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r Il OL. XXXVII MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1917. NO. 2 I RENCH MAKE NOTABLE GAINS IN MEUSE SECTOR TAKE MANY TRENCHES now Prince's Army Captures Trenches on Laon-Soissons Road and in Champagne. TEUTONS COMPEL SLAVS TO RETREAT Oix German Airplanes Brought Down by British-Heavy Artillery Fighting About Riga. "There has-been no relaxation in the intensity of the fighting between the French and the Germans on various 'sectors of the southern line in France rom the region of Soissons eastward through to the Champagne and into the district northeast of Verdun, cen tering about the famous hill 304. Victories are recorded for both sides -fqr the Germans along the Laon Soissons road in the penetration and destruction of French t-enches and in Champagne, north of Mont Teton, where the forces of the Crown Prince previously had been repulsed with heavy casualties, and for the French in the Verdun sector, where Gen. Pe tain's forces took enemy lines on a *ront of a mile and a half to a depth of about two-thirds of a mile. Persistent Counter-Attacks. The success of the Germans north of Mont Teton was obtained through persistent counter-attacks on positions they' had lost last Saturday, in which their losses have been extremely heavy. While the German war office Asserts that all the old German posi tions were recaptured, the Paris offi cial 'communication declares that the troops of the Crown Prince only re gained a footing at certain points in the French elements. Artillery duels and small operations carried out by raiding parties continue to feature the situation on the line where the British are facing the Ger ans. Intensive air fighting is still in progress in this region, in the lat hest of which six German machines were driven down by British airmen, whose machines all returned from their forays. Russians Evacuate Town. The Russians in East Galicia have been forced for strategic reasons to evacuate the town of Kalusz and take up positions on the southern side of the Lomnica river. The important crossing of the Lomnica was made secure by the troops of Gen. Brussil off aftor they maoie their retreat. Pre ious t retiring the Germans had ..arrO , but persistent attacks on Kal isz, b the Russians had repulsed all of them. Serious fighting has taken place in the immediate region of the village of Novica, the Austro Germans capturing it, but later be ing driven out on the arrival of Rus sian reserves. Heavy artillery fighting continues along the northern front around Riga, )vinsk and Smorgon, the extent of the operations not having yet been revealed. In Rumania, along the Dunabe, Rus sian scouts captured the village of Dunaevec and most of its defenders, but later abandoned the position. In none of the other theaters has there been a battle of any importance. TWO CONVICTS DRIOWNED) l)ouble Tragedy in Florerie County *.upoj, jsanbuI Sumter, JTuly 1 7.-Ben Murray and 2urtis McC'lary, convicts on the coun y chain gang, were dIrowned today a hole near Cain's Mill, six miles from Sumter. Both were in wvashing, the former having chains on his feet. Miurray's body was recovered late this afternoon. The coroner's inquest, to be held tomorrow, promises to bring out startling developments as to the caus~e of the tragedy. NEW SUBSCRJI'TIONS TO RED) CROSS .Jordan. "Jordan P'resbyterian Sunday School-....------------2.00 D~avis Station. Bethlehem Sundan School ... 3.68 Sum merton. St. Mathias Episcopal Church 10.00 .$15.8 SELL YOUlF SUPREME COURT'S IMPORTANT DECISION Case of State vs. Gilbert et. al. in Favor of the State. Columbia, July 12.-The State Su preme Court today in affirming the lower court in the case of the state, respondent, vs. J. Ellis Gilbert, Su sannah Gilbert and others, appellants, has finally decided in favor of the state a criminal prosecution in Lee county which attracted a great deal of interest throughout the country. The Supreme Court thus refers to the facts: "The evidence in the case discloses the fact that Miss Broadway was prin cipal of Liberty F 11 school and Ruby Gilbert and Lawton Gilbert were pu pils in the schoo' A few days before Miss Broadway was assaulted and beaten she suspended Ruby from school. After this suspension, Miss Broadway was requested by two of the trustees of the school to meet the father of Ruby to adjust the matter. While on the way to school and the proposed meeting as arranged by the trustees, Miss Broadway, accompanied by her friend and fellow teacher, Miss Ethel Logan, was stopped on the pub lic road by the Gilberts and severely beaten. This beating was inflicted by the women .of the Gilbert family. None of. the men, according to the evidence, actually struck her, but there is evidence that all were pres ent during the assault. There is evi dence that Lawton Gilbert and Raw ton Gilbert, with their father, Ellis Gilbert, surrounded Miss Logan, Miss Broadway's companion, and assistant teacher, while the female members of the Gilbert family were assaulting and beating Miss Broadway, and pre vented Miss Logan from interfering. Rawton Gilbert was not a pupil in the school, but was present at the