Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ttifttt cmf> WWW WATCHMAN, EsUblUhcd April, 1850. "Bo float aad Fear not?Baa all the mda Tnoo Alma't at br thy Country's. Thy God'* aad TnMb'a." THE TR?B MOCTKRON, EatabHsbed flaa* 1 Consolidated Aug. 8,1861. SUMTER, 8. 0., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13. 1917. VoLXLIV. No. 34 Tumnc ein? es. MEN WORKING HARD AT PORT (HiLETHORPE. Rontmc Work Keeps Them Halm Prevents Long Hikes? Practice Started ami Some Mca Qualify as Marksmen. tor Officers' Training Camp. Fort Ogle thorpe. On., Juno 10.?Thin has been aa uneventful weak in the officer*' training camp it Fort Oglethorpe. ?There have been no unusual featuree to occur and there has been little done aatalde of the regular routine of train? ing men to become officers for the greater army which Maj. Gen. Wood Is organising to carry on the wai against German r. A visit by Lieut. Hobert Bowman, wham Burnt er people will remember aa oaa of the Rtdpath Chautauqua at? traction* at the Sumter Chautauqua. area aa tatorastliig evsnt of Wednesday alght. Lieut. Bowman made a inter eating but brief address on conditions la Europe and concerning the Eu tagean war. Reed Miller. Mrs. Miller and other members of the Oratorio Quartette were also visitors to the f) en hurt Sunday and gave a verj tful concert, examination of candidates 1> ?Uli continuing. Up to the present time sine companies have been given I ex*?m .nations and the 10th pany la In line for examination on Monday. These examinations, how are, on the whole, not so rigid aa those given by Dr. Mood In Rum to the Sumter men who came aero. 'The different meu in the varlom earn pan lee who their company offl Oeta recommend for dismissal from camp will appear before the proba? tion board on Monday and Tuesday of neat week. It is then that a lot of naam trill be dismissed from camp. Thai week all of ths companies had target practice with email rifle oar Some excellent shots were several of the Sumter men prae? ter search of an hour and a-half was tnade this week, full packs being car? ried. Two others were schsduled. but rain, which has been felling intermit tently all week, prevented their com lng off. The T. M. C A. Is in full operation now and is doing a flne work for the iren. It sffords opportunities and privileges for writing and studying which cannot be had In barracks or slsawbsre. which the men are taking advantage of. In a previous story, the writer men? tioned the fact that on Saturdays and Sunday, which are leave days, many, In fact a large majority ot the ca? dets go ovsr to Chattanooga. The peo? ple there certainly do everything In their power to mako the stay of the men In camp as pleasant as possible, as far as their visits to Chattanooga are concerned. They are exceedingly courteous snd In everyway possible show thst they want to do all that they can to make the men In the training camp feel at home and happy tn the camp and during their visits *o Chattanooga It seenri that their at? titude towards the future reserve oftl esrs Is decidedly different from the attitude that El Paso held towards the National Guardsmsn, when the latter were encamped on the border last yesr. In svery way possible they show their hospitality. The S'jmter men are very happy and working hard for the most part, with good appetites and a strong de? sire for sleep when tho time for It comes. MEMBERSHIP IRISH CONVENTION Premier Lloyd George Informs House of Common? How Dclegates Will be Hclerted. London. Juno 11.?Premier Lloyd George announced in the house of common! that John Redmond, the Irish Nationalist leader, will be In vlted to nominate five members of the Irish convention. He added that gtr John i.uns i id- will be Invited to nomlnats live members. William O'Brien two. There will be ten rap reaentatlve Irish peers, five member* of the Irish unionist alliance, five Sinn Feinere and fifteen member.* nominated by the government. NEW POOD CONTROL BILL. AgrtceRural Committee Recommend* Minimum Price* for Food. Washington. June 11.?The house agricultural committee has favor;i> lv reported the second ndmlnhtratlon food control bill It provide* for minimum, but no; maximum prices. "FOOD PIRATES" BUSY. DENOUNCED FOR "CRIME" IN CAUSING SUFFERING THROUGH CONTROL OF PRICES. Vrooman Declares People Patient? Says They Feel Always That Feder? al Government Will Take Care of Them. Washington, June 9.?Assistant Secretary 'Vrooman, of the depart? ment of agriculture, who has just returned from a tour on which he observed the food situation, declared m a statement tod'' he had seen much suffering, especially among the poor, because