Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

ooxtra<t FOR FAItllH \\TKI> *ti M. FIlFH.HTKItS n|(,nki>. i ? ? Folly flu.nnn.nnu involved in t.ront KaJpynrd Near Mount I'ka^nt? Work to Botin at Once. New* and Courier Congressman Richard 8. Whaley yeaT*rt1ay received a telegram from Wont Admiral Washington A. Capps. bringing the glad news that all ar? rangements for the building of large stool steam freighters at Charleston aalt been completed. This means that the Southern Shipbuilding Corpora? tion, financed by Kastern capitalists. wi*l begin toe construction of a ship? yard neur Mount Pleasant without de la?. In ale brier telegram to Congrese nrnn Whaley Admiral Capps announc gd that the I'nlted Plates Shipping kbterrt had reached a satisfactory ar? raignment of matters and that ths contract had been officially exe? cuted The corporation Is given a contract for ths building of sixteen ?easels and when these sre complet? ed a second contract will be given. I Pally $40.000.000 is involved in the contract with the Southern Hhlp bultdtng Corporation. The 7,500-ton freighters will be of the fabricated type designed for the Whlttelseys, of New York snd the material will h< brought here by rail from the Bit sa<agnam district. Being for the a < < unt of the gover n meat, the mater? ial will be hastened by the railroads Is order to make sure that no un niassaeary delay Is caused in the con? struction of these vessels. Announcement that the shipping board has sanctioned the contract foi a Charleston shipyard was announced reeeatly by sir. Charles Kimmlch. some traffic commlsloner of the City ?f Charleston and the Chamber of commerce. At that time the contract hftd been approved, but had not been flttned. though there was every assur siace that the negotiations had com? pletely succeed* d. telegram to Congressman Wha? ley sets at rest all queetlon of the location of an Important shipyard at Char lean on. With the yard here. It means that Charleston will continue an Important shipbuilding center long after the wsr against Germany has bean ended. The benefit to the com? munity will be enormous. In announcing the receipt of the telegram Congressman Whaley de? clared hlmaelf delighted with the ggsiaaenad added that the telegram from Adtrh/al Capps, who is general manager of the Emergency Fleet Cor? poration, spoke for Itself. He content eat himself with declaring that Charleston was ia the way of reaping splendidly. Mr. Whaley had worked long on the negotiations for the ship? yard, enthusiastically cooperating With United 8 t?te? Senator Ttlhnan. For reasons which is not neceesay to poblteh. the negotiations were, for a time, rather slow. Charleston, from the outset, was favorably considered, however. Its wonderful geographical sod other advsntages being an import? ant factor. It has been stated for the men who are behind the shipyard enterprise that the uueatton of labor is not con? sidered serloua snd, with these fabri? cated steamship*, aeinl-hkilled labor la sufficient. The matortuln wll be Saade In the Birmingham district and will be aasembled on the wsya near Meant Pleasant. With ths building of the shipyard It m evpeeted that the Charleson-Isle of Palm?? Traction Company will set about* extension of its electric rail? way In order to provide transporta? tion for the men working at the yard. It may be that the route of the steam ferryboats will be changed in order to shorten the run. While officers or the Seaboard Air Line have not committed them? selves, it has been reported that thi* Company would probably build a line acre** the Cooper river, carr>lng ma teratl to the shipyard while at the asms time opening up a fertile coun? try * which ban long been retired through want of transportation facili? tate. The building and operation of such a railroad will greatly reduce the cost of getting mat* rial to the shipyard, as lighterage across the cooper river would be a relatively ex penelve matter. No -person In Charleston appears ready to say how many men will tie employed at the shipyard. It has been'reported thut fully I.Ooo men will no needed In order to carry for forward the construction of the nteel freighters on the schedule gel b) IhS government. Wsshlngton. Nov. 11 ?The trials of thirty-one Woman s Party militants who were arrested yesterday for picketing the White House were post? poned today until Friday alien the case wll) be called