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XXXVI MANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY, VOL t16, 1917. DEBATE ON WAI TAX BILL CLOSED YESTERDAY AFTER LONG DISCUSSION Flood of Proposed Changes Probably Will Be Offered to Revenue Measure. GENERAL DEBATE ENDED Attacks Yesterday Centered Largely Upon Second Class Mail Matter Section. Washington, May 15.-General de bate on the $1,800,000,000 war reve nue bill closed tonight after five days of discussion and Democratic Leader Kitchin predicted a final vote would be reached some time Saturday. The bill will be open to amendment under the five-minute speech rple and a flood of- proposed changes probably will be offered. Vigorous fights will be made against the excess profits, income and automobile taxes and the proposed in crease rates on second class mail. Postal Rate Increase. Debate on the measure again today centered largely upon the second class mail matter section. Represen tatives Johnson of North Dakota, Mondell of Wyoming and Young of North Dakota, spoke against the pro posal, declaring it unfair to publishers generally. Representative Johnson 4 proposed a substitute plan to tax newspapers a flat rate of five per cent on their advertising returns. Representative Young said that if the government would pay for the free advertising given by newspapers the papers could afford to pay first class mail rates. Says It Is Inequitable. Representative Lunn of New York ashailed the bill as inequitable, par ticularly in regard to the excess pro fits tax section. Public hearing on the war revenue bill before the Senate finance commit tee were concluded with statements by the- list of more than one hundred representatives of industries heard since Friday. Nearly all of the witnesses agreed that they were willing to assist the government in every way possible, even to surrendering their entire prof its, but objected to the rates in the bill as confiscatory and ruinous. To day's session were devoted largely to further hearing of the protests of newspaper and periodical publishers against the proposed increase in sec ond class mail rates and the tax on print paper. Says Amount is Excessive. A delegation of New York and Chi cago business men, headed by Sol Wexler, protested that the amount proposed to be raised from taxation was excessive and called attention to the depression in business which fol lowed introduction of the bill in Con gress. Mr. Wexler urged that the Inter state Commerce Commission be per mittedi to grant all public utilities under its control an increase in rates equal to 30 per cent of their present gross receipts and that out of this increase they be requiredl to pay to the government 10 per cent of~ their gross receipts, thus leaving a net in crease of 17 per cent. Eadorse Resolution. Amos Pinchot, representing an or ga'nization known as the American committee of wvar finance, saidl many organizations, including farmers and the United Mine Workers, had en dlorsedl the committee's re'solution pro vidling that the war should be financed from receipts of the income tax. A. 0. Adams, speaking for coffee importers andi grocers of New York andl Newv Orleans, explainedl that no effort was being made to evade the tax on this import. Hie recommended, however, that substitutes for coffee be included in the tax proposal. - Pirint Paper Tax. Frank P. Glass, chairman of the paper committee 'of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association, andl George McEnery, of the -New York Times, were recalled when the committee took lip the section levying a 10 per cent tax on print paper. "Under your direction," said Mr. Glass, the Federal Trade Commission spent months in an exhaustive inves tigation of the conditions of the print paper manufacture in this country. That body hali only recently made a report to the Congress declaring that there was a combination among man ufacturers, establishing the fact that there were abnormal profits in that FRANCE HAS LOST SEVENTEEN SHIPE Number of Merchantmen Sunk' b3 German Submarines to Date. Paris, May 14.-Seventeen Frenci merchantmen were sunk by Germar submarines during February, Marel and April, acording to an oflicia statement issued today. During the same period nine French vessels wer< attacked by underwater craft, bul made their escape. No armed mer. 