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The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-01-03
M'ADOO IASIRUCTS
NEWR.R. WAR BOARD
AS TO TASK or OPERATING FOR
THE PRESENT TIME AT
LEAST.
INSTRUCTIONS ARE WIRED
Traffic to be Moved BY The Most
Direct Route Now-Open Way for
Traffic Pooling That Was Hereto
fore impossible. 49,


Washington.-The railroads OF the
United States passed into government
possession at noon Friday as Secre-
tary McAdoO, designated by President
Wilson as director general of rail-
roads, was delegating to the railroads
war board the task OF operating them
for the present
The war board, comprising FIVE Of
the country's foremost railroad execu-
t1ves who have been in supreme
charge of the roads for the last nine
months, were called into conference ar
IL O'Clock to discuss plans for weld
Ing all transportation lines into a sim
gle ACKNOWLEDGEMENT system. Thew
left the treasury department two
hours later under instructions to con-
t1nue their functions and submit i'm
med1ately plan Of operation to the
director general
Mr.. McAdoo issued his first formal
order designed to speed ND freight
movements, telegraphing all railroad
presidents and directors Instructions
to move traffic by the most convenient
and direct routes. At the same time
he ordered them to continue the oper-
alton of their lines in conformity with
the Presidents proclamation putting
them under government control.
There was no indication whether
Mr.. McAdoo intended eventually to.
d1splace the war board with an organ
lzat1on of his own or to continue it's
for the duration of the
war. It was made clear, however, that
It will continue the function until the
director general decides that a better
system can be devised.
The order that freight move by the,
most expeditions route opens the way
or pooling Of traffic impossible
heretofore by reason of statutes de-
igned to prevent the practice by car
1ers operated under private direction.
takes from the shipper the right to
QUITE his freight as he wishes, and
caves to the railroad, traffic manager
he task Of sending it most directly
nd where there is least congestion.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-01-03

Al base hospital, several Of which are
ha1ready In operation overseas, consists
of the people and material necessary
! TO establish and operate hospital
without asking outside assistance ex-
cept the provision Of shelter. This
usually means a deserted hotel, an
empty village. group of huts or a
number Of large and small tents.
The personnel Of one hospital which
is fully organized and waiting to be
sent to France includes "a physicians
and surgeons, nearly ali of whom are
now on active duty at environments or
hospitals preparation for their fu-
ture wote The nurses number 65, all
having assed rigid examinations.
There Six women stenographers
and boohkeepers. OF the 153 enlisted
men, 65 q orderlies or male nurses,
and the remaining SO are clerks, book.
keepers, mechanics, and skilled labor
ers. The base hospital Is little world
In itself and must have cooks. butch
ers, bakers, carpenters, engineers, etc.
The equipment for this one unit cost
$4,000.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-01-03

Investigations so far made by the
committee on classifications OF Nor.
sonnet In the army. which hass the
matter In charge. prove that only 2 ner
cent OF the men attempt to secure NON.
hazardous positions.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-01-03

retail dealers OF insecticides are ex-
empt from the licensing regulations
covering trade in white arsenic and
arsenic insecticides. The only COM
panies required to obtain licenses are
wholesalers and jobbers.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-01-03

The death OF Senator Francis Grit
| fifth Newlands Of Nevada, who sue
cumbed to a sudden heart attack at
his home in Washington, cast gloom
over the Christmas activities of of
fetal Washington. Senator Newlands
was stricken while at work in his
Office at the senate building in the
afternoon, but was able to go home,
and his illness was not generally
known until the announcement of his
death. The members of his family
did not realize the seriousness OF his
condition.
Evidence has been uncovered indi
eating that American Industrial
Workers OF the World, Russian Boil
sheviki, Irish agitators and revolutions
lists in various countries at war with
Germany may be seeking to lay the
foundation of a worldwide plan to
overthrow existing social orders. This
was admitted by officials in connec-
ton with news Of the discovery of a
quantity of rifles, revolvers and am
munitiOn in the Russian freighter
Shilwa, which has just arrived at a
Pacific port canned by mutinous Boil
sheviki crew.
The bulk of the American expedi-
tionary force will not gets it's expect
ed Christmas dinner. A submarine
attack forced the ship which was car
rying cranberry to turn back, and
through some unknown circumstance
two ships, which were carrying the
supplies of turkey left the United
States so late that it was impossible
for. them to arrive in France in time.
The turkeys already in the army zone
were left over from Thanksgiving, as
was the mincemeat, which had been
delayed. This supply will go an ex-
short way.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-02-13
ADMIRAL "SAM'' MCGOWAN

