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^ ! fm."-' %?&$ . Ckera^i Chronicle. ESTABLISHED 1896. THE CHERAW CHRONICLE, QmibRAW, S. SDAT HORNING, SEPTE. IB R 20, TELLS OF ATTACK ON BASE HOSPITAL OBSERVERS GIVE INTERESTING DESCRIPTION OF RAID. Wouded American Hospital Workers, Worked Bravely.?Five Bombs Rapidly Exploded. j Washington, Sept. 15.?The first complete detailed account of the German air attack on American base hospital No. 5 in France on the night of Tuesday, September 3, has reached this country in a report from Major Grayson P. Murphy, head of the Red Cross commission in Fiance. It was in tbis attack tnat JLieui. wiinam i. Fitzsimmons of Kansas City, the first ' American officer to give his life in the war, was killed, and three other officers, six privates, a woman nurse and 22 patients from the British lines were wounded. An American Red Cross inspector returning to Paris from the scene, told the story as follows: "The airplane attack occurred at 11 o'clock at night. Just at that time, fortunately, no convoy of wounded was being reeived or the list of casualties would have been far great- ( er as one of the bombs fell into the ] center of the large reception tent to which the wounded are first borne for examination. r "Ten second^ sufficed for the drop- , ping of the bombs from the fast fly- , ing plane and within less than a minute afterward the surgeons of the hospital were at the task of collecting and 'attending those who had v been struck down. And lor Z4 nours, they were at work in the operating , ^ room, one surgeon relieving another \ when the latter from simple exhaustion could no longer work. And the very nert day, just as if nothing had happened, these same surgeons were ^ ""TOO wounded sent ir from the trnches n of the British expeditionary forces. j. "The hospital, which is on the F French coast, has 1,800 beds'under canvas, in a quadrrangle 800 feet r square, is in a district, in which there are many similar institutions and is unmistakable as a hospital. At the p time the German aviator flew over it, v most of the surgical staff was engaged in making rounds of the wards. ^ Lieut. Fitzsimmons, however, was 1( standing at the door of his t^nt. "There had been a brief warning of q the presence of a bombing airplane in s the neighborhood, because a quarter of a minute before the sound of ex- s ploding bombs was heard from a n point perhaps 200 yards from the p hospital. This warning sufficed to a cause all lights in the tents to be ex- ^ tinguished, and those who had been ^ under fire before threw themselves g face down upon the ground. Then 0 came fire explosions in rapid succes- c sion in the hospital itself. The first two were directly in front of Lieut. ^ Fitzsimmons' tent?he probably nev- t er knew what happened as his head t was torn to shreads. The next two v fell a hundred feet beyond in a five c marque ward, in which there were ^ many patients, and the last struck the r reception tent. Overhead there was t no sound. The German aviator flew ( too high to be heard, but he left his j identity behind him not only in the. bombs he dropped, but in the derisive { handful of pfennigs he scattered upon [ j the hospital as he whirled away. Ai. number of these were found when', light came. "Lieut. McGuire, who was in a tent ? adioinine that of Lieut. Fitzsimmons, s was struck by three bomb fragments, h but was not seriously wounded. His < escape was narrow, as there were < more than a hundred holes cut in his | tent. Lieut. Smith was struck in the i knee and Lieut. Whidden in the chest j while their tents in the officers' sec- ] tion of the quadrangle. The private ] soldiers injured were on duty as orderlies in the reception tent, and 4he bomb fell almost upon them. So! severely was private Aubrey S. Mc-j Leod injured that it was necessary' to amputate both his legs that night. | "Although the exploding bombs created horror in the hospital, there was not the smallest sign of panic, and the work of discovering the wounded and collecting them was immediately begun. This was made cruelly difficult by the darkness, but everyone sprang to it with a will. Many or tne mjureu mm u?u uiu n *i ! from their cots, some even outside, their tents, where they were found tangled up in the tent ropes. ' The American nurse, although HARTWELL M. AYER EXPIRES SUDDENLY Well Known Newspaper Editor Die While Sitting in Chair Before the Family Fire. Florence, Sept. 13?It was a sever shock to all Florence tonight whei the sad news passed out from th home of Hartwell Moore Ayer, edito of the Florence Daily Times, that th summons had come to him suddenl; and without a moments warning, t lay down his pen forever, and to comi up higher and rest from his labors Mr. Ayer