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VOL. XXXVII -------_MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7,1917. DECLARES NEGROES fIRED INTO BOU$f Soldiers Wounded Him and Killed His Half Brother, Says Houston Citizen. SHOT PEOPLE ON STREETS Civilians Giving Damaging Testi mony Against. 63 Negroes Now on Trial. San Antonio, Texas, Nov. 5.--How negroes of the Twenty-fourth infan try shot down people in the streets, fired into their houses, and in one in stance, aimed deliberately at mem bers of one family who were on their front porch o nthe night of August 23, last, was told today by Houston ' civilians who lived near the camp on the night 'of the riot, at the court martial trial of the sixty-three ne groes charged with mutiny, murder and rioting. This was the first testi mony with regard to the shooting out side Camp Logan. Shot People on Porch. William Drucks, with his right hand off just above his wrist, testi fied that he cpme out on his porch and seeing soldiers marching past called to his sister, Miss Mary Winkler, to turn on the porch light, so he could see who they were. He was at once fired on. Standing behind him on the porch, Drucks testified, stood Fred Winkler, his half brother. Winkler was shot and killed.. The witness estimated there were between eighty-five, and 100 of the negroes. He said over a dozen shots were fir ed .into the house. 0 REV. M'LENDON. AT COLUMBIA Columbia, Nov. 5.-Some weeks ago the Rev. Baxter F. McLendon, of * Mules Lc lWago CopI i~ :l Marlboro county, one of the leading evangelir.ts of the United States, be gan a meeting at Clover, in York county. Some of the people of that section instituted a propaganda against him on the ground that he was a "Bleascite" or, as now termed, a "Reformer." The Rev. Mr. Mc Lendon acknowledged the corn, and held one of the biggest and best re vival- meetings in the history of York county. He preached to men of all factions and of all creeds. Poli tics did not count in his sermons. It was the business of the Master. with him, and he converted "Bleaseites" and "Antis," alike, irrespective of "previous condition of servitude," and he told them, when he was taking them into the' Master's vineyard that an "anti" -would be just as accept able as a "Bleasite." The Rev. Mr.' McLendon is in Co lumbia this week. He is here for a several weeks' meeting and he is waking things up. He is now preach ing in the Oliver Gospel Mission, on Taylor street, but the clurch there is small, and it is probable that be fore his work is ended in Columbia he will have to build a temporary tabernacle. Mr. McLendon is a young man, of striking appearance. He is about 6 feet tall,,.well built, with black mus tache, flashing black eyes, heavy eye brows, and well able to take care of himself in the pulpit, or elsewhere. He is a good preacher, and a good fellow. It takes a good fellow to make a good preacher. Mr. McLen don knows life. He has been mixed up with almost everything. When he ,went into the ministry he was under bond to appear in answer to a charge of gambling. That was when he was converted. He then immediately went to preaching. Mr. McLendon js a native of Marl boro county. In his early life he 'was a liquor drinker and a gambler. He has the reputation of having been one EM and Horse me and look We have ns, Buj ,Come a Le Stock of L rni .g~IIg_ of the best poker players who ever w traveled over this country. On Octo- ke ber 22, 1906, he was running a barber m shop in Bennettsville, as a "side line." ar His main line then was playing poker. ni Prior to that time he had been engag- to ed. in the saloon business in Florida. g< He had not been to church in six as years. Oie night he accidentally em "dropped in" to preaching at a re- ai vival meeting and "got caught," to use his own expression. "It was a o, great surprise to me and to every; of body who knew me," says Mr. Mc- tt London, who yas regarded to use his ir own words, as "about the most cold- g blooded proposition in the country." a Today the Rev. Mr. McLendon ranks slong with "Billy" Sunday, as S one of the great evangelist of the country. He gets down to the basic facts in his sermons. He calls a G spade a spade. He knows poker; he knows how to "shoot craps;" he knows all these matters intimately connected with human nature in big cities and little, as well, and he knows their evils at first-hand, and s< he does not hesitate to preach against d these evils in view of his own knowl- fo edge. He knows the "big world," and A he preaches from his knowledge t< thereof. . o Some time ago some people at P Bennettsville, his home town, wanted a1 him to hold q meeting there. The pastors of the town were not very s much inclined to have him come. The is business men of Bennettsville signed a petition and presented it to the ti preachers of the city, "asking them to t invite me," to use Mr. McLendon's nm own words, "to hold an evangelistic yc campaign at Bennettsville, my home town. Three leading preachers of the th town, who had never heard me preach, R refused to join in the invitation. One of of the ministers had heard me preach tc and he endorsed my coming. I broke di one of my rules, and went to Ben nettsville, over the protest of the rc preachers of the town. The meeting pI ORE this nice lot o a complete st< ~gies, . H see us, we hay as the greatest success of my life. paid $900 incidental expenses for e and paid me $2,100, for my work id no doubt that was the largest nount ever paid an evangelist in a wn that size. Of course the money )es where it will do the most good, I see it. I would not mention it, :cept by way of comparison in the nount of good done." Mr. McLendon has preached all rer the southern country and a part the north. He has received calls is year from the largest churches America and after Christmas he es to Los Angeles, Cal., to conduct revival there. 