Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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,ST These Tr Bodies CarT( Opposite F AMERICAN LIEUTENANT DOWNS GERMAN AVIATOR-FIRST FLIGHT Young Missourian Never Over Enem Lines Before Operates Machine Gun in Air First Time Americans Cleaning Out Snipers With the American Army in France, Feb. 7.-The young Ameri can lieutenant who had the honor of shooting dlown his first German air-. plane wvhile accompanying a French eseadrille on a bombing expedition Tuesday night, had never operated a machine gun wvhile in flight, and nev.. er before had been over the enemy lines. HeI got his man over the Ger man city of Saarburg. The bombing squadron wvas over Saarburg, and in the act of dropping bombs when enemy airplanes wvere seelnlpproaching. By the time the For Indigestion, Constipation or Biliousness Just try one 50-cent bottle of LAX-FOS WITH PEPSIN. A Liquirl Digestive Laxative pleasant to take. Made and recommended to the public by Paris Medi-. cine C')., manufacturers of Laxative Bromot Quinine and Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic. 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The other American aviator, also a ieutenant, was not se: luck~y as the dissourian, for the maenine he p)icked 'ut to engage dodgert away quicky ~nd he wvas unable te ge't in any ef ective shots. When the squadron returned the dlissouri lieuE.-mant' hands wcee wollen to twice their normal size rom the sold, he having lost has cloves (luring the encounter. Other vise he is today .iust about the hap iiest officer in the Americ'an expedi. ionarv forces.. He has been in Franie 'nly a short tine. The incidlent shows how quickly hings may hapen to a flyer. The ,lissouri lieutenant had no thought of t Drugs le Prices ery best materials go andl they are com your physician says. )S and ET ARTICLES amnplete line of >NERY. ave DA FOUNTAIN ull Line of OS8 and CANDIES. WG STORE, Manning S. C. Lde in all si YOUR need PRICES Mach "Everything DISTRIE making a flight until Just before he actually started on one, having come to town from a camp to see a dentist. In the street he met the other Ameri can lieutenant, who already had been assigned to accompany the bombing party. This officer, who is from At lanta, after announcing that he was going on a bombing raid over Ger many with the French, asked the Mis sourian to come along and see him off, The Missourian assented and went to the field. The Atlantan had climbed into his machine, when one of the French pilots discovered that his ob server was missing. Only one sugges tion was necessary to cause the Mis sourian quickly to telephone for and receive permission to go. He ex plained his inexperience, but the Frenchman said that made no differ ence. Thus lie began the flight in which he brought down the German mach inc. Clean Out Snipers American artillery and infantry have succeeded in cleaning out a ma jority of the snipers who causedl con siderablc annoyance since the sector was occupiedl. Snipers' posts in build ings have been destroyed by knock mag down the shelters over the heads of the Germans with shells. Snipers hidden in bushes or shell boles have been routed out by American sharp shooters. Night patrols have suc ceededl in locating some of the posi tions and the Germans in them have been finished off later. Last night, a small patrol cnteredl an adlvancedl German trench in search of a ness; of snipers. A lieutenant, a corporal, andl two men left the American wire and rotLe nedl five hours late~r. '.i hey wvalked .across No M.ans 1,and, pick mng their way carefully. Find Trench lEmuity Reaching the enemy wvire, they crawled beneath it cautiously and ap proached the most adivanced enemy trench. The men lookedI down into the trench, wvhich apparenitly we aban doned, but they were sure anipers were there. They dropped (Iowa noisily and found a place ,vhere the GRANGER LIVER, REGULATOR Relieves conslipat ion, sick headache and bil iousness. Purely veg etable. Contains no at cohol. Causes no grip ing. Gives satisfactory results. Large box 25c. A dose or two will do: GRANGER MEDICINE CO. CHATTANOOGA, TENN. 4 . . es, from Thr s. See this '] RIGHT. inery In Machinery' UTORS. trench bottom showed fresh foot prints. On the parapet . the corporal discovered a rifle loaded and pointed in the direction of the American treches. There was not a German around. The corporal brought ban k the riflc to the American lines. It is a typical German weapon made in Berlin and in good condition. At another point enemy snipers were discovered in a she!l hole. A fev well placed shots from light artillery ended their career. At