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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-11-06
NEW OFFICERS
SUBJECT TO CALL
TRAINING CAMP BOYS
Definite Place Already Provid-
Cd in Law for Those Placed
in Reserve Corps.
TRAINING CAMP BOYS

Washington, Nov. 3-Under plans
completed by the war department for
disposition of the graduates of the
second series of officers training
camps, which closed this month, every
man of the 10000 who is recommend
ed for commission either will be COM
missioned at once or placed on an
eligible list subject to call.
The commissions, as was the case
with the graduates of the first camps,
will be in the officers reserve corps
or the National Army. On the eligi-
BILE list will be placed men who are
above the legal age for commission
in the reserve corps at the rank to
which their showing at the camps en-
titled them. AS there is no provision
for an inactive National Army COM
mission, they will be put ON an eligi-
BILE list and commissioned in the Ma
tional Army when needed. 1t is ex-
pected there will be only a small
number of such men.
Not all of the men commissioned
when the camp close will be called
to service Immediately. In fact, it
was pointed out today that many Of
them, particularly the lieutenants,
might not be called to active service
until the second 100000 men Of the
National Army are organized.
Officers in charge of the camps are
selecting 1000 men between FL and
27 years of age for commissions as
provisional second lieutenants in the
regular army. They will be attached
to regular regiments for additional
training and will be given provisional
commissions to be confirmed if they
make good in active service.
After these 1000 are selected, the
men remaining will be considered for
signal CORPS and ordnance bu-
reaus,
Virtually all Of the majors and
many of the captains of the line COM
missioned when the camps close will
be needed Immediately. There are
indications of a shortage Of reserves
in this grade which may make it nee
essary to reopen the army to civilians
generally if officers casualties prove
as heavy as is to be expected.
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CANTEY-GAMBL,E.

One of the late engagement an
nouncements which will be of inter-
est to many Abbeville friends is that
of Miss Rose MCGOWAN Cantey to
Lieut.. Millard G. Gamble, U. S. N.
Miss Cantey is daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Hamilton B. Cantey, 1913
Park Ave-, Jamaica, New York. Both
families are from the South. Miss
Cantey is a grand niece OF General
Samuel MCGOWAN of Abbeville, and
niece of Admiral MCGOWAN, U. S. N,
also grand daughter of late Major
E. B. Cantey of Camden, S. c., and
Capt. Homer L. MCGOWAN of Lau-
rens, S. C.
Lieutenant Gamble is g. graduate
of Annapolis, class 1915, and son
of Mr.. and Mrs. M. G. Gamble of
Louisville, Ga.
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CANNON BALL, WAR RELIC,
UNEARTHED IN ATLANTA

Atlanta, Ca, Oct. 30.-A relic Of
the battle of Atlanta was unearthed
Monday morning by workmen who
were excavating for a water pipe
near the home of Judge Charles W.
Smith, at 161 North Whiteford ave-
nue.. 1t was a cannon ball weighing
about tn or twelve pounds. Judge
Smith, who is judge of the Stone
Mountain circuit, brought the relic
with him to his office Monday morn
ing and exhibited it to his friends.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-11-06
ITALIANS HOLDING
THEIR LINES
AUSTRO-GERMAN HOST Is
NOT ABLE TO CROSS
Still Standing With italian
Armies on 1aglia-
mento.

Standing on the line of the Tag
liamento, General Cadorna has so
far been able to hold intact his
north and south front along the
river despite several attempts by the
Austro- German invaders of North
ern Italy to effect a crossing.
It is pointed out that the new Ital-
ian front although the forced re-
tirement to it was marked by heavy
losses in men and material affords
the stragetic advantage of being
straighter and shorter than the old
line and therefore theoretically is
easier to defend.
With the known strong concentra-
ton of Austrian and German forces
against the Italians, however, there
exists the menace to this line of a
flanking thrust from the north. Close
attention, therefore, is being paid to
the Trentino front whence a heavy
blow is now an unlikely develop
ment, provided the Teutonic inten-
ton is to pursue the campaign in
Italy beyond the stage already
reached.
Berlin announces the completion
by the Germans of the withdrawal
of their line from the Chamin des
DANES plateau. The Paris account
of the movement shows the German
retirement to have extended along a
13 mile front from the Oisne-Aisne
canal to Corbelny. The crown prince
withdrew his lines a maximum dis
tance of a mile to the north bank of
the Ailette. commanding the ap-
proaches to the fortress of Laon, the
keystone of the German line in this
region.
This movement was obviously
forced by the recent success of the
French in their drive southwest Of
kaon.
American prisoners have been TAX
en- by the Germans, Berlin announc-
ed officially today, stating that the
captures were the result of a recoin-
noiterating thrust at the Rhine
Marne canal, which crosses the
French front near the German bor-
der 20 miles northeast of Lunevill.
No announcement regarding the
captures has been received in Wash
ington from General Pershing at a
late hour.
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way into their own lines.

