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VOL. XXXVIII MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1918 No.20 CLARENDON GOL THE TOP' CRC This morning Clarendon's contribu tion to the Red Cross War Fund to tals something more than $21,500 more than double the allotient given us. That is a record which speaks for itself. Nor -is it a surprise to those of us who have worked in former cam paigns of this nature in the county, for Clarendon people have given gen erously whenever they have been call - ed upon. The campaign opened officially at Summerton Sunday morning when a mass meeting was held there with Dr. D. W. Daniel, of Clemson College, as the eloquent speaker or the day. Over $6,000 was subscribed here, and at Liberty Hill colored church, where Dr. Daniel spoke in the afternoon. At Manning that night, the school audi torium was crowded before the hour for the meeting. Special music was rendered by a choir o' thirty. After an opening hymn, Rev. Charles B. Smith offered an eloquent prayer for the success of the meeting. Mr. S. Oliver O'Bryan introduced ',he speak er in a few well chosen words. Dr. Daniel had the attention of his audi ence from the moment he began his speech and they thoroughly enjoyed the address, which was not only elo quent, but full of appeal and under standing of his subject. At the close of this address, the chairman, Mr. E. C. Horton, asked for subscriptions. For almost an hour pledges were made as fast as they could be taken down, there being few in the large audience who did not manifest a de sire to give. When the amount was counted, it was found that more than $8,000 had been subscribed. In the afternoon at Jordan the con gregation at the regular preaching services responded to the appeal of WOUNDED CANADIAN SOLDI[R AND FR[NCH SOLDIER TO TALK On Sunday morning at 11:30 in the School Auditorium, Private Jackson, a member of a Scotcn Highland Bat ' talian of. the first Canadian Colonial Forces, those wonderful fighters, who have been dabbed by the Huns as "The Ladies of Hell," will speak. Pri vate Jackson is no lonc.r able to be on the firing line, having been perma nently disabled. Therefore, he is as sisting in the Red Cross work. Lieut. Pierret of the French Army, and Roy Daniel, General Field Secre tary of the Red Cross, who has had experience abroad, will also speak. --W-S--S GERMAN AGENTS ACCUSED Reported to Have Stirred Up Murder at Valdosta Valdosta, Ga., May 20.-The lynch ing of four negroes near here for the murder of Hampton Smith and a mur derous assault upon his wife last Thursday night assumed an entirely' new angle today when some of the best known negroes were declared to have reported to their employers that German agents had been trying to bring about trouble between the races. While officials were reluctant to be lieve .that German propaganda had any thirect connection with the assas sination of Smith, the negroes stated, accordmig to information obtainable tonight, that the pro-Germans had, in addition to their efforts to create - trouble beween white persons andl ne groes, been actively trying to crip)ple farming operations. The situation, however, has thuieted dlown noticeably tonight, and practi cally had resolved itself into a deter mined effort by officials of several counties to capture Sid Johnson, who is saidl to have been the perpetrator of the wvhole affair. Johnson is believed to have taken refuge in "Mud Swamp" several miles from here, and officers have surroundled that place so thor - oughly that they believe it impossible for Johnson to escape. It was definitely established today that only (flour negroes nave vieen lynchedl n connection with the crime andI ai eroner's jury toturned a ver diet that "they came to their deaths at the hands of parties unknown." FIVE DIE IN COLLISION Four Men and a Woman Lost at Sea Gloucester, Mitss., May 20.-The bodies of four men and one woman be lieved to have lost their lives when the Savannah Line steamer, City of Athens, was sunk by a collision with a French cruiser May 1, were picked up off the New Jersey coast last week by four Gloucester fishing sch ooners which returned'here tonight. On the body of a man was a pass book of the Citizens Bank of Savan nah, made out to Nicholas Vasmas. Papers from the Gr'eek consul in Bos ton also wore found in the pockets of ahcoat'wichaat the only garntit on S 'OVER ON IT'S RED SS ALLOTMENT Rev. Henderson and over $1,000 was raised there. Bethlehem contributed something more than $300 in the same manner. Last night an enthusiastic meet ing was held in Pinewood. Here Prof. E. Marion Rucker of the University of South Carolina delivered a scholarly address. He was f.,ftowed by L. D. Jennings, Esq., of Sumter, who is vell known to Clarendon audiences as a forceful speaker. When subscrip tions were called for the people re sponded as liberally as they had in other portions of the county and over $3,000 