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II GINGHAMS__ADVANCE HIGHER PRICES ARE BEING PAID FOR FAST COLORED COTTON CLOTHS. DUE TO HIGH COST OF DYE Ginghams Reaches New High Record. -Bleached Goods High.-Fancy Goods Active at High Prices. New York.-Cotton goods market continue strong in price with trading on a smaller scale. There ari still many orders being hooked for goods to be delivered all through this year. and some instattees are reported of buyers trying to make engagements into next year. The Jobbers are much less active in purchases than the manufacturing trades. Color cotton goods still continue very firm, and frequent instances are reported of higher prices being paid for fast col ored cloths. Staple Southern ginghams were ad vanced another quarter of a cent dur ing the paFt week to a basis of seven c('nts a yard, one cent a yard higher than similar goods ever sold. This high price is due largely to the high cost of fast dyes. Bleached goods continue firm with an advancing ten dency. Wide sheetings are sold in many instances to the end of the year awl many brands ar sold ahead into September. Cotton duck rules very firm. Print cloths and convertibles are firm, with advances reported in sateens, twills and some heavy drolls. Fancy goods are active at higher prices, late eqn tracts being placed. Fine yarn r-oods are exceedingly high and firm. Quote prices are as follows: Print cloths, 28-inch 64x64s, 4 cents;' 64x 60s, 3 7-8 cents; 38 1-2 inch 64x64s, 6 1-2 cents; brown sheetings, South ern standards. 8 cents; denims, 2.20s, Indigo, 18 1-2 cents; tickings. 8 ounce, 15 cents; standard staple ginghams, 8 cents; standard staple prints, 6 1-2 cents; dress ginghams 10 1-2 cents. MEXICANS OFFER WIRES. Telephone and Telegraph at Service of American Expedition. San Antonio, Texas.-The Mexican i military authorities have offered the American punitive expedition the use of Mexican telegraph and telephone lines, according to General Pershing's report to General Funston. The offer was made to the aviators who landed In Chihuahua last week. The drivers of the aeroplanes said they had been treated courteously by General Gutierrez, commanding offi cer, after it was demonstrated that they had come as friends. Before C that a few stones had been thrown at them and a shot or two fired. No one was injured. General Pershing said some sup plies had been purchased in Chihua hua but the limited amount made it 4' almost impossible to get provisions. eexcellent work done b~y the er nos has been so marked that headquar-ters officials are anxiously awaiting reinforcement of that arm of the service. General Pershing's reports indicate that the five still in service are dloing good wvork in scout V ~ ing and( carrying dispatches. French Capture Trenches. Paris.-The capture by French troops of about 175 yards of a German * ~ ~, trench southwest of Douaumont 'vil lage, northeast of Veratun, was an L ~ nouncedl by the war office. Progress in communientinug trenches south of the village also was reported. 4 ~ The (Germans madle two hand grenade attacks on Fr-ench positions in the Caillette wvood, in the Douau ~ ,~ mont region, but both were repulsed. West of the Meuse there was only feeble artillery activity. Nine Killed by Submarine. Malta, via London.-One engineer and eight lascars of the crew of the steamer Chantalag were killed when the vessel was sunk by a submiarine. Lansing ReplIes to Protest. Paris, via London. - Professor James Mark Baldwin, Amesican sur. S1 vivor of the Sussex disaster, who S cabled a protest to President WVilsoni regarding the destruction of the cross channel steamer, received at his resi deuice in Wimereux the following re p1rfrom Secretary of State Lansing: - Thae President has communicated * ne t your cable of April 1. The eatnn is, giving to the Sussex - Casethe iost serious attention and 10greatest care. v- (igned) *"LANSING." *~ld L.abor Bill Won't Pass Soon. ~'Wahington.- - Senator Overman hbiuks it' will be a long time before e.c bid labor bill can come up in *I sepat0, aWow pressing that body ustegfn are, the naval, rural 1d4 ship ptirchase bills, in ad ~ toalithi: appropriation.