'chantmen have fallen prey to the U. boats. The statement says: "Statistics for the first three mhnths of Germany's unrestrictec submarine campaign so far as the3 concern the French merchant marine show the followin gresults: "February, sunk, 4; attached ant escaped, 1. "March, sunk, 5; attached and es. caped, 2. "April, sunk, 8; attacked and es. caped, 6. "Armed merchantmen have ir every case escaped from submarines "During this period French patro boats have had twelve engagemenih with submarines. French hydroaero, planes have fought them thirteer times and there have been sixteen en. gagements between armed merchant. men and submarines." MIG COTTON SALE Sumter Buyer Purchases Seven Hun. dred and Fifteen Bales from Man. ning Firm. Mr. P. G. Bowman, the local cot ton buyer, who has this spring mad< a record as the purchaser of big lots of cotton, on Manday closed anothei big deal when he bought 715 bales of cotton from the Levi Mercantile Co of Manning. The price paid was 1I 5-8, basis middling. The sale was made to Mr. Bowman in competitior with cotton buyers on several other markets, as he was in a position t< pay the top of the market and offer ed a better price than any of his competitors. Sumter is generally th( best cotton market in the State. Sumter Item. -0 HAVE ENOUGH GUNS FOR MILLION MEN Washington, May 15.-America has rifles and ammunition for an army ol a million men. Her army will ust the Enfield rifle, which is used ir England but modified to take the American ammunition. This was announced today by Frank A. Scott, chairman of the general mu. nitions board of the council of na. tional defense. Moreover Mr. Scoti said the country would be able to sup. ply the men with rifles as fast as they are enlisted and put into the training camps. REP'OR'T VILLA RI) WILL BE CALLEI Washington, May 15.---Rumors thai Ambassador Willard wvas to be re called, andl that his successor as am. bassador to Spain already had beer selected by President Wilson wvere de. uied this afternoon by Secretary o1 State Lansing. -----0 AME(IICAN AVIATOR IS KILLED) IN FAL! Columbus, N. M., May 15.-Firs1 Lieutenant Melchoir Eberts, of th( first aero sqjuadlron, wvas so badly in, juredl that he dlied1 later in the hos. pital, andl Captain James L. Luns. wvorth, of the first aero squadron, wau seriously hurt wvhen their aeroplan( crashedl to earth here today. trade and that the newspapers of the country were olpressedl as a result. Alleges Inconsistency. "Now comes the provision of th( Hlouse bill to include print paper and the raw materials out of which it is to be madle in the schedule for the horizontal tariff of 10 per cent on al imported materials. I respectfui submit that this prop~osal is inconsis. tent with the facts oflicially dleclare( by two arms of the government, grow. ing directly out of your own initia. tive. "During the last eighteen months all publishers in tho United States have been sorely tried by increasing cost of all materials and labors." Mr, McEnery said the New Yorlk newspapers were prepared to advanct their price to 2 cetsts itflecesary, as has been in Pittsburg, Chicago Phil adelphia qnd many other cities. HONOR ROIL OF DAVIS STATION SCHOOL For eighth month ending'May 11th. Requirements: A minimum of 90 per cent on lessons, 95 per cent on conduct. ' First -Grade. Aver- Con age. duct. Viola 'Barrineau ----..93 95 Ansel Corbette ----- ..-- 90 95 Second Grade. Elise Chewning -- -- ---- 91 95 Abram Rawlinson -- -- 90 95 Sadie Richbourg -----..90 9.6 Third Grade. Cora May Rawlinson .. 91 96 Aline Childers ---- -- 90 95 Fourth Grade. Albert Barrineau . -- . -90 98 Fifth Grade. Luella Horton ......-..90 100 Clara Belle Richbourg -. 90 98 Other grades unrepresented. Present Every Day. 1st grade-Viola Barrineau, Virgie Blackwell, Ansel Corbette, Arthur Shorter, Louis Thames. Advanced 1st grade-Martha Brad ham. 2nd grade-Elise Chewning, Abram Rawlinson, Carson Thames. 3rd grade-Willie Blackwell, Dock Bradham, Aline Childers, (fora May 'Rawlinson, Rufus Shorter: & h grade--Albert arrineau, Hugh Bru son, Wash arfield, Tommy Stuk s. 5th grade-Edith Stukes, Luella Horton. 6th grade Ruth Ward. 10th grade Pauline Childers, Alti cus Richbourg, Mary Richbourg, Les lie Wells. (Signed) Miss Helen E. Malone, Principal. Mrs. R. E. Broadway, First Assistant. Mrs. Helen C. Chewning, Second Assistant. 0 BIG SHIPBUILDING PLANT To lie Established Near City of New Orleans. New Orleans, May 15.