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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-05-17
THE OVERMAN BILL .
GOES TO PRESIDENT
House Passes the AID.
n,inistration Measure!
295 to 2.
OPPOSITION FADES AWAY
Proposal to Exempt Interstate Com
rnerce Commission Defeated
By Big Vote.

. Washington, May 14.-The long
fight in Congress over the Overman
bill, empowering the President to
reorganize government departments
and agencies, ended late today with
passage of the measure as-amended
by the House. 1t now goes to Presi-
dent Wilson for his signature. 3.
The vote was 295 to 2, Represen-
tatives Sterling, of Illinois, and
Gillette, of Massachusetts,, both Re-
publicans, casting the only negative
votes. .-..
What opposition there was in the
House when the bill came from the
Senate began to crumble yesterday,
and today it was hardly in evidence.
No Exemptions.
A proposal to exempt the Inter.
state Commerce Commission, offer.
ed by Represtative Walsh, Of Mas.
sachusetts, Republican, was defeat.
ed, 213 to 81, and one by Repre-,
sentative Longworth, of Ohio, Re-
publican, to exemtp the war finance
corporation and the capital issues
committee, was rejected, 100 to 161.
Representatives Moore of Penn
sylvania, and Towner, of Iowa, Re-
publican, sought vainly to insert an
amendment to require the President
to report to Congress on changes in
departments, while Representative
Gould, of New York, Republican,
wanted to amend the section author
izing the President to establish an
executive agency to have jurisdic-
ton over the aircraft production,
so as to make compulsory the estab-
lishlment of a separate aircraft de-
partment.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-05-17
MISS ROSA WINKLER DEAD.

The many friends of Mrs. James
F. Byrnes, of New York City, who
before her marriage was Miss Rosa
Winkler, will be grieved to know of
her death, which occurred at her
home on Monday, after an illness of
about ten days.
AS Miss Winkler, Mrs. Byrnes was
we'll known and greatly admired in
Abbeville. She was niece of Mrs.
L. J. Bristow, and at one time was
a teacher in the Graded School here.
She has visited in the city at differ
ent times.
She is survived by her husband
and a young son.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-05-17
NO ELEVENTH HOUR
PATRIOTS WANTED
Honor Roll of the
City Schools
HONOR ROLL OF ABBEVILLE
SCHOOLS FOR THE EIGHTH
MONTH.

Grade Lamar Clinkscales, Jack
Sutherland, William Thomson, Sar-
ah Thomson, Louise Beauford--Miss
Bess Epting, Teacher.
Grade Oscar Clarkk, jamie
Bell McIlwain, Virginia Starnes,
Laura Mae Welsh.
Grade II.-Josephine Barnwell,
Martha Calvert, Estelle Lyon, Jean
Milford, Ralph Link.-Miss Olive
Brock, Teacher.
Grade II.-Charlie Cox, Henry
Mundy, Francis Sutherland, Elise
Campbell, Ethel Campbell, Nell c.
Flynn, Elizabeth Martin, Mary Nor
wood Perrin, Minnie Ella Sweten-
burg.-Miss Flora M. Timmons,
Teacher.
Grade III.-Sara Cowan, Susie
Gossett, Irene McMahan.-Miss An
ME R. Richards, Teacher.
Grade III.-Elizabeth Corley,
Alma CASTOR, Ernestine McCord.-
Miss May Robertson, Teacher.
Grade IV.-Mary Barksdale, Mary
Stallings.-Miss Sara W. Edwards,
Teacher. >'
Grade IV.-Margaret Harrison,
Ada Perrin, Harriet Swope, Rachel
Minshall, William P. Greene, Dick
Parker, Willis Harrison, James Nc
Comb, Pauline Welch, James Cox,
Marie Norris, Rose Lee Anderson,
Rubie Hughes.-Miss Eta Allen,
Teacher.
Grade V.-Raiford Mcmillan, An
thony Tenant, Sarah Edwards,
Mary Mundy, Lavonia Seal.-Miss
Blanche Tarrant, Teacher.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-05-17
Huns Are Driven Back
By the Australian
Troops
HUNS CLING TO HILL
A. TENAcIoUsLY
British Take Initiative in Flanders
and Get Prisoners-Much Fight
ing in Italy.

