Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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IN THE UP f#ll HOC8K lor and Reed Oppose Osiniiorlslii Vigorously Aug. t.?Resumption debate today on the con report of the administration bill was marked by bit between those advocat? es* ea? those opposing the lsglsla Alter a day's dlscusslor. of the I Anally drafted by the con administration leaders and C the chief opponents said It! disposed Of Wednesday. Chamberlain, the admtnls and Senator Gore, prominent in the op sharply during the after Senator Reed had made jh of more than three the measure and 0? Hoover. When Senator ipsjtsd that the senate confer? ee* hM yielded the senate's judgment to the* of the president. Senator Cham bi a vehement speech, de the Oklahoma senator had obstructed the food bill administration meaa ?* had rather be charged with foi? ls the footsteps of the dlstin president of tho United States Use conduct of this war." said the stor, "crawling on my kaeos and Bleking the duet from his feet, en feast been suggested here, than to etaai be opposition to him and to Ist ooanmllBg to be conspiring with and treating with the enemlge of the precedent Ssnslui Gore denied obstructing the etil, ae Senator Chamberlain had sug? gested, the army draft law. Senator Holl Is, who served promi? nently in drafting the socalled lead ore' com promise bill In the eenste, announced that he would vote against tho conference report because of elim? ination of hut amendment designed to ipt labor unions from the pro? of the bill. >n of the eenste conferees on tho provisions for a congressional eemratttee to supervise war expendi? tures, stricken out largely because of tho president's strong opposition, was nsaeaaosd by Senator Hardwlck and ?defended by Senators Williams and T^osoott* " Senator Williams declared that there Is either more Intended than Is apparent m the language of the pro? posal to ortete the joint committee on war expenditures or it is unnecessary. The Mississippi senator declared that4 Were he the president and such a cess mission was authorised by con? gress no would veto the measure and tall- them that he was responsible to the people who elected him and that he regarded such an act as lack of Meet of today's debate was occu? pies) by the Democratic senators op? posing approval of the conference re? port. The Republicans were said by their leaders to be almost a unit for Immediate and favorable action. Senator Reed, who opposed the army draft law. read Provost Marshal General Crowder\ rent statement en draft rioters, av |hi believed in enforcing obedience to the selective draft but he did not know when the law was passed "we were giving pow? er for drumhead courtsmartlal to sit to condemn men who run away." After speaking three hours and a 1 Barter. Senator Reed yielded the Senator Holl Is said the anti-hoard - tag section of the conference report would subject labor don heads who might call strikes on railroads transporting or In factories producing ntows?rise to two years' Imprison? ment and $10.000 nne. "If a movement similar to that in Russia le found In the United States." said the New Hampshire senator, "it will be on the heads of the senators. The conduct of the war depends on the frame of mind of the laboring men of the country. Our one hope in Oer many Is that workingmen there will no longer obey constituted au? thority" Senator Holds disclaimed filibuster? ing against the bill and said he was sorry he must vote against the con? ference report. "The rights of labor have been much oegleeted by this administra? tion since the war began." Senator Hollis continued. "No member of a labor union has been placed by the administration on either the coal com? mittee or the rallroud committee." Venator Chamberlain denounced Senator Oore and others who are op? posing the bill when the Oklahoma senator suggested that senate mem? bers of the conference should have the word "receded" written on their brows. 'To those senators who have been opposing the administration not only In reference to raising an army but In supplying the army," Senator Chamberlain continued, "we have the distinguished and Illustrious example of men In their sections standing out TEXAS GOVERNOR GASH. EFFORTS TO SUBSTANTIATE CHARGES OF EMBEZZLE? MENT. . Looking to I in i>c?clunrnt?-Testimony Obtained Regarding Governor's Dealings With Temple Stato Rank. Austin. Texas. Aug. 6.?Deposits of State funds In the Temple State Bank, of which Gcv. James E. Ferguson formerly was president and In which he Is a large stockholder, today occu? pied the attention of the house of rep? resentatives, sitting as committee of the whole to Investigate charges < looking to the Impeachment of the chief executive. Henry Blum, assistant cashier in the bank, who testified late today, told how Gov. Ferguson, as governor, the secretary of State and the banking commissioner deposited large sums of State money in the Temple Institu? tion. The testimony related to business from early In 1913 down to the pres? ent time and showed that at one time several hundred thousand dollars was on deposit In the bank. Of certain deposits made by the secretary of 8tato, M. M. Crane, of Dallas, counsel for the house commit? tee sitting as a whole, asked: "Who brought these deposits?is not It a fact that Governor Ferguson brought them?" Blum said he did not know. When asked about the payment on August 23. 