way into their own lines.
1t was agreed that the loss of the
patrol might have a very salutary eff
feet upon American troops in the
front line. They are young, in per-
feet physical condition and fairly
longing for a chance at the enemy.
1t has taken all the authority of their
officers to curb their desire to go
over and share in the daring work
of trench riding.
Men who have spent years in the
army know what the situation must
be. They are hopeful that the les
son of caution will be brought home
to the men by the loss of this party.
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BRITISH AND
GERMANS MEET.
ELEVEN GERMAN VESSELS
SENT DOWN BY BRITISH
Auxiliary Cruiser and Ten Pa
troll Ships Sunk Off Gate
gat-London Reports.

London, Nov. 3.-The Admiralty
announced today that a German aux
iliary cruiser and ten German patrol
vessels had been sunk off the Cate
gait, an arm of the North Sea, in
Danish waters.
The Admiralty announcement said
there were no British losses.
The Admiralty later announced
that British warships are bringing
prisoners taken in the engagement
to This country.
The cruiser sent to the bottom was
the Marie Flenberg. More than SO
Of her crew were taken prisoners.
The cruiser was vessel of 5000
tons and carried six-inch guns.
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MRS. j. E. SUTHERLAND.

Mrs. Pearl Milford Sutherland,
wife of J. E. Sutherland, died at her
home in Antreville Thursday after
noon after a long and lingering i'll
ness. She was born June 10, 1877
and was therefore, about forty years
old.
About two weeks ago she asked
her people to take her by the ceme-
terry and while there she selected the
place where she wanted to be buried.
The funeral was held at Shiloh
church conducted by Rev. Mr.. Camp
bell of Iva. She leaves five children,
Andrew, Furman, Hoyt, Frances and
Lurrell, besides her husband. She is
survived by her father, Mr.. Geo. W.
Milford, and one brother, F. B. Mil
ford of Calhoun Falls, and four sis
ters, Mrs. W. B. Fleming and Mrs.
J. F. Gray of Antreville, Mrs. E. c..
Shirley and Mrs. Geo. Shirley of
Bowersville, Ga.
Mrs. Sutherland was a member of
Shiloh church and took a deep in
terest in the work of the church. She
will be missed by the whole COM
munity.
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BAVARIAN PREMIER
ON GERMANY'S AIMS
Count Won Herting Has Been OF.
fered the German Chancellor
ship.

Berlin, Oct. 31.-(British Ad-
miralty, per Wireless Press.)-Ofi-
cial announcement is made that
Chancellor Michaelis has resigned
and that Count Won Hertling, the
Bavarian premier, has been offered
the chancellorship. Count Won Hert-
ling is now negotiating with the
leaders of the ricehstag parties.
The foregoing gives official con-
frmation to yesterdays reports from
Amsterdam and Copenhagen of
these changes.
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PRETTY TEACHERS.

Miss Margie Bradley and Miss
Susie Stevenson came down from
Antreville Saturday and spent until
Sunday afternoon at home with
their parents. Both young ladies are
making a success of teaching, Miss
Margie in the school and Miss Susie
with a large music class.
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HOME FOR A FEW DAYS.

Judge Frank B. Gary came home
for a few days this week on busi-
ness. He has been holding court in
the lower part of the state, and
making his headquarters in Charles
ton, where Mrs. Gary is spending the
winter.
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Rotary Committee in Atlanta will
begin this week to collect $4,000 to
furnish entertainment for the SOL
diers in and near that city.
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SURGICAL DRESSING CLASS.

