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I I~~~~~~~~- -.. . . .--...--.- -.. .. ------- - - VCOL. xxx'vii. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY,' MAY 80, 1917.N.2 AUSTRIANS SEEM UNABLE TO STOP ITALIANS DRIVE Powerful Counter-Attacks Against Cardona's Army to Check Ad vance on Trieste Prove Futile RUSSIAN ARMY WAKING UP Tuesday Passes in Relative Calm on Both British and French Fronts In France. U-Boats Active. On the southern end of the line near the head of the Gulf of Trieste, in the Austro-Italian theater, the Ital ians for the moment have paused in their titanic effort to push forward to Trieste and heavy fighting again is in progress to the north around Gor izia, Plava and the Vodice. East of Gorizia and on the Vodice the Aus trians attempted- to carry ,the offen sive to the Italians but the artillery fire of King Victor Emmanuel's men stopped the assaults and in the last named sector the Italians themselves delivered an attack and notwithstand ing stubborn resistance made progress on the Southeastern slope of Hill 52. Likewise in the Plava sector the Aus trians were driven back and lost 100 men made prisoners. Both Claim Many Prisoners. Around St. Glovanni and Duino at the lower end of the line the Aus trians heavily bombarded the Iealians in their new positions and ineffectual ly tried to oust them. Both sides are claiming the capture of large num bers of prisoners since the new bat tle from Tolmino to the sea began, the Italians asserting they have taken 23, 681 prisoners and the Austrians 14, 000. Tuesday passed with relative calm on both the British and ,French fronts in France, the British war office mere ly recording a successful raid north west of Labasse and the French of ficial communication asserting that artillery fighting alone prevailed. On Eastern Front. There has been a renewal of activ ity of the Russo-Rumanian forces against the Teutonic Allies in Ruma nia and that early attacks by them are expected. The visits to Jassy, the new capital of Rumania, of M. Thomas, the French minister of muni tions, and M. Kerensky, the Russian minister of war, possibly may be con nected with the revival of the activ. ity of Russo-Rumanian troops. In the Mediterranean the British hospital ship. Dover Castle, carrying sick and wounded, was the target of two torpedoes. All on board excepi si.c of the crew were saved. A subiarine also has accounted foi the British armed merchantile cruise Hilary, which was sunk in the Nort sea with a loss of four men. 0 TWO SOUTH CAROLINA MEN PRISONERS IN GERMAN1 Two South Carolina Men Held in De tention Camps. Washington, May 29.-A list of al known American prisoners of war i Germany, madIe public today by th State Department, contamns the name of seventy-four' men, all of whom wer ' taken from merchant ships capture, by German war vessels. Sixty-one of the prisoners are in detention camp at Dulmen, one is ai Rastatt, Bavaria; five at Karlsruhi and seven at Hlavelberg. The list wit adldresses available includes Jame Samwales, 35 Church street, Mobile Eugene Boykin, care of William Reic< South Main street, Anderson, S. C John Martin, care of E. K. Bryai Walton, Fla.; Jesse Wallace, carec Hlarry Wallace, Chesterfield, S. C. A Karlsruhe, John Davies, Columnbu: Miss. TiOBACCO MEN PROTrST AgaIst Imposition of Addition TIaxes D~uring War. Hartford, Conn., May 28.-Asser ing that a great hardship would 1 worked on the industry by the imp sition of additional taxes, the Nation Cigar Leaf Tobacco Association, 'annual convention here, today sent1 Washington a telegram to Secretai Simmons, chairman of the Senate. nance committee, protesting again the imposition of additional custon dluties on leaf tobacco. The telegra urges rejection of the provision the house bill for such added lmnoi BRJTISH HOSPITAL SHIP IS TORPEDOED BY GERMANS Armored Merchant Cruiser Hilary Also Torpedoed and Sunk. by U-Boat. London, May 29.