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|f Ulljp ?UUm ifpralii. J I MRABLItHBD 1W1 THE DILLON HERALD, DILIX)N SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER Mi, 191S. VOL 23. NO. 6. HHIICHI DELEGATES KlHapt ships ^nrr want gaptvjrbd ships ^ mo RATWD AMONG ALLOCS. Dee. II?The American del-i to the pence congroee have} to advocate the sinking of ^^^^Panrmndered encmr wmmhlmi and I any proposition to diitrikute HH|i on tbo basis of naval losses. annooncsment is made by those HH elose touch with, the American ^ ^^Bresentativee, who it is added, that such *a -position would result fl^Kroldlng contention and material^^H^Bupport President Wilson's de^^Hdion that the war was not based , ^^^^^Mgression or the acquisition of ^^^^Mngiand, through Sir Eric Geddes, lord of the admiralty, had pre^^^Hrasly acquiesced in the American ^Hib to destroy the captured or surH^^Kslered warships, and, it is deI^Brnd will continue to support the , States, although it is expectthat some of the lesser naval ^|Biers will demand that the prises |HB distributed. American naval stations will be maintained for at least a year at ^^BBrest, Ollbraltar and in the A so res Hto render aid to American merchant ^^Hships. The consent of France, EngHHland and Portugal has already been ^^ secured. The aero and radio stations t ?hau Mint, will K. <> -..'II. ?? ?MVWV |TVIU?B mil W 1U IVAUinVOO VV |^Vres pond to calls for aid by Americans ^Bkipping in distress. Facilities will afforded for needed repairs and fl^^Bpplies. WBw Although the planB have not been ^^Bieveloped it i? believed in naval circles that the shipping board desires the continuance of the mannV Jng of its ships with naval officers ^Landcravi until private capital is or AflCfTied to undertake the great task ^M?f operating thousands of merchant j^V_The other naval establishments in ^^KEurope have been ordered abandoned |Hi rapMlf as possible, and progress l^pr this direction has already been j^HEeosidemble-She United States navy ^Plga twenty-seven acre stations along V Ike European coast, the material of F which, except at Brest, Gibraltar E and the Asores, is being shipped f heme. Navel transports, relieved ofl g. currying munitions, will hereafter ? convey food supplies. if It is expected that the army also I will soon be able to use a number of I. its transports similarly on eastern Demoblisation of the naval per-' [L^NaBel has been ordered to proceed on the beats of the transfer F to the reserve lists of the men and P*V officers of good character and phy-, I etqve. The needs of the new merchant marine, it is calculated will ab^ orb as large a proportion of such ^^reeerrists as is desired. I wT ' NITRATE SITUATION. K^jOntor Inllli Takes Up Question in ^ Washington, Dec. 18 ? Senator Mpaith, of 8outh Carolina, has been IB^apreotigating the nitrate situation in ?IK1UICIB llllgULDC IIIHmmed an to the prospect of bting by the government for this HwMe4|beoming season^*' at what| j^B He understands that there is a quantity of soda in the hands Bj)f th? government that will not be Hnstda for munition purposes, the HjUMuit he believes is more than HNhmik.Ipr agricultural purposes fori j^L^^ftyearv He has discussed this matHMMk Mr. Baruch, chairman of the I^^^^^Hdustriee board, who negotiated ^^^^ vhaae from Chile of this soda government, ^ ^^ his conversation with Mr. Ba^^^Hhe Senator called qp the SecAgriculture end asked him ^H^Kras the situation. His reply it was not a question soda but of arranging the m^pRu the War Department. H^Bstsr Smith called Secretary ^^^Htra's attention to the fact that ^^^Rferaiiis were now making arfor their fertiliser sup* ^^Kkrttkca&lsg year and there|^^^BBj^0MnDortant for them ^^^H|^^HBHnight soda. thisi^H^ BROTHER KILLS BROTHER Killing Occurred In GallivaaU Ferry Township Last Thursday Night. Horry Herald.? Charley H. Floyd was shot and killed by his brother, A. Pitman Floyd, in Oalivant8 Ferry Township last Thursday night. After the shooting the latter came at once to Conway and placed himself in the custody of James A. Lewis, the sheriff of the county. He was lodged in Jail by the