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V O L. X9 N . VO.XXXVII ; / MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1917. .N.3 AMERICA'S ALLIES TO GET ANOTHER BIG LOAN; IN THE BILLIONS McAdoo and Kitchin Agree on Sum Between Three and Four Billion. MORE WAR TAX NECESSARY Congress Will Be Asked to Author ize Additional Two Billion. for War. Washington, Aug. 14.-Congres sional leaders were informed by Secre tary McAdoo today that it would be necessary for them to authorize at this and the winter session of Con gress an additipnal nine billion dol lars for war expenditures to June 30, 1918, including additional loan; to the Allies. Five billions in bonds already have been - authorized and a two bil lion war tax bill is now pending in the Senate. Within an hour after the Secretary had conferred with Representative Kitchin, chairman of the House ways and means committee, plans were underway to raise the money. A meeting of the ways and means com nilttee was called for August 2 and arrangements for the House, now tak ing three-day recesses, to resume its regular meetings on August 7, and expedite final legislation. No Delay Anticipated. Issuance of between three billion and four billion in bonds to meet new allied loans and authorization of an additional $500,000,000 In taxes to be added to the bill before the Senate, probably will be proposed by the com mittee and agreed to by the House. No delay in authorization is antici pated. The bond issue will. be agreed to within a day. Mr. Kitchin predict ed, and the $500,000,000 will be added to 'the revenue in e4onferenca with the aproval of the House. The plan is to have the remainder of the $9,000,000,000 authorized at the next sesion of Congress, beginning in Deceniber. Announcement that authorization of a new bond issue to meet an allied loan was desired came as a surprise to most of the congresional leaders. They thought the conference the Secretary sought with Mr. Kitchin was for the purpose of discussing raising an additional 1,000,000,000 or $2,000,000,000 for emergency domestic needs. They planned to authorize it, go home and raise the remaining $4,000,000,000 or 5,000,000,000 it was estimated the war could cost this fiscal year at the next session. -o URGES EMBARGO ON COT TON TO DEFEAT GERMANY Washington, Aug. 14.-"Unless Germany finds a way of procuring cotton, Germany will be defeated in this war by cotton." This is what the National Associa tion of Cotton Manufacturers said to congress today, through Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts. The cotton manufacturers dleclare that American cotton is leaking into Germany and tha tthe Prussians are using it in manufactu mng exllosives with which to kill American soldiers. Careful control of exports is urgently asked. D~elay Cotton. "Nothing is being done to control the export of cotton," says the communi cation the Massachusetts senator sent to the desk. "Cotton is the basis of explosives and has been leaking to Germany through several sources. It would be a deplorable condition to find out several months hence that our own cotton is being used to manufacture explosives in Germany wvith which to fight our own army. "Figures show that ncutrals have exported 00,000,000 . to 100,000,000 n-ore pounds of cotton than in peace ti men. "This is war of artillery. Germany hais lately had to import wood pulp from Sweden for explosive manufac ture. But the army with explosives made from cotton will win. "Cotton for Germany has been seen in various neutral countries. The con trol of this export means life or death to our American soldiers. Can we longer delay?" Manninlg's' BOARD TO CONTROL WHEAT Will! Probably Be Headed by Julius Barnes. Washington, Aug. 14.-Creation of a wheat control board under the food administration to supervise the distri bution of wheat was completed today and the board's personnel will be an nounced tomorrow. Detailed plans for controlling wheat will be made known within a few days. Julius Barnes, of Duluth, an ex porter, probably will head the new board. The control of flour manufacture will be left largely in the hands of the millers themselves. Representa tives of the millers will meet in Chicago this week to go over the situation. Representatives of the country's grain interest are due here tomorrow to confer with Mr. Barnes. The food administration will explain its pro posed program for wheat control which includes licensing of elevators and the fixing of a price to be paid the wheat grower for his product. 0 HARVEST CANADIAN GRAIN American Labor to Be Supplied for Reaping. Washington, Aug. 14.-Twenty thousand American harvest hands will help save Canada's grain crop and nearly half as many Canadians will dig potatoes in Maine under an ar rangement reached today by repre sentatives of the American and Cana dian governments Immigration regu lations will be suspended by both countries to permit the labor to cross and recross the border. American harvest labor, working northward with the grain season, has stopped at the Canadian line hereto fore and scattered to other pursuits throughout the United States. AMERICAN SAILOR'S BODY WASHED ASHORE Queenstown, Aug. 14.