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"BERMA MEAT SUPPLY LIMITED NATION MUST REDUCE ITS CON SUMPTION BY CIVIL POPULAITION. SURPLUS SUPPLY OF BREAD All Demands For Other Foodstuffs Can Be Met, It Is Thought. Washington.-(;ermrany faces the necessity of relucin;, the hoeat con sumption of her civil population 40 or 50 per cent. acc'ordin to a report Fent by the Amerii'an Anihassador of Coninter'ce and 'Trade in Berlin to the departinent of C0 Iii iii er'i '. The report says. however, that the bread card system has resulted In a surplus of wheat and rye flour which will miiakhe ponsible all l' irea e in the bread allowa nce. Introduction of a imeat card scheme to restrict coinsi nptitoni and insure reasonable prices is predicted by the association. Fromi statistics gathered before the war it. is estimated that Germnany do pended on imports for about 27.3 per cent of her foodstuffs. "In anlyzing the effect of these figures upon the general situation." says the report. "it should he borne in mind that Germany's isolation is not conilplete one. since about 8.500. 0010 bushels of whent hare been brought in since the olut hreac of tihe war and not inli eh lss of t lodder wl'hhi is loiui ole-tenlth of norinal ilup 1rts per year. Iutter arid meat imiports from lolland. Ileniin:rk and Sweden are said to have been considerable, whi'' lisli were secured in large qulantities from Norway. "It can be asslouod," Ille report continues. "that one-quarter of the noriinal deinand for foodstutts has been brought in." 'Ti' atgregat' sa vinr over peace constllllptioll of all foodstuffs is esti iiated at from 11; to 17 per cent. "Interest is now centered." the re port says, "on the out look for 1915 16. and it is generally conceded that in respect to wheat arid rye, no ditli culties will aris" if the next crop should not he a humper on1e." The .oncilusiol is that all demands for bread stuff,: and potatoes can be filled. It wit he possible to Increase the amount of bread per head on the bread card. and sugar and milk will be suliciently supplied. Balkans May Enter War Soon. London.---Italy's declaration of war against Turkoly is oxpert ed to have an alillost imiliediat i 'ffect on tile Halka States, Which are still debating whih side they will tale in the conflict, lie lamions bitwt'en Italy and lioumiania long have boeli n iniate and it Is pro ditid her' that, t'specially in view of t' thlrening aWitt itude of the Ger refutisal to allor iimmuniitlin to pass thlrugh ther territoryv fltoumania wvilh join the Quladru'ple initenite. l'.ilgaia is wa~titing for Serbia's re ply to thle suggetionils (if thle IEntente inuist(ers ihnit S'ia ('idet Mlatedonia| tui lililgariia. Gr'eett is likely to do cla rt he tr fui tr polity whlen thle 'lham her nu''t s iihis wieek . It isjg~ reryed her'ie as sigznificanit that M\. Veniizelois. wvho always hias be'en friendlIy to lie iitiente hais delidedl to take charge, in addit ion to it Grecian premitriship of ho offit't (f in~lister of foreign a f fairs. Texas Threatened by Epidemic. Galvest on. T'exas.-Wind and1( water Iiavte ixaeiled thleu' toll of 300 lives and $fl0.oo00.00 in tiroplerty ini southbeast Tex'.as and now the ariea that wias de vastat ed biy th li'ios t te'Irrific hiurricane ( (if halIf a cenitury' faces the menace of distase. Thousaii~inds of enar(easses, cattle, hors-s. miul Os and t 5I sheep alldc hogs 110 rot Uing whei rte they wer icari-ed biy tloiot waters. E~very e'ffort is being made to remiove t hese by burning or buiirial, liut it ill lie imiposs51 ihe to fully ac(complliishi t his for several (lays. Wilson Awaits Arabic Reports. Wa slihigt on, .1 id g'eent is suis. Pendted by t h' I 'nite'd States govern men11t on t' t orpledoling of the lI(i-e Arable wvi h a hiss of twvo American liv es. Peiidinrg airr ival of of1leiaIl in formation, high oticials illh not dis cuss It. It wvas unlder-stood the all hnlilortant relporit awaited biefore thle Unitedi States dteteriniles wihether' Germnaniy hasi comm11 ittted a "delIier ately un~frlendly aet'' Is expected from Amibassadoir Gerard. Sta to ments of Ameicanl suriv~ors say Arah is wvas tor'pedoedl without wvarning. 20 Drowned in Flood. St. Louis.-T'1he Mer'amee RIver, lined wilth pleasure resorts, cluii) houses, and sun111ner cottages, 'vent several miles out of its banks, swept ay~a niost of these buIldings and in creasedl to 20, It Is repoirtedl, the num-n bien of lives lost in St. Louis county, during the last few daiys as a result of the flood. The Meramiee's rise was so sudden that huntdreds had time only to climb toi treetoli. Efforts were being made to rescue these with miotor'boats. The r'iver p'assedl a stage nyo feet righer thani ever before. SEVERAL AMERICAN LIVES WERE LOST SITUATION CAUSED BY SINKINg OF ARABIC REGARDED AS VERY GRAVE. SEEKING ACCURATE DETAILS American Government Awaiting to Find Out If German Submarine Acted Unfriendly. Washington.