- bills g :the : -. i en ' THOMAS D. CHALL Thomas D. Schall Of Minneapolis Is the new representative of the Tenth Minnesota district In the lower house of congress. He Is a Progressive and was born In Michigan thirty-nine years ago. In 1907 Mr. Schall was made totally blind by an electric shock, but despite the Injury he con tinued his law practice. ARMY BILL INFFFICIFNT SENATOR SIMMONS SAYS TWO I MILITIA SYSTEMS WON'T WORK. National Guard Needs More Help From Federal Government But I Not a Competitor. Washington. - Senator Simmons, who is opposed to the volunteer army r section of the Chamberlain bill, said that the proposed new force would be practically a duplicate of the Nation al Guard. "Experience will show, it they are both adopted," he said, 'that it will not be long before either one will swallow up the other or they will both helplessly disorganize each other." "The volunteer army provided in the 55th section of the bill, by what ever name it may be called, whether a volunteer army or a continental army, is in essence and in substance nothing more than a national militia. "The National Guard as it exists under the present law, by whatever name it may be called, is in essence and in substance nothing except the old state militia a little more closely conneoted with the Federal treasury. "So Mr. President, we have an amendment here which will in effect establish two 'nattonal militia sys tems, oneO absolutely controlled by the Federal government in all its details, in all its functions, and in all its oper ations, andl the other under certain conditions and circumstances equally subject to the control of the Federal governmnt . "If this federalizing process is con stitutional," lhe said, "there will be substantially little difference between the national militia called by the name of a volunteer army and this quasi-National militia called by the name of the National Guard. "I do not believe that the proposed Federal volunt-cer ar-my, compared with the federalizedl National Guard as a result of discipline and training andl control directly in the one case and indirectly in the other case, will, in all probabiltty, result in giving us any better trainting and system pro vided for the same purpose in the Provisions of the bill with regard to the National Guard." GERMANS CAN'T TAKE VERDUN. PositIve Assertion of Italian General That It Will Naver Happen. Paris.-"Verdun wll never be taken. That is the sincere anid positive opin ion of General Cadorna,," said a mem ber of the Italian genietalissimo's suite to the Udine correspondent of Trio Pe tit Journal. "General Cadorn a," he continued, "returns from his visit to France full of enthusiasm for Fr'anco, for what she has done aiid for what she is now doing. "What wersaw on the French front is simply magnificent. France and Great Blritain have heaped up all along the line in innumerable depots. so many men and such a quantity of guns and munitions nothing that the Germans could do now, it seemed to us, couldf possibly catch the Franco British higher command unprepared." Italian MInister of War Resigns. Lomdon.-A Stefani dispatch from Rome says King Victor Emlianuel has accepted the resignation of War Min ister Zupelli and appointed General Morrone to succes-1 him,. it is stated General Zupefli desires active service, 8,000 Deaths from Pellagra. Washington.-Pellagra caused 8,000 deaths in the United States .in 1915, public health service reports Bbow.-Jts development can be effectually pre. vented by a cheap and simple diet, the health servIce expert's recomnet1d German Submarine Sinks Ship London. p The Spapish tsbp ~g, 4go0 tdh, Was TU PNWI NATION :WE*AK LACK OF'NITRATES SENATOR 8MITH OF-- 8. 0. DE. CLARES -UNITED STATES IS -TOTALLY UNPREPARED. NOTABLE DAY IN CONGRESS Senator U -erwood Said for Lack of Nitrates a Second Class Power Could Make Us Surrender. Washington.-Debate in Congress on various proposals for the erection of a government plant for the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen occupied a whole day. The pending amendment was that of Senator Smith of South Carolina to appropriate $15,000 for a plant, site and process to be deter mined by the war department. The surplus capacity over the govern ment's needs in peace times, under the proposal, would go into the manu racture of fertilizer to be sold by the government through tne secretary of igriculture. Senator Hardwick of Georgia at. acked this phase of the amendment is socialistic. He declared himself malterably opposed to embarking the rovernment on any such venture. ;enator Smith said he had framed he amendment with the purpose of educing the cost of fertilizer to the armer because by a happy circum tance, the government's military eeds and those of the farmer could a met at the same