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X'.V ' V . * * ' ' 4 I " * *' . v , f < X Established in 1891. UN1TE0WAR WORK DRIVE A SUCCESS TOTAL SUBSCRIPTIONS WERE 32,679,036 IN EXCESS OF DESIRED GOAL. j FORTY-THREE STATES OVER TOP | North Carolina and Alabama Exceed Quota by Sixty' Percent., While Georgia it 50 Percent. Over. New York. Total subscriptions to tLe United war work campaign were J <S.'03,179.038 or $32,679,031) in excess of i I be amount grigiuully asked by the seven war r el lei organizations for their work during demobilization of t'na army and navy, according to an oticial announcement by the national campaign committee. This is the largest sum ever raised as an out- 4 right gift in the history of the world. According to the committee, every 1 state in the union, with the exception ?>f Pennsylvania and Minnesota, exceeded the quota assigned to it. Fourteen states pledged' 1,50 per I cent or more of their quotas. Arizona heading the list with 24S pet cent. Percentages of other high states included: North Carolina and Alubania each 160; Georgia and Vermont each 150. V feature of the campaign was tin manner in which men of the army and navy themselves and the inhahi tants of foreign countries contribut <*d to the fund. The army and navy gave $618,346; China gave $1.000.(inn; StURsia. $11,000-. Cuba. $275,000; Ja llftll. $360,000; Mexico. $114,000. and Porto Rico $82,000. New York State went "over the top" with a percentage of 102. Joint 1? Rockefeller and John 1). Roeke feller, Jr., who hud underwritten lack , iitg subscription tq the amount of $1. 023.689 were called on to contribute *370,097 to make up the total when reports showed a subscription of t $34,629,903. (jtHMAN PEOPLE ARE NOT IN ANY DANGER OF STARVATION London.?Tlif Cologne Gazette, of November 16. iiubliBhed an article un ?l?*r the caption, "Armistice and the I*N)od Supply." written by a specialist named Oetolahofen, who argued that there could be no question of a shortage of food in Germany, but that it was urgently necessary to reduce rations. The writer maintained that Germany could deal with the transport problem by readjustments, reducing the transport of potatoes and vege- ' tnbles and conlining the transport fa<41itiea to foods of greater nutritive value in proportion to their bulk. Dealing with the harvest. Oetolahofen estimated the bread corn harvest apart from barley and oats at not less than 12,000,000 tons and the |M>tato harvest at about* 47.500,000 tons. The writer pointed out that Ger many must have an abundance of sugar, hitherto, had been used as raw , material for munitions aud Germany now liud a sugar harvest of about 1.808.000 tons, as compared with a peace consumption of only t.200.000 tons. "Even alter the armistice." the wri- ! ter said, "there Is abundance of food In Germany for feeding ?the population if vre* reduce the consumption of ani- I mals by reducing the stocks of cattle EIGHTEEN MEN OF STEAMER DUMARU LOSE THEIR LIVES Washington. ?Eighteen men from' from the American steamer Duinuni lost their lives after the vessel was wrecked near Quant last month hy lightning exploding her cargo of gasoline. The navy department annouiu >d that It', of tlie nten died from ex ix>sure and starvation in an open boat and that two others were drowned when the Inmt was making a landing , at San Jose. I/Oriente. Philippine Islands. November !) WAR WORKERS TO BE AIDED IN RETURNING TO HOMES Washington. - Plans to assist in the return home of thousands of war work- j t? in Washington soon to he released by the transition of government bureaus front a war to a peine basis were osidered at a conference of personnel officers of the war department. J. C!. Kchoftii'hl. chief clerk of the department, was directed by Secre- I tary Haker to preware recommendn- I tions as to methods of aiding the workers. ? GERMANY. REDUCED TO SIXTH POSITION AS WORLti POWER C.ermanv Is now reduced to a si/ih rate naval power, the ten battleships to be surrendered being the most re- 1 eentty constructed out of her total of i IS. of which the P.ayern is the most recent and powerful. No battleerulsera are left. The light cruisers surrendered are all new. The