Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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OVEHSl BSC RIBE THK LOAN. Every IndkaUon That Before Drive Ends, Aim ncaiN will Have Bid for . More Than Two Billion Hollars' Worth of Bond* of Freedom. Washington, June 14.?The Liberty loan campaign entered the home stretch today with every indication that the tremendous drive throughout the nation would result in going well beyond the $2,000,000,000 goal. Prom coast to coast the story that poured into the treasury all day was the same, a story of a whirlwind finish. Telegrams told of to ling bells and shrieking whistles across the con? tinent, marking the last day of the campaign; of redoubled efforts by - many agencies at work for the loan's success, of enthus'^om at its highest pitch* of long wa lines of sub? scribers in thousanu* of banks in every State of the Union. The last 24 hours' work is going to show big in the final count, accord? ing to these reports. Before noon to? morrow, officials hope, every man in the country who can subscribe will have done so. At the closing hour tonight there was no telling where the total might lead, no basis for fore? casting the final figures, tt seemed certain, however, that at least 2,500, ?00 pcreors will have subscribed be? fore the books are closed at noon to? morrow. Measuring the total by the number of Liberty loan buttons which have gone out from headquarters the num? ber of subscribers should exceed 3,000.000. More than 4,000.000 but? tons will have been distributed be? fore the three chief button factories of the country working night and day, catch up with their orders several days hence. Late campaign figures made public today by Secretary McAdoo as of the close of business last night showed an apparent shortage of $157,000,000, to total reported being $1,843,000,000 They showed an Increase of nearly $200,000,000 in subscriptions over the previous day's report. The loan, according to reports re? ceived by treasury officials, is in ever> sense a popular one. By far the greatest issues which the bureau of engraving and printing will be called upon to turn out will be $50 and $100 bonds. For them there has been an extremely heavy demand in every in? dustrial section of the country and in many rural communities. The city of Washington, officials estimate, will j marshal 30,000 individual subscrip? tions, most of them for the $50 and - JI44fhttQn4&, Employes of the treas? ury department alone subscribing to the $50 and $100 bonds have taken approximately $4 50,000. Many thousands of banks and trust companies are yet to be heard from with their subscriptions. This item alone, it is thought, will swell the total by many millions. The amount subscribed today, $1,843,000,000, rep resents actual subscription in the fed? eral reserve banks, accompanied by the required 2 per cent, of the amount of subscriptions. Officials believe that the reserve- banks will be deluged to? morrow by a flood of last minute sub? scriptions which will keep them busy for hours tabulating them. The small investor is to be favored above al others and every application for u small bond is to be granted. In the case of oversubscription, this would resu't in paring down the larger sub? scriptions on a proportionate basis as announced by Secretary McAdoo. Throughout the country the banks are keeping open till late tonight to accommodate the hist minute in? vestor. The treasury department has granted banks permission, in extreme cSi es, to telegraph the amounts of tin ir subscriptions to their reserve Ipr.ks. telegraphing the 2 per cent, ol the total at the same time, but all subscriptions to be counted must reach reserve banks not later than neon. The exaet total of all subscriptions from every source may not be known for so?n*? time after tho cl sing of t>?e books because of the tremendous itount of cle. leal work involved in assembling returns and making tabu? lations. New York estimates it will be able to report its total not later than 8 o'clock tomorrow night. In the case of the other reserve banks the delay may be greater. New Honey. I am r?f?w extracting the new crop of honey and am selling at the old price, 35 cents per quart, on draught, or in glass jars, 45 cents per quart. Have a limited supply of white comb honey in sections, about one pound, that I urn selling at 20 cents per section. Send to my residence, 320 West Hampton Avenue or Phone No. 2. N. o. O0TBBN. Beeswax Wanted. See me before you sell your wi\ I will buy It for cash at the best cur? rent price. N. a. OJ9VEBN. CONVICTED OP EMBEZZLEMENT. Conner Auditor or Dillon County