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. { 1$9m ....... ' \ - } ^ 1 x -I ' I HOLD YOUR COTTON ji 4 f t REDUCE YOUR ACREAGE " ts*Ew. (She ?amberg moralo j paper will be discontinued. ^ J (2.00 Per Year in Ad^nce. BAMBERG, S. C? THURSDAY. APRIL 3,1919. Established in 1891 _J - NEGROES FOUGHT LIKE DEMONS > NOT ONE MAN OF THE FAMOUS 369TH EVER TAKEN ALIVE. , Loved to Cut, Not Shoot 6ent to Hold Abandoned Trenches With But Little Chance for Their Lives They Came Back Safe. Like most good officers, Col. William Haywood, of the famous 369th negro regirneht, thoroughly believes in his men and is eager to testify to their soldierly qualties. In the course of his first public address since his recent return from France, he told a ivid story of real fighting by his "boys/' who never wanted any weapon hut "something with a good cutting edge on it." Declaring his opinion that a bit of strategy brought in. to play by General Gouraud on July 19, 1918, turned the tide of the war. the colonel said, as reported in the New York papers: We were at one end of the line held by General Gouraud and were a part 1 of his army. At the other end of the line was that famous fighting Irish outfit, the 165th (69th New York) and other units of the great Rainbow division. r- The first thing I knew all there was between the German army and Paris on a stretch of front a little more than four miles long was my Tegiment of negroes. But it was fail enough at that; all there \\?as between us and Berlin was the German army. They tried pretty hard to gel by, but they never did. No German ever got into a trench with my regiment who did not stay there or go back with the brand of my boys on him. In 191 days of battle we never had one of our men captured?alive When those Germans would come intc :oy our trenches after what our boyj called a million-dollar artillery prep aration. the thing just got down to a regular he-man, street-corner fight They fought with knives, bayonets and the butts of guns. All those boy; of mine ever wanted to fight witt was something with a good cutting v' A edge on it. ? On Jnly 14 the Germans reenforcec by prisoners released by Russia/ wer< at their maximum strength. The al lies were at the lowest ebb they hac reached during the war. That nighi we captured some German prisoner; In a raid and they told us that at a certain time the Germans were- t( launch a great attack that was t( * last for five hours and twenty-fiv( minutes. General Gouraud started a coun . ? i ter-attack on a great scale five min ntes before the German attack wa; to start. As we afterward learnet from prisoners, this attack greatly a ' upset the Germans and hamperec their own attack disastrously. General Gouraud knowing th< hour when the German attack wa: to begin took what was probably th< longest chance that a general eve took. Before the attack began h< ordered his whole^army to abandoi the first trenches on a front of fift: kilometers. ' These trenches had cos thousands of lives and men had toilec months and months to gain those po sitions. ^If Gouraud's plan failed h< was ruined. , When the troops "were withdrawn only sixteen of the 1,600 men in m; regiment remained in the front-lim teers, who fully expected to lose thei trenches. Those sixteen, all volun teers, who fully expected to los< their lives, took refuge in shell-holes specially constructed dug-outs, arm ed with signal-rockets, mustard-ga shells, and a few machine guns of ai old type, which could be started an< then abandoned, as they would kee] on firing without manipulation unti > their ammunition belts were ex Pfr w hausted or they got jammed. < When the handful of men