Near Morlancourt, south of Albert
the Germans delivered an attack
against the British on front Of
nearly a mile and at one point pene-
trated a British position. The Aus
tralians in counter-attack almost
recaptured the ground and the ene-
my suffered heavy losses.
Around Kennel. { tss&t
4 A similar operation was attempt
ed against the French on Hill A, the
scene of many previous bloody en-
counters in the KENNEL sector. I'm
official accounts say the enemy gain
ed a foothold on the rugged slopes,
but that the French were pressing
them hard. .7.s
North of Rebocq, in Flanders, the
British took the initiative into their.
hands and in attack inflicted casu-'
alties on the enemy and captured
prisoners. On the Amiens sector the;
French, carried out similar man
oeuver with like results. Wherever
the Germans essayed a stroke, ex-y
cept near Morlancourt and Hill A..
they met with almost instant repulse
at the hands of the Allies. ,e.1 sss
Repairing Losses. As
While the Germans continue to re
construct with fresh elements their
units shattered by the Allies during
the recent big offensive, they are
keeping up intensive bombardments
against various sctors in Flanders,
and Picardy. They also have become
embroiled with the French in heavy
artillery duels in Champagne and
in the Vosges mountains. :
/, Nowhere on any part of the line
from the North sea to the Swiss
frontier has there been an infan-s
try engagement of great Importance
Italian Theater. -
In the Italian theater considerable
fighting continues around Monte
Corno, which commands the ap-
proach to the valley leading from
Trent to Rovereto. Here the Aus
trians have renewed their attacks to !
regain the ground captured by Gen.
Diaz's forces last week, but the Ital-
ians ave successfully warded off
every blow. Attempts by the in
vaders to reach Italian positions on
several other sectors of the front
also met with repulse.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-05-17
FIERCE BATTLES in
KENNEL SECTION
Hughes to Aid
Aircraft Probe
WILL COOPERATE WITH DE-
PARTMENT OF JUSTICE TO IN
VESTIGATE AIRCRAFT.

Washington, May 15.-Charles
Evans Hughes, former Supreme
Court justice and presidential candi-
date, will cooperate with the De-
partment of Justice investigation in
to aircraft production, it was an
nounced by the White House this
afternoon.
The Presidents letter saking Mr..
Hughes to cooperate in the investi-
cation was as follows:
"You have doubtless noticed that
various serious charges of dishones-
ty have been made in connection
with the production of aircraft.
: Because of the capital import
>ance of this branch of the military
service, feel that these charges
should be thoroughly investigated
and with as little delay as possible,
in order that the guilty, if there be
any such, may be promptly and vig-
orously prosecuted, and that the re-
putations of those whose actions
have been attacked may be protected
in case the charges are groundless.
81 requested the Department of
Justice to use every instrumentality
at its disposal to investigate these
charges, and with the approval of
the Attorney General I am writing
to beg that you will act with him in
making this investigation. feel that
this is a matter of the very greatest
Importance, and I sincerely hope
that you will feel that it is possible
to contribute your very valuable
services in studying and passing up
on the questions involved" l..
Mr.. Hughes reply was as follows:
"Appreciating fully the gravity
of the matter, I shall be glad to CO.
operate with the attorney general
in making a prompt and thorough
investigation of the charges of dis
honesty in connection with aircraft
production. You may be assured that
nothing will give me greater pleas
ure than to render any assistance
within my power. I assume that the
attorney general will advise me of
his wishes for a conference with a
view to the making of definite and
adequate plans for the investigation
and I shall endeavor to arrange my
affairs so that these plans may be
carried out with as little delay as
possible"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-05-17
TILLMAN ENDORSED.

At called meeting of the Order
of Railway Trainmen of the Geor-
gia Division of the Seaboard Air
Line Railway Company held in Alb
beville on May 18th, resolutions
were proposed and unanimously
adopted endorsing Hon. B. R. Till
man or reelection as United States
Senator.
The Abbeville Lodge has more
than one hundred members, and the
endorsement of the Senator by
these men means something to his
candidacy.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-05-17
THIRTY.TWO WHITE MEN TO
BE SENT TO CAMP JACKSON

The Local Board has been mott
fed to send thirty-two white men to
Camp Jackson on May 29th, 1918,
and to send them according to their
Order number, taking them as they
appear on the Classification list.
No excuse on account of being
engaged in farming can be taken by
Local Board, as nothing but farmers
are left to be sent.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-05-17
AVIATOR BAYLIES, OF U. S.
FORCES, DROPS NINTH FOE

Paris, May 15.-Aviator Frank
Baylies, of New Bedford, Mass,
with the American forces in France,
has just shot down his ninth enemy
machine, according to official an
nouncement here today.
Sergeant Baylies is a member of
the "Stork" Escadrille. He brought
down his eighth machine a couple
of days ago. Before joining the
Stork Escadrille, Baylies served in
the American field ambulance corps.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-05-17
LIEUT.. J. r. DEVLIN.