sheriff ^ await efforts being made by his attorneys to make ball for him. The county coroner could not leave here the next day to hold the inquest, but he arranged for the inquest to be held by Magistrate H. C. Dawsey. The dead man is survived by a wife, but leaves no children. The ac liuoeu man uas a wire and three young children. The shooting took place at a tenant hcuse belonging to Pitman Floyd. The tenant house had been occupied by the deceased during the cropping season of 1918, he having farmed on share crops with Pitman Floyd this year. The deceased moved away from the house about a week before the killing and was occupying the place of Mr Gore in the same neighborhood. After the deceased, Charley H. Floyd had moved away from the Pitman Floyd place, and had been gone about a week Pitman Floyd moved a widow woman and her two daughters and son into the tenant house having arranged with this family to live on the place and farm for him the coming year. This new family was moved into the house on Thursday the same day as the killing. That night there was a great disturbance raised at the tenant house, the woman calling loudly, and four or five- guns fired off. Hearing this racket, Pitmaft Floyd took his gun and hastily went to the house not knowing who it was that had caused the breach of the peace. When he got there he found his own brother who said that he Was "Hflrftnartlnf" ' ? * ? t.uv ?I?W MriVilB. He was asked to leave and not have any further trouble but did not go and according to news received here, followed Pitman Floyd with a hammer in his hand, attacked the honor of Pitman Floyd's wife and was shot by Pitman Floyd as he advanced on him with the hammer. The deplorable affair caused excitement in Galivants Ferry township for several daya. ? Capitulation of Tsrkey Reveals Almost Unbelievable Horrors. "One hundred and twenty thousand persons died from starvation in Teheran. The Persian capital has lost nearly half of its population. People all over Persia are falling dead from actual starvation as fast as Autumn leaves fall from the trees. Unless help on a large scale is given, almost the entire population will die of cold and starvation this winter," reports one of the wvikvn iut me American lioinmiuee of Armenian and Syrian Relief. "We are doing all we possibly can to relieve the situation with the limited means we have at hand. Hun dreds of people are employed by us in the erection of temporary homes for these people. When these workmen first came to us they were like wild beasts. They all knew they were to have food, yet they were so near starvation that they would strike, push and struggle and hold out their poor boney fingers to - grastf and seise the food like birds of prey." Henry Morganthau, formerly Unstates that "None of the fearful horstates that "None of the fearful hor rors perpetrated in the various sones of war can compete with the fearful lot of the Armenians." o Freak of Nature. Horry Herald:? W. F. Lewis, a colored farmer living on Jas. R. Williams' place west of Mullins, was exhibiting two corn cobs on the streets last Fridev that attracted considerable attention. They were shaped Just like the human hand?one a right and one left. The right hand had (four full aised fingers and a thumb, irhlle the left had two of the finge a grown together and a perfect thui ib.. Singularly enough the grower of the corn has two fingers grown together just like the corn cob, on he same hand too. Quite a coinciden e. o Sold Pine Farms. Sorry Herald:? M^WIU A. Frs?man has sold his Ferry to Mr. B. L. 8. C-. the Jgt EVERYONE HUNGRY IN BERLIN. I ! There Is Little to Buy for Oirlstma* aid that Little 1? Coating a Lot ji ?Rubber Tires Disappear. Berlin, Dec. 19. ? I am hungry,! eternally hungry, here in Berlin! jl | Everbody is hungry. < Living is unpleasant, even in the i finest hotels, where the best food ob- I tainable in Germany may be had. j j The food is not nutritous because it is lacking in fats, j I have bought a pound of goose grease for 30 marks?better than ST 11 ! ? for my own use as a substitute for,' butter. It is expensive, but it is