in th trenches saw the German infantr; coming, after a terrific artillery show ^ er had raLied down on the first-lin trenches, they set off the signal-rock etR to notify us. set off the mustard gas shells in the dugouts, started th machine guns going, and then rai for it, with the German barrage l front \of them and the advancin German infantry behind them Strange to say, most of them go back. When the Germans poured int our trenches they failed to find : single man alive. Those German who went into the dug-outs stayei IT I30TH DIVISION i MEN RETURI TWELVE THOUSAND RETURI FROM FRANCE. | Given Rousing Welcomi 1 Debark at Charleston in View of In mense Thrdng.?Proreeed at Once to Camp Jackson. Charleston, March 28.?Sixt nine officers and 3,042 men d( s harked at the Charleston Poi 1 Terminal from the American trans ' port Mercury yesterday morninj i They belonged to the units of the f* mous Thirtieth (Old Hickory) divis i ion, composed of former Nation* Guardsmen from South Carolin; North Carolina and Tennessee. A< tual debarkation, under the person* supervision of Col. Lawrence ( r Brown, debarkation officer, ws ? achieved in only fifty-six minutes. ^ It marked the beginning of th Port Terminal for debarkation an I the pronounced success of the initi* undertaking brought general coi ' gratulations. Cooperation was man i fest in the handling of the soldiei , who have just returned from the r galant service overseas. The larg steamship was broadside against th i 'wharf at 9:30 and at 1:30 the las I of five troop trains was on its way t ' Columbia. It showed splendid pre] r aration by the railroad officials, M P. J. Walker, as federal manager ( - the terminal, having directed t;b i movement out of the terminal. Only Five on Hospital List, i Particularly noteworthy was tb appearance of the men who debarl > ed. They were literally pictuures < i ed. They were literally pictures < robust health and excited the adm I ration of all onlookers. They wei . in jubilant spirits at having reache > their home shores and they were ? > playful as so many children, whi] they were at ease on the warehous i platform. According to Lieut. Co . Edward C. Register, medical corp , U. S. A., port embarkation sugeoi 3 only five cases were on the hospit; i list when the Mercury docked. Tb > maximum on the sick list for tb whole trip was only fifteen. I i More Men Return. " Charleston, March 28.?Seven 1 officers and 2,141 men from tb transport Koeningen der Nederlai 5 der and 77 officers and 2,839 m'e 1 from the transport Pocahontas wei } debarked today at the Charlestc } port terminal, special military tran carrying the men to Camp Jackso] from which they will be demobilize The next transport due here is tl Madawaska, which will probably a s rive Monday, with the transport Hi * ron arriving soon after her. Charleston gave a riotous demoi 1 stration of welcome to the Pocahoi tas as she passed up the Cooper ri' 3 er from her place of anchorage ovi 5 night, officers and men declarir 3 themselves in enthusiastic tern r about the qualitv of the welcom 3 The demonstration for the Koeni: 1 gen der Nederlanden occurred Thur ^ day afternoon, her arrival at the te * min^l be'ng too late to start trail 3 for Camp Jackson. Again the canteen section of tl b Red Cross radiated cheer and comfo among the soldiers, the Charlestc > battalion in the former Nation Guard being congratulated by m< 5 from other towns on the way r which Charleston women were trea * ing the soldiers. Charleston m< B were permitted limited conversatic with their families over the tran " port rail while the Koeningen di 8 Nederlanden was in dock awaitii 3 the approach of debarkation. 