in court. JIJfsAtess and whestless days have It ^eoepted as a matter of course r.ut beerhsai days for Milwaukee ap ggasnm Mat HRsM Chattanooga News. help n the m victory ovkii <.human v WILL ? WON" OX PARItt W sr.vrr:. r.uus of Wheat and 1WK as Effective an .Munition Trains ami Men?Two Acres of Wheat to How and One Mtffl UH? <?r Farm. Columbia. Nov. 11? Services of thousands of children will he enlisted In the food production campaigns in South Carolina within the next few weeks. Beginning this week a Hying squadron of 20 men will visit every achoolhouse. both white and black, in the State, to place In the hands of the chldren an appeal to the parents to grow at least two acres of wheat to the polw this fall and to increase the production of hogs by at least one litter of pigs in excess of previous years. The children will also be ask? ed to be the messengers or card hear? ers to their parents, the cards to be filled out and mailed to the exten? sion division of Clemson College, which is directing the campaign. The card will give the number of acres j put to wheat; the number of sows to be bred this fall and winter; the number of. hogs to he killed for home consumption, and the number of hogs to be marketed. It Is emphasized by Mr. Long in the letter to the farmers and also in that to the county demonstration agents that the sorehouses of food are gradually dwindling and that tb ? food problem Is becoming increasing? ly grave. There are fewer hogs in South Carolina now than in 1915, he points out. and leas meat In the Unit? ed States and the world than at any time since records have been kept. As to the situation In seeding wheat Mr. Long emphasizes that very little wheat has been put in thus far thi: fall and that Instant action is neces? sary If the government's request to Increase the acreage in South Caro? lina by 37 per cent, over last year's Is to be accomplished. There will be months of wheatless days, Mr. Long warns, unless the farmers produce their own flour. It is also pointed out that the surplus stores of flour and meat In the west wdl not be divert-d to the South, but retained for tho armies abroad and here, should the farmers neglect to meet the govern? ment's demands In this crisis. The letter whleh will be placed In the hands of the children to be delivers I to the patents roads: "I am sending you a card, ask in a. for your cooperation with your gov? ernment in a service that is equally SI necessary as that of serving in the trenches, and that ks to increase the food supply of the world by growing at least two acres of wheat to tho plow and by raising at least one ad? ditional litter of pigs- more than you have in the past few years, if you expect to have your usual quantity ol flour bread for the use of your family and plantation you must grow it. Tb government will not permit you tu draw upon the surplus supply of tlv West. This Is going to feed our arm* and those of our allies. "There are feaier hogs in South Carolina than there were in 1916. The meat supply of the United States and the world Is less than at any time in the history of the world, so far us In? formation Is recorded. A 200 pound hog will bring you as much as yo i use to receive for a 500 pound bale oi cotton. Kcinember that wo are only asking you to Increase your pork by raising the pigs from one additional sow. If every farmer will comply with this modest request the meat sit. nation will be saved and the require ments of our government met. Could, we ask you to do less? These cards do not need to be stamped. Fill them out, ?ign them and mall and they will be delivered with out postage." An equally stirring letter has been written by Mr. Long to the agents, emphasizing the serious aspect of the food problem. The letter to th ? agents reads: "I have been scanning your Held re ports for the ly.st two weeks with ; great deal of Interest for the pur? pose of getting such information from them as you huve given concerning the seeding of grain, especially wheat In your respecti/e counties. "I have been greatly disappointed In ti e information obtained. I'p to this time. little grain. and especially wheat, has beer seeded. There is lit tie time left to seed grain. If we SI pect to obtain a prolitable crop at next harvest time. Surely our peoph have not forgotten the call by oil government for the seeding of an In? ?reased acreage In wheat to tin amount of :I7 per cent, over last year I*ist year's acreage in the State wai li2r?,0mj acre*. In order to meet the demands of the government we Should seed llt.sag M( rea We had jUMt as Well linderst.m our governments attitude in the mat? ter. If we fall to seed the amount ot wheat requested by the government We need not expect that We Wdl be permitted lo gram on Ihs surplus GIRLi or ALSACE-LORRAINE DEPORTED B\' GERMANS. __ j Secretary of War Admits That Young Girls Have Been Forced to Labor on War Prant. Washington, Nov. 12.?Confirma? tion now has boon given by the Ger? man government itself to ihc *. 