Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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?hi Hickory Troops Arrive Mercury Brings to Charleston ' SoJdirs from Carolinas and Tennessee?Go to various >".'> Camps. . Charleston, starch 27.?The trans port Mercury with more than S.000 troops ;of the Thirtieth Division ?aboard docked here early today from Sit.. Nazaire. Th.eN Mercury sailed from St. Na zaire, March 15. There are 69- offi cers and 3.045 men of the Old Hick ory, which is composed of Tennessee. North Carolina and South Carolina i : troops, -aboard. Brig. Gen. Lawrence D. Tyson, who commanded the Fifty . "ninth Brigade of Infantry, composed _ of the One Hundred and Seventeenth .and one Hundred and Eighteenth In fantry Regiments and the One Hun . dred and Fourteenth Machine Gun , V -Battalion, also is aboard. Most Of the troops are those of the One Hundred and Eighteenth In ftwitry. which regiment was com Jmanded by Co ii. Orrin R. Wolfe. There ?are 58 officers and 2.52.? men of that regiment on the Mercury as well as the regimental headquarters. They a-re,- h^ail quarters and supply com pany, ordnance and medical detach . ineuts, medical detachment of sec ond-battalion, companies E, F, (1. H, I and K. and repair* shop. They have ^ been assigned as* follows: , ? Camp Jackson. 4 0 officers und 1. ' 2*4 men. r \ Camp Pike, two officers and 122 men. Camp Travis, two officers and 106 men. Camp Dix. one officer and 8! men. * Camp Sherman, two officers and 126 men. I Camp Gordon, two officers and ISO men. Camp Dodge, six officers and 520 m*n. -Camp Jackson, repair shop, two officers and 25 men. -IThere are six officers and 500 men - of the One Hundred and Fifth Am munition Train aboard, including headquarters horse battalion. Com panies- E. F and d. who have, boon assigned as follows: ?Camp Jackson, live officers and ?90 me?i. ! Camp Fnnston. one officer and 110 ? men. - j Five officers and 20 men of the | Seventy-sixth Infantry Brigade Head -; ? quarters, which is part of the Thirty-; eigth Division, composed of Indiana, i "Kentucky and West Virginia troops, j are aboard the Mercury and will go! to Camp Jackson. i Bolshevism in America Preachers of Anarchy Speak in New York New York. March 27.?More than 3.0^0 Socialists and Bolshevist sym rr.r pathisers assembled here tonight to ?welcome L?. A. C7"*l\..- AiartSns/self announced commercial representative of the Russian soviet government in the 'L'nited States, hissed the name of Mayor Ole Hanson of Seattle, booed ' at mention of American troops in Russia and shook the hall with cheers and stamping when speakers predict ed the early coming of international Socialism. The meeting held under the aus pices qif the New York County com mittee of the Socialist party, was not interfered with by the police. A squad of patrolmen stationed at the doors of the hall was called into play, however, to disperse several hundred persons who were unable to crowd into the hall. Mr; Martens, who recently an nounced he had reecived a credit of $200,900,000 from the Russian gov ernment for the purpose of purchas ing supplfes needed in Russia, was given an ovation *vhich lasted for sev eral minutes. Albert Rhys Williams, newspaper correspondenl. who returned recently from Russia to open a Bolshevik in formation bureau, devoted much of address to ridicule of the senate committee investigating Bolshevism before whieh he appeared as a wit ness. ?S. John Block. chairman of the New York county committee of the Socialist party and chairman of th" meetrrij?. stirred the audience to frantic cheers by mentioning the name of Eugene V. Debs. "We Socialists will see to it." he declared, "that Woodrow Wilson of Washington and Paris will soon de Clare a general amnesty." He added that "what we are work ing for is a Socialist republic in the L'nited States as there will Ik- a So cialist republic in European States." Council of Foreign Ministers New Committee Created to Con sider Technical Matters at Peace Conference Paris. March 2S.?A comieii of for eign ministers composed of th" for eign secretaries of Great Britain, the United States. France and [tal;. . ? has been created to work simultan eously with the premiers and Presi dent Wilson, but on different branches of th<> great technical questions in volved in the peace settlement. Ja pan was not given representation be cause its delegation does not in clude its foreign minister-. Karolyi Still Alive Former Premier of Hungary Said to Be Enjoying Com plete Liberty I^ondon. March 2S.?Count Karolyi. former Hungarian premier, various ly reported assassinated or impris oned. is enjoying complete liberty in Budapest, as are other member." <? the governrm it who were conrpell^ i to resign when the