Lieut.. j. Roddy Devlin, who, fo1
the past eight weeks has been TAX
ing % special course in Machine Gun
merry at Fort Sill, Okla, has been
transferred from Camp Forrest to
Camp Wadsworth. Lieut.. Devlin
says he hopes to visit Abbeville and
his friends here in the near future.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-05-17
THE BOOK CLUB.

The meeting of the Book Club at
Mrs. G. A. Neuffer's Wednesday was
a very enjoyable affair. In the alb
sence of Mrs. Klugh, Mrs. Miller
presided, bringing out the discussion
of the books and current topics.
At the close of the meeting, Mrs.
Neuffer served tea.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-05-17
CAPT. PIERRE TO LECTURE

We are requested again to call
attention to Capt. Pierre's lecture
Saturday afternoon at $50 o'clock
at the Opera House. People from
nearby counties are especially invit-
ed to come.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-05-17
MARSHAL
GEN. MAKES CALL
Splendid Opportunity
for Energetic and Am
bilious Men.
CAN VOLUNTEER TILL MAY 20
Calls 504, 53s, 543-White Men
Only; Calls 535 and 536-Color-
ed Men Only. -.
CAN VOLUNTEER TILL MAY 20


The Local Board has received the
following from Richard E. Carwile,
Captain o. R. C. and Officer in
charge of S. S. R. .. .
1. The Provost Marshal General
announces the following induction
calls upon this State:
"Call five hundred four under
which your allotment is ten railroad
brakemen, fagmen and conductors
to/report to Commanding Officer of
Engineers, Camp Meade, Admiral,
Maryland: Call five thirty eight un-
der which your allotment is three
veterinarians to report to Command
ing Officer of Veterinary Corps,
Camp Lee, Petersburg, Virginia.
Call five forty three under which
your allotment is four wheelwrights
to report to Commanding Officer of
Quartermaster Corps, Camp Joseph
Johnst,an, Jacksonville, Flroida." "
Only white men and men physically
qualified for general military ser
vices are to be inducted under these
calls.
"Call five thirty five under Which
your allotment is twenty bricklay-
ers to report to Commanding Officer
of Signal Corps, Aviation Mobiliza-
ton Camp, Fort Wayne, Michigan.
Only ten men are wanted under this
call" Only colored men and men
physically qualified for general mill
tary service are to be inducted. un-
der these calls. .. ..
"These are exceptional. opportuni-
ties for energetic and ambitious
men. You are urged to make these
calls Of statewide interest. Quail
fed registrants should be uruged to
present themselves to their Local
Boards for voluntary induction.
When reristrants Voluntarily pres
ent themselves, Local Boards may
induct qualified men until their al
lotments have been filed. The vol
untary period will continue until
May goth. After May Goth no more
volunteers will be accepted. If on
May 21st sufficient number of
volunteers has not come forth to fill
the allotment of the Local Board
the Local Board will proceed to Sc
lect in sequence of order numbers a
sufficient number of qualified men
from within Class One to fill it's al
lotment after deducting the volun-
tary incluctions. If the call cannot
be filled from qualified registrants
within Class One the Local Boards
--,.?2~.,d proceed to induct registrants
in Calsses II D and II K and L."
Each Local Board is hereby di-
rected to make an immediate inves-
tigation and report how. many quail
fled men it has to fill the above
mentioned men for such services in
Glass One and that number that are
in Class lid and III-K and L. This
is an imperative matter and must
receive the immediate attention of
the Local Boards. 1t is hoped that
these calls will be filled by volun-
teers but if such does not prove to
be the case it will be necessary to
hake all allotments. The calls must
be filled
2. l am advised by Provost Mar
shall General that many Local Boards
have not complied with his request
for complete list of serial. number
of all colored. registrants. Please
comply at once.
The Queen of England has pre-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-05-17
SEEING THE CAMP.