-The body of James Henry Bush, a fireman on an American torpedo boat destroyer, was washed ashore here yesterday. - o DANIELS FIRES NAVY LEAGUE Secretary Demands Resignation of Colonel Thompson and All Active Officials. Washington, Aug. 14.-Immediate resignation of Colonel Robert- M. Thompson, and other active members of the navy league, is requested in a letter sent to Colonel Thompson by Secretary of the Navy Daniels and made public tonight. Secretary Daniels predicates his re quest on the alleged falsity of a-state ment put oue by the navy league in timating that the investigation of the explosion of the Mare Island navy yard on July 9 has been held up by orders from any officials, acting under "influence' exertedl by powerful labor interests." Secretary Daniel's letter is a bitter arraignment of the prcsont oficials of the navy league of wvhich Colonel Thompson is presidient. In a supleh mental statement, Secretary Daniels goes further. Hie characterizes the action of the navy league andl its officers, as "too contemp~tible to de serve notice." In his letter Seeretar'y Daniels re fers to ani off'er from the navy league to cooperate with the Navy Depart meat in every manner possib~le and a sne~rstion from Colonel Thom pson that the present adlministration in tte organization was rendiy to resign if' deemed proper by Mr. Daniels. lHe then says: "In view, howvever, of the false anid slanderous statement given out today by the navy league, I ami writing to say that the chief service which you and the other active officials of the navy league can render to the navy is Ito resign at once andl permit the legeto be directed by those who is a crisis like the present could not per mit a statement to be given out to the public which attempts to discrodit the entire Navy Department and which will be read with disgust and contempt by every' honest citizen of America." Fobacco Ma POPE IS WORKING HARD FOR PEACE Pope Bendict Sends Proposals to End War to All Belligerents. He Suggests the Restoration of Bel Gium, Serbia and Roumania and Peaceful Solution of Other Prob lems. Rome, Aug. 14.-Peace proposals by Pope Benedict which have been delivered to all the belligerent na tions, suggest the restoration of Bel gium, Serbia, Rumania and the peaceful solution of the problems of Alsace-Loraine, Trent, Trieste and Poland, according to reports from vatican sources. -0 SPAIN PRESENTS PROPOSAL Pope is Believed to Be Actuated by Highest Motives. Washington, Aug. 14.-The an nouncement is made that the Span ish ambasador at Rome had deliver ed the Pope's peace proposal to the Italian government led to the belief that the Spanish minister here might convey it to this government. There is no disposition to ascribe any but the lottiest motives to the Pope in accepting the peace proposals ema nating from Vienna, but the first question to be raised was what is proper division of responsibility be tween the Central Powers and the Pope. It is important to know whether the proposal came from Viena or Berlin originally. The en tente diplomats agree that it did not conic from any of the allied capitals. o INSPIRED BY GERMANY Entente Diplomats Believe That Teu tons Are Trying to Split Allies. Washington, Aug. 14.-The state department acknowledged thap it had unofficial information of the Pope's proposal, but could do nothing until it is officially received. Whatever consideration that is given the pro posal will be after consultation with the allies. The apostlic delegation disclaimed all knowledge of the Pope's effort to end the war. In entente diplomatic circles the opinion is freely expressed that the peace move was inspired by Germany and was an attempt to split the al lies in conicting discussion of their war aims. Would Reduce Armaments. Washington, Aug. 14.-The reduc tion of armaments, the settlement of all international disputes by arbitra tion, the freedom of the seas, no re taliatory after the war economic struggle for the supremacy in world trade are the foundations of the Pope's peace proposals. O - London Sums Up Pope's Terms of Peace. London, Aug. 14.--Summed up, the Pope's prop~osals for peace are for a restoration of the status quo ante bellium, leaving the questions of the readljustment of the frontiers to un defined "subsequent nsgotiations." Washington Recceives Pope's Proposals Washington, A ug. 141.---The Pope dleclares that the injurios of the b)elligerents( are so great that there should be no thought of reparation exep;t for the return of all territory. The proposals insist that the German cooie s be returned, andl compJlete sovereignty be granted Belgium. -- -- WILL BE 801LD ATi CHiARLESTO)N First New Bale for Th'is State Ship ped From Marion. Marion, Aug. 14.-The first bale of cotton raisedl in South Carolina (lur ing 1917 was p~rodlucedl in Marion County and was brought on this mar kel, today by Butler Generai, a colored man. This cotton has been shipped by express to Charleston tonight and will be sold on the Charleston Ex change tomorrow. Great interest is being manifested here as to what price this cotton will bring. rket Leads RED CROSS TOBACCO MONEY Horry Farmers Contributed Many Pounds of "Weed." Conway, Aug. 14.