two-sixths of a dozen chairs in his us or I furniture window. He tells us that in- , , . ,pa : he is so much in the public eye as a A ne to j' furniture dealer that a great many ^ , i people have never heard of his com- ? i petit,ors, or if they have it has been an ru ! cn Inrjw n rrr\ fliow ova mattt ^ *wiig V11WJ UIC iiW VY XVlgVWbCU* ^ ^ Fur instance, he tells us, that when ^ Mr. William Miller alighted from the ^ train Friday evening and asked one *e- pr of our well known hackmen to conirs * . . sti vey him to the mansion of Mr. Davis . ' Kerr, the hackman told his passen- . ^ ! ger, "I don't know no man by dat j.? name. No sich a man lives here." j or I A COMING CHIEF JUSTICE. 51a m. News was received in Abbeville t to en Saturday of the birth of a fine eight ee 'icund boy, on March 8th, 1919, to ^ r., Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Eason, at their u- home in East Orange, N. J. 0j. :o. The young man will bear the he name of Eugene Gary, and friends A ,rs ~nd well-wishers at this end of the . im ut line hope he will grow up to bear the e 1 . th name as honorably as his grand- ^ ial father. ^ era wi TAKING A VACATION. th at u I 1 stl he :h, Mrs. Foster McLane is leaving today for Atlanta, where she will spend * , WI a week with her young son, Giles ! McLane, who has his headquarters I in the big city. The whole McLane )w family has been sick recently with, he flu and the mother is taking a welli n-'earned vacation. She expects to en- th in'joy the spring styles, some good th on shows, and all the gay sights to be Di es found in a big city. Capt. McLane! wc dy' will look after the children and "be Se J good" while she is away. pr VOLUNTEER TROOPS |A BS TO BE USED IN EAST i lub Hindenburg Plans Drive on Bolshe-.F I viki?Plans Kept Secret?Ameri- | i cans in Coblenz Hear of Great Number of German Soldiers Preparing for Battle. I ! the | Coblenz, Mrach 8.?Field Marshal _ ted Hindenburg is planning to use volun- ec the teer units in a drive against the Bol- w me^sheviki, with Libau as the base of G sre^his operations, it is indicated by in- al .nd | formation which has reached Ameri- m ing can intelligence officers. i cl 'he, According to American experts/ Lb- who are keeping in touch with the tl: /as progress of the readjustment of the es his enemy forces, German great head- tr mg; quarters seems to be following a oi la- policy of secrecy as regards the East- PJ ley crn front troop question. This is be- a in- lieved to be due to the fact that the A ! Bolsheviki now have a normal milit-i an.tary organization and so will be able cl jn-j to utilize any information they might w MERICAN CLAIMS AGAINST GERMANY REACH $730,000,000 igures Announced by State Department Include Submarine Damages and the Property Confiscated? Additional Claims Are Expected. Washington, March 8.?Claims fil1 by American citizens and concerns ith the state department against ermany and Austria-Hungary total 50Ut $750,000,000, the state departent announced today. Additional aims are expected. The^ claims, which run into th^ lousands, are divided into two class;, those arising from submarine aocities and those due to other acts : the central powers. The state deirtment for several months has had large force engaged in compiling merican losses. Included in the items comprising aims growing out of, submarine arfare are losses alleged for death id injury of American citizens; sses suffered in the destruction of r damage to American vessels; sses suffered in connection with merican cargoes, both in American id foreign bottoms; and the loss : much valuable personal property ;her than cargoes. Losses due to other acts of Gerany and Austria-Hungary include 5struction and requisition of Amerin property both in enemy terriry and territory occupied at varlis times by enemy forces. The state department statistics iow that American citizens at the ltbreak of the war had about $300,)0,000 worth of property in enemy untrtes and in those which have sen under enemy occupation. Heavy sses have resulted in connection ith this property as a result of war easures taken by the central pows. NEWS OF A SOLDIER. Thos. S. Palmer, of Long Cane, as here Monday on business. Mr. ilmer has a son in the 81st Divisn. He showed us a letter just'reived from the chaplain of his regient in which some account of the ings being done for ;the young sol_ i _ x _ J mi i - era is reiaieu. iney nave electric fhts in the camps, a moving picre show at the