value of the Mtips surrendered Is much more than fifty million pounds ($250,000,000) and the sea power left Qermnav Is varj law Indeed. ? # * The % EARL STANHOPE Earl Stanhope, the young parlimentary secretary to the British war office, whose career has been meteoric ?nd reolete with achievements. POLICY OF BOARD DEFINED NO CHANGE TO BE MADE IN LABOR CONDITIONS IN THE NAVY AT PRESENT. Thr Coolie ad His Bowl of Rice li Not Expected to Be Heard by Hurley on Our Ships. Washington. The shipping boan does not propose to ask Congress t? make any changes in llie I^aKolletti act, estnblshlng wage and workinj conditions for seamen, said a state ment prepared by Chairman Hurley, o the shipping board, before his de part ure. With efficient management of ships and docks, properly built vessels am modern port machinery. Mr. Hnrlej believes the American merchant ma pine can be operated under the liigl wage standards of the LaFollette aci at as low a cost per ton a mile a: any othe.r cargo vessels of other na tions. Chairman Hurley defined the polio of the shipping board both during anc after the war as follows: "Build the ships and win the war make our marine as good ati Anieri can machine as possible and trulj American in operation and living standards; put the support of an in telligeut American public behind it and then if we cannot keep these ships on the ocean without* the coolie aiu his bowl of rice it will bo time to g< to Congress and ask for help." 90 GERMAN WARSHIPS AND U-BOATS ARE SURRENDEREE lMt?k ... U ? ,uiu > f,n, oiiniiiiKi. uermany i high sous fleet after its surrender t< ttte allied navies was bought to tin Firth of Forth. The British grand tloet and ri v< American battleships and thret French warships, in two long columna escorted the 71 German vessels* tc their anchorage. Harwich, Kngland. Another rtotills of German lT-boats surrendered to s Brit loll squadron. There were lit sub marines in ail; the twentieth, which should have come, broke down on tin way. The German lleet which surrendered to the British navy, it became known consisted of nine battleships, five bat tie cruisers, seven light cruisers and destroyers. The surrendered Ger man fleet will be taken t? the Sea pa Flow. The Sea pa Flow i* in the middle in im* i/raney isianus. oil the north oas; coast of Scotland. It Is a small inland sea. with an urea of ."?(i square miles It contains many small islands and lias numerous n >od harbors :uul roadsteads. AMERICAN AERIAL ARMIES GAIN FAR MORE THAN LOSS American Headquarters in Frame ?^When hostilities were suspended. American aviator* had destroyed t>t?1 more German planes and :>f< more German balloons than the American* hud lost. The total number of enemv planes destroyed by the Americans was ?3t? and the total number of liul loons 7:?. Two hundred and sixty-five American planes and ">S balloons were destroyed by the enemy. REGULATIONS ARE REMOVED AS TO LIGHTLESS NIGHTS Washington ? "flightless nights,' made necessary to save fuel for wui work, will end at once except in states where fuel administrators may decide to continue the regulations. This an noumement whs made hv Fuel Administrator Garfield. Removal of othei restrictions on the consumption ol coal will follow and voluntary con servatlou through requests made ol the public will be substituted. - 1 >" v 1 fjjv ' * m y flRr " ' / -if '? ^ v fill Port - * ' fort imi jWILSON'SPRESEHGE IS INDISPENSABLE I LEADING LONDON NEW8PAPER SAYS PRESIDENT HA8 DONE INCALCULABLE SERVICE. ' I I ALL INTERNATIONAL IDFALISTS I Discussion Preceding Conference by Allied Repreesntstives Are of Most Vital Importance. |> London. The times prints a long j j loading editorial headed "President I Wilson's Visit to Europe." After rei I ferring to political discussions now goj Ing on in America, the article continues: | ^ "These debates are on the domestic alTairs of tlie American people. To us. t he President is the head not of a j party but of the people. Even if there is bias here to one or the other of ' the Amercian parties?and there is i not?it would not affect our attitude I on the President of the American re! public. Wilson has done incalculable service for tlte allied cause in the war j and his name is one to conjure with I 1 in Europe. , "We are all idealists now in international affairs and look to hitn to help us realize these ideals?to rccon1 struct out of this welter a better and t luircr worm. I "We hope party controversy will not prevent hint trout coming to KuI i ope. f?H- even more important than the.aetual conference are the discus: sions by tlie allied representatives : which must precede it. To these Wilson's presence is not only desirable but indispensuble." 