Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Fl.Ot R SIT1 \TlON SEItlOtS. I nod \dmmlatration Issues Order to l>calor* in Hour to Make Report of I l"ni uu Mam I. Columbia. May U.?The serious? ness of the flour situation is being brouaht home to the people of the State. Only because of the necessity, an order was Issued today by William i:ihott. I oil administrator for South Carolina, that no wholesale or retail dealer in South Carolina may pur? chase flour, until further notice, ex? cept with the permission of the food administration. This ruling- of the State Food Ad? ministration applies to all who deal in flour, including commissaries. This action has been taken by the food administration simply as an emergency measure. I'ntil the new wheat crop comes in there will be close figuring to keep an adequate flour supply. Steps are therefore tak? en to assure to the people of South larohna that one section of the State Will not be plentifully supplied with flour, while another section goes beg? ging because of the lack of flour. The appeal to the people of the State Is to be fair ami liberal to their neigh? bors. The new crop will be available by August. Through the food administration, a uniform distribution of the flour sup? ply wilt be made throughout the State, but one dealer In one part of the State will not be permitted to sell a dealer In another part of the State except upon the order of the food administration. the Idea being to male? ?in approximately a thirty day supplv nil along the line. In order that a full and complete Inventory may be taken, ind to pro? vide a basis on which tho food ad? ministration may work Intelligently, all dealers in South Carolina who handle flour- Inelmlmg commissaries ?-are required under the order, to apply for blanks on which to make np their reports. These blanks may be secured from the office in Colum? bia of tho food administration, and they must be made up by all dealers, whether operating under federal food licenses or not. The order Issued today tends as fol? lows: To Wholesale and Retail Flour Deal? ers in South Carolina: I ru* are hereby notified to apply ???. May 2Uth for blanks on which |g make report of flour on hand. Those who fall to write for blanks or to make report through neglect or oth? erwise, may later find themselves In an embarrassing situation in obtain? ing supplies, .".'v order of i Sigi ed i William Elliott. "Food Administrator for South Carolina." When this Inventory is completed, the food administration will know what sections of the State have an exresa of flour and which sections are short of a thirty days' supply. < >ver stocked dealers in this Stute will then be aided In moving their flour, and dealers who arc short will he qulckls supplied. No notices of the new order will be sent out to dealers direct by the food administration, ami the publications of the new order, in the press, and at p'tntollices, will he deemed nufll etent for all dealers. Blanks should be applied for ai once, to William F.Miott. Food Admtn inttutor for South Carolina, at Colum? bia. I lot lt I M:i\KI,n DECLARED. Hoarding of F1??ttr In Home Sections ?.f sitae Kernten d Notion >'cecMsnry. i'oiumhi? >ia\ i I u aeoonat of th? nut pins Hour which lias been ai cumulating for some time past in severs: sections of tho State it has boon necessary to iasuo an order prohibiting the shipment of flour into rhu M??e without the written author Uatlon of the State Food Administra? tor or his agents. Some of the counties are almost bare of flour and other ( ounties can? not diMpOMf oi thr Hour on hand The noW order simply requires that a report should be filed ami if a mer? chant's requirement** warrant his or-1 denn* flour his order will be np trov ed and forwarded This at firnt may occasion some ?hiebt del.iv nut since there Is a laffjl ?Upptv of flour in the State I ?hink It will not cause inconvenience. Fur ther details will he sent you as soon as they sre worked out. Win. Klliott. Food Administrator for South Dare Una. To the County Food Adminlstratoi s mid \N VIA Fit KILLED. Pilot of Twelve Passenger Biplane lasM l ife at llcinimtmid Field. New York. May 17.? Captain An tonlo Besnatl, of the Italian Royal Fhing Corps, who piloted the ten passenger Capronl biplane, fron ^ ??hington to New York, was killed ; ll.mpsb ad thing Held .?\TTI*'MIT TO ASSAl LT CHILI). White Mau Drought to Penitentiary to Escape NN i at Ii of Infuriated Com? munity. The State. Norman H. Uolllver, a white man 2ti yearn old and married, has been brought to tin* State penitentiary from Orangeburg, while an investiga? tion in being made of an alleged at tempt of criminal assault upon a nine- , year old girl. The child and another smaller girl were on their way to | school, when they were picked up and driven to the country in an automo? bile and the older child mistreated. No warrant has been sworn out against Bolliver, but information i from Orangeburg is that legal pro? cedure is to begin at once. Bolliver was hrought to the penitentiary to es- ; tape an infuriated community. 