3 p there, because they were filled wil 1 the deadliest gas. Behind the easily taken trench the French had massed 'the most i conceivable amount of artillery. ( y course, they had to a mathematic exactness the ransre of the trench e they had abandoned. Immediate they poured a terrible fire down in those trenches, and you can imagii the result. My bovs afterward foui _ enough Mauser rifles to enuip tl ^ I whole regiment. The Mausers loo u p. ed like the old Sprinsrfields, and n (J boys liked them. So they threw awj t their own rifles. When the ammur tion we had captured gave out, course they were in a bad way. The most wonderful thing I sa over there was the great faith of tl dj (Continued on page 4, column 6 s ACREAGE REL 1 30.9 V Mr. J. J. Heard, secretary of the' J. Bamberg County Cotton association, j g! has handed The Herald the following g i list of farmers who have signed the ~ ih I pledge to reduce acreage this season. ^ l~ The county association requests pub- E lication of the names, which The Herald is glad to do. j ? The totals are as follows: t Acreage 1918 28,103 ^ " Acreage 1919 19,036 n i- Li 't : ' T Acreage reduction 9,069 , ^ These figures show a reduction of j '' 30.90 per cent. Reports of the com- _ i- T ! mittees indicate approximately 90 . i A | cent, of the farmers signed the ^ I pledge. It will be borne in mind ' i that small farmers are not asked to _ i. Jl ^! reduce one-third, but reduce accord- ^ ,, j ing to the schedule. * j j IS I 1918 1919 M. P. Willis, Denmark..l50 100 ^' 10 Greene Ayer, Olar 12 9 * I L. M. Ayer, Olal* 35 21 ^ C. E. Ritter, Olar 105 71 E !" J. F. Breeland, Olar.... 16 14 D ]' J. B. Ritter, Olar 64 40 G ^SjJohn Gilberts, Olar 23 18 J1" j Sherman Williams, Olar 30 20 G ,e j H. C. Brabham, Olar.... 20 20 L r Abraham Smith, Olar.... 16 20 ^ Mrs. A. Johns, Olar 50 40 0 Peter Kearse, Olar 16 16 E 3~ J. W. Hycks, Olar 12 4^ V r' Seymore Piatt, Olar 15 10 3 S. A. Ayer, Olar 17 18 0 ie G. R. Ayer, Olar 20 20 ^ J. Smoak, Olar 9 4% V J. V. Kearse, Olar 121 96 G 10 j M. O. Barnes, Olar 10 3 J'! J. B. Brown, Olar 67 30 E L. W. Ritter, Olar 67 38 3 A. W. Brabham, Olar.... 51 45 J W. S. Sanders, Olar 24 20 0 G. Lecorr, Olar v... 50 30 E H. H. Clayton, Olar 115 50 19 Fay Sanders, Olar 14 12 G 0 Ogrelo Brabham, Olar.! 18 20 50 j Geo. Carter, Olar 20 20 C * | W. M. Copeland, Olar.. 35 25 S']Geo. Kearse, Olar 28 20 J ll*' H. J. & W. H. Rittter, | Olar -. 225 175 -A 10 R. C. Bassett, Olar 27 20 101 J. Breeland, Olar, 24 15 J H. L. Kearse, Olar 200 110 Miss Miriam Rice, Go- ^ van 189 80 -J C. H. Brabham, Olar.... 92 75 E ie A. L. Kirkland, Olar....l20 65 i- Brabham & Morris, Olar 75 30 * >n C. F. Rizer, Olar 225 75 *e A. H. Neel^y, Olar 250 125 ^ >n Frank Kusdoy, Olar.... 37 25 is L. A. Hartzog, Olar 68 45 ^ n? J. E. Brooks, Olar 140 119 d- G. O. Barker, Olar 75 50 1 B. V. Kearse, Olar 179 123 T- E. L. Lard, Olar 245 170 S O. J. C. Lain, Olar 115 89 ! S. J. Stib, Olar 35 24 J n_ H. D. Drawdy, Olar 50 30 a- W. B. Chitty, Olar 90 60 | 1 v- Joe Fail, Olar 15 7Y2 1 - G. Victor Kearse, Olar.. 90 65 J H. B. Breeland, Olar....100 75 is J. B. Kearse, Olar 37 28 J e- Alfred Smith, Olar 15 8 , a* James Odam, Olar 45 30 j * J. W. Sellers, Olar '42 2S j r" E. J. Curry, Olar 55 35 | ^ is H. H. Kearse, Olar 697 464 j | C. M. Kinard, Ehrliardt, 25 per cent. ^ le P. M. Kinard, Ehrhardt, 22 per cent, rt G. F. Kinard, Ehrhardt, 15 per cent. * m C. D. Brant, Ehrhardt.. 30 24 al E. F. Padgett, Ehrhardt 9 8 ^ m Joe Orr, Ehrhardt 30 20 in W. H. Mitchem, Ehr- ? t-! hardt 64 48 ;n C. H. Walker, Ehrhardt 12 9 * >n Henry Mitchem, Ehrs-1 hardt 30. 22 * er J. A. Johnson, Ehrhardt 16 12 lg J. A. Peters, Ehrhardt.. 