of tho "crime being perpetrated against the American peo? ple by the control of food prices by disloyal food pirates." "Everywhere I have found a grow? ing feeling that there must soon come a reckoning with the manipula? tors of 'the nation's food supply,' " said he. "Four classes of men are vainly trying to postpone that day of reckoning. "First, the impractical theorists, who on principle are so opposed to any increase In tho authority of the federal government, however tempo? rary, that they would rather risk the safety of the nation than to sacrifice their theory on the altar of national efficiency. "Secondly, the fanatical pacifists who are unwilling to tnkc any steps that will make this government into an efficient war machine. "Thirdly, those sordid, unscrupulous denizen*- of the business, Jungle who In this u\ i .Ive world conflict are In? tent only upon filling their own pockets with the price of economic treason to the republic and the blood money of hungry men, women and children. , "Fourthly, the enemy within our gates, disloyal American citizens, who with treason In their hearts and a lying pretense of loyalty on their lips, are seising on every trifling detail of proposed defensive legislation as a pretext for a bitter opposition to ev? erything that will help us to a quick and decisive victory. "The other day In Chicago a Po? lish priest told a government official that during the past two months five women members of his congregation had cither gone Insane or had com? mitted suicide because of their Inabil? ity to feed their children. I stand In wonder and admiration before the pa? tience and forbearance of the Ameri? can people. Fortunately they feel that the federal government as always Is going to take care of them now." SHIRKERS TO RE ARRESTED. Orders Issued for Immediate Arrest of Those Who Have Not Registered. Columbia, June 11.?Acting upon the orders of the provost marshal general Gov. Manning today Issued orders to all peace officers in South Carolina to immediately arrest thoae who have not registered under the se? lective service act. The leniency pe? riod will, under no circuntstunces, be extended. Gov. Manning leaves for Washing? ton this afternoon on official business. The State Board of Education be? gun a session today during which the text book adoption will be made. The board will be in session for sev? eral days. N ? W CAMU>N MFATS SEI .ECTF.D. War Department Announces Approval of Camp Sites for New Army. Washington, June 11.?Little Bock, Ark.. Louisville. Ky., Battle Creek, Mich . and San Antonio, Texas, have been approved hy the war department as cantonment ?ites for the new army. Tho war department revoked approv? al of Petersburg. Va., for a canton? ment alto. Additional camps for Nat? ional Guardsmen will be located at Fort Worth. Houston anrt Waco, Tex. Ft. Sill, Okla., Deining, New Mexico. Sad Lindavsta, Cul. Now Ship Building Plant. New York, June 11.- The Terny and Preach Cosapanyi which has been a way dad eontraets for twenty steel ships have purchased the river front of ubout band red acres at port WeatWOrthi above Savannah for the aatahlaihasaat of a plant. Vonng Red Cross Workers. ' The following children gave an en? tert uninent for the benefit of the Red Crass1 from which they realised $ 1.r>n. i* udinc ix'o. Roatne Oha so, Maltland Chase and Lorlng Lee, Jr. QUESTIONS CONDUCT OF EUSTIS AND CLARK. >rJt Head of Emergency Fleet Corporation Takes Action to End Acrimonious Controversy. Washington, June 8.?Charges by F. A. Eustis. assistant general man? ager of the government's emergency fleet corporation, and F. Huntington Clerk, his assistant, that Maj. Gen. Goethals is deliberately blocking the wooden ship building programme re? sulted today in the dismissal of both a -olunteer employes of the corpora u-n. Gen. Goethals, in a memorandum to Chairman Denman of the shipping board, announced that he was dis? charging the engineers who conceived the wooden ship building plan be? cause their u"?fulness was at an end. Mr. Clark vent out of the govern? ment service today but the status of Mr. Eustis. who in addition to his con? nection with the fleet corporation is a special agent qf the shipping board, is in doubt. Some members of the board are strongly in favor of building all !the wooden ships the country can pro? duce, and they are loath, it is sai l to force the registration of Mr. Eustis for championing the cause of wooden construction. Mr. Eustis was employed by the board at a salary of $1 a year as 2 special agent. 