The Dillon herald. (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, February 14, 1918, Image 1

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Bp* 5% Itllnn ifmtlii. fp^'1 '' ] THE MLIOK HERALD, DILLON, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 14, ISIS. VOL. 22. NO 14 !&H: r ' -.'nrlBjl Mm HNS . . ii mm \ ? WTBY UBTTER8 BY RBGU1AK OOMWPOIIDTaTO. | Bwlw. Ebb and Slow of the v-\ " daddy's Mill The farmers of (kiddy's Mill sectlon bay* had a splendid week of ' warn fair weather to sow their to baeea bads. Mrs. Delia Hulon of Columbus county has been visiting her son. Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Lupo made & v trip to Nichols Saturday last. MISS Lola Cook of Kemper section has been visiting her sister Mrs. VIIW Lupo. Mrs. Wiley Lupo and Mrs. L. M. Lupo spent Tuesday last with Mrs. H. N. Powell. , Mrs. J. C. Adams is in the hospital at Hamlet, N. C. We hope she will soon he home. Miss Winnie Oliver and Miss Claude Rogers of Coker College spent the week end at home. Fork Miss Estelena McDonald of Dillon was the week end guest of friends HSti^HHss Ethel Owens, who is in a hosB trailing at Fayetteville, N. C., R Rending two weeks at home. Hfl^^^Hiss Anna and Bouchier Calhoun are attending a business school ^^^^^ Columbia are spending a few days ^^Vhoma ^^^^ Miss Ida Booth of Lake View is I .? guest of relatives here. The ladies of the improvement as elation met at the school house ^^^Friday afternoon and had a reelec- j j^^^Bion officers. Mrs. Jasper Quick entertained the ^^^Bflssionary Society of the Methodist ^^HVchurch Saturday afternoon. New of fleers were elected for the coming jwtr. Dothan ^^HHfehe Home Demonstration club and improvement Association held t >~ular monthly meeting Friday 1 The demonstration given V rgoret Evans was enjoyed i 01f 't. . Fennigan and family i Miss Le^^^athea and Mr. .^ang McLean and family of Latta < wer# guests of Mr. and Mrs. Z. A. ] lien's Sunday. < Miss Margaret Smith of Mlnturn is at Mrs. F. L. Bethea's. < Rev. W. C. Owen, the M. E. Church < State Sunday School porker was the i guest of Mr. F. L. Bethea last Sunday. < Mr. P. L. Bethea of Minturn, and 1 ? Mr. T. W. Bethea and family of Dil- < . Ion also dined with Mr. F. L. Bethea 1 last Sunday. ' Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Bethea spent J Sunday In Mulllns 1 > The trustees and several of the < other men of the community met at > 1 ~ the school building Monday night to < select fencing for the school grounds < in behalf of the Improvement Asso- 1 elation*. 1 Misses Julia and Viola Ferguson, 1 niiu nr. una Mrs. vicior uemea tooK ' W tea at the home of Mr. Fitzhugh Be- v v theS's Sunday evening. We are very much interested in ' the purchase of the war savings 1 thrift stamps. "We wish to do out bi< in every way possible. < Mrs. Frank Powers is very ill. 1 A bale of cotton belonging to Mr.j i Z. A. Ellen cought lire Monday af-;1 ternoon. As several men were near'1 it was put out before it did much! J ( jlamcge. ? ! Lake View \ Miss Mabel Norton spent the wek; end with relatives at Columbia. . Miss Sallie Elvington has returned from a two weeks visit to friends a^^^at Lumberton and Fairmont. She ^^^keports a pleasant time while there. Miss Rosa Smith has returned from a visit to her mother at Marion. Miss Gertrude Uogers of Albany, Ga., is spending several weekB with 1 friends here. J. M. Ford has returned from the 1 northern markets where he went to . buy a line of dry goods, shoes and notions for the Arm of Ford Brop. Messrs. W. B. Ford, H. H. Bailey ' and W. M. Gaddy have Durchaserf a' I lot on lfaln- Street for the purpose of building a large brick store and' ^ going in the hardware and furniture j a business. Miss Alma Ooodyear spent a few days last wek with friends at Fork. Tracey Stackhouse, who Is engaged in the mercantile business In south-1 west Georgia, spent several days with, ^Hhis parents this week while en route j^^^^Uiome from a business trip to the MR. BAKER REVIEWS TVSCANIA TRAGEDY 1 1 " Attributes Relatively- Small Toll of 118 to Fine Discipline of the | Men ' . Washington. Feb. 10.?Development of German's long deferred offensive In the west from the reconnoiterlng