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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-05-09
S. 6. GUARDSMAN
KILLED BY TRAIN
Private Hall, on Duty, Meets Death
Exchange of Shots With Civilians
at Abbeville and Newberry.

Columbia, May 7.-Information was
received at the headquarters of the
First regiment, South Carolina in
fantry, by Col. p. X. McCully, Jr, to-
day that Gillian A. Hall, member of
Company NJ, has been found dead on
railroad track near Kingstrce at an
early hour this morning. The body
was found between 4 and o'clock.
Mr. Hall was on guard duty, patrol
ing trestle in the vicinity. The
telegram came from Capt.. w. NJ.
Young of Company NJ, and gave few
details. There seems to be no doubt
that Hall was killed by passing
train.
Mr. Hall was 10 years of age. He
was born in Kcrshaw county. The
records show that his mother, Mrs.
Elvira Stevens, lives at Lucknow. He
was farmer and unmarried. He en-
listed in Company NJ at Camden.
This is the first death i'm the South
Carolina national guard, from other
than natural causes, since the mobili-
zation of the troops last summer for
service on the Mexican border. There
were several deaths from sickness on
the border, in nearly every instance
brought on by exposure. The general
health of the soldiers has been very
good.
Close guard is being kept on trans
portation facilities, as is evidenced by
several Incidents which have occurred
within the past several days. In Alb
beville county, at Little river bridge,
on the Seaboard Air Line railway,
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-05-09
UNITED STATES WINTER WHEAT CROP THE SMALLEST SINCE 1904

Washington, May Sin the face of
a threatened world food shortage,
the American winter wheat crop
shows the lowest condition recorded
since 1888 and promised smaller
yield than any since 1904.
Agricultural conditions otherwise
are good, the department announced,
and it recalled that although the win
ter wheat crop of 1912 showed an
equally discouraging outlook the to-
tai production of crops that year was
the greatest on. record.
Crop Figures.
The winter wheat crop, forecast to-
day y the Department of Agriculture,
promises production of 366, 10000
bushels.
Area to be harvested, 27,653 900
acres.
Condition was 1872 per cent of a
normal on May 1.
Production of rye Is forecast at
60.737 900 bushels.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-05-09
The Movies.

Admission tickets to all forms of
theatrical, circus or hippodrome en-
tertainments including moving pic
ture shows will be taxed 10 per cent
Of their cost.
Passenger tickets will be taxed 10
per cent Of their cost on all railway
lines except communication tickets,
which will be taxed so cents each.
Freight will be taxed 8 per cent
of the freight rates.
Heat, light and telephone bills will
be taxed 5 per cent.
The documentary stamp taxes in
vogue during the Spanish American
war will be reenacted.
Telegraph messages and long dis
tance telephone messages where the
charge exceeds Is cents per message,
will be taxed S cents each.
Cosmetics.
Cosmetics, perfumeries and all pro-
prietary medicines will be taxed per
cent.
Pipe lines will pay tax of 5 per
cent OF their valuation.
Automobiles will be taxed 5 per
cent at the point of manufacture and
this will be calculated on the manu-
facturers' price.
Musical instruments of value ex-
ceeding $40 will be taxed per cent.
Jewelry will be taxed S per cent ad
valorem.
Pleasure boats will be taxed 5 per
cent.
Postage.
The postage rates will be advanced
as follows:
The first-class letter rate will be
3 cents per ounce or fraction there
of.
The postal card rate will be two
cents.
The second-class mail rates will be
advanced to 2 cents per pound, for
the first and second zones of the pres
ent parcel post system, 3 cents for the
81 and 4th, 4 cents for the 5th and
9th, cents for the 7th and 6 cents
for the 9th zone.
Newspapers and periodicals con-
Quoted without profit, such as relig-
ious periodicals, will pay rate of
l 1-2 cents per pound universally, and
newspapers distributed directly from
the point of mailing will as hereto
fore pay rate of only 1 cent per
pound.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-05-09
COntraband for U-BOats.