soviet uprising becured, according to a Hum-::>ria ! government wireless received h?re. j Farmers Line Up i _ i j State Wide Movement to Curtail Cotton Crop Is Grooving in Magnitude [ ? - Columbia. March 2S"*?Farmers met] I in every county in Sqpth Carolina to-j i day for the purose of.electing dele-j I gates to the big State-wide cotton \ 'acreage reduction rally to be held in; I Columbia next Tuesday. Ten dele gates were elected from each county, j j Congressman J. Thomas Hetiin. of: iAlabama, and W. B> Thompson ofj New Orleans, who are to be the prin- ' cipal speakers at the big meeting: ; will arrive in Columbia next Monday : night. The meeting will begin at 12: ? o'clock noon Tuesday and will be: i held in Craven Hall. It had been1 j originally planned to hold the meet- j j ing in ihe-hall of the House of Rep- ! i resentatives. but the indications point to such a large crowd being pres ent that it will be held in Craven j Hall instead. I Hot After Governor AUcn. } 'The farmers of the South arc cer- j j tainly going after Governor Allen of (Kansas." said Chairman Wannamak-' \ er of the central committee today, j "'Every mail brings a Hood-of letters: ; from farmers in all of the States of i the jotton belt saying that the at-; j tac . made by the Kansas executive j had made them more determined i than ever to make the reduction ; I movement succeed. Many who were ! originally lukewarm on the move ! ment have become ardent support ?ers of it because of Governor Allen's out burst. I believe that nothing that : has happened during the present 'campaign has done more to stimulate ! the movement than this, unjust criti ! cism of the Southern farmer for le j gltimately trying to save himself from i iKinkruptcy." I All Slates in lane, j It was said at the headquarters of I ; the central committee today that all j States were in line in the.reduction i movement. I "The eampai.cn to cut acreage in ; this State is meeting with remarkable.", ? success especially in heavy cotton j counties, and vre will have at least a 20 per cent reduction in acreage and j around 35 to. 4"> per c.-ni reduction in: j fertilizer." says c. D; Orrcll, chair-. i man of the executive committee of: j the North Carolina . Cotton Associa tion in a letter to the South Carolina < j Association. i .Letters received from Georgia, j I Mississippi. Texas, and Louisiana in-j idicate that the reduction in each ofj these States will be at leas'. 30 per.) cent. Several thousand signatures have | been secured to a petition circulated i at. th?- automobile show here th;s: week asking Governor Cooper to call i an' extra session of the general as- j sembly for the passage of good roads legislation. Only about a half doz-1 ; en people declined to sign the peti tion. \ George B. Craven, editor of the ; Lancaster News, was a ColUm-da vis ? itdr yesterday and he declared that j sentiment in Lancaster .county an I peared to be almost unanimous foi ["an extra session. Mr. Craveji says [that he ran a blank coupon in his I paper last week asking the people j of the county to say whether or not ! they favored the extra session, fjp j to the time that he left Lancaster iyesterday morning there had not been [a single negative reply while a tre ? mendous number had voted in favor [ of the extra session. "1 know that I reflect the sentiment : of Lancaster county when I say that jthe people of the county want an ex I tra session and 1 believe that I re flect the sentiment of the people of the whole State." said Mr. Craven. I ' The Union Chamber of Commerce ? has adopted resolutions asking the ; governor to call an extra session. iBolsheviki Plot Defeated 'American Guards in Germany j Were Too Wratchful for the Spartacans. London. March 2S.?Action . by ! American troops looking after Rus jsian prisoners in Germany is believ | ed to have nipped in the bud an ? important Bolshevik: plot, according ! to an Exchange Telegraph Berlin dis palch. dated Thursday, j The Spartacans at Spanda, the mcs I sage states, had planned a big rising Thursday .intending to arm several 1 thousand Hassans from Ruplebcn } camp. j The Americans, however, rushed (the Russians aboard trains Wcdnes ! day night and scattered them, tin ler ! Americans, throughout Germany. Victory Loan Campaign County Chairmen Meet in Col umbia to Make Plans j Columbia. .March 28.?A meeting of : the county chairmen of the Victory [loan drive was held here today. Ed I win XV. Robertson who is chairman [for this federal district was present land told of the plans fur the cam jpaign. He announced that a great battle film would be sent out dur ing the campaign and that it had j mor*j thrills than the "Birth of a? ? Nation." t i Among the chairmen present were ? three overseas men. <-,>l. W. VV. Lew - 'is. Capt. John ./. McSwain and Capt. 1 J. Lyles Glenn. Jr. Royalist Conspiracy in Russia Report Reaches Stockholm of , Attempted Uprising in East ern Russia Stockholm; March 2s! \n .: I ???.