Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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BOND SUBSCRIPTIOI IS DISAPPOINTIN( NOT ONE OF THE FEDERAL RE SERVE DISTRICTS UP TO MINIMUM. FIGURES ARE MADE PUBLlC New York Makes Most Favorable Re jort.-Figures Made Public Based on Subscriptions Forwarded to Reserve Banks. Wahhington. - Totals of -subscrip tions to the liberty loan aggregating $1,300,000,000, as announced June S by Secretary McAdoo, have beeni made public by tho treasury department. showing that not one of the twelve federal reserve districts have sulb scribed to its minimum allotments al though New York, with the most fav orable showing, has nearly reached the minimum. In some instances, the amount of subscriptions from federal reserve districts has fallen to less than one third of the allotments. The figures inado public are based upon actual vubscriptions forwarded to the reserve 'Janks. They follow: New York-Subscriptions 588.000, 000; allotment $600,000,000 to $750, 000,000. Boston-Subscriptions $135,000,000; allotment $240,000,000 to $300,000.000. Philadelphia-Subscriptions $61,000, 000; allotment $140.000,000 to $175, 000,000. Ritchmond - Subscript ions $35,000. 000; allotment $80,000,000 to $100,000, 000. Atlanta--Subscriptions $22.000,000; allotment $60,000,0000 to $75,000,000. Chicago -- Subscriptions $138.000, 000; allotment $260,000,000 to $325, 000.000. Cleveland -- Subscriptions $153,000, 000; allotment $180,000,000 to $226, 000,000. St.. Louis-Subscriptions. $27,000, 000; allotment $80,000,000 to $100, 000,000. Minneapolis-Subscript ions $50.000, 000; allotment $S0,000,000 to $100.000,. 000. Kansas Cly-Subscriptions $34,000.- t 000; allotment $100,000,000 to $125, 000,000. Dallas - Subscriptions $20.000.00"; t allotment $40,000,000 to $50,000,000. San Francisco-Subscriptions $37,.- 1 000,000: allotment $140,000,000 to $175,000.000. NINE MILLION IS NEW ESTIMATE ON REGISTRATION Supplemental Reports Being Made by Some States. - WTashington.--Tw1enut y-six st ates and1( the Distriet of Columbia. having al! told slightly moro than fifty per cent of the country's population, had sent inu eomplete reports of their milit ary registration showing total registration of 4.716,768 young men for war ser vice. For the territory reporting, the cen. Bus estimate wvas 5.372.59ui eligibles, On t-he basis of the returns, it was calculatedl that the grand total of reg Inst rat ion probaly would be' lelow to 9,000,000. in place of 10.204.00, as forecast by the census exper-ts. TPhe report~s showed wvhite registrua tions 'totallIng 3,501.456, color-ed 6:34, 170. alien 277,057, and enemy alien 45,018. Poasible exemptions indicated totalled 2,508,624. Officials plointed out that the census figures weore intendled only as approx imat es, and that the discrepancy should not be taken as indienting eva sioni of the draft. It also wvas pointed out that 'between 600,000 and 1,000,000 mnen inchided in the estimate already are membeors of the armed forces of 'the nation, and therefore did not reg tster. .Many of the states which previously reported complete returns are send. 'hi supplemental reports adding to tiheir totals, Delay in registering, espe cially among those who registered by snail, is responsible. This shifting of ,totals may delay a final 'tabulation for 4. week or mere. RAILROAD MEN HEAR ADDRESS BY ROOSEVELT . hilaidelpia.-Pledges of loyalty to tde nation were renewed by officials of rthe railroad brotherhoods ini ad. Ar si tt their annual memorial ser ,tc~e hero at which Theodore Roose. .vi es 'the chief speaker. Members et -the Brotherhood of Locomotive E~n gineew, the Order of Railway ('onduc tos Brotherhood of Locomative Feire men and J~nginemen, Brotherhood of RadIwa.y Trainmen and the Qrder- of iEta1lway Telegraphers from all sec tions of the east attended services. TFWENTY-EIGHT ENTOMBED MINERS RESCUED ALiVE , Butte, Moit.-Twenty-eight men en torpibed in the Spee'-for mine sinc<i the fire tree days >have bee: broughit tb the su:. alive, Of the tiorty-eight reeied men, one wa1 00 far gone that resuscitat4Pn was in poualble. The qnd'itig of the met altive stimulated efforts -et 'the rescui teem.n, and there Isewtaont hope (11a ottiere mnay be fo d alie. New. tha A Ieeanwae fannd ta eOUdha A200.fan I PERSHING ANDSTAF ; ARRIVE IN EUROP . AMERICAN COMMANDER ON HI WAY TO FRONT IN FRANCE. RECEIVE HONORS IN LONDO| Voyage Across Atlantic Was Entirel Uneventful.