San Juan, P. r., May 5.-(Corrc.
spondence of the Associated Prcss)
There are German submarines in the
Atlantic and until very recently they
have been supplied from the United
States by ships flying the American
flag, according to statements by mem
bers of the crew of the steamer Mani
towoc, which for several weeks was
detained in the harbor at st. Tho
mas. Twenty-one Of the crew are re-
turning to the United States after
difficulties with Captain f. Hogstead,
master of the ship. The Manitowoc,
Muskcgon and ALA guash, all belong
ing to the same line, shortly before
the Danish islands became the Vir-
gin Islands, U. S. A., put into the
harbor at st. Thomas, bound from
Buenos Aires to New York, suppos-
edly to "await orders" They were
still waiting for orders when the is
lands were transferred to the United
States. According to their manifests,
all three ships carried coal and other
fuel supplies. Members of the crew
OF the Mantowoc say all the vessels
were loaded with contraband for Ger
man submarines.
Supplies Under Coal.
when we left New York last we
were supposed to have a cargo of coal
exclusively" said one of the crew.
"Underneath the coal were all sorts of
fuel and food supplies. Supposedly
the cargo was destined for Buenos
Aires. Between st. Thomas and Buc-
nos Aires we got rid of our cargo
on the high seas to German subma-
rines. We had no cargo when we
reached Buenos Aires"
At .Bucnos Aires that ship, the
Muskegon and the Allaguash all took
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-05-09
TOO MANY APPLY
FOR OGLETHORPE
Attendance Must Be Held Down to
$500, Says Order From Ad-
jutant General.

Fort Oglethorpe, Ga, May 8.-The
commanding officer of the Tennessee.
Carolina reserve officers training
camp here today received an order
from the Adjutapt General of the
army instructing him to "consider ap-
plications in the best interest Of the
service to prevent attendance from
exceeding 2,50O." The surplus of
qualified applicants for admission to
the camp exceeded 1000 today and no
further calls for assembly will be
issued until a more careful invcstiga-
tion Of each applicants examination
papers can be made. An order from
the Department of the Southeast for
made further publication of lists of
me ncalled to the camp, One hundred
and fifty men from Chattanooga re-
ported today and were assigned to
the barracks in command of reserve
officers.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-05-09
ENTERED PLEAS OF GUILTY
Defendants in Florida Fruit Lands
Case Fined.

Kansas City, Mo-, May 8.-Pleas of
guilty were entered and fines assess
ed in the Federal Court here today
against four defendants in the Florida
Fruit Lands case, against whom in
dictments were returned here in 1913,
charging use Of the mails to defraud.
The four are r. j. Martin and j. Fl.
Borders, of Kansas City, general sales
managers of the Florida Fruit Lands
Company; Edwin Van-Asmus, New
York, president Of the Everglades
Plantation Company, and the Miami
Everglades Land Company, and Ar
thur E. Perkins, salesman for the
two Van-Asmus companies. Each
was fined $1,000, except Perkins,
whose fine was $500.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-05-09
----------------O--------
TO SUBSCRIBE $25,OOO,OO0
United States Steel Corporations
Share in Liberty Loan.

New York, May 8.--The United
States Steel Corporation will sub
scribe $25,000,000 to the Liberty Loan,
the largest single subscription yet an
nounced. Officials Of the corporation
in making known intention to sub
scribe for this amount intimated it
probably would be increased by an
aggregate Of subscriptions from the
employees of the corporation.
i This $25.000,00O is in addition to the
$5,000,000 already subscribed for the
governments recent issue of emer-
gency certificates.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-05-09
HEAVY TAXES AGREED ON IN REVENUE BILL
AS THE GOVERNMENT WANTS $l,SOO,OOO,OoO
FROM THE PEOPLE TO CARRY ON THE WAR
An Increase in the Present Tariff Total Tax of 81 Per
Cent All Incomes of $500,0O0 and Over is Included
in This Big Revenue Tax Bi-AI Luxuries to Be
Heavily Taxed and Single Men With Incomes of
$1,000 and Over Will Pay 2 Per Cent

