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EFFORT TO HAVE THEM EXEMPTED
FACES DEFEAT.
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Senate for Prohibition.
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Kills Phelan Motion to Add Rider to
Agricultural Bill,
55 to 11.
Washington, June 18.?Certain de>
feat for efforts to have Congress exempt
beer and wine from operation of
~ the war-time prohibition law .was
seen in an overwhelming vote of 55
to 11 in the Senate late today against
. 1 an exemptional proposal.
By t^at margin the Senate tabled
a motion by Senator Phelan, Democrat,
of California, to add a rider to
the agricultural appropriation bill for
application of the war time prohibition
law to distilled spirits alone. The
sentiment of the Senate thus express~
ed oh the first test vote of this Conir
- VV gress was taken ^generally to sound
| the death knell for measures designed
to permit use of beer and wines
under the wartime legislation.
New Course in House.
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\ A new tack was taken in the house,
however, by advocates of suspension
^ of the war-time prohibition law's provisions
in so far as they affect beer
and wines. The House judiciary committee
received and agreed to vote
next Saturday on an amendment by
J; Representative Gard, Democrat, of
Ohio, to prohibition enforcement legv
islation which would authorize the
President to suspend the war-time
ban on beer and wines. Rejection of
the amendment by the committee genv
erally was predicted. The committee
also decided to recommend enforcement
of prohibition by the internal
revenue commissioner and not by a
ivrnhihitinn commissioner.
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jg^ \ Disposition by the Senatfe of the
Mt ' Fhelan proposal came after little discussion
except by Mr. Phelan, and
^ none by advocates of prohibition. The
California Senator urged that the
, Senate's rules against legislative riders
on appropriation bills be set aside
fe to make his rider in order. As such
a motion required a two-thirds majority,
Senator Gronna, Republican,
of North Dakota, declared that interminable
debate would be entailed,
|v and moved to table Senator Phelan's
motion to shutting off further discussion.
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"CURED" OP BROKEN NECK.
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Greenville, S. C., June 21.?FletchV
er Westbrook, a well-known carpenter
of Greenville is having the uniq,ue
Jf - experience of convalescing at the
^ Greenville City Hospital from a brok>k
en neck. Westbrook broke his neck
when he fell from a scaffold on Bun^
combe street about two weeks -ago,
% .1v but, thanks to his gbqd luck and med..
leal treatment, he is still very much
A V alive, and will probably recover completely.
After his fall Westbrook was taken
. unconscious to the hospital, and it
was not until twenty-four flours later
that his attending physicians discovered
that his neck was broken. Al"
though the bones were broken, the
nervous connection was not severed,
and Westbrook's head was placed in >
an immovable position, and telegraphic
orders were sent to New York
for a special steel work support for
the head. When it arrived it was put
on and now Westbrook is able to
walk around and enjoy himself much
as other , convalescent patients,
though the steelwork holds his head
absolutely immovable and supports it.
Physibians say that in about six
. months the broken neck will have
grown strong again and that West
brook will be a well man.
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Mrs. M. W. Brace Dead.
Branchville, June 24.?Mrs. M. W.
Bruce, widow of the late F. A. Bruce,
. of this place, died this afternoon at
the age of 76 after a week's illness.
Mrs. 'Bruce was a consistent member
of the Methodist church all her life
and devoted much of her time to
church work. She was one of the
oldest and best citizens of Branchville.
She leaves the following children:
F. S. Bruce, Mrs. G. W. Baxter,
Mrs. E. S. Berry and Mrs. John
Morgan. The funeral services will
be conducted tomorow afternoon by
the pastor of the Methodist church,
Rev. J. A. White.
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FAMOUS ORANGEBURG BAND.
Brings Home Banner Presented to ii
By People of Nice
Orangeburg, June 21.?A numbei
of local young men who belonged t(
the famous 318th Field Artillerj
Band, Eigthy-first Division, have re
ceived their discharges and are nov
at home. The band comes home wit!
the unique distinction of having re
"ceived a beautiful hand-painted banner.