--Establish ment of a large shipbuilding plant on Lake Ponchartrain, near New Or leans, to construct wooden vessels for the government, and be under govern ment control, was announced here to day by Walter C. Keenan, a naval architect, who has just returned from Washington. Mr. Keenan stated the new company has been awarded con tracts for $2,500,000 for construction of six wooden steamers for the gov ernment and the preliminary work on the plant is under way. Several prominent business men of this city were reported to be interested in the shipyard. BOWERY WANTS TO iIEAl' BROTHER BILLY New York, May 15.---They want Billy Sunday on the Bowery. "Jimmy" Kelly, gang leader, is willing to hire a hall for the evangelist to come down andl preach a "booze" sermon to those of the underworld. NEWSY NOTES Mr. Editor the wvriter has been slightly indisposed with grippe and these are the remnedies that were handed him: F'irst Friend: Feeling run dlown), . h ? Nowv take my advice-.tie a boiled onion between your eyes, its the only thing that will cure you. Second Friend: My boy, wvhat you want to do is p~ut a cold poker down your back under your shirt and paint your arm with lamp black, its the only l'emedly that's any goodl. Third Ihriend: Oh! I knowv what's wvrong my boy. My mother said sun flowers tied around the waist and a lump of butter on the head were the best things in the world for it. Fourth Friend: In all my experi ence I never knewv orange peel wrap ped around the knee to fail to cure wife. Yes dear, all these things may be goodl, but there is nothing like this tonic my grandlmother used to make of vinegar, sulphur, behizine, sugar, zinc rust arid cob webs.I have' gotter over the grippe Mr. Edi tor,' but after using all these reme (lies I will never look the same. Mr. Van Dullose of Sareinia blew into Gable for a few hours yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. R. D. McFaddin have returned from their honey moon trip They took in several point s ofnter THE NEW STATE AUTOMOBILE TAX We have had several requests to 1 publish something relative to the new tax, on automobiles which goes into effect. July 1st. From the informa tion w have gained the car owner pays 1 1-2 cents per horsepower, the % same being based on the insurance 5 horsepower, until Jan. 1st, 1918,- c this being only a six-months tax. I After Jan. 1st the tax will be 25 1 cents per insurance horsepower. Be- I low is a list of cars used . in this a county, with their advertised horse power and their insurance horse- t power. t Adv. Ins. e H. P. H.. P. Allen -- -- -- --- --- 37 22 i Brisoe - ------- 24 16 r Buick-4 cyl. ----------18 18 Buick-6 cyl. ------- 25 25 Chalmers -------..-...45 25 f Chevrolet-4 cyl. -----..21 22 1 Chevrolet-8 cyl. ---....36 34 t Cole-8 cyl. --------..-70 39 Cole-6 cyl. ----..-....43 43 Dodge __-- - ..-.._-35 24 Ford -- - -- --. --20 22 Franklin - -- -- -- -- 25 25 t Grant ------..----..33 22 Hudson-6 cyl. ---..-..40 29 t Lexington --------..-..40 25 Lexington -----..-..-..60 41 Maxwell ------.....-25 20 Mitchell ---..-- -._48 29 Metz- -- - -- -- 22 22 Oakland-6 cyl. -----..-32 19 Oakland-6 cyl. -......38 20 i Overland - - _- .-- --. 31 18 Overland ------- ...-25 27 Paige -- .- _.._46 29 Paige -- - -- -- -- -- 38 23 Reo _- -- -- -- -- -- 45 30 t Saxon -------..----..-15 121 Saxon-6 cyl. _.-_...._.30 24 Studebaker-4 cyl. -- - 40 24 1 Studebaker-6 cyl. . - 50 36 o c HEAVY FIRING OFF CAPES OF VIRGINIA Norfolk, Va., May 15.-Heavy fir ing was heard along the Virginia l coast tonight. At Virginia Beach and other places houses were shaken, win dows rattled and inhabitants startled. BUSINESS WOMEN ORGANIZE REI) CROSS New York, May 15.-Announcement was made today that the business women of Wall street have organiz ed a Wall street auxiliary for Red Cross work. 0 CITY WILL INVESTIGA TE. New Orleans, May 15.