The Surgical dressings class start
ed Monday Nov. 5. Glasses will be
held Monday, Wednesday and Fri
day mornings, at 1890 o'clock and
will last two hours.
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Attending the Funeral.

Mr.. and Mrs. ]. S. Stark, Miss
Fannie Stark, Rev. and Mrs. H. W.
Pratt and Mr.. w. P. Greene went
over to Greenwood Saturday and
attended the funeral of Judge W. H.
Kerr.
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EQUAL Suffrage will be voted on
today in New York State.

Berlin claims that 100000 ltal-
ian prisoners have been taken by
the Austro-Germans and also 1900
guns.
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That one is as old as his fancy is
demonstrated by one Ernest P. Ray
nor, age so, of Fort Townsend,
Wash. He registered as 80 and pass
ed the physical examination al
though the examining physician look
ed on him with suspicion. He did all
the necessary stunts required to test
the physical fitness. He was over
loved for he wants to fight Germany.
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Eton College has more youths of
nobility scholars than any other
English school. So many have fall
len heirs to titles on account of their
fathers being killed in the war.
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reads:
"At the Rhine-Marne Canal, as
the result of a reconnoitering thrust
North American soldiers were
brought in as prisoners"
Washington, Nov. 4.-Berlin's
terse announcement today that North
American soldiers had been captur-
ed by German patrols on the Rhine
Marine canal on the French 'front.'
brought the American people step
nearer to the heart of the great
struggle.
There was no doubt here that the
men referred to were members OF
General Pershing's force undergoing
final training with French regiments
in front line trenches. Contirma-
ton from General Pershing was
lacking, but in due course ne will
transmit the names of any men miss
ing and, this may furnish some light.
If, as is assumed, a small scout
ing party was surprised by German
patrol in No Mans Land and all cap
tured. details of the incident may
never be fully told since only captors
and captives would know what hap
pened in the encounter under cover
of darkness.
This is the first report received
here of the capture of any members
of the American expeditionary for
ces, but a number of naval gunners
from American armed ships sunk by
submarines and civilian members of
the crews of other ships are held in
German prison camps.
An Important Task.
Night patrolling is vitality i'm
partant part of the final training OF
the American forces as it is upon
these patrols that the commanding OF
ficers rely for information of activ-
ity mn the enemy's front line. Every
night the scouts creep out with faces
blackened against the keen vision OF
enemy lookouts and swift, deadly
squirt from a machine gun. They 60
creeping across the shell torn ground
up to the enemy's entanglements,
crawling and listening, dropping fiat
when a flare breaks out in the air
above them, sometimes lying abso-
lutely still for hours while rifles and
machine guns hammer above them.
Not night passes on many parts
of the line but patrols encountereach
other. Sometimes it results in fir
ing, but that is seldom, for the men
ace of the opposing trench lines which
rifles, machine guns and star rockets
bursting out at the slightest hint of
danger, hangs over friend and foe
alike.
Usually one patrol discovers the
other and stalks it stealthily. A time
comes when a surprise attack can be
made. 1t is swift, silent, hand to
hand work and rarely is shot fired.
The victor carries off his prisoners
and when morning comes report
goes back on the other side of the
line that patrol of so many men is
missing. That is all that is known.
Officers here believe that this was
what happened on the French Ameri-
can front. Had there been any fir
ing, or had members of the patrol
made their way back to the French
American trenches, General Pershing
probably would have reported imme-
diately. AS is was he probably was
waiting to make certain that the
missing men were not hiding in a
shell holes until dark came again to
give them opportunity to make their
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AMERICAN SOLDIERS
MADE PRISONERS
AMERICAN SOLDIERS ARE
TAKEN BY GERMANS
Small Scouting Party Sup
posed to Have Been
Captured.
GERMANS CLAIM CAPTURE

Berlin, Nov. 8. (via London).-
The capture of American soldiers by
q German accommodating party is
announced by the war office. The
statement says that on the Rhine
Marne Canal as a result of recon-
noitering thrust North American SOL
diers were brought in.
The portion of the official state
ment making this announcement
reads:
cat the Rhine-Marne Canal as
the result of a accommodating thrust
North American soldiers were
brought in as prisoners.
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Atlanta Waterworks pumping sta
ton has received sixteen carloads of
coal after months negotiation.
Now the trouble is to get men willing
to unload it and haul it from the
railroad yards to the station at $3.50
per day.
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About 100000 people will have
to pay income tax. A married man
had to have an income of $4,000 be-
fore he would have to pay tax and
a single man would have to have an
income of $4,000. That amount has
been reduced so that it takes in more
people.
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A GLANCE OVER
THE COUNTRY
SHORT ITEMS OF Interest
The News i'm Condensed Form
to Be Read Easily BY the
Busy Eeader.