1 Gen. Goethals declined today to make any statement concerning the controversy. Mr. Eustis and Mr. Clark found copies of his memoran? dum to Mr. Denman on their desks when they arrived at the offices of the fleet corporation this morning. The memorandum branded as false state? ments by the two engineers regarding ? icn. Goethals'-attitude towards wood? en shipbuilding. The engineers declare ship build? ers will not construct vessels urider this form of contract and thaa ?an. Goethals has turned down contracts calling for a cost plus ID per cent, profit basis after he once had an proved that plan. Both Eustis and Clark issued state? ments during the day denying the general's assertion as to misstate ments and replying to bis charges of dlslo>alty by saying thoy felt it was then duty to Inform the country that snips can be built if the governir.cn* wants them. Mr. Clark's reply to Gen. Goethals' dismissal said: "There are two charges, one of dis? loyalty. I feel that loyalty is to the country, not to any one man. The country has a right to know that they can have the ships if they want them. "As to the charge of misstatemenb of facts, every statement I made can be verified, and I trust a full investi? gation can be made." The fleet corporation, it became known today, has jUot arranged for lumber on the Pacific coast for build? ing 60 wooden ships. This with con? tracts let with the Southern Pine as? sociation makeB a total of about 200 wooden ships contracted for. I IRE SUNDAY NIGHT. Negro House on South Marvin Street IKNsfoyed. Last night shortly after ten o'clock, the Art alarm was sounded for a fire on South Harvin street, across the railroad. As there was neither a phone nor a fire alarm box near the scene of the lire, the alarm was sent in from the box near the Claremont Hotel, thus delaying tho truck con? siderably. When, alter plowing through the mud and slush of the unpaved part of Harvin street, the wagons finally ar? rived, it was found that the hous? was nearly destroyed. Nothing OOUld he done to save the dwelling, which was occupied hy u negro, hut the fire men did good work in preventing the fire from spreading to the adjacent bouses in this congested district, the houses In this part of town being lit? tle more than fifteen feet apart. It is not known bow the fire originated. CKISIS IN CHINA. Only Wu Ting Fang Stands up for Parliament. Peking, June 11?. President Lyuan Hung Ins announced his willingness to accede to the demand of (Jen. Change Hsun for the dissolution of parlia? ment. Acting Prdmter Wu Ting Fang, whose signature Is necessary*to make the decree legal, refuses to sign it. GLAD 10 SURRENDER. GERMAN PRISONERS BEWILDER? ED ANI> WEARY. Divisions Prom Eastern Front Amaz? ed 1>> Fury of War in the West. British Headquarters in France, June 8 (via London, by the Associated Press).?Comparative quiet reigned today along the front of the latest British attack which wrested the Mesaines ridge from the Germans Thursday. The noise of the guns was quite appalling, but otherwise the day was one of almost complete inaction. Tonight also is quiet and the British! had thoroughly consolidated their gains and are able to defend them against any counterattack the tem? porarily bewildered Germans may commence. Prisoners kept coming in today in increased numbers. Dazed by nearly a week of most terrifying gun fire and I half famished as a result of the j "starvation barrage," the British had i kept on their lines of communication and supply, these men upon reaching the cool, grassy spots within the barb? ed wire stockades, erected for their anticipated arrival, stripped them ?elves to the waist, tore off their heavy trench boots and flung them? selves on the ground where they soon were lost In the heavy sleep of com? plete exhaustion. For them the wai? ls over and their relief at being out of it was only too apparent. The men who had seen most of their military service on the Russian I front were the most demoralized of all. "We had heard much of the con? ditions on the Western front," said one of these, to the Associated Press, "but we always thought there was much exaggeration in them. We had no realization what war was. "When we came from Russia a few weeks ago, we were told we were going about the British but that we need not worry as the British were not in o. position to accomplish any? thing serious against us in view of their offensive at Arras. The artillery fire we experienced when we first came to the Messines ridge was more terrible than anything we had seen or heard on the Eastern front. "Then a week ago the English start? ed their intensive bombardment. It wr.s horrible to endure. Few of us ever thought we could get out alive. There was a distinct sense of