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XO KENT Foil THEXCHES. i Army Officers Disposes of Old Story.! Many Claims Settled. Paris, Sept. S.?Col. Blanton Win- j ship, judge advocate general and also j head of the claims department of the j American expeditionary forces, final- j ly disposed of the old story that; the French people claimed rentals for j the ground occupied by the trenches ' at the front in his testimony today I before the committee of the Ameri- j can congress which is investigating' war expenditures. He testified that no such claim had ever been made | against American expeditionary j forces and that the only claims of tlr's ! nature were for the use of ground in train in of area, which was cut j 1U CUV V* W* ? .?0 - - , . * up and damaged in order to familiarize the men with conditions at the front. His department, Colonel Winship said, has thus far disposed of j y 40,000 claims which have been settled on about the same basis as claims against the French government. These claims include about 36,000,000 francs iisrentals for property occupied as hospitals and headquarters and 50,000,000 francs for j the billeting of soldiers and animals, j Damages have also been paid, he i asserted, in about 150 cases in which the French people were killed by American expeditionary forces motor cars. Nearly 7,000 cases, Colonel Winship testified, officers, and men were "* * * 1 *? ~ r\ f oongea to snare in me yatajcm claims for damages for which they personally had been responsible. Xo claims were paid in connection with criminal acts of soldiers except in one instance in which a man on sentry duty unjustifiably shot and instantly killed a Frenchman. Colonel Winship declared that his department had settled claims growing out of more than 15,000 installations of the American expeditionary forces in France. Thus far, in less than 1 per cent, of the cases the claimants refused the sums offered. 24-HOUR BATH IS FIAIRLY TRIED. "Uncle*' George Decides it Won't Do For Elderly Men. Anderson, Sept. 10. ? "Uncle" George Jones, colored and eightyfive, has discovered that swimmin' holes are made for little boys. He is now inclined to the belief, moreover, that a bath of twenty-four hours duration is too much of a good thing, no matter how alluring the placid waters-of Generostee Creek, or how badly the ablution is needed. "Uncle" George's name appeared on the missing list the other day, and as he was not a truant by repute there was much concern over his prolonged absence. The solution of the mystery is, as has been learned / since "Uncle" George's reappearance, that he yielded to the call of a sort of reminiscent longing, dormant, perhaps, since the.days "befo' de tvah," j and fared merrily creekward to satis- i fy the yearning. Having draped thej hare limbs of a neighboring tree with < his conventional regalia, the dusky I lad of eighty-five summers, stepped gingerly downward to inquire.by contact if the water of the ancient hole was still fine. It was. And the hole i was easy to get into. But it was alarmingly hard to get out of, as j "Uncle" George became aware i through periodic efforts during the j succeeding twenty-four hours. He j was a nice clean little boy when searchers found him. Apparently, the injur*- to his physical well-being, if any at all, was negligible. SHOULD GO TO PHI SOX. York Grand Jury Wants Liquor Law Violators Punished. York, Sept. 12.?The regular September term of the court of general sessions for York county, which convened here .Monday morning with Judge T. S. Sease, of Spartanburg, presiding, adjourned Wednesday afternoon, having disposed of all business ready for transaction. 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