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6ENERALW00D WILL
ilflT TDKIU TPnOPC
nui iiinin iiiuui u f
MAJOR GENERAL WILL HAVE
NOTHING TO DO WITH TRAINING
OF MEN.
ANNOUNCEMENT SURPRISING
New Order Issued By Department Relieving
All Commanders of That
Duty.?Supervision of Training to ,
Devolve on the Division Officers.
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An announcement that will be received
with a great deal of interest
and no inconsiderable disappointment, |
particularly throughout the south, is
that making fit known that Maj. Gen.
Leonard Wood, now commander of
the department of the southeast and
the ranking officer of the United States
army, will have nothing to do with the
training of the hundreds of thousands
of young men to be sent to the training
camps in his department.
And just as General Wood will be
relieved of any connection with the
training of the men, so will the other
department commanders be relieved
of that responsibility, and the duty of
supervising the training of the great
number of young men to make up the
army helng prepared for the war with
Germany will rest upon division commanders,
of whom there will be scores
and who are yet unnamed.
This 1b due to an order recently issued
by the war department, which,
up to this time, has not been published.
taking the duty of supervising
the training of the men at the va
rlous camps away from the department
commanders and placing it with
the division or camp commanders,
who will be at the various training
camps. Therefore, with the arrival of
troops at a camp in any of the departments,
the responsibility of the
commander of that department for
the discipline at that camp, its rules,
regulations, or any connection whatever
with the camp will cease except,
of course, that he will continue to be
commander of the department, but
that department lieadquaretrs will become
really little more than a supply
depot, storeroom, or quartermaster's
depot.
And as is General Wood relieved of
this responsibility in the department
- of the southeast so art the other department
commanders. Generals Bell, i
Barry, Parker and the others, who
are the highest officers in the regu- '
lar army.
UNCLE SAM TAKE HAND
TO PUNISH DRAFT RESISTER8 !
Government Acts Qucikly in Oklahoma
to End Anti-Draft Riots.
Oklahoma City, Okla. ? Without
waitinK tor a conclusion of the state's
campaign against organized resistance
to the selective draft in central Oklahoma,
the United States government
moved to punish the 200 men under arrest
In connection with armed opposition
to military service. Warrants
charging treason were served on the
prisoners w .10 were taken to the nen
itentiary at McAlester or the jail at
Muskogee to await trial at which United
States District Attorney McGinnis :
* will ask that the death penalty be im- j
imposed.
Announcement that extreme punishment
would be asked was expected to
aid materially in bringing to terms
the few resissters still sheltered in
the hills. Posses in three counties?
Seminole. Hughes and Pottawatomie?
reported that isolated groups refused
to surrender, but that they apparently
were discouraged and seeking to
avoid an encounter.
Determination of the possemen to
run down all of the leaders was
v strengthened by confiscation of half
a freight car of dynamite which had ,
been run on a siding southeast of
cmnnnwn in otiiiiiiiiiin cimiiiy. An investigation
la being made to establish
ownership.
Clashes between the resisters and |
posses have cost three lives and nu- !
meroua injuries. Two objectors to the |
draft have been killed and a traveler
was shot when he failed to heed a
posse's warning to halt.
MONEY CIRCULATING HAS
REACHED RECORD AMOUNT
Washington.?Money in circulation
In the United States, the treasury
department's circulation statement
shows, reached a new record August
1. The total on that date was $4,862,084,469.
an increase of nearly twentythree
per cent within a year. This Includes
gold, silver and all forms of
currency, but does not Include money
in the treasury which would bring the
total up to $6,513,392,894.
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ORVILLE WRIGHT.
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Orville Wright, Inventor of the airplane,
declares the United States can
win the war by acquiring supremacy in
the air.
ASK NEUTRALS THEIR NEEDS
INQUIRIES FROM WASHINGTON
TO EUROPEAN NEUTRAL8
SEEK FULL INFORMATION.
Amerca is Laying Foundation For Plan
For Rationing Neutrals Which Will
oiop exports r-rom Finally Reach*
ing Germany.
Washington.?Full information concerning
food conditions in the northern
European neutral countries has
been asked of the neutrals by the
United States in notes handed to their
diplomatic representatives.
