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I ^ alu? Hamburg lipralb 1$ On? Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1917. Established 1891 COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Schofield Sketches. Schofield. May S.?.Mrs. Jones Lain, of Fairfax, visited friends here on last Saturday. Mr ii O QqiiHciv cnoiif lil?t Si) tilt* day at Barnwell. Mrs. Ogretta Beard, of the Colston section, is visiting relatives here. Mr. Dewey Inabinet spent the week-end with his grandmother at Swansea. Mrs. Lawrence French is visiting at Oconee. Ga. Mrs. Frank Sadler died last night about eight o'clock, after a few days' illness. She was the only daughter of Mr. J. \V. Smith, and is survived fcv her husband, father and one brother, G. Wilton Smith, who enlisted in the navy last week and was sent to Norfolk, Va.. to report for duty. We extend our sympathy to the bereaved husband, father and brother. DRAEBLR. Colston Clippings. Colston. .May ?.? l tie weatner nas changed since the last writing. It is rot uncomfortable to sit around a i Tire all day now. and the sun has been unable to peep from behind a rain cloud today. Misses Evelyn Kirkland and Cora i McMillan, and Messrs. Claude Kirk- j land and Calvin McMillan were visi-! tors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. j Calvin Padgett. Misses Sadie Boyd and Ethel Logan dined at the home of Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Kearse Friday night. Mrs. J. F. Clayton was a guest at the home of her son. Mr. H. K. Clayton, Sunday. Miss Cora McMillan was the guest of Misses Minnie and Evelyn Kirkland Saturday night. Misses Sadie Boyd. Ethel Logan. Lola Fender, and Bowers, and Mr. John West Fender were visitors at Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Fender's Saturday night. The Sunday visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Willie Folk, were .Misses Alberta Kearse, Ethel Logan, Sadie Boyd. Messrs. Will McMillan and Frank Kirkland, Jr.. Elgin McMil- : Ian, Jacob Folk, and Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Beard and family. I>enmark Dots. Denmark, May 5.?Miss Pauline Turner was hostess at a meeting of the Graham chapter. United Daughters of the Confederacy. Thursday afternoon. The attendance was good. The president. Miss Ruby Guess, was in the chair. Plans for May 10 were completed and arrangements made for celebrating the 3rd of May with a dinner for the veterans. After the business was finished the meeting was turned over to the historian and a very interesting programme was | carried out. A sweet course was < served by the hostess. i Miss Sallie Inabinet has returned i to Denmark after closing her season i as milliner with a firm in Richmond, "a. The ladies of the town gave a din- 1 ser to the soldiers of the First regiment Wednesday. Mrs. J. G. Richards is visiting her daughter. Mrs. T. P. McCrae. Mr. and .Mrs. Kelley have moved 13 Tennille, C.a. Mr. and Mrs. R. M. McCartha left Tuesday for their future home in Rome, Ga. Tindal Califf spent Tuesday with his mother, Mrs. W. L. Califf. Honor Roll Denmark School. Denmark, May 8.?The following ' ;-s the honor roll of the Denmark pub'ic school: First grade?Frances Wiggins, Annie Turner. Mary Smoak. Theo Sandifer, Rosa Sanders, Esther Riley, Ethel Hartzog. Robert Sojourner, * Jennings Keller. Second grade?Albert Bean, J. Z. Brooker. Leslie Easterling, G. W. Goolsby. Hoyt Smoak. Louis Spann, j Fletcher Sojourner. Govan Zeigler. | j .Dorothy Hightower. Third grade?Clyde (iillam. Ciif- j ford Ray. Koger Sinoak. Joe Wynian. j ; Hagood Zcrn. Helen Brooker. Winnie r.'o.\. Mamie Turner. Miriam Turner.!: Hary Hayne Walker. Fourth grade- John Turner. Hd- j vard Zeigler. Sarah Califf. Inez ( -"inch. Dorothy Matthews. Julia Kay. r-dwardine Sojourner. Lena Steven- i # -on. Myrtle Waiker. i Fitth grade?Leona Hartzou. Sadie Spires Margaret Brooker. Kver- . * OVFli HALF MILLION. Full Strength of First Army Men and Officers. Washington. May 4.? The full strength of the first war army organized under the selective draft bill will be 18..">38 officers and ."