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EIGHTEEN TO FOBTV FIVE
WILL BE PROPOSED TO CONGRESS
AS DRAFT AGES.
tView to Prompt Consideration When
House and Senate Take Up
Regular Business Later.
Washington, Aug 3.?Draft ages
of from 18 to 45 years will be recommended
in congress in the bill
embodying the war department's
new man power programme which
will be introduced in both houses oi
congress Monday and expedited by
enmmittPkAs -with a view to DromDt
R consideration when regular sessions
1 Of the senate and house are resumed
| later on this month.
I After formally announcing the
f new draft ages today, Secretary Bak,er
said all the possible combinations
of age limits were carefully
B studied and it was found that in or
der to get the men into class 1 for
W the programme, 18 to 45 was necesI
sary. He said, however, that the
f bill as recommended to congress will
[ contain a provision authorizing the
president to call men out of class 1
Iby classes according to ages, so that
if it is found possible the men between
18 and 19 will be called out
later than the older men who are
found eligible to class 1.
The war department programme,
the war secretary said,^ is purely a
military one and can not be called
a conscription of labor, although it
naturally will have the effect of putting
at useful labor or in the army
all able bodied men within the age
limits as they finally will be fixed by
congress. In recommending this
extension of the age limits, Mr. Baker
continued, the department had it
in mind simply to get for the army
the number of men which it believed
necessary to defeat Germany. The
secretary was not prepared to say
how many that would be nor to give
any estimate as to the proportion of
igales between the ages of 18 to 45
Inclusive which would be found eligible.
In making up the list and
classes the same rule will be followed
that has governed in the first
graft, with the same exceptions from
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dependents and those engaged in
essential industries.
Mr. Baker gave it as his opinion
that so far about 1,600,000 have
been drafted from the existing list.
There has been considerable opposition
in congress to lowering the
minimum age, many members being
reluctant to draft youths before they
^ attain their majority and come into
full citizenship. Senator Chamberlain,
chairman of the senate mili*
tary committee, said today that he
expected opposition on that score,
but expressed the opinion that there
would be no unusual delay in passing
the bill.
. Some members of congress believe
that the man power bill will be taken
up immediately after congress
resumes sessions and disposed of before
the new war revenue legislation
is considered.
BAG HUNS AND GUNS.
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Americans Alone Capture Over Eight
_ Thousand Prisoners.
Washington, Aug 4.?Allied
troops in the Aisne-Marne salient
reaped "the full fruits of victory"
Saturday when the enemy, who met
his second great defeat on the Marne
was driven in confusion beyond the
line of the Vesle, General Pershing
reported in his communication for
yesterday, received today by the war
department. American troops alone
have captured 8,400 prisoners and
133 guns.
The text of the statement follows:
^ "Section A.?The full fruits of
voctory in the counter-offensive began.
so gloriously by Franco-Amerimtm.
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u<iu uuups j uiv j.o weio heapcu today
when the enemy who met his
v second defeat on the Marne, was
driven in confusion beyond the line
of the Vesle.
"The enemy, in spite of suffering
the severest losses, has proved incapable
of stemming the onslaught
of our troops fighting for liberty
side by side with the French, British
and Italian veterans. In the
course of the operations 8,400 prisoners
and 133 guns have been captured
by our men alone.
"Section B.?There is nothing tc
report in this section."
From an Arkansas Paper.
Zeke Barrows has accepted the appointment
of revenue officer from the
district. He will leave a wife and
three children.
i LEON GREEN HELD, j
Former South Carolinian in Serious
Trouble.
Washington, Aug. 3.?United
States Commissioner Richardson to1
day fixed at ?5,000 each bail bonds
for Edward L. Travis, member of the
corporation commission of North
Carolina and one of the most prominent
lawyers of that State; Selim
Barnett Joseph, of Chicago, and
Leon Myer Green, now of New York,
' formerly a colonel on the staff of
Cole L. Blease, former governor of
South Carolina.
The three men were taken into
custody late yesterday afternoon on
' warrants sworn out before Commissioner
Richardson by a special agent
of the department of justice on a
charge of conspiring to evade the
draft law.
Green is within the draft age and
the warrant charges that the three
men. conspired to obtain for him a
deferred classification. In furtherance
of the alleged conspiracy the
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warrant charges that Green entered
1 into a contract to be employed by
' the Perth Amboy Dry Dock Company
and to devote all his time to
such employment, "Whereas, in fact,
he was to be free from obligation to
devote his time thereto."