had been at his office all da; in connection with his duties as edi tor and publisher of his paper, anc had only reached home a few mo ments prior to being stricken. H< had been inoculated yesterday agains typhoid, and his devoted wife hac just asked how the treatment was serving him, He attempted to reply and in a half-dazzed manner droppec over in the chair, in which he sat be side the fire, and without being abls to speak more, passed away. Hartwell Moore Ayer was a son ol the late Gen. Lewis Malone Ayer ol old Barnwell county. He was bom in January, 1868, and was, therefore, forty-nine years old last January. He was educated in the common schools of Barnwell county and under the tutorship of his learned father. He attended the South Carolina College, from which he graduated in the class of 1887. He later went into newspaper work, and for a time was connected with the Charleston World, later with The News and Courier and then coming to Florence, purchased the old Florence Times from Dr. 0, H. Prince, the then owner. He continued the publication of this papei for several years until he organized and became the founder of the present Charleston Evening Post. Latei he returned to Florence and resumed the editorship of the Florence Times and the Florence Daily Timesv He built what is known &b the Timet building in Weet.Eyans street, whicli he recently sold to J. M. O'Dowd. H* ewspaper man and loved his work. ie was aevoiea 10 ms iamuy auu tu 'lorence, his adopted home. 'otatoes a Factor for Winning War. Washington, Sept. 17.?America's otato crop will be a vital factor irinning the war, according to Asistant Secretary of Agriculture Car 'rooman. The country will have at fast 100,000,000 bushels of potatoes i excess of the average and 200,000,-j 00 bushels more than last year' ays Mr. Vrooman. In order to properly conserve this upply and release other foods for lilitary use, Mr. Vrooman declares, otato warehouses must be made vailable in every country in the Jniied States. The crop about to be larvested, it is stated, will total 462,>00,000 bushels. Mr. Vrooman says >f the proper distribution of the great rop: ' "It cannot be made unless the warehouses are avaible and unless he farmers who have grown the PQatoes are enabled to make use of the warehouses. Unless those things are lone the nation will have thrown a ictory away, will have committed a nilitary blunder, just as inexcusable is it would be to shell the enemy out >f a position of tremendous strategic mportance and then fail to occupy :he gained ground, to ao such a hing would constitute a blunder as rreparable as the British committed it Gallipoli when they could have swept Constantinople and did not." struck in the face by a fragment of steel, from the bomb, refused to be relieved and remained at her task courageously to the end. A hospital orderly who worked untiringly, was Found later to have been struck in the head by a fragment and painfully injured. He had just tied up his head and worked on. In the operating room Captain Horace Binney and Elliott with their assistants worked all night long. Several delicate operations were performed and theii task was made all the harder by the fact that in innumerable cases the patients were in serious danger of in fection from the pieces of wood anc nails and dirt which had been blowr into their bodies. Lieut. Col. R. U Patterson, U. S. A., commanding of ?-.f ttio nnif nnrl Mainr Harvei Cushing, head of the surgical force the latter being at the front at th< time of the disaster have been ex pressed the highest admiration fo the manner in which the emergenc; was met. Latest reports are that th condition of the wounded is progress Ing satisfactorily.' . CHESTERFIELD'S ' - SECCNDJMINGEHT e LEF TCHERAW FOR a YESTERDAY. r Soldier Boys Given Rousing Eptlfc-j e tainment Before Departing'forf * j Training Camp. 0 v I e 1 << V ", , Chesterfield county's second quota | y of men selected under the draft act/ . left Cheraw yesterday moving; for 1 Columbia, where.the final aaamiina- 1 . tions will be held. Then* ^r^'fifty- 1 3 five in the number, all white. 'T^gy *' t a3i? rabled here Tuesday afternoon. ' 11 While here the boys were entertain- 1 j a Dy tne people 01 uneraw at hobcii Covington. Tuesday afternoon thejy [ was a gathering of citizens at the city 1 . hall and the boys were treated to anp > automobile ride around the city. Tuesday night at city hall* tie 'boys 1 j gathered, together with a large num- 1 r ber of citizens, and patriotic speeches i were made by Hons. W. PI Pollock, ' , Edward Mdver and Q. X. Laney, af- ' > ter which ice cream and cake wer?1 i served to the soldier boys by the lo- 1 > cal Red Cross society. Below are the names of the boys 1 l who left for Camp Jackson at Co- J i lumbia yesterday: I Walter Adams i Andrew J. Allen , Preston Adams . 