> 2 S, t> " 9 enlisted men, making up eighteen war strength divisions complete in every arm and supplemented by sixteen regiments of heavy field artillery. equipped with large calibre howitzers. Virtually every detail of plans of raising, training, equipping and organizing this force has been carefully worked out by the war department and the selection of the men will begin as soon as the draft measure becomes law. Conferees of the senate and house hope to agree upon disputed features tomorrow, so as to send the bill to the president for his signature early next week. Cavalry Divisions. In addition there will be two separate cavalry divisions which will be situated in the southwest, near the .Mexican border. Officers for the cavalry divisions will be trained at all of the sixteen officers' training camps, which will open within a few days with 40.000 prospective officers under training. Each infantry division will consist of nine full regiments of infantry, three regiments of field artillery, one regiment of cavalry, one regiment of engineers, one division hospital and four camp infirmaries. The total strength of the sixteen will be 1"?.022 officers and 429.792 men. The two cavalry divisions combined will have 1,214 officers and 22,062 fighting men, including mounted engineers and horse artillery units and each will also have its divisional hospital and camp infirmaries. Coast Artillery. The proportion of coast artillery troops to be provided out of the first ."">00,000 will be 666 officers and 20.000 men with requisite medical troops. Supplementing these tactical units will be the sixteen regiments of heavy field artillery, strength 786 officers and 21,104 men: eight aero squadrons, one new squadron to each two new infantry divisions; eight balloon companies: ten field hospitals; ten ambulance companies: twenty field bakeries; six telephone battalions: sixteen pack companies: six ammunition trains and six supply trains. Suit of Former Slaves. Washington. .May 7.?The supreme court today dismissed a suit brought by former negro slaves and their heirs to collect $6S,072,2SS from the government for labor upon crops in the South from 1S.">7 to 1867. The money was collected as internal revenue taxes on cotton. The claim was made that the money was due for work performed while in a state of involuntary servitude. , United States automobile exports to India have increased 4<>o per cent, within two years and this country now sells two-thirds of the cars used. Great Britain and Japan control the automobile tire market in India. dell Hartzog. Albert Folk. Frances ; Dozier, Stanwix Hutto. Richard Sojourner. James McCrae. Sixth grade?Ruby Abstance. El- ; ilridge Hightower, Wyman Sandifer, Hilary Wilkinson. Pernelle Collins. Evelyn Cain. Jennie Gillam, Margaret Hoffman, Byrl Price, Dorothy Riley, Dottie Bell Smoak. ! Seventh grade?Edward Cox. Car- ; lisle Folk, G. L. Sandifer, Ruth Califf. Mabel Gillam, Georgia LeCroy, Louise Ray, Thelma Ray. Selnia Sey mour, Louise Thomas. Leoline WalkBr. | Eighth grade?Anna .Matthews. Ninth grade?Harold Sojourner, Ruth Folk, Lela Gillam. Cecile Hope. Elizabeth MeCrae. Julia McCrae. Tenth grade?Sadelle Cain. Julia i 1'ox. Kathryn Faust. Willie Delle Hut- < to. Rachel LeCroy. Laura Ray. Eleventh grade?Phillip Cox. Martha Wiggins. Clara Wyman. liramhville Uriels. Pranchville. May .".-The Young People's club met with Miss Ruth 1 Pyrd Friday evening. ; Tlie Rev. A. J. Ailen. oi' Hartsville. pent Thursday in Pranchviilo. ' Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Dukes, of Rowesville. were in town last Frilay. I (l I hi' -.merit Sat- ; inlay with his brother. J mi ire W. L. Dukes. : Ashury F. H. Dukes, of Central America, is visiting relatives here. KNoiiMors lossi:s sistaim:i>. Serious Situation Caused by Submarine Warfare. Washington. May 2.?The enormous inroads 011 the world's shipping made by German submarines within the last few weeks has brought to American government officials a lull realization of the disaster that faces the I'nited States and the allies if the undersea warfare is not checked. Governors and State representatives here today for a national defense conference, will take home to their people a message from the govnerment emphasizing the menace to America and urging that there must be the fullest coordination by the States in war preparation if Germany is to be defeated. Grave Statement. Secretary Lane told the conference that the great destruction of ships was threatening the existence of Great Britain and France and menacing the Fnited States. Xo one. he said, knew the exact tonnage of ships lost recently, but estimates put last week's submarine toll at 400,000 tons. Later he explained that this estimate probably was too high. Secretary Lansing in a statement declared the seriousness of the submarine situation could not be exaggerated and that it was time the country awoke to the true facts. Reports to the State department give a total of eighty vessels lost in one week, figures much higher than any contained in recent British announcements. Bate <>t Destruction. The British mission announced that the rate of destruction in recent weeks had continued unchanged and that it showed no alarming increases. All its members agree the situation is critical, however, and that the combined shipbuilding facilities of the world can meet the peri 1 only if their output is increased tremendously. Announcing the government's programme for exercising a more direct control over the