-Not Generally Know That Party Had Left America Shores. London.-Headed by Maj. Gen. Joh1 J. Pershing, its commander, the firs representatives of the American arm; that is to enter the Furopean war, dis embarked at a British port after ai unoeventful voyrkge of ten (lays o board the White Star liner Baltic The party was received with full mill tary 11oorS. and imimiediately entrain ed for London where it arrived in th< at ternoon and was welcomed by the Earl of Derby. I.he minister of war; Viscount French. commander of th( British home forces and the American officials. General Pershing's personal staff and the members of the general staff who will perform the preliminary work for the first fighting force num ber fifty-seven officers, and are accom panied by about fifty privates and a large civilian clerical force. The American residents of London and various British organizations have prepared an extensive program of en tertainment for the American party, but it is doubtful if much of it will be carried out. as General Pershing, be fore being informed of the plans, ex pressed a desire that there be a mini mum of anything in the nature of a colebration of a social character. The entire contingent devoted itself to the hardest kind of work of an organizing nature throughout the journey. SAN SALVADOR DESTROYED BY VIOLENT EARTHQUAKE. asualty List Not Very Heavy.-Quake Followed by Flow of Lava. San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua.-San halvador. Santecla and neighboring owns and villages were destroyed In ii earthquake which commenced at even o'clock in the evening and con inued through the night, according to nforniation received here from the )resident of Nicaragua. The president's message says: "Telegraphic communication is just 'e-established with San Salvador and 'onfirms that earthquake commenced it. seven o'clock yesterday afternoon. Thursday) and continued all night, LCcomllpalnied by a heavy rain. "San Salvador, Santecla and neigh oring towns and villages were do troyed. "The casualtes were small." There were some fires. The president of Nicaragua has tele raphedl the president of Salvador of ering aid. He has ordered the or anizat Ion of relief committees to send ep to tihe suffering and the home ess. A report received from San Miguel ays San Salvador was destroyed, mnly one hundred houses left standing. strong earthquakes, the report says, yere followed later by lava and boil ng wvater. RUSSIAN WOMEN TO FIGHT IN THE TRENCHES. Petrograd, via London.-Two hun dred school students of the oPtrograd Technical school have entered their names on the rolls of a fediale regi ment which is being raised by Ensign Btutchkareff. The aim is to immediat ly start for the front and to fight iir all respects under the same conditiom as men01. Scores of girls and women, anxloui to fight, appeared at the offices of th< League of Equal Rights for Women which has expressed its approval o Lieutenant Butchkareff's plan. Thi women wvarriors have held their firs meeting. They were addressed b: Colonel Popoff, of the Twelfth army who appealed to the women to sham, male shirkers. BRITISH PREPARiNG FOR FURTHER PROBABLE ACTION' With the Messinies-Wytschaete ridg in their possession, the British orgarm ized the new ground andl prepare for probable further action, whil throwing back German counter-a tacks. Surprised by the terrIfic 0i slaught of Sir Douglas Haig's men th Germans, who lost more than 6,40 prisoners and many more killed c wounded as a rosuilt of tihe mine e3 ploslons and the British artillery firn made no immediato countei'-attacks. VETERANS ATTEND THE ilNVEILING OF LEE STATUI Gettysburg, Pa.-Confederate veto ans from all parts of the south cair here from Washington to attend ti Sunveiling of Virginia's..monument c the Gettysbug battlefleid. Oh ti spot where Plckett's' division form4 fifty-four years ago for its famoi charge in the third day's battle- th marked the high tide of the Conte eracy, an eQuestrian statute of Ge ,Robert E. L~f formdly pte'ent to the nadion. _4T . . . ...., F Y (CopyrIg'L.) AMERICANS SINK SUBMARIN GUNNERS ON MERCHANT VESSE BELIVED TO HAVE HIT . MARK. Thirty-five Shots Were Fired By Sul marine and Twenty-five By Steamei American Ship Suffered No Damage Washington.