Mr.. R. L. Mabry, accompanied
by members of his family and Miss
Minna Bee, went up to Greenville
Tuesday and spent the day at Camp
Sewer.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-05-17
AT THE
CATHOLIC CHURCH

There will be service in the Cath
lie Church Sunday morning, May
19, at II o'clock. Evening services
at $50. Mass Monday morning at
7 o'clock.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-05-17
FIRST TRIP OF u. S.. AERO ~.
MAIL SERVICE is SUCCESS

Washington, May 15.-The army
aeroplane that started from New
York this morning in the inaugura-
ton of an aero mail service between
the metropolis and the capital reach
ed Washington at 2:50 o'clock this
afternoon only five minutes late.
Within half an hour after the
plane came to earth nineteen pieces
of mail brought here by it were de-
livered to President Wilson at the
White House. There also was de-
livered box of flowers for Mrs.
Wilson.
New York, May 15.-Lieutenant
Culver arrived at Belmont Park at
3.35 o'clock this afternoon with Gov
ernment mail from Washington. He
left Philadelphia for this city at
2.15 o'clock.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-05-17
BASEBALL.

Abbeville clerks were defeated on
the 18th by the High School Boys
IL to 2.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-05-17

The great editor, Jas. Gordon
Bennett, died at Beaulieu on the
14th inst.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-05-17
The Queen of England has p

The Queen of England has pre-
sented one hundred volumes to the
American Expeditionary Force Lii
brary of the American Y. NJ. G. A.
for the use of the American troops
in England and France.
Newark post., 1918-12-25
Turning Pests into Profit

Everyone who has a garden detests
mole-everyone, perhaps, but a GER
tain woman gardener out in Bryan
County, Okla. This ingenious person,
who reported her experience to the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture, puts them to work. A number of
these pests undermined her garden
this season, digging diminutive tun-
nels here, there and everywhere. 1t
would have discouraged the average
woman; it didn't feeze this one. She
started little irrigation plant of her
own, using its tunnels as irrigation
bitches. She filled the tunnels with
water repeatedly until the garden was
well watered, and finally drove the
moles off the premises.
Newark post., 1918-12-25
Many Nationalities in
the Peace Conference

Translators in 20 languages, in
cluding Chinese, Arabic, Turkish and
some not even so we'll known, have
been called for by Brigadier General
William w. Harts, who is directing
the equipment of the American peace
delegates. The number required is
indicative of the diversity of the races
and countries having interests before
the peace conference, either through
participation in the war or by reason
of treaties or other relations.
The full list of languages comprises
French, Italian, Greek, japanese, Span
ish, Montenegrin, Norwegian, Bulgar-
ian, German, Hungarian, Turkish,
Chinese, Portuguese, Polish, Swedish,
Persian, Russian, Serbian, Armenian,
Czech, Roumanian, Danish and Arabic.
This, with English, makes the quota
twenty-four.
Newark post., 1918-12-25

ity of women will be only too eager to
return to their ministrations and heap
on their hero husbands every comfort
loving heart can devise. So, after
all, the men will not be any worse off
for having been discovered" but wo-
men will have fewer delusions and
there should be a better understand
ing.
''It's going to be awful bad for wo-
men, and as for us men, our lives will
never be the same again even though
peace is here,' growled an Englishman
recently, after the girl ticket inspec-
tor in the train had insisted on seeing
his season ticket.
eyes," piped up his nextdoor neigh
Dor. at certainly is getting intoler-
able. Why, even my luncheon place, a
real old-English chop-house, has been
invaded by them; they used not to al
low women inside their DOORS"
The women present smiled. They
knew why the men were so fused.
Those women had husbands of their
/ own-husbands who came home de-
manding huge dinners. Nothing to
eat all day." "Grinding at work in the
office since left the house first thing
this morning." etc, etc. That was how
it used to be.
The war has sent men to the tren-
ches and their wives out to work in
the city-and women have pierced the
ancient sham.
The business strain" of the man
who was something-in-th the-city has
proved rest cure for his wife. This
little restaurant where he complained
he only got "snacks" has shown his
wife the reason her dinners prepared
with so much care in "the good old
days." were sometimes almost un-
touched and often criticized.
If the bus conductor of the future
returns home "dog tired and peevish,
he will be told by Mrs. ex-Conductor
how she, too, had trying days, when
she had to work on the buses, keep a
home going, and look after the child
ren.
Newark post., 1918-12-25
REVISION OF
GAME STATUTE
WILL BE ASKED
Reinstatement of Resident
Hunters License Law
Demanded

