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CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1918. NUMBER 40. TO BTOI* FOR F1VK DAYS >. i . All Manufacturing Wants To CIom By Order of tioveromeut. Washington, Jttu. 10. ? American manufacturing enterprises with but few exceptions lu jiU States east of the river were ordered by] the government tonight to suspend operations for Ave days, beginning Friday morning, as a drastic meagre for relieving tbevfuel famine. The or-H der also included the whole of the State* of Louisiana and Minnesota. At the sarn^ time, as an additional means of relief, it wan directed i that industry and business generally, lnclud ing all normal activnles that require heated v buildings; observe a? a holiday every Monday for the next ton weeks. This will close on Mondays, not ouly factories, but saloons, stores, except for the sale of drugs and food, places of amusement and nearly all otiice buildings. While the order does not mention ship yards, It Is known that they will be permitted to continue op erations as usual, although munitions plants will be closed. The government's move came entire ly without warning in an order Issued by Fuol Administrator Oartield, with the approval of President Wilson, pre scribing stringent restrictions govern ing the distribution and Use of coal. It was decided upon hurriedly by the President a#d government heads ad a desperate remedy for the fuel crisis and the transportation tangle lu the Eastern States. Even munitions plant* ' are not excepted from the closing down order. \ Officials tonight would not discus* the far- reaching effects the action would have on the industrial fabric. Preferential List. The . order prescribes a preferential list of consumers in whose interest it was drawn. 'These users will get coal in the following order-: "Railroads. '.Household consumers. "Hospitals, charitable Institutions and army and navy cantonments. "Public utilities', telephone and tele graph plant*' ? "Strictly government enterprises, excepting factories and plants work ing on government contracts. * "Public buildings and necessary government, State and municipal re quirements. "Factories producing perishable foods and foods for immediate con sumption." It was estimated tonight that the enforcement of the order would save a- t^*al of 3,000,000 tons of bituminous which probably is about half the present shortage. The <, indications were that at the end of ten weeks of Monday holidays a permanent policy of restricted - consumption would irave been determined on. N Services at Grace Church. There will be services as usual on Sunday In Grace Episcopal Church. The Holy Communion at 7.45 a. m., morning service with sermon at 11 a. m., evening prayer at 4.30' p. m. The Sunday School will meet at 8.46 p, m. A cordial Invitation to .the ser vices is extended to all. F. H. Harding, Rector. Their Work Nearly Complete. The local board of registration for this county has made quite a record in the manner in which they have mailed out the questionnaires and bad them classified. Out of the 2,871 ques tionnaires (mailed out ill except a very few tiaVe been returned and same classified. A good many of the hoards throughout the state have only begun their work. Army Warehouse Destroyed. Washington, Jail. 14.?? A quantity of army supplies was<d4btroyed, the quar ? termaster warehouse ruined and sever al other buildings damaged by a fire -today at the Washington barracks oc cupied by .engineers troops. A large part of the city's- fire apparatus was called upon to fight the flames wljich were given impetus by the explosion of a quantify of gasoline. After a hard fight of an hour and a half, the fire was extinguished. An ordnance building containing a quan tity of small ar|stB ammunition was endangered, but s&Mters removed what was stored there. Col. J. K. Earle, commander of the barracks, stated that investigation con vinced him that the Are was not start by a spy or enemy sympathiser. He *aid it was caused by forbidden smok Mng by sokUets of a fatigue detail. An estlnpate of the damage by Col. C *rle placed the loss at about |80,000. A limited quaatlty-of clothing and rtioea wm diitwyil German Plotter Caught Norfolk, Va. Jan. 14, ? Under a fc^avy nuvul guard, a iuhu, who save his name as Walter 8f>orrmau, suspected of havlug been an active figure In plots launched here by Copt. Boy-od, the for mer German naval attache, left here tonight for Baltimore where, it >va? understood, he will ho turned over to agents of the Department of Justice^ According to the story unolllclally told here, tho suspect, who Is about thirty-five years old, ami la thought to have formerly been a lieutenant in the German army, was arrested Satur day near Newport News while uttempt Ing to blow up a magazine at an un N a dangerous enemy allen,^*^"" Documents and letters found on the man's person and in his rooms In Ual timoro are said to have revealeu his connection with Boy-ed and with for mer German Ambassador Bernstorff, and incriminated in a spy plot per sona in Washington, Baltimore and other cities. Ae