Washington, May 8-A 10 per cent
Increase in the present tariff, an ad
valorem tax Of 10 per cent upon all
materials now admitted to this coun-
try free of duty and total tax Of
81 per cent upon incomes above $780,
600 year-these are provided for in
the $1,800,000,000 revenue tax bill as
completed by the house ways and
means committee tonight. The bill
will be introduced in the house tomor-
row.
It is felt in Washington that the
house committee has. virtually deter
mined, as predicted last night, to
throw the entire taxation problem in
to the open house. There the debates
will adjust present incongruities tenn
pofarily and later the senate COM
mittee on finance will reframe the
measure from top to bottom.
Vast Increases.
The income tax sections of the bill
which Chairman Kitchm made public
tonight show vast increases in the
rates of taxation from present stand
ards. All unmarried individuals will
be taxed on $1,000 incomes per cent
and all married men the same on
$4,000 incomes.
The basic rate Of income tax has
been fixed at per cent of incomes of
$4,000 per annum. The sur-taxes
grade from that point upward.
Il b., 4 I
deducted and withheld at the source
of income shall not apply to the new
2 per cent of normal tax until after
January 1, 1918.
The excess profits tax which the
trainers yesterday reduced from their
original tentative figures of 16 per
cent of the excess of per cent of the
profits of firms or corporations to ID
per cent of the same was today re-
stored to the original 16 per cent and
SO will stand in the bill to be intro
duced tomorrow.
The tax on spirits, whiskey and
similar beverages has been increased
to $2.20 per gallon.
The tax on beer is $2.75 per barrel.
The tax on rectifers is Is cents
per gallon.
The tax on tobacco has been dou-
bled.
The tax on cigars have been adj
vanced to a new schedule ranging
from SO cents to $40 per thousand,
according to retail value.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-05-09
NO AGREEMENT IN SIGHT
Two More Conferences on Draft E;,
Prove Failures.

Washington, May 8.-Two NOR,
conferences today on the war arm,
bill failed to bring Senate and Hons,
committees together and adjourn
ment was taken tonight with tn,
prospects Of an agreement still doubt
full.
The big point of difference still
was the Senate amendment to permit
Col. Roosevelt to take a volunteer ex.
pedltlonary force to France.
House confrercs stood out stronpl
against this amendment and the ofSsII
hope for an agreement was said ~
night to lie in the possibility of tM
Senate giving up on the point. n
return, it was said, the House confre,
res might be willing to accept the age
limit of 21 to 27 in the Senate bill
for those subject to the selectivd
draft.
Efforts tomorrow will center on
such compromise and if it cannoI
be agreed upon it is probable the billd
Will be returned to the two houses
and further instructions asked by thd
conferees.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-05-09

on general food cargoes, oil and other
fuel supplies which were over with
several hundred tons of coal, thew
said. On the Mantiowoc there, were
also placed two iron chests filled
with gold, each supposed to contain
S250,000. These, according to the
men, were also hidden under the coafy
Mutiny. \
While waiting in st. Thomas for
orders, the Danish islands were trans
terred to the United States and the
ships were not permitted to sail. The
crew of the Manitowoc tried to yet
some of their wages while idle in the
harbor, but Captain Hogstead refused
to make any payments. The men
then complained to Rear Admiral Oil
yer, governor of the islands, who re-
quired Captain Hogstead to guarantee
that he would not supply any more
enemy ships before being permitted
to leave the harbor, presumably for
Buenos Aires. Captain Hogstead said
he was unable to get any instructions
from the owners in New York. One
morning, according TO the crew, the
captain ordered the ships flag hoisted
upside down, indicating there was
mutiny aboard. When officers from
shore came on board to ascertain the
trouble the men said they had refused
to work unless their pay was guar
antccd
Finally, they said here, Captain
Hogstead signed such a guarantee.
Shortly afterward it was learned the
Nlanitowoc had been ordered to re-
turn to Bucnos Aires and they we're
preparing to sail when, they asserted.
Captain Hogstcad repudiated his
guarantee. The men then demanded
that they be returned to New York
and they arrived here Tuesday en-
route to the States.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-05-09

Washington, May 8.-The govern
ment is making rigid investigation
of the activities of the steamer Mani
towoc and other vessels of the Ameri-
can Transatlantic Company which
are said to have carried supplies to
German submarines in the Atlantic
This was admitted at the Navy De-
partment today.
The American Trans atlantic Com
pany has offices both in New York
and Boston, and it's ships fly the
American flag. Officials would not
say what had aroused their suspi-
clons; but said that the ships had
been held for investigation at st.
Thomas, Virgin Islands.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-05-09
WORK ON WOODEN VESSELS
Fifty to BE Built on South Atlantic
and Gulf.

New Orleans, May 8.-Work will
begin in South Atlantic and Gulf
shipyards within short time on pos.
sibly fifty wooden vessels as part of
the governments fleet of merchant
men for the war, according to j. f.
Rhodes, secretary of the Southern
Pine Association.
Mr.. Rhodes returned here today
from Washington, where, with other
members Of the associations COM
mittee, he conferred with shipping
board and other officials regarding
the country's lumber needs for the
war
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-05-09
Pure Fiction.

