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r ^pfa Sltr lamberg ?rralh $2.00 Per Year in Advance. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1919. Established in 1891. WON'T TAKE MATTER t TO SUPREME COURT ATTORNEY GENERAL WOLF'S ATTITUDE ON PHONE RATES. J Watching Other Cases . - Says Quickest Way Is to Await Decision on Other ? Appeals. Columbia, May 3.?No legal relief from the increased rates charged by * the Southern Bell Telephone and TelX egraph company, effective May 1, will be sought in the courts of the State by Samuel M. Wolfe, attorney general, according to a statement by him tonight. The pendency of the cases brought by the National Association of Railway and Utilities commissioner, tc be heard by the United States supreme court May 5, testing the right of Postmaster General Burleson, director of the telegraph and telephone administration, to order increased intrastate rates, is the cause of his decision. The matter can be more expeditely cleared, he thinks, by awaiting the decree of the supreme court. Attorney General Wolfe said he had agreement with J. Epps Brown, of Atlanta, president of the Southern Bell company, not J. only to refund the increases collected from patrons from May 1 should the decision of the supreme court be adverse to Postmaster General Burleson's order, but likewise to revert the schedule back to that prevailing prior ( tQ May 1. ( Should the telephone lines be re- turned to their private owners by the , government, said Mr. Wolfe, regard- , less of the decree of the supreme . court, the increased rates automati- < cally will revert to the lower schedule i under the law. , The Southern Bell company filed 1 V its new schedule of rates with the South Carolina Railroad Commission , last Monday, which immediately isaiipri a nArftmntnrv nrdpr nrohibitinff their collection. The telephone company disregarded this order, however, , and mailed bills for the month of May with the increases, and the commission then turned the matter ovei to Attorney General Wolfe to handle. ] The following is the statement by , the attorney general: ' < "The attorney general has secured ( from J. Epps Brown, president of the ] Southern Bell Telephone and Tele- ] graph'company, an agreement, sane- i tioned by the operating board of the , United States telegraph and tele- ] phone administration, supplementing j the proposition heretofore made to i the railroad commission, by which 1 the telephone company will not only ~ reimburse subscribers for all excess . ' exchange rates exacted during the in- j terim, but will revert to the'schedule \ , or rates iormeny ODtaimng snouia ^ n the United States supreme court hold in its decision on the test cases in- ] volving the postmaster general's au- ] thority in the premises, that such au thority was exceeded in putting into , effect the schedule of increased rates. , > An injunction, the attorney general ] . . insists, would result in only a tern- < porarv suspension of the increased , rates at first, ana should the postmas- ( ter general's action and authority be , sustained subscribers would experi- ] ence the annoyance of having all ] hack charges exacted, if not in some , * instances difficulty in adjusting a ( * continuation of their contracts." m nm* m 1 NITRATE OP SODA BURNS. ] ( Match Lodges in Load, Doing Great ( Damage. Union, May 1.?A ton of nitrate of soda, valued at nearly $100, and a wagon, worth $125, were completely destroyed, and a pair of good mules * narrowly escaped being burned to death as the result of nitrate of soda 7"* catching fire from a lighted match. Mr. Sam Farr, of Kelton, came to Union Monday morning for a load of j fertilizer and got a ton of nitrate of soda. When he was a mile or two i north of this city his son-in-law < struck a match in order to smoke. ( The match lodged on one of the sacks < of nitrate of soda, and instantly there i was a Diaze, ror me soaa is mgniy ] inflammable, and so rapidly did it < burn that the whole load together { with the wagon was destroyed, and ( only by quick work were the mules j saved. The loss of Mr. Farr is quite heavy and shows how very careful persons j handling nitrate of soda should be to ^ see that no lighted match nor spark of any kind lodges on the nitrate. * GOVERNMENT DEBT IS $24,824,345,000 MOST OF THIS REPRESENTS LIBERTY BONDS OF FOUR ISSUES. Statement by Treasury No Recluuction Made for $8,852,000,000 Loaned Foreign Nations. Washington, May 3.?The public , debt of the United States government was reported today by the treasury as S24.824.345.000. Most of this represents liberty x bonds of the first, second, third and fourth issues, but the victory liberty loan is not included to any great extent. The addition^ of victory loan bonds will be largely counterbalanced by redemption of outstanding certificates of indebtedness. No deduction ' is made for the $8,852,000,000 loan- 1 ed to foreign governments. Conse- | q,uently the net debt would be ap- ' proximately $16,000,000,000. The treasury plans to issue other 1 bonds later this veaF and next year ( to meet the fag end of war expenses, so that the gross public debt of ! the United States is expected by the treasury officials to be in the neigh- 1 borhood of $30,000,000,000 when the 1 period of the war financing ends. The treasury now has a working ' balance of $1,052,000,000, of which ( $657,546,000 is on deposit with banks throughout the country on ac- ' count of bills of certificates of in- 1 debtedness and victory liberty notes. 