country's shipping and shipbuilding facilities. Chairman Denman. of the shipping board, said estimates had been reaching the board of 300,000 tons of shippingsunk in one week. The present world's ship tonnage is estimated at less than 50,000,000 tons. Ship Construction. A bureau of navigation report prepared recently estimated the world's ship construction in 1910 at slightly less than 2.000,000 tons. If the Germans keep up their present rate of destruction officials admit without hesitation that their campaign threatens to sweep clean the seas. "The seriousness of the situation ' is apparent," said Chairman Denman today. "When we consider the present productivity of world ship yards and their highest output likely with- ' in the next four months, the entire production will not exceed one-fifth r\ ' t i ^ ni an t 1 1 r\ ^ c of f li a nn t a rr'- t? an 1 ui i iic- luoo ci L I aic gi > cil by Secretary Lane. The shipping board's figures do not reach that high a total, but they are sufficiently large to make the situation extremely grave." ' Problem Nation Faces. The federal government took into its confidence governors and other State representatives and outlined . the problems the nation faces. Cabi- , net heads explained the situation and asked aid in putting into effect the 1 government's war measure. At a second conference tomorrow , the council of national defense will present a definite programme to the States for coordinating their work . in carrying out military and economic < plans. : President Wilson received the dele- < gates today at the white house and j urged that the States draw all ener- < gies and efforts together into com- < mon action. < I tests With States. ; Secretary Baker and other war de- i partment officials said the success of i the war army rested with the States A A a^A s\sin * CkilU UC^CUUCU Ull Llicil LUU^CI <Xl lUil. ( At a later meeting Secretary of La- s bor Wilson and agriculture depart- \ ment officials discussed food prob- s lems and labor needs and their rela- t tion to military success. ' ^ofr<itarv I nnti strlviwori 111<-> <rnv- t ernors to let their peoples know the i government is preparing for a long ( war and that every source of the , country must be developed to its utmost. t Prohibition Question. ( Governor Harris, of Georgia, pre- i -ented the prohibition question and I urged the other governors to reconi- 1 mend it as a war measure to the pies- : ident and to people of their States. 1 A department of agriculture report s medical men to iiattlefields l"nited States Will Fill Immediate Needs of Allies. Chicago. May 7.?England and France are in immediate need of 2,imju medical officers and r?,uoo ambulance attendants, according to a statement issued today by Dr. Franklin Martin, head of the medical division of the council of national defense. Dr. Martin's.appeal, addressed "to the doctors of America." says: "With our country entering the war the responsibility for which we as doctors have been preparing now is upon us. The Englishmen and Frenchmen, now our allies, have come to tell us their problems. Their need for medical officers is acute. Their civil population is without adequate medical protection and the ravages of war in the fighting line have been unusually severe in the destruction of medical officers and ambulance attendants. Many are .Needed. "Two thousand medical officers for France and England and .">,000 ambulance attendants, if immediately available, would scarcely fill the requirements. "We have listened to their appeal and the council is seeking to help them as promptly as possible. The secretary of war, the chief of staff and the surgeon general have authorized and are now executing the following plan: Mobilizing and Equipping. (A) Gen. Gorgas is mobilizing and equipping in groups of 2n0 doctors, who are now members of the medical officers' reserve corns. A group of 200 will sail each month, the first leaving within the next three weeks. (B) Six Red Cross base hospital units with twenty-four doctors, fifty nurses and a supporting personnel, aggregating 186 each, have been ordered by the war department to France for immediate service. (C) One hundred and ten hospital units with approximately 3,000 automobile ambulances and five thousand men asked for by France will be dispatched within the next three weeks. Modest Requests. "These are modest requests. The medical profession is prepared to meet the call and treble or quadruple it if need be. Every doctor under fifty-five years of age. who has not responded to the call to enroll in the medical officers' reserve corps, should do so at once. Every doctor who is already a member of the medical officers' reserve corps or an applicant should place himself at the disposal of the government through the surgeon general's office. This will en able the surgeon general to utilize the younger men for active duty at the front and assign the older men now engaged in teaching medical students and in the care of civilian population at home to pursue the work for which they are best fitted and maintain a normal supply of medical graduates. The medical profession has been honored with the first call by those who have been fighting our cause. Let us respond generously." Modest Desires. Fond .Mother?Dorothy, if you are bad you won't go to heaven. Don't cou know that? Little Dorothy?Well, I've been to the circus and the Chautauqua already. 