< ! rcy.alisi conspiracy hits been discov ered ai t*cnesea. Eastern Emrm'-in i'nssia. record ing t>> th- IvUSr-'an fiewjepapor Krastiaya <';i/.?!.??. i'w>:< iv-i'!i( persons wcx'e shot i.y ibe sfol sheviki. The alleged leader van Suko rme. a former marshal of f'u si;Hi nohiltty ?? nd i'x ii eomrn ?? r Weier til"' I J<?!sle ?>.????. j >-'"j'.::>. . $ :..?-' tiue ivas executed. America in Lead Ship Building Program Durinq War Will Enable United States to Become Mari time Power of the World Washington, March. 22?Shipbuild ing facilities acquired during the war have made the United States the great est potential maritime power of trie world, asserts Chairman E. X. Hurley of the Shipping Board, and will en able it to outdistance all other nations in the race toward replacing a short age of 16.220,000 gross tons of ship ping lost as the result of unrestricted. German submarine warfare "and of he failure of normal increase by new production, Mr. Hurley ma.de this assertion* to day i 11 a report of his trip to Europe when? for three months he was in close touch with the shipping interests of foreign nations.The report will be used in working out a policy of owner ship and operation of the American merchant marine. Mr. Hurby estimated that in July. 11)14. the sea-going steam bottoms of th<- world totaled 41.225.000 gross tons, jvvhieh was reduced by war to 37.000, 000 gross tons, a net loss of 4.225;000 gross tons. In addition he stated there was a loss of 12000,000 gross tons which would have been construct ed if war had not stopped the normal increase in production, making a to tal loss of 10,225,000 gross tons. The Allies and neutrals suffered a t< tal less by enemy action, marine risk and capture of 10,21 $.000 gross tons. Mr. Hurley said, and gained by new contraction and seizure of enemy ships 14.24!?.000 gross tons, leaving a net loss of 4h;9,ouo gross tons. The not loss to the Central Powers was even greater since they lost 3.010,000 gross tons ami gained only 740,000. a difference of 2.276.000 gross tons. Only two countries, tin- United Spates and . Japan; have a larger amount of tonnage now than when th war began. Japan showed a net gain, of 2") per cent. Mr. Hurley reported, while the United States jumped far in the lead with a net gain of 12"? per cnt. ?"The United Stales forged ahead as rapidly as Germany fell behind,*' said the report. "In August, 1914 tin- Unit ed Slates seagoing merchant marine. 500 gross tons and over, included C24 steamers of 1.75.8.465 gross tons, and $.70 sailing vessels and schooner bar ge's of 047.8."2, gross tons, making a grand total of 1.494 seagoing mer chant vessels of 2,70'6.317 gross tons. ?On November 11. 191$, at the .end of the war. th.-- st<-am-.'oing merchant marine had increased u> 1.366 vessels of 4.635.263 gross tons and the sail ing vessels and schooner barges had decreased to 7-iT vessels of 829.917 gross tons, making a grand totai of 2.113 seagoing merchant vessels of "?.."15.ISO .gross tons. ?'Th-s does not include the seized enemy vessels, which at the -md of the war aggrgated ss vessels of .""02:00-" gross tons of whieh number SI of ."40, 210 c:viiy^ ton:; wert: steamers and sev en of 15;795 gross tons were sailing vessels. "Tim total construction in the Unit ed States added to\the merchant ma rine during the war amounted to S7;~. vessels of 2:94045 gross tons. The purchase from aliens of 233 vessels of S33.N5 4 gross tons, the movement from the. Great Lakes to the oce?"n of'?<> steamers of ?39;469, '^r<>^ tons, and m is cel 1 a h oo ? s a c ?? > ? i s i i i o n s amounting to :!1 vessels of 39.219 gross ions arc other sources of acquisition. "Th 'oss of 114 vessels of 322.211 gross tons by enemy action, of 27-S vessels of 405.4.00 gross tons by marine risk, of 130 vessels of 268.149 gross tons by sale to aliens, and 04 vessels of 110.701 gross ions through the sale to United States government, aban donment and other causes, accounts for the decreases. Losses of l *? Ger man and requisitioned ships amount ing to 112.248 gross tons are not in cluded. : Military Amendment Rejected Objection to Establishment of Naval and Military Staff of League of Nations Paris. March 2-S.