50 30 1 j H. W. Chitty, Ehrhardt 44 40 ~:H. L. Carter, Lodge 70 40 1 j Marvin Bishop, Ehrhardt 10 8 ^ C. F. Warren, Ehrhardt 3 2% n* H. M. Bishop, Ehrhardt 16 16 j ( J. F. Chassereau, Ehr- i ^ al I hardt 250 150 lJ es T V Riehnn Fhrharrit SO 20 i * M. L. Warren, Ehrhardt 34 22 j ,u D. E. Copeland, Ehr- j hardt 140 105 | W. A. Fender, Ehrhardt 60 20 ! Iie B. T. Zeigler, Ehrhardt 38 36 j ' k* B. H. Carter, Ehrhardt 37 26 | iy O. L. Copeland, Ehrayj hardt 33 27 l*~ J. W. Copeland, Ehrofj hardt 60 30 ! L. H. Carter, Ehrhardt 56 37 J. L. Cothran, Ehrhardt 37 27 Mrs. C. C. Smith, Ehr.) j hardt 60 40 j ( AUCTION 0 PER CENT. W. Goodson, Ehrhardt 24 18 . F. Kinard, Ehrhadt.. 10 6 . F. Kinard, Ehrhardt 10 6 7. H. Kinard, Ehrhardt 7 4 . F. Padgett, Ehrhardt 9 8 enry Mitchum, Ehrhardt 15 11 . H. Walker, Ehrhardt 12 9 . S. Shaw, Ehrhardt.... 14 10 . E. Anderson, Ehrhardt 9 8 . G Cohenns. Ehrhardt 16 12 P. Rivers, Ehrhardt 78 18 .. M. Kinard, Ehrhardt 28 26 . A. Copeland, Ehrhardt 12 6 10. E. Carter, Ehrhardt 12 10 . P. Hiers, Ehrhardt.. 56 37 . Frank Folk, Ehrhardt 13 9 acob Folk, Ehrhardt..107 74 . F. Hiers, Ehrhardt.. 60 54 [. O. Kinard, Ehrhardt 45 39 !. Kinard, Ehrhardt.... 26 20 i. P. Smith, Ehrhardt..110 90 r. F. Williams, Ehrhardt : .... .. 57 45 i. E. -Kearse, Ehrhardt 63 48 i. R. Clayton, Ehrhardt 55 30 ohn J. Hiers, Ehrhardt 100 70 [. M.'Carter, Ehrhardt 10 8 7. C. Ehrhardt, Ehrhardt 11 7 >. Folk, Ehrhardt.... 7 5 7. Brabham, Ehrhardt 31 21 7. L. Warren, Ehrhardt 18 9 eo. R. Bennett, Ehrhardt 9 7 l.\ L. Smoak, Branchville 9 7 B. McCormack, Branchville 30 20 !. F. Monday, Branchville 17 10 r. O. Hunter, Branchville 25 18 'V?oi?1?oa w 11 llama liVsJ V f A A J. A V* AAA A# 9 Branchvllle 25 18 . B. Kinsey, Branchville 30 20 l. G. W. Hill, Branchville 64 48 R. W. Williams, Branchville 30 24 V. T. Jones, Branchville 33 23 I. J. Jenkins, Branchville 30 20 i. M. Jenkins, Branchville 13 10 William White, Branchville 15 10 V. B. Brunson. Branchville 36 30 \ C. Salley, Branchville 54 40 am Williams, Branchville 18 12 aires Walker, Branchville 35 23 1. M. Groves, Branchville 10 8 COO'U VUi I JUIUMWI ville 15 10 esse Carter Jr., Branchville 15 10 'eter Johnson, Branchville 15 10 as. Carter, Branchville 22 14 rork Jennings, Branchville 14 10 V. B. Bunyan, Jr., Branchville 14 10 V. S. Jones, Branchville 15 10 d. J. Jenkins, Branchville 25 18 larcus Jenkins, Branch ville 24 16 t. D. Binson, Branchville 21 14 ''rank Garvin, Branchville 18 13 Jen Freeman, Branchville 31 20 r. W. Wilster, Branchville 20 14 i. B. Kearse, Olar 16 11 r. J. Kearse, Olar 16 13 r. C. Breeland, Olar 220 155 1 . E. Kearse, Olar 45 27 r. F. Kearse, Sr., Olar.. 64 48 S. H. Kearse, Olar 4 6 32 J. Faust, Govan 90 60 J. N. Odom, Govan 27 14 r. B. Browning, Govan 4 5 26 r. A. Lain, Govan 50 34 t. L. Lancaster, Govan..1 00 CO JcP. Eubanks, Govan..225 145 fo?eph Gunnels, Jr., Govan 1 00 60 r. F. Lancaster, Govan..300 200 r. W. Ray, Govan 87 40 I. A. Templeton, Govan 21 12 [Continued on page 3, column 1.) ALLEN'S ATTACK STIRS FARMERS GOV. COOPER MAKES REPLY TO GOVERNOR OF KANSAS. Says It Is Uncalled For State Chairman Also Makes Statement Concerning Remarks Refusing to Join Movement. Columbia, April 1.?The bitter,1 unjust and uncalled for attack made on the cotton acreage reduction campaign by Governor Henry J. Allen, of Kansas, last week has stimulated the movement as nothing else could have done. From every State in the onftnn Vi ol f loHare nnma +/-? T C! lr _ VUttUU IV V . kJ jv u I towe Wannamaker, chairman of the central committee of the South Carolina Cotton association, assuring him that the attack of the Kansas executive had but helped