Y. M. C. A., three ghts in the week, religious services t each Sunday. The medical detriment is looking after the camps see that everything is kept clean id in a healthful state. Excursions important points in France are n from time to time in order that e men may see the various points interest. Schools are provided so where the men may be taught imary, intermediate or advanced udies according to the wants of the dividuals. The young man is enying it all, no doubt, but he longs r the Sunny South. GOES FOR A REST. Mrs. Geo. White, Jr., is leaving d;?v for Florida, where she will end several weeks i i-ecupernting. rs. White was one of the sufferers oni a desperate attack of Influenza, le was so sick at the time of the ath of Mr. White as to be unable "attend his funeral. She has been [proving since that time, but she els the need of a long rest with a ange of surroundings in order to t back to herself. Her friends will sh for her a pleasant stay, and at she may come back well and ong. White will visit her cousin, iss Nelle Coogler in Brooksville, lile away. I I THE DUE WEST ROAD. H. L. and Martin Ellis were in: e city on Friday. They told us at the people residing along the le West road had been doing some )rk on the bad places in the road, veral places have been greatly imoved. CRAFT OF AMERICA PLYING SEVEN SEAS Vessels Carry Products to Far Corners of World?Big Gain During War?Stars and Stripes Again I slen on Routes for First Time in Last Half Century. ! Washington, March 9.?For the , first time since the days of the fam: ous "clipper" ships, American meri chant craft now are plying the seven 1 seas, carrying products of the United ' States to the farther corners of the earth and bringing home both essentials and luxuries. The shinning: board announced to I day that the American merchant ma' rine, fleet built up under the spur of 1 war's necessities now represented ' nearly one-fifth of the entire seagoing tonnage of the world and com, prised 46 per cent of all ships clear' in? from United States ports, ' as compared with 9.7 per cent before ! the great war. Trade routes now traversed by American craft for more than 50 j years once more are invaded with I new routes established to China, Aus- 1 | tralia, New Zealand, India, the Dutch East Indi|^, the west coast of Africa and ports on the Mediterranean. , Ships flying the Stars and Stripes j also are running regularly to South Africa, Great Britain and continenfol TTllVrtmo o c tttoII oe f rt P o'vt sJ L/c*i C4o wcii ao tu uauaua aim Mexico. ' ' , The fleet now engaged in overseas commerce consists of 351 freighters, 84 freight and passenger vessels, 71 oil tankers, 230vsailing vessels, and 16 miscellaneous ships, aggregating i 1,961/39 gross tons. Of this total, . I ! 406,528 gross tons are employed in ' trans-Atlantic trade, 315,925 tons in I ' trans-Pacific trade, 402,721 tons in ; South American trade, 761;252 tons 1 in Caribbean and Mexican trade and 76,014 tons in Alaskan and Canadian trade. v j When*the army and navy return to the chipping board and 353 ships which they are operating the comi mercial fleet under the American flag i will be increased by 1,873,251 gross ! tons, making the total 3,834,750 gross tons, with many hundreds of thousands of tons building or under : contract. MAJOR HORTON HERE. v Major Jeter C. Horton was in the city over Sunday visiting his brother, Mr. E. C. Horton, and his cousin, Mrs. R. C. Philson. Major Horton has recently been stationed at Philadelphia, but is now on a short furlough during which time he will visit the kindred of Mrs. Horton in Kentucky. After that he will sail for China, where he has been assigned to duty for the next two years. A HERO'S HOME COMING. Kempton Billings has arrived in America from France, landing in New York on the 6th. In a letter to his parents received Monday morning:, the young soldier said he was all right except for a severe pain in his knee when he moved r.i'ound. He will be sent to the hospital at Camp Gordon at an early date and it will be possible then for his home people to see him. Kempton was a bugler in the 118th Infantry, and was severely wounded in both less in the first, of the heavy fighting. It is a great pleasure to his friends to know that, ho is hnmc and is getting well. uuvvvvuuuvv V V ^ COTTON MARKET. V V V V Good cotton on the Abbe- V V ville market brought 27 l-4c. V ^ yesterday. March, futures V V closed in New York at 23.15. V V V VV^ WS, WW VV WW