tho! | only way I can get nutrition. ji | In the streets crowds of people may < be s^en nightly munching apples') and staring into the shop windows at| the extraordinary disptky of "erxat" i J?substitute food. |i | Beer is of inferior quality, but it 1 is the only drink obtainable. j! Despite the high cost of living, onei can buy theatre seats only by apply- < ing dayH in advance. ;i I I attended a production of "Carni- \) jval Fairy," a musical comedy which, . has been running for four months at | < the Metropole theatre. It was witness- : ed by a packed house. All Berlin is , humming the song of its popular i |star, Fritiso Massary, a Hungarian; actress. j Evidences of the former popularity ,i of the German kaiser are being re- < moved and covered up throughout1] . the city. In Freldrichstrasse, a huge * 'cafe sign read, "Kv\iserkeller." The'i first half of the name has been blot-11 ! ted out. A lifesize statute of William ; Hohenzollern over the doorway is i now canvas covered. j Actual destitution among the Ger-'i ' man people i8 observable only under jthe surface, I have learned by mak-j ing a tour of the poorer districts. n j On the Alexanderplatz and Jacob'] j strasse the stores, large and small, j I ?IC uui scanuy Biocnea. 'I'De Win-! dows are filled with high-priced, j | shoddy goods, but inside the shelves ] and counters are nearly empty. j; Nevertheless the crowds are pro- i paring to do their Christmas buying. And here are some of the prices { they will have to pay to stock their i Christmas trees and to make their I Christmas dinner. The prices are | given in marks. j< A mark is Just under 24 cents. j< Toys, two marks. j. Candy, 13 marks a pound. iChicken, ten marks a pound. I] Coffee, 30 marks (obtained by I stealth.) i Cotton handkerchiefs, four marks.' Collars, fiye marks. I Cotton socks, three marks. >, Cotton underwear. 100 marks. j A man's hat 55 marks. 1 Woman's felt hat, 6(0 marks The working classes which use the ) subways in the morning show plainly i their impoverishment. For most ofj | them breakfast consists of acorn | coffee and a slice of sour bread. ji It is impossible to obtain soap, ex-j' ' cept such as is rendered from fish 11 bones. j i I I saw a hors4 fall on Unter-den-: i Linden and its leg was broken. Its i j throat was immediately cut by the authorities and it was conveyed to j the slaughter house to be prepared ] | for food. 11 Gasoline is scarce and there a-e ] only 150 taxicabs in all Berlin. !| Most of the autos are without rub-: < War < I...... A- _ ?? w! co. ab a nuuBiiiuie mey use < a four inch iron band with spiral i springs between it and the wheel. j1 | There is plenty of brass and other, metals. I i Machine gun bullets have marked j ,the royal stables. Biy. the only dis- j quieting factor is the growing pow-i er of the 4,000 soldier deserters who are holding meetings of discontent. 1 I have been surprised at the effi-: cient operation of the machinery for displacing the women in the factories J with soldiers as rapidly as they are ' demoblised and finding other work j for women. ' I A woman tramcar conductor told j me she came from the country and ( was eager to return to her countiy , home, where there was more food ( than in Berlin. j o i OIST/llTi A ww a ? ainUUliAIV AtAjUIKKT. 1 1 Laurens Suffers Painful Wound in Auto Mishap. i Laurens, Dee. 18?C. Yates, who ? was last week admitted to the bar I after passing the examination before the Supreme Court, la suffering < from a very painful as well as sin- 1 gular accident. Hia automobile be- < came uncontrollable on the ;<lirk . rnuddy roads and went into a deep ' ditch by the roadside. The impact i threw out the wind shield arhlcfc fell 1 across the knees of Mr. Brown, sev- < ered the knee cap large arery. He was < I.OYK FOIt GKIOVINY CI INSCRIBED IN BOOK Inscription* by Mnny American Citl- C< km, (ierman Born Passionate words of love for the fatherland and fervent expressions of o! confidence that Germany's soldiers cl soon would vanquish the "Jealous pi boastings of the enemy," were tl written on the pages of the "Golden w Book of German War Orphans" pre- cl