thrusts launched during the past week around Cambrel and at other points Is suggested as a possibility In the weekly military review > Imtoii w_ a*-- " ? " ?wuisui u/ iu? war department. So. far, however, in spite of the heavy fighting the department says no actions of more than local character have been recorded. The < review tolls of the torpedoing of the j liner Tuscania, which carried mnre than 2,100 American soldiers and at- i tributes the relatively small toll, estimated at about 112 men, to the 1 fine discipline of the soldiers and efficiency of those in command. I Describing briefly the activities of 1 the American troops occupying a ] Bector of the Lorranic front, the de- j partment says they have shown themselves well fitted for their task 1 and are rapidly becoming accustom- 1 ed to trench warfare. The review in part follows: ! At dusk on the evening of Feb- , ruary 5 off the Irish coast, a torpedo t launched from an enemy submarine ? struck the convoyed liner Tuscania ; having on board American troops. , Our loss at the report appears to be ., approximately 113 men. 1 .. "The fine discipline of the men 1 and the efficient handling of a difficult situation by those in common \ contributed to account for these re- ] latively slight casualties. 1 "At the same time we must ex- , press our profound appreciation for the splendid work of the British j navy in rescuing out forces. < "At the small ports of Ireland and < Scotland where our troops were land- , ed they met with a most warm-heart- | ed reception on the part of the people, who did all In their power to Administer every comfort and care. "The sector in Lorraine where sur forced are in contact with the >nemy continued relatively active throughout the week. Artillery luels took place Intermittently, but tog and heavy rains prevented infantry engagements. The Germans Attempted no lurther raids and setfled down to systematic sniping and bombing of our positions. "Our sharpshooters gave a good Account of themselves, keeping the Anemy parapets well cleared of Germans. "One stretch of our line is very :lose up to the German positions. Here bombing and a frequent exchange of hand grenades occurred. "German aeroplanes made repeatAd attempts to push their reconnoltsring sallies over our lines, but were invariably met with a hot lire. "Our forces engaged have shown themselves well fitted for their tasks in trenches and are rapidly becoming accustomed to the routine of Lrencn warrare. The warfare of our Lroops, whether in the trenches or in reat depots, is the object of the im- ( mediate personal concern of all our :ommanders. Th? rations for the ( men in the trenches in spite of the 1 snemy's attempts to break up our 1 Lransport columns, have been regularly assured. The care of our 1 Abounded at our field dressing sta- ' Lions as well as at our base-hospitals, is being carried out with ellieiency * ind scientific skill. "Here iu America at our cantonments the training of our new arm- ( les is proceeding methodically. "The arrival in the western thea- 1 ier of additional German forces com- * ing originally from the Russian front ' is noted. Further Austrian divisions'' have also detuched from other zones1' of operations and are being concen-; | [rated in reserve behind the German i1 lines in the west. "Much dissatisfaction is expressed i throughout Austria-Hungary at the1; policy of dispatching their troops to [ fight Germany's battles along the'i western front. "The desire for peace is increas- i ing daily in the Dual Monarchy, and I It is only natural that the Austrians ] should resent sacrificing their forces ] on distant battlefields in the futher- i ance of German ambitions. ] "Flanders was again the scene of j numerous minor engagements, par-! ttcularly the region of Ypres Stadenj; railway, wnere sucn nerce ngnting;< took place last autumn. "The Germans pushed forward re- < peated reconnoitering thrusts against ] British positions northeast of Poelca- > polle, in the Camhrai salient and at) a number of other points. i< ''Heavy fighting took place along J, the entire front. Though no actions'i of more than local character were !, recorded, it would appear that the long