was pledged. The committee feels that every one n the county should be given an op >ortunity to subscribe to this, prob ably the worthiest of all causes, and to that end they are canvassing the districts which may not have been reached through these meetings. The pledges obtained by them bring the total up to $21,500. One of the most prosperous and pa triotic sections of the county-Salem -will be reached Friday when a bas ket picnic will be held near Sardinia. Iere a marine band and several mil itary men will be the attractions. The whole county is expected to be pres ent on that (lay. The campaign will close here on Sunday when Private Jackson of the Canadian Forces, and Lieut. Pierret of the French army and Roy Dan iel, .a Red Cross Field Worker who has been abroad with the Red Cross forces and can tell of the work there from his own experience, will speak. Though Clarendon's record so far in the campaign is one to be proud of, the workers will not desist in their efforts until the campaign closes, when they hope to bring the total up to $25,000. NINETY-ONE BODIES TAKEN FROM RUINS Explosion of Aetna Chemical Co. Plant Near Pittsburg Reaped Heavy Toll Pittsburg, May 20.-Ninety-one bodies had been taken from 'the ruins of the Aetna Chemical Company's plant at Oakdale, near here, up to early tongiht, the total representing the "known dead," as a result of the terrific explosion which wrecked the plant last Saturday. The work of searching the ruins was halted late today by a thunder storm and officials ordered that no one enter the devastated area until tomorrow morning. This order was made necessary by the fact that heavy rains, falling upon the acid covered ground caused deadly fumcs to rise from the wreckage. ---- Of this number forty three bodies have been identified, while the rema of the bodies recovered, forty-three I have been identified, while the re. remains of the others are charred and blackened beyond recogniiton. Compilations today showed ninety four persons in Pittsburg hospitals and company officials say that 190 members of the working force at the plant are yet unaccounted for. Federal, State, county and local in vestigations of the disaster are in pro gress, but nothing so tar has (level oned to disclose the cause of the ex plosion. WANTED IN NAVAL. RESERVE iMen Are Needed for the Service of the Navy The Naval Reserve is in need of men for the dluration of war, and will furnish food, clothing, quarters, sur-1 geons and cash each month. The ca-I acity in which men iare needied and the rates of pay are as follows: Firemen, from $36.20 to $46.00; shipwrights, $35.50; ship's cooks, from $35.50 to $66.50; mess attend mnts, from $22.60 to $38.40; machin sts'.mates, $52, to $66.50; electricians , (radio and general) from $41 to $61; ~arpenters' mates, from $41 to $52; 'comen, from $41 to $52; hospital ap prentices, from $35.90 to $38.4 -A 5ea- | man, from $35.90 to $38.40. Married men who have dependent; wives and children are allowedinad-l lition to their pay the followving: De-| >endlent wife, $15; first child $10- E next $7.50; and each additional chili ' 5, but the total amount is not to ex eedl $50 per month. The age limit is from 18 to 35 years. Infornmation will be furnished by r the section commander's office, < :round floor, Timrodl Building, Meet- t ng street, Charleston. ~IlNDENBURG( DEATHI RUJMORS r urrent Among Enemy in Back Area With the British Army in France,t May 21.-(By the Associated Press.) -The rumor that Field Marshal Hin lenburg (lied recently has become ~urrent very generaly among the en emy in the back areas as well as mong civilians. What basis, if any, hlere is for this rumor, Is not known ere. AccordIng to a London dispatch of May 18, German prisoners captured in Prance declared that Field Marshal vo Hindenburg was dead. PUTTING FORTY{OOT BILL IS PASSED BY SENATE lut Feeling is That the Naval Project Will be Authorized by Congress FROM NAVY YARD TO SEA ilillion Dollars for Beginning of Work Which Will Cost Total of $5,000,000 Washington, May 20.-With both of he South Carolina Senators on hand he Senate today passed the river and arbor bill without renewal of the at ack of last week on the provision of 1,000,000 for starting work on a for y-foot channel from the Charleston avy Yard to the sea. The wvhole au horized project to cost ultimately $5, 100,000. The Charleston item has passed oth Houses of Congress in identical anguage. It is conditioned upon the uthorization of the dIry (lock of the 'irst class proposedl in the navy bill, vhich .has already passedl the House nd wvill soon be reportedl from the aval committee of the Senate. As Senator Tillman is chairman of he naval committee, there is no doubt s to the committee's recommendation f the (lock and very little dloubt as o favorable action by the Senate it HUN SUB IS CRIPPLED 'he U-39 Staggers into Port at Car tagena Madrid, Su nday, May 1.