1 rhe treasury holds $2,568,599,000 in gold, but a little more than half 61 . this belongs to the gold settlement 1 fund of the federal reserve board.' ' Silver dollars in the treasury, which ( sl little more than a year ago amount- { 3d to $490,000,000, has been reduced I to $229,711,000 by melting down of ippproximately 260,000,000 of silver 1 iollars for export to India. ( m 1tl ? 1 SHOOTING IN COLUMBIA. 1 1 Joseph Staub Probably Fatally J Wounds Charles Markey. i Columbia, May 3.?Firing three or 1 four times from his revolver on one < >f the most crowded corners of Main i street shortly after 1 o'clock this aft- 1 srnoon, Joseph W. Staub, a press- ( man, in the employ of a printing house here, probably fatally shot his i brother-in-law, Charles E. Markey, a 1 lischarged soldier. One of the bul- < lets accidentally hit Miss Sarah Ow- 1 ings, who was on the other side of i the street, in the neck, painfully but < riot seriously injuring her. ? Markey, according to local hospital ? authorities, tonight, is in a precar- < ious condition, two bullets having < taken effect, one in the abdomen and 1 the other in the leg. 1 lIt is alleged that Markey has 1 been causing much trouble at - the i 1 borne of Staub's parents, Mr. and ? Mrs. Joseph A. Staub, where their < laughter, the wifevof Markey, is 1 staying, and that be threatened the ? life of young Staulb on several occa- t sions. ( ATarkev lias been tried bv the re rorder several times and fined for t naking disturbances at the Staub t lome. The last time, Wednesday 1 aight, he terrorized the family and i tvas put under a peace bond by Re- t ?order Kimel. 1 Markev, who was top sergeant at i :he hospital of the medical depart- 1 a^ent at Camp Jackson, was mustered 1 )ut of the service in December. He < iriginally came from New York city, s vhere, according to his employer 1 lere, George W. Collins, he boasted 1 3f having the friendship of "Lefty '< Louie," "Dago Frank" and the other aotorious gunmen who were executed s 'or the muder of Herman Rosenthal, t n which crime, however, he dis- i Maimed having participated. He married the sister of Staub about a year i igo. i TVi? nhnntinflr offrov TfO/l nTI ? 1 IlC OUUVHI15 ttuiu; vvvu4? vu v:he corner of Gervais and Main 1 streets, directly in front of the State s ;apitol, and was witnessed by scores c 3f persons. Markey, after being sho,t t talked across the street to the mu- ? licipal building, where he fell on f :he sidewalk. Staub surrendered to ? i patrolman and was locked in the ?ity jail. The condition of Miss Ow- ? ngs was reported favorable tonight. 1 Waterman Fountain Pens always 2 in stock at Herald Book Store. Orders * :aken for repairs to Waterman pens. Read The Herald, only $2.00 year. 1 Agonies of War 1 Dr. T. ( New Orleans, May 3.?One of the [ most life-like pictures so far painted j I before an American audience of the! operations of the immortal second di- j vision was presented by Dr. T. C. j Stone, of Aiken, S. C., in an informal | talk before the recent annual session of the Association of Surgeons of the Southern Railway, held in New Orleans with headquarters at the St. Charles hotel. Dr. Stone ranked as captain in the expeditionary forces and recently has been released from the service. He was regimental surgeon of the seventeenth field artillery, one of the principal units of the second division. He was overseas 16 montns, nine or which were spent on the firing line. At the close of Dr. Stone's simple address, Dr. Cooper Holtzclaw of Chattanooga, Tenn., former president of the association, characterized Dr. Stone's address as the first concrete revelation with which he had come in contact, of things as they really were on the fighting fronts. "I have read description and description in the newspapers and the magazines which tried to paint things as they were over there, Dr. Hoitzalaw said. "But Dr. Stone's simple talk here, giving us first-hand knowledge of them, has given me my first concrete notion of just what it was [ike over there. He has been through the thick of the hardest fighting and has told it with no attempt at adornment." A