11 E< i I ST I CATION FOR YOUNG MKN. House I inall.v Pusses Hill Making i Youths Available for Military Ser? vier. Washington. May 16.?The house today passed without a record vote the conference report on the bill re? quiring registration in the draft of youths who have become 21 years of age since June 5 last. The senate previously had agreed to the report and after its passage by ! the house It was sent to iho president. I As finally agreed to the bill pro- j \ ides that youths registered under it ?hall be placed at the bottom of th< lists of those classes to which they will be assigned and tha. students now in medical and theological \ schools shall be exempt from the! draft. The only opposition to the j bill In the house today was on the, student exemption feature. liepresentative Kahn of California. Republican, said it was necessary to exempt medical students in order that the doctors who lose their lives in the war may be replaced and the country Vt%4 from a recurrence of the preva lenee of "quacks" from which it suf tered some 25 years ago. I.KHMAN AIRPLANES DESTROY? ED. Thirty-seven Machines Accounted for Wednesday, Twenty-live of Num ggfl Being Destroyed. London. May 16.?Thirty-seven j German airplanes, 25 of which were! d?stroyed were accounted for by British airmen Wednesday. The of? ficial statements on aerial operation today reports a marked increase in the activities of both aerial forces on the Western front. The British con? tinue to bombard railway stations anJ billets behind the German lines. CREEL DISCLAIMS INSULT. Now A'ork Speech Was Not Intended us Heilert ion on Congress. Washington. May 17.?George Cic? I. chairman of the committee on public information, has written < hairman Pou of the house rules oommtttg* that he had no Intention of reflecting on congress in his much discussed recent speech In New York, la which he Is ?,noted as saying that Inasmuch as he did not enjoy slum? ming he would not explore the hearts of congressmen. The alleged remarks created a furore In congress. rot'KT II TRAINING < AMI*. All Men Who Successfully Complete Course WMI Reuelve Commissions. Washing, mj May it.?Under a neu ruling announced hy Secretary Ba? kei todjfc] all students of the fourth oracers' training school just opened a*he iwcuooafully complete the oouras will be eligible for commission. vVaahlngton, May If, Unofficial report! t<> IPS treasury today indicat? ed that the Third Liberty loan hud gone a hers four luiiion ami mlghi reach four and a?ejnarter billion, The ? ROOt tOlai will not be known until neXt week. YuldoHta. Ga., Map 11.- Hampton Smith, fargsoi l^ing near Barney, HrOOkS COIinty, was killed in his homt hi in aaaaeata last ni^ht. Hin e/lfs eras alee shot, but aha escaped to a kOUM nearby and reported the tragedy, declaring that shs recognised i mmo. Sidney Johnson, as the as tain, a penes with doKn is scouring 1 ? < ountryside. Columbia, May It. in an opinion rendered t<> Qov. Manning today, Thoi ii Peoples, attorney general* takes the POettlon that, in tilling the unexplred terms of ehlce of a sheriff of a coun? ty, ihe appointment by the governoi rannol extend beyond the next gen erg] election. Cole BJeaet has his annual attacl 1 of it4 li {off 00)00. But the Tillman ' I>11< hi'ork is a fine cure. Watch the South Parol|ns Senatorini race. Mem phis Commercial-Appeal. RETURNS To WASHINGTON. lever Goch Huck to House Duties? Pleased With nlleivst Manifested in Race. Columbia, May 18.?Congressman Lover left yesterday afternoon for Washington, after spending three days in Columbia. Several commit? tee measures demand his immediate attention in the national capital. He expects to round out his work in Washington within the next few weeks and give his direct attention to his campaign in South Carolina. He is more than pleased, he says, with the reception his candidacy is being Kiven? "I regret that I have to d(' ine a number of invitations to gpeak which have reached me since I came to Columbia. My duties in Washing? ton will require my close attention for the next few weeks and I hope to wind up my work for the session. 1 was gratified at the harmonious ac? tion of the convention and the splen? did support, loyalty and American? ism which it evidenced throughout its proceedings. It impressed a though that the one dominant idea in South Carolina is the effective, efficient and loyal support of President Wilson in his tremendous task of winning the war. "1 have no comment to make upon the race for the senate, except to gay that from every section of the State come advices from friends pledging their most loyal support. I am more than pleased with the outlook. POSTOF1TCE RILL PASS KS. Second Class Kates to Be Increased? More Money for employees. Washington, May 16.?The postof Ilce appropriation bill granting wage increases to postal employees and au thorlzing federal acquisition of the pneumatic mail tube systems in six of the large cities was passed by ttv~' senate late today. The bill provides for appropriations for $381,000,000. Efforts to attach an amendment to the measure suspending for at least a roof operation of the act effective luly 1 Increasing second class postal ates were abandoned after support? ers of the amendment became con? vinced that it would be defeated. The Amendment was urged by publishers, but many senators questioned the le? gality of attaching it to an appropria? tion bill. During debate today several sena tors attacked the proposal to suspend tho second class mail increases Senator Gronna said the increas works no injury to small newspapei publishers and that all of them d ) not oppose it, while Senator Hard wick presented a resolution of the Missouri Press Association favorii!? the increase. Under the bill as adopted city maii carriers, clerks and other postal 2m ployces would be granted an increase in pay of $200 a year while rural car? riers would receive an increase of 2<" per cent, over their present salaries Overtime pay for postal employee: also is provided in a committee amendment, which the senate accept? ed today, 26 to 21. The senate retained house provis ions appropriating $100,000 for ox periments in airplane mail servici and llxing the postage cost for such mall at 24 cents an ounce or fraction thereof. Before passing the bill, the senate. by a vote of 31 to lib ratified its ac tion of Tuesday in accepting the amendment to purchase the pneu matlc mail tubes in New York ane other cities. KAISER STILL CONFIDENT. Relieves People Equal to Grant Task^ Ahead. Amsterdam. May 17.?"I have i. rock-like confidence that my peoph will be equal to tln> great tasks o the future.'" tin- Cologne Volks /ei tung quotes Bmperor William as aay ing when inspec ting the graves of sol dleri during his recent visit to Aix-la t'hapelle. "The soldier who hat snuggled through the iron-time 0 the world war will be a teacher anc leader of the growing youths at horn* in building up and consolidating tin. reborn empire." "War's bloody sword will be re forged Into plough shares In the work oi peace and civilization and In th< new imperial forge we must, as unit? ed peoples of brothers. show our selves worthy of comrades in eter nity." The emperor further is reported is ?a] mg: "Truly it was not my will that th< war has come." AMERICANS BOLD TRENCHES Our Army Ranks Third In Mileage Held on Western Front. Washington. May is. The Ameri? can forces rank third in rnileag? held on the western front Secretary Maker stated today. The Fremd) are tirst, British second and Belgium fourth* SEED DEALERS' LICENSE. Dealers In Cotton Seed and Other Product! Required by Proclama? tion of the President to Secure Li? cense. Columbia. .May 1?J.?dinners, buy erSi agents, dealers and all other handlers of cotton seed not already licensed, provided they handle year? ly, between September 1 and August 31, more than twenty tons of cotton seed, are brought under supervision and control of the Food Administra? tion by a proclamation signed May 11 by President Wilson, and are requir? ed to secure licenses on or before June 1. This order of the president Will have a far-reaching effect. While it affects persons, lirms, corporation: and associations engaged In several branches of business, so far as South Carolina is concerned it is of greater importance because it mainly affects the cottonseed business. Heretofore, only those handlers of cotton seed whose annual business exceeded one hundred and llfty tons were licensed. Cutting the minimum from one hundred and fifty tons to twenty tons, and establishing that as the basis, as has been done by the presidential order, brings the business of practically every one who handles cotton seed, except the farmer him? self, under the control of the food administration. In order to stabilize the business, those who handle cotton seed hulls are also required to secure licenses. I By the presidential order, the li? censing authority is given to the food administration. The order affects cot? ton seed buyers, manufacturers or dis? tributors of cotton seed hulls, owners of elevators, warehouses and all branches of business handling cotton seed in any form, including, as a matter of course ginners. William Elliott, food administrator for South Carolina, is prepared to i furnish detailed information to all whose businesses are affected by the new order. Besides handlers of cot? ton seed and cotton seed hulls, all persons, linns, corporations and asso? ciations engaged in the following bus? iness arc required to secure licenses on or before June 1, under such rules and regulations governing the conduct of such businesses as may be prescribed: Packers of canned tuna; packers of mild cured, hard cured, salted, smoked, pickled, or otherwise pre? served salmon; operators of poultry nid egg packing plans not already licensed; importers and manufactur? ers of fermented beverages contain? ing less than one half of one per cent of alcohol. Applications for licenses must be made to the license division of the L'nited States Food Administration it Washington, on forms prepared for