1 1 Know Ammons ' [ John Martin bailey J. Ernest Burr Harry A. Board * k Robert Brock | 1 John A. Barfleld Benjamin Barmer 9 William BroCk 1 I Wesley B. Cato pj i Allen C. Cassidy V | > ^Dock Dixon 'u / i James E. Davidson j i John C. Donahue j i| Julius C. Evans V "UMi a: fi.agHWui'llI t. t jJ John P. Evans / j Myron M. Funderburk , Robert Gandy James B. Goodale J Charley C. Griggs i Jm Henry B. Hunt j TnVin P Hnriees fl Redmon M. Hancock ? William T. Hunt fl Thomas L. Ingram j Anguish S. Johnson George T. Jewitt M. Leo Johnson ^ Harry Lavine Vester Miles ^ Luther A. Munn John R. Nicholson ^ James R. Outlaw John H. Rivers P J. Greer Robeson ^ Thomas L. Rivers . CJ Neal W. Seegars Thomas G. Shaw T. Baldon Sraarthers Si Charley B. Starnes ' Kenmore Sellers ^ Oscar Shaw Zeb V. Smith Jackson C. Smith . M. Luther Teal , Ben. F. Turnage Stephen W. Teal ^ j David N. Terry ^ Colon L. Williams ^ Thompson W. Williams ! William A. Woodward a No negroes have yet been called, F but the contingent of 66 which will { ! leave on October 3rd will be all j, negroes, according to plans of the 's county board. ! j PETIT JURORS. ! n.w* finnprnl Sessions to be S Held Next Week. | j Court House?W. A. Lucas, J. T. i Deese, J. N. Campbell, J. A. Davis, c .'j. C. King, Jr. 1 [j Mt. Croghan?H. L. Leer, Tom 1 [ Oliver, J. A. Timmons, B. S. Burch,; < . Luke Huntley. j< | Old Store?J. E. Baker, R. A.') > Evans, R. F. Smith, R. E. Funder- 1 ; burk, R. B. Outen. 1 Jefferson?R. C. Griggs, D. I. < I Blackwell, J. H. Finlayson, J. B. Nich- ' i olson, H. F. Wade. .1 Alligator?W. A. Bullard, J. A. - Outlaw, W. M. Phifer, Z. B. McCoy, ir W. F. Talbert, W. A. Wallace. 1 ~ ' T T T T ' , 1 UOie 11111 A. Li. JUUU9UU, O. JU. ? Douglass, T. C. Melton. Cheraw?V. J. Covington, J. E. i r Finlayson, K. C. Kirkley, E. L. Wat-' y son, P. B. Huntley, e Pee Dee?J. D. Chapman, i-' One Grand Juryman, H. W. White, Court House. TYPHOID VACCINATION A SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY j Np Fad, Says State Board of Health, But Has Come to Stay, and Will Feel Needed Place. ! In answer to the inquiries, "Does the State Board of Health advocate vaccination as a means of preventing typhoid fever as strongly as ever?" and "How long does the vaccination remain good" the Board has the following to say in ansyer: "Vaccination for typhoid is not a tad, and its disappearance or disuse may not soon be expected. Typhoid vaccine as a means of preventing typhoid fever has come to stay and will do this on its own merits. Whenever its use has been intelligently pursued the results have been a large number 1 of immunes, a small number of cases ind much smaller number of deaths. : Wherever its use has been compul- ' sory the disease has practically dis- ] appeared. In other words, typhoid raceine is no longer an experiment, but one of the age's greatest discover- 1 les fdf 'preventing sickness and death. < "The question, how long does vac- < dnation remain good, is yet to be aniweted definitely. People freshly ni- 1 bculated with vaccine rarely g$t ty- i llfinM nwA V? WAfftlv /IIA A# 1 ^mv?u| ?uu vuu/ v va j laici; uic ui j typhoid. But vaccination against ty- 1 phoid, offers a measure of protection < Quit is nearly absolute. Its use is '< practically devoid of danger and it of- i fers immunity, probably, for much '< Mger than three years. The United I ttktes Army, however, requires its < Midlers to be re-vaccinated every i Wee years and this has proven sufE?fent to protect them from contract- < feQfe disease and to banish typhoid 1 Mhe battle field. What vaccine 1 HdSb to do for whole armies, it is ' HiMo for individuals or any i ^^^ttAX^ECANDTOATE 1 Wllieg Pee Dee Men May RuiKfpr\l ^ Lieutenant-Governor. lies of Orangeburg, chairman of th*,^ jays aLui?commltt^ ^trlhe |ou8e of Representatives, probably t 111 be a candidate for the office of f Wrtenant Governor at the next elec- r K; Mr. Liles has not definitely i Be such an announcement, but s Hn asked concerning the persistent i Bor, he said he had the matter un- r consideration. t Mr. Liles is well known in South irolina, as well as in the bordering t ates. He has been a member of I e House of Representatives for ( ree terms. Among his most prom- ^ ent work In the General Assembly c i is been his fight for schools. Since 11 entered the Legislature the appro- \ i iations for schools have almost t i ladrupled, and they have almost i a nubled since his administration asiS t airman of the ways and means com-.! a 1 ittee. j r He has also been active in the pas-j I s ge of measures in the interest oM irricnlture. He has also been close-1 f identified with other progressive |a measures that have passed