time. The European war was not an un iixed evil, said the South Carolina enator, as it had convinced the peo le that the United States was totally nprepared on sea or land to face what lay be before it. He declared that lie basis of all modern warfare was itric acid- and yet no step had been aken to insure an adequate supply. lermany's successful resistance, he as erted, was due to the fact that she ad foreseen.the need of using atmos oheric nitrogen and developed a way o procure it. "This vast expense we are contem ilating for the army and navy," Sena or Smith said, "will be absolutely iseless if we are cut off from our sup ply of nitrates." Senator Lodge also attacked the project but addressed himself par tially to the amendment offered by Senator Underwood of Alabama, which would provide for a war depart ment investigation of the question of vater-power sites and the process to be used. Senator Underwvood asserted that his amendment favored no specific pro jeet but only sought a full investiga tion of the subject, "There is not a senator here," said' Senator Underwood, "who does not realize the deplorable conditions this country would be in because of short tage of nitrates for explosives if war should be declared against us, A sec ond rate power could make us sur render in six months if we had - no surplus of nitrogen and it had plenty." LOST 200,000 AT VERDUN. French War Of. .e Says Slaughter of . Germans Has Been Gigantic. Paris.--The German losses -before Ver-dun up to the present have reached a total of 200,000 men, one of the greatest battle losses in the whole range of wvarfare according to semi official estimates made public here "the result of careful imquir-y made in the highest quarters in which the figures have been rigorously checked and verified." "Documentary and verbal testimony gathered and authenticated permit the giving of precise details concern ing the losses suffered by the Ger manis and by us on the Verdun front," says the semi-official communication given to the Associated Press. Du ing the period from February 21, when the battle began, to April 1, it is known that two army corps, namely the Third and the Eighteenth, have been with drawn from the front, having lost in the first attacks at least one-third of their force. Th~ey have re-appeared since and h ave again suffered like losses. "The German reinforcements are practically uacd up as -fast as they are put in line. The total effectives of the Eighteenth Corps ha1ve in this way lost 17,000 men and tile Third Corps has lost 22,000 men." World's Largest Tobacco Order. New York.-An order for 20,000,000 poeundls of American tobacco for deliv cry to E'uropean governments, princi pally to France and Italy, was execu ted here by the firm of Gaston, Wil liams and Wigmore. It is said to be the largest order of its kind placed in this country. Can't Use Mexican Railways. Quoretaro, Mexico.--The Mexican government has not given the Amern. esn government .permission to use Mexican railways for any purpofe. whatever, said Gen. Candido Aguilav, M ~xiaan minister of foreign reltn ~t4a meeting of the Carrant~ ~g d t the dabinet meeting -h~4 'i'ia and his advisers d , Min dngywheni bun i PIOKENS S. d FREDERICK 0.HICKS Frederick C. Hicks Is the congress. man from the First district of New York. He Is probably better known as the victor in the long and bitterly fought contest with Lathrop Brown, his predecessor and Democratic oppo nent for the place he now holds. In the election he received a plurality of only ten over Brown. Mr. Hicks Is a Quaker and was born at Westbury, N. Y., March 6, 1872. He is a graduate of Swarthmore college and Harvard. ' He. is a banker. PUTS BANDITS TO FLIGHT VILLA'S FORCES ARE SURPRISED ANO SCATTERED~BY TENTH. CAVALRY. No Mention Was Made of American Losses in Report to General Fun ston's Headquarters. San Antonio, Tex.