deferred offensive may develop simulanteously at different points of the line as an outcome of these en gagements. "The British took full measure of' the enemy in these various under ' takings and had the situation well in hand. "The French front was also th? ? THRILLING S10RY OF TURKISH CRUELTY STORY THAT RIVALS THOSK OF ARABIAN NIGHTS Capt. W. H. Daurene, 18 Yearn a Prisoner in Turkish Dungeon Tells Graphic Story An interesting visitor in town is Capt. W. H. Laurene, for 18 years a prisoner in a Turkish dungeon, and the story he tells of the cruelties he suffered at the hands of the Turks. lakes one back to the days of the Spanish Inquisition. Capt. Laurene bears credentials rroni prominent men in this and other states, and the other data in his posession leaves no doubt as to the authenticity of his experiences. Capt. Laurene's father was an aide to the French Ambassador at Washington and came to this country in ( 1860. A few months after his marriage Capt. Laurene was given a commission in the French army and returning to France was sent to Turkey during the uprising in 1895. He was captured by Murad Hey and remained a prisoner in a Turkish dungeon until i. sc. 3, 1915, when released by Gen. LeMarie after the dattle of Ambola. ( He was three times wounded during the fight and the mumerous scars j tie carries on his body tell of the hardships and cruelties he suffered while in the hands of the Turks. Capt. Laurene's wife was a daughter of Sarah E. Pope, a niece of , the late Chief Justice Pope of the , South Carolina Supreme Court. His ( wife and child, thinking him dead, , ibandoned the old home, and since | lis release from prison Capt. Laurene , las not been able to locate them. While searching for his lost wife md child Chpt. Laurene is inakiug ( ectures telling the people of this j country of the cruelties practiced lpon christians by the Turks. ( Cant- I.niiPono'c ? m ? ? vr?W U uvovitpliua U1 rurkish atrocities makes one's blood -un cold. He says he has seen Turks )f gigantic size seize little children ind cut their throats, while parents lave been murdered in the presence >f their children and tbeir bodies lorribly mutilated. There is no law n Turkey, says Capt. Laurene; every nan is a law unto himself; husbands ind fathers are murdered and their artves end daughters are violated; property is seized without due p^o:esB of law and the slightest protest neans the death penalty. Capt. Laurene has a story which -ivals all those of the Arabian Nights ?for his story takes one back to :he country of harems and of orien.al splendor, but Capf. Laurene's ale does not deal with the splendor >f the Turkish kingdom. On the :ontrary, his story is one of cruelty, >f wandering, daily search for loved jnes lost in the past. His story is mough to make the blood of any :hristian boil against the barbarities >f Mohamedans. What would you do, man, if you vere shut up in a prison for almost i score of years, finally released to Ind your wife and child lost so fails tracing them is concerned?im- , igine your longing to again embrace!1 hem, to fondle them as was their j { lue and yours?imagine the expect- . int search with constant hopes of A-hat tomorrow might bring forth, iven as the aged prospector hoped n his ineffectual efforts to find the " ost Bananza. Can you imagine such: x chain of human circumstances? If, ane is of christian blood, one must I sympathize with this unfortunate! (Continued on page eight) j scene of much lively fighting. "In the Italian theater no important operations took place. "The Austrians are continuing their policy of bombing the open towns of the Venetian plain. The priceless art treasures of Padua, Bassano, Treviso, etc., religiously respected through all campaigns in Italy, were during the week the targets of Austrian avaitors. "The British in Palestine have idvanced their lines slightly north af Jerusalem. "In the Balkans there was a recrudescence of active operations. Allied patrols broke into Bulgarian do sitiona at various points. i "The situation in Russia continues confused. Economic conditions have i grown more serious and internal: strife has broken out in various parts I of the country . "Though surrounded by foes, the > Rumanians are still attempting to remain faithful to the Allied cause. 