diffi culty." At the close of the state's testi mony and at the close of all the testimony a motion was made for a verdict of acquittal as to Rawton Gil bert and Lawton Gilbert upon the ground that there was not sufficient evidence upon which to base a con viction as to them. The motion was refused. After the defendants were convicted of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, motion for new trial was made and iefused. "There is evidence," says the Su preme Court in affirming the lower court, "that the men joined the women when they came out of the house where the meeting was arranged for by the trustees. That they conferred together and after that went and did meet Miss Broadway and her com panion and were present and saw the severe punishment inflicted on Miss Broadway." The court discusses the law at length, saying that "If they were there to carry out the unlawful designs in pursuance of a common de sign participating actually or poten tially, if necessary, then all were guilty, the act of one was the act of all." "We cannot refrain," says the court, "from calling attention to and ex presing our disapproval of the want of manhood exhibited by the trustee in not protecting or making an ef1'ort to protect Miss Broadwvay when she was so outragously assaulted and beaten." -- - - -o -- MOUNT ETNA ACTlIVE AGAIN Most Recent Eruapt ion C'aused P anic Among Natives. Catania, Sicily, July 16i.--T'he most recent eruption of Mount Etna, al though ver~y brief, caused a panic among the population of the nearby dlistricts in conlseqIuence of the enor mious quantity of lava discharged, wvhich surp~assed the previous records. Prof. Pond, anl exp~ert, on vo!cano ac tivities, on returning f rom a visit to the crater, said the volume of lava reached a height of 2,500 feet above the crater and in thirty-live minutes the area for a mile around was coy eredl to a thickness varying from ten to twenty feet. o - D)AM AGE BY CLOUDIHURISTi Knoxville, July 17.--The dlamage to Knoxv'ille, andl adjoining counties from the cloudburst of Moliday is estimated to be over $300,000. The ,chief dlamage was to streets andl roadIs, railways. Many houses and manufacturing plants R noxville were flooded. TOBA4CCO TO THE PEOPLE OF You will recall that some 1 the Court House in the interest o I was elected chairman for the auxiliary to the Sumter Chaptei After canvassing the situal of the leading citizens througho to form a Clarendon County C sections of the County signifi< members and paid their dues were sent in to headquarters as I am just in receipt of authority It is necessary that we has purpose of electing permanent business as may be necessary in With this in view a meetir County, interested in joining the afternoon, July 20th, at five o'cl We expect to have with us directors, of the National Red C explain the work of the Chapte: and the benefits to be derived b Thousands of our soldiers . Cross is the medium by which thi after. Within a few (lays hund will be called to the colors, a should appeal to every one of us attend the meeting in the Cou make the Clarendon County Red DRAWING TO BE HELD TIS WEEK Crowder Hopes Preliminary Stage Will Be Over in Forty-Eight Hours. ONLY 648 DISTRICTS ARE NOT YET READY Local Exemption Boards May Com plete Their Organization Today. Washington, July 17.-With only ten states remaining to be heard from on the organization of local exemp tion boards and with the serial num ber lists of registrants from all ex cept 648 of the 4,559 exemption dis tricts on file in Washington, provost Marshal General Crowder was hope ful today that the preliminary stages of the war army drawing would be completed within 48 hours. He pre pared to take up with Secretary Bayer late in the day details of the lottery process for final approval. If there is no unexpected delay it seems likely that the drawing can be held Friday or Saturday. A single district, however, can hold up action indefinitely. Once past the drawing stage, Gen. Crowder pointed out today the neces sity for concerted action by the state ceases, and the examination of regis trants and their assignment to the army or exemption can proceed in any state without regard to progress made in any other community. May He Complete Today. The ten states not having complet edl their prep~aratio~ns for the dlrawving are Alabama, Illinois, New York, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Ken tucky, Ohio, PennsylvanIa andl Vir ginia. The group includes the States hkv ing the largest population. The fact that reports 'from only (648 indi vidlual (districts of the 4,559 are miss ing, howvever, showvs that even in the ten states the work is well advanced. The entire list may be compIletedl to day. T1he Censuis Estimates. Gen. Crowvder dleclined to make any comment on the statements ma~( d ys * rday in the Senate atacking the fair ness of the census bmu op )Iulattion estimates upon which the allotment of quotas under the draft law is bas edl. Other officials pointed out, however-, that the revised estimates of the cen sus bureau were not intendled to fix the actual population of' any communi ty. The estimates are preferred wvith the statement that thcy are for use in conenction with the draft only. They are based upon registration and rep~resent the distribution over the country of men betwveen the ages fixed in the dlraft lav' as liab~e for military service. Large figures for many of the cities the accounted for by the concentration of men of the dlraft age there for wvork in munition or other plants. IN MANN~l CLAR[NDON COUNTY: ime ago a meeting was held in f the Red Cross. At that meeting purpose of organizing either an , or a Chapter in this County. ion and talking with a number Lt the County it was determined hapter. Ten persons of various d their intentions of becoming for one year, and these names the Committee on organization. to form a Chapter in this County. 