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COTTON PRICE FIXING. Southern Senators, Headed by E. i>. x Smith, Pwjseint"Objections to War Industries Board. Washington, Sept. 10.?Southern senators who oppose any govern mental action toward fixing the price of cotton presented their case to - Chairman Baruch of the war indus tries board today. Mr. Baruch prom ised to confer with the senators again after- he had an opportunity to dis cuss 'the matter with his associates of the board. ? It was agreed that no announce ment would be made on the subject until after a second conference be tween Mr. Baruch and the senators. . Senator Smith of South Carolina, spokesman for the senators, made the following' statement.. "Mr. Baruch met with the repre sentatives of the cotton producing States according to appointment. Af ter a full conference in which all phases of the subject were discussed, it was.-agreed that Mr. Baruch was to lay the matter before his asso ciates and confer with us again." The, war industries board an nounced recently that appointment of a^ commission to investigate the cotton situation was planned with a view of making recommendations to ward stabilization of prices. Pro tests from all over the cotton belt re sulted, the announcement being gen erally regarded as a move towards price fixing^ CONTROL OF RAW MATE1HALS. .Conferring for Allied Control of Raw Materials After War. x Washington, Se-it 10.?Allied con trol of raw material after the war is perhaps receiving more serious at tention from the British than any other -post-war policy, according to advices received by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic commerce. Phillip B. Kennedy, American com mercial attache at London, in a re port to Washington officials, says that after the British government has perfected with the dominion gov ernments a plan for obtaining con trol of materials in the British em pire, .'it is expected that representa tions wnT be made to the United States-and other Allied countries for some common action. Important meetings of the Imper ial War Conference and the Imperial ? War Cabinet were held in London during July, he says, at which prime ministers and others representing .the dominions were present. The conference is a deliberative body which'."reports its decisions to the cabinet a more executive organiza . tion. Questions of imperial policy were discussed at the meetings. i which were regarded of unusual au thority* because of the prominence of and conferees." A 'special committee of the confer ence was appointed to consider the bes* methods by wnich. essential raw materials may be controlled, and ? Bonar'.Law, Chancellor of the "Bx ^Trl^onuex^has" "informed Parliament that arrangements being made with thj>! dominion representative for the control_of materials are to be the ba sis ifor beginning negotiations with oth er- ebu nt ri es. Cloee imperial cooperation in mat ters Of economic policy is favored by the dominion representatives, judging . from:their utterances, Mr.v Kennedy reports. He adds that Australia and New Zealand are interested in re taining the German colonies in the Pacific and in combatting/ German trade after the war. ' ? The dominions were asked to pass law similar to the British ncn-fer rous metal industries act, which makes it necessary to obtain licenses to trade in metals. Such legislation is designed to free the British em pire from dependence on German controhed organization. '* Another important resolution adopted by the conference is under stood! "to have asked the dominions te cooperate with the imperial gov ernment in protecting the developing British dye industry. The conference also considered questions relating to the development of inter-empire trade, such a? trans !' port, news service, parcel post, sta tistics and emigration. Improved steamship connection between Great Britain and the dominions was fa vored, also as more comprehensive news service at cheaper cable tolls . and coming from a strictly British source. A statistical bureau was proposed for London, which would compile and transmit information from different parts of the empire. Control of emigration after the war also was discussed. Although the dominion representa tives desire immediate consideration of the important questions relating to the close co-operation of different parts- of the empire, Mr. Kennedy points out that is it not certain that the British government will be pre pared to perfect finally a program of future economic policy during the war.He says Mr. I>aw regards thi problem one for solution after the war. ? None of the meetings openly dis cussed a preference tariff, according to Mr Kennedy. Such a policy is fa vored by many, but the tariff auc tion is yet an issue in the United Kingdom on which there is not unity of opinion. The old free-trade sen timent in the Liberal party is evident ly^ unchanged and the Labor party is seemjngly opposed of any po'icy which would affect cheap food ami cheap raw materials. The hitter also has jaommitted itself to resolutions favoring an open door economic pol icy ?fter the war as the best way ?