-Surprised dur ing their siesta, one of the groups of Villa's forces driven from Guerrero was defeated by a squadron of the Tenth Cavalry under ol. W. C. Brown according to information secured by General Pershing and, forwarded to General Funston. In this, the second engagement, the ~American troops have had with Villa's men, the bandits' losses were estimated at from 30 to 40 killed. No mention of American loss was made. News of the reported engagement fought at the village of Aguas Calien tea, 20 miles southeast .of Bachineva, was brought by friendly Mexicans to a point near Rubio, where a detach. ment of the Tenth Cavalry under com mand of Major Evans halted. At the time General Pershing sent his die. patch to General Funston he had not received an official report from Col. Brown and the expeditionary, com mander pointed out that reports of the encounter lacked confirmation. His credence in the news was indicated, hbwever, by the fact that he transmit ted it to army headquarters here. FRENCH CHECK GERMAN DRIVE, Raking Fire Has Forced the Teutons to Retire in Disorder. An attempt by the Germans to press farther south against the French near Douaumont, northeast or Verdun, has met with repulse and c-n siderable losses. In the same secto-, north of the Caillette wood, the French have continued their progrcss in driv ing back the Teutons. The German attack south of Dou aumont was launched against the French first lines of defense, hut the French raked the advancing Teutons with their curtain of fire, machine guns and infantry fire, forcing a re treat in disorder northwest toward the Chaffour wood. England Imposes New Taxes. London.-Faced by the problem of financing for another -year a war cost ing Great Britain 5,000,000 pounds daily,..Chancellor of the Exchequer Reginald McKenna was met at the outset by two favorable circumstan ces, namely, that owing to the expan sive power of British trade, the rev entie for the year exceeded the esti mate by 32,000,000 pounds, while the year's expenditure was 31,000,000 pounds below the estimate, . By impiosing new taxes on amuse ments, railway tickets, matches and mineral waters and raising a number of the old taxes, including those on excess war profits, incomes, sugar, cocoa, coffee and motorcars, the Chancellor estimates he will~ be rable to raise about 65,00,000 pounds, which is nearly double what .many persons believed he could raise by this rdeans. Carranga Swaps Gold for faper. Mexico City.--General Carranza pub lished a decree authorizing the secre ta~ry' of the treasury to purchase paper money of the present issue to. the value ~of $1,000,000 gold Mexican. Thfe va pdr money is to be destroyed. The go, ernnt reiter-ates its - etstamination n to repudiate the papersi M nd :Q .It will raIt( r~ d'pallef to GRAVEST SITUATION tOPR TS UNITED STATES SIC OU0T. BREAK OF.WAR. AWAIT WORD FROM BERLIN' Germany Is Expected to Disavow Act and No Step Will Be Taken Until Case H as Been . Presented. Washington.-Reports of American naval attaches* saying metal frag ments found on the channel steamer Sussex bore distinctive markings showing them to be parts of a Ger man torpecdo, and dispatches telling of scores of submarine attacks on. neutral and other unarmed merchant ships within the last two weeks were studied at conferences betw 'egn Presi dent Wilson, Colonel Houise anid'mom bers of the Cabinet. The reports tire as conclusive proof that the- Sussex, while cal-rying 25 American citizens, was attacked in violation of solemn, reiterated assur ances of Geriany. With this fact ajp parently established, It Is generally conceded that the United States to confronted by a situation more grave than 'any 'which has .ailsen since the Outbreak of the war. IIt was said authoritatively again, however, .that no definite stop will be taken until Germany has repled to in quiries In the cases of the Sussek, Engilihman, Manchester Engieer, and Eagle Point. Word from Berlin is awaited, not so much because in formation Is wanted,- as to give Ger many an opportunity to say what will be done about It. In view of the evidence collected It is confidently believed in many quar. ters that Germany will admit the at tacks on the Sussex, and unofficial dispatches from Berlin have indicated that such an admission undoubtedly will be accompanied by disavowal and offer of reparation.. DARING ROBBERY OF BANK Two Men Find Houston Cashier Alone and Got Away With $16,000. Canonsburg, Pa.-Detectives scour ed the hills In the vicinity of Houston, ane mile west of here, In a vain effort to find the twoU m who robbed First National -Bank of.Houston of $15,000 an isc pEpe in an Dutomow AT andhoy afte Will Bwo Tmen Untere t hengtndonepladrtpe of Aer nabout tesiefacheckn onethe frag terte fround on the cae Ontea sho-wng wten, toke pa ove ander ya orpil esot. anWiphes utelling of scre wof rvsare attaled oat neutra andl oher ofntheme mercane shp withier the late towk-aou $15, $3,00ie d andene blve nouced. Boeho the hurrieot.o hbidn ande jumpedrito an automobuive proof ththe a lueft whieandring 25f h Amian. tznws takdi violo Nof solemndreiterated Troopr. Seretay esablinghwas ith oiscgiallny conede thatrsitentedt Sthat the confrcn tropmh by uto e ghrave tham anyeich shrts reardesinc the outbpent of the hunar. 