Tried. Dillon, June 14.?The case of the State vs. C. (I. Bruce, former audit?r of Dillon county, charged with embez? zlement of county funds, was conclud? ed this morning and went to the jury about noon. After about two hours' deliberation he was found guilty on 13 counts and sentence was passed upon him by Judge Spain to serve 12 years [at hard labor in the State peniten? tiary. This does not end his troubles, how? ever, as another bill of indictment has been handed out by the grand Jury against him and Will Mclnnis, former treasurer of Dillon county. TAKE RED SEA FORT. British Warships Score in East London, June 14.?Fort Saliff, on the east shore of the Red Sea, ha* been captured by British warships, it was officially announced this evening. Red Cross Members, The following names have been added to the membership roll of Sumter Chapter since the list was published last week: T. J. Leonhirth, Mrs. T. J. Leonhirth, Mrs. T. E. Hinson, Jr. J. F. James. Mr. Estridge. Mrs. Estridge. Mr. A. A. Howell, J. W. Abraham, B. L. Montague, Mrs. B. L. Montague, Mrs. T. G. Morgan, Mrs. J. C. Phillips, J. P. Commander, Mrs. C. W. Kingman, Mrs. E. T. White, J. E. Andrews, (Richmond, Va.) ( M. D. Cex, j ' j E. H. Mose?, W. B. Daughtrey, < Mrs. W. B. Daughtrey. , Pat Gallagher, , Miss Elma Epps, ' f Miss Evelyn Williams, ( H. L. Tisdale, , H. A. Hoyt, , Walter L. Williams, , E. E. Austin. Mrs. E. E. Austin, Mrs. B. R. Nash, J. Peter Richardson, Miss Julia Rumph, R. P. Monaghan, Perry Krasnoff, Mrs. Whitted. Mrs. Annie McKiever, Richard Galnley. , Mrs. M. B. Teicher, , A. G. Fishburne, , Mrs. A. G. Fishburne, , Mrs. B. H. Taylor, , , A. P. Hinson, I Miss Holly Brown, , Mrs. S. E. Thomas, I Mrs. S. Y. Delgar, J. E. Garrick, Blanche Anna Kingsmore, Mrs. A. L. Rick er, j Mrs. Mark Reynolds, Mrs. Ben Hodges. Mrs. Thomas Wilson. Clothespin Uses. The spring clothespin has other oses thao Its original mission of hanging out the wash. They make good paper clips for holding sheets of wrapping , paper, paper bags.etc., and with a short , bit of string attached to each they take the place of clothes-hangers. For this use fasten the other end of each short string over a bit of clothes line or cord, using a loose knot, so that the strings can be slipped along on the rope. Then when the rope is fastened in place in a cupboard or the side of a room the little hangers enn be moved into place to clip the folded skirts, waists, or Jackets. "Where's the ChainV A farm hand saved a train from be? log wrecked, and at a splendid ban? quet was presented by the railway company with a gold watch In a red morocco case. The company's chair? man, at the end of an eloquent speech, handed tfcfe watch to the heroic farm hand, and waited expectantly to hear the yokel's thanks. The farm hand opened the morocco ense, took the watch from Its rich satin bed, turned It over and over, and then looked up and said: "And where's the efcninr Idea of Ancient Origin, All peoples in nil times have seen an intimate connection between the nioon and fruit fulness, both animal and vegetable. "Liven now," says the New York Medical Journal, "the on? ions which come to our city renket owe their excellence to tin? fanner's careful conjnnctlon of plnntlng time with the phases of the moon." Such Ideas have been so universal that man's unconscious mind still preserves them, though his Judgment may scorn them as absurd. Not the Only One. This buying plan of $5 down and $5 when they catch you keep? the house? keeper on the Jump.?Philadelphia In? quirer. 1ST CONTROL W. MAY TURN SCALE ON WESTERN BATTLE FRONT. United Mai.-s. Cosmo Points Out, Ma> Thrown in Weight in This Depart? ment. Washington, June 13.?A pro? gramme of aircraft production through which it is hoped to domi? nate the fighting lines' of Europe with? in a year has been worked out by the Iaircraft production board of the de? fense council and will be submitted to congress soon with a request for a large appropriation to carry it into effect. Howard Coffin, chairman of the board, has been in conference for weeks with the country's leading air? craft and material makers and the plan he will submit is believed to have the approval of all the Interests which will do the actual construction work. "We may as welltrealize now," he said, "that the domination of the air will in . all probability prove the de? ciding factor. Military authorities of all the allied nations are agreed that unless the allies can secure a pre? ponderance of aircraft the war proba bly will drag: on for years. "We believe we have worked out a programme which will make it pos? sible for tho United States to