The banner was presented tc
the band by the people of Nice, th<
band playing in Nice about two weeks
and thousands of people hearing th<
music that made for itself a name noi
to be forgotten. -s. The
band was organized in Orange
burg, South Carolina, in 1907, by O
[ K. Wilson, Sr. It served on the Mexi
can border and while there was
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Regiment band. While on the bor
der it had the distinction to play foi
General Pershing. When war witl
Germany was declared this banc
spent several months at Camp Sevier
S. C., and was later sent to Cami
Jackson, and became famous as the
318th Field Artillery Band. The or
ganizer, O. K. Wilson, Sr., continued
as leader until on January 13, 19,18
he made the supreme sacrifice foi
his country. His memory lives in th<
hearts of his townsmen.
The beautiful banner was brough
to Orangeburg and is now on display
in the show window of Mr. John T
Wise's store. It has attracted a grea
deal of comment. The banner wil
after a few weeks be presented t<
the State of South Carolina, where i
will be kept intact and where th(
people of the State may see it ir
Columbia.
Orangeburg to Pave Streets.
Orangeburg, June 18.?The nev
city administration composed of May
or W. A. Livingston and Councilmer
A. C. Watson, J. M. Sifley, will soor
ask the people of the city to approve
of an issue of $750,000 in bonds, il
such amount is necessary, and the
property owners will be called upor
to bear part of the costs payable ii
ten and twenty year installments. A
summary of what the plan include?
is nine miles of p&ved roadway; twen
ty-five miles of granite curbing; foui
and d half miles of sanitary sewers;
about four miles of water main ex
tensions, and about a mile of orna
mental highway. To help in completing
the progressive movement t
body of prominent local citizens com
posed of Adam H. Moss, F. A. Adden
R. K. Jennings, F. Q. Bryant and W
L. Moseley, are to actively assist
When the programme is completed
Orangeburg will rank first in the cities
of its size in South Carolina foi
such needed improvements.
PREDICTS COTTON FAMINE.
Commissioner Harris Says Price Will
Rise if Staple is Held.
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Columbia, Jufie 21.?That the
world is faced with a cotton famine
and the farmers will get the price ol
thirty-five cents a pound set for the
staple if they will just hold is the
opinion enunciated today by B. Harris,
Commissioner of Agriculture,
Commerce and Industries/Private reports
received from the cotton belt by
him, said Mr. Harris, show that the
condition of the growing crop is extremely
poor, varying factors retarding
it. This, of course, he claims,
will have an optimistic effect on the
price of the staple.
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Woman Dies of Wonnds.
Greenville, June 22.?Mrs. L. C.
C. McHugh, of 713 Pendleton street,
who was shot twice by her* son-inlaw,
Hugh T. Barblett, Wednesday
night, died at the city hospital this
morning as a result of the wounds.
An inquest will be held by the corotint*
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PRISONER KILLED IN CELL.
Man Held on Muider Chaise Slain
By Posse.
Bay Minette, Ala., June 22.?Frank
Fokall, a -white farmer of Silver Hall,
-was shot to death today while asleep
in a cell of the Baldwin county jail
by a posse of nine men who had
gained entrance to the jail by overpowering
the sheriff and securing the
keys.
Fokall was being held at the jail
awaiting trial on a charge of murdering
Robert Bishop on June 1. A telegram
was sent to the governor regarding
the lynching and a posse
quickly organized and is searching
for the men.
AMERICA'S PART IN
' GAS PRODUCTION
> HOW U. S. INDUSTRY PROVIDED
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i 4 Million Masks in France
* Book Being Prepared Under the Direction
of General Crow ell Discloses
Many Secrets.
t Washington, May 10.?An official
narrative of the part American indus
try played in providing munitions for
. the American army in the great war
- is unfolded in a book being prepared
5 under the direction of Assistant Seci
retarv Crowell, of the war depart
- mem, who was director or munitions
r up to the close of hostilities, when he
1 was specially assigned by the pfesil
dent to direct the demobilization of,
material.
) Advance pages of two sections of
i the book, those dealing with the
- chemical warfare material, offensive
I and defensive, and with the equip,
ment for the signal corps, were made
r available today, telling for the first
j time officially and completely not only
of the stupendous scope of the
t projects, but of the difficulties and
r delays encountered and of the pa.
triotic support of the war programme
t given by American business generali
ly:
) The chemical warfare section tells
t 1 of the original work done by the ord;
nance department toward obtaining
l toxic gasses,and anti-gas devices for
the use of American troops. Subsequently
this service became a separate
branch of the army, under the
direction of Major General W. L. Si7
bert.