'e a meeting right away for the officers and of transacting such order to perfect the organization. g of all citizens throughout the Red Cross, is called for Friday ock in the Court House. at that time one of the assistant ross Headquarters, who will fully 's, what they are expected to do y becoming a member. ire now in France and the Red cy are to be cared for and looked reds of our boys of this County nd the work of the Red Cross So let everybody in the County rt House Friday afternoon and Cross Chapter a success. F. P. BURGESS, Chairman. WHEAT SUPPLY FOR ALLIES United States and Canada Must Ex port 300,000,000 Bushels. Montreal, July 17.-Hints that some form of compulsion and price-fixing might be necessary to converse the food supplies of this country and the United States so that the home popu lation can feed and the necessary ex portation take place to the entente allies, were made today by W. J. Hanna. Dominion food controller, in an address before the Canadian Club. The total requirements of the allies in wheat reach 1,105,000,000 bushels. The production of Europe is 645,000, 000 bushels, leaving 460,000,000 bush els to be exported from North Amer ica. It was estimated that the United States and Canada would have for export 300,000,000 bushels so that 100,000,000 would have to be made up. 0 POISONING OF LIVE STOCK Federal Agents Conducting Investiga tion in Oregon. Klamath Falls, Oregon, July 17. Evidence of wholesale poisoning of live stock and atempts to burn farm buildings in this district has been un covered by federal agents who are conducting an investigation into a fire which last Sunday destroyed a large flour mill and a quantity of grain. From the farm of J. Frank Adams a report was made that twenty-five horses and 200 cattle had died recently of poison and fifty head of cattle and forty sheep died in the same manner on two other ranches. Adams, it is said, has been engaged for the last two years in supplying horses and cattle for the Entente Governments. 0---- - "SILENT! SENTIINELS" GETl STI'FF" SENTENCE Washington, .July I17.-The I16 mem.. bers of the woman's party arrested Saturday in an attempt to picket the White Ilouse were sentenced today to pay a fine of $25 or serve sixty dlays in the District of Columbia workhouse at Occoquan, Va. They decided to take the sixty (lays senltenice. An ap peal will be made. D~udley Field Mal~lone, collector of customs at New York, was a witness in behalf of the women and wvill act as their cou'nsel. It was repiortedl Mr. Malone would resign his p~ost at Newv York to take charge of the wvork. Washington, July 1 7.--Se.nator Fletcher today asked President Wil son to deterniine whether phosphate rock is included under the general name of fertilizer in the list of arti cles whose eAport to neutral coun~triesc has been curtailed by the export coun cil. The Senator said a large portion of the phosphate rock produced in the United States comes from Florida andl sonme of it has been going to neu tral countries, like Spain. The Presi' (lent promisedl to refer the question to experts. 16 AND GET DUAL EMPIRE'S IDEAS OF PEACE All People Should Have Right to Decide Internal Destinies. Vienna, July 17. (Via Amsterdam). -The Lower House has adjourned in definitely. The president in conclud ing his spe Msaid: "We again have freed the way for constitutional life. We have strengthened -the assured position of the House. May it have strength to fulfill the great task of rebuilding the empire." Austria-Hungary's ideas on. peace were made known to the constitution al committee of the Reichrath in an address by the premier, Dr. von Seyd ler. After referring to the unbreak able unity between Austria and her allies, Dr. von Seydler declared Par liament would work for the aim for which Austria is fighting, namely, the unassailable, sacred right of her peo ples to decide for themselves their in ternal destiny. This task at the same time will be a long stride in the di rection of an honorable peace which we desire to create on the basis of justice, moderation and conciliation the firm unity of all civilized peoples and thie uniform endavor to abolish .hose circumstances which brought about the world war. We are all longing for this peace. Until then we are determined to hold on in firm co operation between front and home land." Dr. von Seydler referred to the use lessness of all past efforts to carry out the principle of equal rights of all nationalities laid down in the consti tution. This, he said, was the cause of the political troubles which made Austria appear sick, a state which, however. every clear minded person knew to be untrue. -All peoples of Austria were united externally and internally by a common tie, by love of the dynasty and the uniformity of all vital interests. 