secure to the allies next year the paramount supremacy of the air and with that we hope to becor ic an immediate de? ciding factor in ending the war. At soon as the proposal is placed be? fore congress we shall ask the Ameri? can people and their official represen? tatives in congress for their hearty support of the plan. "A superiority in numbers of sev? eral hundred thousand men on th Western front means little compara? tively under modern conditions o ighting. A vast superiority in air :ratt means the complete blinding o he enemy. "In the present struggle betwcei lermany and the allies the fight foi supremacy in the air is practicall> ?ven; they are constantly struggling ror the advantage. This is America'? me chance for turning the scale next r'car. To do it we must be prepared .<? sprue not a few millions, but nun Ireds of millions of dollars." TEN BILLION IN FIRST YEAR. McAdco Soys Nation Must Raise $1, 800,000 >y Taxation and Rest by Bonds. Baltimore June 13.?Secretary Mc? Adoo, in the last speech of his cam patgfl for the Liberty loan here to? ri. Fht, declared that it seemed cer Lc?n that $10,000,000,000 would be needed by the United States to wage the war for 12 months and that of this at least $1.800,000,000 should be raised by taxation and $8,200,000,000 by bond issues. U-BOAT REPORTED SUNK. Merchantman Said to Have Rammed Submarine. An Atlantic Port. June 18.?De itructlon of a German submari * by in American armed merchantman was reported by the vessel upon her irrival today in an American harbor. Her officers rofused to discuw the en? counter except to say that by agil? manoeuvring the merchantman man? aged to ram and sink the U-boat short ly after two of the underwater boats had made an attack, one from eith? er side. Tho merchant ship lost a blaie from her propeller. FIVE STEAMERS LOST. Report on Italian Submarine Toll for Week. Rome. June 15 (via Paris).?Ac? cording to the official statement on Italian shipping lossos by mine or sub? marine, the number of steamers sunk in the week ending June 10 was five. Five sailing vessels were also sunk in the same period. SUlfTEH COTTON MAKKICT. Corrected Daily By P. G. BOWMAN. Cotton Buyer. Good Middling 23 1-4. St riet Middling 83 1-S. Middling 23. Strict Middling 22 8-4. Low Middling 22 3-8. NEW YORK COTTON MARKET. YesMyi Open High Low (lose (lose July . . 25.06 25.08 24.68 84.67 25.os Oct . . 21.70 24.f.7 84.87 84.86 84.08 Dec . . 84.90 21.SI 84.46 84.47 84.82 New York Spots 25.25. DEPARTS I ROM ATHENS. Constantine Will Leave Greece on Brit Mi Warship. Athens. June 12. -Ex-King Con? stantine left Athens todi\ to embark on a British warship. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE NOTES Some of the Tilings That the Organ? isation is ( ailed Upon to Do. in compliance with the request of Mrs. C. E* Btubbs, chairman of the Sumter County Red Cross soliciting committee, the Chamber of Commerce has placed a Red Cross contribution box at Hotel Claremont lobby. The box is placed on a large Red Cross banner as a base and is sur? mounted by two smaller Red Cross Mags and a large placard requests con? tributions for the cause. The Chamber of Commerce mailed out last Saturday five hundred copies of the famous speech delivered by Hon. William G. McAdoo, secretary of the treasury, at a meeting of the bus? iness men and bankers of Iowa, in Des Moines on May 21st, on the Lib? erty Loan Bonds. Hundreds of large posters are being distributed by the Chamber in differ? ent sections of Sumter county also ad vertising the Liberty Loan Bonls. The Chamber of Commerce Is in the light to the finish to push the Red Cross work, the Liberty Loan bonds, 'ho planting of plenty of foodstuffs, canning, preserving, drying of fruits and vegetables, raising o* hogs, beef cattle, chickens, establishing cream routes as soon as the velvet bean and hay crops are harvested, and in do? ing any and everything to make 'hiiiKs prosperous during the war and more prosperous after the war. The commercial organization is waging war on false economy, is try? ing to induce the people to create new business, more business and to fur? nish employment for everybody, by buying what they need, to stop hoard? ing of money and foodstuffs, and to act as though there was no war except to subscribe liberally for Liberty Loan Bonds and the Red Cross work. The managing secretary of the Sumter Chamber of Commerce has propounded to the supervising archi? tect of tho treasury in Washington tho following question, which he put up to Postmaster Geo. W. Dick, who said that the supervising architect's office could answer the question. The question is a simple