'In spite of many adverse factors! the Rumanian forces have hitherto neld together and are today an efficient fighting unit. The combat strength of the Rumanian army has' increased by 80 per cent since last' year." PHYSICIAN KILLF.D IN FLORENCE DUEL Duel Occurs in the Court House, Hicks Calling to Confer with the Probate Judge. Florence, Feb. 8.?Dr. William llderton, a well-known physician of this city, is (lead, and J. Wilbur Hicks, a prominent young attorney of this place, lies In the Florence Infirmary seriously wounded, as a result of a pistol battle in the lower hallway of the Florence court house about 11:30 o'clock this morning. Just how seriously Mr. Hicks wounds are cannot at this time be stated. Attending physicians have said that the wounds are not neces-, cn.il,. r~*~ 1 ? ? ...j .mui, yvi incy are dangerous. Late this afternoon Mr. Hicks was, resting comfortably. The shooting took place directly! on the outside of the door to the office of Harry A. Brunson, probate judge, and before it ended Mr. Brun-; Bon barely missed being the victim of an unintentional shot front one of the pistols. Soon after the shooting began, Geddings Ilderion, oldest son of Dr. j William Ilderton .appeared and took j part in the shooting, which resulted | In his father's death. J The coroner's jury this afternoon | handed in a verdict to the effect that j Dr. Ilderton came to his death from i gun shot wounds, ut the hands of J.| Wilber Hicks and Geddings Ilderton. | Both of these men are in the custody j of Sheriff Burclt and will be held until proceedings are had for their release. The tragedy is the outcome of a family affair of the lldertons. His wife and growu children left home many months ago and took up their abode elsewhere. Mr. Hicks is atlorney for Mrs. Ilderton and her children in a suit against Dr. Ildertou for alimony, which the court of this county had already ordered him to pay. This matter was to come before Prboate Judge Brunson as master today and when Dr. Ilderton appeared in his office this morning Judge Brunson, believing that he was under either the influence of whiskey or jome "dope," decided to put the case off, and sent word to Mr. Hicks, who it that time was in the court room upstairs with Mrs. Beulah White IIierton and her sons, awaiting the :alling of the case. Mr. Hicks, as soon as he was advised of postponement, went to the office of the probate Judge to speak iritk Mr. Brunson, not knowing Dr. [lderton was in there. As he pushid the door ajar he saw Dr. Ilderton tnd stepped back into the kail. Mr. Brunson at the same time spoke oudly to Mr. Hicks, telling him to oot come into the office. Dr. Ilderton, seeing Hicks, rushid to the door, threw it open and be jan nnng on Hicks. Hicks drew a! jistol and began returning the fire, lderton rushed upon him. seized liin und threw him to the floor. He continued to fire at Mr. Hicks. Judge Brunson and others rushed lp to pull Ilderton from Hicks' body, vhen Geddings Ilderton apepared tnd in an effort to keep liis father rom killing Hicks, reached over flrunson's shoulder and fired two ihots into the body of his father, vho at the time was hammering flicks in the head with the butt of flicks' pistol, which he had taken rom him. As llderton's son quit iring, Dr. Ilderton fell over and died n a few moments without uttering l word. Sheriff Burch was soon on the tcene and arrested young Ilderton ind Hicks. Ilderton was taken to ail and Hicks sent to the Florence infirmary. The shooting was the result of I jad feeling between Dr. Ilderton! md Mr. Hicks .brought about by Mr. flicks acting as attorney for Mrs. II-1 ierton in her suit against Dr. Ilder-I on for alimony. Mrs. Ilderton and her children! separated from the husband and fa-l her early in 1915 and Dr. Ilderton > nade an effort to secure a divorce, I jo it is stated. The case was heard n the county court and the court' granted alimony, but it was stated | that Dr. Ilderton had never complied with the order of the court in that' particular. There are five bullet wounds in j Ihe body of Dr. Ilderton, one over Lhe heart, one about