that purpose, which may be secured on request. If license is not secured, the penalty prescribed by act of con? gress will be incurred. CONCRETE SHIP DOES WELL. Hehaves Admirably in Strong Wind and choppy Sea. Washington, May 17.?An olllcia! eport today on the behavior of the ?oncrete ship Faith during her trial rip off the Pacific coast, in a strong vvind and choppy sea, says the vessel If believed to be fully equal, if not superior, to any steel ship of the same size and equal power. The Faith* soon will undertake her maiden voyage with cargo. The Faith made 10.2 knots. Despiti nuch pitt hing the absence of vibra? tion was declared to be very notice? able. ML'ST WORK OR FIGHT. \ll Able Bodied Men Needed In World War. j Washington, May 16.?Speaking In I he senate today for his resolution sailing on government departments Or information as to the extent o: he nation's industrial man power, fenator Cummins of Iowa declared hat all the energies of the country oust be called into action if the war s to be won. "My proposition." he said, "is thai very able bodied man in the eountr> ctween the ages ol IS and 45?ami I am not sure but that a lew years Right to be added to the latter limit ? must work in a useful way or light." ??????~??? New Drainage District. Manning. May 17. ? Plans and specification! for ? new drainage dis irlct of about 5,000 acres near Olan in have been filed with the clerk ol ourt of Florence county. The main .anal to begin at the Intersection of fturne branch with the Florence and -uniter county line and run down Hume loanch through Florence an I clarendon counties a distance of eighi ami one-half miles. There are live laterals with a total distance ol* about six miles. Bids will be let on the work In the near future. Ditching to be done with machine. <). K. LAIUM/UE GOIlfQ. Genend Pershing is Culling (br Three Thoaeand Men lor V. M. cj. A. Work. Columbia, May IS?(>. K. La Roque, state bank examiner; William T. Pearaon of The State and Robert V. Head of the Homestead Bank have been notified of acceptance of foreign service by the Y. M. C. A. The increasingly large number of soldiers being sent across the seas is making heavy demands upon the Y. M. C. A. to meet the expectations of General Pcrshing and the United States army. General Pershing is i calling by cable tor 3,000 more men to be sent forward just as soon as they can be found and equipped. The Y. M. C. A. is doing all within its power to meet this demand from General Pershing and is scouring the c ountry by a system of recruiting for suitable applicants. AT PEACE WITH WORLD. Argentina Satisfied with Germany's Explanation. Buenos Aires, May 17.?Argentina is at peace with all nations and has no reason to change her present pol? icy of neutrality, declared President Irogoyen in his annual message at the opening of the fifty-seventh con: gress session today, read in the pres? ident's absence by Vice President Luna. This congress is the first in which there has been a Radical ma? jority. The message referred again to the satisfaction given by Germany in the cases of the Argentine vessels, Mon? te Protegido and Toro, after their sinking by German submarines. THE GERMAN BREAD RATION. Hus Been Reduced to 160 Grammes Daily. Berne, Switzerland, May 17.?Re? duction of the German bread ration from 200 to 160 grammes daily per person has been decreed, says an of? ficial statement from Berlin. (The equivalent of 120 grammes is 5.6 ounces). The reduction will take ef? fect June 16. GRAIN FROM THE UKRAINE. Only 1,852 Tons Have Arrived in Ger? many. Amsterdam, May 17.?"Only 1.S52 tons of grain have arrived in Ger? many from the Ukraine.'' says the Kohlnische Volks Zeitung, a copy of which has been received here. "This is less than one-fiftieth of what we ought to have had by now," the newspaper adds. TEX PASSENGEBS DROWNED. French Steamer Atlantique Torpe? doed in Mediterranean. Paris, May 17.?Ten passengers, one European and nine Arabs, were killed when the French steamer At lantiquc was torpedoed in the Med? iterranean early this month. The steamship attempted to reach a port by her own means, it is announced She measures 6,117 tons. _ HUNS LOSE MANY PLANES. British Airmen Inflicting Serious I/osscs in Flanders. With the British Army In France, May 17 (By the Associated Press).? The ideal flying weather yesterday along the British front in Flanders constituted a bad period for the ene? my air service. One British brigade alone up to 3 o'clock in the afternoon had destroyed lifteen German planes and had driven six others down out of control, according to unofficial, but reliable, figures, while the correspond? ent learned at least five other hostile machines were sent crashing down. Yesterday twenty-five German air? planes were wrecked and twelve oth? ers shot down out of control. At 1 o'clock this morning and again at 3 o'clock there was a concentra? tion of gunfire on a small sector of ! the British front, in the LtRassee Morville sector. There was also se? vere shelling of Pacaut wood, near by during the night. Much the same thing went on yes? terday. There have been but slight infantry engagements. The Germans attempted a raid west of Hamelin court last night, but ran into such a grilling rille lire that they were forced to retire. Bains Benefit Crops. Manning, May 17.