It is also charged in the warrant
1 that Green made oath before his
? draft board in New York that he
' was engaged in an industrial en'
terprise necessary to the maintenance
of the military establishment.
Back of the arrest is said to be an
allegation of the conspiracy to defraud
the United States of vast sums
of money in connection with- contracts,
which the three men are said
to have declared they were able to
negotiate with the shipping board.
' According to reports reaching the
department of justice, Travis, Joseph
and Green had been negotiating
with the dry dock company for several
months to procure contracts to\
taling $40,000,000 under which the
Perth Amboy Dry Dock Company, of
New Jersey, was to build ships for
the United States shipping board.
It is reported that Travis, who was
a former law partner of Representative
Kitchin before the latter came
to congress, expected to receive a
fee of $100,000. Joseph, it is asserted,
looked for $1.50 a ton each
ship built under the proposed contract,
and Green was to be employed
by the shipbuilding concern.
Richard F. McDonald, a Chicago
banker, connected with the Perth
Amboy Company, is said to havfe discovered
the details of the alleged
agreement and to have advised the
federal authorities, it is stated.
Bond is being arranged so that the
three prisoners may be released.
They are confined in three different
city jails here, the idea being to prevent
them from having further intercourse
with each other or otherwise
discussing their plans, which
are considered as being exceedingly
disadvantageous to the government's
best interests in the present crisis.
Difficult to Get Casualties.
Wachinctftn Anf* 9 RAnlvin? tn
a request that he expedite the lists of
American casualties in the heavy
fighting on the Soissons-Rheims
salient, Gen. Pershing today cabled
Secretary Baker that the task of
assembling the names of the men was
an extremely difficult one because
of the fact that American troops are
brigaded with French and British
v units.
1 Secretary Baker said no estimate
of casualties was contained in Gen.
Pershing's cablegram. There was
nothing to indicate today when the
1 increased casualty lists resulting
from the present severe fighting
would begin to come in.
, Widely Separated.
"I have received a cablegram from
Gen. Pershing in regard to reports
of casualties," said Mr. Baker. "He
points out that our troops are still
widely separated, serving in many
places, and that our wounded are
taken to French and British hospitals
as well as our own, causing great
difficulty and complication in securing
accurate information.
"In addition to this, the troops
are separated from their records
i while in the area of conflict and
. must depend upon very inadequate
. and temporary telegraph lines which
are subject to frequent interruption
> and must, for the most part, be devoted
entirely to the urgent business
of the battle itself.
"Gen. Pershing assures me that he
- is making every effort to collect cas>
usftty lists, have them confirmed and
[ verified and that they will be transmitted
promptly."
THE PRESIDENT DEFEI
AGAINST ATTACK!
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Expresses Absolute Confide;
Administration.?Says
Strongest and Mos
In The
Because of embarrassment the
president has suffered by reason or
letters written to South Carolina during
this campaign the president some
time ago announced in a letter to
Mr. L. D. Jennings that he would not
interfere in local party contests.
However the attacks made upon
Congressman Byrnes by his opponents
have given such genuine regret
to the President that he has sent a
message to the voters of the second
district through Congressman Glass,
of Virginia. Mr. Glass is the chairman
of the Banking and Currency
committee of the house; he is the
author of the Federal Reserve Bank
Act and also of the Federal Farm
Loan Act. Mr.' Glass is also the
secretary of the National Democratic
committee, and is regarded as the
mouthpiece of the president in congress.
His letter was read by Congressman
Byrnes at the campaign
meeting in Aiken, and is as follows:
House of Representatives, Committee
on Bankihg and Currency,
Washington, July 30, 1918.
Wnn Tamos TT Rvrnes. Aiken. S. C.
My Dear Byrnes:?I had occasion
to go to the White House today
and in conversation with the president
I mentioned the fact that you
were being assailed as disloyal io the
KILLED HER HUSBAND.
Put the Body in a Well.?Homicide
is Veiled in Mystery.
