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WEEKLY WAR NEW [ST Sugar Supply Asthired for Manufacturers / of Food Products Manufacturers of essential food products have been advised by the Food Administration that they will be able to obtain their full necessary re quirements of sugar for manufactur ing purposes during the coining year. This applies particularly to packers of fruit, condensed milk, such vege tables for the preservation of which sugar may be necessary, as well as to the housewives, for usage in preserv ing purposes. As soon as the car shortage is relieved, according to the Food Administration statement, sup plies of sugar will be available for these purposes. Shipments from Cuba are steadily increasing. All canners have been advised to hold for war purposes such quantities of canned corn, peas, tomatoes, string beans and salmon as they may have on hand. Such quantities as are ,not wanted will be released within !_ few days after receipt of re ports showing stocks on hand which must be submitted to the Food Admin istration before March 15. Each Battle Plane Needs Extra Equipment and Staff of Skilled Men After three years of warfare the total number of airplanes able to take the air at any one time on either side of the western front has not been over 2,500. Each plane in the air requires a for!e of 40 men, two replacement planes for every pilot, and one train ing plane for every pilot who even tually reaches the front, with an ex tra engine for each pane. The life of a plane is not more than two months, and the engine must be overhaled after each 15 hours. Now that American battle planes are going overseas, the great problem is to se cure the thousand of sc:lled mechan iis, enginemen, motor repair men, wood and metal workers needed to keep the planes in perfect condition. This engineering and mechanical force at the airdromes, the flying fields, and repair depots, both here and behind the lines in France, is a vital industrial link in the chain to air supremaey. Surgeon 'eeeral Removes Many Officers fr om Medical Reserve Corps From the d'clara':tion of wr to Feb ruary 23, thi Surgeon Geners! of the e rmy has r.nove 1,050 of icers; of tre edical i.es-rve Corps. In the following tabulated reasons assigned for discharge does not isolate under "inaptitude for the service" all those whose dismissal was in considerable degree due to inefficiency or incompe tency, since these reasons had weight in many cases otherwise classified. Discharged for physical disability, 411; inaptitude for the service, 154; to join other branches, 306; domestic difficulties, 59; resignation, 88; need ed by communities, hospitals, schools, 32. During the same period there have been 2,265 promotions, including some officers promoted more than once. Use of Soldiers as Guards for Industrial Plants Is Not Recommended A memorandum made public by the War Department concerning the use of armed guards about industrial plants contains the following: "The soldier in training who has offered his life for the defense of country should not sacrifice his ef fectiveness by performing police duty in the protection of property back of the lines. This is the duty of the cit izen at home. The theater for operations for arm ed soldiers is the battlefield of Europe. Each civilian should aid his country by acting as a guard for the detection of intrigue, deceit and all the familiar stealthy operations of the enemy in 'our midst. Each soldier unnecessari ly detained as a guard in this coun try aids and abets the enemy in Eu rope. "Often a guard may be needed for the safety of a factory. When it is, 1it should be supplied by the owner of the factory, by the municipality, or by the State. "These measures applly niot only to manufacturing plants, but are equally applicable to shipyards, grain elevat ors and stores of supplies." New U. S. Army Rtifle Shows Improvements Over Other Models The United States rifle, modlel of 1917, commonly called the modified E'nfield, has nowv been tested in the service of the Army a .sufficient time to warrant the assertion that it moreo than justifies the claims made for it, according to a statement authorized by the Secretary of War. The new rifle takes a .30-caliber cartridge, which has the advantage over the British Enfield of being rim less. It has been found that unless rim cartridges are fed through the magazine uniformly with the rim of the top cartrid ge aheadl of the rim of the one immediately below, jams are likely to occur. The model of 1917 has an over-all length of 46.3 inches; a