sented evidence to the Senate's com-1? mlttee investigating German propo-1 tr ganda by Capt. George B. Lester, ofi the Intelligence service. ! te The ornate volume contained the at autographs of hundreds of American gi citizens?most of them born in Ger- w monv an#I " ?m AW * * W" ?uu ovuiv > vi niviii prumineni ui ?who donated funds for German ' M orphans in the winter of 1916 and 'ei the spring of 1917, even after diplo- fl matic relations between the United | States and Germany had been broken m "To nry beloved old German fath-; fe erland, mighty Germany," read one j re Inscription signed by Leopard Zim-;,-r merman, of New York, October 16,jh< 1916, in connection with a donation j oi of $1,000. "You may well vaunt that ly your sons are victors and that the I Jealous boastings of th? enemy will tl soon be met by their merited end. j Another inscription said: jdl "As a token of the beloved German fatherland and her great Kais-1 a er, William II, the best and noblest; prince of all history, from a number, m of truly German-thinking evangelical 111 churcheB of their charge of Brook-,it lyin?$100," this was signed by Diets, Brooklyn. l'1 George Sylvester Viereck, editor of.bi Veireck's Weekly, and a leader in j the German propaganda movement,! tl wrote: a "Good fortune and blessings for the noble work. May there be no blank page." One page bore this: "Out of gratitude and love for the tl good old fatherland the German IC Evangelical Reformed Church, the C Kaiser Bell Church $100." It was tl signed by Rev. Julius Jaeger, New ti York. $ Another page carried this an- p< nouncemeqpt "As a tMFen to our German hero o brothers and as a mark of our high- w est admiration of them and their in- e comparable hero Kaiser, the German American committe in cooperation n with the German church of Elmhurst, w N. J., donates $2Ey0. a: Dr. Kampmann, in a prison camp st Fort Douglas, Utah, November 17 cl 1917, accompanied hiB donation with h< this explanation: h< "The last piece of money?I had it in a stocking?shall be dedicated to ti the war orphans." 21 The German round table at Keuchlers Roost, Reading, Penn., gave (1.000 on Christmas, 1916. "So long as German bells ring from the Memel to the Rhine," ran an inscription by H. Urkschwerdt, "so long as the German sea breaks tb upon the strand, so long, oh, Ger- di man people, remember what your n) fathers created in a memorable mon- v uraent to German glory." th The book bore an inscription on tl the title page to the German Em- ; n: press, to whom it was to have been lent. Instead it was seized by *ec- di ret agents and now rests in the Sen- fa ate committee's files. The commit- u< tee decided not to make public muttl )f the hundreds of names it con- th tains, but a score or more were read i m into the public record. e<i The committee's hearing will he at resumed Tuesday. 0( J o jgc POIJCE SEIZE Tit UN K ! ? OF MINISTER (iONZAZLES. Contains Four Quarts and One Pintj of Liquors and Diplomatic Papers. Ti The State: ? The police Thursday night seized a it the railway station a trunk of Wiliam E. Gonzales, minister to Cuba, ca containing three quarts of Jamaica 1" rum, one pint of brandy and one w luart of gin. The trunk besides the articles w Mimed contained the diplomatic pa- cr >ers of Mr. Gonzales and other belongings. F The trunk and its contents are th tow being held at the police station, se md their disposition is to be de- M termined this morning. ai It seems that the police first be- d< same aware of the contents of the w trunk due to the breakmg of one of w the bottles and the leaking out of H fa ma lea rum, whereupon the trunk pi was seised and taken to th^polioe h< station. There it was openedjkj^a lienors above named with rt bottle were Minister Gonzales arrive^^^^H^H city several days ago on Washington, and the trui^^^^^HH Uon was left at thest^fl^^^^^HH HKAI'KK FiiOVK SHOULD BE8ULT. o sncellation of All Milling Operations. Washington, Dec 20?Cancellation ' all flour milling regulations, inuding fair price schedules and the 'ice and quantity restrictions on te sale of wheat flour by millers, hich officials expect will result in leaper flour, was formally announc1 late today by the food adminisation. ' Notification of the action was Aegraphed last night to all zone tents of the food administration rain corporation and today there as a sharp rise in the price of wheat ran and other mill ?n ?"