1"t<?*. 1 denied reports current for the pas; year that young girls of Alsace-Lor? raine have been carried away from their homes and forced to labor fo: the German army. From Switzerland today ther, came a cable report of the r?*pl\ made by the German under secretary for war to a complaint of an Alsatian deputy in the [ReJchatag against mistreatment of these young girls The government's reply took the form of an Official communique which lr | substance stated that the army ad? ministration had taken measures t( assure the girls requisitioned in Al suce-1-.orraine and actively employe' in the work at the front the benefit of moral and religious supervision Only eight and a half per cent, of th< girls are less than 17 years of age the deputy was assured and scared: one-half of them have been subject?*" Ly force to work at the front. The German government, the repl. set forth, wishing to meet the desire of the Alsatian population, had is sued an order that young girls les than 17 years old who have been en rolled by force should be liberated. PEOPLE >IVsT SAVE Ft I X. Without Cooperation of All Muri Suffering Will Result, Says Gos sett. Aifderson. Nov. 12.?The Im) ort j ance of a cooperation on the part o the people with the plans of the S?at fuel administrator to have the use ) wood substituted for the use of oca was stressed by Fuel Adm'.n'strato Ciossett late today, when he unr.ouiic ed that the coal supply In the Stnt had reached the acute stage. Th administrator also urges th;? necessit; of towns and cities in the State es tablishing municipal wood yard wherever it is impossible for the loca fuel dealer to give the relief. Th administrator is doing e a ryxhin possible to secure relief and as quick ly as possible, unless supplies of woo are secured in various communities Administrator declares that suffpflni among the people is bound to follow In his opinion the acute conditio of the coal (situation is duo large h ' and mainly to the fact that many ton of coal which would have cortalul; given temporary relief in many *ec Hons of State have been confiscated b: the railroads. The administration ad vises the coal dealers throughout, th State to place orders for coal w:ti their regular dealers as far as possibl and that in the event the regulur deal ers fail to fill the orders it will the be proper for the local coal dealers t request assistance from the State fut administration through the regula: channels, that is by applying to loca committees of the administration, fur nlshing whatever information th committees might request of them. WRANGLE OVER CORPSE. National Guard Culled Out to Guar? Hodv of Ex-Quccn. Honolulu, Monday, Nov. 12.?Nat ional Guard troops of Hawaii hav taken charge of the body of Fx Queen Ialiuokalani because of threatened will contest. The contro of the body is demanded by John 1 Colbourn, who declared that the ex queen in a will made last August ap pointed him as executor of her es t?te and making many changes i the disposition of her property. IlLHMINGHAM STRIKES GAS. Groat Discovery for Alabama's Iroi Center. Birmingham, Nov. IS.?Gas wai struck in tho second natural gas wel In the Birmingham district last night with a good flow. Three additlona wells have been started, and it is be llOVed by Christmas sufficient gas wll be available to supply Birmingham supply of the West. This supply i going to our own and our allic armies, and by neglecting this mat tor the usual family biscuit may be OOms a stranger to our table. If we are to have Hour for our own use |r, South Carolina, ws have got to mee the demands of the government Otherwise we maj have months ol wheetloss days, "We are asking our young nu n t defend our honor ami liberty, If nee be. by giving up their lives If th. ere wiling to die for us. surely oui people should be willing to