0- - LAUGHTER MEN WHO ARE TAKEN AS PRISONERS erman Soldiers Write of the Barba rities They Have Seen Inflicted Upon Helpless Men Made Captives in Battle. Washington, Nov. 5.-Barbarities gross that even the German sol era themselves rebelled, are set rth in letters which were written to mbassador Gerard and made public day. The letters are included in a rthcoming pamphlet, "German War ractices," soon to make its appear ice. Here is how a man who signed him if, "A German Soldier and a Christ n," writes: "Russian Poland, December 18. In e name of Christianity I send you ese words. My conscience forces e as a Christian soldier to inform u of these lines. "Wounded Russians are killed with e bayonet according to orders. And issians, who have surrendered, are ten shot down in masses, according orders, in spite of their heart-ren ng prayers. "In the hope that you, as the rep sentative of a Christian state, will otcst this, I sign myself. SCA M f stock over 1 )ck of the vei arness, e the terms 1 (Signed.) "A German Soldier and g Christian." And There Was No Mercy. V Another, who says he is afraid to p mention his name, or give his regi- p ment, for fear of courtmartial, was an a eyewitness of inhuman slaughter of ti Russian soldiers in the Mazurian 'lakes and swamps, saying: V "It was frightful, heart-rending, as those masses of human beings were driven to destruction. Above the ter rible thunder of the cannon could be heard the heart-rending cries of the Russians: '0 Prussians! 0 Prus sians!' But there was no mercy. Our captain had orders: 'The whole lot must die, so rapid-fire.' As I have a heard, five men and one officer on our s side went mad from these heart-rend- o ing cries. But most of my comrades d and the officers joked as the unarmed d and hedpless Russians shrieked for t thercy while they were being suffo- F cated in the swamps and shot down. ( The order was 'close up and at it 0 harder.' For lays afterwards those s heart-rending yells followed me and a I dare not think of them or I shall s go mad. There is no God, there is / no morality and no ethics any more. a There are no human beings any more, 1 but only beasts. Down with militar ism! c "If you are a truth-loving man, ' please receive these lines from a com mon Prussian soldier." Shoot Groups of Prisoners. e The following letter came from a soldier on the western front: "To the American government, s Washington, J. S. A. a "Englishmen who have surrendered c are shot down in small groups. With ' the French one is more considerate. f I Ask whether men let themselves be I taken prisoners in order to be dis armed and shot afterwards? Is that t chivalry in battle? It is no longer t a secret among the people; one hears e everywhere that few prisoners are taken; they are 'shot down in small IR ules and] before you bu -y best in Saddles, to suit Mowers, & RidingC Rakes, Ridir Horse Plow~ tors, Etc. LAS roups. They say naively, 'we don't ant any unnecessary mouths to feed. there there is no one to enter com laint there is no judge.' Is there no ower in the world which can put a end to these murders and rescue ie victims? (Signed.) "A Soldier and a Man Tho is No Barbarian." 0 WORK OF GERMAN AGENTS? ive, Probably Seven, Men Are Killed in Explosion. Kensington, Pa., Nov. 5.-Five men re known to have been killed and arch is being made for the bodies f two others believed to have met eath in the explosion and fire which estroyed the bronz powder plants of he United States Aluminum Com any, a subsidiary of the Aluminum ompany of America, here today. In 11 forty-eight others were injured, eventeen seriously, and another pos ibly fatally. R. A. Hunt, general uperintendent of the United States tluminum Company, said: "There is possibility that German agents are esponsible for the fire." It was tated that an investigation of the rigin of the fire will be started at nce. The plant destroyed, employing bout 300 men, is said to have been ngaged in the making of materials or liquid fire for an Allied govern ment. For this reason it was impos ible to fight the flames with water, nd the only recourse was the use f sand. The powder plant was 'recked and damage was done to the lants of the American Sheet Con any and Tin Plat Company nearby. ome damage was done residents in he town of Parnassus, one mile dis ant. The loss is unofficially est imat d at $300,000. -o - AI)VERTISE IN THE TIMES. AD i~I Etc. Valking [ .ivators ig 2 and 3 rs, Trac Sei~ i .1