the Leg-ligature in the past few years. He is 'a t e author of the chain gang sentence j r violators of the prohibition laws, i Mr. Liles was in Columbia Thurs-: ay and when asked whether he [ fbuld be a candidate for Lieutenant-, rijvernor, said: jc ! "It is too early to make a definite Is wnouncement. At this time the peo-;* i^e are more interested in war than % IJ.ey are in politics, and we don't f ;iiow what may transpire before next iA Ummer, but it is very probable that!1 ,will enter the race." 11 ! ji DREADED PEST IX TEXAS. {? Steps Taken to Stamp Out Pink Boll < Weevil. ' 1 ' Washington, Sept. 12.?Discovery, i )f the dreaded pink boll weevil near 1 Yearns, Texas, and prompt measures ;o confine and eradicate the pest were ' innounced today by the Department ' >f Agriculture. The Texas Depart- < ment of Agriculture and the Agricul-. tural and Mechanical College of Texas liave been asked to send representatives to join the departmtnt's expert, j who has been ordered to Hearns. o Kerensky Marries. London, Sept. 17.?A few days after the fall of Riga, when Russia was i in the throes of the crisis brought atout by the loss of that port and the Kjorniloff revolt, Premier Kerensky took a few hours "off" to get mar r|ed. The bride is Mile. Timmet, ar ( actress of the Alexandre theatre, j This is Kerensky's second matrimon-, ial venture. i CHESTERFIELD MAY * GETARilLLERYRAKGE" OWNERS OF LAND SEEM WILL-j ING TO CO-OPERATE. 'to Government is Interested in 150,000 ri . Acres of Barren Sand Hill J.and * in Chesterfield County. jj? Monroe, N. C.( Sept. 13.?Accord- as ing to reliable information received,0' here, the war department is making i an effort to lease 150,000 acres ofjr*l land in Chesterfield county to be |al used as an artillery target range. Jhc The proposed site is approximately 12 jlei miles square, and for miles it is im-^ possible at times to see any signs of w< civilization on the tract owing to the en poor condition of the land. ea The Monroe Insurance & Invest ment Co., and M. K. Lee, president a*' of the Farmers & Merchants bank, cei own about four thousand acres of the:thl tract, but the most of it belongs to^h' W. R. Bonsai, well-known, railroad <ur builder. Mr. Lee and G. B. Caldwell, cei manager of the local real estate com- th' pany, have both been down to Ches- ^ei terfleld to consult .with government ta' officials, and th4 latter state that it appears that the artillery range is forthcoming, as the land owners show aS i willingness to co-operate with the UP government, and are not holding up th the deal by setting exorbitant lease tin rates on their property. - wc The government, it is understood, iesires to lease the whofe tract for *01 two years with the privilege of an ex- sel tension for five years longer. It is also said that the government is willing to purchase the entire tract if a reasonable price is set upon it. ' Major General White, who is attached to the southeastern district ataff at Charleston, was in Chesterfield Saturday, Sunday and Monday. He was accompanied by prominent T1 Cheraw buainessjnen, who are detererfleld county. cr The project caused a stir in Ches- He erfleld and adjacent counties, as the fr0 government took the initiative in the natter. The 150,000-acre tract, noth- ma ng much but bare sand, with little tal ign of vegetation, appealed to the nilitary authorities, it is said, and if | ed lothing causes a hitch, the range will | wr >e established there, it is said. i ho For years Chesterfield land haS|tri; >een the joke of people living in:W< Jnion, and other bordering North at Carolina counties. Until recently it (soi vas not fit for cultivation and a good sui leal of it is still untenable. offi Twelve years ago part of this tract mi vas sold for 80 cents an acre withtht imber standing on it. This was cut, ^ in ind the land later sold from $1.00 to era !1.50 an acre. At this time, 12 years kil igo, the Monroe Insurance & Invest-^ic nent Co., bought 42,000 acres at Mo >1.50 an acre. It is now worth from is i >5.00 to $6.00 an acre, it is said. Th The owners of the tract, it is said, Ines ire willing to lease it to the govern-; ^ nent at the rate of $1.00 a year perj icre. j001 . an< | fig: Step-Son Marries Fathers Wife. ' aft ' tha New York, Sept. 13.?What was wj] haracterized by officials as the itrangest attempt yet discovered in ajj( his city to evade the draft was re- se -ealed today when Harry Eisenberg, i milk dealer, charged his wife Tille pe( vith bigamy, naming Michael Eisen-jen| lerg, his son by a former marriage,: eal is her second and living husband. we Examination of the marriage records go showed that the young man and his ca; step-mother had been married in the Sp lity hall August 14th, after neigh-j an 1 -1 1 "*r? foiVio* Fr oors ioia ivirs. Discuucig, mc iuvuv> ^ 1U informed the district attorney, thatjW married men would rot have to go to | W war, . ar Eisenberg said he married his clc son's present bride 18 years ago| when the young man was 10 years old and that "she loved him from j the day she saw him." She was afraid he would have to go to war loi and get killed, he declared, so sheibt decided to marry him under her v; maiden name. 