>f guaranteeing future peace. Uefon- the United Kingdom cun come to a defi nite decision on the tariff probably the issue will have to be inj nod by the conflicting interests, according to reports received h<*re. and this maj be something the governing)} will not care to bring up during the war. To^make any rake self-cleaning* a Minnesota man has invented an at tachment in which coilejj! springs push scrapers down the tines when tli rake is lifted. STEAMSHIP SUNK BY U-BOAT. Germans Show More Reckless Dar ing Than Ever in Effort to Destroy Convoyed Boats. London, Sept. 10.?The American steamship Dora, formerly under the Austrian flag, was torpedoed and sunk on September 4. approximately 400 miles off France, as the result of an attack on a cargo convoy. The crew was saved. The steamship was struck" at 6.20 o'clock in the morning. A calm? sea enabled all the crew of So to escape. They were picked up by destroyers. The submarine daringly took up a position about l-r>0 yards from the ! starboard side of the convoy column and about an equal distance from the nearest destroyer and fired at the j Dora, which was heading a column ! of three vessels. . Thi_ lookout re j ported seeing a periscope just after ! the wake of the torpedo was discov | ered, but nothing more was seen of j the submarine. The torpedo struck ! immediately aft. throwing the cargo j of army supplies as high a? the mast ! tops, but only one member of the I crew was hurt. The escorting ships immediately dropped numerous depth charges where it was believed the torpedo came from. Owing to the speed with I which the warships acted and the : close proximity of the u-boat it is ! considered possible that the subma rine was either destroyed or badly damaged. This attack is somewhat different from the recent methods of u-bdats in firing on lone vessels and giving no attention to protected convoys and it ! shows more reckless daring in an effort to sink convoyed boats than has been usual during the past few months. ROUND UP DESERTERS. Attorney General Gregory Assumes Responsibility for Slacker Raid. Washington, Sept. 11.?Full re sponsibility for the recent slacker raids in New York and adjoining cities has been assumed by Attorney General Gregory, who promises con tinuance of the roundups, but with out soldiers, sailors and members of the American Protective Association to make arrest. In a letter to Presi dent Wilson made public today, the i attorney general said the latter prac tice, which was criticized so/ severe ly in the senate last week, was ille gal, illjudged and without his au thority but was prompted by "excess oi zeal for, the public good." The attorney general declared "thousands upon ? thousands" of de serters and slackers are at large in the country and explained that "to attempt to apprehend so great num ber of offenders by running down in dividual cases obviously would have been futile. This was taken to ineaa that communities must continue to expect exercise of the drag net pro cess. Mr. Gregory expressed his be lief that "the great body of out peo ple will cheerfully submit to the mi nor inconveniences which the execu tion of such plan of necessity entails to,the end that this indictment of the nation's honor, this drain on the na tion's strength may be removed." Illustrating the results of the raids in New York and New Jersey At torney General Gregory said that O: the 50,2'<7 apprehended in a series of roundups within the past ten days ?1,301 were inducted into military service by orders or held by court ac tion and 15,015 were found to be de linquent in their relations with local draft boards. The attorney general's letter was in response to a request of the pres ident to report on circumstances sur rounding the necessary raids which were denounced by a number of sen ators on the ground that soldiers, sailors and private citizens, members of the American Protective League were employed to make arrests oi civilians?a function which they said should have been left to civil police. Mr. Gregory cited the draft law':, requirement that registered men should carry registration of classifi cation cards and authorizing police officials to take draft evaders into : custody and bring them before local boards or to arrest deserters. Meas ures to apprrhend slackers were tak en, he said, about the time Secre iary Baker called his attention to the subject mere than a. month ago. DESTROY FRENCH TOWNS. Slow Fuses Used to Produce Explo sions Even Weeks After Germans Leave. With the French Army in France. Sept. 10, Tuesday (By the Associated Press).?Prisoners recently captured I by the French have thrown light up on the work of destruction by the re treating Germans with the aid of ex tremely slow fuses that produce an explosion of mines days sniffleve:: weeks after the Teutons have evacu ated a locality. The sam system that destroyed Chateau Bethancourt to the west oi Guiscard, September 6, and the cathedral at Nesls shortly afterwards was used freely at Ham and Noyon and is being utilized by the Germans in preparation for the destruction o!' villages north and northeast oi Rheims. Prisoners who Work with a detach ment of prisoners placing mines un der church pillars in thai region say the Germans are making ready to raze all the towns to the ground. Traps arc beir.