tails of documents are "withheld, but It la understood that they w411 lead to a number of arrests within a few days. To Register As They Become 21. Washington, Jan. 15. ? The govern ment has decided on draft registration of all young men as fast as they be come 21 years old as the means of keeping filled the ranks of the war army. It has decicod against raising tho draft age limit above 31 years. Au administration bill was introduc ed toddy, at the request of the war de partment, by Chairman Chamberlain of the senate military committee, to register for draft all men who have reached 21 sluce June 4, 1017, when the draft law became effective. The administration's support seems to as sure its prompt passage. The bill agrees with the recent recommenda tions Provost Marshal General ,C?WWr. Day Current on Longer. The Commissioners of Public Works of the city -of ^Camden authorize? us to announce that beginning next Mon day the day current will come in the afternoon at one o'clock instead of at two o'clock. And dn /Thursday <of each week the current will be on for the entire day. The hours for operat ing' in the morning will not change and the current at nlgbt will continue to go off at midnight. Those who have motors in their places can expect all day run on Thursday and one hour ad ditional each day during the week. The Commissioners promise further relief as soon as the coal shortage can be overcome. At Thfl llaptiHt Chmrli. A companion sermon to the one preached at the Baptist Church last Sunday night will toe preached next Sunday morning. The subject will be "An Estimate of Life the Day Be fore Death." The Church is also urged to be; present for the observance of the Lord's Supper. Sunday School at 10 promptly. <i ' ? Conducting Riding School. Mr. Frank A. Keene, of Cambridge, Mass., has rented 'the DePass stables on Fair Street and is down for the winter with a string of a doeeo or more ponies. He will conduct a rid ing school for the winter. Among his number of ponies is a trick pony he has taught to do all kinds of stunts in trick riding. Major Gardner Dead. Macon, Ga., Jan. 14. ? Major August Peabody Gardner, of the 121st (Second Georgia) ipfantry, died in the base hospital At Camp Wheeler at 5.10 to night of -pneumonia. He had been ill only a few days, and his condition was not considered critical until early to day. Mrs! Gardner arrived from her home at Hamilton, Mass., during Son* day and spent most of the tfme since her arrival at the bedside of ber hus band. While In Congress Major Gardner was the first to raise his voice for pre paredness. He was the first to dedtare that war was inevitable. He gave tip his seat in Congress to do what his friends say be believed to be a greater work for his government, offering bis services in the army. Ferry Oat of Commission. - Accumulations of drifting ice put the large flat at the Wateree river hero out of commission * again Mon day. Traffic twa4 stopped only for one day however. A good many ao tomobUea from Northern states en route to Florida points ware tied up here that dfcy. r . ???" " M " I -> THK MAR8II 1NQUKST 'JTttitimonjf of Four WUnetsoH Say An ' drew linker Fired Shots. Nothing new has developed in the killing of Lucy Marsh several weeks ago. We are publishing below the testimony of live wUuosses given be fore tlve Jury of inquest held tho day following the killing. Four of these witnesses claim that they recognized Andrew Baker as the uian who tired the shots. So far as we have been a hie to learn I taker has made no .statement of the affair. He Is still j confined in the county jail and we understand has employed attorney W. B. deLoach to defend him. The prisoner made sale of his farm this week. As recorded among the transfers of real estate at tho Auditor's olllee it reads A. C. Baker to F. Shirley, 131 acres $500, January 15, 1918. Testimony at Inquest. He4>ecca Marsh, mother of Lucy Marsh, sworn said : Yesterday even ing as we were moving we had got ten a short distance into some woods. On the right hand side of the road I heard a rei>ort of a gun. My daughter, Lucy bent over and said "Lord have mercy," I turned my head and said the poor child la? shot. 1 looked across the woods where I heard the gun and I saw Andrew Baker. He then shot me, the shot striking me on my head. Andrew Baker then ran. I was hold ing to my daughter Lucy Marsh when the second shot was tired. Andrew Baker had a gun in his hand. Looked like a double barrelled grtn. He was behind a pine when I tirst saw him. Ilobson ' Marsh, ' sworn, said : Yester day afternoon, something after one o'clock I was. on a wagon moving. Had gotten about one-quarter of a mile from home. There was some woods on tho right hand side of the road. I heard the report of a gun. 1 looked and saw Andrew Baker with a gun in his hand. He then shot again at my mother and grandmother And then turned and ran away. I called for my gun, and took my gun and followed him forty or fifty yards. He got Into thtcker woods aild out of my sight. I am sure it was Andrew Baker. He had a double barrel gun. He was standing up against a pine