There is an increasing number of
men around these parts who refer to
Rear Admiral Samuel MCGOWAN as
SAM That number will continue to
increase. 1t increases in the same
ratio as Admiral McGowan's fame as
a paymaster general of the navy,
which insures him rapidly growing
circle of intimates.
Admiral MCGOWAN, of Charleston,
is an alumnus of the University Of
South Carolina. Other alumni will be
Interested in the paragraphs printed
below which are taken from a full
page article on "Sam" in recent is
sue of Leslie's Weekly. The article
was written by Thomas f.. Logan.
The. following paragraphs consti-
tute the introduction of Mr.. Logan's
article:
Out Of the clouds of ignorance,
waste and red tape revealed in the
governmental departments when the
Senate committee on military affairs
investigated the nations war prepara-
tlons, there shines one bright light of
efficiency-that is the testimony of
Rear-Admiral Samuel MCGOWAN, pay
master-general Of the Navy. The
reason why the U. S. Navy was cloth
ed in all-wool uniforms while our SOL
.liers shivcred in "shoddy," is because
a young stenographer in a lawyers
office in Charleston, S. c., back in
1894, conceived the idea shat the gov
crnment would find itself flat on it's
back if he were not appointed private
secretary to the then Secretary of the
Navy Herbert.
1t was Samuel MCGOWAN, paymas-
ter general of tie Navy, who was re-
sponsible for saving the Navy from
the collapse that occurred in the quar-
termaster's branch of the War De-
partment when America went to war
against the kaiser. The reason he
was able to do it was because he be-
gan to prepare for war the moment he
became paymaster-g Of the
navy, which was at $3.50 on the
morning Of July 1, 1914.
The European war had not begun
nor was there even prophetic smell
Of smoke. MCGOWAN, becoming pay
master general, the chief purchasing
and disbursing officer of the Navy
Department, marely had notion that
a navy was designed to protect ma
tion in time Of war, and chat it should
always be on a war basis. The idea
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was somewhat novel in those days of
pacifism, but it has since proved equal
to million unframed men in uniform.
1t was MCGOWAN who, back in 1894,
conceived the idea that he ought to be
private secretary to the Secretary of
Lhe Navy, H. A. Herbert. One of his
friends presented the namc Of young
MCGOWAN to Mr.. Herbert. The friend
told Mr.. Herbert that MCGOWAN was
twenty-three years old; that he had
graduated from the University of
South Carolina with the degree of B.
A.. He could also write LII. B. behind
his name. "Sorry I had to appoint
someone clse," said Herbert, "but it
is necessary that my secretary should
be stenographcr."
When this message was conveyed TO
young MCGOWAN, he cried out for air.
Didn't you tell him am the best
stenographer in South Carolina %, he
asked. "No," said his friend, "I
thought the college degree would
make better impression" MCGOWAN
quit his job in the lawyers office and
took the next train for Washington.
This time he would present his own
case.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-02-13

making a flight until Just before he
actually started on one, having come
to town from a camp to see dentist.
In the street he met the other Ameri-
can lieutenant, who already had been
assigned to accompany the bombing
party. This officer, who is from At
lanta, after announcing that he was
going on a bombing raid over Ger
many with the French, asked the Mis-
sourian to come along and see him off.
The Missourian assented and went to
the field. The Albanian had climbed
into his machine, when one Of the
server was missing. Only one sugges-
tion was necessary to cause the Mis-
sourian quickly to telephone for and
receive permission to go. He ex-
planned his inexperience, but the
Frenchman said that made no differ
ence. Thus he began the flight in
which he brought down the German
machine.
Clean Out Snipers
American artillery and infantry
have succeeded in cleaning out a ma
jority of the snipers who caused con-
siderable annoyance since the sector
was occupied. Snipers' posts in build
ings have been destroyed by knock
ing down the shelters over the heads
of the Germans with shells. Snipers
hidden in bushes or shell holes have
been routed out by American sharp
shooters. Night patrols have sue
ceeded in locating some of the posi-
tions and the Germans in them have
been finished off later. Last night, a
small patrol entered an advanced
German trench in search Of nest Of
snipers. A lieutenant, Il corporal, and
two men left the American wire and
returned five hours later. 1hey
walked across No Mans Land, pick
ing their way carefully.
Find Trench Iimpty
Reaching the enemy WIRE, thew
crawled beneath it cautiously and APP
preached the most advanced enemy
trench. The men looked down into the
trench, which apparently was aban-
doned, but they were sure snipcrs
were. there. They dropped down
noisily and found place where the
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-02-13