total weight including oiler and thong case and bayonet of 10 pounds and 5 ounces. The breech mechanism is of the bolt type. Junior Four-Minute Men Will Aid Campaign for Third Liberty Loan Plans have been anounced for the organization of "Junior Four-Minute Men" in every school in the country. According to the Division of Four Minute Men of the Committee on Pub lie Information, bulletmas especially prepared for school children will be sent (luring the third Liberty loan 'campaign for distribution by superin tendlents to all schools in the United States. Addresses will be preparedl from the material in those bulletins j~ust as regular Four MInute speakers in motion-picture houses prepare their To Cur. a Cold in One Day. Take LAXAT'IVi DitOMO Quinine. It stop. the Cough and iieaah ndwrsoff the Oold. Drugate refund money if It Salle to cure. 14 ,GROV$8sIgnature on each box, 30c. Time tells what you did yesterday. Make to-morrow better by starting a Bank account to-day." If, for no other reason than the unforeseen demands incident to human It's a duty, because you haven't the power to predict the future but you have power to start a Bank Account and fortify for the future. Besides we want to help worthy young men to succeed. Begin today with $. life, you owe yourself a Bank Account. THE BANK OF MANNING The Best Drugs AT Reasonable Prices Nothing but the very best materials go into our prescriptions and they are com pounded just the way your physician says. RUBBER GOODS and TOILET ARTICLES and a full and complete line of STATIONERY. We have A MODERN SODA FOUNTAIN We keep a Full Line of CIGARS, TOBACCOS and CANDIES. BROWN'S DRUG STORE, Below Bank of Manning. Manning, S. C. Why Suffer with the 'Grippe ? Try a dozen of our LaGRIPPE CAPSU LES At 50c. a Dozen. If they don't cure you just tell us and we will gladly refund your money. Could anything be fairer ? PHONE 61. MANN ING. S. C. Sanitary Dry Cleaning. Quality is the First consideration With Us. You've had your clothes come home smelling of gasoline, and you didn't like it. We didn't do that work. We don't do that kind. Your clothes leave our house perfectly clean ed, with no odor about them, and sanitary in every "espect, Then, too, our prices are very reasonable. Don't discard that old soiled suit until we .have looked it over. A few cents may make it worth a few dollars. Hoffman French Dry Cleaning Co,, E. W. ROWLAND, Prop. Middle Worn Are Here Told the for Their Ti Freemont, O.-"I was passii period of life, being forty-six y the symptoms incident to that nervousness, and was in a genei so it was hard for me to do my ham's Vegetable Compound waa the best remedy for my troubles to be. I feel better and stron taking it, and the annoying peared."-Mrs. M. GODDEN, 925, Ohio. North Haven, Conn.-"Lydia ble Compound restored my heal had failed when passing throug is nothing like it to overdome -Mrs. FLORENCE I8ELLA, Box 1 LYDL VEGETA oivn speeches from bulletins supplied by the Government. In each school the children submit ting the best speeches are to deliver them in public. Accordin gt., plans the boy or girl awarded first prize is to get a certifidate from the United States Government as a Jur.ior Four Minute man. Farmer. Borrow Over $50,000,000 From Farm Loan Banks During the month of January $11, 787,517 wer paid out to farmers of the United States by the Federal land banks on long-time first-mortgage lcans, according to a statement by the Federal Farm Loan Board. On February 1 the total amount of money paid out to faripers since the establishment of the Federal land banks was $50,782,432, covering 24, 020 loans closed. The total amount of loans applied for up to February 1 was $260,556,981, representing 112,-' 146 applications. Special License Issued to Cover Shipments to Troops Abroad According to an announcement by the War Trade Board a special license has been issued covering shipments made by persons in the United States to, and for the personal use of indi viduals serving in the United States Army or Navy or the American Red Cross abroad. This license does not permit ship ments by persons in this country to American prisoners of war, but has been issued to facilitate small person al shipments to soldiers and sailors and Red Cross workers by doing away with the necessity of securing an in dividual export license in each case. Shipments by mail undler this license must be made in accordlance wvith the regulations of the Post Office Depart mnept. If it becomes necessary Inter to limit this license to certain speci. MONEY TO LEND ON