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PRtZESAr 1 h day Ap i 7ad I2. Th 0reii VOUNG ORATOReANrH 7_~ FROM ALL,.OVER" TAfh IL 0o WOR K FO0R 22 MEDALS All Entries or High Schooln.Cotest Must as In by April' lS. -Sohooli Are Ujrged to 'Come in. Columbia.-The state high school )ratorical and tithietlo meet will ber hold in1 Columbia Trhursda' and 'Fkl day, April 27 and -28. The prelimi naries for the oratorical contest will be held Thursday afternoon in the class rooms and society halls of the University of. South Carolina. 'The finals In the oratorical contest will be held Thursday night in the chapel of the university. Two gold medals are offered for first and second places in oratory and a beautiful trophy cup to the school whose representative wins first. place. In 1915 Dakyns Stover of the Greenville high school won . first place and the Greenville high school holds the trophy cup in o-atory. Sec ond place in oratory was won by Ed win Quattlebaum of. the Columbia high school. The track meet will be held Friday, April 28, on the university field, the preliminaries -being held in- the morning and the' finals in th-. after no6n. Pickens high school won the Sylvan trophy cup in 1915 for scor ing the highest number of points, while the Greenville nigh school- was. a close second. Twenty-two medals are offered to the contestants in track athletics, 11 gold and 11 bronze medals. Each med al has the State seal upon it with the name of the event on the back. Rib bons with the name- of the associa tion stamped upon them are given to those wining third place in any track event. In addition to all this, S. B. Mc Master of Columbia is offering a beau tiful trophy cup to the boy in the track meet who wins the highest number of points. The contestants have every incentive to work for honors. The secretary of the association, M. E. Brockman of Greenville, is urging all schools with thjae - eig!h school grades to come into the association and will accept an application up to April 15 from any school desiring to become a member, provided the name of the speaker with his subject, age, grade, scholarship, togetber with the names of the contestants in track with age, grade and scholarship, is sent to him by the 18th. Letters to this effect are being mailed to a num ber of schols which have not yet be come members of the state associa tion. This is .done to encourage schools to comes in which participate in field days between the 1st and 15th >f April and realize what good material they have. The University of South Carolina. ~urnishes free entertainment. The mnly cost to the schools is- railroad ~are, which is nominal if lilock tickets are bought, and even where this can't e done the cost is low. Extending "Morris Plgn" Banks. Columbia-Existence of well consid sred plans for development in South Jarolina at an early date of a system )f "Morris plan" banks, headquarters to be in Columbia, transpired incident. Ally through informal discussion at a :linner which James A. Hoyt gave at the Jefferson in honbr of the founder rf the Morris industrial loan organiza Lion, Arthur J. Morris, of New York B~ity. Sketched though it is in -Ifrinciple, the project remains to be worked out in detail. The movement is due to interest aroused in the Piedmont through th operation of Morris plan banks in Columbia and Charleston. M~r. Morris accompanied by Mr. Hoyt, left Columbia' by invitatiion ' Lapcoupt{ry to canvass with 10 o. mnotors the prospects for suc. Lutions in Spartanburg, Greens A~nderson. Enlarge Spart-anburg How Spartanburg.-W. T. Finch. stor of the Finch hotel, has ia sd the purchase of valuable ey rn East Main street to be utib'm srecting an addition to the p.:. Irinchi hotel to cost betwegn *i'7f'o Ind $100,000. He has paid $2.. the lot to be utilized and sam con. atruction will begin at an esal la' ho This addition to the Sp99 :ml:rg oteis and the building of th .i and at a cost of $250,000, x' i gm he city t13a most modern fae;:lan. .a his direction. Nurses 'Eleot Officers. Columlbia.--Spartanbuig W I , hd as the next convention city byi ie bouth Carolina Grad aate 11'rs'' A suo. lation. New officers wer e , ated o11ows: President Mfss Maery C . Cena, superinitenjient of 81. Frnc avier Infirmia~ % hhliqQ; 0rst vice iresient, 1' po en et lil e