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SOIIE CHANGES IN
VikJIUUI IVI III IIULbU
' NEW LIST OP REGULATIONS FOR
THE GUIDANCE OP THE e
PRESS.
' ENFORCEMENT OP TO PRESS
RtpMtod Violation* Which Wore Excused
on the 800re of Misunder*
standing Cauee New Rtjles and Request
for Their Observance.
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Washington.?A new list of press
regulations making material changes
in the voluntary censorships rules'un*.
* der which American newspapers have
been operating was promulgated by
the committee on nnhllr (Nfnmatlftn
UThe new regulations .contain tile
first general request that there be no
published mention of the arrival of
American troops at European ports,
replacing In that respect- an express
authorisation in the old rules for use
(of any cable dispatches basset by the
European censors. ,
The old regulations are made more
severe by specific stlpdlations In place
of the more general language emv
jyed in the rules In fore until pow.
Information wn<cn (tie government
considers might reveal military movements
or policies Is described in great
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In the statement announcing the
new regulations, George Creel, ^hairman
of the committee, says that "repealed
and serious violations of the
voluntary censorship have been attempted
to be excused en the score
of "misunderstanding," and that a
"re statement" la made with the id<".
that hereafter there shall be no room
for doubt as to the committee's desires.
The (natances In which, the most
serious charges' of violation have
been made, however,- have not resulted
frtom misunderstanding of the com,
mitee's rules, but from following them
implicitly. These instances have involved
publication of dispatches passed
by the European censors, announcing
the arrival of American unitary
units In Europe.
PROMPT, CFFICIENT WORK
BY EXEMPTION BOARD
Prooedure tjas Been Stripped of AU
"Red Tape."
Washington.?Prompt and efficient
work by district oxemptlop boards
is expectea oy government officials as
- a result of stripping all red tape from
the procedure of the tribunals.
President Wilson's Executive order
outlining the principles to govern exemptions.
coupled with instructions to
' the boards from Provost Marshal
General Crowder are regarded here
as setting in motion the lust phase
of the selection process with a minimum
og confusion and delay.
The object of the instructions is to
impress the boards with the view
that their primary purpose is to select
the personnel for th6 national
army -in the shortest possible time.
To that end they have been infduntd
lum no *?kri precedents will bind ;
them, and that there need be no adherence
to rules of evidence or other
technicalities of court procedure. *
Atjorney General Gregory set in
motion further machinery to increase j
the sise of the registration reservoir
from which 687,000 man or thp first I
call are to be drqwn. -Thousands of J
men failed to register for one cause ,
or another. Through tbe district at-.l
' torneys, the department .of justice is
rounding up these men and when i
found they will be assigned numbers i
which will insure their bdlng called j
up for examination at an early date- I
The first reports of the local
boards on physical examination are
beginning to appear. As yet they
are not complete enough to make anv
logical deduction as to the probable
average of rejection for reaaon. The
draft statistics of the civil war which
ahowed between twenty-five arW. thltty
per cent Ejected on this ground,
still are the best guide on the question.
CONSTITUTIONALITY OF ,
DRAFT TO BI TESTED
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Athens- Ga.?Opponents ot .the selective
draft, attending a mass meeting
at Bold'a Springs,, jeered loyal
cttlaeas who eought to \ warn them
meetlo* wu one of a eerie* of denfeonatratlone
la Georgia' against the
Saw. The fufcaence of a United States
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corporation commission of North Carolina,
has boon selsctsd by Praaldant
Wilson as a member of the interstate
| commission, to be named as soor. as
congress passes the bill enlarging that
body from nine to eleven.
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ARE AWAITING FULL REPORTS
NEW E8TIMATE BY WAR DEPARTMENT
EXCEED8 FIVE
BILLION DOLLAR8.
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As Soon as the Departmental Reports
Arei In the Committee Will Begin
Work on Budget?Provide for Big
Loams.
Washington.?The new war budget
to carry the government through to
next July and to cover additional
credits to the allies promises now to
far exceed the eight billon dollars,
and may amount to ten pillion.