-Tension increased in official quarters hero when Consular messages forwarding aflidavits of American survivors of the British liner Arabic brought definite informa tion that the vessel was torpedoed without warning, and that at least some Americans had been lost. It seemed that but one point re mrined to be cleared up-whether the Arabic attempted to ram the sub marine or whether a change of the liner's course to assist the already sinking British steamer Dunsley near by was misinterpreted by the German submarine commander as a hostile ap proach. The attitude of the American gov ernment for the moment is receptive, anxiiously awaiting accurate details and reserving judgment as to wheth er the action was "deliberately un friendly." The final decision rests with President Wilson. The president motored to Philadel phia to see an occulist. No state ment was forthcoming as details from abroad were lacking, but everywhere in official quarters the grave aspects of the case were discussed. The gen eral trend of comment was that the American government had reached the point where it must now decide whether it would sever diplomatic re lations with Germany. . In addition to awaiting informa tion from the Amerlian survivors, the Embassy in London and American Consuls, oflicials expect some word from Ambassador Gerard at Berlin to indicate whether the attack without warning on the Arabic had the sanc tion of the German government. Should Germany offer an explana tion, asserting there were qualifying circumstances, such as an attempt by the Arabic to escape or ram the sub marine, the disposition on Germany's Part to discuss the case would in all liklihood be construed here as a dis avowel of any intention deliberately to violate the principles for which the Dunited States has contended. GALVESTCN TO REBUILD. Planning For Stronger and Better Causway Than Ever. Galveston, Tex.-Wire service was restored to Galveston by the Western Union. The first wire message out of the (-ity was an Associated Press dis patch. Galveston's known loss ot life was eight killed in the city proper and 25 in the low sections on the western portion of the island. There is plenty or food in the city. AMayor- Fisher said the causeway wvill be rebuilt at once, "str-onger and better- tihan ever-." It was estimated it will cost $750,000,000 to repair the damage. Fr~esh water wvas started running into the city mains from Altooma, the city's water reser-voir, 18 miles away on the mainland. The people had been driinking wvater from wells and a ser-ious impairment of health was feared. Plans for quick restoration of railroad traffic were madle at a meet ing of representatives of all the rail roads entering Galveston. The people of Galveston are in good spirits de spite the damage and inconvenience. Murphy Gets Another Letter. Chiengo.-A letter purpor-ting to be .dgned by fl. P. Blobo of Marietta, Ga., enclosing a piece of rope saidl to be a piece of that used in lynching Leo Frank, and twvo leaves said to lie fr-om the tr-ee on which he was hanged, wvas received by Elmer RI. Mui-phy, a Chicago business man. German Food Supply. Blerlin-The Overseas News Agency gave out for publication the following items: "Discussing the control and dlistribution of food supplies and~ oth er measures taken to feed the Ger-man people during the coming year, a government official stated that the new hairvest year began with a surplus of 700.000 tons of wheat and corn. The yieldl of rye this year is a little below the average. The wheat crop is above the average. The crop of potatoes is excellent." Gov. Harris issues Statement. Atlanta, Ga.-Gov. Nat E. IharrIs of Georgia, after a' consultation with meinbers of the state prison commis sion Issued in the tormn on at inter view a statement on the lynching of Leo M. Frank. The governor declared he wvould do all in his power to bring to Sustice the perpetrators of the "un fort~unate occurrence." The statement points out that thte state prison farm at Milledgevlle was not consti-uctedi with the Idea of withstanding an at tack from tha ous.a TRADIV "HA. MA I oOr .HUT OP THAT OL R GOAT AT LAST. WONDER WHAT HE'LL G -- FWrR HER HID SCORES PERISII IN STORM PROPERTY DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT THIRTY MILLIONS-MAR TIAL LAW. Houston, Virginia Point, Texas City, and Several Other Cities Report Loss of Lives and Property. Dallas, Texas. - Galveston has emerged from one of the most severe storms in the annals of the Gulf of Mexico, battered and sorely burdened with financial loss, but with the known loss of life less than a score. First defnnite news received from the island city since the tropical hur ricane set the death list at 14. An accurate estimate of the property damage was not yet possible, but it is expected to reach the proportions of the storm of 1900, when property valued at $15,000,000 was swept away. A thousand feet of the seawall was swept away, the causeway which con nects Galveston with the mainland was cut in two and the city is strewn with the debris of 500 buildings crush ed by the assaults of wind and the tidal waves. Three fires also did great damage and the city is without an adequate supply of drinking water, the