the campaign which the Southern farmers are making for commercial freedom and had insured the success of the fight they are putting up to save /themselves from bankruptcy. Governor Allen last week gave out a statement in which he said that the cotton growers of the South in their efforts to limit the acreage of cotton to maintain high prices are "trading on the misery of the world." He declined an invitation extended him by Chairman Wan imker to attend a conference at which representatives from every State in the cotton belt are to be present, saying that cotton growers are making as much money "with cotton at thirty-five cents a pound as Kansas farmers are making from their wheat." Chairman Wannamaker gave out a statement replying tp Governor Allen saying that the latter was either distorting the facts or else was very poorly posted on the same. "The Southern cotton farmer cannot sell his cotton at 35 cents as Governor Allen states," said Mr. Wannamaker. "For middling cotton, if he decided to sell today at prevailing nri/ioo nrViio'h ure TielrtW PO<st of 4 * V VJ > TT AiiViA Mi V WiV ?? VMV V%/M V vr ? production, he could get around 15 cents a pound. The cotton farmei cannot afford to sell his cotton for less than it cost to produce it. Many of them are confronted with financial ruin unless they can get more for their product." Mr. Wannam^ker said that in the security of a wheat price fixed by the government, Governor Allen, is entirely ignorant of the condition surrounding the Southern cotton farmers. "He cannot know," said Mr. Wannamaker, "that the Southern cotton farmers are not only carrying a large part of the cotton crop for which they are offered a price below the cost of production, but they are unable to sell their cotton seed at any price whatever. The cotton far mer held his cotton seed as a matter of patriotism and in response to the .government's reauest nlared it on the market very slowly. Now he cannot sell his seed at all." Mr. Wannamaker declared that the farmers of the South, by curtailine their cotton acreage, would assist in in the production of food with which to feed the world. Food, he said, comes ahead of clothes. "The poor starving people of Europe are going to buy something to eat even before they buy something to wear," said Mr. Wannamaker. "The shortage of food is just as great as the shortage of clothes." Governor Cooper's Statement. The statement Issued by Governor Cooper follows in full: "The people of the cotton growing States have not criticized the fixing of the prico of wheat by the government. They are glad for the Kansas farmers to receive a profit on their products. Two dollars and twenty-six cents may or may not be an adequate price for wheat. I don't know any more about the cost of production of wheat than /"I an Allan ilnoo oV>rmt t Tl Q PflQt UUY ci uyi All^U uuv>o V??V vw^v of Droduction of cotton. I do know and every well-informed man of the cotton belt knows that the farmer cannot today get a profit for his cotton. If Governor Allen will induce some of the wheat growers of his State to come* to the south and grow cotton under present conditions, they could give him some valuable information on the subject about which he evidently knows so little, or else he would not have made the statement he did." .o. f Extra fine box paper in all the different shades, also pound paper, at j The Herald Book Store. Adv. ? _ J 5,500 MISSING, SAYS PERSHING TOTAL COMPARES WITH ENGLAND'S 161,800. i ? J List Already Reported ^J Access to Prison Camp Sites in Germany Leads to Many American Graves. Washington, March 27.?Gen. Pershing reported to the war department today that there