Lafayette, Ga., Aug 3.?Additional
statements by Mrs. William Cornish,
whose husband's mutilated
body was found yesterday in an old
well near Estelle Mines, Ga., led to
the arrest today of Wes Hobbs, a
neighbor of the family and widower
of Mrs. Cornish's sister. Mrs. Cornish
has told several conflicting stories
relative to the crime, according
to the police, her latst confession
stating that Hobbs committed the
deed, while she assisted. Hobbs is
being held pending investigation.
According to the woman's latest
story the murder was committed on
the night of May 19, about 10
o'clock. The police summarized her
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Cornish had beaten her severely |
on several successive days and that
she determined to end his life.
On the night of the killing she got
an axe and, with Hobbs, entered the
room where her husband slept. At
one stroke Hobbs severed her husband's
head from- his body. She assisted
Hobbs in cutting off the limbs
of the dead man and then placed
the limbs in one sack, the trunk in
another and the head in a third;
that they hid the three packages
above the fireplace until morning.
After the four children of the family
had gone to school the sacks were
removed, weighted down with rocks
and dropped into the well. A few
days later Mrs. Cornish left her
home and went to reside with the
Hobbs family. Another family moved
into the abandoned house. Portions
of the body rose to the surface
of the water in the well last week,
leading to the discovery of the crime.
When Cornish first disappeared it
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was reported mat ne uau luueu a
man named Avery and left the country.
Avery later appeared and neighbors
began to suspect Mrs. Cornish
of having knowledge of her husband's
fate. Another man named
named Cotts was arrested in connection
with the case today, but was
later released. The fourteen-yearold
son of the Cornish family insist
ed that he knew of the killing, but
the mother said he was asleep at the
time. The former Cornish home was
inspected today and dark spots were
found on the floor of the bed room,
which, on analysis, proved to be
blood stains. In one of the spotches
was a footprint.
Popular Science.
^ < T am/s vt/\ii 11 /-3 n m /I i V* /-\ m n?
l buppuac )uu uuuci oiauu IUC &\;ience
of government?"
"To be frank," replied Senator
Sorghum. "I'm not as strong on the
science of government as I ought to
be. I have meant to take it up, but
I have been tied right down to my
studies in the science of how to get
re-elected."?Washington Star.
m BYRNES
5 OF HIS OPPONENTS
ace in His Loyalty to the
Byrnes is One of the
t Dependable Men
House.
administration. I suggested that it
might not be inappropriate, in the
circumstances, iu requite your uevution
by writing a letter in commendation
of your course. His reply was
that if he could do this for YOU, and
stop right there, it would give him
genuine pleasure to attest, in that
way, your loyalty; but the difficulty
he said, arises from the fact that he
has scores of such requests in behalf
of other members, compliance
with which would involve him unpleasantly
in local party contests all
over the country.
The president genuinely regrets
that you are being bothered by criticisms
of disloyalty AND EXPRESSLY
CHARGED ME TO TELL YOU
SO. He does not doubt your fidelity
for an instant. He stated to me today
that while he disagreed with the
judgment of those congressmen who
voted for the volunteer section, he
never for a moment thought them less
loyal than those of us who voted
against it. The President highly regards
you as one of the strongest and
most dependable men in the house.
"Byrnes is a splendid fellow" is the
exact expression he used in talking
to me about you today.
SinoArelv vnnrs
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(Signed) CARTER GLASS.
PURDY AND SHAW FALLEN.
Sumter Mourns Loss of Brave Men
in France.
Sumter, Aug. 1.?The Sumter
community was much moved this
afternoon by the news that Lieut.
Robert O. Purdy has been killed in
France and that Lieut. Ervin Shaw,
of the aviation corps, was missing.
The, official telegram to Judge R. O.
Purdy said that Robert had met his
death on July 21, and the official telegram
to D. C. Shaw said that Ervin
had been missing since the 9th of
last month.
Robert Purdy, eldest son of Judge
R. O. Purdy, was twenty-seven years
of age and was a graduate of the
State University, where he finished
at law in^l914. He entered his father's
law firm and practiced here until
last spring, when he went to the first
training camp at Fort Oglethrope.
fin rrtAaiTTirj rr Viif AAm m ioa^An V? a rml_
v/u icv/Uivmg uio V/umuaiooiuu, uvs ? u*unteered
for service abroad and sailed
in September. He had seen
active service nearly all the time he
was away in France. A few months
ago he was gassed. After getting
out of the hospital he was given light
duty, but at his own request, was
sent back to his regiment on tne
firing line. A brother, Lieut. Wm.