-The British hos pital ship Dover Castel has been tor pedoed and sunk, it was announced officially. The British armored merchant cruiser Hilary also has been torpedoed and sunk, and a British destroyer has been sunk after a collision. The text of the British statement rea4is: "His Majesty's hospital ship Dover Castle was torpedoed- without warn ing at 6:30 o'clock Saturday in the Mediterranean. At 8:30 she was again torpedoed and subsequently sunk. The whole number of hospital patients and the hospital staff were transferred to other ships and the irew were also saved with the exception of six men who are missing and are feared to have been killed by the explosions. "His Majesty'p armed mercantile cruiser Hilary Acting Capt. F. W. Dean, has been torpedoed and sunk in the North sea. Four men were killed by the explosion. "One of His Majesty's torpedo boat destroyers has been in collision and sunk. There were no casualties." The Dover Castle, 8,271 tons gross and 476 feet long, was owned by the Union Castle Mail Steamship Com pany of London. Shb was built in 1904. The British steamship' Hilary was a Booth liner of 6,329 tons gross, 418 feet long, built in 1908. GERMANS THREATEN IRISH Don't Wadt Them to Send Fish to England. London, May 28.-According to sto ries printed in the morning papers, there has been a complete revulsion of feeling toward the war in the south and southwest of Ireland as a conse quence of the recent attacks by Ger man submarines on Irish fishing fleets. A number of fishing boats have been sunk and the victims of one at tack off Baltimore say that the Ger mans told theta that they had al ready sunk the Kinsale and Waterford fleets and would soon put all Irish fishing boats to the bottom of the sea because they sent fish to England. They also threatened to shell villages on the coast. o COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES AT TRINITY SCHOOL The annual commencement exer cises of Trinity school will be held Thursday, Friday, Sunday and Mon day nights, and the following pro gram will be carried out. Thursday Night-8:15. This night's program will consist of tableaus, recitations, songs and "Tom Thumb's Wedding." Friday Night-g:30. Play-"AI Martin's Country Store. This is a comedly with twenty--seven char acters and the parts will be tak en by High School pupils. Music will i be furnished by the Olanta String2 SBand. Sunday Night. S Baccalaureate Sermon by Rev. B. :K. Truluck, of Olanta. Monday Night. t Graduating exercises, J. W. Wide man, Esq., of Manning, will make th4 Sadldress to the graduating class. Thi Sdiplomas wvill be awarded by Princi. .pal J. W. Truluck. 'It is to b..e hoped that a large at. .tendance will be at these exercises as the principal and teachers havt ,worked hard to make these exercises ta big success. -- 0 -- ELECTION CASE DRIOPP'ED Alleged Irregularities in D~rawinj Jury Given as Reason. Corpus Christi, Texas, May 28. The case against District Judge Wal L- ter' F. Timon and~ forty other resi e dlents of Nueces County, indicted a >- the outgrowth of allegcd irregulari al ties in the congressional election o in 1914, todiay was diismissedl in federn to court on request of United State y District Attorney Green. - 'The motion for the dismissal wa at made on the ground that there wer is irregularities in dlrawing the gran m jury which returned the indictments in The appellate court previously hal it: nustained the contention. 22 GRADUATE IN MANNING SCHOOLS THE PAST YEAR Brilliant Scene at Final Exer cises of the High School Commencement. MEDALS ARE AWARDED Annual Address Delivered #,y Prof. S. H. Edmunds, of the Sumter Schools. The commencement of the Manning High School, held last Friday night in the school auditorium, was truly a brilliant occasion. The stage set ting, the profusion of flowers and the handsomely dressed audience that thronged the hall and the gallery com bined to produce a picture that chal lenged admiration. On the stage, ar ranged in a semi-circle, were twenty two chairs for the eleven girls and eleven boys of the graduating class. Two of the chairs were empty, one for Archie Barron, who has been quite ill for the past two weeks, and the other decorated with the national colors for Kenneth Ridgeway, who has enlisted in the United States navy. Several Graduates Heard. The exercises last night were open ed with an invocation by the Rev. L. B. McCord, followed by a piano duet by Frances Brown and Lula Rigby, pupils of Miss Hirschmann. Then came the salutory by Herman Dun can, and the class poem by Miss Helen Nimmer followed by a chorus, "Merry June." The class history, by Archie Barron, was read by Miss Edith Odom, following which was a piano solo by Miss Leila Margaret Dickson, who gave a highly creditable interpre tation of a Chopin waltz. The class prophecy and valedictpry was read by Brainard Gibson, and this was fol lowed by the class song, "The Linden Tree." Diplomas and Medals. The annual address ays delivered by Superintendent S. H. Edmiiri1, of the Sumter city