The American government's plan
for rationing the neutrals through its
control of exports will be dually determined
on after replies are received.
The information sought concerns
the exact food needs of those countries.
their food production capacity
and details of their export and Import
trade nf the loot fom ? rrl
.... .... .. n j cal rv lilt* 111tenton
of the United States is to hold
exports to the enutrals to the barest
necesities to prevent American foodstuffs
or food they replace from
reaching Germany. On>y actual food
deficiencies will be made up from
America and assurances will be demanded
that no American-produced
food is re-exported or used to supplant
food that is exported.
Quick responses to the notes are
looked for, since at present no shipments
to the neutrals are permitted
to leave American ports and some of
the countries are badly in need of
grains.
MARRIAGE AFTER CALL
NO GROUND FOR EXEMPTIONWashington?Local
boards were formally
instructed by Provost Marshal
General Crowder that they may well
hold that a marriage recently consummated,
especially by a registrant
after he has been cnlled for examination,
does not create a status of dependency
justifying Immunity from
v vraaov I I (IllUII.
"The selective draft service law,"
read the Instructions, "does not require
discharges in all cases of technical
legal dependency, hut only permits
discharges where in view of dependency
a discharge is advisable.
Local boards may well hold that a
marriage hastily consummated re
cently, and especially one consummated
by a person ufter he has been
called to present himself for examination
to determine his fitness for militar
yservlce. does not create a status
of dependency in which it is advisablo
to grant a discharge.
"It is to he expected that local
boards will exercise this full discretion
in cases where they are convinced
that unscrupulous persons have
thus violated the principles of the
selective service law in hope of escaping
duty."
PROHIBITION CUT OUT OF
PROGRAM BY HOUSE.
Washington. ? National prohibition
by constitutional amendment was
hung up in the House by the prohibition
leaders themselves.
The resolution to submit the proposal
to the states, passed by the
Senate, was put out of the program
for the present session and will not
come up until the regular session in
December.
Representative Randall of California.
the prohibition party's only representative
in Congress, issued a statement
declaring that "the friends of national
prohibition have been dim
flammed by the liquor lobby In the
constitutional .amendment adopted in
the Senate^
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FORT MILL, S. C., THUB
KERENSKY IS AGAIN
REIGNING jN RUSSIA
. n f\ lo ur ntHVI I Morv I IN I MIS
CRISIS AT REQUEST OF THE
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WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO REFUSE
Many Changes Are Forecast as Premier
Intends to Conduct a Strong
Government to Carry Out'Old Principles
Thought Best.
Petrograd.?Premier Kerensky has
returned to Petrograd and withdrawn
his resignation. He attended a ministerial
meeting and afterwards conferred
with various political leaders.
M. Kerensey has issued a manifesto
in which he declares that he considers
it impossible when the eountrv
is threatened with defeat without and
disintegration within to refuse the
heavy task again entrusted to him.
which he regards as an express order
from the country to construct a strong
revolutionary government to carry out
the nrin ip?es v'ready laid down.
"At the same time," says the manifesto.
"I consider it inevitable to
introduce changes in the order and
distribution of government work without
allowing myself to be influenced
by the throught that these changes
will increase my responsibility In the
supreme direction of the affairs of
state."
SLIGHT GAIN IN FLANDERS
IS MADE BY ANGLO-FRENCH.
Canadians Slowly Tighten?Pinchers
Forcing Germans From Lens.
iiitHiury ngnung aitnougn not on
an extremely heavy scale, began in
Flanders on Sunday nnd in two engagements
the Anglo-French troops
were victorious.
The weather moderating. Crowir
Prince Rupprecht, after an all-night
bombardment sent his troops aaginst
the British positions at Hollebeke, 011
the Ypres-Comines Canal, between
Yures and Warnton and, charging
forward 011 both sides of the canal
the Germans gained a footing in the
villugc of Hollebeke. The success
was only momentary as the British
drove them out by an immediate
counter-attack and took some prisoners.
Other German attacks in this
area ulco were checked.
Northwest of Bixschoote. which lies
tn V* w *
?w vuv uui iu vt a pi co, iue r rencn are
following up their successes of laat
week. In an attack against the German
lines Sunday they made further
progress.