0 CLARENDON'S SHARE OF DRAFT IS 301 The counties of the state will be called upon to furnish net quotas as follows: Abbeville-17. Aiken-370. Anderson-273. Bamberg-183. Barnwell-365. Beaufort-108. Berkeley---148. Calhoun-156. Charleston (county)-240. Charleston (city)-304. Cherokee---119. Chester--207. Chesterfield-164. Clarendon-301, Colleton-234. Darlington-153. Dillon-163. Dorchester-122. Edgefield-203. Fairfield--203. Florence-284. Georgetown-146. Greenville-376. Greenwood-151. llampton-179. IHorry-233. Jaspe'r-84. Kershaw-1 75. Lancaster-1 96. Laurens-225. Lee.-200. Lexington-259. McCormick-135. Marion---15. Mlarlboro--251. Newbverry--214. Oconce-e-181. Orangeburg-469. Pickens-- 182. Rich land-205. City of Columbia--100. Saluda--19.. Spartanburg-44 . Sumter-2(1. o. : -Ndon:; cred.(Iits 33 in e'xcess of qu~ota.. Williamisburg-240. York-24.IG Philadelphia, JTuly I17.-The torpedo boat destroyer Stocktobn, the latest ad dition to the United States navy, was launched from the Cramp Ship Yard here today. Tfhe craft was named in behalf of Commodore Stockton of Civil War fame. .7 Miss Ellen Emilie De Martelley eight years old1, a (decendant of Coin modIore Stockton, wvas sponsor of the nwY destroyer. PIHE 11IG11 PRATT HANDS IN HIS RESIGNATION AT THE R[Q[ST Of REDFIELD Was in Charge of Operation of Government's Control of Exports. REGRETS TO GIVE UP WORK Wide Differences Existed Between Secretary of Commerce and Assistant. Washington, July 17.-Dr. Edward E. Pratt, chief of the Commerce De partment's bureau of foreign and do mestic commerce, resigned tonight at the request of Secretary Redfield. No reason was announced, but it is known wide differences have existed between Mr. Redfield and his assistant over the administration of the export control clause of the espionage act. As chief of the bureau, Dr. Pratt was in active charge of the operation of the government's control of ex ports, which went into effect Saturday morning. le had just organized and started working a division of export licenses with C. A. Richards, a New York exporter, at its head. Dr. Pratt's Statement. In announcing his resignation, Dr. Pratt tonight issued this statement: "At the request of Secretary Red field I have forwarded to the Presi dent my resignation to take effect im mediately. I would have regretted leaving the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce at any time, but I particularly regret it at this time, 'because of the war activities that have been placed in its care." Dr. Pratt also made public the fol lowing letter he wrote tonight to Sec retary Redfield: "In accordance with your request I have transmitted to President Wilson my resignation as chief of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, taking effect immediately. I regret to leave the important work which has recently been entrusted to the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com merce, because I had looked upon it as an opportunity to serve my coun try. "I want to take this occasion to ex press to you my sincere appreciation of your many courtesies extended to me (luring the last three years." Redfield is Brief. Secretary Redfield declined tonight to discuss the reasons for Dr. Pratt's dismissal. All that he would say was contained in this brie. statement: "While Dr. Pratt has- many excel lent qualities and much ability, it was deemed wise for administrative rea sons and for the good of the service that a change be made. 'T'he're will be no other readjustments in the serv ice. The matter had been for some time under consideration." ALL COAL BY ALLOT31ENT Operators Promise to M1eet the Gov ernent's Needs. W~ash ingt on, .1 uly I17.-C'oal operat ors of four Eastern St ates at a con ference here today assured gov'ern mient flicials t he wtould meet all the goverIn ment's coal n teedls andi that, th ey wvould fanishb amount s allottfedl to them by any agency the gove-rnmecnt might imme. Tlhe (fuest ionI of i'ce was not coni sidered,'( aIflthough Se'crxitary D anaiel dleclarmed the ope.rat ors shoaldI co me forwarid ini the samei spirit as show~vn by the nan in unun iformis who go to Frace. The prices finally to be' dje. termminetd will he fixed afterm the le I. ermal Trade' omumission1 has ('ono let - ed its inv,. tiga tion of' coal pro r o TJhe gover-nmnent's coal requcirmnd for the nlext year were put at slight - ly more than five million Lons. Alumchi of it niust be of the so-called smoke less variety for use by war'ships awl transports. In aigreeinmg to su pply the go'vern ment's coal by a syst em of alIlotmnit the operatoirs hound themselv'es als to take care of each others' comumer cial orders when they arec taken ov< r by the government. The plan adlopted virtually amounts~ to a pool1 to be sold to the govern men t. More than 500 operators were at the conference. ST PRICES