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' I HOLD YOUR COTTON
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(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
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ACREAGE REL
1 30.9
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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- _
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! 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 _
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^! 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."
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5,500 MISSING,
SAYS PERSHING
TOTAL COMPARES WITH ENGLAND'S
161,800.
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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."
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