schools, which was followed by a piano duet by Misses Leila Margaret Dickson and Maud Sprott, and then came the presenta tion of certificates and prizes. The Reuben B. Loryea memorial medal, one donated each year by his father, the late Aaron Loryea, was won by Brainard Gibson for the highest year ly average in the tenth grade. The Latin medal, given for the highest average in Latin, was won by Joe Brogdon of the first year high school, The certificates of graduation were appropriately presented to the clasp by Major A. Levi, chairman of the board of school trustees. Prof. D. R. Riser, the retiring sup. erintendent of the school, has receivet some highly complimentary letter. concerning the efficient preparation of some, of his pupils who have gone t< higher institutions of learning. 0 CR[AM[RY B[ING BUT AT ORANG[BUR4 New Enterprises Started in City oi the Edisto. Orangeburg, May 28.-The Orange burg Cooperative Creamery opene< for business in this city today. Th p~lnt, which is locate~d on North Mid dIleton street, is equippedl completel; with the most up-to-date machiner; obtainable. Besides making butte the creamery will manufacture big1 gradle ice cream for. the wvholesal tradle. The shipment of products wil begin in a short time. Not onlyi the suIpply of cream at present ver gratifying but it is rap)idly increasin with the shipment of additional blood ed cattle into the community. This is considIered a very wvise an profitable move on the part of th farmers and business men. The crean er1y affords a ready market for creat and the Orangeburg Packing Con - pany furnishes a market for all cai - tle and hogs to be dlisp~osedl of. Wit these two markets, it is considere a more profitable by expert4( to rais - stock in larger numbers and less col f ton. o --- s CJRATORE'S HN READ)Y TO JOIN ARIM c Montgoamery, Ala., May 28.-Crei I tore's Lanu, comp)osed of forty muns .cians, mostly Italians, applied at tI I city hall today for registration cardl complyinge wIth thecnscription lan SPECLATORS ARE RESPONSIBLE [OR HIGH PRICE OF ONIONS Federal Grand Jury Issues Indict ments for '88 Corporations and Individuals. CORNERED THE MARKET Producers Probably Received 2 Cents I Pound for Crop; Consumers i Pay 10 to 15. Boston, May 24.-Eighty-eight cor- _ porations and individuals were indict- t ed by the federal grand jury here to- 1 day for conspiring to monopolize in terstate commerce in onions. The indictments, which were re turned as a result of a nation-wide in quiry into the cost of food conducted last winter by Federal Attorney An- 1 derson, allege that the defendants divided the territory of the country between them for the purpose of eliminating competition; that maxi mum prices were fixed for the pur chase of onions and that the supply was hoarded in order to increase prices. Total Annual Crop. Mr. Anderson estimated that the annual crop of onions amounted to 200,000,000 pounds, three-fourth)s of which he said was alleged to have been controlled by the defendants. In a statement outlining the case Mr. Anderson said: "It is a part of the plan of this association to have monthly meetings in various parts of the country so as to get as large an attendance as possible of members who might other wise be reached only through the mails. After these monthly meetings the secretary issues to the members printed 'confidential reports' contain.. ing a summary or review of the amount of onions available in various producing sections, followed by suich suggestions as follows: "The bulk of onion crop is now in the hands of speculators, fully 75 per cent of whom are members of this association.' "This report shows that the move ment for the entire United States need be only eighty cars per day. The results rest with the members and by all means arrange to keep onions moving regularly. "We should not fool ourselves and make this a fictitious value market but be sure of conditions and the key to the situation is to keep some mov ing all the time. "For the 1916 crop the producers probably received less than two cents per pound. In midwinter many of these onions were sold to retailers and through them to consumers at 10 to 15 cents a pound. It is claim ed by the government that this tre mendous margin between the price accruing to the producer and the price paid by the consumer was largely due to illegal control of the trade exer cised by this association." o -- ADMINISTRATION TO TRY AND LOMiR FOOD PRICS One of First Aims of New Food - Administration. SWashington, May 20.