1 , LEMBURG AND ITS ENVIRONS |j CAPTURED BY POLISH TROOPS ! Copenhagen. Polish troops caplured Lemborg. the capital of Galieia. and its environs, according to tit* Polish Telegraph bureau at Cracow. There had been heavy lighting in * and about Leniberg since early itt i November when Ukrainian troops entered Galieia and captured the city by surprise. t __________ 1 HOWLS OF EXECRATION GREET * SWAGGERING GERMAN EX-HEIR Amsterdam.? When the former Gerr J man crown prince arrived at the ZuyI j der Zee fishing town of Knkhuysen. he | received a different welcome than he * i encountered elsewhere in Holland. * | As he descended from the railway car with a swaggering gait and wear* : ing a fur coat, howls of execration * j arose front the thousands gathered ' j outside the station gate. RICHMOND IS TO BE ONE OF AIR MAIL TERMINALS I Richmond. Va.?Richmond bus been j selected as one of the terminals for ' 1 the air mail route to be established i south from Washington, according to ' I the announcement made thfs evening 1 i by Assistant Postmaster General Otto ! j Praeger. ' 500 FORMER OFFICERS OF RUSSIAN ARMY MURDERED ' Stockholm.--The bolsheviki have ' been guilty of terrible excesses in l I Petrograd in the last few days, accordl | iug to a dispatch from Abo. Finland. - j to The Aftonbludt. Five hundred fori ; mer Russian army officers are report ed to have been murdered. I AMERICAN ARMY IS MARKING l TIME ON SOIL OF GERMANY ' J . I American Army of Occupation. The front'fine of the American arniv of , occupation rested along the I.uxtjm! berg-German border on the Saur river and thence along the Moselle river to | ( the region east <v. Kemielt. The AmI cricnn army wilt rnatk time until further orders. At least three or four ?! 11 > are expected to pass before the I j next move i-- made toward tin' German | i border. PRESIDENT TALKS TO FLIERS WHO ARE FAR AWAY IN AIR Washington.--Through a radio tele '..i ' iMiuiir, mi ini? xoum pomco I l of the White House. Presdent Wil- ! . j son directed tho maneuvers of half :i (I dozen army airplanes flying over the . ( Potomac river several miles away. ,1 The telephone as used was adjusted for three to fire or six miles. It is similar to the instruments used hy American aviators in France, the secret of which was disclosed after the armistice was signed. DEATH OF LAST SURVIVING CHILD OF OEN. R. E. LEE j Richmond, Va.?Miss Mary Custift J Lee. sole surviving child of Gen Rolit. j K. Lee, died after a brief illness at j li Virginia Hot Springs. N'o announce- j i tnent has been mnde as to the funeral. J hu; the body is expected to be placed ' beside that of her father in the vault jof the Lee mausoleum. Since the 'i death of her brother, Capt. Kobt. R. Late. Miss I^ee has been the sole surr viving child of ?Jh9 great Confederate chieftain. > i '-4 . -f # 1 i fl-?. r mi j U S. C., THURSDAY. NOVEM] SALIH GOUROil ] n iOBLSl c .-i^ .1 fl Because he refused to sell his ideals to the German government, Salih i Gourdji, former president of the Ottoman official news agency, is a refui gee in this country. This, journalist i fled from Turkey late in 1914, but the authorities refused to permit his wife and two children to follow him. They are rtbw in France. LANSING HEADS DELEGATION ?