-Coincident t with the announcement that 105 of the 110 bakeries in this city have de- 1 cided to adopt the ten-cent loaf of I reduced weight after Thursday and abolish the five-cent loaf, City Com missioner Harold Newman stated to day that the municipality tomorrow will begin a public investigation to i determine whether the proposed in- I crease in the cost of bread is justified. The investigation was reuested by a committee from thirty labor organ i zations representing about 20,000 members, who protested against the proposed increase in bread prices. t FROM GABLE est ar oundl Wa~shington, andi Ncew York. Mr. C. P. Gable left yesterday af ternoon for a trip to New Orleans. Mr. Guy Osborne spent Sunday rusticating aroundl Gable. Among the recent arrivals are Mr. Sheppard and Mr. Hlolmes. They are consigned to the Chris tal Store. WeI welcome them. Mr. H1. II. Garland of Sardiniai was a visitor here on Tuesday. T1he Hion. .John Epps of dlown the road was heard talking in Gable all dlay Truesday. Hope John will come I back soon as we like to hear him expound the news. A fter a long spell of illness Mr. I E. S. Groom can be found back on the< job pouring it in the big Reo at the rate of 40 miles per hour. Mr. Clayton Hinds and bride spent the day here on Sunday with his father. Judge T. Heywardl Mckaddlin was seen on the street this morning withi 200 pounds of law books. Judge Ed Fleming wvas on profes-. sional business at Gable Tuesday. We arg always glad to see the judge. Dlr. W. H. Woods is still with us< giving medical advice and pulling teeth and 10 spots. t Bud Rose. e ,AMAR TELLS HOW HE GOT THE MONEY Ilso Reviews Opening of Anti-Muni tions Campaign Engineered by Von Rintelin. New York, May 14.-David Lamar, idely known as the "Wolf of Wall treet," testified today that the plans ut of which grew Labor's National eace Council were first discussed by im with the Rev. Dr. Thomas C. [all, a New York clergyman, through vhom he met Capt. Franz Rintelin, f the German navy, who gave him he money to start an anti-munition raffic campaign. Lamar, Rintelen nd five others are on trial charged ith using the council in a conspiracy a 1915 to wreck the Entente Allies' munitions business. Lamar said he went to Indianapolis with Henry B. Martin, one of the de endants, lfter he received the Ger man's money and that Martin got in ouch with former Representatives II. tobert Fowler and Frank Buchanan, lso defendants. Martin told him, La mar testified, that both these men de iounced the "munitions trust" and hat "Buchanan took a very advanced >osition and would go to any lengths o keep this country out of the war." Outlines Activities. Lamar said that in his conversa ions with Dr. Hall, who he said, was ormerly at the Union Theological seminary here and also a professor it Columbia University, but now is n Germany, he outlined what he said vere his own activities in bringing Lbout investigations of the New Ha ren Railroad, "the money trust" and he "steel trust," and his plans to at ack "the capitalistic interests con rolling the munitions trust." "le endorsed my plans to get the natter before organized labor and armers in order to produce such a onsensus of opinion as to bring great ressure to bear on the President and ongress, first to embargo munitions xports, and secondly, to abolish pri ate munitions manufacturers and to nake a government monopoly of the ndustry," Lamar said. "If our demand was not met, it was ur hope that ultimately labor would trike. But never by any word, act r suggestion did I atrempt to bring m strikes by bribing labor leaders or otherwise. Our function ended with aying the facts befc :e the country." o RAIN DEALERS TO AID GOVERNMENT Chicago, May 15.-The leading rain traders of the country took tops late this afternoon to co-ope ate actively with the government o keep down the price of foodstuffs. Representatives of the largest Boards of trade in the country ap iointedi a special conmittee to go to Vashington to confer and co-operate vith government officials. This action vas taken after the grain traders had 'oted to bar gambling in foodstuffs n all grain pits in the United States or an indefinite period. - ----A0 - ENATO'(RS INSISTI ON lDRY AMENI)MENTi 'Washington, May 15.-Dlry legisla ion during the~ war is still th(e aim fsome senators. TIhe' Cunmmins mendlment prohibiting the use' or ~rain for the manufac'ture of liquor vas knocked out of the senate bill. lut a group of senators are fraiming nother measure which may take the >lace of the amendment. Senator Tummins is included in this group, md the others are Senators Gore, surtis, Gronna and Kenyon. All art' irohibition adlvocates, esp(cially dur ng wvar times. IO'TEL. GIVES P'OTlATIO Appleton, Wis., May 1~>.-Another tep towvardl conservation of foods was >rojected here when E. WV. Draper, (of he Sherman H ouse, in conjunct ion vith several other hotel men, entered nito a contract to supply farmers of he county with the eyes of p)otatoes utt from "sp~uds" used at the hotels. Phese eyes will be uised for seeds. NEWVS PRIINTi P'AP'ER HILL Washington, May 14.