1916, of $5,600 from the account of Mr. Ferguson, as govern? or, Blum said he could remember nothing of it except that there had been an error discovered In the bal? ances. The governor Is charged by Indict? ment with embezzling $6,600 on Au? gust 23, 1916. Replying to the attorney for the governor, Blum said that Mr. Fergu? son also hud a special account and a private account. Ho testified that on August 23, 1916. Mr. Ferguson had forty dollars and thirty-two cents In his special account. Questioned again by Mr. Crane as to the governor's private account. Blum said that the governor was overdrawn to the extent of $20,641.32 on August 23 of last year. GREENWOOD MAN SLAYS WIFE. Mrs. Frank Boyd Killed by Her Hus? band. Greenwood. Aug. 6.?Enraged be? cause his wife had left him to visit her parents, after he had told her she should not do so, Frank Boyd, aged 23, shot and killed his wife yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock and wounded his mother-in-law with four shots from his automatic pistol. The mother In law, Mrs. Crane, is now in the Greenwood HospltaAfand it Is believed she will recover. She has two bullet wounds In the face, and one In each arm. The dead wife, Mrs. Minnie Crane Boyd, was shot twice in the left breast and ones in the head. The shooting occurred at the Crane home In Grendel mill village No. 2 In South Greenwood. Boyd and his wife lived In the Greenwood mill Village. Mrs. Boyd wanted to visit her par? ents and he told her not to go. She went anyway and Boyd followed later In the day and as soon as he walked up on the front piazza began shooting at his wife and when she fell, turned on his mother-in-law. After the shoot? ing he submitted quietly to arrest at the hands of Deputy f^prouse of the village and made no resistance what? ever when Sheriff McMillan and Mr. Chandler, chief of police, put him In an automobile1 and carried him to the county Jail. He is still in jail and re? fuses to make any statement or even answer questions, maintaining a stol? id silence. He is a native of Laurens county but has lived in Greenwood county almost all of his life. PRESIDENT TAKES A HAND. After Reduction of Food Prices und Washington, Aug. 7.?President Wil? son took a hand 1 nthe government's plans for regulating prices. He con? ferred with officials having the work in charge. Re first went to the fed? eral trade commission then to the de? partment of Justice. Roth are work? ing on keeping prices of materials needed for the government wsr pro? gram down to a reasonable busls. not only against tho president but against the president in raising an army." Senator Ooro denied that he hud obstructed the food bill, but said ho would continue to discharge the du? ties of a senator "without any threat of power or the smiles of blandish? ment of power." "This is not th*? llrst administration bill the senator from Oklahoma hai opposed." Senator Chamberlain re? plied, heatedly. Senator Hardwlck attacked the con? ference report, saying the conferoc.4 "deliberately surrendered the position of the senate " Otlier Supplies. LIBERAL PRESS NOT PLEASED. EXPRESS DISAPPOINTMENT OVER CHOICES OF NEW CHAN? CELLOR. Dr. von Kuchlmunn, Wlio Suevecds Zimmermann, Only On? Considered Favorably. Copenhagen. Aug. 6.?The Liberal | Press of Germany is outspoken in its disappointment over the selections Chancellor Michaelis has made for his colleagues in the now impe- md Prussian ministries, which arc neld to show that the effect is one of names only and not of the system. All the papers of this class agree in the view that there is not a trace of par? liamentarism in the new order of things. It Is evident, comments the Vos slche Zeitung, that the course Is set to the right about from the Liberal ideals now inspiring the people. The Vorwaerts, the Socialist organ, speaks of the new administration as one of "enlightened bureaucracy." The Tage? blatt characterizes the new ministers as In the main successful adminis? trative officials. The nomination of two members of parliament cannot, it says, be regarded as even a step to? ward parliamentarism, because in the first place, neither of the two is par? ticularly liberal in his views or a strong believer in reforms in the di? rection of Liberalism, and in the sec? ond place both must, under the pres? ent constitution resign their seate. Dr. von Kuehlmann alone of the new officials is given favorable treatment by the liberal organs. The conservative and Pan-American news? papers are correspondingly aggrieved over his appointment. SUMMARY OF WAR NEWS. Number of Changes in British Ad? miralty?American Soldiers Being Trained In Gas Warfare. London, Aug. 7.?Admiral Sir Cecil Burney, second sea lord has been re? placed by Vice Admiral Sir Rosslyn Wemyss. Alan Garrett Anderson, hitherto vice chairman of the wheat comfnisslon succeeds Sir Eric Camp? bell Geddes, the new first lord of the admiralty as controller of naval con? struction. The changes are Interpret? ed as the