- I ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE TRIP ' ARE GOING FORWARD WITH : i NO HITCH APPARENT. " ' Passage Will Be Made in Liner Now in Use by the Government as a ? Service Transport Washington.?There" wert* no development s ou the surface iti the i preparations for President Wilson's. trip to France and for America's rep | reaentntion at the peace conference.! I Arrangements are xoiug steadily ; ahead, however, ami an announcement of the peace commission's personnel with the program for the journey may be expected at any time. .Members of the senate who atlendI ed the White House conference told tneir colleagues of the president's de-1 termination to stay in France indefinitely or until all of the greater issues | arising out of the war have been set* | tied. How long this may be no one j ventures to guess, so the president wlli take wtlh him a full executive staff, prepared to transact aboard ship or at the American embassy in Paris, virtually all business of the 1 White House. 1 In additon to Secretary lainsing. ! ! who is to head the American delega| tion to the peace conference, and Col* ! onel House. Klihu Root and Justice llrandds. generally believed to have j been selected by the president for membership, speculation upon, a long , list of names has centered upon only j otie for the fifth place?that of Secrej tary Houston of the department of, I agriculture. He is being suggested I ' persistently in official quarters, i Navy officials let it bo known that i it is planned to take the president and the delegation across the Atlantic on a big passenger liner now in use bv the government as a transport. A j dreadnought and a flotilla of destrov! ers probably will he convoys. ! OVERTHROW BOLSHEVIKI AND I CAPTURE OF KIEV REPORTED! i * ; -i Washington. ? Overthrow of thei ! bolshevik regime in the Ukraine and | the capture of Kiev by cossack troops' friendly to tlie all-Russian government! I as reported from Copenhagen, opens \ I the way. in the opinion of officials [ here .for important developments in I Russia. While no change in policy, ' cither political or military ,hus been i made by the United States, it is real* j i i7.ed here that the holding of t.he I | Ukraine by forces friendly to the as-1 seriated governments and decidedly hostile to the bolshevik! opens a path ' ! directly into the heart of Russia oith- i er for the dispaoth of troops or of J | supplies for the relief of the demobil-1 ized civlinn population. tentative plans to float $aooo.ooo.ooo more bonds I Wellington. Secretary McAdoo j nnd members of the < apltai issue:*. ! committee agreed that the committee should continue indefinitely its functions of supervising proposed issues of stocks and bonds for capital purposes. as a measure of rationing capital in preparation for future war loans. At the same time it became known that the treasury plans tentatively to fl^rat about eight billion dollars more securities during lfll!>. VERSAILLES IS PREPARING TO RECEIVE THE CONFERENCE 1 Paris. The city of Versailles is preparing to receive the del-gates to the peace conference. The deliberations 1 are expected to be held in the Grand ' Trianon part of the chateau of Ver- t sallies, once occupied by Marie An- 1 toinette. The priceless tapestries and furni- ] rare, removed to a place of safety , during the course of houtiMties, are i now being replaced. The gardens are 1 being nCatored. 1 L y: '* f\ - x n / * * * . % " ' 1 \ LT T BER 28, 1918 So to retire to private life SECRETARY OF THE TRE.ASUFT TENDERS HIS RESIGNATION TO PRESIDENT WILSON. OFFICE IS TOO POORLY PAK Rumors Rife of ,->olitical Ambitio May, in Part, Explain Action of President's S.n-in-Law. Washington.?William Gibbs M? Adoo. secretary of the .reasury, d rector general of railroads, and ofte discussed as oue of the presidents possibilities of 11)20. has resigned hi office to return to private bushiest President Wilson has accepted, hi resignation. Mr. McAdoo will give up the trea> ury portfolio us soon as a successo has been selected. He wished to la down Ills work as director general r railroads by January 1. but will r. main if the president has not the chosen si successor. Upon the new secr/XAry of th trensuiv, whoever N> may be, will d? volve the task of financing the natio through- the transition period of wa to peace, which probably will inclurt at least two more Liberty loans an possibly also a further revision of th system of war taxation. Letters between President Wilso and Mr. MeAdoo. made public wti the announcement of the resignatioi Rive Mr. McAdoo's reasons for lea^ ing the cabinet solely as