one but has caused a lot of speculation among Sumter people. It is this: "Why is it that the Sumter post office, a splendid public building, cost? ing many thousands of dollars, doing business after dark and with an an? nual revenue of about $39,000.00, is the darkest and gloomiest looking ?uilding in Sumter at night?" Hundreds of the people of Sumter. and many visitors also wonder why the United States postofflce depart? ment or the treasury department ev? er spent so much money on elaborate and large electric arc lights on the northern and western porticos of this building and never turn on the lights. And why it is that this same govern ment has installed electric arc lights and gas lights in the lobby of the postofflce, yet never have enough lights turned on for a man to read a letter by at night. Postmaster Dick informed Secre? tary Reardon that he had orders to cut out the outside arc lights. And that this was done to cut down elec? tric light bills. Sumter furnishes something like $31?,000.00 a year in revenues for its postofflce. So far ai is known here, this economy against efficiency and convenience policy is in vogue in no other first or second class offices In South Carolina. The supervising architect was in? formed that if he needs any assist? ance in getting the treasury depart? ment to cancel this order against suf? ficient lights, inside and outside of !he Buml r office that Congressman Lever and Senators Smith and Till man will he requested to render any assistance needed. The responses to requests for homes for the entertainment of the gills of the canning and tomato clubs of Sumter county who will be in this city on June 19th-20:h and 11st, as the guests of the people of Sumter, have not been as numerous as the committee of ladies represent Ing the Sumter Civic League, and Sumter Chamber of Commerce would like by any means. These young women will be here at? tending the three day short course of instruction in canning, preserving, and drying of fruits and vegetables and in domestic science. In entertaining these Sumter county young women w< are entertaining our own people those who support Sumter's banks stores, and other institutions largel) by patronizing Sumter's business es tablishments, This statement is made not because any one thinks that there are any Sumter people who do not wish t< entertain these voting women, but be cause, as before stated in an article about this same matter, because there is danger of numbers of Rnmter> iK^pilal'b men and women thinking ! NO FREIGHT INCREASE. ? . COMMISSION i >i;\ii;s RATE IN? CREASE PETITION. Board Declares it is Not "Opportune Time to Levy a Fifteen Per Cent Horizontal increase*'?All Linos Join Movement. Columbia, June 1 1.? Petition of rail ways operating In South Carolina for B genera] revision of rates between points in the State and a "15 per cent, horizontal increase" was dismissed by the railroad commission yesterday in an order signed by John G. Rich? ards, chairman. The railways filed the petition "ask? ing for a revision of freight rates ne tween points within the State of South Carolina to become effective July I, 1917." The ruling by the commission fol? lows: "Your petition not only requests a revision of all rates between points in South Carolina, but, as we understand it, proposes a horizontal increase of rates of not less than 15 per cent. The South Carolina commission realizes fully the serious condition confronting the railroads of this country at this time, but it is also mindful of the fact that all of our people in every department and walk of life are con? fronted with the same condition. The commission stands ready at all times to consider the reasonableness or un? reasonableness of any particular rate on any given commodity or classifica? tion, or to hour any questions affect? ing railway service within the State, and anything that is reasonable and within their power to grant they stand ready to adjudicate the same. However, the commission does Bot feel that this is an opportune time, or that it is necessary to open the ques? tion of a general revision of the freight rates of the State, or that it: is just and reasonable to levy a 15 per cent, horizontal increase. "Therefore, by unanimous vote of the commission your petition is dis? missed." Slackers Under Arrest. Seattle, Wash., June 13.?Seventeen white men who had failed to register for the army draft were arrested to? day as they were about to embark for Japan. Agents of the department of justice bad learned that 20 men es? caped from this country on a Jap? anese steamer last week. It is estimated that the average