-Reduction of - the present high prices the consunmer /' pays for food, it was announced today, /' will be one of the first aims of the r newv food administration, which wvill be i created wvith Herbert C. Hloover at its e head as soon as Congress passed the I government's control legislation. s Tlhis wvill he undertaken by cutting ' dlown the margin between producer and consumer through a syste~m of ex - ecutives under the central administra tion, each to study means of shorten I ing the speculative chain that handles e a particular commodity. - Trhe first staples to be submitted a probably wvill be grain, flour, meat and - sugar. - The executives will have under thenm ht hoards on wvhich wvill 1'.: rep~resentedI aI producer, m iddCleman andI consum r. e Their efforts wvill be in the Cdirection -of modification of present trade me(th odis and the stimulation of production. The food adm ninistrat Ion through its commodlity executives wvill ascertain V just what the country can spare in fo,od staples and this wvill be balanced - off against the Allied dlemands. If i- stocks available for export (do not e reach the Allied requirements the Al s, lied commissioners will settle among v. themsnlves their apportIonment. [LIED TEAMS ARE PLAYING I BASE BALL IN WAR ZONE treat Game Under Shadow of Vim Ridge. British Headquarters in France lay 28.-(Via London.)-From a staff Correspondent of the Associated 'ress.) The old adage of "all work nd no play" has its application in var as well as in peace. The base all season on the western front is in ull swing. Under the very shadow ,f Vimy Ridge a great game was flayed yesterday afternoon before an li-khaki audience on a bit of the bat lefield on which the shell holes had een filled in and a rough grandstand rected for the officers and other spec ators, including Gen. Horne, com nanding the first British army, who ins become an enthusiastic fan. The game was between teams rep -esenting two Canadian brigades. As t matter of fact all the teams in what nay be called the world war league end now composed of representatives )f the numerous Canadian bodies, and ll the players are anxiously await. ng the arrival of the American forces :o arrange for an interleague series. The Second Canadian brigade beat :he Third by the score of 7 to 1. The Second brigade had a great left-hand d pitcher whose delivery the Third brigade batters could not solve at all. The Third brigade team also had a good boxman, who formerly played with Ottawa in the Canadian League. The catcher was unable to hold his de livery well and this fault accounted for many of the runs scored by the winning side. The game was remarkably free from errors, considering the battle. field diamond. All the equipment had been brought from America, including the base bags. As a side show it was possible from the grandstand to sea an occasional German shell dropping half a mile or so away. Airplanes were humming overhead, but assuming them to be friendly, no one looked their way, ex cept when a fly ball happened to be hit. There Was typical rooting by the Canadians and Americans among the khaki-clad spectators, and much wagering on the game. One sub altern bet enough, he said, to pay his expenses on a three weeks' leave in Paris, but he chose the wrong side and his leave was indefinitely post poned. 0 JAPAN'S POLICY IN WARI Tokio, May 28.-Field Marshal Count Terauchi, the Japanese prem ier, today delivered an address to the prefectural governors on the policies of the Japanese Government. The premier said the war threaten ed to involve the whole world. 'I'h( participation of the Uinited States ir the conflict, he declared, was particu. larly satisfactory to Japan, "becaus( it materially strengthens the ties of interests binding Japan and America.' To meet the perilous wvar situatior the premier said Japan must culti vat< friendly relations with foreign nationm andl develop) her exte-nal trade. ----0 CREW It(OBHED) BY GERtMANS New~ York, M~ay 29.--The A merieam schooner Margar-et B1. Rtouss, wvhiel le'ft St. Andrew's Bay, Florida, Febru ary 4 with cargo of pine' lumber foi G;enoa, was sunk by a submnarine A pri 27 near the French-Italian coast, an' the crew robbed b~y the Germans, ac cordling to C apt. Fred I12. Foo(t , ma ste: of the schooner, who arrived here to (lay from France. Capt. F~oot sa id a (let achmeant fron the submarine hoarded his ve'ssel an took eve'rything of value, includlinJ foodstuffs and( nav igating inst ru mients. 