a necessit for replenishing bis personal fortun and express the president's deep n Rret at lositiR bis son-in-law from hi official family. TOTAL OF 59 SUBMARINES HAVE BEEN SURRENDERE London.?Twenty more German sul marines were surrendered to Aduiir; Tyrwhitt. of Harwich. This makes total of a!) submarines thus far ham ed over. There would have been 2 surrendered but one sauk during th night. The correspondent of the wireles service with the British naval force says that just before noon a cruise came into sight, followed by the Gei man submarines and a German trail: port. The transfer took place in th harbor on acocunt of the heavy se running. The majority of the subnu rines were large and nearly all wer titod with wireless equipment. When the Germans arrived it. wa :ii>Li?-(*uuif' nuii mo rovoiuilonary oil oient was decidedly present. Some c the officers had removed the Prui siun eagles from their taps and r< placed them with a sort of red badg that recognises the authority of th sailors' and soldiers' council. Th men took very little notice of anj thing their officers said to them. On shouted: "So officer no kaisor." $500,000,000 REDUCTION IN NEW WAR REVENUE MEASURl Washington.?Reductions a Kg regit ing J500.d00.000 in the yield from th new war revenue bill were made b the senate finance committee in r< vising the measure downward to th six billion dollar total for 1019 pre posed by Secretary MoAdoo. Th decrease was confined principally t the tobacco, luxury, semi-luxury un other Special and excise schedules. Among the more important decii ions were elimination of the luxur schedule proposed in the house hi levying 20 per cent on costly article of clothing and other niercharu'jls and lestintuted to raise $184,795,000 elimination of the house tax of tw cents a gallon on gasoline to yeilrt $40,000,000; reduction from 1 to five per cent, or about $200,000.00 in revenue, in rates of many article classed as semi-luxuries, and a r? duct ion of about one-half in tie- hous rates on tobacco, a cut of about $54 (too in revenue. EX KAISER ENTERED HOLLAND SIMPLY AS PRIVATE CITIZEf Paris. The Dutch legation puhlfsl ed a note containing a declaration b the president of The Netherland t I he chamber of deputies, saying tha the former (lerni Mi emperor enterei Dutch territory after his abdication n n private personage. The note says tli kind of refuge granted to him is sin ilar to that given all foreign refugee and that the government could no make any exception on account of hi former position. POSTAL TELEGRAPH COMPANY CONTESTS GOVERNMENT ACTIOf NVw York. The Postal Telegrapl Pablo Company will contest in cour the government seizure of its proper lies and proposed consolidation of it land lines with those of the Wesleri Unirth Telegraph Company, Clnrenn II. McKay, president, announced Hi declared taking over the cables b; Ihe government was "contrary to tin letter as welt as the spirit of tbi law." 4 -% * v IMES ! SURVIVAL OF CUR? JACKSON i 1 Ho Special Plana Are Announced in ' j Connection Wtih Either Camp ' | Sevier o/ Wadsworth. f Washington?(Special.)?Announce mcnt made here by (Jon. l'eyton t". j ! March, chief of staff, that the various | military camps throughout the couu- ; ; try would be quickly demobilised and I room mude for returning soldiers from i | Prapce came as a surprise. It having ] been understood heretofore thut uoth' < ing of this kind would be done for at ! least some weeks. Special investigation made failed to n show any special plans with inference i to either Camp Sevier or Camp Watls: worth, and they will undoubtedly fol I > low the lines indicated by General March, but with Camp Jackson it is different. Maj. GPn. M. J. Sn?. w, when asked 11 as to what would be done at Colutul' bia. said to both Senator Smith and s Congressman Lever: ' "The department expects to keep Camp Jackson us a center Cor Held artillery training. The new land * which has recently been acquired r will be kept. There is no reason at y this time to expect that it will be giv'f | en be.ek." As to demobilization plans. General n j Murcb said nothing, but from other 1 sources it is unofficially learned that e the eamp will probably be reduced to >. ] something like 10.000 men and remain n i jis a permanent artillery eamp. T. . Heroic Cheraw Company. '' ! Cheraw.