GOOD SECURITY J. E. KELLEY, Summerton, S. C. F'RE[D LESESNE, Attorney at Law, Loans Negotiated on Real Estate Security. Office Over Home Bank & Trust Co. MANNING, S. C. LASNEGOTlIATED, On irst-Class Real Estate Mortgages PURD)Y & O'IIRYAN, Attorneys at Law, MANNING, S. C. J. W. WIDEMAN Attorney at Law Offices Adjoining "The Herald" Bldg. l)R. J. A. COLE, IDentist, MANNING, S. C. Upstairs Over Weinberg's Corner Store, MANNING, S. C. DuRANT & EL4LERIIE, Attorneys at Law, MANNING, S. C. J. HI. LFISESNE, Attorney at Law, MANNING, S. C. Ri. 0. Purdy. S. Oliver O'Biryan. PURDY & O'BRYAN, MANNING, S. C. Attor'neys and Coundetors at law. A~ged eN Best Remedy roubles. ag through the critical -'' . , ears of age and had all change - heat flashes, ral run down condition, work. Lydia E. Pink recommended to me as ,which it surely proved ger in every way since symptoms heave disap- - -.,.\ Napoleon St., Fremont, E. Pinkhan's Vegota- - th after everything else - --- h change of life. There Y" the trying symptoms." 7, North Haven, Conn. I Such Cases S101 E. PINKHAM'S ABLE COMPOUND D ot record for the gatest good IYDIA E.PINKHAM MEDICINE CO. LYNN.MASS. fied commodities notice will be given Gifts for Men through the press. Serving in England Lack of Knowledge May Go Duty Free of Gas Defense Packages containing dutiable gifts Fatal to Soldiers sent to menbers of the Expeditionary The necessity for thorough and con- Forces temporarily serving in Eng tinuous training of troops in gas de- lanu wil ]be delivered free of duty, fense is shown by a statement proved provided the contents are bona fide by captured German documents: gifts, the quantity is not beyond the The Germans at a cert;ain poistion personal requirements of the addres on the western front knew the British see, and that the parcels arc addresses were planning to deliver a gas attack for the delivery to the regimental ad on a German division equipped with dress of the recipient. masks, but poorly trained in their use. In spite of the fact that they had sev eral (lays to drill before conditions THE RED CROSS NURSES OF EUROPE were suitable for the British attack, ARE GIVING TOASTED when it was finally made hundreds of German casualties resulted. Many kinds of gases are used in modern warfare. Some merely affect the eyes temporarily, and are more in- To anyone who doesn't know of the convenient than serious. Other gases wonderful advances that have been made are terrible in their effect unless in the preparation of smoking tobaccos proper protection is available. They in the last few years it may sound strange are employed in clouds, or in shells, to speak of toasted cigarettes, bombs, and hand grenades. It is the work of the Field Training Strictly speaking, we should say ciga" Section of the Gas Defense Service to rettes made of toasted tobacco; the smok bring home to the American soldier era of this country will recognize it more the importance of his gas mask, to readily by its trade name, "LUCKY thoroughly drill him in its use and to STRIKE "-the toasted cigarette. inspire confidence in its efficacy. Sginal Corps School producing millions of these toasted ciga for Aerial Photography rettes and these are being bought in Opened at Rochester, N. Y. enormous quantities through the various In the new school opened at Roch- tobacco funds conducted by the news ester, N. Y., to train photographers papers of the country and forwarded .for the Signal Corps, the primary through the Red Cross Society to the boys training will cover four weeks along in France. brought out in the war. At its close the successful graduates will be sent This new process of treating tobacco on for a moith's advanced training, notonlyimprovesthe flavor ofthetobacco after which they will be organized in- but it seals in this flavor and makeu to units and sent overseas. I the cigarettes keep better. Men with the highest grades will be given still further training for con- The Red Cross nurse is always glad to missions as photographic intelligence have aigarette for the wounded soldier,' officers, first at a school a~nd then inasinmtistcehtishefr: actal ligts t te fyin filds tingtsk for.e Telephone Norvingin Eengl n ioe NPackaonges .conta ning, S.ial git Ra E staenLommbers fteEpeiinr Ha Fadorainepraiysrin nEg Prmp SrvceAaur d wiNEW deiere fre ofdu. provrS ided thaline ribnag id Trigtoisifit, te uanityiCo eynh midtefptta ersoareuIireetsolteadrs ad ae ad T see ofta tevpreare dreso itfor~aib eeivery t o-rgmna d cire anataess ower rce. 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