live fo them. "Let every Influence In the State Is brought to bear <m this Important matter, snd lei as begin todaj to seed wheel All wheat should be Hedlffhi by December 10." ORTH OH TRIAL HEUMAR EDITOR or CHARLES? TON PACES JURY. Charged With Aiding Escaped Pris? oners to Evade Arrest ? Portlier Cicrman Consul Witness for Gov? ernment. Columbia Nov. 13.?Albert Orth, owner ;in?i editor of the Dcutache Zeitung, published at Charleston, was placed on trial In the federal OOUrt yesterday afternoon. lie en? tered a plea of not guilty to the two eounts charging him with aiding Robert Pay in effecting his escape from the federal authorities, and with wilfully harboring and conceal? ing him to prevent his discovery anil arrest. A jury was secured in 15 minutes. The g c omment and the defense exhaust! d their strikes when the eighth juror took his seat, and the remaining jurors* were sworn a.s their names were called. Fred O. Zerps, warden of the fed? eral prison at Atlanta, was the first witness for the prosecution, and he testified that itobert Fay was under an eight year sentence, being con? victed of a conspiracy to destroy ves? sels and that he was tried in New York State. Fay and another pris? oner. William Knobloch, made their escape on August 29, 1916, and circu? lars were sent broadcast in an effort to effect their capture. Knoblocii aad been imprisoned for using the .nails to defraud. Emil Jahnz of Charleston testified I hat h^e had lived in Charleston foi I IS years and for some time previou.1 I o the break with Germany was tht I German consul at that point. He wai la member of the firm of C. D. Franke |& Company. A man giving his name I is Fay called at his office some time I n September or October to ask hin I or assistance so he could get bad I :o Germany. He claimed to be a Oer I nan officer. Mr. Jahnz told him tt I ftt out of his office and that P. D. Q land he did. Mr. Jahnz did not knov I vhy the man had approached him I io was often called upon for assist I ince and thought that was the reasoi I he stranger called on him at tha I Ime. He knew Orth, as a friend. Mr I Tahnz was very feeble and he tob I low his physician had advised hin I igainst coming to Columbia and tha I le did so at the risk of his life. Wit! I he deepest sincerity he told how In I iad replied that he was determine! I o come to Columbia to show his lov? I 'or his country if he died in the at I tempt. I Applause, which the court did no I ittempt to prevent, greeted thll I tatcment. I William Knobloch was presented U I .>e sworn and the defense objected be I a use he had been convicted of i I elony. The government exhibited f I tardon issued by the president, restor I ng his citizenship and he was allow I id to testify. He is 33 years old am I vas sent to the prison at Atlanta ir I May, 191U. Fay and he occupied tin I uime room. Fay worked in the powei I louse and did elctrical work. Tlv I wo made their escape on August 2* I hrough the efforts of Fay who work I 'd a trusty by certain ruses. He re I ated their experience and said the, I vere at Hlllsboro, N. C, on Laboi I lay, where they parted company I Knobloch stated that he arrived |i I Jharleston on September 23. The nexl I norning he phoned Orth and was tol? I he could see him at 11 o'clock. / I Mr. Hopper of Savannah, who \va paid to be connected with, a Germar I newspaper at that place, had tub1 I dm to call on Orth as ho was al ight. Called on Orth and introduc I >d hims-elf. He asked the defendant I f Fay had been there and Orth ask I "d him why it was that he had lef I him. Witness said he tried to explain. I hat Orth called him a liar. Knobloch dated that Orth told him Fay had ; I lew bomb that was smaller than tin I :>ne he had been using and directed I him where to go to get some money 1 He went to a German Club and seeur led $10. He also called on a son o iBmll Jahnz. Called on Orth next da land asked for more money and Orth told him he had a lot of nerve. Wen mom Charleston to Washington, lb said he did not know he was to b< pardoned. He only had a short tinn to stay in prison. ITALIAN STRONGHOLDS CAP? TURED. licrliii Announces Success of Invad? ing Army. Berlin, Nov. 13.