'They werie set adrift ini (pei boat s and were lantded amt Monite( Ca rb by a patrol boat. Tlhe schooner wa sunik by lambs. Washington, May 28.--P1anama ha prop~osedl that the U nited St ates aid vance $10,000,000 for im mediate (on struction oif strategic roads anid rail ways as a step in p~ro~per defense o the Penamaii canal zone11 in the wa The sunm would in effect be an ad vance~ on account of the $25~0,000l year wvhich the United States ist pay to Penama in perp~etuity unde the canal treaty. Tfhe cost of the works woul bi shared equally by the United State nnl Pnnnma. RACE RIOT IN [AST. ST. LOUIS STILL REMAINS UNQUJ[L[D Negroes and White Men Wounded Where Race Trouble Breaks Out Afresh. TROOPS PATROLLING CITY Six National Guardsmen of Mis souri Arrested Charged With Inciting Riot. East St. Louis, May 29.-Three ne groes were shot, one probaly fatally, and three white men were wounded when the race riots broke out afresh here tonight. Groups of white men continued to form in the streets, but for the most part the police and sol diers on patrol duty have succeeded in disbanding them peaceably. One of the negroes shot tonight was on his way to work when he was accost ed by a white man who demanded to know his destination. The negro re fused to answer and the white man shot him. A crowd gathered quickly, but police dispersed it by using their clubs freely. A few minutes later another negro was made a victim of a mob of whites, when it was learned he had declared the blacks would "put up a fight" if trouble broke out tonight. The mob chased him for several blocks before he was halted by a pistol shot. His wound is not serious. Police guards dispersed that mob without great dif ficulty. Guardsmen Arrested. Six men of the First Regiment, Na tional Guard of Missouri, were arrest ed charged with inciting to riot. A negro, carrying a sack containing eight revolvers and several rounds of ammunitiop, was arrested on the Illi noise approach of Eads bridge. le had come from St. Louis, Mo. Thomas Ritchie, a private watch man for the Baltimore and Ohio Rail road, was patroling the tracks when he sawi a negro approaching with a shotgun. Ritchie challenged the ne gro, who fired, wounding Ritchie in the shoulder. At St. Mary's hospital two white men were taken in a seri ous condition as a result of gunshot wounds. Their identity has not been established. They were unarmed. Under Control. At 11 o'clock Col. C. E. Clayton, who is in command of six companies of militia on guard here, declared he expected little more trouble tonight. Col. Clayton stationed his men, each armed with a rifle with 90 rounds of ammunition, 100 feet apart in the sections where trouble was feared. Orders were issued to let no one pass into the "restricted zones" without be ing challenged. Three engine com panies of fire departments responded to an alarm on North Third street, heavily settled by negroes, and were met with a volley of shot when they arrived, but none was hit. Several other false alarms were turned in. Began Monday Night. The race riots began late last night, shortly after a co'immittee from the labor unions met with members of the city council to protest against fur ther import at ions of negroes from the South to wvork in the stock yards an ] packing plants andI were given im p~etus by a report that negroes had insulted a whl~ite woman and h ad hel up) tw.o white men in this city. I At that time large mobe were form I ed andl in th(e rioti ng which re'sul ted one negro was shot, several were bad I- by eaten and hundreds of negroes were dIriven across the' river in to St. l~luis. No. I STE'El. I NSTIE.'X) Ol' W(O(l) -l'nele Sanm's F'leet to Overcomne Ger nman Submarines. New York, May 21;. Tlhe sh ips t hat, t he A mierica n Governmewnt will build to besct the Germani submarine an I carry' supplies to our Euro'pean allies wvill be constructed of steel inst ead of wvood, anid the men1 who control the ouitpukt of ironm and steel in this . country have given the ir pledge to4 - Major Gen. George WV. Goet halIs to I' furn ish the necessamry mat erials. -. Ge. GotbalIs' a ppeall for~ the coope - rat ion of the iron and steel mnanufac turers foundl enthusiastic and patri 1 ot ic re.sponse~ at the annual dinner of r~ the A merican Iron and St eel Inst itute last night after he had told them that e the proposal to build 1,000, 3t,000-ton s wooden ships in eighteen months ''is simply hopeless."