One of the important laws that will
be insistently demanded of the next
Legislature will be revision of the
Delaware Game and Fish statutes.
This much was decided upon at a
meeting of the Board of Game and
Fish Commissioners held Thursday.
The gathering, which was Of an infor-
NAL nature, took place in the office
of the commissions president, Major
Edward G. Bradford, Jr. Others Of
the commission attending the session
were: w. H. Reed, Dover, the vice.
president; H. C. Davis, Laurel, secre-
tary and treasurer; j. Hall Anderson
of Dover, the chief warden, also at
tended the meeting and gave forth
his views on the laws and other fea-
lures, which he declared are badly
needed in the State.
One of the main features of the
revision Of the states game statutes
to be asked for by the commission, so
the members of the body decided, is
the reinstatement of the resident hum
ter's license, a law that was repealed
several years ago and thereby threw
the state into being one of the casts
great sports wherein the illegal fish
ing and shooting OF game is openly
practiced. This Mr.. Anderson said,
was not because the laws of Delaware
as pertaining to the Game Commits
sion, We're lax, but that the Legisla-
ture, by abolishing the hunters Ii
cense law has also cut off from the
commission all its revenue so that the
minor laws of the state are 0. X. but
no law can be enforced unless there
are agents for its enforcement, and
the Game Commission has not the
money to hire wardens, as SO many
are required, not only in the lower
counties, but also in New Castle.
The reinstatement of the resident
hunters license law is being widely
demanded by the men of the state who
occasionally take the time to go out
for day or two of hunting. The price
of the license as advocated by the
commission is S1.10 a year, which it
is said, will probably bring into the
body the sum of about $4,000 an
nually, which it is said will be suffi-
cient for the state to get along with
Newark post., 1918-12-25

food map of Europe today shows
not single country in which the fu-
ture does not hold threat of serious
difficulties and only small part which
is not rapidly approaching the famine
point. With the exception of the
Ukraine only those countries which
have maintained marine commerce
have sufficient food supplies to meet
actual needs until next harvest, and
even in the Ukraine, with stores accu-
mulated on the farms. there is famine
in the large centers of population.
Belgium and northern France. as
well as Serbia, appear on the hunger
map distinct from the rest of Europe
because they stand in different rela-
tion from the other nations 10 the peo-
pie of the United States. America has
for four years maintained the small
war rations of Belgium and northern
France and is already making special
efforts to care for their increas sed
after-the-war needs, which, with those
OF Serbia, must be included in this
plan. are urgent in the extreme and
must have immediate relief.
The gratitude of the Belgian nation
for the help America has extended to
her during the war constitutes the
strongest appeal for us to continue our
work there. The moment the German
armies withdrew from her soil and she
, was established once more in her own
Newark post., 1918-12-25

sea- of government the little nation S
first thought was to express her graft
tude 70 the Commission for Relief in
Belgium for preserving the lives of
millions of her citizens.
Germany, on the other hand. need
not figure in such n map for Ameri-
cans because there Is no present indi-
TO take thought for the food needs of
Germany. Germany probably can care
for her own food problem If she is
given access 10 shipping and is enabled
to distribute food to the cities with
dense populations. which are the trou-
BILE CenterS.
England, France, the Netherlands
and Portugal. all of which have been
maintained from American supplies,
have sufficient food to meet immediate
needs, but their future presents seri-
Gus difficulties. The same is true of
Spain and the northern neutral coun-
tries-Norway, Sweden and Denmark
whose ports have been open and who
have been able to draw to some degree
upon foreign supplies.
Most of Russia is already In the
throes of famine. and 10000 900 people
there are beyond the possibility OF
help. Before another spring thou
sands of them inevitably must die.
This applies as we'll to Poland and
practically throughout the Baltic re-
Newark post., 1918-12-25

giuns, with conditions most seriou.
Finland.
bohemia, Serbia, Roumania and
Montenegro have already reached the
famine point and are suffering a heavy
toll of death. The Armenian popula-
tion is falling each week as hunger
takes its toll, and in Greece, Albania
and Roumania so serious are the food
shortages that famine is near. AL.
though starvation is not yet imminent.
Italy, Switzerland, Bulgaria and Tur-
Key are in the throes of serious strin.
gencieS.
In order to fulfill Americas pledge
in world relief we will have to export
every ton of food which can be han.
died through our ports. This means al
the very least minimum of 20,OOOOOO
tons compared with 100000 tons pre-.
war exports and 11,S200OO tons ex.
ported last year, when we were bound
by the ties of war to the European
,allies.
If we fail to tighten the black spo's
on the hunger map or II we allow any
portions TO become darker the very
peace for which we fought and bled
will be threatened Revolt and anarchy
inevitably follow famine. Should this
happen we will see in other parts of
Europe repetition of the Russian de.
bacle and our fight for world peace
will have been In vain.