on right hand side of pine. He had on a light colored hat. James Rngltsh, sworn, said : Yester day about one o'clock I was helping to move the Marsh family. I Wasjje hind all the rest ofthem. I heard a gun shot twice. There were some pines between me and the noise of the gun when l?e shot the first time. I looked and couldn't see him. The last shot I was there where I could have seen him and he was running. It was a stout built, man with a light hat on. He was a white man. I- took the man to be Mr. Andrew Baker. . John Knglish, sworn, said : I was helping to move the Misses Lucy and Rebecca Marsh and their sons yester day. We were about a quarter of a mile from their home passing some woods cm right hand side. I heard a report of a gun. After I heard the report of a gun I saw Andrew Baker making his second shot at the Misses Marsh. I was looking in the direction of tbereportefthegxjn whentt' first fired. ? I never saw Mr. Baker until after he had fired the first shot. After the second shot he then ran. I am sure it was Mr. Andrew Baker. E*ra Taylor, sworn, says : Yester day afternoon as we were passing some woods, I heard the report of a gun. It was about one o'clock, After the report of the gun I heard some women screaming. I looked back aud saw the top of a tqan's head as he was running. He had fired twice, f I don't know who the man was. I was on the wagon that Miss Lucy Marsh was on when she was shot. Miss Lucy lived about three minutes after she was shot. The mules^yere trying to run, and I had to hold them. Slim Chances For Mail Route. We are told on good authority that a government man made a trip over the proposed motor mail route from Charlotte to Camden this week and upon reaching Camden remarked to a friend that there would hardly be any likelihood of him recommending a motor mail route over such roads as he bad traveled over ? at least in their present condition. ? Had Quite an Experience. While returning from Columbia last Friday evening Representative EL T. Johnson, Sheriff I. C. Hough and Jailor Boone in Sheriff Hough's car got stu^k in the mud on the public highway beyond Blaney and had to stay there all night In the teriffic wind and rain storm. Another car coming up behind ran into them and broke their car and they too bad to spend the night on the hlghwa^before get ting to Oamden. The roadway at that place was almost impassable. j . Will Let Them Knew. Owing to many inquiries regarding nitrate soda furnished by the govern ment, Dr. Sorrell, County Agent, asked us to say to the fanners of Kershaw County that be has received no In formation- from Washington jet, but as soon as such information is re ceived, dae notice will be given through county paper. BIti FIKK AT I1IHH0FYKIXB / Several People Had Narrow Escape From Kturly Morning Fire, I " ? r":1 Bishopvtlle, Jan. 10. ? About it :80 this morning fire was discovered In the hardware store of W. O. Rogers and In lews than one hour the targe two-story brick building was a total loan. Mr. Rogers estimates his loss at Hbout $8ft,000 (partly covered by losurauce. The upper story of the building wns occupied by Dr. Harris' dental otttee, W. C. James. Insurance Agency, the Western Union Telegraph oflice, ltlghopvUle Telephone' Exchange and < Kelly aud Ixny law olllcoa, all of whom lost everything with very lit tle insurance. Willie Austin, who rooms iu the building was awakened by flames entering him room and at once gave the alarm. l>r. Ham and Mrs. Ham narrowly escaped by cross ing from the building on roofs of the adjoining buildings. Tho two night ojx r^torv at tho Telephone nxebango stayed at their post until compelled to leave by the flames reaching them. Thcj) escaped by crawling out over tho cables to the large feed pole, com ing down same" to the stroet. The oflice of L. h. Baker, super visor of the Boys' Com and Pig Club work, had his office-. In the building ami the records and many valuable papers were discovered. The Bishopvllle National bank on the cdrnfer opposite oaught Are sev eral times and tho heat from the burn ing building was so intense that every plate glass window was melted. When tho large feed i>olo of the Telephone company fell - it struck the rear door of ttoe Blshopville National bank, set ting it on fire. The building destroyed was 188 by GO, two stories and was built t?y Biahopville Investment Co., 1003, and sold .to Heath, Massoy, Mor: row Co., WI19 sold the building to W| C. Rogers last August t6r $28,000. The Pooples' bank, located next door, was considerably, ? damaged by water, as was- Hagocfcl Grocery store next to the bank. 4 All the plate glass store windows fi> thp opposite 1 side of Main I street * i^re tMrofcan' ftwji tho heot. Mtich ^credit is due the Blahapville 1 lire department for Its good work in confining the flames to the Rogers building. All telegraph and telephone lines are out of commission, except the railroad wires. Soldier* Build Ghorefa. Spartanburg, 8. C., Jan. 7. ? The tityt church built by the soldiers at any army camp In the United States Is now iu course of construction at Camp Wadsworth. The funds