Among other secrets disclosed is
1 the basis of freq,uent statements that
1 at the time of the signing of the arJ
mistice the United States alone was
^ producing gas for military use at -a
! rate ten times in excess of the best
1 production Germany could obtain.
L The Germans produced with all their
facilities about six tons of niustard
1 gas per day, while the United States
was producing more than 60 tons a
day, and employing methods of pro'
duction far more modern and efficient
than anything attained by the enemy.
There were three plants at work on
1 mustard gas, the Edgewood (Md.)
arsenal, which was manufacturing 30
' tons a day by November 11, and had
' turned out 711 tons up to that day;
* the plant at Hastings, N. Y., which
was to have a capacity of 50 tons a
* day, and was ready to operate on
November 11, and the 50-ton plant of
the National Aniline and Chemical
company,' at Buffalo, N. Y., which
was 80 per cent, complete.
I The chemical name of this compound
is dichlorethylsurplide, and its
popular name of mustard gas comes
from its odor.
Another element of the programme
was the production of tear gasses,
( not deadly under ordinary circum(
stances, but designed to produce
blindness, thus forcing the troops to
use masks extensively, impairing
their military efficiency. The foundation
of these gases was bromine, the
main supply of which is obtained
from subterranean solutions found
chiefly m the vicinity of Midland,
Mich., where the government financed
the sinking of 17 brine wells,
under direction of the Dow Chemical
company, which were prepared to
supply 650,000 tons a year.
The other chief gases are the socalled
"killers," the gases so deadly
as to bring about death unless safe
, guards are provided, cniorine and
chlorpicrin and phosgene. The onlyone
of these produced commercially
in the United States was chlorine, and
. even with that the supply was utterly
inadequate to the demand.
Thousands of Tons of Gas Shipped.
A statistical table shows that 1,486
tons of chlorine in liquid form, 1,903
tons of chlorpicrin, 420 tons of phosgene
and 190 tons of mustard oil
were actually shipped overseas from
January to November, 1918. In addition
300,000 75-mm shells loaded
with chlorpicrin and 150,000 loaded
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shipments including 224,000 phosphorus
grenades as smoke bombs and
18,600 phosgene bombs for Livens
mortars. The capacity for filling
shells and bombs on the day of the
armistice exceeded 4,800,000 a
month. At that time the practice of
shipping gases abroad in bulk to be
loaded into projectiles on the other
side had been abandoned.
"We, therefore, shipped to Europe
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CONVICTED SIX TIMES.
Willie Betliune to Stand Seventh
Trial for Murder.
Columbia, June 23.?Willie Bethune,
the negro whose case has been
in the courts of South Carolina for
the past ten years, received a new
lease on life late this afternoon when
the State supreme court, in an opinion
by Chief Justice Eugene B. Gary
remanded the negro back to the circuit
court of Marlboro county to
stand his seventh trial for life. He j
already has been convicted of the
murder of G. B. Minis, a white man
of Marlboro six times and has receiv-1
ed a half dozen death sentences. In
each instance there was an appeal
to the supreme court, which reversed
the judgment of the lower court in
every case.
Sunday morning, February 21,
1909, the horse and buggy of G. B.
Mims were lost on the public highway
of Marlboro county and were
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mediately went "joy riding" with two
of his women friends. The buggy
contained a valise, in which among
other things was a revolver. This
Bethune pocketed. In the afternoon
Mr. Mims accompanied by a friend,
A. J. McFadden, in another buggy,
went in search of the minus conveyance.
When located it was still being
driven by Bethune, with his two
companions. Mr. Mims commanded
the two women to alight and got in
the buggy with Bethune, presumably
to arrest him. Bethune then shot
him in the head. There is some dispute
in the testimony as to whether
Mr. Mims likewise fired. Bethune
was first tried for his life at Manning,
in June 1909 was convicted and sentenced
to be hanged on June 30, 1909.
in bulk," the report states, "3,662
tons of gas or its equivalent, which
gas was largely loaded into shells
and used by the United States troops
or those of the allies. This quantity
was sufficient to load 1,600,000
shells, the total number thought to be
at least equal to 'the total number
of gas shells by American troops in
action.
"Thus, while American gas was
not actually fired in American shells
against the Germans, American gas
was used against the enemV and
America furnished at least as muchgas
as she fired.