--News print aper would be (declared a p~ublic util ty and the Federal Trade Commis.. ion would b~e authorizedl to fix its naximum price by a bill introdued~ odlay by Senator Robinson, of Arkan as, who dleclared the print paper in ustry trust-controlled. "Unless some relief is obtainedl housands of publishers will be driven ut of business," ad he. PRESIDENT D[LVERS STIRRING TALK TO LABOR LEADERS Believes Working Men Will Make Any Sacrifice Necessary to Win War. SAYS KEEP UP STANDARI) Would Deplore the Setting Aside of Any Law Which Safeguards Labor. Washington, May 15.-A delegation of labor leaders here for conferences with the British labor envoys were told by President Wilson at the White House today that he considered that "nohting would be more deplorable" than any movement in the present crisis to set aside temporarily the laws which safeguard standards of labor. "I do not doubt," said the President, "that any body of men representing labor will be willing to make any sacrifice that is necesasry to carry this contest to a successful issue and in this confidence I feel that it would be inexcusable if we deprived men and women of such a spirit of any of the existing safeguards of the law." In the delegation were about 150 labor Gompers and his associates on the labor committee of the National Defense Council. In addressing the labor delegates the President said: "This is a most welcome visit be cause it means a most welcome thing, the spontaneous coperation of men from all walks in life interested to see that we do not forget any of the principles of our lives in meeting the great emergency that has come upon us. "Mr. Gom 1ers has expressed al ready one of the things that have been very much in mind of late. I have been very much alarmed at one or two things that have happened at the apparent inclination of the legis latures of one or two of our states to set aside even temporarily the laws which have safeguarded standards of labor and of life. I think nothing of men representing labor in this coun try speaking for their fellows will be willing to make any sacrifice that is necessary in order to carry this con test to a successful issue and in that confidence I feel that itwould be in excusable if we deprived men and women of such a spirit of any of the existing safeguards of law. There fore, I shall exercise my influence so far as it goes to see that that does not happen and that the sacrifices we sholl make shall be made volun tarily and not under the compulsion which mistakenly is interpreted t,) mean a lowering of the standard which we have sought through , many generations to bring to ther present level. Approves Comper's iStatement. "*. Gompers has not overstte I the case in sayinig that we are fight ing for democratcy in at larger sense than can be expresed in any polit ical term. There are manyv forms of dem ,era t ic go~vern ment and we are not fighting for any pati culari tormn, but we are fighting for the essential par-t of it. all, namely, that we aire atl eqtuallIy inte'rest ed in our soc ial atnd' political life and all hatve a right , at voice in th(e government utnder wvhich we' live and' that when mnan ~ti wvomean are- eqattlly aditvitted to thosa rights we have the hest sitfegua rd o justice and tof peiace that the' world affords. Tlherte is no otheri sa fe ua rO. Let. any gr-oupl of m'en, whatever- then or-iginal intentions, atempt to tdictaIt' to their fellow men what th(eiri pol iti cal fortunes shall he ami the r-esu~t is injust ic( anti hardish ip a nd w ron of the deepest sort. Tlher-efore w, atre just now feeling as we have never felt before otut of a sense of comtrad ship. We shall feel it even morec be cause we have not yet made the satc rifices that we are- going wo make; wve have not yet felt the terrible pr-es sure of suffering and pain of war ant wve are going prese'ntly to feel it atn i I have every confidence that as its pressure' comes upon01 our spit-it wvil not falter buit rise atnd he strength. ened and that in the fast we shall have a national feeling and a national unity such as never gladdlenedl our hearts before.". $5,000,000 FOR JOHN. New York, May 15.-John D. Rock efeller today subscribedl $5,000,000 to the Liberty LTan.