- Ponsaao ami Montlongarn hove been captured i>> the Austro German fores Invading Northern Italy, it was officially an? nounced today. PAT Ali HOTEL P1RE. l ive Men Burned to Death in Louis? iana Town. Bhreveport, La., Nov. i ? -Five inert were burned to death, two others se? riously Injured ami a number of oth ers sutalned minor injuries when fin destroyed the Phillips Hotel al .Many LotlislanS today. ALBERT M GUILTY. CONVICTED IN TWO COUNTS? OTHERg CONTINUED. Charleston Zcltuug's Editor in Mis Own licrcnse?Jury Did Not Take Ixmg t<> Deckle. Columbia, Nov. 14.?-Tho attorneys for tho government created aoi thing of a sensation yesterday, when in tho second ease against Orth for aiding Knobloch to escape, the oasis - aid district attorney. Weite? Waring, stated to the judge that the govern? ment would submit as part of its evi? dence the testimony given by Ortl himself, in the Fay ease, which ha just been finished. Miss Frost, the court stenogiapher proceeded to read the statement thai Orth offered in his behalf in the Faj case in which the indictment was tin same as in the Knobloch case. Forty six minutes were required for tm reading of Ute testimony. Orth stooc nearby and listened to every word The defense offered no testimony ii the Knobloch case. The Inciden .seemed to throw a damper on th whole case. Two verdicts of guilty wore return ed by the jury. The Charleston edi tor and publisher of the Deutsch Zeitung was convicted in the federa court on the charge of aiding an> abetting in the escape of Robert Fa and harboring and concealing him t prevent his arrest. A second verdic of guilty was rendered in the eas against him for giving the same ser vice to William Knobloch. Fay wa a prisoner at the federa! prison a Atlanta and he and Knobloch, an other prisoner, made their escape oi August 29. Fay was serving a sen tence for conspiracy to disable vea sels, and Knobloch was confined fo fraudulent use of the mails. The jury in the Fay case retired a 1:35 p. m, yesterday and a verdic was readied in 20 minutes, but th jury did not enter the court room un til 3 o'clock, when the afternoon sea ision began. At '-i o'clock a jury was drawn, i the Knobloch case- and in ten minute the trial was under way. Argumer was concluded and the jury retired a o'clock and returned its verdic at 5.55 o'clock. The district attorne then announced that the three rc malning cases against Orth would h continued. Albert Orth received the verdict < the juries witli apparent composure He did not show any signs of net vousness nor did his face exhibit an tsigns of distress. Attorney MacMillan c ross-examin ed Knobloch when court opened ye* terday but the pardoned convict wa unshaken in his testimony. He hel to his former statements and cor tended that Orth aided him in effect ing his escape. He insisted that Ort directed him to the Scheutzenplat1 11 where he met H. A. W. dorse and I Stanmeyer of Charleston, who lister ed to his plea for financial assistant to help him on to his family. He sai Gorse and Stehmeyer gave hinT $ each and that when he went back t see Orth he refused to give him mor ey. The witness stated that Ort never gave him any money. He sai Orth told him he had christened Fa Robert Peterson and that Fay ha gone to Haltimore. A. A. Arndt, a traveling sales na with headquarters at Louievtlle, testi tied that he met Orth at a hotel i Charleston and that the defendan hud asked him what he would thlnl if he told him that Fay and the othe man who had escaped from the fed eral prison had been in his oifie about ten days before. The WlUlOS said orth led him to believe that h had assisted Pay while in CharleetOl and he crossed him on the subject Orth said if it came to a show dowl ho would say it was a lie. Arndt sah he had read about the escape f?*on the Atlanta prison ami that he lei Orth know that he did not approve of his assisting an escape. 1 convict. Albert Orth took the stand in htl own behalf at noon. He said he was 4T) years old and had been in Amcri ca 25 years. He was a printer and publisher, and purchased The Zettun? at Charleston in r.o>4. The paper was established in is",.;. Numbers ol people called at his home and office for information and assistance and he invariably rendered some aid He re? membered a man coming to him who gave his name as Albrecht ami when a picture of Pay was presented to him declared be had never seen such a man. He stated that Albrecht cam to see him on a Sunday morning ami told him a .Mr. Hopper of Savannah had directed him to his home. Al? brecht asked for money to help him get to NOW Yolk, but he refused. He then gave him the names of some prominent Germans who he thought might aid him. Orth denied the statements made by Knobloch. who is also known in the trial as Albrecht Declared he had never a ? a Pay bat t'tnembei ' a man na o >.i leu..