New York, May 8.-Asscrtion tha,
none of the ships Of the Amerjcaf
transatlantic Company had at an,
time supplied German submarines was
made here today by the company's
president, Richard G. Wagner. Tn,
story told by members of the crew OF
the steamship Manitowoc at Porte
Rico, he characterized as pure sic.
tlon,' told probably because "tht
crew was disgruntled."
IF the government is investigating
Gus ships now we do not know if
Mr.. Wagner said. eve have nothino
to conceal"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-05-09

Rye condition was 1873 per cent of
a normal on May l..
Meadow (hay) lands condition 88.7.
Hay stocks on farms, 12,488, 900
tons, or 11.4 per cent of last years
crop.
Pastures condition 81.9.
Spring plowing was 72.4 per cent
completed.
Spring planting was 58.7 per cent
completed.
Condition and estimated production
in important wheat producing States
follow:
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-05-09
CHARGED WITH BEING SPY

Honolulu, May 8.-George Roenitz,
former chief clerk to Capt. George r.
Clark, commandant of the Pearl Har-
Dor Naval Station, was arrested here
today on an espionage charge. He is
charged with having in his possess
sion maps, photographs and dcscrip-
tions of the Pearl harbor base, and is
held under $4,000 bail.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-05-09
FLORIDA POTATOES
SHIPPED TO ENGLAND

Jacksonville, Fla, May 8.-If a
trial shipment of 225 barrels proves
successful, Florida potatoes may be
shipped extensively to England. The
shipment which left the Hastings dis
trict Monday is partly an experiment
and is not made under refrigeration.
The 225 barrels were purchased in
New York April 80 at 1925 a barrel
for first quality stock.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-05-09

snots were exchanged between sol
dlers and men who refused to sto,
when ordered to halt, and at New
berry shots were exchanged betweM
a soldier and an unknown man
neither instance was anyone hurt s.
John Bowen, the German arrestE
near Bethune by squad of Compass
X, and brought to Columbia ycsteroW
afternoon, is still being held in tf;
Richland county jail.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-05-09
PAY SCHEDULE INCREASES
FOR ARMY AND NAVY
Yearly Pay List for Various Branches
of Service Interesting in View of
COnscriptiOn and Officers Training
Camps.

In view of conscription, when the
flower of the nation will be drawn
into the ranks of the army and navy,
and the young men who qualify at
the training camps will be commits
stoned as army officers, the following
schedule of the pay of the army and
navy will be interesting. The pend
ing army bill adds SIS month to the
pay of every enlisted man. The
yearly pay in each branch of the
service is as follows:
The Army.
Major general, $4,000; brigadier
general, $4,000.
Colonel, $4,000; lieutenant colonel
$4,000; major, $4,000; captain, $2,4OO;
first lieutenant, $4,000; second lieu
tenant, $1,70O.
Those of the lower grades are paid
the following per month:
Electricians, $45 to $75; sergeants,
$50 to $45; cooks and horseshoers,
$50; corporals, $21 to $24; mechanics
and artificers, $21 to $24; privates,
first class, $18; other privates, SIS.
Officers get 10 per cent extra pay
after five years, and 40 per cent ex-
ira after 20 years. They also have
heat and light free and are allowed
for quarters.
Privates get $18 month during
second enlistment, and each subse-
quent enlistment adds something up
to the seventh, when the pay is $25.
The Navy.
Admiral, $13,500; rear admiral,
$4,000 to $4,000, according to rank;
captain, $4,000; commander, $4,000;
lieutenant commander, $4,000; lieu
tenant, $4,000 to $2,400, according to
grade; ensign, $1,7O0; midshipman,
5000 while at the Naval academy,
$1,400 in service; warrant officer, ST.
500; mate, SLIPS to $500.
The pay Of lower grades is by the
month, as follows:
Chief petty officers, $50 to $40;
petty officer, $50 to G5, according to
class; seaman, first class, $24; ordi-
nary seaman, $l9; apprentice sea-
man, SIG; cook, $25 to $55; fireman,
$50 to $35.
Gunners are classed as warrant Of
ficers. Gunner's mates are classed
as petty officers.
Both officers and men in the navy,
as in the army, get allowances for
heat, light and quarters, and extra
pay for length of service.
Marine Corps.
The pay for officers is the same as
in the army.
Privates, SIS a month.
Both officers and met get extra pay
for length of service, and light and
heat are free.
Additional pay is granted marine
and army officers and men on foreign
service.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-05-09
RUSH MEDICAL MEN
TO BATTLEFIELDS
United States Will Fill Immediate
Needs of France and Great
Britain.