<,' laid by uco of the same system in the forest of St. Gobain and in the region of La on, while all th<"* cross roads in those re gions, according te the captives, are being heavily mined. Some of these preparations for wholesale destruc tion are behind the Hindenburg dm-. GERMAN EMPEROR ADMITS FAILURE. Has Left no SS'?:?;' Unturned Shorten '.lie War. An sterd; . Sepi Speak in? A the Krupp works at lOssen. ISmperor William declared that everyone in the Fatherland knows he had "lefi no stone unturned to shorten the war if possible for bur people and foi the entire civilized worldV' PRICE OF COTTON GINNING. Food Administration Admits Lack of Authority to Deal With Violators) of Order Washington, Sept. 11.?Congress man Stevenson received today the following from W. L. Abernethy of Fort Lawn: "Telegram State food administra tion claims that a new ruling dated September 9 compels ginners to charge $3.50 a bale. Farmers op posed to this price. Please investi gate and advise by wire what the law is, my expense." Mr. Stevenson replied as fellows after consulting Mr. Justis, the mem ber of the food administration in charge of.the coition ginning situa tion: I "Food administration deny that j certain" ruling has been made and ! my statement gives the correct rule." ! The statement referred to. printed ; in newspapers in Mr. Stevenson's ; district, is as follows: "The $3~50 for ginning is the max iimum and the administration thinks I it is a fair price, but frankly admits. ! that thev have no authority to deni i - ! with any ginner who charges less, j provided it is a bonafide transaction. ; If the ginner gins for less in consid ; eration for buying the farmers' seed j at such a price as to make them : profitable or mixes it up with other j transactions, they will deal with him. i but if he charges less than the price ! fixed by the administration and col ! iects it bonafide in cash for ginning j he is within his rights." j COTTON SEED PRICES. I ' j statement of Result of Conference j Betwcn Crushers and Farmers. I To the Farmers of The State: j The undersigned representing the j growers on the cotton seed committee j of the Food Administration were called to it conference with the crush ers and the Food Administration Wednesday night and the following facts will be of interest to the farm - I ers of the State: Mr. Elliott made clear that a' farmer may secure the carload price by delivering 20 tons within 10 days where he hauls them direct to a mill. Ii' shipped, of course, the railroad rules about loading cars and the ton nage will have to be complied with'. Mr. Ellior.t stated that lie was trying to get a minimum car ot 15 tons, but there is no reason why several farm ers may not join together to load a car, or to deliver their seed to a mill jointly in the name of one of their ! number and secure the car price oi ?72.00 per ton, as against the wagon price of ?G8.00 per ton. A farmer can not demand of a mill in exchange more than 940 pounds of meal lor a ton of seed, the ^balance to be paid in cash. To mai<e this easy of illustration we will say he can get 1-2 ton of meal at $53.5'. equal $26.50 and $45.50 in cash, for a ton of seed. But as the mills are buying considerable seed for cash without any reference to exchange, present or future, crushers told us that they couid now exchange a ton .of,meal and $19.00 for a ton of seed. They would advise farmers to mak?; sure of securing their meal require ments at once, | and to get the same home, for later they may be restrict ed to only the meal from their own seed. It was brought out that mills would be glad to have the farmers haul out meal as fast as they deliv ered, seed where it is done by wagon and to have the meal shipped out as fast as the seed come in. There was considerable discussion, of the matter of retailing meal and hulls, but we- do not think farmers are interested' in this phase of the business. In justice to the crushers we think it should be made clear that they did not influence the Food Administra tor to fix the price of ginning at $3.50 per bale; in fact, the mills would have named a lower rate in the in terest of attracting seed to their plants, -but the food administrator with all the information ho coulU gather, believes that cotton can noi be ginned for loss, unless it is made up in some other way, and that therefore it is to the interest of the farmers to pay a price for ginning that will maintain independent gin neries for convtr.. nee as well as to !?.ave him free to dispose of his cot ton and seed as he sees best. Vv'hen we asked the question, what will become of the $1^.00 difference between the price fixed by the mills and the pi ice fixed by the food ad min ist ration V A crusher promptly asked to be allowed to answer that question, and said, "We will pay it to farmers who seid the seed," and added. "But we think the farmers ou^ht to know that these early seed ha-ve shown a high moisture content, [and made a low oil turnout. 