The pinchers with which the Canadians
are slowly forcing the Germans
out of Lens, again has been
tightened slightly. In an advance in
the Oite du Moulin the Canadians
have pushed forward their line on a
front of one thousand yards to a depth
of two hundred yards. The Canadians
consolidated the position which is
within a thousand yards of the center
of Lens on the western front of
the town. Southeast of Arras German
raids against the British lines on
Sunday met with failure.
German attacks on the Aisne front
have been withstood successfully by
the French. Against the Casemates
plateau the Germans made two attacks
which were repulsed. South of
Juvincourt the German crown prince
threw strong forces against the
French lines early Sunday. The
French were driven from a small element.
hut Iter ejected the Germans
and held their line intact.
HOLLAND-AMERICAN
STEAMER HITS MINE
Amsterdam.? The Holland-American
line steamship Noordam, homeward
bound ran upon a mine the westward
of the island of Trxel. There were no
casualties. The ship is still affoat.
GERMAN PLANE LANDS
IN NETHERLANDS LIMITS
Amsterdam.?A German airplane,
landed on the island of Ameland on
account of motor trouble. The occupants
of the machine were interned.
CABLE FAR EAST IS
BROKEN IN MID-PACIFIC
New York.?Communication with
the Phlllippines and China including
Hong Kong by way of San Francisco
over the commercial Pacific table has
been interrupted, the Commercial Cahle
Company announced, here and
cablegrams "can be forwarded only
via Europe." It was explained thaf
the cable broke somowheres between
uuvui Mim nit) fniiippinea ann that a
ship would have to be aent out to
pick up the line and repair it. #
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&DAY, AUGUST 9, 1917.
FRANCIS J. HENEY
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Francis J. Heney, the well known
"trust buster" of San Francisco, has
been engaged by the government to
Investigate t.he prices of food, under
the direction of the federal trade commission.
PROHIBITIONISTS WIN HOUSE
"DRY" AMENDMENT RESOLUTION
TO FOOD MEASURE IS ADOPTED.
Resolution Now Goes to House Where
Early Consideration is Expected.?
Senator Stone's Amendment Wae
Rejected.
Washington.?A resolution for submission
to the states of a prohibition
amendment to tho federal constitution
was adopted by the Senate.
The vote was sixty-live to twenty,
eight more than the necessary twothirds.
As adopted the resolution contains \
a provision that the states must bo |
asked to ratify the amendment with !
in six years. The house still must act
on the resolutionSenator
Stone's amendment providing
for compensation by the government
for damages to property growing
out of the enforcement of the prohibition
amendment was rejected fifty
to thirty-one.
Senators oposing the resolution
were:
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^vuitn.1 mn Ul uunnuru, I Ulltorifion.
Gerry. Hardwick, Hitchcock. Husting,
James, Lewis', Phelan, Pomerene,
Reed and Underwood?Total 12.
Republicans ? Brandagee. Calder,
France, Lodge, Penrose, Wadsworth,
Warren and Weeks. Total 8.
Senators voting for the resolution ;
were:
Democrats ? Ashurst Bankhead. '
Beckham, Chamberlain, Fletcher, i
Gore, Mollis. Jones of New Mexico. ;
Kendrlck, King. Kirby, McKellar.
Martin, Myers, Newlands, Overman. '
Owen, Pittman, Ransdell Robinson. |
Saulsbury, Shafroth. Sheppard,
Shields. Simmons. Smith, of Arizona;
! Smith, of Georgia; Smith, of* South
! Carolina; Stone, Swanson, Thompson,
Trummell. Vardaman Walsh. Williams.
and Wolcott?Total 26.
Republicans?Borah, Brady, Colt. 1
Cummins. Curtis. Fernald, Freling- !
huysen. Gronna, Hale Harding, John- !
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I own, ui v aiiiunim; joncs. or washing- |
iton; Kullog. Kenyon, Knox, LaFol-|
lotte, McC'umber. McNary, Nelson, 1
New, Norris. Page. Poindexter, Sher- !
man Smith of Michigan; Smoof, Sterling.
Sutherland and Watson?Total
29.
Total for, 65.