"In addition to this we shipped
18,600 Livens drums loaded with
phosgene. These contained 279 tons
of gas and some of them were fired
at the enemy."
A table of casualties at the Edgewood
arsenal shows that, while only
four men lost their lives from gas at
this plant, 925 were injured, the bulk
of them, 674, in mustard gas accidents.
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Americans Had Best Masks.
Taking up the defensive side of gas
warfare material, the reports shows
that the American troops had "the
best and most protective gas .masks
the world had seen, and they brought
these with them by the millions." A
total of 5,250,000 masks were produced,
of which 4,000,000 were sent
overseas, and the report states that
these masks "gave 20 times the protection
afforded by the best German
gas masks."
"No American soldier was ever
gassed due to the failure of an American
gas mask," the report says, "and
such gas casualties as did occur were
due to the fact that the masks were
not quickly enough utilized when the
gas was thrown over or because the
soldier was unaware of the presence
of gas."
The original order from the department
was for 25,000 masks to go
with Pershing's first expedition and
the report tells in detail of the frantic
efforts necessary to procure them,
efforts which actually counted for little
since the masks were hot used
for many months. At the time the
expedition sailed, however, the British
and French were not thoroughly
acquainted with the gas warfare that
was developing nor had completely
effective protection been worked out.
In speaking of the first German gas
attack upon Canadian troops at
Ypres, the report says chlorine was
used and while protection of the
troops from it later became an easy
matter, "it was only lack of faith in
their new weapons that prevented
the Germans from winning the war
with it then and there.
Germans Might Have Gassed Their j
Way to Paris.
"Had they brought into the fighting
a sufficient supply of this chlorine,"
the report continues, "they
might have gassed their way to Paris
in short order. As it was, they
brought to the line an almost neglible
supply and they themselves were in
PRESIDENT WILSON
RETURNS THIS WEEK
CABLES TUMULTY EXPECTS TO
RETURN THURSDAY'.
To Present Treaty First
Then After Clearing Desk Will Start
Speaking Tour on League
of Nations.
Washington, June 23.?President
Wilson cabled Secretary Tumulty today
that he expected to leave on his
homeward journey Wednesday or
Thursday.
The president should make the return
trip within a week and immediately
after his arrival here he will
personally present the peace treaty to
the senate for ratification. After he
clears his desk of accumulated work
he will make a "swing around the circle,"
speaking in support of the
treaty and the league of -nations covenant.
The women in the presidential
pary, in addition to Mrs. Wilson, will
include Miss Margaret Wilson and
Mrs. John W. Davis, wife of the
American ambassador in London.
One company of the guard of honor
at the president's residence will
remain in Paris until the peace negotiations
with the other enemy countries
are concluded.
To Sail Tursday.
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Brest, June 23.?The U. S. S.
George Washington which will carry
President Wilson back to the United
States, received orders today to be
ready to sail Thursday morning. The
work of loading the transport began
;his evening.
One battleship and four destroyers
will compose the escort of the George
Washington. In mid-ocean, four destroyers
from the Azores will relieve
the original four.
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AMBASSADOR GONZALES.
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Washington, June 23.?William E.
Gonzales, of Columbia, S. C., now
minister to Cuba, was nominated to- i
day by President Wilson to be ambassador
to Peru. Boaz W. Long, of
New Mexico, former chief of the
Latin-American division of the State
Department, was nominated to be j
minister to Cuba and Benton C. McMillan,
of Tennessee, to be minister
to Guatamala.
The appointment of Mr. Gonzales
as ambassdor to Peru is in accord
with agreement between that country
and the United* States to raise the
rank of their diplomatic representatives.
Mr. Gonzales will succeed Mr.
McMillan, who is now minister to
Peru.
sufficiently protected to go through
their own gas and follow up the attack.
By the time they were able to
renew gas warfare the French and
British had equipped themselves with
masks which were sufficient to pro
tect men against chlorine."
The report tells of the development
of gas masks from the original gauze
pads soaked in chemicals to the "box
respirator" which came into general
use. The Americans and British employed
a double protection mask, the
face piece being gas tight but, to insure
against leaks, a mouth piece and
nose clip being supplied also, insuring
protection even in a torn mask.
The first order was for 1,100,000 of
these masks for the American forces.