--The Ger. ian submarine U -39, says an official isplatch fromt Cartagena, entered hat port last night in a damaged con ition. The U-39, according to German dIVices, is the submarine that tor edloedl the Lusitania off Kinsale, May ,1915. A dlispatch from Munich, 'Ba. aria, received in Switzerland on May ,said that it was the U-39 that sank he British liner. On March 11, 1916, it was reportedl 1 Washington that it was the U-39 rhich attacked the American tanker 'etrolite off the coast of Egypt in De ember, 1915. It is possible that the Id U-39 may be out of service by this line and that her number has been sken by a now boat. "Give until It hurts"-the Red A Great Net of' Mercy dr an Ocean of'Uinspeake eAmericanF HIS MONEY T NO PENSIONS PAID IN LAND OF [N[EM United States Pensioners in Teutor Countries Cut Off NOT RESUMED TILL PEACE In Germany 371 Americans Residing Who Are Entitled to Pensions Washington, May 20.- United States Pensioners living in Germany and Austria, who have been drawing money from the American Govern ment, by reason of their services in the cifii wvar or for other reasons, have had their allowances Cut off be cause of their residence in enemy ter. ritory. Payment of pensions wvill not be resumed until peace is declared. Congress has beeni told, although al lowances are sent regularly to thosc residling in the countries allied against Germany and Austria or in neutral lands. A report submitted to Conigress showvs that in the fiscal year endled June 30, 1917, there were 371 Ameri cans residling in Germany entitled to pensions under the laws of this coun try, and that in Austria-Hungary there wvere twenty-seven pensioners. These facts wvere dliscussed in the Hfous recently when a bill increasing the pension of civil war veterans to a minimum of $25i a month was under con sidera tion. Veterans of the civil and Spani'It wars entitled to pensions from the United States are living in all parts of the world and a bill is now pend ing in congress to excludel pension privileges to all except those living in the United States or its possessions. Residences of foreign pensiloners in eludle Algeria, the Bahamas, Barba dos, Borneo, Cape de Verde Islands, China, Comoro Islands, Egypt, East Africa, India, Isle of Pines, Liberia, Mexico, Russia, Samoa, Serbia, Sev ehelles Islands, Siam, Tonga Islands, European andl Asiatic Turkey. All pensioners living in those places andl a score of other foreign lands are receiving pensions regularly, the re p~ort to Congress shows, and would re.. coive the benefits of the increases pro posd in the new law, while those in Germany and Austria are excluded. The total number of pensioners re siding in foreign countries, including Germany and Austria-Hungary is 4,.. 085, and the total amount paid them in the last fiscal year amounted to $929,767.69, the report to Congress shnw.. awn through ble Pain" kdCross O WORK K' 1 COPY RIGHt ummema - ontributed by Charles Dana Gibson. PRESIDENT APPROVES NEW DRAFTING ACi June 5 Fixed for Registration of of Youths Now 21 ISSUES PROCLAMATION Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Rico Not Included in This Edict Wa..hington, May 20.---Upon ap proving today the act of Congress bringing under the army draft law all men attaining the age of twenty one since the first registration day June 5, 1917, President Wilson issued a proclamation formally fixing next June 5 as the (late for new eligibles t, appear before their local boards. Male pefsons, whether citizens 01 not are requiredl to regIster. Exemp tions under the original act, includ ing~ men already n the military service apiy and to these new adds(1 minis terial and, medlicali stueents now lpur AUnfl their studies. The P'residlent's proclamation quotes the law andl gives not ice to all Persons subject to it in the States and the District of Colum bia to appear for registration on .Junc 5) between the hours of 7 A. M. and 9 P. M. State governors andl mem bers of local boards are ca lled upon tc lierform the duties already assignel to them. It has been est imatedl that abour 80(0,000 men fit for active inil ita r service will be av ailable to the army by the next registration. Ihereafter it , :s plannedl to have registrations often er than one a year, probably quarter ly. Alaska, l lawaii andl Porto Rico are not unamed in todlay's plroclamation. A registration day for them will be set later. A 1,1EN EN EM IES ES(CAP lE Chattanooga, Tenn., May 20.---Four enemy alien prisoners-A rnold lHen kel, Jacob C. S. Bruer, Robert Becese, andl William M. G. Wregner-escapedl from the prison barracks at Fort Oglethorpe some time this afternoon, their absence being revealed at the roll, call at five o'clock. This is the secondl time that lienkel and Wecg ner have broken prison, Ilenkel hav !ng escap~ed in August, 1917, andl be mng recapturedl in Chattanooga. Weg ner broke away from the prison bar racks last October andl had proceededl as far as Surrency, Ga., where he wvas retaken after having been shot b~y of ficers. Chattanooga local and pro. vost guards are scouring the country for te men. Officers at the fort have given no explanation as to howt the prisoners gained their freedom. AMERICA'S FOREMOST AIRMAN BIL[D BY [NEMY TRIPLAN[ Major Raoul Lufberry Had Accounted For Eighteen Roches WAS SHOT DOWN IN FLAMES Joined LaFayette Escadrille in 1916 And Later the American Corps With the American Army in France, May 19.