rising vote of thanks was giver/ Dr. Stone by the audience he had enlightened. Other addresses before :he convention had provoked assent ar dissent or discussion. Dr. Stone's address alone called forth unanimous gratitude. Entering the thick of the fight with ;he second division, March 20, last, Captain Stone saw duty, trying as aest he could in the mud and the j alood and the pitchy darkness to re-| iieve the infinite suffering of the shell-torn Americans of the division, rhe duty carried him through the mingled beauty and horror of the red alood and the ruddy blaze and glare af the booming artillery fronts in the light assaults at Soissons?through :he fire and pitchy, raining blackness af the Chateau Thierry engagements ?through the dramatic hell of wipnc nut tho St MihipT enlipnt anri i wv"- ?I :hrough the wild, weirdness of the j Champagne sector, where he says, i :he debris and the dead and the j nangled were scattered broadcast on j i ghastly stretch of shell-torn lime-1 jtone, where with the rising of the i sun it all appeared like wrecks and j Iriftwood on a mighty sea of white j ;aps. He struggled and mingled' ;hrough the glory and the horror that! vas Argonne. Emerging from this! le was in the thick of the hell met! )y the second division even after the j signing of the armistice, and saw the 1 lestruction of American life that in- i ;erif?ned between the time of the j signing of the papers at Senlis and j he going into effect of the order to! ;ease firing at 11 a. m. the next day.! In his talk Dr. Stone made no at-1 :empt at oratory before the convendon of surgeons. He spoke simply?; argely in conversational tone, paus- | ng and blushing and apologizing to | ;he ladies present when, inadvertent- i y, the red blooded profanity of the! Ighting man crept into his speech. It! vas the profanity that was not pro-j :ane. He took not the name of his j jod in vain?nor had thp boys clone so over there whom he was quoting, vho done to death in the thick of :he struggle, and fell?and smiled ind snarled?and laughed and jested ?and bled and cursed again?and itruggled and strained?and, at :imes, had gone insane in the wildless pf it all. And the surgeons and their wives md their sisters that heard him tell t crifed, "Go on!" when Dr. Stone (topped and began apologizing for ising a real "cuss-word" in one in- . .tance, when he recounted how hun-1; Ireds "of voices had cursed him j, hrough the blackness of the nightj md the rain at Soissons for flashing | 'or an instant his searchlight in his j; ittempt to stop the arteries of a j vounded comrade that were spurting | md befouling his hands with the j )lood and the mud and the grime of |' he fight, so that in the horror of it j til he couldn't locate the arteries in j he darkness. "Put Out That Light." "It was at Soissons," he said simp- [ y, "where the bombs from the ene delated hy r. Stone, of Ail^en i my night flyers were blasting'great vacant spaces in our ranks. A soldier staggered against me. I asked him i what it was. He said it was his arm. I took his hand in mine, and in the blackness and the rain tried to locate the arteries that were spurting. But with the filth and the mud and the sticky, warm blood that befouled my hand and begrimed us both, and with the hell of the bombs pounding about us, I couldn't tell what I was doing. So I thought if I could only locate the ( arteries that were bleeding, 1 might stop it. I tried to wipe the grime 1 from my hands and then flashed my ( searchlight on his wrist. No sooner ( than I had done so, when a hundred voices shouted, 'Damn you?put out 1 that light!' Out went my light, oi 1 course, for the barest gleam of a 1 light from us would immediately ] have drawn down a score t of aerial : bombs and countless machine gun bullets upon our heads. "I shall talkv informally," Dr. C Stone said. "March 20, the second J division took its position in a quiet part of the Verdun sector. We relieved the French, who, with tht Germans, seemed tired out with fight- J ing. ?y a sort of unvoiced agree- . ment, each side had come to the J i stand where it said by its silence to .. .. , i me omer, we won i trouDie you ior a little while as long as you don't bother us.' It was sheer weariness s apd exhaustion on both sides. But the Americans who went into the trenches were restless to be on top of Fritz and when our artillery opened up at them, there was a continuous artillery duel. As exciting as this was for a while, it was nothing compared with the hell that was in store for the "Second division. It was merely mud and slush and trenches and lice and French itch. c "Then we learned that the division j was to be thrown into the Chateau Thierry salient. After a brief retire- r ment, a rest and a delousing, we TTrftri f ir? + A f V?of T?Ar*i on A f Vio wcui IUIU mat 