'jv o en Must Appeal to President. # mi br Appeals from the District Board ar under the selective draft act must be made direct to the president. Ap- sil peals can be made only in cases where ^ tl< claim for discharge Is made on the or 3 ground UI CLlgiiBCUJcm. 11-1 Ut,nvu.iu. " I " ' or some other legitimate Industry to v] the District Board for Eastern Dis-|co trict of South Carolina at Columbia, jici 0 PROTECT RIGHTS OF FIGHTING MEN [oritorium for Duration of War May be Placed Upon Administrations Program. Washington, Sept. 17?Legislation 1 protect the civil and property ghts of soldiers, in effect a morito um for the duration of the war, in ;half of the men who are serving ?lr country on the firing line, may > placed upon the administration's * ogram for this session of Congress a necessary element of the raising a citizen army. The soldiers' and sailors' civil ?ht bill" to carry out this purpose ready has been introduced in both uses. Secretary Baker, it was irned today, has under considera>n recommendations that'the entire iight of the administration's inflce be brought to bear to obtain rly enactment of the measure. To save soldiers and sailors from [ kinds of legar injustice duringrtain civil court actions until after e close of the war and establish as a eir absence from home, the meas- . e would enjoin the carrying out of rtain civil court actions until after e close of the war and establish a ;al excuse for failure to carry certn contracts the fact that a man is the military service. f It is proposed that creditors' suits ainst officers or men may be held and judgment by default denied, e framers of the bill recognizing: at a man In the army or navy >uld have no opporunity to maae 3 defense in person or to arrange r its proper hearing through coun- ' L , ' 7 > DILLON BOY IN WAR ZONE. / ack Britt, Son of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Britt, 1s in Submarine Fight . V H ie Dillon Herald. ' ~ , Mack Britt, son of . Mr. and Mrs. tomas Britt, is ope of the Dillon ys Barring in . the great war across tor -' ?? ivr' of the United States Steamship nderson and has Just returned m a trip to Europe in which he had ite an exciting experience with sublines. The following excerpts are ten from a letter to his mother: "Dear Mother: I have Just returnfrom France and thought I would ite you a few lines to let you know w I liked my trip. I liked the p all right but the trip was not all. ; had six submarines to attack us once and believ^ne we had to do ne fighting to keep from getting ik. We sank four of them, so the cers claim. We were about ten les off the coast of France when i attack was made. After we got France we got a report that sevil officers and seamen who had been led or drowned in the battle were ked up by a British patrol boat, ther, they say the place we went to called the "Graveyard of France." e battle with the submarines was ir a small island and they called it i "Battle of Belle Isle." Dear* ther, the place ye went to you ild hear ships firing on submarines i the air was filled with aeroplanes hting them also. It was reported er the battle with the submarines it our ship had been sunk but they II have to go some to get us as we ve some mighty fine gunners Dard. Everybody was surprised to ! us pull back into the navy yards Philadelphia last Sunday. The jple cheered us and gave us pres ?. ? J- - * +SV -s anu an kiuqs ui guuu wmga iu ;. Lots of people said they thought i were at the bottom of the sea. We t In a bad storm In the Bay of Bis7 and It drove us off the coast of aln. Our supply of oil ran short d we had to go to St. Johns, New >undland, and get another supply, e certainly did some traveling, ell, Mother, I suppose your eyes e hurting you by this time, so will-' >se. Your son, Mack B. "I Owe Mine to America*'1 Jack Wendel of Brooklyn, before ag may come face to face with his other in opposing battle lines. He is drafted In the American army slerday ann refusej to claim ex~ lption. He came here from Gerany nine years ago, and his only other is fighting in the Kaiser's mies. "I don't like to think of the possility of meeting my brother in batWendel said, "but if we meet l the firing line it will be he for ?rmany and me for America. And' hat ever happens then will be in tbe urse of duty. I owe mine to A mer- i."