for the material and the work are both pro vided by Col. Cornelius Vanderbilt; 102tod~E)ngiueers. The building is to have a front of an engineer's temple and the plans show that it will be a handsome structure. . Dr. Horace Hi. Felt, formerly, rector of St. Alban's church, High Bridge, N. Y., is chap* lain of the 102nd Engineers. Pay Roll of Fighting Men. Washington, Jan. 0. ? The pay roll of the fighting forces of the United States is now nearly $100,000,000 a month. This sum includes salaries of offi cers and enlisted men in the army and navy, serving both in this county and abroad, family allotments .and % com pensation for certain services render* ed, no not take into account "family allowances" paid by the government toward the support of families of en listed men, under specified conditions, nor does it Include any of the special compensatory features of the military aud naval Insurance act Rev. Gordon's House Destroyed. The si* room residence of Itev. and Mrs. W. B. Gordon was totally 4e-< stroyed by fire Wednesday about 2! o'clock. A portion of hi* household goods and nearly all his library was saved, but the residence was a total loss. Rev. Gordon carried $2,300 Insurance on the building** and contents. For sev eral yeanL-Rev. Gordon refused to pay city taxes because he had no fire protection. A main and hydrant was later placed near his residence, but when firemen attempted to attach- hose to the hydrant' It was found that same had never been connected with the fire pressure. I All of our people sympathise with this food old couple in their loasand the inconveniences they have been sub jected to in their ?M age. Married. Harried in Bleboprtlle Randay Jan uary 18th, Kiss Elizabeth Raboa a ad Mr. W. P. Thomas; both: at QttriBs within 24 hours. Except in the Italian theater the military activities are still confined to small affairs carried oat by raiding parties and bombardments on various sectors. The -Austro-Oermans both in the mountain region of northern Italy and around the lower Plave river have made vIcIouh counter-attacks after heavy preparatory artillery work, to recapture the positions wrested from them early . In the week. All -the at tempts were without result. Again there has been considerable aerial activity In this region in which five enemy Airplanes were teent to earth ? four by British and Italian aviators and the other by anti-aircraft batteries. ? Only eight British merchantmen were sunk by mines or. submarines last week. Th4se figures, given out by the British admiralty in its weekly statement of shipping losses, shows a great decrease in the number of ves sel* sent to the bottom as compared with the record for the two previous weeks In each of which the aggregate was 21. 4 V # v' ' ? J . ' * 1 J Bequest to Hospital. TM Totimey Hospital receives a $20, 000 bequt*? by the will of Mr. jD. P. Bicker, who 41*4 last week. The bal ance of tbe estate, estimated to ha not Ibm thaa jXajm Is divided among his l?m>M Kmvw Vessel* Suiik. London, Jan. 10.-? Another marked dm't?Hn? in the sinking of itritlsh mer chant wen by mine or submarine In the IMHt w?H>k Im noted in the report of Iho admiralty, issued today. In thin IHM'loit only six mervlWIMmen of 1, (KM) tons or over w*re sunk, ami In adiiitloii, two merchantmen under l,? (UK) tons ami two tlshlng vessels. The summary follows ; Arrivals of lirltlsh merchantmen,' ?J.lOtf; sailings, J. .IS I. British merchantmen sunk hy mine or submarine over 1,600 tons, 0; umler 1,000 tons, li; 'tlshlng vessels, 2. Merchantmen unsuccessfully attack od, 5. In the previous wrrfc the admiralty re|K>Wed the loss by mlno or subma rine of IN merchantmen under or over, three merchantmen under that tonnage, and four Ashing vowels. Tho report of January 2 gave the sinkings at 21, 18 bring 1 000 tons or over. Thursday's War Summary. Although the )>oace i>ourparlera be tween the bolshevikl and the Teutonic allies have been resumed at lircst Litovsk, the |>eaw by agreement boc tton of the German populace and some of tho newspapers continue their ex pressions of dissatisfaction with the ambitions of the Pan-Gerinanlsts and the terms that have been advanced by the German delegates at Brest-Lltovsk as the basis for a peace. Amsterdam dispatches announce that an understanding has been reach ed between tho i>olltlcal and military parties In Germany on the basis of the Russian program of no annexa tions or indemnities In the east and leaving to Field Marshal von Hlnden* burg, In case of a German victory, tho liberty of dealing with possible annexations in the west, but tbe evi dence tends <to. show that the factions are still at odds. Additional meetings at Which speaker h endeavored to out llue the viewpoint of the mllitarlfttio element have been broken up, and It Is announced that Chancellor von Ilertling is <to be permitted to deliver &W , delayed ml dress on Germany'* war aim* to the ma to Coin rait tee of t&e reiChstag next Friday, for which tho country has been clamoring. Adding to the> political strife in (Germany and Austria comes the an-! hounceaneut of the resignation of the