first step in tr reorgani? zation which it Is suppsoed that Geddes was appointed to carry out. American Training Camp, Aug. 7.? American soldiers are being vigorously trained in the use of gas protectlves. They were subjected to vapors five to ten times stronger than usually en? countered In the field and were In? structed to adjust masks within ten seconds after the gas alarms sound? ed, tfhey are being impressed with th< idea that slovenly and slow soldiers are the ones who first meet disasters of modern warfare. German prison? ers claim they were subjected to gas tests fifty times as strong as is pos? sible In the field. FRENCH TROOPS SCORE AGAIN. Paris, Aug. 7.?French troops last night broke into the German lines In three places in the Champagne, in? flicting heavy losses on the Teutons and bringing back prisoners, the war office announced. Teuton attacks be? tween Avercourt Wood and Hill 304 were driven off with heavy German losses. There are violent artillery duels on the Belgian and Aisne fronts. RUSSIANS STILL RETREAT. Petrograd,- Aug. 7.?A Russian of? ficial statement tells of more Teuton? ic successes and relates that In the Bystrltza river section two Russian regiments voluntarily left their po sltons causing the Rusians to retire a few miles on the Russo-Galician frontier. Teutons are hastily gathering the crops. The Teutons occupied tho heights at Mollt near Klmpolung, ad? vanced south of Grljmalov and press? ed back the Russians and Roumanians in the direction of Fokshani. Germans Defeated by Russians. Kissinev, Russia, Aug. 7.?Teutons between the Dniester and Pruth rivers were thrown back on a ten mile front according to news of the battle reach? ing here. The action was near Cho ttn, at tho junction of Zbrocz and Dniester rivers on Russo-Galician frontier. ANOTHER LIBERTY LOAN, Three and One-Hair Per Cent. Bonds Will lie Offered by Middle of Sep. tcmbor. New York. Aug. |.?Preparations for floating the second liberty loan to be offered to the public probably on September ir.th were begun by the general loan committee of the Second Federal Reserve district. There was some doubt in tho financial dis? trict as to whether a three and a-half per cent, loan could be floated, with tho present bonds under par. Tenta? tive date has advanced a month. as it is believed working men might "sub? scribe more if it were not so rldsorjte the holidays. SERGEANT IfKVES HAS BULLET WOUND IN HEAD. Seven Angsts Made?Mystery Sur? rounds Assault on Young; Man? ConflIctlBfJ Stories Told by Men lu Jail. Greenville, Aug. 6.?Mystery sur? rounds the circumstances of the shooting of Ralph G. Neves, stable sergeant of the headquarters company of the First South Carolina Infantry, who was shot through the head last night on the Travelers Rest Road while returning from the home of his uncles. Seven white men, Clarence Lee, Furman Bright, Will Bright, Jace Carter, Lotan Hooper, Bud Waters and Will Watts are now in jail in connection witn t he crime. Lee and the Bright boys are from Merritsville and the other four are Greenville men. They are not connected with any military organization. Serjeant Neves was rushed to the City Hospital here and it is reported from there tonight that he has a chance for recovery. He is the son I of B. F. Neves, a wealthy citizen of Greenville county, who recently wrote Governor Manning offering himself and the services of his four sons to their country. Each man's story of the shooting differs in some manner from the story told by the others. The best informa? tion obtainable seems to be that the seven men who are now under arrest were in an automobile coming to Greenville when the car passed Neves. It is understood aat the hat of one of tho men in the car blew off at this time and fell in the road. Neves dis? mounted from his horse and picked up the hat, starting toward the car with it. What happened during the interval while tho men were with Neves in the road could not be learn? ed. A shot was heard and the men returned to the car and came on to Greenville. Neves was found a few minutes later lying in the road with a bullet wound through his head and his own pistol lying a few feet from him. REMAINS A MYSTERY. Greenville. Aug. 7.?Sergt. Ralph G. Neves of the headquarters company of the First South Carolina Infantry, who was mysteriously shot through the head Sunday afternoon near Greenville, was reported as resting fairly well last night. Five of the eight men held in connection with the shooting were subjected to a hard gruelling today by Sheriff Rector and, according to their statements, there were three men standing close to Sergeant Neves when he was shot. The question of who shot the young guardsman is still a mystery although Sheriff Rector stated tonight that he believes the motive for the shooting extends back to a fight about two years ago. BAN ON PROFITEERING. Wilson Himself Takes Hand in War Pure liases. Washington, Aug. 7.?President Wil? son turned h?s attention today to the subject of war prices and paid a per? sonal visit to the federal trade com? mission to urge expedition of inves? tigations to ascertain the cost of pro? ducing materials required by the gov? ernment. At the president's direction the