1c5i.ua. niiiTcu in q range of the enemy guns, we heard the booming of the cannon and the j buzz of the Boche planes. We were on iron rations?hard tack and 'bully beef.' I shall never forget the sight of the women and baby refugees that t lined the roads?the civilians fleeing hopelessly and disconsolately from ( the fronts where the Germans were making their headway. As we neared ^ the fighting front, the French soldiers came fleeing and filtering back j through our ranks. Their morale was gone and they admitted it. Strag- e gling back, they looked at us mutely, as much as to say, 'Americans, we t are glad to see you and we thank you for coming?but you came too late. It's all over now. The allied s cause is done for. We are whipped and whipped for good.' The Ger- j mans were gaining. Their spirits were nigh, their morale perfect. But the expression on the faces of the t French was one of utter blankness. t They couldn't even smile. \ "No words can give you a hint of f the hell and the horror into which a the Americans rushed to save the day a at Chateau Thierry. That ywas the c King's Mountain of the war. It was 1 like rushing into the very jaws ot l hell. Individual shells blowing up \ in our ranks sometimes killed as c many as 25 or 40 men at a time, c They snapped down the big trees e like straws before the scythe, then s tore great bare spaces in our ranks and festooned the storm-swept trees with the shreds of our uniforms and t with the limbs and shredded flesh of our boys. This is literal. Words can- f not depict the horror of it. The ( trees were thus festooned at both "v Chateau Thierry and during the Sois- r sons engagement. s ITffrtW- a# Cnrmuvnc ; JUUV1 t l/l kjui ^WUOa "In the mud and the slush and the t darkness of it all, about all the surgeons could do was to try, to the a best of their limited ability, to re- J lieve the immediate suffering of the boys that were being torn asunder. ? Where a leg was almost torn from the body, hanging for instance by a mere flap of skin, in the hell of the booming fight the surgeons in the front line fray would merely cut the 4 S flap of skin in two, throw 'the leg aside and see as best they could to the further care of the case?and do <( their best to start the victim back toward the rear where he could get further attention. I recall the case of a fine, big, young fellow. He was (Continued on page 7, column 1.) BOMBS MAILED TO PROMINENT MEN 16 IXFERXAL MACHINES IX XEW YORK MAILS. Drag Net Now at Work Authorities Begin Investigation Into Activities of Anarchists and "Reds" Over Country. New York, April 30.?Sixteen 30.mbs, parcel post packages, addressed to 16 prominent men, each containing sufficient dynamite to Dlow the recipient to pieces, were discovered among the mail at the gen jral postoffice here today. A preliminary investigation conzinced the postoffice authorities that :hey had unearthed a country-wide plot of terrorists to assasinate highly placed persons as a demonstration on VIay 1. A sweeping inquiry by postoffice nspectors, agents of the department )f justice and police experts was be*un at once into the activities of inarchists and "reds" in this city. Warning Issued. At the same time a warning was issued by the district attorney's office ;o all public officials, especially judges, to watch for packages which night be delivered to them and a *uard was thrown around the crimilal courts building. The addresses on the 16 jackages seized here were all typewritten. The style and a couple of minor errors led j jfficials to believe that the addressing vas done by a foreigner. . List of Addresses. 1 The addresses were: William M. Wood, 21 Fairchild itreet, Boston, Mass. Frederick C. Howe, commmissioner ! )f immigration, New York. < Hon. A. Mitchell Palmer, United 5tates Attorney General, Washington, < C. 6 Anthony Caminetti, Bureau of Im- < nigration, Washington, D. C. < Hon. William B. Wilson, Secretary >f Labor, Washington, D. C. < Senator T. Larry Eyra, Chester, 3a. William H. Lamar, Solicitor Gen- < >ral, Washington, D. C. 1 W. H. Finch, Department of Jusice, New York. Hon. A. S. Burleson, Postmaster : General, Washington, D. C. Hon. J. F. Hylan, Mayor, New i fork City, N. Y. < John D. Rockefeller, Pocantico 1 Jills, Tarrytown, N. Y.. i William I. Schaffer, Attorney Gen sral. Harrisburg, Pa. Governor William C. Sproul, Ches- 1 er, Pa. Hon. Oliver Wendel Holmes, Unit- i !d States Chief Justice, 1720 First treet, Washington, D. C. 1 J. P. Morgan, 231 Madison avenue, 1 sew York City, N. Y. < How They Were Caught. i A slip on the part of the sender ot < he infernal machine, coupled with : he sharp wits of a postoffice clerk, ] vere all that prevented the bombs i rom being delivered. The 16 packiges were mailed Saturday night in l box somewhere in the neighborhood if Thirtieth street and Broadway. ( Phey had the correct postage for the i^rcel post but were sealed with red vafers and therefore could be ac epted only as first-class matter. Ac:ordingly they were sent to the geniral postoffice to be referred to the ender. Gimbel Brothers' Name. Each parcel had the name of Gim>el Brothers printed on' it, and the lepartment store was notified but ] ailo/1 tn answer "R!arlv this mnrnin? Charles Kahn, a postoffice clerk, ' vhile on his way home from work, ' ead in a morning paper of the bomb 1 ent to Senator Hardwick, of Georgia. 