Purdy, is now in France.
Ervin Shaw, eldest son of D. C.
Shaw, was twenty years of age.
Qualifying for the air service, he
was sent to camp in Ohio, where he
finished with a fine record. About a
year ago he was sent to Oxford to
complete his flying. After work
there and in Scotland he has been
fighting wir.h the British airmen at
the front. He was a Davidson and a
Georgia Tech graduate and after
leaving college was in the automobile
business in Sumter until he left for
thA sArvirA
When Experts Disagree.
The conversation turned to the
subject of damage suits, and this
anecdote was recalled *by Senator
George Sutherland of Utah:
A man in a western town was hurt
in a railroad accident, and after being
confined to his home for several
weeks he appeared on the street walking
with the aid of crutches.
"Hello, old fellow," greeted an acquaintance,
rushing up to shake his
hand. "I am certainly glad to see
you around again."
"Thanks," responded the injured
one. "I am glad to be around
again."
"I see you are hanging fast to
your crutches," observed the aquaintance.
"Can't you do without them?"
"My doctor says I can," answered
the injured party, "but my lawyer
says I can't."?Philadelphia Telegraph.
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Hun gas attacks are mighty serious
affair, but the home guard still
has to do her horseradish grating
without a mask.
BYRNES CARRIES THE CROWD.
Congressman Gets Splendid Reception
at Aiken Meeting.
Aiken, S. C., Aug. 1.?The joint
debate of the candidates for congress
in the Second South Carolina District
at Aiken today developed little that
was new. There was a flicker of excitement
when G. L. Toole pronounced
as a malicious falsehood any statement
that might be made that he had
during the campaign distorted facts
or trangressed the record by any utterance
or printed matter.
Congressman Byrnes was speaking
at the time this occurred, and had
referred to the fact that, while having
been called an aggressor, Mr. Toole
and his other opponents had all three
been jumping on him. For months
there had been appearing in county
papers articles which were attacks
on him (Byrnes). He had not been
the aggressor. Some, of these printed
articles twisted the facts.
Mr. Toole in making his declaration,
did not discuss the articles, but
asserted that he had printed no articles
which were not fair discussions
of public records of public men. Mr.
Byrnes, during the afternoon, said
that Toole's articles in the papers
were as frequent as Tanlac advertisements.
He made no direct reply to
Mr. Toole's declaration other than to
say that he was not to be drawn into
a quarrel at a time when he was hard
beset by three earnest and active
opponents. He then launched into
a reply to attacks that had been made
on his record and his political acts.
After Him Hard.
It appears that Mr. Byrnes has on
hand the fight of his life. So far as
yesterday's meeting was concerned,
he won hands down. The audience
appared to be witb Mm, else ne captured
them wholly by his address.
He handled himself excellently in the
debate. He was the last man up. Mr.
Toole had jumped on him in hammer
and tong manner. The eloquent T.
G. Croft had arraigned him on the
record. The courtly N. G. Evans, of
Edgefield, had cleverly arranged pitfalls
for the incumbent. Each had
(with no sign Of concert of action)
attacked Byrnes from this point or
that. But, closing the meeting and
on the defensive, he turned every
thrust that had been made at him
to his advantage, and won cheers
upon cheers from his hearers.
Played a Strong Card.
One of the points against him was
that he was out of whack at Washington,
this being principally based
on. the statement that he had not
wholly supported the administration's
selective draft bill, but had
first gone off after the volunteer selective
draft measure. Having defended
himself by declaring that he
had co-operated on the army meas
lire, he met the statement that he
was not in harraony with the White
House by reading a letter received by
him this morning, in which President
Wilson spoke not only in the highest
terms of his loj'alty to the administration,
but referred in the most intimate
and kindly manner to the congressman.
Mr. Toole is a hard fighter. He
has done excellent work within the
State, and he has a splendid following,
especially in Aiken county.
Mr. Croft?one of the most able
men in his section of the State, and
a man who has served Aiken well in
the assembly at Columbia-?is a hard
hitter on the stump. Many believe
him very formidable in the present
race for congress.
Mr. Evans, a finished speaker;
harsh to no one; intense in his patritism;
a man of the highest ability,
solidly backed by Edgefield and supported
well in other counties, is a
strong factor in the race. It is plain
that Byrnes's friends regard him as
the man they must finally lock horns
with.