three inches rrom the right breast, a third in the left abdomen .and two in the left shoulder. Hicks has one wound in the head, one in jlhe right side and an ugly wound from being struck in the head with the butt of the revolver. A thjxd fihot struck Hicks' eyeglass case and deflected. Hard It not done so he would have been killed instantly, ns the bullet was directed at the heart. Geddings ^llderton was not injured. The terrible affray has been the t|alk of the town today, as well as of fe countryside. Dr. Ilderton was a iwerful man and had been a regu TROTZKY AND LENIftE ! SUCCEED IN SCHEMES ! BETRAY THEIR PEOPLE FOR THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER Kushin Withdraws from World War and Orders Its Troops to Demobilize Amsterdam, Feb. 11.?Russia has declared the state of war to be at end and has ordered the demobilization of Russian forces on all fronts, according to a dispatch received here today trom Urest-Litovsk, dated Sunday. The dispatch follows: "The president of the Russian ' delegation at today's (Sunday's siting stated that while Russia was de- 1 sisting from signing a formal peace 1 treaty, it declared the state of war to be ended with Germany, AustriaHungary, Turkey and Bulgaria, simultaneously giving orders for complete demobilization of Russian forces on all fronts." Leon Trotzky, the Bolsheviki foreign minister, alluding later to the further discussions that will arise from the situation created between) the Central Powers and Russia forj the establishment of reciprocal diplomatic, consular, legal and economic relations, indicated a method of | direct intercourse between the governments concerned, as well as employment of the commissions of the quadruple aliant e which already are a? Petrograd. o THREE KILLED IN ACCIDENT Car Dashes Into Atlantic Coast Line Engine At Crossing. Barnwell, Feb. 10.?One woman and two men were killed and another woman was seriously injured I here this afternoon about 6 o'clock j when an automobile in which they I were riding dashed head-on into a I westbound freight engine at the Atlantic' Const Line depot, where the railroad interests the public road leading from Barnwell to Allendale, The dead are: Miss Ready, Fred Lee, and a negro man named Johnson. The injured is a Miss Moody. All of the occupants of the car were from Kline, and were on their way home when the accident occurred. The driver's view of the oncoming locomotive was obscured by a string of freight cars on the north side of the main line and apparently with no though of danger he approached the crossing at a rapid rate of speed, 1 according to the testimony of eye- i witnesses. So territfle was the im- 1 pact that the automobile was Totally l demolished and the cowcatcher of ? the engine was badly damaged. i ne beads of both men were hor- i ribly crushed and their bodies man- ! gled, death being instant. Miss Heady lived for a short time, dying in the waiting room in the depot a few minutes after physicians reached the scene. Miss Moody, the , extent of whose injuries has not j been fully ascertained, but who is j thought to have escaped with notli- , ing more secrious "than a broken collarbone, was taken to the home t of Dr. A. B. Patterson for medical t attention. ( The front of the engine and rightof-way of the railroad for several , yards were spattered with the blood i, anil brains of the dead men. A cor- j t oner's jury was empanelled und af-1, ter the inquest is held tonight the|{ bodies will be removed to their!) homes in Kline. i) ________ ( lar athlete. Hicks is small of stat- < ure, but game. Dr. llderton was , originally from near Summerville, in Dorchester County, and came here many years ago, soon after graduat- , ing in medicine. He married Miss Beulaih White, daughter of the late R. E. and Mrs. White. There are three children, , two sons and a daughter, all of whom are grown. Dr. llderton at one time was a power in politics in Florence, city and county, during the Tillman regime. Later he was a Blease supporter. He owned what is known as the llderton Infirmary at Barringer and Evans streets, and it is said that it was the beginning and the cause of; me irouDie mat nnaiiy resulted In his