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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."
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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. (
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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
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/ 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.
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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."