Coal is now $50 a ton in Paris.
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A military organization known as
the Culpepper Minute Men which was
organized a few weeks after the De-
claration of independence was gone
out of existence. The three regi-
ments consolidated to form the new
116th Infantry.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-29
order to become standard. The names of

order to become standard. The names of
also given.
A new feature of the directory is the
section relating to rural schools. This
contains an article entitled, Health
Rules of School Construction, by d.
W. DeBusk of the department of edu-
cation of the University of Oregon, and
a chapter on Standard Rural and Vii
lage Schools, In the letter, Mr.. Church
i'll says:
For good many years the aver
age country school in America has been
attempting to teach children the rules
of hygiene and sanitation through les
sons from textbooks, and too frequent
ly it has, at the same time, been setting
a very bad example through violating
these rules itself. 1t has taught the
value of cleanliness and has required
the children to work in an unclean
schoolhouse, whose floor, walls and fur
niture were covered with dirt and dust
1t has taught the value of fresh air and
has kept the children confined in foul
air that has been breathed over and
over again until it reeked with poison
GUS gases. 1t has emphasized the care
of the eyes and has compelled the child
rem to work in cross lights and some
times to sit facing the windows. 1t
mas taught the duty of personal clean
hness and Righteousness and has allow
ed innocent children to visit filthy toi
let's, whose walls were covered with
obseenity. 1t has taught these valuable
lessons from textbooks, but much of
the good has been discounted, if not
wholly destroyed, through the more i'm
Dress1ve lessons of baa example. -
In summing up the benefits of stand
the rural schools, Mr.. Church /
IL says:
'ln reporting the results of stand
srdizing country schools, the county su-
of Claekamas county states
hat they have induced forty DIS
riots to meet the thirteen requirements
,or standard schools ,and many more
nave met nearly all the requirements,
while all the rest have met some of
hem. The superintendent of Clatsop
ounty reports that Aschool Officers,
eachers, parents and pupils are working
ogether with a will to bring their
ehools up to the requirements in the
way of sanitation, neatness, beautiful
pleasant sehoolroom conditions
etc." Many other reports
re equally as encouraging. =
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-29
VIII Vote On School
Budget Tomorrow

Director Harley o. White of the
school board would call the attention
of the voters in Salem to the fact that
an election will be held in Salem Fri
day of this week, when every quail
fled voter in the city is supposed t.
cast vote either for or against the
proposed school budget for the com
ing year.
The last legislature passed law pro-
viding for an election to act on the
school budget, rather than public
meeting. At this election ballots will
be provided for yes or no vote on
the budget as a whole. There will be
no voting on any single item. The
voter is to say whether or not he or
she approves the proposed budget.
Another feature of the new law is
that the directors do not establish the
levy. They Just state the amount that
must he raised for maintaining the
schools for the coming year and the
assessor figures out the levy. This year
it win figure the same as last year,
6.4 mills or possibly fraction less.
Voting will be at the office of VIM.
Brown & Co. on south Commercial
street opposite the Capital Journal Of
flee. If the budget is not supported, the
schools for the coming year will run
on borrowed money, and the following
year, the levy Just double the proposed
amount for this year.
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f.SOCIETYRFiEr RFiEr
" sg5
By ALrNE THOMPSON