The proposed constitutional amendment
is the first initiated by Congress
since that providing for popular elec- 1
tion of United States senators, ap
proved in 1911. It is the first time
: that either branch of Congress ' has
i approved a constitutional amendment
| for prohibition A few years ago a
similar resolution In the house receive
da majority, but failed of the rrciuired
two-thirds.
FEWER MERCHANTMEN
3UNK BY SUBMARINES.
London.?Some falling off in the loss
of British merchantment by submarines
is noted in the official summary
Eighteen British vessels of more than
I.6O0 tons were sunk by submarines
or mines last week. Three vessels
under 1,600 tons were sunk, while no
fishing vesels were lost. According
to the admiralty report of the pre
j vjous week the losses were twenty one
' British vessels of more than 1,600 tons
(each, three of less than 1,600 tons
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WAR TAX MEASURE
PUT IN FINAL FORM
REVISED BILL IS REPORTED TO
THE SENATE Bl FINANCE COMMITTEE.
NO PROVISION FOR BONDS
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Reported Bill Provide* For Approxi- |
mately $2,000,000,000 For War Expenses.?Increase
Taxes on Liquors,
Beer, Wines, Profits, Etc.
Washington.?The war tax bill, under
revision since May 24. was put
into final form for report to the Senate
by the finance committee. It provides
for approximately $2,000,000,000
in taxes to meet war expenses, but
makes no provision for further bond
authorizations. The bill was increas- i
ed $133,000,000 over the total as it
passed the House. About $327,000,000
was added during the last week because
of the latest war estimates.
Senators LaFollette, Gore and Thomas
plan a seperate report advocating
higher tax levies.
The new increase of $327,000,000
over the committee's original draft is
distributed approximately among the
following additional leves:
On corporate incomes, $162,000,000.
Additional sur-taxes on individual
incomes of $16,000 and over, $27,500,000.
Distilled spirits. $95,000,000.
Beer. $12,600,000.
Wines. $17,000,000.
War excess profits, $5,000,000.
Bank checks. $2,000,000.
Floor, or stock, taxes on sugar, coffee.
tea and cocoa. $6,000,000.
Total $327,000,000.
The additional levy on incomes of
corporations applies also to partnerships.
Joint stock companies and essociatlons,
including life insurance
companies. Their normal income tux
is increased to six per cent, four per j
cent more than the present law, and
two per cent above the oringinal j
nwuoc mm lAuiiiiiuict; piu^iniil.
The increased surtaxes fall entirely :
on individuals having incomes of $15.000
or above.
FEW EXEMPTIONS FOR
GOVERNMENT EMPLOYES
Postal Carriers, Clerks or Laborers
Not to be Exempted.
Washington.?A ruling by the postoffice
department shows that the department
officials will make few re- 1
quests for exemption from military
service. Postmasters* are instructed
not to ask for exempiton for carriers or
laborers or for clerks in second class
ofTices below the $1,000 grade, clerks
in first clas offices below the $1,100
grade, or any above these grades unless
they are qualified distributors of
mail.
The ruling is the first formal action
by an executive department In compliance
with President Wilson's order
directing that department officials inicadet
exemptions and that the re- ,
quirement of ' lndispensability be rig- ;
idly enforced. As generally construed
the postal ruling shows the
purpose of the administration ot make
the government departments leaders
in freeing valuable employes for war
service.
The entre mail carrier force, numbering
thousands of men, of whom a
considerable percentage are with'n
the draft age limits, is excluded from
exemption unless for physical reasons
or because they have dependent families.
Rvery portion of the countrv
is reached by the ruling, as even the
rural carriers are included.
The department's ruling in regard
iu tin nn, icovra i un way iuuii tin nn
within the exemption clans, as they
are highly specialized distributors.
Provost Marshall General Crowrier
took steps to reduce the number of
exemptions because of dependent fam
ilies. Instructions were sent to the
governors of all states pointing out
that the minimum pay of soldiers is
now $30 a month and that local boards
must consider whether a man's dependents
could not be supported on
that amount.
U. 8. POSTAL AGENCY
ESTABLISHED IN FRANCE
Washington.?American soldiers at j
the front no ware receiving their mail :
without interruption, as a result of ,
the establishment of the United States
postal agency In France, Postmaster
General Burleson announced A corps
of experienced workers, under the direction
of Marcus H. Bunn. is handling
mail matter at the base postoffice
and at branches established at
Paris, the training camps, and at the
American port of debarkation.