55 samples from all over the State show ing 15 per cent, moisture or three ! times the normal, and only 39 1-2 gallons in place of -bl gallons of oil. thereby practically eliminating the mill's proiits on these early seed. When asked the question, "Who is [to pay the privileg tax on the meal?" Mr. Elliott said he . rust confess, that had not been considered. "The food administration expected the farmer to get his meal at $53.00 f. o. b." We. the farmers on the committee* think mills should pay th;s inspection tax because they have been allowed a greater spread to cover increased cost. ;:nd a profit of $3.00 per ton of seed crushed while tin* farmers have had to take whatever was Urft without regard to his increase in co"t. 'rinse discussions have brought about a better undersfahdmg be tween the crushers and the farmers, and we ar< sure, i;' eaeh will try to be fair to the other it will still fur ther work to our mutual welfare. This has i>e'-.-! brought about by Mr. I:ott*s very manifest desire to arrive at the truth. J. EL Claffy, E. W. Dabbs. 11 now lawful to shoot doves, but it is a risky business to kill .. few patridges :;i<>iit,' with the doves, it is?nct\as easy to mistake a part ridge for a dove as some hunters would have you believe. Mr. B. Frank Kelley, of Bishop vilie. was in the city today. SALVAGE OF WAR GOODS. Everything- is Gathered from IJattle liclds and Camps and Cleaned and Retired for Use. American .Supply Headquarters Tours, France, Aug. 2<) (("orrospond ence of The Associated Press?Two carloads of hair brushes abandoned by American soldiers in camps were' among the wreckage of battle j brought today to the great salvage depot of the American army here, j This ;was only one little item in the ; srist of debris and litter from the | lighting zone which, has been careful-; ly gathered up and sent here for restoration. Five thousand persons are employ ed in renovating and repairing this wreckage. The material thus saved and restored to use or sold amounted in value last month to $2,500,000. In the big battle around Chateau-! Thierry, as our lighting men went over the top they were followed closely* by detachments of non-com batant troops to grope amid the wreckage and debris and save it from complete abandonment and loss. Each detachment comprised 29 en listed men and an officer. They had irucks'and derricks and all the para phernalia for gathering broken-down cannon, riries, cartridge belts, hel mets, clothing, and the vast stores 01" abandoned arms and material left in the track of a contest, and to send it back to the salvage depot here. Strange things have come ' cut of this war, but none stranger than this gigantic salvage plant where ev-N erything from crippled guns and can non to old k&rmy shoes and caps is saved from total loss and turned back to some useful end at the front. At first people looked at it as a freak. There was nothing like it in the civil war or the,mere recent modern wars It started* on a small scale, with 200 hands, t But now, after a few months, it is a monster industry, with huge build ings -and towering stacks. It will save the government ^:J5,000,000 the first year, and it may reach $"0,000. i 000. This is no freak; it is cold, hard saving of millions of dollars, at a time when material is scarce and shipping difficult. It is the anti waste campaign brought to its high est development by a huge govern ment undertaking. Going over the plant today then was an opportunity to see the re markable details of this salvage. The .' wreckage of the battlefield is only one I of the sources of this salvage? ex | plained our escort, but it is the great i est source. As men spring into action, they throw aside everything not ab solutely, essential. There is besides the litter of the actual lighting, brok en and. abandoned goods oi' every conceivable nature. It is not only what is left by our own troops, but what is left by the enemy, often great stocks of arms, ammunition, bayonets and every kind of fighting material. Even when there is no battle, the mere shift of a division of troops leave^an enormous stock of aban donedvSobds. Moved on short orders the ? men" pick up a few fighting es-? sentials?guns, blankets, emergency rations-r-and leave the rest behind; books,* extra clothes, shoes, etc. The men arrive from America with an undue amount of clothing; it is trim med down at the first' training camp; :'irain it is trimmed down as they go to the front, and each new trimming of thousands of men means another huge stock for salvage. In the main building, a quarter oi a mrieMong. there was the roar of a vast and diversified industry, with over 4,000 women workers and a thousand men, with long batteries o: sewing machines, shoo machines, rubber and harness machines such as one sees in the great factory districts: with the same huge installation o:' engines, boilers, disinfecting plants, laundries; and the whirr of big met | al machines for making over the J many branches of ordnance, j Hundreds of women were sorting j the uniforms and underclothing iust come from the salvage processes. ! There were some 2??.?00 blouses, on j these towering shelves, and as man?