relief when the mine was exploded yester? day morning. We knew then that ail attack was under way and that we soon should be dead or in a position to surrender. Most of us can frankly say that we preferred the latter. "This experience of ours should end the war. We have no possible chunce to win. Two days ago my di? vision was made up of three splendid German regiments. We saw these men shrivel up in a hurricane of Are with which we could not possibly ?lomp^te. Now my division exists no, more.' The battle of the Messines ridge will ever stand out as a wonderful tri? umph for the British artillery. The deepest significance in tho striking victory lies in the fact that the Ger? mans seemed to know the attack was coming and had endeavored in every possible way to defend themselves against it. But as fast us they brought up new batteries, the British guns were upon them. British airplanes al? ways were over the German lines watching every move. All the prisoners say they had been warned within the last few days that the English might attempt an of? fensive and that the main attack might come In the Messines sector, with the hope of nipping off the Wyas e.haete sector- all of which has been accomplished. The German troops in the line had been ordered to be on the alert every moment. Prisoners say they were ordered to hold the front line at all costs, al tbough their commanders verbally admitted that this line would be taken by the first assaulting waves. It was hoped, however, immediately to eject tho British with the much talked of German storming troops. German troops win) but recently came into the linn said they had seen many guns moving toward the front This worried them considerably for ordinarily German pun transfers are in: ds at night and in such a concealed ituvnner thai even the German in foiitry seldom sees them. The German prisoners admit that they were completely bewildered by the British tactlca The British had to level many bits of woods and they sprayed these woods with bombs of hoi Uns biasing oil. I j HUNDRED AVIATORS FROM NAVY FLYING CORPS READY FOR ANY WAR-LIKE TASK. Corps Was Sent for Duty In Anti Submarine Operations, Says Dan? iels. Washington, June 8.?One hundred American aviators from the navy flying corps have arrived in France for any duty that may present itself, according to a statement issued today by Secretary Daniels. They are the first of the American fighting forces to reach France. The statement adds that Lieut. Ken? neth Whiting commands the corps, which was sent for duty in anti-sub? marine operations, or for any other active duty that may be given them in France. In addition to Lieut. Writ? ing, commanding, the naval officers in ' the detachment are Lieut. Virgil C. (Trillin, Alabama; Lieut. Grattan O. Dlchman, Georgia; Lieut. Godfrey D. Chevalier, Massachusetts; Lieut. Whit? ing is from New York. I ANNOUNCES FOR SPEAKERS1 n P. i _________ OroiiRcburp: Member Would Become Presiding Officer of the House of Representatives. Orangeburg, June 9.?Joseph A Berry, Orangeburg member of the house of representatives, has an? nounced his candidacy for the speak ership of the house^ln succession to I the present speaker, James A. Hoyt. ; who has indicated in intention of moving to Detroit within the next few weeks. Mr. Berry is now speaker pro tern of the house and has pre ' sided over that body in an able ma - I ner. _. CAPT. HEYWARD PROMOTED. ! Commander of Pelzor Company Made Major off First Regiment. Columbia, June 11.?Capt. Robert C. Hey ward, Company C, (Pelzer) First regiment National Guard, of South Carolina, has been appointed major by Gov. Manning to fill th placo made vacant by the promotion j of Maj. Thomas B. Spratt. FOR NATIONAL PROHIBITION. Senate Committee Recommends Con? stitutional Amendment. Washington. .Tune 11.?Submission to the St tes of a national prohibition amendment to constitution is provid? ed by the senate judiciary committee, which has favorably reported the res? olution of Senator Sheppard of Tex? as. AMERICAN SCHOONER LOST. Empress Waterlogged and Abandoned by Crew After Four Were Drowned. Washington, June 11.?The State department announced that the Amer? ican schooner Gypsum Empress, Pen sacola to Genoa, was abandoned wat? erlogged on May 17th and four of the crew were drowned. LORD NORTHCLIFFE ARRIVES. Famous Ixunion Editor Will Head British Mission in America. An Atlantic Port, June 11.?I*ord Northcliffe arrived in the United States today as virtual head of the British war mission. It is understood that he comes not as a diplomatic agent, but to work along industrial and ecnomlo lines with the coopera? tion of