--Several weeks ago the c newspapers carried the story that a company of American troops had gone n , too far ahead of the main body of ath tacking forces and had been surround- j | ed by the Germans fo rseveral days. > ; when they were discovered and res- j V j cued by a body of Canadians, being e j then short of ammunition and rations. ' Letters from "somewhere in France" . s ! now say that this was the Cheraw I company tl of the One Hundred and : Klghtecn4.il Regiment. Thirtieth Division) (Company 1. First Regiment. q South Carolina National Guard). The j company has been brigaded with the ! Tlritish army and that is why so little '* "was heard here of its work. The company went into the war J with IMS men and It comes out with ^ ' only f>7. it lost in killed, wounded and i prisoners 191. Rvery officer with the i company was killed except Cuntain | Gillespie, who is reported to have s ! been severely wounded. s j It is hoped that Lieut. \V. A. Millj loy of this company, who was report1 ed killed a few days ago. is among j the prisoners taken by the Germans. a .. Attractions at Bishopvilie. H Bishopvilie.?The executive l>oard of the South Carolina Poultry Breed1 ers' Association has voted to hold the s l state poultry show in connect ion with ^ the Bishopvilie fair November 27 to 20. reports Prof. Frank C. llare, serretav of the association r?. * t. The annual meeting and a banquet, ,, will be held in F.ishopville on Thanks- ! e giving evening at S o'clock and the people of Bishopvilie interested in the success of the association have extended an invitation to all the outide members to be their guests that night. The Bishopvilie fair is offering the j greatest list of gold specials of any fair in the South, amounting to over ^ 5400. These are in addition to liberal ! regular premiums, while the South t : Carolina Poultry Breeders' Assoela ?* Hon is supplementing these offerings! y | with generous cash sweepstakes pes' | rials and silver cups for the state e i champion male and female in the pop> j nlar breeds of poultry, e ! " Good Insurance Record. (' Orangeburg.?The policyholders of rno Farmers' .Mutual Insurance Cam- ' e panv ow OranpchurR have Just held y I their annual meeting. " The report of Sec retary daffy show * e<| that 8<?0 policies ha?l been written '' I representing approximately $800JH?n j ' insurance. The association has in- j " vested $1,000 in Liberty bonds and ' $1,000 in war saving stamps, and has ! 0 on deposit more cash than has been " paid for losses in the two years since * its organization. The great success of j (lie company during the two years of M its existence is proof of the confidence the people of Orangeburg and Calhoun counties have in the company. Demobilization Begun. ^ Camp Jackson.? Machinery will he set in motion at Camp Jackson fnr ' the demobilization of the development y detachments, comprising about 1.000 1 " j men. Orders were Received to pro- j ' coed willi the demobilization. The '' men lo be demobilized are to be sent s home -as rapidly as the volume of d?*. > p tails incident to mustering out of ' the service can be adjusted. s j Orders were simultaneously receirt ivl (a nro/'on^ will* mAouitfue * 1o discharge of officers whoso services ! ran ho dispensed wirh. Paroled by the Governor. ^ Columbia.?Governor Manning has paroled K. Hardin, a promlnont . h business man of Columbia, who was t i convicted of manslaughter horo sev- > .. j oral months ago and sentenced to two s I voars in the stfate penitentiary. Ilnr' ; din was convicted of complicity in the 1 killing of Kenwood Shaw, an lt-year* old white hoy. of this city, who was I 6 knocked off a wagon and rnn over by J automobile driven by J. L. Hanaban, J * a druggist of this city, who was sen" teneed to live years In tho penltea | tlarr. ' | # "Mi" 1 $1.25 F*r&?