Chicago, May 7.-England and
France are in immediate need of
1000 medical officers and 5000 ambu-
lance attendants, according to a
statement issued today by DR.. Frank
lin Martin, head of the medical di-
vision of the Council of National De-
Tense. DR.. Martins appeal, addressed
"to the doctors of America" says:
"With our country entering the war
the responsibility for which we as
doctors have been preparing now is
upon us. The Englishmen and
Frenchmen, now our allies, have
come to tell us their problems. Their
need for medical officers is acute,
Their civil population is without ade-
quate medical protection and the raw
ages of war in the fighting line have
been unusually severe in the destruc-
tion Of medical officers and ambulance
attendants.
Many Are Needed.
"Two thousand medical officers for
France and England and 5000 ambu-
lance attendants, if Immediately avail
able, would scarcely fill the require
ments.
"We have listened to their appeal
and the council is seeking to help
them as promptly as possible. The
Secretary of War, the Chief of Staff
and the Surgeon General have author
lied and are now executing the fol-
lowing plan:
Mobilizing and Equipping.
(A) Gen. Gorgas is mobilizing and
equlpping in groups Of 200 doctors,
who are now members of the medical
officers reserve corps A group of
200 will sail each month, the first
leaving within, the next three weeks.
(B) Six Red Cross base hospital
units with twenty-four doctors, fifty
nurses and supporting personnel,
| aerregating 1876 each, have been or
dercd by the War Department to
France for immediate service.
"(C) One hundred and ten hospital
units with approximately 5000 auto
mobile ambulances and five thousand
men asked for by France will be
dispatched within the next three
weeks.
"These are modest requests. The
medical profession is prepared to
meet the call and treble or ouadruple
1t If need be. Every doctor under
fifty-five years of age, who has not
responded to the call to enroll in
the medical officers reserve corps,
should do so at once. Every doctor
who is already a member of the medi-
cal officers reserve corps or an ap
pllcant should place himself at the
disposal Of the government through
the Surgeon Generals office. This
Will enable the Surgeon General to
utilize the younger men for active
duty at the front and assign the
older men now engaged in teaching
medical students and in the care of
civilian population at home to pur
sue the. work for which they are best
lifted and maintain a normal supply
OF medical graduates. The medical
profession has been honored with the
first call by those VINO have been
lighting our cause. Let us respond
generously"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-05-09
JUSSERAND RECEIVES
S100,000,O00 FOR FRANCE

Washington, May 8.--France today
received the $100,000,000 the United
States has decided to lend her to meet
her expenses in this country during
May, The amount was transferred
by Secretary McAdoo to Ambassador
Jusserand by treasury warrant.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-05-09
|SfAPS FLYING AMERICAN FLAG ARE CHARGED S
WITH PROVISIONING German UBOATS: 58
SHIPS ARE DETAINED At VIRGIN ISLANDS

vessels OF American Transatlantic Company Are Sun
posed to Have Violated Laws by Furnishing Coal
and Other Supplies to German U-Boats-Matter is
Now Being Rigidly Investigated by the Governments
by Disgruntled Men. -" -
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1917-06-22
LOGGING TRAIN
WRECKED NEAR LOTUS

There was another wreck on
the branch line Thursday after
noon and as usual it was a log
ging train which was wrecked.
The accident happened a short
distance above Lotus and five
cars loaded with logs went off the
track and were piled in the ditch.
The track was torn up for some
distance and it was necessary to
send up the wrecker and a crew
of men to clear out the wreck. A
temporary track was laid around
the place SO the passenger train
could pass.
Wrecks Of logging trains have
been quite frequent on this line
this spring, owing in part to the
condition of the rOadbed, which
is in bad shape owing to the high
water of this spring, which soft
ened it and allowed it to settle in
places.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1917-06-22

part by coming to the Grand
Theatre at 1880 sharp next Mon
day evening and enrolling in the
organization with the idea of
attending every drill thereafter.
If the citizens of St. Maries are
as patriotic as we believe they
are, and if the small flags that
each man is wearing in his button
hole really express the sentiment
which the American Flag should
express, the appeal of the Home
Guard organization Of this city
will not go unheard, but on next
Monday evening the attendance
will be so increased that it will
warrant the continuation of drill
and preparatory work.