/ j more of all the other articles of soi j dier wear. They were in bundles, j looking very fresh and clean, quite like the stock of a well-equipped clothing establishment. The women were arranging the garments in ! three classes: Clas-s A?Garments in good order, practically the same as new. to be se.it back to th'- front ;:s part of the supply for fighting troops. Class B?Garments partly worn out but fully repaired, to be seat to the base ports on*'the coast, for labor troops and stevedores. Class C?Garments ' much worn but in a fair state of preservation, to be sent to prison camps for German : r .soners. This was significant of what the German prisoners were getting* not Wood's Seeds si I 1 Crimson Increases crop produc tion, improves the land and makes an excellent grazing and forage crop*. WOOD'S FALL CATALOG Just Issued Te!!s Ail About Crimson Clover, Alfalfa, Fulghum Oats, Abbruzzi Rye and all other Farm and Garden Seed's FOR FAUL SOWING. Catalog mailed free. Write fo il, and prices of any Seeds re quired. iOD Seedsmen - Richmond, Va. th<- best, to be sure, and not the same .;s our own mem but worn goods- in a fair state of preservation, it seem ed to be an answer to the outcry that the German prisoners were get ting the same as our men. One could follow the stages of the huge stacks of hob-nail army shoes from the time they arrived, covered with the mud and grime of the trenches and the battlefield, through process after process of disinfection, cleaning, repairing, grading, until they finally emerged in stocks of substantial footwear. T.ikc the gar ments, these were classed to go !>c.ok to the fighting troops, or to the stevedores, or to tiie German pris oners. It was the same with the infinite variety of army equipment going through the salvage process, rubber boots and arctics, shelter tents, h:ir ness for artillery, saddles, bridles, stir.rups. All of it was on a prodig ious scale, 50.0110 garments a day: 1.000 pairs of rubber boots a day at the army price of $2.65 a pair. The salvage of all kindsNof rubber articles was 99 per cent, or almost a com plete savins: of everything received. }Icrc than a million dollars worth of clothing was saved last month, and the magnitude of the cvork as a whole can be judged from these figures of the output: Shoes $325, 120-f clothing, $1.307.026; harness and leather, $57,000; rubber, $90, 0QQ; canvas and webbing. $35,000. There are some curious things gathered up in this litter of the camps and battlefields; for example, three tireless cookers. Enough books and maganiznes are left behind to stock several libraries. Pictures and knick-knacks with which the tents arc decorated before the rush comes, are abundant. Family pictures and belongings of a personal character are carefully preserved in little bags to be returned to their owner or his family if that is possible. Besides restoring articles for use, every scrap of wool cloth, leather, metal, hat-bands, is saved to be turned into some other form of use ful article, or is sold. The sale -of junk, tin cans and scraps last month netted 18,400 francs. The women workers are chiefly French and Belgian, many of them refugees from the invaded districts, so that the work has this further useful end for some 4,000 . women. They get from 6 to 7 francs a day, working from 7 t6 11.30, and from 1.30 to 6. IThc wages paid last month were 711,100 francs. But all the cost of wages and new material was less than ten per cent of the value of the articles produced "for army uses, to taling $2,500.000 for the month?a tribute to the 'ingenuity which has produced this unique establishment of war economy. Acetylene lamps that throw flashes instead of steady beams of light aTe being tried for signalling by a Swiss railroad. v % I Building Material and Feed Stuffs * Rough and Dressed Lumber, Lime, Cement, Plaster, B:ick, Shingles, Mouldings, Etc. Ail kinds of Feed foi\Horses, Cows, Hogs and Poultry. "We solicit your patronage. I Booth <& McLeod, Inc. Phones 10 & 631 ?TI0NAL BAKK OF SOUTH CAROLINA OF SUMTER. THE LARGEST AND MOST ANXIOUS TO PLEASE Our policy is to care for the interest of our friends, and that we do this is evideaced by the large number of old patrons that we have, and new friends we are making:. If you are not a patrou we want you to become one. The National Bank of. South Carolina CO. KOWLAKB, President. F E. HINNANT. Cashier. ?2? BUY WAR SAVINGS STAMPS Subscribers to 3rd Liberty Loan ill please*call for their Bonds. We will be very glad to file these Bonds in our vaults for safe-keep ing fdr those who may desire us to do so. The National Bank of Sumter, The "Old Reliable" Since ISS9 J. P. BOOTH, President W. J, CROWSON, Jr., Cashier