* INTERESTING ITEMS , I FROM THE GUMPS 1 RED CROSS FIELD DIRECTOR AT CAMP JACKSOb DID NOT VOLUNTARILY RESIGN. WORK IS STILL UNOER WAT % ______ ** South Carolinians at Wadsworth Are Being Rapidly Discharged and Returned to Their Home*. Camp Jackson. One of the most impressive services ever witnessed hL camp was that ot communion service, conducted by Chaplain Itoswell t\ Long of th? Fourth regiment. The service was held in "Y" building 138. and the chaplain was assisted by the pastor of the First Presbyterian church ami the staR' ot Y. Al. C. A. secretaries of the local building. | At a recent meeting of the religious leaders of Camp Jackson it was agreed. I hat the observance of holy communion should be effected In each Y. M. C. A. building at least once a month. Charged before the general courtmartial with wilfully disobyelng the orders of a superior officer. Private John It. Woods of Company K, Second Provisional Regiment, was sentenced to serve ten years in the United Stajes disciplinary barracks at Fort Leavenworth. Kan., and to he dishonorably discharged from the service, as well ?s forfeiting all pay and allowances now due him or to become due. A recent article announced that F. 11. Gheen, Jr.. late field director of the Red Cross. Camp Jackson, was compolled to return to his home at West Chester. Pa., as result of a nervous breakdown. The military authorities deem it imperative that the erroneous impres sion caused 'by the publication of this article he corrected, lest it be used in the future to place F. H. Gheen, Jr.. in a position where he might be a detriment to society. The military authorities, after full investigation, demanded his immediate expulsion front camp. He was dismissed by the Red Cross; with the assurances that his services would not be used elsewhere. Mrs. II. M ltoykin of the woman's department of the Y. M. C|.nA. front I Atlanta, was at Cantp Jackson in the interest of placing some women Y. M. C. A. secretaries in Camp Jackson. The matter will he taken up Vlth the | military and with the local heads of the Y. M. C. A. I)r. Raisin of the Jewish Welfare has been delivering a number of inter esting. lectures in the camp during the iiaM icw uays on ' jcw.t in Many Lands" and "The Jew in Russia." Tin; lectures have been highly enjoyed by the Jewish soldiers and ohera. Camp Sevier. Instructions were received from j Washington by the construction qoar termaster at Cump Sevier to suspend construction operations o.i the cantonment building which wore under way tor the 156th depot brigade here. The work was held up until further advices. Other construction work in the camp, however, is still under way. The cantonment buildings include a large number of wooden barracks and smaller huts for the housing of th? men of the depot brigade. Camp Wadsworth. Herbert McCutchen died at Camp Wadsworth from pneumonia, following influenza. The young man was drafted into the military service a few weeks ago and sent to ('amp Wadsworth where he was taken ill the next, day aud sent to the base hospital. South Carolinians, numbering more than 1,00ft. who arrived in Camp Wadsworth two weeks ago undejr tli?? last draff, call are being discharged from the service and numbers of them left, for their homes in various nnrts of tlm otai? mimtf read, however, that, if the terms of the armistice should not bo lasting. th<? men may be recalled and again inducted into service Prisoner of Germans. Sumter One bit of good news the armistice has brought to a Sumter county home is that Herman faugh- jj man is still alive. Several month i jk ago his name was printed in a casual- gfl ty list of those killed in action. No ^ further information respecting the cii mmstame of his death was ever received. but now comes an official tele, ernin to his father stating that Herman raughman Is still alive and that lie had been found and released from a Herman prison. He was a member of the American forces In Italy. Colonel Spratt at Home. Fort Mil! ?-lieutenant Colonel Thos. Tt. Spratt. of the 118th infatnry, who has been in France nearly a year, arrived at his boiue in Fort Mill. Colonel Spratt embarked at Brest November li under ordersSlo proceed to the I'nited States and direct the movement of a regiment of troops across the Atlantic. Upon his arrival hit orders were revoked and he wan given the privilege of visiting his home. It is needless to say a warm welcome) j greeted him here. j i