-A German submarin is believed to have been sunk by a] armed American steamer in a runnin fight lasting an hour and a half. 1i which thirty-five shots were fired b: the submarine and twenty-five by tho 9teamer. An official announcemen by the state department says the steamer's final shot "apparentl: struck the submarine, which raise( clear out of the water and stood sterr ened up for a few seconds. Then sh disappeared." The department's an nouncement follows: "The department of state is advis ed by telegraph of an engagement be tween an armed American steamel and a submarine. The guns of the steamer were manned by an Ameri can naval crew. The submarine was first seen at about 7,000 yards. ShE had a six-inch gun forward and an other aft. She flew no flag. "Upon sight of the submarine, th4 steamer hoisted the American flag an' waited for about ten minutes. As thi submarine approached the steame fired. The submarine responded. Th steamer kept a speed that would pe1 mit the submarine to come withi range. Then followed a fight lastin for an hour and a half. The sul marine came to a distance of abou 2,300 yards. By that time the sul marine had fired thirty-flve -shots an the steamer twenty-five. The laE shot of the steamer apparently struc the submarine, which raised clear ov of the water and stood stern end u for a few seconds. Then she disal peared. The captain of the steamE and the commander of the guard bi liove that the submarine was sun] The steamer suffered no damage." TORNADOES KILL MANY iN KANSAS AND MISSOUR Twenty-four Lives Are Lest and Muc Property Damaged. Kansas City, Mo.-Tornadoes spses death and destruction through rur districts of Missouri and Kansas. R1 ~ports showed fifteen were killed Missouri and nine in Kansas. TI number of injured has' reached appro imnately 150. and entimates of ti property damage place it anywhe from $1.000,000 to $2,000,000. Ti greatest loss of life- apparently was Boon'e county, Missouri, where tl tornado, dipping here and there as raged from the southwestern to tl northeastern oorner, claimed elev' persons. In Carroll, Charlton a1 Ray counties, further west, four a dlead--three at lichmonid and one WVhitam., RETURNS COMING IN FROM THE REGISTRATIO WVashington.-Two states, Delawa -and Vermont, and the District of ( lumbia, had reported complete retur 3 on the war registration when t I- provost marshal general's office ci 1 ed1 at eleven o'clock Wednesday. 0 The complete $gures already re edI follow: I- The governor of Vermont repo e the state's total registration at 27,6 0 dividod as follows: White, 23.05 r negro, 77; alien, 3,48'7; alien eunemi -72; indIcated possible exemptions,] '234, State's estimated eligibles, 826., CONGRESS ASKED TO' S PEED UP LEGiSLA'IK r- Washington-President Wilson a e ed members of the Senate agricult1 B committee to act quickly on the pe n ing legislation to give the governif tO control over the nation's staple f4 d supply. He expressed the fear V is if Congress delayed, E~uropean, nati Lt largely dependent on American - d- piles might begin to, compete. I a, each other in buying here in suoiffa II 1o0tka tA) sead p ices- in the Mai sta..to alarmin hegt GERM ,M IS EJ ISON ADDRESSES VETERANS L PRESIDENT GIVEN GREAT OVA TION WHEN HE WELCOMED OLD SOLDIERS. . President Is Wildly Cheered as Mar. ine Band Plays Southern Airs. More Than 7,000 Veterans Were Present. 1 Washington.