War department estimates sent to
'Qongress calls for new approprla
lions'of 15,278,636,000 (or that bfanoh
of the military* establishment alone.
Estimates totalling another. $1,000,000,000
or more are expected when
the other departments report their
needs, and in addition, Secretary^McAdo
has indicated that before the
year is out Congress will be asked
(or a $2,000,000 appropriation to ipcrease
the funds "available for loans
abroad.
As soon as the departmental reports
aro in, the appropriation c6rainittees
of Congress will go to work
on an immediate budget wb'ch probably
will total in the neighborhood
of $7,000,000,000.
, Congressional leaders do not expect
to have to provide immediately
for the additional credits to thb allies,
as treasury officials have indicated
that no appropriation for that
purpose will be requested until the
next session.
The grope estimates submitted by
the war department totalled $5,917 878,37
but that covered all existing
^and expected deficiencies In the de,
p&rtment funds, including upward of
$640,000,000 already appropriated for
the aviation program. This latter
Item wfll not be inc'uded tn the budget,
but Congress will htfve to provide
revenues to meet It since It was
not on the ledger when the war tax
bill was framed. Congress sentiment
seemed In favor of Increasing the $1,670.670,000
war tax bill only to abodt
$2,090,000,000, with authorization both
for a*new bond Issue, possibly at O
, higher Interest rate and lit serial form
and for Issuance for treasury certificates
of Indebtedness. Secretary Mc-'
Adoo Is paid to favor a much, larger
levy of taxes increasing the bill's to.
tal by 31.000.000,000 or at least to
$1,336,000,000. ?
RUSSIAN SOLDIERS ARE '
8H0T BY COMRADES
The Russian government's pq}icy of
"bleed end Iron" la to be carted ant
alone Unee which bodes 1U for the
dltidus troops along the eastern front
and those persons within the country
who pre trying to nullify the good work
that has''followed In^he wake of the
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TORT TOLL, S. 0., THUBi
MORE U.i SOLDIERS
LANDED IN FRANCE
ANOTHER AMERICAN CONTINGENT
OF FIGHTING MEM .
ARRWt SAFELY.
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ABE IMMEDIATELY ENTRAINED
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Quickly Depart from Port for New
Quarter*?All Other Information la
With! .Id from the Public for the
Present.
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A European Poft?Another American
contingent has safely arrived and
dsembarked.
The government withholds information
or. comment on the foregoing dispatch.
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The American troops arrived by the
same-steamer in whicn Kermlt Roosevelt",
his wife, and child traveled. When
tenders went alongside the vessel Friday
the men were in high spirits and
frequently shouted: "Are we downhearted?"
was answered with a roaring
"No." given with great enthusiasm.
Representatives of the general staff
watched the dllembarkation. There
waa no civic demonstration. Only a
few spectator* knew of the landing!
.These chereed and the troops cheered
back. The men e n trained q ulckjy
and left for their new quarters. A sift
nal company remained at the port for
some hours and these were the only
representatives of the contingent the
public saw. s
FUNCTIONS OF MILITIA "
BUREAU WILL END
With Drafting * of Entire National
Guard Into the Federal 8ervlce Auggust
5th. Washington.?With
the drafting of ,
the entire national guard Into 1 tlft'!'
' army of the ynited States August 5.
the functions of the militia bureau of
the war department are expetced to
come t6 an end. There will remain
to force* of national guard for thp bureau
to supervise and the officers of
the regular army attached to the division
will probably be assigned to other
ty.
unner me pian or tlie national flefense
act, .which call* upon the states
ot maintain recruit battalions for each
guard regiment in active service, the
bureau would continue as it is. It Is
regarded as probable, however. tf?at?a I
general reserve system will be substituted
for die regimental depot plan to
fill gaps^ln the ranks.
In that event, new men. whether
volunteers, those calledhunder the selective
draft wounded men vjho
have recovered sufficiently to return
to the front, would be gathered In general
recruit depots In America which
would supply a general depot In
Prance. Preliminary training of the
recruits would be given in the 'home
depots, to be Supplemented by Intensive
training in trench warfare at the
depa* In Prance. The convalescent
soldiers returning to the fronj, .would
form a valuable training force to
break lp the new men at the depots.