trench bottom showed fresh foot
prints. On the parapct The corporal
discovered a rifle loaded and pointed
in the direction of the American
treches. There was not Il German
around.
The corporal brought back the rifle
to the American lines 1t is a typical
German weapon made in Berlin and
in good condition.
At another point enemy snipers
were discovered in shell hole. 4 few
well placed shots from light artillery
ended their career. At another place,
hail of machine gun bullets was eff
fective.
One, two or possibly three, snipers'
posts are still in front of the Ameri-
can positions, but they are not likely
to be there long.
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bomb dropping had been completed,
the enemy was close at hand, and the
French formation, which this Amer
lean and another American aviator
had accompanied as gunners, was at
an altitude of $4,000 feet
The lieutenant, who is Missourian,
took off his gloves so that he might
operate his gun more effectively when
he saw an enemy plane close to the
French machine before the American
acting as gunner could get his piece
into action. Then he turned a stream
of bullets into the enemy ana the enc
my machine tOppled and started to
spiral. Then it flopped and fluttercd
down with a flare of smoke and flanie
in its wake. 1t crashed to the groun
a short distance from the German
city.
The other American aviator, also
lieutenant, was not SC lucky as the
Missourian, for the machine he picked
out to engage dodgeu away quickly
and he was unable tc get in any ef-
fective shots.
When the squadron returned the
Missouri leuiananj's hands were
swollen to twice their normal size
from the "old, he having lost his
gloves during the encounter. Other
wise he is today just about the hap
piest officer in che American eNpedi
cionary forces. He has been in France
only q short tine.
The incident shows how quickly
things may hapen to flyer. The
Missouri lieutenant had no thought of
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-02-13
AMERICAN LIEUTENANT DOWNS
GERMAN AVIATOR FLIGHT
Young MissOurian Never Over Enemy
Lines Before Operates Machine
Gun in Air First Time
Americans Cleaning
Out Shippers

With the American Army in
France, Feb. 1.-THE young Ameri-
can lieutenant who had the honor of
shooting down his first German air.
escadrilIe on a bombing expedition
Tuesday night, had never operated a
machine gun while in flight, and new
er before had been over the enemy
lines. He got his man over the Ger
man city of Saarburg
The bombing squadron was over
Saarburg, and in the act of dropping
bombs when enemy airplanes we're
seen approaching. BY the time the
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-02-13
profits returns from Erarch l to April
/ WIS annnllnnnl todo,r b.. I,A4s.!..-I

profits returns from March l to April
vas announced today by Internal
kevenae Cormissicner Roper.
This ruling ap plies also To reports
on pavrents of "a )re than $500 during
the year to be made by emplovers
and business ent .rprises. and covers
incomes both above and below SO. 900
and corporation incomes.
Delay in the preparation of blank
Iorms and regulations was the prjnci-
pal cause for the postponement
Forms have not yet been issued for
excess profits returns of three classes
individual, partnership and corpora
ton for income returns by trustees Of
flduciaries; and for partncr-income
returns. These are promised for next
week. All other forms have been dis
tributed.
The extension of time to April 1
applies to returns by corporations do
ing business on fiscal year basis.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-02-13

For Indigestion, Constipation or
BiiiOuSneSS
Just try one 50-cent bottle Of LAX-TOS
WITH pEPSlN. A Liquid Digestive
Laxative pleasant to take. Made and
recommended to the public by Paris Medi-
cine Co., manufacturers Of Laxative Bromo
Quinile and Groves Tasteless chill Tonic.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-02-13
THE TIME is EXTENDED

For Filing Income and Excess Profits
Ret i.nA
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-02-13

Washington, Feb. 1O.--Extcnsion o
the time for filing income and exces
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-02-13

ADVERTISE IN THE TIMES
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-21
INTERIOR MOVEMENT.
CROP IN SIGHT.