-Veterans and visitors in Washington for the 27th annual reunion of Confederate Veterans join ed in giving President Wilson a great ovation when he welcomed the soldiers of Dixie to the Nation's Capital and told them that the country was be ginning to understand that one of the purposes of Providence in keeping the Nation united was for the opportunity now before America to -fight for lib erty and nmnkind. His declaration that the day was one of gladness be cause of the sacred memories, and of re-dedication of a united country to those principles that have made America great among the Nations of the earth, was greeted by the veter ans with a roushig cheer. The great hall in which the Presi (lent spoke was filled with thousands, and twice that many more had to be turned away because of the lack 9t room. While waiting for the Presi dent the veterans and visitors cheer r ed the various leaders as they came 3 of the platform. The Marine Band -. kept the old soldiers in a joyous a humor by playing the beloved -airs of 0 the South, and each time they swung into "Dixie" the "rebel yell" would go t ringing through the hall. The Con federate choir from Portsmouth, Va., 1 dressed in gray Confederate jackets, t sang "If You Want to Have a Good k Time. Jine the Cavalry," "Maryland, Lt 1 MV Maryland" and other tunes to p 'which the young meni of the South - marched to battle in the sixties. . 7,000 Veterans Present. The number of veterans here is e. timated at nearly '7,000, and the tents provided for them on the Union Sta tion plaza could not accommodate all of the late corners and nearby buildi -. ings had to be utilized. Officials whe have charge of arrangements for the h accommodations estimate the attend, ance as one of the largest gathered in *d Washington in some time. Many o1 ii the leaders declare this the greatesi 9- re-union in point of attendance of vis .n itors, ever held. te The presentation of a United State. X- flag to General Harrison at the initia' te meeting of the Confederate veteran. e by Colonel Andrew Cowan, of the G 10 A. R., was the signal of a patriot in demonstration led by the veterans ant ie in which the women and visitors wh< it pa'cked the hall to the doors heartila ie joined. The Stars and Stripes werE m hung side by side wth the Stars anc id, Bars behind the pre'siding officer anr re will remain there throughout the re at union. GERMAN AGENTS GOT NO RESULTS IN THE SOUTH N. _ _ _ Registration Day Almost Wholly WItil reout Untoward Incident 'In This SectIon. he Atlanta, Ga.-Registration under th m. draft law in the South was almos wholly without untoward incident an rt- in many cities took on the -characte of a patriotic holiday. A few allege 7ts alackers were arrested, but in th 58, main the men between ages of 21 an 2; 31 showed eagerness to enroll. es, . In virtually every city the tootin .8,- of whistles and the rzinging the churc 16,- bells called the young men at ,th opening of the registration precincts. SOME COLORADO INDIANS N,. REFUSE TO BE ENROLLEK snk- Ignatia, Oolo.-Indians on their ri riservation'niear here refused to registE mt under the selective draft act and sper od most of the day dancing "war" aS h.at "bear" dances, in native costume, man nutmber of the younger men are sal up- to have obtained a quantity of Liqjuo ith It is -reported here tht the Indiat ah- have threatened to burn this siettl' te ment. Threats also have been mad against tbe Indian agent. IERAL HARRISON' iS. AGAIN HONORED : RE-ELECTED C O M M A N D E R-I N- 0 CHIEF OF CONFEDERATE VET- A ERANS BY AbCLAMATION. n b TULSA GETS NEXT REUNION i p Great Crowd of Veterans Pass Up Pennsylvania Avenue to Strains of a "Dixie" While President Wilson and j( Vice-President Marshall Look On. d Washington.-The Confederate vet. tl erdns re-elected Gen. George P. Har- 01 risen, of O lika, Ala., commander-in- f< chief, and selected Tulsa, Okla., as the al place for the 1918 reunion, after st marching up Pennsylvania avenue to u the strains of "Dixie" and passing in review before President Wilson and G Vice President Marshall. Escorted si by union soldiers, and followed by de United States regulars, national G guardsmen, cadets from the Virginia st Military Institute and the Washington t1 high school, the hosts of the south ai paraded in triumph through the streets th of the capital to the accompanying ev cheers of the thousands of spectators or who occupied all places of vantage pi along the line of march. h< Despite the tremendous crowd u: which viewed the parade and the us large number of veterans in line, the only accident reported was that re- is ceived by Gen: James Dinkins, of b Louisiana; lit falling from his horse. s He suffered a wrenched foot. d General Harrison was placed in in nomination for