cost of food and groceries in Australia has increased 25 per cent, since the war began. that there are plenty of others to do the entertaining and they can be very well excused and not missed for this time at least. That is ' where the trouble comes in on all important public matters. Too many people im? agining themselves a small minority, gradually, without knowing it merge into a majority of shirkers and then the ranks are thinned out so fast that a minority remains working while a majority do nothing, which was never the intention of the majority from the start. Sumter must not bo found wanting ift this matter. Let every homckeeper feel that without her the whole thing is bound to be a failure. Then wc will have too many, not too few homes for our young lady friends. Too much hospitality is far better than too little hospitality. CIVIL WAR IM CHINA, Clashes Between Loaders of Oppau? ing factions Expected tc? Develop. Peking, China, June 13.?The presi? dential mandate dissolving parliament has been signed by Chiang Chao ChlUlg as acting premier, he having accepted the post which Dr. Wu Ting Pang, former ambassador to the United States, resigned. It is believed the dissolution of parliament will bring about civil war as the leaders in the southern provinces have tele? graphed President Li Yuan Hung that th<y no longer recognize his author? ity, despite the fact that the president has issued a long mandate attempting to justify his action in issuing the dis? solution decree. The troops in the provinces of ' Kwang-Tung-Yunan. Kwang-Si and Kwei-Chow are mobilizing and it is intended to take military action should President LI Yuan Hung dissolve par? liament under pressure from Chang Hsun, military governor of the prov? ince of Anhwel. HEAVY TAXES ON OIL. Mexico Making Troubk for Entente. Washington, June 13?Publication of the new Mexican ol) taxation de? crees has disclosed that by the expedi? ent of placing an enormous over valu? ation on the crude product the Mexi? can government proposes practically prohibitive taxation upon exports from the great east coast oil fields, on which the allied fleets have depended for fuel. German agents are charged with responsibility for the scheme. It was learned today that Ameriacn ownors of Mexican oil properties have brought the matter to the attention of the gov? ernment. The tax rate on crude oil is fixed at 10 per cent, ad valorem on a valuation of $9.5u a ton in the Panuico fields. ^OR MEN WHO FAILED. PoUc] Toward Registrations is Out? lined. Washington. June 13.?Attorney General Gregory outlined the policy of the department of just-co |n hand? ling of registration cases as follows: "In instances where registration was omitted through ignorance or inatten? tion, persons now .are being permitted to register under paragraph 40 of the registration regulations before the county board, and those so registering are held to answer to the grand juries on their own recognizance. "Those 'who have knowingly and wilfully failed to register and now apply are being registered but placed under bonds with sureties. "AH those who continue to defy the law and such as have interfered with its enforcement or aided in its evasion are being imprisoned or held to the grand juries on very substantial bonds." REMAINS IN CAPITAL. Former King Still Left In Athens. London, June 13.?Former King Constantino and tho other members of the Greek royal family are still in Athens, although according to reports received here Constantine desires to leave. Reuter's correspondent at Athens says that all military, measures in Thessaly, and the Gulf or Corinth and elsewhere have been carried out satis? factorily. I r - ? 4 Flies Breed in Filth Devil Lye ??kts ruth Kill the Cause Germ-carrying flies bring disease direct to your home from the privy and outhouse. They wipe their germ laden feet on your foOv*, ".^.ne in the baby's milk and leave many forms J sickness ? then come the doctor's bills ? and'y_d know what that means. Flies carry on their feet filth and the germs of typhoid fever, malaria, consumption?perhaps infantile paralysis and other dreed diseases. ?^DeVilJye, Destroys The Fly Eggs SPRINKLE RED DEVIL LYE FREELY onca or twice a week in your privy or outhouse. You can't use too much. It will clean up these places, remove the foul odor and stop fly-eggs from hatching. mo DEVIL LYE la alee ?Imply wondmrful fe# making moan, conditioning hoga and making compoat for fmrilttwar. I Start Using REO DEVIL lyi Row, Before Ply Season Begins SENO POSTAL FOR FREE BOOKLET Wm. Schleid Mfg. Co., f,K K. Second St, at. loou. wio. RED DEVIL HE I? Sold By All Orooert,