Hungarian cabinet due to the con duct of the war.. Failure to obtain adequate sui>port for the military pro gram put forward by tho cabinet Is given as the reason for the resigna tion of the ministry. The program included the formation of an inde pendent Hungarian army, which Em peror Charles vetoed. The situation between Russia and Aiirannfai apparently is growing acute. On deg|jihd of the American ambas sador 'find the heads of the other -dip lomatic missions accredited to llussia, the1 bolshevikl authorities have re leased the Rumanian minister and the attaches of the Rumanian legation who were arrested Sunday. The coun cil of national commissioners of Rus sia now has sent an ultimatum to Rumania calling for tho immediate release of members of the bolshevikl arrested recently In Rumania.4 A rup ture of relations with Rtimanla and "most energetic military measures" are threatened for non-comnliance! TIIK NATION'S AHMV Swrelvry Baker Tells 8w?t? of W# of War Department. > , Washington, Jan. 10.? Wv?#ry phase ?f the War Dei>artuiout's preparations for lNittlo against tlermauy wan out lined ami defended l?y Secretary Baker today before the Seuate military com ml t tee. Ho answered those who have criticised the department during the committee's investigation .with the as sertion tlwat no army Muoh "an in now under the American flag ever had been raised) equipped or trained so quick ly, and that never before had aueh provision been made for tho' comfort and health of an army. N I - The Secretary read an. exhaustive prepared statement when ho took the stand and was not Interrupted until It was concluded. Chairman Chamber lain and other committeemen wanted to know i>artleularly about delays In furnishing machine guns and rifles, and much attention was devoted to the army's supply purchasing system. Mr. Baker admitted that there had been some mistake** and delays but declared that all fighting men lu France were adequately equipped and nrmcd and that all sent over would 1h>. Mr. Itaker took full responsibility for delay in approving a machine gun holding that the value of the Browning gnu now developed was >yorth. It Ho also said the superior weapon obtained by having the British Enfield rifle re elmmbered for American ammunition compensated for the delay . there. More than 1,500,000 Americans are now under arms, Secretary Baker paid, and an nrmy of substantial sis* al ready in France ready for active ser vice. .t ? Member? pf the committee were frank in thQir disapproval of the se cret' purchasing system of the depart ment. Mr. Baker, however, Insisted it was essential to guard against pub licity concerning plants engaged on war work. The $eer*tary gave the committee an 0A#to ar.U? work ?f the depart ment and Its various bureaus. . ' "On the first day of April, 1017, the regular army, he said, "comprised 5,791 offlcers and 121,707 enlisted men; the National Ouard In federal service approximately 3,788 officers and 76,718 enlisted men ; and the reserve, 4,000 enlisted men. There were also at that time approximately 2,575 offlcers in the reserve, but as these were on inactive duty they cannot properly be con sidered ''In estimating the strength of . the army of the united States at that time. On the 81st day of December 1917, the tegular army consisted of 10,250 officers and 47JMKX) anUtted n*a the National Ouard of 16,081 offlcers and 400,900 enlisted men ; tbe national army of 480,000 men ; and the reserve of 8^1,575 offlcers and 72,750 enlisted men. In other words, in nine montli* the increase has been from 0,524 offl* cers to 100,856 officers; from 202,510 to 1,428,050 men. "During the war -4?lth Spain, (be army of the United States at itc maxi mum strength7 aggregated 1272,000 men ttud officers. The army now In iht? ftcld aud In training is, therefore, roughly six times as great as the majf'mum number under^ arms in the Spanish American war. ' The total number already in the military service is one and a half times as large as any force mobilised by this nation. v ' "The death rate in forces in the L'nlted States, from mid-September to the end of December, averaged 7.5 per thousand, and is slightly less than would have been the death ratfe of men of the same age at home/' the Secre tary said. . "In 1888, the death rate per thousand was &0.14, or nearly three times as great," he continued. "Our death rate in the army durlqg the year 1916, just before the war, was 5 per thousand, leaving oat the deaths due to measles and Its com* plications, our rate among all troops in the United States, since September 1, has been about 2 per thousand* , ;>-V ?7 ? 9 r-^Yi *rT -- ; Major Smith To Camp Wadsworth. Spartanbbrgt'Van. 12. ? Judge Men del X. Smith, of the South Carolina circuit bench; win* be attached to the training depot at Camp Wadsworth a^ Judge advocate. The Judge has a commission as major. He is expect ed to report very soon. This Is the depot formed for the creation of pioneer regiments, the first seven reg iments taken wider commend feeing the seven New York National Guard ngl? i ilii left out of the Twenty-##* entfc division.'