another term by Judge o John T. Goolrick, of Fredericksburg p and re-elected by acclamation. si Gen. Julian S. Carr, of North Caro- cl lina, was chosen lieutenant general tc commanding the department of 'the 01 Army of Northern Virginia over Gen. p J. Thompson Brown, of Virginia. In at moving to make General Carr's elec- hi tion unanimous, General Brown de- at clared that his cup of joy was full. tb "For on three occasions have I rid- b ren up Pennsylvania avenue, twice as m a prisoner, and today at the head of o the Army of Northern Virginia." II Gen. W. B. Haldeman, of Louis- d ville, Ky., gave notice that at the next p cbnvention he would move to amend = the constitution so as to provide that b hereafter department commanders be w chosen by the states composing the a command, instead of by the entire p oonventton. A resolution by M. M. w Buford, of South Carolina, endorsing the bill of Representative' Tillman, .of ( Arkansas, to refund the southern j states the cotton tax collected at the t close of the war, was unanimously e adopted, as was one protesting against ( cytatements that the South went to war 0 for the same cause for which the s teutonic powers are defying the world. ( REGISTRATION RETURNS ' COMING IN SLOWL ' Total L4kely to Fall Under Estimate. t Many Exemption Claims. Washington.--Reg'istration returns t came in slowly front the great army t census, preventing anything approach- e ing a conclusive estimate as to the e number of men actually enrolled. Ana official statement, however, said such 3 complete returne as were at hand in- e di-cated that the 10,200,000 estimate t of the census bureau for thetotal num- a ber-of men within the prescribed ages r would not be equalled. The governor of South Carolina re- t ports the state's total registration at 128.039, divided as follo'ws: White 60.629; colored, 66,906; a~en, 447; alien enemies, 58; indicated pos siblo exemptions, 86.381. State's esti mated eligibles, 137,881. The governor of Conneotirtcut re ports the state's total registration at 159.761, divided as follows: White 97,126; colored, 2,990; alien, 58,519; alien enemies, 1,126;' indI cated possible exemptions, 61,690. State's estimatted eligiebles, 168,287. The governor of Arkansas reports the state's total registreution at 147,522, divided as follows: White, 102,883; colored, -'44,475; alien, 566; alien enemies, 98; id cated possible. exemp~tionsB, 99,196. State's estimated elIgibles, 158,473, FEWER MEN WILL BE ACCEPTED FOR NEXT CAMP Wahington.-Only about 15,000 men r will beitrained in the second sories of Seight officers' training camps to be a held from August twenty-seventh to November twenty-sixth, Adjutant ,Gen eral McCain announced. Forty thou sand entered the first series of. camps, but the war department has reduced the number for the fall encampments in hope of obtaining older and more experienced men. The quota allowed Southern States and the places- et which examining officere, to whom application should be sent, will be stationed, are as fol lowsnia 34'7; Fort Monroe. ViNrthia Crln,379; Raleigh. Sout@ Carolina, 256; Charleston. Tennessee, 861; 623 1-2 Broadway, Nashville. Georgia, 448; Fort McPherson. . s Alabama, 365; Clark building, Bir mingham. *Florida, 186; W. Bay St., Jacks villa. ILSON'S MESSAEu wU U$5A The President's communication was )livered to the Russian Government ' Ambassador Francis at Petrdgrad. full it is as follows: "In view of the approaching visit the American delegation to Russia. express thq deep friendship of the merican people for the people of ussia and to discuss the best and Lost practical means of co-operation atween the two peoples in carrying ke present struggle for the freedom I all peoples to a successful consum ation, it seems opportune and appro riate that I should state again, in the ht of this new partnership, the ob. cts the United States has had in Ind in entering the war. Those ob cts have been very much beclouded iring the past few weeks by miu kes and misleading statements, and te issues at stake are too .moment. is, too tremendous, too signiflcant r the whole human race to permit y misinterpretations of misunder. andings, however slight, to remain icorrected for a moment. "The