Subsequently, to provide greater
comfort for the men, it was decided
abroad that a single protection mask
would be sufficient, the risk of leaky
masks being regarded as preferable
to the discomfort of the double protection
type. When this decision was
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received, nowevw, uu OIUV) *V I
was decided to carry forward experiments
with new types of masks which
would give both comfort and security.
This was carried forward to a point
where a sq.uad of 150 men in the field
testing section almost lived in their
gas masks, working, playing baseball,
dis-sring trenches, fighting sham battles
day and night in which actual
gas grenades were employed and exposing
themselves to the heaviest
concentrations of the deadly gases
under all conditions.
How Men at Work Experimented.
"The work of this section," the report
says, "even went so far in the
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SOLDIER ARRESTED.
Won Three Medals and Eleven Citations
for Bravery.
Nashville, June 18.?Arrested at
Huntsville, Ala., with two men in
army uniform', and brought here today,
a man who gave his name as
Howard Moore, 22, of Mobile, Ala.,
winner of three medals and 11 citations
for bravery, according to the
police confessed that he and his companions
were the men who on Monday
tied a taxicab driver to a tree
and stole his automobile. Moore served
over seas with the One Hundred
and Fifteenth Infantry for 18 months,
spent eight months in the first line
trenches.
Newpaper accounts of Moore's valor
says he was one of five men left
from 115 in his company. According
to Moore's statement and newspaper
clippings he is winner of the D. S. C.,
Croix de Guerre, War cross and was
cited 11 times for bravery.
The three men are charged with
grand larceny of an automobile and
assault and battery. ? ' >
Moore received a bayonet wound
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in the left leg, and was gassed and
slightly wounded another time.
When arrested he was wearing the
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VETERAXS RECERT1 PEXSIOX.
Apportionment on Forty and Thirtytwo
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Columbia, June 20.?The State
pension board, which has been in
session the last two days, adjourned
yesterday afternoon. Another meet- v
ing will, be called within the next few
weeks to complete all details as to
the distribution of the extra $100,000
appropriated at the last session of
. the general assembly for Confederate
veteran7, who heretofore had not re
I ceived ary pensions. The lists of
I awards have not been completed.
| W. D. McLaurin, pension commis(
sioner, said yesterday that the comI
mission^had enrolled of these about
2,800 veterans. These are divided
into two closses, the classification being
determined by physical condition,
financial circumstances-and age. The
more indigent class will receive $40
and the other $32/ There are about
450 in the first class and about 2,300
In the other.
Members of the State pension
board are: D. W. McLaurin, commissioner,
Columbia; John Ahrens,
Charleston; J. E. Craig, Chester;
George M. Hannah, Cross Hill, and
James C. Sellers, Sellers.
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BUYS INTEREST IN COURIER.
Dr. J. S. Dill to Move From Gaffney
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Gaffney, June 23.?Dr. J. S. Dill
who for several years has been pastor .X
of the First Baptist church of Gaffney,
made the announcement yesterday
that he had acquired an interest
in the Baptist Courier, which is published
in Greenville, > and that he
would give up his pastorate here and
move to the Mountain city. Not only
are the Baptist people of Gaffney
sorry, but the announcement was
heard with sincere regret by the
members of the other churches in
Gaffney, who recognize in Dr. Dill
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one of the most powerful preachers
in the Baptist church. Mrs. Dill, who r
is a woman of rare attainments, and
who has made a most able assistant
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to her talented husband, will be also
greatly missed in the Sunday-school
of the church where she has labored
most faithfully since her residence
in Gaffney.
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Children Killed by Airplane.
Boston, Mass., June 23.?A bombing
plane piloted by Lieut. Col. H. B.
Claggett struck and killed two children
and injured another in landing
at Franklin Field today. Capt. Win.
H. Chandler, observer of the machine
was slightly hurt. The plane,
one of seven which arrived from Albany,
N. Y., on the last leg of a flight
from Dallas, Texas, was wrecked. . / .
A large crowd had gathered on
the field to watch the landing. Coming
down against the wind, Lieut.
Claggett, saw his course was carrying
into the crowd, to avoid this he
deliberately headed into a clump of
trees. He did not see the three children
who were standing near the trees
until it was too late to change his
course again. The plane hit the
children and crashed into one of the
trees. The pilot was not hurt. Capt.
Chandler was taken to a hospital
where it was said the injuries were
not serious. The other planes landed * safely.
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