are still 5,500 officers and men of the expeditionary forces listed as missing. This total compares with the British official figures of 161,800 missing and the French of 290.000. A All of the 5,500 names have been reported as "missing" in the casualty lists already published, the report said. Reinterments of bodies from isolated graves in the centralized cemeteries is furnishing additional identification in a number of cases, and for this reason the records of the grave registration service are being carefully studied. Reexamination of grave registration reports, and also of hospital records, referred to by Gen. Pershing was said by officials at the war department to explain the "killed In action" and "wounded in action" casualties still appearing in the daily casualty lists sent out by the department. British Policy. The British war office, Gen. Pershing's report said, had adopted the policy of considering twenty-six weeks in the case of an officer and thirty weeks for an enlisted man a* V the length of time after the man had been recored as missing before death is presumed. In the French army, he said no definite period had been fixed. "No accurate estimate of unreported deaths can be given," said Gen. Pershing's report. "There are are, however, 5,500 missing to be accounted for, all of whom have been reported to Washington as missing. Reinterment of bodies removed from isolated graves to centralized cemeteries is furnishing additional identification of deaths hitherto reported as missing. This is especially true of reburials of bodies originally buried by allied units to which American troops were attached, identifications of deaths hitherto reported as missing. This is especially true of reburials of bodies originally buried by allied units to which American troops were attached, identifications _ being either incomplete or imperfectly registered at interment. * Many American (Graves. "Deaths of American soldiers in , French hospitals, of which only meagre and often incorrect records on file, are likewise disclosed by reburial of these bodies, resulting in complete identification. Access to sites of prison camps in Germany and to territory formerly within en- . emy lines is leadiDg to discovery of many American graves and identification of casualties previously reported as missing. "Each company or other unit of tne American exyeuiuuuarjr luiuo has heretofore been furnished a complete Fst of officers and men carried as missing up to February 1. All units are required to display such list in places accessible to members of command for the purpose of securing casualty information from every possible source. This expedient is resulting in locating hitherto unknown graves and identification showing present status and whereabouts of many battle casualties. Exceptional Difficulties. "Consideration should be given to the fact that methods of warfare as well as the extent of terrain fought over lent exceptional difficulties to discovery and burial of dead. Burial parties frequently completed their mission under heavy fire and often could only be done under i cover of darkness, thus making Identification in a great majority of such cases. For this reason grave reg: istration and chaplain reports are being again Investigated. A small norflontaco nf cnph rennrts invest!- * f;tm,uiuSv v. .. w. - sated are proving to be cases of American dead previously unreported as such. As rapidly as identifl! cation can be completed from Information originally filed or subsequently obtained from every possible source, correct present status of each ' case is being reported by cable." Read The Herald, ?2.00 per year. j - ! i I