Captain Andre Tardie, the Kn.neh commissioner here. CAN'T ENJOIN UNIONS. Only the Government May Resort to This Process of Laar? Washington. June 11.?The su? preme court has decided that Injunc? tion under the Sherman anti-trust law against labor unions is obtainable only by the government and not hy private persons. AMERICAN OFFICERS AT PARIS. First Contingent of Gen. Pcrslllng' Staff in France. Paris, June ii The first con? tingent off American officers on Gen. Pershlng's staff arrived here Ih'.s ternoon. They held an informal con? ference will? French officers regard Ing the preliminaries Incident t > earing for United States soldiers who arc to arrive soon. TOO MANY TIGHTWADS. SEVEN HUNDRED MILLION DOL? LARS STILL LACKING ON LIBERTY IX)AN. Ciic Week Remains to Reach the Mark?Many Banks Throughout the Country Have Not Yet Reported? The Secretary's Appeal. New Orleans, June 8.?Subscrip? tions to the Liberty loan to date ag? gregate $1,300,000,000, or $700,000, 000 less than the total amount de? sired, according to a statement issued here tonight by Secretary William Mc Adoo. The secretary urged that re? doubled efforts be made to raise the desired $700,000,000 and over sub? scribe the loan during the next seven days. LOAN IS LAGGING. Banks Throughout the Country Am Negligent in Advising of Progress. Washington, June 8.?The Liberty loan is lagging, on the face of official bank returns, behind the hopes of treasury officials and their expecta? tions of what it would be on this the 24th day of receiving^ubscriptions. On the face of actual subscriptions received at the treasury they will have to be taken at the rate of $100,. 000,000 a day between now and the closing date if the entire $2,000,000, 000 is to be subscribed. The average cf subscriptions thus far received has been approximately $54,000,000 a day. Officials had hoped that by this time an over subscription would have been actually received. Many banks throughout the coun try apparently have been negligent in ad' ising the treasury of progress ' made thus far in obtaining subscrip 1 tions. The location of these banks is understood to be countrywide. When asked if figures for each federal re? serve district were available. Assistant Secretary Crosby said tonight that the figures might follow later and that they at present revealed great differ? ences in the proportions of the esti? mated requirements actually reported by different districts. Mr. Crosby said he hoped that those now showing badly would improve at I ' once. A PATRIOTIC DUTY. Secretary of Treasury McAdoo Points Americans to Their Supremo Duty. New Orleans, June 8.?That money is more important in warfare than ever before and that the first duty of Americans is to respond to the call of the country and purchase Liberty bonds, thus supplying means to carry on the present conflict, was declared by Secretary McAdoo, in an address delivered at a Liberty loan mass meeting here tonight. "The quickei you subscribe the means to carry on the war and let the enemies of your country know that you have unlimited means to achieve liberty throughout the world, the quicker the war is going to come to an end," he said. "No one can tell now when this war will end, no one can tell how it is going to end. But the price of de? feat would be so fearful to Americans I hesitate evep to suggest it. The price of defeat to America would mean that the German llohenzollerns with their limitless and lustful ambi? tion for world conquest would be supreme throughout the world. "While we arc vindicating Uncle Sam and vindicating the principle of liberty we hope that we also shall be able to bring about the one thing that the German people need more than anything else to disenslave them and that is self government for them? selves." Digressing for a moment to dis < use taxation the secretory said: "It is human nature always not to want to be taxed, but I can not un? derstand bow In a time of war, when we are actually commandeering our sons, men should quibble about tax? ation. If the cause is worth fighting for. it is worth si. ntiein^^j.r. When men go rind give their ii?cS for our country the men who don't give their lives ought to be willing to give what? ever is necessary of their property. I want to tell you now, as your secre? tary of the treasury, thai H.lea.tfg. 000 of taxation for the next year Is (lie least possible sum with which we can safely proceed in this war." RALI-'orit HOME AGAIN. Head of Mission to AsaeHra Arrives Safety in England. London, June t. Foreign Secretary A. .1. Dal four arrived at a British port this morning from the United States and came directly here.