- h was reported last night that the amendment to the league of nations covenant pro rvidirig for a permanent military and naval staff for the league had hven rejected. Lenine Asks America For Recognition Rumor Current in Paris that Leader of Bolshevik? Sends Note to President Wilson Paris. Mare}] 2S.?The rumor was current last nigh, that the United States ha/J received :i note from Pre- | mier Lenine and War Minister Troc-'' zky or the Russian soviet govern ! mem asking recognition for thai government, says Marcel Hutin in The Echo Paris today. M. Hutin says be "cannot say thai President Wilson is disinclined t<> give tie re quesi Ifavorable consideration." Lenine Advises War Urges Hungarian Soviet to Mike Attack on Austria London March 2v Premier Le aiiii' sen; :i wireless message to the Hungarian government urging to Tend an arinj against Vicuna, ac cording to :i Pudapest dispatch re- j reived in \terlui and forwarded }? ??re. I .?-)ii11? ? promised to advance orte ! nn ! ired thousand kronen to ihuuvee th ? j ?reject. ? I Paris. March 2S. Tin- communist ? ?; ums in Austria are paiturhi; a < ST ee,i.;,; j,, ga'n COIit l*Ol Ol' 'be ? "Over-i men!. The Marin correspond ! ;.t at Tb.r. fcatrae says he -learh.j, iold v*? Hi.a. Jewish Relief Fund Campaign to Raise S15,G00;000 j to Save Starving Millions in j Europe -_ ?, For the first time in human His-j tory. perhaps, the Jewish race is be- j seeching the American people for! financial aid. it is a (.-ail for $.15.-j 000,000 to save 3,000,000 of an an-] cient people from starvation and the possible extinction of a race which has writ largo its name on the scroll, of the centuries. Of this ?ir..000.000. South Carol in-' ia->.-. irrespective of race or eVoed, are asked to contribute $125,000. It is a call to nrms for humanity. This rton-sectarian campaign, which is in dorsed by eminent Protestants anil Catholics, will be waged fro a. A mm 1 to April 9. inclusive, and its pr? ceedij will give sustenance tO: iht starving a;:d raiment to the ivake ?"Today." says Jacob if. Schiff in an appeal f?r the people of his r.tc::. in Poland, in Galicia. in Lithuania, in Russia, in Palestine and in Tur key, old men are dying, mothers are wandering homeless with h: bios in thejr arms. Thousands, yes ?h ? - sands. of linio suffering children whose feet and arms and little faces are swollen, are dying from disease, and from' awful hunger. In this black est tragedy of our "ace I ask your aid." ! "This is not only a Jewish move ment, it is a human movement." said Senator Sauljsburg of Delaware. ?-It will clothe win-re clothing is needed and will feed where feeding is necessary, it will go wherever the cry of humanity calls ir. it is of hu i man beings, for human beings and by human beings.'* Preparations for the campaign for Jewish war retief have been prac tically completed by August Kohn of I Columbia. State chairman, and A. A. : Prctzman. State director, with Mon tague Tricst of Charleston as State ! vice chairman. The advisory board ; consists of Jewish rabbies from Cliar ! I est on and Columbia, They are Itab [hi J. S. Raisin. Rabbi J. J. Simonoff. Rabbi Julius Cohen and Rabbi B. ! Meyerovitx. all of Charleston, and Rabbi David Karesh of Columbia. The district chairmen, who have built up powerful county organizations, .are: Montague Triest, Charleston: j Isaac *'C. Strauss. Sumter Max Pass, j !)ilon: Morton Visanska. Columbia; j M. S. Polier, Aiken; Harry L. Wat json, Greenwood: Harry Geisberg, An derson; David Kohn. Greenville; J. Colmn, Union: R. R. Block. Cam den. and Dr. I). B.. Johnson. Rock Hill. A mass of literature, has be? n sor t out from tin* central headquarters in Columbia to the various county units and this has been distributed effec tively in the various counties prepara tory to the ?^Irivc." The Slate chair man and the state director are very much pleased with the results so far I achieved and particularly with the hearty and spontaneous cooperation : they have received from their Gen tile friends. The money raised in the United tares will be distributed by the join: I 1'-'J '"!"'" ! . .._ .'_ _g distribution committee of the Amer ican funds for .hnvish war sr?tferers, of which Felix M: Warburg is chair man. Through" the cooperation of the department of state at Washington the money will be sent direct to rep resentatives of the committee in Eu rope, who will see that it is put to the best advantage and wisely and properly administered in communi ties where aid is needed. I'nless relief is vouchsafed from America, thousands upon thousands of the Jewish race, sufferers from the world war with which they had noth ing to do in bringing it on. in Po- i la.nd. Galicia, Lithuania, in the new' states of Czecho-SIovakia and Jugo slavia and in western Russia whl perish. An apt illustration as to the sufferings of the Jewish people, par ticularly defenseless lirtl" children, is given by an eye witness as follows: "Dr. Goidflamm of Warsaw tells me upon the authority of his medi cal reputation that in-his clinic dur ing i h<- past year in- re has: not been a .Jewish child no to