To Dec. 20 1918. 1917. 1916.
Port rcts. ..2,646,1 47 J,426, 1856 1850, sos
Over. move. 507, S66 91,437 SS4, S2S
Et. s. mills 2,0Sl 900 2,o4l 900 2,046,0 900
In. stock ex. 694, POI 0 4,4S7 1,029, 1853
Tot. insigt 5,929, 220 7,163, 40 $50, 1856
Wk. singht. Abb 1854 1893 1922 4l2,7i2
Mo. insight. / ,0S0, 1884 1921, $50 1906, FOL
p, ct. insi't. ...... 60,16 66,76
Total crop. ....... II, 906, 973 IL, 940,934
Decrease compared to 1917....1 ,234, 400
Decrease compared to 1915, -. ., 7l0,9l6
Decrease compared to 1915. II H. Ag
Decrease compared to 1914. 4 900, 003
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-21

Ccntral-Rcv. Ben COX, pastor, sun
day school at $50; morning services at
II O'Clock and again at 80. b, Y. +.
L. at I o'clock.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-21

ltollywood-Rev Tom Rice, pastor
sunday school at 30; preaching at II
O'Clock in the morning and at 80
o'clock IN the evening Prayer meeting
Wednesday night
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-21
DAILY PORT
ToMoRRoW's ESTIMATED.

Total receipts last year .....3O,54
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-21
COTTON MARKETS
Market Continues Upward,
With Distant Months Dis
posed to Catch Up Some
Saturday Atternoon, Ia. q


The upward trend in the cotton mar
ket continues, but q feature Of the
brief session today was that the dis
tant positions were better supported
and lessened to some extent discounts
compared with the near. This is re-
garded as making for general healthi-
ness of conditions and reflects broad
enlng confidence in the entire affair.
Finals were very close to the highest
points for the day, while trading was
fairly active, most Of it being merely a
or another.
In New York finals were steady and
from II to IS points to the good. The
march position opened at 27.15, sold off
TO 2l.O7 and then worked up to 27.7O,
meeting some profit-taking on the way
up but there was good o n to the
close, In New Orleans developments
were similar and finals were 5 to 10
points to the good.
Liverpool on Monday will thus be due
to come "a to So points to the good to
make full response.
The chief news came from the spot
department, where demand appears to
be getting better. The export situa-
ton is the Cynosure of all eyes and ad-
vices still point to large number Of
vessels for getting the cotton across,
The announcement yesterday of a plus
correction in the seasons exports
helped some, as did an increase in the
Hester figures on ~spinners' takings,
that authority Saturday morning wir-
ing that his figures had been increased
TO 271 900 bales for the week, compared
with his earlier report that they were
only 2lS, 900. This naturally made the
visible comparisons less bearish. =
Spots were generally steady to firm
and higher. Galveston elevated quota
tons so points, New Orleans did like
wise, and other centers by various
amounts, with the exception of one or
two. In the local market quotations
were not changed, middling remaining
at 29. soc, but sales for the day were
reported as 5000 bales, and private Id
vices said that much of this was at
better than official quoted values,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-21
GRAIN MARKETS
New Corn Months Make New
Highs Helped by Continued
Limited Receipts.

CHICAGO, Dec. 21.-New high price
levels for the season were reached in
the corn market today on December
and January deliveries. The reason
was continued rainy weather which
made shelling impossible and greatly
hindered wagon traffic on country
roads. Subsequently, corn futures
dCopped owing to sharp reductions in
hog prices authorized only for today
in order to effect a clearance of un-
desirable stock and NOT to be used in
computing the daily average of pack
ers' droves. Opening quotations OF
corn, which ranged from IA to l lac
higher, with January $1.40 to $1.41 and
May $1,37b to $1.3712, were followed
=. by a decline all around to well below
' yesterdays finish,
In the later dealings no important
rally took place. The close was unset
tied at the same as yesterdays finish
to INC lower, with January $1.38B to
$1.3s& and May S1.35& to s1.35A.
Oats held about steady with a mod
crate trade. After opening NC off to
lac advance, with January n$c to
71hc, the market underwent a slight
general sag.
Temporary reduction of hog prices
had a bearish effect on provisions.
Closing quotations were at virtually
the lowest point of the day,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-21
NEW YORK COTTON.