mains leading to the city's supply wells at Aeto Loma, 18 miles away, having been broken. The loss to the city' sport facilities has been enormous and all kinds of craft have suffered. The United States transport McClellan is high aground on Pelican island, Just across the ship channel. Many vessels have beer. capsized and several are reported as destroyed. The city was placed under martial law. In bearing the brunt of the storm, Galveston Islaud and Bolivar Penin sula served as barriers to break the force of the hurricane against the little bay shore towns to the north. The bay towvns surfered heavily, however. In Virginia Point, more than a score are dead; at Texas City, is, 12 of whom wvere soldiers, are reported drowned., In the Beaumont section, Port Ar thur, Sabine, Sabino Pass, and Round Lake were deluged and are reported to have been heavy losers. NEW ROLLING STOCK FOR A. C. L. Coast Line Will Add 750 FreIght Cars and 10 Locomotives. Wilmington.-The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company has just plac edl orders for early delivery of 750 newv freight cars and 10 locomotives according to a statement made by President John R. Kenly. The deliv ery of the ears to begir in three months and continue at the rate of 25 daily until the contract is completed. The locomotives are to be delivered by November 1. The new investment rep resents an outlay estimated at more than $1,000,000,000. "WeV are simply putting our house in order," President Kenly said, "and while there is no immediate need for the new equipment, we want to be in a position to care for our fut ure needs." Germans Capture Kovno. London.-Koyono, one of the crut cial points in the Russian defenses in tho North, has fallen and the road to the Vilna, Warsaw andl Petrograd Railway now is open to the troops of 10mperor William. 'L'he capture of Kovno was another triumph for the German 16-inch guns. With the fort ress the Ger-mans took more than 400 guns and according to their account, an enormous quantity of wvar material. Tihis, however, is not the most serious part of the loss of Kovno, but the opening of the railway. Villa's Reply Received. Washington..-Villa's reply to the Pan-American appe-al for a peace coni fore~nce among the Mexican factions was received by the Villa agent here, E~nriq~ue C. Llorene and presented to Secretary Lansing:. It has not been made public, but is understood to ac cept the offer of the conferees to aid in restoring government in MexIco. General Cantu, Villa governor of Low er California, also replied to the appeal. It was said his response was favorable and in line with that of Vil la. himself. FOSSES TE-NEE i H-O HO f 1 Q HOPE OLD QOBBIN LIVES TILL HE GITS IM't HOME ~e, TROUBLE PLACING LOAN NOW SAID THAT NEW BRITISH LOAN WILL BE CUT TO ONE HUNDRED MILLION. Large Loan First Proposed Could Not Be Placed.-Reduced Amount Will Restore Normal Conditions. New York.-A reduction in the pro posed foreign loan to be floated here from half billion dollars first sug gested to $100,000,000 or $150,000,000 seemed probable as the result of all (lay conferences of international fi nanciers here and by cable between th!s city and London. While it generally was thought this amount would be utterly inadequate to meet the volume of bills coming due rapidly against foreign buyers of Am erican supplies, it was felt it would be sufficient to restore to normal value the foreign moneys now at low levels of depreciation. The chief reason for the contem plated reduction was understood to be the belief that a large loan, such as was first projected, could not be readily placed here. Wires to England vibrated all day with proposals and suggestions be tween bankers to whom the depression in exchange markets has been a source of keen apprehension. At the close of the day n -gotiations had not assumed concrete form. "The situation has not yet crystal lized," was the way one banker ex pressed it. A loan of $150,000,000, it was point ed out, would on the ordinary basis of four to one, secure a credit of $600,000,000 in this country. Accord ing to reports, collateral was to con sist partly of American securities, partly of British external notes, and partly other collateral of a character not yet determined. ARRAIGN ROCK ISLAND OFFICIALS Railroad Men Are Charged With MIs representation by Commission. Washington .-The Interstate Coin merce Commission's report on its in vestijkation of Reck Island Railroad financial affairs, shows millions of dol lars in losses in stock transactions, charges the railroad ofilals with misrepresentations in their reports to stockholders, discloses great profits to promoters of the Rock Island hold ing companies, and arraigns the syndi cate operations which began in the early nineties. The department of justice has been wvaiting to go over the report. The interstate commerce commission broadly suggests action by the' legal brance of the government. The ag gregate losses to the Rock Island in the Alton, F~risco and other deals are summarized by the commission as follows: "Frisco deal, approximately $6,500, 000; Alton deal, more than $4,500.000; Consolidated Indiana & Deering Coal Cos., at least $1,300,000 and $2,500, 000 additional if advances made to the coaj companies cannot be collected; contributions or gratuities to ofllcers and directors, about $1,000,000, ex penses of maintaining and hoursing holding companies, more than $290, 000; transaction of C. IH. 