AMERICAN BARK 18 '
SUNK BY SUBMARINE j
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London.?After being attacked by |
gunfire by a German Submarine, the i
American bark Caftnela of 1,397 tons i
was sunk by bombs In the entrance of
the iSnglish channel on July 28, says
an official statement Issued by the
British admiralty. The crew was
picked up and .landed at Plymouth.
There was ifo casualties.
CHICAGO FINANCIER FOR
8HIPPING BOARD
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Cbleago.?Charles G. Dawes, of Chicago.
was mentioned here as a possible
successor to Theodore Brent on
the shipping board. ^IV. Brent. A '
strong supporter of Chairman Den man j
of the board, resigned when rM. Denman
was foreed out by President W11son.
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HEAR SECRETARY LANSING*
MadinOn Barracks, N. Y.?In a i
speech here befocd 1,700 members of i
the officers' reserve corps. Secretary
of 8tate Robert ijanslnff emphasising 1
the peril of German imperialism to the <
United States and the world, declared .<
hi* belief that the German people
would not cast off the yoke of autocracy"
until the physical inlght of tge \
united democracies of the world hafe ,
destroyed forever the evil ambitions x>f ?j
the mtlitwy rulrt of Germany."
BDAY, AUGUST 2, 1917.
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HISS HARGARET DONNELLY j
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Miss Margaret Donnelly ,one of tfie
girl paying and receiving tellers employed
by the Commercial Trust Company
of Philadelphia. She Is giving
as much satisfaction as did the male
teller who was called to the cloors...
IMMEDIATE BEARIN6 HERE
collapse of rus8ian war machine
means prolongation
of The war.
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German Victorias in East Will Release
Soldiers for Western Front.?Man/
Russians Women Enter Ranks But
Retreat Keeps Up.
Washington.-^Io attempt is made
here to minimise the seriousness of
the situation in the war theaters in
Europe. The United States is in the
war and will go through with it; but
any hope of a short struggle has gone
glimmering with the apparent almost
complete collapse of the Russian war
machine.
The development was not unexpected
by many army officers. When the
offensive of July 1 was started by the
Russian forces the most frequent comment
heard here was that it was the
probably dying kick of the old Russian
machine.
For the United State^Pthe Russian
collapse may have an immediate* and
direct bearing. It will, it the German
general presses its advantage, release
additional German forces to bolster
up the western front where American
troops are to be engaged. The German
lipe in the wesf has not been seriouBly
impaired at any point, officers believe.
They do not claim to know the
situation along the battlefronta. but
they are able to see that the British
and French have wrested from tha
Germans any key position of 6uch importance
that it can he used next year
to hurl the enemy back.
Russian Women Fight.
Even the actual entry of women
spldleris into battle on the eastern
front has been insufficient to.imbue
the ranks of the recalcitrant Russians
with patriotism. They are still deserting
in large numbers in Galicia,. leay*
ing of virtuallywfree road open for
fresh advances by the Germans and
Austro-Hungarjans.
From the Baltic to the Black Seaonly
at one Doiht, along the line in
the southern Farpathi&ns, have the
Russians risen to the occasion and
shown some of their old fighting spirit.
Here fighting shoulder .to shoulder
with their Rumanian allies, they have
attacked and captured several villages
from the Germans and broken the
heavily fortified Teuton line on a wide
front.
In Galicla, the precipitate retreat
of the Russians continues almost
everywhere from the Carpathian foothills
to the region around Tarnopol,
the government apparently not. yet
having had time to put in force .Its
strong repressive nteasures which M.