-The proceeds from the Red Cross tobacco sales in Horry last week will net approxi mately $625. Most of this amount has already been turned in to the county chairman of the council of de fense for Horry and will be forwarded to the Red Cross headquarters at once. hTe Horry farmers in every section of the county made liberal contribu tions in response to the call made on them for as many pounds of tobacco as they could give for this cause. Sales were held at Loris, Conway, Aynor and Floyds and at every place the farmers contributed liberally. The Red Cross tobacco sale at Loris Monday was the beginning of this movement in Horry and the hearty response which has been given speaks well for the people of this county. There were only one or two who refused to contribute when approach ed by the ladies in behalf of the Red Cross. The warehousemen and buy ers gave their hearty support and en thusiastically bought the tobacco, the proceeds from which is to go to help the soldiers. -o S. C. REGIMENTS GO TO FRANCE The Contingent Will Include Troops From Twenty -Six States Repre senting All Sections-South Caro lina and Florida Not Included. Washington, Aug. 14.-Plans for sinding the first contingent of the National Guard troops to France have been perfected, with the organization of a division including men from 26 States and the District of Columbia. The selections cover all sections of the country. The division includes the Georgia guard. South Carolina and Florida are not included. The division will be known as the forty-second. The division conforms to the new plan of reducing the num ber to twenty thousand. It will -be commanded by Brigadier General W. A. Mann. The eighty-fourth infantry brigade comprises the Hundred and Fifty-first machine gun company, formed of Companies B. C. and F., Second Georgia infantry. The engi neers' regiment will be known as Hundred Seventeenth. It includes the first separate South Carolina battal ion of engineers. 0 GOETHALS-)ENMAN ROW FLARES UP Washington, Aug. 14.-The Goeth als-Denman row came near flaring up again late today in the senate. Seh ator Phelan of California said he wished to submit a statement by the former chairman of the shipping board. Objection wvas made immediately by Senator Smoot, who said Senator Phelan could not get the statement into the congressional record unless he read it on the floor. Senator Mar tin, the Democratic leader, also made objetion. However, Senator Phelan will at tempt tomoirrow to read the statement into the recordls. lHe i:s determliined to obtain official publietty for it through some sour-ce. No intimation has been given of the c'ontenits of the statement. But it is pre-sumedl that Mi-. Decnman gives a resume, with some new facts, of hi; controversy with General G;oethlals, which eventually led to the resignia tion of both men fr-o mithe shippiong ONE FJIEED), OTHllUII HEIl) McCormaiek, Aug. 1-1.--J. S. S ter, colored, oif the Clairk's IIlill se tion of Mc-Corm ick Counity, wAis ari rested a few dlays ago .by Uniitedl States D~eputy Marshal Bruce forb ing a slacker. A preliminary was heldb hiefore United States Comm ission-: L,. W. Harris here and Slaughter was dismissed. James Silirt, colored, of McCor mick, was also arrested by D~eputy Marshal l3ruce on a -harge oif violat ing the selective law by failing to register. Ac preliminary was held before Comissioner Harri's here andl Sibert was committedl, as he failed to furnish bond. For the IHigl EXPORT FICURES OF THE UNITED STATES ARE REMARKABLE June, 1917, Shows Heavy Increase, Especially in Prices Obtained. LESS CORN; MORE COST Dollar Dwindles Faster Than Quan tity Gains-World Must Beat Germany. Washington, Aug. 14.-According to the sta tement just published by the Department of Commerce, the United States sent abroad nearly three times as much wheat in June, 1917, as in June, 1916. It will be interesting to see how the July figures, when they come out, are affected by the fact that President Wilson's embargo on certain exports to neutral nations went into effect July 1, 1917. If the United States had not de elared a state of war with Germany the situation as to exports of food stuffs would not have been different, except that it. would have been harder in that case to put the embargo on the next-door-to-Germany neutrals. The eagerness of our producers to sell abroad at famine prices would have been just as great, and the reflex ac tion upon prices at home would pos sibly have been worse, because there is less objection to using war powers of domestic price-control when we are at war than when we are not. Astonishing Statistics. Our entire exports of breadstuffs amounted to $73,442,000 in June last, according to the Department of Com merce. The same figures for June, 1916, were $26,823,000. For June, 1914, before the great war in Europe began, the breadstuff exports amount. ed to only $13,363,000. Measured in dollars, we are now sending the rest of the world-chiefly anti-Teutonic Europe presumably-about six and a half times the breadstuffs we were sending in the months before the con flict started. But the increase in quantity of ex ports has not been so great as the increase in their value. The dearth abroad has been rapidly thrusting up prices, as we all know, and none knows where the