war has begun to go against )rmany, and in their desperate do. re to escape the inevitable ultimate ifeat, those who are in authority in armanf are using every possible in rumentality, are making use eyen of e influence of groups and parties ong their own subjects to whom ey have never been just or fair or 'en tolerant to promote a propaganda both sides of the sea which will eserve for them their influence at ,me and their power abroad to the doing of the very men they are ing. . "The position of America in this war so clearly avowed that no man can excused for mistaking it. She eks no material profit or aggran zement of any kind. She is fight g for no advantage or selfish object her own, but for the liberation qf oples everywhere from the aggres ons of autocratic force. The ruling asses in Germany have begun of late profess a like liberality and justice purpose, but only to preserve the >wer they have set up in 'Germany id the selfish advantages which they Lve wrongly gained for themselves d their private objects of power all e way from Berlin- to Babdad and yond. Government after Govern ent has by their influence, without )en conquest of its territory, been 4 nked together in a net of intrigue rected against nothing less than the mace and liberty of the world. The eshes of that intrigue must be roken, but cannot be broken unless rongs already done are undone; and equate measures must be taken to revent it from ever again being re ovedt or repaired. "Of course, the Imperial GermaiL overnment and those whom it is us ig for their own undoing are seeking > obtain pledges that the war will nd in the restoration of the status uo ante. It was the status quo ante t of which this -iniquitious war is ed forth, the power of the Imperial lerman Government within the Em ire and its widespread domination nd influence outside of that Empire. 'hat status must be altered in duch ision as to prevent any such hideous 'ing from ever happening again. "We are fighting for the liberty, for lhe self-government and the undic tedl deevlopnment of all peoples, and very feature of the settlement ,that oncludes this war must be conceived nd executed for that purpose. Vrongs must first be righted and then dequate safeguards much be created o prevent their being committed gain, We ought not to consider eemdies merely because they have a leasing and sonorous sound. Prac ical questions can be settled only by eractical means. Phrases will not ac mplish the result. Eiffective read ustments will and whatever readjust snts are necessary must be made. "But .they must follow a princigle md that principle is plain. No people nuet be forced under sovereignty n er 'which it does not wish to live. No te~rritory mlgst change hands except' for the purpose of securing those who nhabit it a flr ohanca. of life and liberty. N'o indemnities must be in mlsted on. except those that constitute payment for manifest wrongs dgne. 4o readjustments of power must be nade except such as 'wil tend to se ure the future peace of the world i,nd tihe future welfare end happines of its peoples. "And then the free people of the world must ,draw together in some :ommon -covenant, some genuine and practcal co-operaition That will in ef fet -combilne their force 'to secure peace and justice in the dealings of nations with one another. The broth eihood of mankind must no longer be. a fair but empty phrase; it must 'be given a structure of force and reality. The nations must realize their comn mon life and effect a 'workable pert nership to secure that 'life against the aggressions, of aubtocraitic and self pleasing power. For these things we can afford to pour out 'blood and treasure. For .thse are the 'things we have always professed to, desire, and unless we pout out blood and treasure now and' succeed, we may never be able to unite or ehow con quering force again 'in- the great cause of 'human libeflty. The day 'has 'come to conquer or submit. If the forces of autocraCYcy n divide us, they 'will overcome us; if we stand together, vitory is certain and 'the'1l.berty 'whieb victory 'will ecure. We can afford. ,*hih' 'to be generous, -but we cannot frd then or now to be week or omit ng ingle guarantee of justice and~