- n itoing 11 ff W days WOr< '<'*? plant Orth ndmltted ha\i*ig ?? ?ov^r^d '?Mb Arndt in a hotel and his statement to AMERICAN VESSEL SUNK. FIVE or CREW or steamer i>. \. Ll'CKENRACIl killed YYt THE (.ku.mans. Two Other Luc Uonbaoh Steamers Have Previously Figured In r-ix>iit Encounters. An Atlantic Port. Nov. 13.?News of the destruction by a German sub marine of the American steamer f>. -\. Luckenbaeh OH October 27 was brought here today by twenty-four survivors of the crew. Five of the i .crew were killed. M The vessel was sunk in the Pay of I Biscay, about one hundred miles from the French coast by an unsion tor? pedo, whose explosion killed the live tjmen. The survivors said they were r'j picked up by % Danish ship two days ? jafter the sinking The ship, owns I by the Luckenbaeh steamship Company, was of 2.9 20 tons gross and was built in 1883 at Newcastle, England. She left New tl i York October 1?. tl Two other Jeckenbach steamers et have previously igured in submarine I encounters, the l^ewis Luckenbaeh was torpedoed and sunk early in Oc? tober, with the loss of a naval gun? ner and nine of her crew. Another, i\! the J. L. Luck'-nbach, escaped de djstruction with the aid of an American yj destroyer, after < nuaging a submarine o; in a four-hour iight in which seven :t i of her crew and two naval gunners ? 1 wore wounded on Oetober 19. The five men killed on the D. N. Luckenbaeh were members of the en? gine room force. The survivors es? caped in two small boats. KERENSKY H E PORT E d :ous. YICTOR :tl News by Way o? Finland is Encourag ?g. London, Mov. It.?The Finnish Telegram bureau siys that the wholo of Russia, except a small part of Pe trograd is now in the hands of the provisional government. Premier Ke ?ensky is in Petrograd and has taken virtually the en ire city. army si PI? rts ker: .nsky. Stockholm, Nov. 14,?Premier Ke -jrensky has entered Petrograd, ac e cording to a dispatch re oived from I the Swedish m ws agenc at Hapa randa on the Russian border. A ma? jority of the Maximalists troops joined the premier, the correspondent says. ;j i H '"I L h i soldiers coming south. New Jersey Scbx'tmori Transferred to Atlanta, Camp Dix, Wrightstown, N. J., Nov. 13.?AiiDther contingent of eleven hundred men have left for Atlanta where they will become a part of the National Army division training there. Cotton Con Washington, consumed duri III running bfi ors, the census nounced. The end of October lish nsntS was cotton spindles ?3,37?,I21 _I? ? ?umpion Statistics. Nov. 14.?The cotton ig October was 595, rs. 100,136 bales lint bureau today an cotton on hand at the in consuming estab 1,085,770 bales. The active in October were Ardnt was that ho had heard that Fay and Knol ooh had been around his place, orth testified that the man Peterson did SOl resemble the picture of bay but that Knobloch had asked him if Fay ami not going about under the name of Sanderson and Peterson. He disclaimed any knowledge of it. The defendant denied aiding an es? caped prisoner and said he had put his foot down on the request for aid from Knobloch as he paid no atten? tion to what be said. Orth stated that printing was his main business and The Zeitung was a small matter with him. He kept a rOgtstsY showing a record of those who called at tlm Office for assist .nee. Had left ordeia at the business office for entries to !>o made. The register .was exhibited in court. Was visited by government agents last nu nth and they showed him Pay's pk turn and questioned him about Fa: and Peterson. He told them about Fay, Peterson, Al brech and Knobloch and stated to the men that if his brother was a criminal he would not aid him. Orth Sentenced. Columbia. KOV. 11.? Albert Or:h, publisher of the Deutschs Zeitung, .i I German language newspaper at char leston, was given an aecumulative sentence late this afternoon in the Federal District Court in session he-o j amounting to fourteen months in th* federal prison al Atlanta and tines ag gregating M.lOf, following his con? viction on two indictments charging him with aiding and abetting in the escape of Lieut Robert Fay and Wil? liam Knobloch from the federal pris? on ;,t Atlanta on August ill*, lilt, and of harhoting them In Charles? ton.