rise will stop. The 5,900,000 bushels of wheat we exported in June, 1916, were worth $7,477,000; the, 15,800,000 bushels we exported in June, 1917, were worth $43,000,000. These are the oficial valuations. The 3,700,000 bushels of corn we ex ported last June brought $6,166,000; the 4,800,000 bushels in June of last year brought $3,994,000! Actually less corn brought very much more money. As compared with 1916, the June figures do not show it remarkable gain in quantity of -xports, but do showv a whopping rise in prices. There is a great gaitn m both quan-. tity and pritces. it goes without sav ing, when the comnpa rison is bet ween~ 1917 and the ante--war period. The I )w indIi ng lDolhIar. TIhe worldl hats got to, bring the war with G ermnany to as qjuick an end as ptossile in order to live. A half a dollart hefore the war was ats good as a dollar today. This has taken ptaee in thrtee yearis. ITough only one of many ntat ions at war, we have to 'onttemplate- ex jiend ituires total ing perha ps $15,tt00i,. tI00,t000t the first. year. When the rusaders 700 yea rs ago sought thI. aid of' Vemeie int th- great expedi ion wh ieb capture tC(onstantinople, the tich Venet ians thuotght, their l)oge had turnedl a great Itriek of busitness when he had chartged the I'tan k 850,001) for his r-epltlie's help. In the fetdalI days of France it good horste was often swapped for t wo peasanits; atnd the Turks were once so hard put to it that they gave up~ a Christian knight for a pair of shoes. Watr Puts human lIfe at a terrible dIiscouttt and( lesser things at a ter rible preiu im. Therefore, the world has to p)ut downVf thle nation which makes wvar its business, or D~ark Age Lconditions return. best Prices BE SURE TO READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS Por those Who Secure Signatures to Hoover Pledge Cards, for Conserva tion of Foods and Registration Cards, on August 21st, Registra tion Day. First: This is a request from your President of the United States. Second: Be courteous, and friendly. Avoid controversies. Make it your business to reach every woman and every cook who has charge of a house hold in the section assigned you, also every restaurant and hotel keeper, and chief. Third: The county should be sub divided into townships with a chair man in each township and let her in turn select her township committee, who could either collect their women at the churches and school houses in each township, or make a house to house canvass, whichever method in their judgment seems best. Fourth: Cities should be divided into wards, precincts and blocks, and placed in charge of captains, and each group of women given a certain num ber of blocks. Fifth: Women should go out in twos in canvassing homes. Sixth: Have plenty of women so that the work may be done quickly. Before sending them out get them all together and explain why we are asked to sign these cards, and to what it will lead. Seventh: In the country, automo biles should be provided by patriotic men and each section definitely as signed t osome group of two women. Eighth: Remember this is a most important task in which you have the privilege of assisting. South Caro lina must make a good showing in pledging its women for the conserva tion of foods. Ninth: In getting women to sign the registration cards make a brief e,planation in each case that the country needs the services of women (luring the war just as much as the services of men, and that patriotic women must be willing to do what ever they can to help their Govern ment. Tenth: Push the signing as rapidly as possible when once it is begun. Eleventh: Work should begin at once, as soon as your county is thor oughly organized and ready to go ahead. Twelfth: Have the cards signed in your presence and bring them to the chairman of your Woman's Commit tee, who will turn them over to the Chairman of the County Council of Defense. Thirteenth: The Chairman of the County Council will then express the Hoover cards to Herbert Hoover, Food Administrator, Washington, D. C. Fifteenth: The registration cards shall be turned over to the chairman of each county and retained by her at the county seat. Summary copies in duplicate shall be sent to Mrs. J. L. Visaska, State Registrar, Char leston, S. C., 1who keep:s one summary andl sendls tl e other to the National headquarters of the Woman's Comn mittee, 18l1 N. St., N. WV., Washing toni, D. C., so that if the se-rvice*s of the wvomen registeredl in dlifferent deC partments are needled by the Govern ment, they wvill know (definitely wher to findl thos qualified for service. Of course this service is voluntary, not compulsory. Mrs. F. Louise Mayts, Chairman, South Carolina Division, Woman's Council of D)efense. (CHINA ENTEiS W~All' Lon-lon, Aug. 1 4.---Reuter's News Agensy, (Limited) has been officially informed that China has dleclared wvar on Germany and Austria-Hun gary, dating from 10 o'clock this, morning. T1W() H UND)RED) GENER ALS President Nominates General Offiers For the Army. Washington, Aug. 14.-The nomi nation of more than twp hundredl major generals and brigadier gener als has been sent to the senate by Presidlent Wilson. The list includes all National Guard general ofilcers. Thiem'MA