-Major Raoul Luf berry, who had been regarded as the best aviator in the American air serv ice, was shot down in flames and kill ed this morning by a Big German tri plane which he was attacking. Luf berry jumped from his flaming plane when 800 yards above the ground. He had eighteen victories to his credit. The German machine which brought Lufberry (lown, which was armed with two machine guns, with an operator for each piece, apparently escaped. Lufberry's only wound, aside from those received when he crashed to earth was a bullet hole through the thumb. Apparently tn7e same bullet punctured one of the gasoline tanks of his machine. The German machine was under heavy anti-aircraft fire several times, both before and after the air fight, and one explosion of a shell upset the enemy plane, but it managed to straighten out again. Buried with Honors Paris, May 20.-Major Raoul Luf herry, the first American ace to be killed as the result of an aerial fight, was buried today with full military honors by French and A merican de. tac hments. With the American Army in France May 20.-Major Raouf Lufbey has been attached to the American avia tion corps less than four months, but before that he had made a brief ree ord as a member of the LaFayette Es cadrille, with the French army, and was generally accounted the leader of the American aces. Only recently he brought down his eighteenth enemy machine, which so far as is known, was the number standing to his credit when he was killed, and which is by far the largest credited to any Ameri can aviator, either with the American or the French army. Iufhery's father was a native-born American, but his mother was a French woman, and Lufbery himself was born in France thirty-four years ago. For the greater part of his life he was a traveler, taking up occupa tions in various parts of the world, where his fancy led him. He served at one time for eighteen months with the American army in the Philippines, and was successfully occupied at times in Algeria, Egypt, Turkey and in vari, ous parts of Europe. Lufbery joined the French aviation service in 1916, and soon began to de velop marked skill as an aviator with the famous LaFayette Escadrille. By November of that year he had shot down six machines and had been cit ed for bravery, and early last year he won the cross of the Legion of Honor. Later he was presented with the gold medal of the Aero Club of France, the British Tailitary medal, the war medal of the Aero Club of America, and several times had been cited in French army orders, once as an "incomparaible pilot." Ile had sev eral narrow escapes from death. When the American air s,-vice be. gani to assume active service. Inlfberv was acommissioned a major in the American army and late in .anuary of the present year was inducted into the United States service wit . hat rank. U-ROATiS OPEN WAlR ON NORIWEGIAN HOATS (Claimn Norsemlent are Selling Fish Oil Tlo Britain and Allies |Chiristinana,. Norway,.ay Gr ma sbarmnes aga in hlave started un31restricte al arfarae on Noraweg ian fishling boats ill the Aa re ie aocean nort h and east of the Norweg ~ni -oastI.. Fishlermien saveal fromi sunkean ves 5(1s anal landlaed a3t 111 lamerfest report t hat the conande~lllr of a~I U-boat staited that all v essels met- by him would lbe suntk, asplecial Ily Norwvegiana ships beca3luse, he( saido, Ithe Norwegian13 sh ips were sanding fish oil an1d sealI oil to England1(. Thllis, hlowever. is con raryv toa the t ruth as t3Ihe explort of 'oils is forbiadden, and11 Germany- knows .Te -oas are. iad to shell vessels withomt warnti ng and1( accordlin to1 thle survivors, di ret a fire against life.. baoats. Russian fish inBg boats anda a Russian0 bound1( and1( ov~ercrow~~ldd with plassen gers, ualso were she(l ledl. Eight per.. sons5, amIhong them11, a postmaster ando his assistant, were killead on the deck oIf tile steamel(r. Many1~ others were hurt after tak ing t~o the boats. When the 'omm~landler 'of (onet Gern3 submarine was ad(vised that Russia was at peace withl Germany, he anlsweredl that he iactedI the waiy it sited him. The U-boat mealsured 180 feet in lenlgth and~ sturprise is cauiseod inl shipping cir' eles that it can carry enough oil for a cruise so far up the Norwvegian coast. Copenhagen, May 20.-German sub-. mlarmnes have sunk five Norwegian ships in the Arctic, according to ad vices receive (dhere. They also shelled a Russian mail steamer, killing tn pruona.