1 ?he description of the package con- ' aining the bomb struck him and he ' lurried back to the postoffice and ex- ' .mined the detained parcels. He 1 hen notified the superintendent of lis suspicions and the packages were ent to W. E. Cochran, chief postof- ] ice inspector. i m P 1 / Undying Songs. "There are songs," said the mu- ( ician, "that have never, never died. ^hey go ringing down the ages." "That is true, sir," Brown replied. For the past six months and upward have heard my daughter try to kill wo or three each evening, but they ever, never die."?London Tit-Bits. ? <>( ? 1 All colors ink at Herald Book Store 1 12 TRAINING CAMPS SELL FOR $549,000 SALE INCLUDES EIGHT X. G. SITES AM) FOUR CAMPS. Results Are Satisfactory Cities Adjacent to Receive the Benefit of Sanitary and Other Utilities. Washington, D. C., May 6.?Approval of the sale of 12 army camps, composed of eight National Guard sites and four small miscellaneous camps, for a total of more than $549,000, was announced today by Acting Secretary Crowell. War department officials evidenced satisfae.tinn with the results obtained. the materials covered by the sale consisting almost exclusively of hastily constructed buildings and some stored equipment. In the case of buildings, the government had reserved for its own use the base hospitals and storage warehouses. Forty-four bids were received from v 35 individuals and corporations, the largest single proposal being from one large wrecking company which ^ offered to take all the camps for a price approximating $540,000. This proposal was rejected, because of the desire of the department to turn over to cities adjacent to certain camps the sanitary and other utilities which could be used advantageously for the benefit of their populations. Thus Augusta, Ga., will retain title to all underground improvements at Camp Hancock; all the improvements at Camp Sheridan go to the city of Montgomery, and the sewerage and water systems at Camp -Wadsworth *v will be turned over to Spartanbdrg, S. C. Camp Sevier to Be Offered Again. No satisfactory bid having been received for Camp Sevier, S. C., it was announced that this camp would be offered at another sale minus the requirement that the buyer assume the damage suits of local property owners. At Camp Polk, N. C., the buildings ? were sold to the States for use In connection with the State penitentiary. "The proposals received were as a rule very satisfactory," Assistant Secretary Crowell said today in announcing the sales. "The national guard camps were hastily built and contained only tent floors, mess backs and a few administration buildings besides the hospital and storage warehouses, which in most cases were reserved by the government. The improvements at these camps had served their purpose in housing the troops during the period of training; on the basis of having been J ils , ? ? ? . ? J O A A iiiieu iwice Liie&t: uarnys seivcu ouu,000droops at a cost for construction of $30 per capita. The problem, therefore, was not how much depreciation had taken place in frhe original cost but how much will be given for materials that are now useless to the government." * HAD NARROW ESCAPE. Spartanburg Woman Caught in Burning House. Spartanburg, April 30.?Mrs. J. N. Carter, who resides at 184 Humphreys street, had a narrow escape from death this morning, when the dwelling occupied by her and her family was totally destroyed by fire. Mrs. Carter arose early this morning and prepared breakfast for her busband. After he left for his duties ^ she returned to her room and fell asleeD. About 7 o'clock a neighbor iiscovered the dwelling to be in [James and an alarm was immediately sent in. By the time the firemen arrived the building was badly damaged and it was evident that it could aot be saved. The firemen did their best to save the ^dwelling and while working on the burning structure learned that Mrs. Carter was asleep. Breaking in the door of her room nembers of the department awoke aer and removed her from the dwell :ng just in time to prevent her being ;aught by the falling roof. A Difference. "Ah," said the spectacled tourist. 'So you boast of being the father of L4 children?" "Nope!" said Blink Perkins, of Bean Hollow, Louisiana. "I don't )oast about it?I just am."