market showed renewed firmness and
-. .urraDle activity during today's
early trading. The opening was 10
points lower to rs points higher. with
sc"-" Of tn" more active positions lower
under realizing. but prices almost i'm
mediately tirmed W on the reports
from Paris that conferences there
would result in the release OF a mil
lion tons Of shipping from the army
service to the American export trade.
Spot interests were good buyers Of
neal months, while there appeared to
be a broadening commission house de-
mand for later deliveries, and active
months sold 16 to 81 points net higher
shortly after the cali, with January
selling at $500 and March at 27.45C,
Cotton, spot steady; middling 81. so.
Futures closed steady at advance Of
IL to rs points.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-21
ROUND THE TICKER
Cotton.

New Observation-Disclosures on opening,
but sentiment hulllsh and traders eN-
peCj higher Close.-hubbard TO Reese
New lork-Big general demand with
light offerings. some of buying is on
increased shipping facilities as out
hHed IN morning paperS.-Cleve 10 Cot
ter & Turner.
New Orleans-The Pacific coast eX-
ports today 1870 bales of cotton to
Japan.-Shepard y Chuck.
New lork-Market getting lots Of
cotton from someone and going into
hands OF spectators; South selling
probably they will bid 1t up. but we
are getting pretty well loaded up
HustaCe Hubbard to Reese,
New Orleans-Market shows good UNI
dertone and while might ease over
weekend, We think buy on recessions.
Schneider TO Shepard & Chuck.
New York-Big business here against
export deals. Gwathmey buying, lot
general buying by spot people; very
little speculation. Wall street Chi
cago doing nothing.-Cleve to Cotter,
New Nork-The whole sentiment of
the trade has undergone a great change
and returned to the une-time ruling be-
lief that peace made for higher prices.
We believe in higher prices, but some
reactions may occur at n moment
Fallon to Shepard & GluCk.
New York-Hutton & Co. With the
buying movement on prices are likely
to be put up some higher, Carpenter
& Co: A good feature is the buying OF
spring months at the enormous dis
counts now prevailing.
New Orleans-Further good shipping
news; demand for spots more general;
E-.n4 ,Av1tHilna EAint 20 lnfA EnfInEf
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-21
CORN GOES HIGHER ON
SLOWNESS OF MOVEMENT


CHICAGO, Dec. 21.-Nearby deliver
les Of corn have run W in value this
week as a result of serious delays to
the crop movement, but later options
have declined, owing mainly to govern
ment figures that suggested an i'm
mense yield of winter wheat. Com
pared with a week ago, corn prices this
morning varied from 2$c off to SIC
advance, oats were down 21Ac to 3bc
and provisions lower by SIC to $1.55.
Bears In the corn market made much
of the official announcement that the
condition of winter wheat was the best
in more han 20 years, and that the
area seeded was the largest on rec
ord.
In the oats market the main factors
were the slowness Of export call and
OF domestic shipping sales,
- Continuous excessive arrivals of hogs
together with increased stocks of lard
had a severely weakening influence on
provisions.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-21
DOW JONES SUMMARY.

NEW YORK, Dec. 2t-InteraTlied con-
ference to open Jan. 6. President VIII
son Confers with King Emmanuel on
demands Italy will present at peace
table. Meeting of association Of railway
executives called for Dec. 80, when plan
for return of roads to owners will be
presented; companies may offer to run
roads under contracts for account Of
government. Dun's review says princi-
pal manufacturing industries are now
running under reduced pressure and
complaint of labor shortage no longer
reported from leading centers. Presi-
dent Clark, of L~ackawanna Steel heads
new export steel company; to resign
from Lackawanna company Jan. /.
Money committee to continue existing
relations until after close of next Lib
erty loan, at the request OF treasury de-
Dartment.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-21
BETTER; ABLE
TO WALK OUTDOORS

AMERONGEN, Holland, Dec, 81. tBy
the Associated Press. Former En-
peror william, who had been i'll during
all the present week. was able to walk
about the castle grounds yesterday.
taking advantage Of a few hours of fine
weather. He had been confined to his
bed since last Sunday.
The cx-emperor appeared to have re-
covered from his chill, and while his
ear affection still troubled him it was
understood to have been greatly ale
waited.