another place, a hail of machine gun bullets was ef fective. One, two or possibly three, snipers p~osts are still in front of the Ameri can positions, but they are not likely to be there long. O ADMA[. "SAM" MCCOWIAN. There is an increasing number of men aroundI these parts who refer to Rear Admiral Samuel McGowan as "Sam." That number will continue to increase. It increases in the same ratio as Admiral McGowan's fame as a paymaster general of the navy, wvhich insures him a rapidly growing circle of intimates. Admiral McGowan, of Charleston, is an alumnus of the University of South Carolina. Other alumni will be interested in the paragraphs printed below which are taken from a full page article on "Sam" in a recent is sue of Leslie's Weekly. The article was wvritten by Thomas F. Logan. Trhe followving paragraphs consti tute the introduction of Mr. Logan's article: Out of the clouds of ignorance, wvaste and red tape revealed in the governmental d apartments when the Senate committee on miltary afiairs investigated the nation's war prepara tions, ther-e shines one bright light of efficiency-that is the testimony of Rear-Admiral Samuel McGowvan, pay master-general of the Navy. The reason wvhy the U. S. Navy was cloth ed in all-wool uniforms whileo our sol dliers shivered in "shoddy," is because a young stenographer mn a lawyer's office in Charleston, S. C., back in 1894, conceived the idea that the gov ernment would find itself flat on its back if he were not a ppointed private secretary to the tha~n Secretary of the Navy Herbert. It was Samuel. McGowan, paymas ter general of tPe Navy, who was re s ponsible for si.ving the Navy from the collapse that occurred in the quar termaster's branch of the War De partment when America went to war against the kaiser. The reason ho was able to (10 it was because he be gan to prepare for war the moment he became paymaster-general of the navy, which was at 8:30 on the morning of July 1, 1914. The European war had not begun nor was there even a prophetic smell of smoke. McGowan, becoming pay master- general, the *chief purch asing and disbursing officer of the Navy Department, mar'ely had a notio~n that a navy was designed to prdtect a na, tion in time of war, and that it should always be qn a war basis. The, ida mm ee-quarters I Truck before Comi - SUM was somewhat novel in those days o pacifism, but it has since proved eque to a million untrained mei' in uniforr It was McGowan who back in 1894 conceived the idea that he ought to b private secretary to the Secretary o t e Navy, H. A. Herbert. One of hi friends presented the name of younj .McGowan to Mr. Herbert. The frien told Mr. Herbert that McGowan wa twenty-three years old- that he ha graduated from the OUniversity. o South Carolina with the degree of I A. He could also write LL. B. behin his name. "Sorry I had to appoin someone else," saidl Herbert, "but is necessary that my secretary shoul, be a stenographer.", When this message was conveyed t young McGowan, he cried out for ala "Didn't you tell him I am the bes stenographer in South Carolina ?", h asked. "No," said his friend, " thought the college degree woul, make a better impression." McGowa1 quit his job in the lawyer's office an, took the next train for Washingtor This time he wvould present-his ow: case. THE TIME IS EXTEND~ED For Filing Income and Excen Profit Washington, P~eb. 10J.---Extension o the time for filing income and exces Trying to insti mind the fact I Hardware and description of ity than can b cured and at a We have long the cireat be Hardware am for bench or a We have Toolk low prices. IUI :o Two-ton. buying. )any, TER, S. C. f profits returns from March 1 to April 1 1 'as announced today by Internal . Reverme Commissioner Roper. . This ruling ap 3:Ies also in reports on pave-ents of mre than $800 during f the year to be trade by employers s and business ent irprises. and covers 9 incomes both above and below $3,000 A and corporation incomes. s Delay in the preparation of blank I forms and regulations was the princi f pal cause for the postponement. Forms have not yet been issued for t excess profits returns of three classes -individual, partnership and corpora ttion for income returns by trustgees of fiduciaries; and for partner-income returns. These are promised for next s week. -All other forms have been dis .tributed, t The extension of time to April 1 applies .to returns by corporations do m ig business on a fiscal year basis. I ADVERTISE IN TfHE TIMES CASTOR IA For Infants and Children s In Use For Over 30 Years A lway bear finothe p bi hati weture sein much Hawer eri gl rin thoue forli Toolso wether muiculbtruark frgan houses for