Kerensky .the head of the government,
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NATIONAL GUARD UN ITS
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Washington.?The entire national
MM of the country with the excC|k1gx#o7
the* troops from California
v-.'il, south west state are In the federal
service under President Wilson's, call,
TOe remalnisg upits vWll^be brought in
August ik on which day the whole force
of probably 300.00Q men will be drafted
into the army of th? United Stated
and will lose its' status 'as^ militia From
ibst day on the state troops can
be used tor nay duty the president may
direct and;will be- rtbjedtxft no limitations
that do not appjy to th# regular
army. |i
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People Are Interested Conoernlng
Next 8teps in Drgft Process and
Pitas for Exemption Draws State*
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Washington.?A deluge of. personal
Inquiries concerning future steps in
the army draft and of pleas from industrial
concerns for exemption of
their expert workers, drew from the
provost marshal's office a statement
that questions must be addressed w local
boards and that claftxiB for Indus-'
trial exemption must go later to the
district bonrds.
No general class of workmen 'will
be exempted. Provost Marshal Qeneral
Crowder told the coal production committee.
which sought information
whether miners would be left# at their
work. Appeals to the provost marshal's
office from employers on behalf
of their workers*can accomplish
nothing, it was explained, as regulations
promuigatd by' President Wilson
govern all exemptions.
"The question of whether a man is
more useful to his country in a peaceful
pursuit than in military service is
a matter to be taken up with the district
board." said ap announcement,
"and for that board to determine in
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vaiw *^uv | v/i me i n vuuifiiaiu:?s ?sur*
rounding each individual case.
"Procedure in case of claim for
discharge on ground of industry or'
agriculture is explicitly outlined in
the regulations. Only the upper or
district board has jurisdiction over an
industrial or agricultural claim for,
discharge. Before a man has a standing
before the district board he must
first be certified to it by the local or
lower board as physically qualified for
service, and'must have had any discharge
claim made before the lower
board decided adversely to him.
"He has five days after he is certled
to the upper board in wMch to
file claims for discharge and five days
more in which -to file proof. All
claims for exemption or discharge except
claims for discharge on industrial
or agricultural grounds, are decided
originally by the local or lower
board."
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RU8SIAN FORCES ARE
STIFFENING RESISTANCE
Around Tarnopol Russians Put Up a
Hard Fight.
The Russian retirement in eastern
Galicia continue. There has been a
noticeable slackening in \the AustroGerman
advances north of the Dniester
where the Russians now are offering
more spirited resistance, but
jouth of the river to the Carpathians
the Teutonic forces are moving forward
almost unimpeded.
Around Tarnopol, the Austro-Germans
have met with stubborn resistance
from the Russians, but Prince
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uou|n>iu o nuiuioin wore ttDie 10 enlarge
recent gains on the eastern bank
of the Sereth. Btween Trembowla,
and Skoromocze, south of Tarnopol,
he Russians were eforced to yield the
(j-osisngs of the ASereth and Gniza
iiv?rs on a front of about eight miles
tccording to Berlin. * Southeast of
Tarnopol, Petrograd reports, the \ustro-German
attacks were repulsed.
The Russians have retired to new
positions southeast of Trembowla.
but whether they also surrendered the
crossings of the Sereth there, Petrograd
does not say. Between Czortkor
and the Dniester, Russian cavalry has
repelled Teutonic assaults and driven
the attackers northeastward toward
MonasterzksK*.
South of the Dniester into the'footare
retiring eastward. Kolomea. about
fty mflee northwest of Czernowitz, capital
of Bukoinai has been occupied
by* Bavarian and Ahstro-Hungarian
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uuui>o. mv iuwu in itn lmponaqi railway
junction and lies north of the
Pruth. An .unofficial report from
Austrian sources says the Russians
are evasuating Czernowltz.
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TEN BILLIONS PROBABLE '
C08T OF YEAR OF WAR
"Washington.?Estimating the sost
of the war for the coming year at
$10,^35,fj07,QOO, exclusive of loans to
the *allles, the administration Informed
Congress that now revenues total- j
ling 17,000,000.000 must be raised from
taxation or Issuance of securities. If
advancement of credit to the allies is
continued; At ' the-'pVesent rate, the
year's total ot war expenditures win
peas $15,000,000,000- and the amount
ef revenue required will increase
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$1.25 Per Year.