Mr. John E. Stansfield, who is
making his way excellently at the
Aiken bar, presided at the meeting
yesterday. There was an immense
gathering. The courthouse was far
overflowed. Rain fell at intervals,
and an open-air effort was impracticable.
Mr. Stansfield conducted the
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meeting wun auuuy auu wnu mat&cu
fairness.?Augusta Chronicle.
Time-Saving in Business.
A Paris shopkeeper wrote to one
of his customers as follows:
"I am able to offer you cloth like
the enclosed sample at 9 francs the
meter. In case I do not hear from
you I will conclude that you wish
to pay only 8 francs. In order to lose
no time, I accept the last mentioned
price."?Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
Read The Herald; $1.50 a year.
REAP FRUITS OF VICTORY
THE HUNS HAVE BEEN DEALT
SMASHING BLOW. v
Enemy's Loss in Men and Guns so
Great Full Scope of Victory
Cannot Yet be Gauged.
Washington, Aug. 4.?Evidence
that the German armies ejected from
the Aisne-Marne salient have been
dealt a smashing blow came tonight
from all quarters. Losses in men,
guns and war material sustained by
the enemy, it is indicated, are so
great that the full scope of the vie
tory cannot yet be gauged.
den. Pershing's official report covering
yesterday's operation for the
first time cast aside military reserve
and declared "the full fruits of victory"
has been realized. Even as
his message was being given out,
however, new reports from France
showed that further advances had
been realized today and the enemy's
flanks again had been turned. It
seemed certain, on the face of these
reports, that he coulcl not halt even
at the Aisne unless he masses many s
more reserves to relieve pressure
against the beaten and disorganized
forces of the German Crown Prince.
Floods Bar Hons.
Flooded streams have again intervened
in behalf of the allied armies,
as at the Piave,1 in the Italian counter
stroke. The rise of the Vesle behind
the German rear guard apparently
threw into confusion the whole
German organization protecting the
withdrawal of the main armies. It
was not clear whether Gen. .Pershing's
message reporting that 8;400
prisoners and 133 guns had been
captured by the Americans alone included
those taken in yesterday's >
swift rush to Fismes, or only those
of the preceding period of the counter
offensive. It was regarded as
probable, however, that the captures i
made yesterday were still to be reported.
Other reports indicate large
captures of both men and guns in
the rush to the Vesle.
German Reserves.
Reports that the enemy was hurrying
new reserves from the north
to support his shattered lines now
beyond the Soissons-Rheims front,
attracted particular attention here.
If the German reserves in Flanders
and Picardy are withdrawn, it was
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tactics of the British on both the
fronts would be extended without
delay to an effort to force the^enemy
out of the salient he holds at these
two points.
Significant Move.
The German retirement southeast
of Montdidier may be significant. To
some officers it appeared possible
that Gen. Foch would hurl his victorious
armies which have already
crossed the Aisne near Soissons, \,
north and east from that point toward
the line of the Oise. Should
the German disorganization prove
serious enough to permit the allied
to extend their victories northward,
a flank attack might be projected
against the Picardy front with hopes
that the Aisne-Marne results could
be duplicated, standing again aiong
the Oise and with sufficient forces
available to continue on the offensive,
the French would threaten the
Germans in this whole great area
from the south while a British ad- '
vance from the Albert-Arras front
would form the north jaw of the
trap.
Question of Strategy.
Whether Gen. Foch will seek to
carry his lines back to the CheminDes-Dames,
north of the Aisne, cannot
be foretold. Officers say it depends
upon the plans of larger strategy
that have been formed. Many of
them believe however, that unless
there should be a wholly unexpected
collapse of the German military machine,
it would not be wise to press
beyond the Aisne until the other salients
in Flanders and Picardy had
been overcome.
Lieut. Osce Coleman Wounded.
Newberry, Aug. 3.?Mr. A. Pope
Coleman, of Chappells, this county,
has received a cablegram from his
son, Lieut. William Osce Coleman,
in France, stating that he had been
wounded in action. No particulars
were given in the message, but the
young lieutenant assured his parents
that he was getting along fine. '
Lieut. Coleman, it will be recalled,
was several months ago decorated
for bravery in action, receiving the
Croix du Guerre. He is a graduate
of the Citadel and has many friends
throughout the State who wish for
him a speedy recovery, from the
J wounds received.