four years of age who could walk. Some of the chil dren have forgotten, have unlearned how to walk. They have become ra ehitic from under nourishment, from being fed one a day this warm potato soup and "t 1 -ihunk of bread." ixi his vi-' proidamatron calling on th<- people of South Carolina iu ; the name of humanity to subscribe to ?b-wish war relief. Go v. Robert A. I 'ooper said: "The Jews have subsisted In the ^hepe of a better day. The dawn of ; r:a:t day is at handi for the rights of the smaller people have been written j into international ethics. But the Jews of Europe can not see nor at tain tin* .cma! if they are to be tefc [^Starving and in rags. Their plight ' in Poland is pitiable, as it is in 3th er parts of old Russia; neither do these residing in old Austria-Hungary ? enjoy full opportunity." THE OPENING OF THE SCHOOLS. The Schedule for Next Monday Morn ing. The schoois of this city will, of course, do just as was done last year: conform to the revised time. The city clock will rins at S.L'5 by the re vised time next Monday morning. The parents are urged to keep this in mind, as some remarkable record* have been made this winter and spring in attendance and it is very : much to be desired that these ree : ords should be maintained. j If the schools should fail to con form to the change of the clocks, all the schedules of the city would be h o pel ess! y d i sorga hized: Til IE NEXT LYCEUM XEMBER. The Evening of April Ninth. The next Lyceum attraction will appear at the Girls' High School au ditorium on the evening of April 9th. Ah effort was mad'- to have this on Tuesday or Thursday evening on ac count cf the religious services in the city; but these efforts failed. This attraction conies very highly recommended personally by Mr. Merrit Craft, the Southern represen tative of the Ftedpath Bureau. Gov, Allen's Ignorance Comments on Cotton Situation Shows That He Does Not . Know What He Was Talking About Columbia; March 2&?"Jf Goyern .or Allen will induce some of the wheat grower? of hi? State to come South and grow cotton under present conditions they could give him some j valuable information on the subject about which he evidently knows : nothing at ail, . else he would not ? have made the statement that he" ;did." said Gov..-Hoben a. Cooper to ' day. replying to the statement by j Governor Allem of Ka-rtsnr. criticising the cotton acreage reduction cam paign in the South. The statement issued today by Governor Cooper follows in full:. 'ill - people of the cotton growing I States have noj criticized the fixing [of the price of wheat by the govern? ment They -ire glad for the Kansas farmers to receive a profit on their products^ Two dollars and twenty six cents may, or may not, be an ade quate price for wheat. 1 don't knew any more about the cost of 'production of wheat than Ce.vornor Aden does about the cos! of produc tion of cotton. 1 do know, and every jweli informed man of the cotton belt I knows, that the farmer cannot tp : day get a profit for his cotton. If Governor Allen will induce some of the wheat growers ?? his State to come -to the South, and grow cotton under present conditions tlicy could ? give him Valuable information on the subject about which he evidently ; knows so little, else he would not ; have j.te.de the statement he did." : Negro Convicts Escape Four Prisoners Leave State Farm Near Hagood Four negro prisoners escaped from ?the State farm in Sumter county . Thursday nigh: and prison officials '.are o'.Zaring a reward of for the capture of each man. ? .lim Moore was sentenced in Dil ti Ion county last year. He Is 28 years = !old. five feet 10 1-2 inches tflXi, black I ; hair, brown eyes, scar on right hip. ?! two cuts on back and burn on each ? leg. Will West was sentenced in Charles i ton last year. He is 31 years old, five ! j feet five and one-half inches tall. ! black hair, brown eyes, pistol shot .soar on right side, scar on back Of ? right hand, shot wound on left shoul < der blade. Jim Byers was sentenced in Char ; festen county. He is 42 years old, ; five feet seven inches tall, brown eyes, scar on left cheek, scar on right ; wrisr ! ' Raymond Hanna was sentenced in j Charleston county. He is 26 years : eld. live feet three and one-half ?' inches tall, black hair, brown eyes, bright complexion, scar on top of j head, scar on left eyebrow. ; The men left in a group and car- -> ried two Wir.ehester rifies. It was good enough to be used and approved by the U. 5. GOVERNMENT! This 4 H. P. Engine drives a six-foot saw through any size log. It will cut from 15 to 25 cords a day. For a demonstration see < Carolina Machinery Co. Opposite Post Office ... Sumter, South Carolina v - -1 iimmiratmrr?nnwnw b~~Mwnwnwio.i-..cim>i^mmjn_m???wj?i