death today. The body was taken to Waters' undertaking parlors and prepared for burial. The funeral and place of interment have not as yet been announced. Dr. Ilderton leaves relatives in Dorchester County. Mr. Hicks is a member of the law firm of Hicks & Muldrow. His part-, ner, Capt. C. W. Muldrow, is in the army, having gone from here in! command of the Florence Infantry Company last year. Mr. Hicks is a son of the Rev. Mr. Hicks, of near Olanta, and is well known and high-' ly esteemed throughout the county. i % MALIiOltY MAX KILLED; 1 OTHEItS INJIKED 1 Automobile l'lunges From Iiridge Near llamlet?LI. It. Itoberson Meets Instunt Death Hamlet, N. C., Feb. 11.?G. R. Jtobeson of Mallory, S. C., R. F. D_ No. 3, wis instantly killed, his wi^e and her Bister, owner and driver ot the ear, Mannie Shapiere, and two children of Mr. and Mrs. Roberaon were injured when the automobile in which they were riding plunged off ;lie bridge which crossed the tracks M Of the Seaboard Air Line "oil? ^ ? ^ three miles east of here. Mrs. Roberson's condition is considered critical. Sliapiere is paralyzed from the waist down. During the brief time the car hung over the edge of the bridge before taking (he fatal plunge, Maurice Fleshman i>f Baltimore, a nephew of Shapiere, who was on the front seat, jumped, out of the car to the bridge and escaped injury. THK TIME IS EXTEXDEtt For Filing Incom?> and Excess KNk ..Is Returns Washington, Feb. 10.?Extension.-' of the time for filing income and excess profits returns from March 1 to April 1 was -announced today by Internal Revenue Commissioner Roper. This ruling applies also to reports on payments of more than $800 during the >ear to be made by employers and business enterprises and covers incomes both above and below $3.000 and corporation incomes. Delay in the preparation of blank forms and regulations was the principal cause for the postponement. Forms have not yet been issued for excess profits returns of threeclasses?individual, partnership and corporation; for income returns by ^ tiustees of fiduciaries; and for partner-income returns. These aie promised for next week. All otherforms have been distributed. The extension of time to April 1' applies to returns by corporations doing business on a fiscal year basis. FOUR SOUTH CAROLINIANS. . Recorded Ah Having Been Aboard 1 the Tuscan ia Washington, Feb. 10.?Wayne 3L Bell, of Marion, and Albert s. HucIleu of Branchville, respectively, sergeanc and private in the Twentieth Engfc- i neers, and W. J. Stuckey, of Lamar,, I and J. Nelson, of Scotland, both sergeants in the 100th earo squadron^ thp nnlv * ? * ~1"1" v ? ?vai UI1U1MOI 11 IF*? dally recorded as having been am A board the Tuscania. All except Netson have been officially reported an rescued and there is a fair chance that Nelson's name may be found an. ine of the lists of survivors. There were seven North Carolin- 1 ans on the Tuscania and all are officially reported among the rescued_ ( ernuuis Gloat Over Ship IiOSK I Amsterdam, Feb. 9.?German? J lewspapers are gloating over thc^ jsychological effect which they expect the sinkiug of the Tuscania. A nust produce in America. ^ The Kolnische Volks Zeiting says i he event must unfailingly dampen. 4 he spirits of Americans and proreeds : "Sundry American vessels, some vith munitions and perhaps a small lumber of soldiers, have been sunk jefore, hut- so far as we know he first case of a big tians>?ri with^^^^^^HJ ronsidorable number of troops 'ulling victim to our u-boats. large sized transports have crossed, for the "As such must be con with great u-boats* ment all the more remarkab^^^Hfl^^^H The Berlin Mittage and makes a similar comment ai es that so much war niate^M^^^^HiKF the rescued immediately available for 1 ^> ^Br ATTENTION Sl'BSC^^^^H The attention again called to the 1^^^^^^HB|B| The Herald^^^^^^^^BB pay in advance pi^^B^^J^^^BB gardless the little paper does sh^^^^^^^^Bj^BK up in adva^^fl^^^^^^^^^Bf J this I come to you m you have rene^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^B ^B tion the fl is incori^^^^^^^^^^^^J^^^E ^B us promptl^^B^^^^^^^^^^^Bt JH you before -BIB and annoyance ^^^^^^^B|^^^BBB?9^^B newing ber that lars per