'Venner, a stockholder, $217,000; miscellaneous andl unexplained expenditures $72,523. These items show an aggregate loss to the railway company of more than 420,000,000." Another Georgia Lynching. Blainbridge, Ga.-John Riggans, a negro, was lynched by a posse0 of farmers here, lie was accusedi of as saulting the wife of a tobacco planter. Frye Note May Have Effect. Wash ington.-On its face dealing with a single case, the importance of whic., could be measured in a com paratively small number of dollors, the American note to the German Foreign 0f1ice in regard to the de structIon of the sailing ship William P. Frye by the Prinz Eltel Friedich may have results most important in their bearing on the whole (Ilestion of the treatment of neutral commerce hy the European belligerents. The Unit ed States acqiesces in the German proposal that a board fix the value. GEMIA MR SINKS BIG LINER TRANSATLANTIC LINER ARABIC ENROUTE TO NEW YORK SENT TO BOTTOM. ------ SUNK WITHOUT WARNING About Fifteen Americans on Board. Most of Passengers Are Saved. Good Order Prevailed. London.-The big White Star liner Arabic from Liverpool for New York was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine southeast of Fastnet. The steamer, says a White Star Line statement, was attacked with out warning and went down in 10 minutes. Of the 423 persons on board (181 passengers and 242 members of the crew) 32 are believed to have perished. Most of those who have not bL.n accounted for belong to the crew. Only six passengers are reported missing. Whether any of these not accoupt ed for are Americans has not yet been determined, but there were only 26 citizens of the United States on board, 22 in the second cabin and four in the steerage. The vessel had no first class pas sengers, havin' gbeen turned into a two-class liner. The survivors who left the steamer in the ship's boats and were picked up later by passing vessels, arrived in Queen-town and are being cared for in hotels and boarding houses in the little town which so recently cared for the survivors and the dead of the Lusitania. Details of the sinking are lacking but that the loss of life was not great. or doubtless was due to the fact that the weather was fine and that steam ers plying the German submarine war zone now keep their boats swung out prepared for emergencies. The torpedo that sunk the Arabic struck her on the starboard side 100 feet from her stern. The vessel had left Liverpool August 18 and taken a southerly course, well off the Irish coast, doubtless with a view of avoid ing the submarines which frequent the waters nearer the shore. When some 50 miles west of where the Lusitania was sunk in May the German underwater boat rose to the surface and launched a torpedo. The marksmaship of the German, as in the case of the Lusiatania, was deadly accurate and like the Lusiatania the big liner quickly settled and shortly disappeared from view. Some of the survivors, according to reports re ceived here, say they had just wit nessed the torpedoing of a British steamer, presumably the Dunsley and that this had caused great alarm. In their fright the passengers had rush ed for life-preservers and had barely as justed them when the. German sub marine turned its torpedo against the vessel's side. HAVE PLENTY OF MONEY, Could Finance EntIre Cotton Crop If it Were Necessary. Washington-Conmptroller of the Currency WVilliamls announced that the present unemployed loaning ca pacity of national banks and reserve banks wvas sufficient to finance at market value the entire cotton crop and half if not all of the tobacco and whleat crops and to conservatively justify an expasion of credit of two or thrIee Dillion dollars. A statemenlt issued by the Comp troller referred to the prospect for unusual demands for funds, particu larly in the event cotton should be declared contraband by thle European belligerents and declared a survey o1 the conditions of the national and reserve banks wvas distinctly encour aging. Never before, Mr. Williams said, had the banks been so strong and so thoroughly prepared to han dle any problem that might be pre sentedl to them. Just before the statement was is sued, the British Embassy authorized the announcement that the Allies had agreed upon the principle that cot ton was contraband, Purchase of Liners Approved. Washington.--The Allied govern. ments have agreed in principle that cotton is contraband of war. *rhe ex act (late when this announcement shall be made is still undier consid eration as wvell as other details con nectedl with the proclamationls. The statement was authorized at tile Brit ish embassy. As soon as the offcial announcemenlt is made, it will be dis. closed also that the Allied govern ments have prepared to stand behind the market to prevent ruinous de pression of prices to planters. WashIngton is Shocked. Washington.