1 can't expect to go everyn orn PaqI WI1CIC. A CC?. Read The Herald, $ 1.50 per year. was cited showing that in 1916, ?14 5,000,000 worth of grain and Dther food materials were consumed in liquor manufacture in the United States. Fermented liquors took 1,000,000, and distilled liquors 544,000,000. The largest items were 575,000,000 worth of malt, $23,000,1)00 of corn and $ IS,000,000 of moasses. Agents of the department of agriculture explained to the State representatives plans for organizing the mited boys working reserve for summer farm work. City boys, particularly in the Fast and Middle .Vest, won id he employed in canning 'arteries, and arrangements already lave been made with the National 'aimers' association to ascertain .vhat extra help wiil he needed. Governors who responded to inviations to attend the conferences in luded: Harris, of Georgia: Mauling. of South Carolina: Harding, of Iowa: Milliken. of .Maine: Boyle, of Nevada: lidge. of New Jersey: Pra>ier. of North Dakota: Lister, of A'ashington: Corn well, of West Virginia, and Alexander of Idaho. HILL TO FIX FLICKS. Would Kmpower to Hold How 11 .Most of Necessaries. Washington. May ?Absolute authority to regulate in its discretion the production, distribution and prices of food and other necessities during the war was asked of congress today by the administration. In a sweeping bill introduced with the administration's approval by Chairman Lever, of the house argi cultural committee, it is proposed to empower tlie president to take these measures whenever in his opinion the national emergency shall require: To Fix Prices. To fix maximum and minimum prices for food, clothing, fuel and other necessities, and the articles required for their production: To prescribe regulations to govern the production of these commodities and if necessary to requisition the producing factories, mines or other establishments: To compel holders of necessities to release them in amounts insuring I equitable distribution: To regulate exchanges in such a way as to eliminate market manipu- j I lation: To compel railroads to give prefer ence to the movement of necessities: To levy such importation duties as he finds necessary to prevent exces- J sive "dumping" of foreign products; j and To impose limitations or prohibitions upon the use of grain in the manufacture of liquor. Standard Food Grades. In addition the secretary of agriculture would be empowered to establish standard food grades, to license and control the manufacture, storage and distribution of foods, to prescribe the percentage of flour to be milled from wheat and to regulate the mixing of wheat flour with other flour in the making of bread and other foods. .Mr. Lever declared there was nothing in the measure to disturb legitimate business activities because "it is hoped that the mere conferring of the more extreme new powers will be sufficient without it becoming necessary to exercise them." It is known that officials hold the same view. Supplemental Measure. The bill is supplemental to the administration food measure introduced in the house earlier in the week, providing for a survey of the country's food resources and conferring certain powers to prevent food spec uianon. i nis measure was uiueicu favorably reported from the agricultural committee today after the committee had reduced the appropriation carried from ?25,000,000 to approximately ?20.000,000 and had eliminated a section authorizing the secretary of agriculture to order the immediate sale of any food in such condition that unless promptly disposed of it will become unfit for use. The section will be incorporated in a coming third measure which is to confer broad powers on the council of national defense. .Mr. Lever expects to get both of the bills up for action in the house next week. ? ,1 _ 0 r or riTioii oi ?? >u . "The new bill." said Mr. Lever, "deals with all the necessaries of life, including foods, feeds, shoes, clothing, fuel and articles required for their production. The measure is intended only to meet the present emergency. It is limited to the periods of the war and a sufficient time thereafter for readjustment. It is based on the