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NEW FEATURES TI
FOR STATE FAIR
AGRICULTURAL, EXHIBITS WJLL
HAVE AN ENTIRELY NEW
MEANING.
TO BE HISTORICAL EVENT*
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Patriotic Appeals Will be Made ts
South Carolinians in Many Ways
By Speakers.
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Columbia.?Despite the war conditions
plans ard under way to make the
forthcoming state fair the greatest in
' its history. The premfhm list for the t
; fair has been issued nnd it shows that
' many thbusands of dollars will be dis;
tributed in prizes for the best effort.
'] The fair this year will be held October
| 22 to 26.
The fuir will lay special emphasis
i the agricultural and live stock exhibils
In keeping with the movement
i for more food to care for America and
J the armies in Europe.
Patriotic appeals to South Carolin
ians win ne made in many ways.
; Speakers will be present to present
the war issues. The fair will be edu|
rational in nature. #
It is expected that this year will be"1 ?
| the most memorable in the history of fc.
i the society. By the middle of October
there will be more than 10,000 South
' Carolinians members of the new Na- '
I tlonal Army, stationed in Columbia.
| Ixiw round trip rates have ben secur- *
i ed for the fair and this will afford ex'
reliant opportunity for friends and
r| relatives to visit the soldiers in Cob '
umbia.
Two Girls Are Drowned.
Florence.?Misses Rita and Jessie
H^yneBWorth, two young girls from
- Sumter, daughters of ? Mrs. R. F.
] Haynesworth, were drowned in Mul- ,
drowii mill pond. Miss Evelyn Barnes
came near losing her life, but waa
rescued by Matt McCown. Both bodieft
have been recovered.
The Misses Haynes^dilh were cous>
ins of L. T. Barnes and Were here on
a visit. Miss Rita Hayn^pworth was
15a years old and Miss Jessie lAvnes|
worth, 13, with Miss Evelyn Barnes ?
and Matt McCown, the young ladies
wont out to the home of Morton Mulrf.An,
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They went down to the mill race
shortly after they arrived at the
house, to go in bathing, and had been
i In bathing for an hour or more when
they inadvertently strayed into water
, over their depth. Miss Barnes was
1 seen rushing to their rescue and all
three of the girls were swept off their
feet into the swiftly rushing water of
the mill race. Messrs. McCown and
Muldrow were sitting the bank opposite
the spot where the? girls were
bathing And across the stream from
them, and as sooti as they saw that
the girls were in trouble they ran to
I their rescue, but did not reach the
scene in time to save their lives.
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Cotton Growers Organize. #Snmter.?The
cotton growers of
Sumter. L.ee and Clarendon counties
i have been called together in a meeting
at Glenn's tobacco warehouse to or
ganize a cotton growers' selling association
and to provide the wherewithal
to furnish suitable cotton
! graders' quarters and a clerk for the
j grader under requirement of the Unlti
ed States bureau of marketing, in orj
der to have the expert cotton grader
ai uuuucn Iir^iiilllll^ rtf'.p*
tembor 1.
Congressman A. F. Lever and Secretary
E. I. Reardon of the Sumter
Chamber of Commerce were requested
hy a largely attended meeting of cotton
! growe'rs, merchants and hankers to seI
cure the government grader und they m
, have succeeded, but thpre are stringn*
attached to the grader.
-The bureau of marketing requires .
thatthe cotton growers shall first do
some businesslike and co-operative or,
ganizing In order that the classifying
I of cotton by the government grader
; will really do some good and jlo that
I the cotton growers will be ablwto sell
on grades. Unless the farmers or- ,
i ganize the government will not cooperate
To 8tart Glove Factory. ?
Gaffney.?At a meeting of the stock- ,
holders held in Gaffney a $5,000 glove
factory was organized for the purpose
of manufacturing canvas gloves. Nearly
all of the capital stock has been
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pie. There are only, aDout four of
these factories In the South, but tr
other parts of the country there are
4 number of them and they are all
paying propositions One of the stockholders
has had large experience in
enterprises of thi. kind and will be
manager of the enterprise.
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