-Newvs of the torpe doing of tile- British steamer Arable of the White Star Line with Amed cans on board came as a shock to offi cials of the United States Governmnent, who had hoped since the dispatch of the last American note there would be no further aggravation of an al ready tense situation between the U~nite'd States and Germany, Omeical information was meager, and it was only through press dispatches that it was heard here that the vesel was tornadeed without wanng. JOHNSON ELECTEO BY BIG MAJORII SOUTH CAROLINIAN NAMED PRES IDENT NATIONAL EDUCATION AL ASSOCIATION. A VERY PROMINENT FIGURE Known as One of the Foremos Teachers of the State.-President of Winthrop College. Oakland, Cal.-David B. Johnsoi president of Winthrop Normal an-. Industrial college at Rock Hill, S. C was elected president of the Nations Education association by a vote 479 to 174 for Miss Grace C. Strach of Brooklyn, N. Y. Dr. David Bancroft Johnson is o of the best known educators of Sout Carolina. First and only president ' Winthrop college, he has always s' in the front rank of the fight for ed cation in this state. llis reputat as head of the south's greatest norm and industrial college has spre aDroad and for years he has been prominent figure in the . councils educational bodies throughout United States. Last year ne w prominently mentioned for presider. of the National Education assocla tion, of which this year he has beeLd elected head, but withdrew in favor . of Dr. David Starr Jordan. Dr. Johnson was at one time super intendent of the city schools of Co lumbia, and it was in this capacity that he first came into contact wit the Winthrop training school, whic he was to develop into one of tb largest institutions of the south. Drinks Three Pints Whiskey. Spartanburg.-Drinking three pint of whiskey in a very short while witi out becoming intoxicated was the in usual experience of Miss Beulah Row of Caroleen, N. C., recently. Th young lady, a guest in the home c Sam Elders, at Clifton No. 1 mil while walking about the garden wa bitten on the foot by a poisonou snake of the copperhead variety. Ii spite of the suction and whiske: treatments, as well as other local rem edies recommended by neighbors, thi wound swelled so as to be quite alarm ing, but at last reports the girl Wa: doing well, and no bad results are ex pected. Live Stock at Greenwood. ,Greenwood.-Considerable interest is being shown in all sections of the county in the movement to bring into Greenwood county this fall a carload of pure bred bulls of the beef type. .4 President T. J. Kinard of the Green wood County Live Stock association called a meeting of farmers recently to hear the plan outlined by W. W. Long, state demonstration agent. An other meeting wvill be held August 28, at which meeting the various towvn ship committees appointedl to organ Ize clubs to buy these bulls wvill make kneir reports. Calhoun's First Bale. St. Matthews.-Calhoun county's first bale of new' cotton was brought here and stored. Thlle hale weighed 400 pounds and grd ded strict middling and w.as grown onI the farm of J. S. Wan1nmaker. froi: selected seed, which yields a fine staple. Cotton is opening -and several farmers have be gun picking. The c .tton crop in this county is in good cEndition although a good deal of corn ~n the lower half of the coutny was lrned up by the recent drought. Co~ siderably over 3,000 bushels of wh at has beeu ground by the flour ml here. State Clerks In Se sion. Greenville.--Some 35 m ,mbers of the South Carolina State Cl .rk's asso elation have been In session'~q their annual convention at Chick Sjyi . Three interesting sess-ions wvere] ld during the (lay and at the night se ' sion the convention adjourned. Mat. ters affecting the work of these court ofmeers in both the criminal and civil branches of the court wvere taken up and discussed at some length. Doomed Negro DIes. Spartanburg.-Cint Carter, a negro under sentence of death, diedI here as the result of an operation for appendi. cities. HeI was convicted of murder at. the January termi of court in Green. yale county and sentence4 by Judge Prince. He wvas later brought to the Spartanburg jail for safe-keeping on account of the building of a new jail in Greenville. Delay In execution was occasioned by the filing of ani appeal. The body was turned over to a local undertaker and wvill be shipped to rol. atives in Greenville. Coal Plant Completed. Charleston. - The coal handling plant of the Souathern' Railway on the Cooper river has been completed. IFinal tests of the machinery are be. ing made and the first carload of coal Will in the next (lay or two be dump. 3d on to the dock of a lighter moored tlongsidle the wharf. This means that hie $600,000 plant is readly for actual )perations and that in the next few veeks trainload after trainload of oal will be speeding toward Charles.. on from the Cunmherlan, coa fieds