war clauses of the constitution and is applicable throughout the country, irrespective of State lines. "The purposes are to stimulate production, to reduce waste, to clear the channels of distribution, to prevent hoarding, to assure fair prices, to eliminate injurious speculation, to prohibit evil practices on exchanges and to protect the public against ex tortion. To Prevent Holding. "Power is granted to compel holders to disgorge and put on the market necessaries held hy them in excess of the amounts reasonably needed to supply their legitimate individual or business requirements lor a reasonable time. The president I may regulate exchanges, including! their practices, quotations and the i like, so as to avoid their employment j as instrumentalities to effect unjust i I market manipulations. injurious speculation and undue enchantment i of prices. "The president is empowered to fix minimum prices, assuring fair and just returns to producers or owners, whenever in an emergency he finds I IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading.?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. The annual convention of the South Carolina -Motion Picture Exhibitors league is to he held in Columbia this week. The largest attended and the most successful musical festival in the history of Hartsville was held at Coker college last week. The plant of the Jefferson Oil and Fertilizer company, at Jefferson, Chesterfield county, was struck by lightning last week and destroyed by fire. A nurses' home at the Columbia hospital in Columbia is to be established. A total of more than $17,U00 has been subscribed for the purpose. The Columbia Mineral Products company, of , Columbia, has been chartered by the secretary of State. The company will do a general clay manufacturing business near Columbia. Rev. Harold Thomas, for nearly fifteen years rector of St. John'sEpiscopal church in Florence, has accepted a call to the rectorate of St. Luke's Episocpal church, in Charleston. Officers captured a 30-gallon illicit ! distillery on the premises of K. R. Lunsford. at North Augusta, Aiken county, last week. Lunsford was formerly in the liquor ' business in Augusta. J. W. Sellers, of Cowpens, Spartanburg county, was one of four persons who were drowned in the French Broad river two miles west of Hot Springs. X. C., Thursday night when their boat filled with water and sank. Memorial day exercises were observed in Newberry, Friday. J. LylesGlenn of Chester, was the orator of the occasion. The Confederates of the county to the number of* 111, were entertained at dinner. Jacob Shealey, aged 97, was the oldest veteran present. NOT YET AGREED UPON BILL. House May Yield if Senate Abandons Koosevelt Idea. Washington, May 8.?Two more conferences today on the war army bill failed to bring senate and house committees together and adjournment was taken tonight with the prospects of an agreement still doubtful. The bis noint of difference still was the senate amendment to permit Col. Roosevelt to take a volunteer expeditionary force to France. House conferees stood out strongly against this amendment and the only hope tor an agreement was said tonight to lie in the possibility of the senate giving up on the point. In return, it was said, the house conferees might be willing to accept the age limit of 21 to 27 in the senate bill for those subject to the selective draft. Efforts tomorrow will centre on such a compromise and if it cannot be agreed upon it is probable tne bills will be returned to the two houses and further instructions asked by the conferees. A process for attaching glass letters to tombstones has been patented by an Indiana inventor. such action essential in order to encourage greater production. In such, case the government will guarantee producers of necessaries within the United States, who act in reliance upon the guarantee, that they will receive not less than the minimum price prescribed for their products. Anti-Dumping Clause. "The bill also contains an antidumping clause. This vests power in the president to find what rates of duty on the importation of necessaries. for which minimum prices have been prescribed, are required to prevent Hooding of the American market with such excessive importations as to defeat the practical operation . 1, yv ; ? > imiim Tiri on nl an WllPfl Ui llltr 111 1 111 >11 U Hi ? / * ? N- V, he determines these rates, by force of the statute itself, they go into immediate effect. "Whenever the president shall find that an emergency exists requiring such action he si also empowered to fix maximum prices of necessaries, if essential, in order to prevent extortion. If a maximum price for any particular necessaries be established, it is made unlawful therefore to deal in the article at a higher price."