- Abundant rains have fallen in this section this week ami all mops are greatly bene? fited. Excellent crops of both oats and wheat are practically assured, while corn, cotton and tobacco as wcdl as vegetable gardens arc doing their best. There were no heavy washing ruins, the showers being light in most instances and extending through several days. Many farm? ers are through with cotton ehon . ping ami the min came In excellent I time. REGISTRATION JtNE FIFTH. Young Men Attaining Majority Since Last l>rart Will bo Enrolled Next Month. Washington. May 18.?June Mh has been tixed as the day for the reg? istration of youths who have attained 21 years since the first army draft registration on June 5th last year. The resolution is still awaiting the president's signature, hut Gen. Crowd er's otlice has virtually completed ita plans. HOPING FOR PEACE. Von Hcrtling Says He Is Optimistic as to Outcome of War In West. Amsterdam, May 18.?"I'm still optimistic enough to believe we shall have peace this year," German Chan? cellor von Hertling said in an inter? view with the correspondent of the Budapest Azest. "I cherish the firm confidence that further events in the West will bring us nearer a speedy end of the war." LYNCHING IN GEORGIA* Two Negroes Hanged for Murder in Hrooks County. Valdosta. Ga., May 18.?Will Head, and Will Thompson, negroes, impli? cated in the murder of Hamplon Smith and the shooting of his wife at Barney, were lynched last nicht, it was learned today. Head is said to have confessed the details of the plot, saying Mrs. Smith was maltreated af? ter being shot. Sidney Johnson, an? other negro, is reported to be sur? rounded by posses and another lynch? ing is expected. A Critic Cornered. The Hartford Courant, than which no newspaper has maintained a more nagging attitude toward the adminis? tration, is indignant over the recent suggestion that the Colt Patent Fire? arms Manufacturing Company should be investigated. It vigorously de? nounces the intimation that the Colt? are behind on their war contracts and goes into details to prove what a splendid record this concern has made. ' The Colt Company," it says, "has expanded its working force in three and a half years from 750 employes lo 6,300. It has built three large tac torics here and acquired another in Meriden. It has followed the order of the War Department to continue the manufacture of the Vikers gun for the United States, while it developed the new Brownings. Ab a result it is now turning out over sixty Vikers guns a day and will complete its corn tracts ahead of time. A contract to be completed June 1 will be filled and all deliveries made this week. Addi? tional orders of Vikers guns will keep the company busy for a long time to cbme. While installing the machinery for the manufacture of the heavy Browning here and the light Browning in Meriden it has been a training school for other gun manufacturers, all of its Browning gun data being at the disposal of Winchester, Remlngton-U. M. C, Westinghouse and Marlin experts, all of which concerns are now mak? ing or preparing to make Browning guns. The Colt Company has now reached the production stage of the light Browning ,in Its Meriden pit nt, and 500 will be turned out there this month. Production in heavy quan? tity of the heavy Browning will be Kin here in Hartford by the middle of May, and June 1 will see 250 completed guns., with production rapidly Increasing from that date. At the same time the Colt Company Is now turning out over 1,200 automatic pistols a day and 400 revolvers." This is truly a splendid showing and it is duplicated in a measure, by reports which come from other a m? manufactories?the Savage Arms Company, at Utlca, for example, where the Lewis gun is made, and the Winchester Arms Company, at New Haven, where Browning gufts are also being turned out. The only curious thing about The Courant's article is that it should close its fine defense of the Colt people with a nasty Hing at Washington for "the chaos of expansion and the weary months of uncertainty." How it hopes to justify any such criticism la a mystery not to be solved by a study of the record. The proposal for an "investigation" at Hartford came not from the administration but from The Courant's fellow critics. It was Sec? retary Baker who convinced the house military committee that such an in? vestigation was utterly needless and that while early manufacturer's esti? mates as to the production of the heavy type of Browning guns vere perhaps more optimistic than was justified, 'the estimate of the ord? nance deportment In January has been met and Is being met,"?News and Courier. Holland is about in the same vot-i tton of the timid man who is lining risked whnl time it Is by n hold-up man, Macon Telegraph.