commission has undertaken inquiries to determine production cost on most of the basic supplies needed for war uses, including coal, coke, steel, iron, petroleum, tin, aluminum, wire, zinc, copper, lead, cement, lumber and their derivatives. Preliminary reports will be forthcoming within a few weeks. Announcement of a definite policy re? specting war purchases and prices probably will be made soon. War profits will be kept to a minimum and if producers and manufacturers evince any reluctance to supply the country's war needs at reasonable prices the government's power to com? mandeer materials will be invoked. Although the proposal is meeting determined opposition the administra? tion intends that the allies shall share with this government in reduced costs for supplies. It is realized, however, that heavy government purchases will tend to raise prices to private consumers. The administration de? sires to keep prices generally down without resort to legislation. Trade commission officials admit their investigation of production costs are proceeding slowly. This is due it is said, to the fact taat a great burden of work has been thrown on the com mission for which it was poorly prepared. The commission some time ago he Kan Inquiries Into the fuel and lina ! ber Industries and ?lata on production I custs of these materials will he ready soon. Although charged only with an Investigation <>f costs it is entirely likely tin* commission will make sug? gestions as to what it considers fair prices for materials and that the war board will follow closely its rec? ommendations. MISS HANK IN SPKAKS OF OOP? PICK TROUBLES. NtiiiM'8 John 1). Ryan?Says New Yorker Is largely Responsible for Kvll Conditions in Montana. Washington, Aug. 7.?Responsibility for the labor troubles among metal? liferous mine workers in Montana, which has curtailed the output of copper and contributed to rioting and other disturbances, was charged to John D. Ryan of New York, president of the Amalgamtcd Copper Company, today by Representative Jeannette Rankin in an address to the house. Abolition of the "rustling card" sys? tem, a plan by which the Amalgamat? ed Company decides which miners shall be permitted to seek work in its properties, would restore peace, Miss Rankin asserted. Her efforts to convince him of the fact by telegraph had produced no results, she said. Miss Rankin was speaking on the resolution to give the president power) to take over and operate metalliferous mines, which she offered today. It was referred to a committee. Miss Rankin declared she had made j many futile efforts to Interest federal officials in the Montana situation. Af? ter the Bisbce deportations, she said. Butte people appealed to her for help, and on the night before Frank Little was lynched in Butte she received a particularly urgent appeal which caused her to call the secretary of labor by telephone after midnight. He asked her to see him the following day. i "I tried all the next day until late in the evening and was still trying to see the secretary on the following day when I received word that a man had been lynched," she declared. "This rustling card system." she said, "has effectively discouraged the men from organizing. It has prevent? ed them from obtaining the enforce? ment of laws requiring safety devices in the mines. It has caused them to hesitate to discuss their grievances outside. Conditions in the mines have grown more and more unsafe. I have had heartbreaking letters from the wives of some of the miners saying that when their husbands went to work in the morning they never knew whether they would ever return. "The workers knew they would never be safe as long as the rustling card system existed. For under that system every man who complained of conditions or reported conditions or endeavored to form an organization was laid off for one reason or anoth? er and it would be impossible for him to obtain work again in any mine in Montana or elsewhere. It is easy to see the necessity of abolishing the resulting card system." j Miss Rankin also declared that the Amalgamated Copper Companies have refused to accept the 16.67 cents a I pound for copper at which the gov? ernment has been purchasing. Representative Johnson of Wash? ington interrupted Miss Rankin to re? mark that members of the I. W. W. should not "squeal" when one of their members is hanged "by decent citizens now and then" Inasmuch as they had murdered a governor of Idaho and planned the murder of the governor of Utah. OKLAHOMA WILL STAND TRUE. Majority Royal to America, Governor Says?Tilings Normal Again. Oklahoma City, Aug. 7.?Confidence that a majority of the residents of Central Oklahoma are loyal to the United States and willing to do mili? tary service despite organized resist? ance to the draft on the part qf a few was expressed tonight by Gov R. L. Williams in commenting on the fact that normal conditons virtually have been restored in the counties where three men 'have been killed in efforts of posses to quell opposition to the draft. "I did not want to send troops in there except as a last resort," the governor said. "To let the citizens themselves put down the trouble was unassailable proof that