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$1.25 Per Year.
ENDEAVOR UNION
JUDSJOONG MEN |
PROGRAM FOR NEXT TWO YEARS
INCLUDES EIGHT PHASES
OF EFFORT.
PLAN FOR TRAINING GAMPS
Work Goes on in South Carolina?A
"War Department" Hat Already
Been Formed.
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Columbia.?The Christian Endeavor
organization throughout the country is
doing a grout deal for the young men
In the truining camps and for the betterment
of conditions generally. The
program before the Endeavorers of the
nation for the next two years includes
eight phases of effort for the men in
the camps ami the folks at home, and
the aim of the Endeavorers is to enroll
in this campaign a million persons,
this enrollment to be known as the
Christian Endeavor army of universal
patriotic service.
In South Carolina the Endeavorers
are doing a hit for the men in the
camps. A "war department" of the
State Christian Endeavor Union has
been formed .and this committee la
helping in a good many ways. Miss
Cora Hardin of Chester is superintendent
and already the department has
begun a campaign among the Endeavorers
to raise money to aid in the support
of Hert Corcoran, the president
of the State union, who has offered
his services aH a secretary of the
Young Men's Christian Association
for war duty. Mr. Corcoran has already
been accepted for this form of
service. The week of August 19-26
has been set aside by the Eendeavor
era as "Bert Cnrcornn Week," and during
these clays a drive will be made
for the fund necessary for this phase
uf the work.
The Kndeavorers of Greenville have
hegun a plan of getting in touch with
the Kndeavorers who are and will be
in Camp Sevier, and their aim is to
"meet .entertain and encourage" every
Endenvorcr and every young man Interested
in the nTairs of the church
who may be in th?e Greenville camp.
This work the Kndeavorers are trying
to do for the soldiers is meeting with
hearty support. Allan Nicholson of
Union says it's flno work for the Endeavorers
and he has sent a check to
apply on the fund. The Rev. J. P.
Marion of Sumter is another backer
of the movement.
The Kndeavorers of Greenville last
Sunday night had a patriotic meeting,
when testaments w?re distributed tc
the men of one of tne units stationed
at Camp Sevier. A large number of
these men were in attendance upon
this special meet' "g of the Kndeavorers.
Nearly a dozen young men have
gone from the Endeavor Society of the
First Presbyterian Church of Columbia
alone, and almost every society in
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iiio diiuiii litis tin*; <?r inure UI no mornberR
following the flnR.
To Be Acting Engineer.
Columbia.?In the absence of J. Roy
Pennell, State highway engineer, who
is captain of Company A, Engineers
Battalion. Nationa' Guard of South
Carolina, the State highway commit*
Rlon appointed F. H. Murrey, now assistant
to Captain Pennell, as acting
State highway engineer, und R. T.
Browne and Edward McCrady, acting
assistant engineers.
Mr. Murrey is an experienced engineer
and has bee i with the commission
since May. He has been in charge
of paving contract in the District of
Columbia, and recont'v in the city of
Jacksonville. He van at one time a
member of the Virginia State Highway
Commission. He is a native of Marlon
county.
Mr. Browne is a native of Lexington,
N. C. He recently handled bond Issues
in Davidson and Orange Counties,
N. C.. and others previously in Ten
nessee.
Edward McCrady is a native of
Charleston. S. C., a graduate of t
University of South Carolina, in the engineering
departr ?nt, and is we''
known here. Mr. McOrady has recently
managed bond isr tea In Avery county.
N. C.. and in Spartanburg county.
S. C.
Anxlds to Help.
OafTney.- Fred DeStaflno han written
to the war d partment at Wash
ington giving it < eriain ideas as to
scheme which he has conceived th
he thinks would greatly aid the allies
to win the war. He received a lett
+ r trr%in thp iiifknf ppnaril r\f tVia
Army thanking him for his suggestion,
and telling him that san*r> would a
once be inrestigated. DeStaflno says
that owing to hla physical condition
ho can flot go to the front, but he la
anxious to do his bit, and to that end
submitted his idea to Uncle Sam.
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