HR. AND MRS. WILLIAM c
W KERRON (Anna Golden) o.
ava Portland are here for Thanks
giving, and are the guests of their rel
atiyes, the r. E. Lee Steiners.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde G. Graham have
with them today, Mrs. Graham IS broth.
er-in-law and sister, Mr.. and Mrs. Her.
bert Barbur, of Portland
Congratulations are being sent to
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Curry of San
Jose. Cal, upon the arrival Of a daugh-
ter, born Sunday November the eigh-
tee-.I
AIRS. Curry was Miss Gertrude Tut
l.I 5sfe-e her marriage, and with her
parel--s, Mr.. and Mrs. j. B. T. Tuthill,
wh1 a'So reside in San Jose, formerly
made her home in Salem. The family
is well known here, having been resi-.
dents of this city for many years.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford Brown and
two small sons, Chandler and Werner,
have gone to Portland to spend the
day with Mrs. Brown IS mother. Mrs
w. w. Bretherton.
Captain Philip Patterson has arriv.
ed in Salem from the Presidio. San
Francisco, on a short furlough, and is
visiting his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-29
Army MEETS NAVY
ON CHICAGO CRIDIRON
Officers From Fort Sheridan
Plays Team From Naval
SatiOn---Other Sports

Chicago, Nov. 29.-The Army Navy
football classic has been transferred
from the east to the middle west this
year.
The Officers team from Fort Sheri,
dan, representing the Army, and the
Jackies' eleven from the Great Lakes
Naval Training Station, representing
the Navy, will clash at Stagg Field this
afternoon.
A crowd Of 10000 is expected. The
receipts viii go into the athletic funds
of both camps.
The two teams are made up almost
wholly of all-American all Western, all
Eastern or all-Southern selections of
the past. They will line up like this:
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-29

Isaac Lee Patterson.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. L. Jones and Mr.
and Mrs. John Withycombe (Ilda
Jones) came up from Labish Meadows
this morning to spend the day with
Mr.. and Mrs. George William Gray,
who presided over the family Thanks
giving dinner.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Catlin and Mr..
and Mrs. Frank H. Spears and small
son, Frank, Jr., are spending the day
in Eugene, having gone this morning
to be the Thanksgiving guests Of Mr..
and Mrs. David M. Graham (Mildred
Bagley)
Mr.. and Mrs. John d. Sutherland
were among those who entertained
with a family Thanksgiving dinner to-
day. Their guests numbered eight
Coming home yesterday to spend the
Thanksgiving holidays, were Miss Ger
trude East and Miss Dorothy Buckncr,
who are attending the Oregon Agricul-
tural college.
Mrs. J. w. Davies and two small
sons have returned to their home in
Princeton, Harney county, after pass
ing a week or more in Salem at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Davey.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-29
Judges Won Two.

Portland, Or, Nov. 29.-Virgil Ham
lin, l25 pound Multnomah Athletic club
wrestler, won one decision last night
for the local club and the two judges
won the other when they robbed Eddie
Kysh, los pound Olympic club, San
Francisco boxer of the decision which
he had easily taken from Phil Neer,
Multnomah boy. In the 15S pound box
ing event, Emil Brosseau, of Montreal,
international middleweight champion,
won by a knockout in the second round
from J. MeNerny, of the Multnomah
club.
The surprise of the tournament was
Hamlin's win over A. Yallancourt, the
1875 Canadian wrestling champion. Ham
lin took the first fall in IA minutes and
Vallancourt forfeited the second fall
and match.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-29

The general impression is that bar.
bers were introduced into America by
the Spaniards and later by the English
and French settlers of the early days,
but the research department of the
Aircraft Pictures Corporation, in do
ing the research work for Geraldine
Farrars spectacular production, "The
Woman God Fogot," which win be
seen at the Oregon theater Sunday
discovered that BARRIERS and barber
shops existed in America long before
Columbus discovered that the earth i;
round. The early Aztecs had complete
barber shops, with the exception of
the striped pole and the bootblack,
hundreds of years before the arrival
of Cortes. In place of the steel razor,
BARRIERS used pieces of cbsidian, a spc.
cies of feldspar, with which they NOW
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-29
sacramento NAV Be In.

San Francisco, Nov. 9,--Sacramento
win be in the Coast league next year
according to Charlie Graham of that
city, and when he made the statement
it was not denied by President A. T.
Baum of the league, and Charles f. Vir.
den, president of the Sacramento cham.
ber of commerce.
Nevertheless, Hen Berry, owner of the
Seals, is not so sure and he said to,
day he still thinks Fresno would be q
better league city.
Graham expressed confidence that
the whole matter of transferring the
Portland franchise to Sacramento would
be settled by Saturday. He added, how
ever, that Sacramento cannot be expect.
ed TO srun its club on the same extra.
VACANT lines as San Francisco