as a whole the people were absolutely loyal." Fifty more draft resisters were ar? rested today, including two alleged leaders. It was announced that Roy Crane of Oak Grove and John Barn hardt of Wewoka. said to be organ? izers of the "Working Class Union," were two of the men for whom th^ government will ask the death pen? alty on charges of treason. The rank and file of the men involved in the disturbance, most of them of the tenant farmer class, likely will have to face the lesser Indictment of con? spiracy to evade the draft. About :i??o men have been taken into custody. Scbk'demaii Again Speaks for Pence. Amsterdam, Aug. K.?Philip Beheld* emann, Socialist member of the Reich? stag, speaking before six thousand people at Mannheim, Haden, demand? ed In the interest of peace a speedy substitution for the Machaclis govern? ment one representing the will of the people. WAR AI STANDSTILL. ONLY MINOR OPERATION?, AXD ARTHXERY DUELS. Drive by Teutons on Fokshanl Unc ?Austro-Gcrmnns Tliere Attempt? ing to Cut Russiun Front Barring Way to Bessarabia?Another Slav Retirement in Roumanin Forced by Treachery. Aside fr?m the Russian theater, the hostilities on all the fronts are vir? tually at a standstill. Bombardments, at some points attaining fairly violent proportions, and at various ' places small infantry maneuvers have occur? red on the front in Flanders, but as yet the operations have not taken on the aspect of a contemplated resump? tion of the big allied drive which the bad weather cf last week brought to an abrupt end. The Canadians operating against Dens have again made thrusts of a successful nature into the environs of the already encompassed coal center, which apparently can not long with? stand capitulation. By the use of cur? tain fires the Germans are endeavor? ing to keep back further encroach? ments here, but even with this tire against them the Intrepid Canadians continue almost daily to extend their saps and now are firmly ensconced on the south and west outskirts of the town. The aspirations of the German crown prince to wir. territory against General Petain's forces on the south? ern front in France have not as yet been achieved. In the Champagne region the French have penetrated German lines at three places and on the famous Avocourt Wood?Hill 304 sector of the Verdun front have put down with losses a German attempt at an attack. Having been enabled, mainly through the disaffection in the Rus? sian army, to drive the Russians out of the greater part of Galicia and Bukowina, the Austro-Germans now have begun in Southern Moldavia a maneuver the success of which would be of vast import against the Russo-Roumanian line barring the way te? Bessarabia. At Fokshani the enemy has struck a swift blow at the defenders of the line and forced them across the River Tyrladesus, thereby threatening the crossing of the lower Sereth and the rocid to Galatz, one of the chief Roumanian towns on tho Danube still remaining in Roumanian hands. A number of guns of various calibres and 1,300 prisoners were tak? en by the invaders. To the north, along the Bystritza River in Roumania two Russian regi? ments turned traitor and fled, com? pelling the main forces of the Rus? sians here to retire again seVeral miles. Near Kimpolung in Southern Bukowina, the Russians gave battlo on the heights of Molit but were de? feated and forced to cede terrain. At several points farther north the Rus? sians are at grips with the enemy and apparently are more than holding their own, on several sectors having driven back the Teutonic advanced posts. Taking advantage of the retreat of the Russians west of the Zbrocz River, where the disaffection In Gen? eral Brussiloff's army made it virtual? ly a route, the Austrians and Ger? mans are harvesting hastily the crops left behind. Artillery duels continue to be the chief factors of warfare in both the Austro-Italian and Macedonian the? ater. Severe fighting is tal ag place in southeastern German Fast Africa. As yet it has reached no detinlte result although the British have gained some ground. TEXAS GOVERNOR'S CASE. Members of the House Investigating Financial Relations. Austin. Tex., Aug. 7.?Financial re? lations said to have existed between Gov. James B. Ferguson of Texas and the Houston (Texas) National ex? change Bank were gone into at the af? ternoon session of the Texas house of representatives investigating charges preferred by Bpssksr Fuller, who seeks impeachment of tho governor on the ground of alleged illegal acts in otliec. It was brought out that the State penitentiary commission depos? ited money in this bank, the total run? ning up to $144,541, on which no In? terest was paid. I. ry Fox. president of the Houston N tonal Exchange Bank, was the principal witness this afternoon. He told of the part taken by his bank in the arrangement made last March In clearing up the governor's accounts With the Temple State B nk. ONE-THIRD BY SEPTEMBER. i This State to I lit nUh that Portion of Draft Army at EShVtf Date. Columbia, Aug. 8.?One-third of this State's quota will be called to the training camps on September 1, ac? cording, to a telegram received today ? by Gov. Manning from the provost marshall general.