> inneapolis market, which officials cpect to be followed by a drop in our prices. I Existing regulations restricting argins of profit on flour and mill 'eds remain in effect as do general; organization of the food adminisation prohibiting profiteering, warding, and unfair practices and 'ficlals said these would be striet enforced. The prediction of cheaper flour to le consumer, it was stated, at the imlni8tration is based on the immeiate rise today in the price of mill >eds, amounting to several dollars ton. Close observation of the maret trend is flour and mill feeds, lade by the food administration's dlling divisions and grain experts, was said, showed that with every pward movement of feeds came a ill in the price of our flour on a ftsis of an average drop three and >ur hundredths cents a barrel on our to every dollar a ton increase on till feed. o War Work Campaign. Please publish in your next issue "I fit In aw? x ?. ? uiomue uie report as hairman of the United War Work ampaign, a mistake was made in le report as to Manning School Dis-ict No. 18. I reported this as 80.00 when it should have been reorted 8100.00. As I stated in last week's issue f the paper, some of the districts ere reported wrong as therein stat1. I desire to state in regard to Maning District that Mr. J. H_ Berry as chairman of that school district ad that he was sick with influensa ad desired to get out of acting as lairman but on my insisting that e do so he went out when possibly e should have been in the house, and Dt only raised the quota of his dis ict hut jp/sed in addition thereto 5 per cent, over the quota. Very truly. JOE P. LANE. Chairman. o FRENCH LOSSES. 1 n- ~ w*? ? r?ii?, uec. 2V?french soldiers to I le number of 1,400,000 were killed iring the war, according to a stateen t by the Socialist Deputy Lucien erlin in the chamber of deputies lis afternoon during the interpellaon of the government on demoblation. Deputy Verlin asked that the solera be returned to the soil and the ctories without delay and contin-i sd: | "I betray no secret when I say I at the problem of demobilization! -esents itself thus: We have moblix-j I 6,900,00(0 men. We have had. out 1,400,000 killed, while 800,- j )0 recovered from woupds. We are >ing to demoblize 1,200,000 reser>s, territorials and heads of famiJS." o NEGRO BADDY WOUNDED. i iknti fmm " w * ? uiwi Liine Train No. 80 Monday Morning. A wounded negro attracted quite1 lot of attention at the A. C. L. stain Monday morning. The negro, ime in on train No. 80 and was rted from the train to a truck here he remained for more than an 1 >ur breathing heavily from a pistol ound in his left lung while the owd asked questions which he anrered in an unintelligible manner, i rom what could be gathered from I ie negroe's monosyllabic replies it' ems that he wa8 working with the arion County Lumber Co.. and lother negro shot him in the shoui* ?r Sunday afternoon. The man as on his way to Hamlet where it as his intention to enter a hospital., e appeared to be suffering in tense J Lin. and a collation was taken tol elp him along. Later Dr. Osrdiw fc^otored physician, came alon? office where he; ^^^^^^H^^Hsisted him in DEMOBILIZATION AT I RATE OF 30,000 DAT y COAL REACHED BY WAR DEPARTMENT, IF NOT EXCEEDED Total of 3.210 Americano Taken Prisoner h? ??? ?>- p-'?* Says Penhiag. Washington, Dec. 21?Demoblisation of the home military forces at the rate of 30,000 a day, a goal set less than a month ago by the War Department, has been reached if not exceeded. Oen. March, chief of staff, announced today that demobilisation at the home camps during the seven day period ending December 14 was at an average of 27,000 a day, although no men were discharged from most of the camps on Sunday. [ Total demobilization on December 14 had reached 29,903 officers and 188,562 men. The chief of staff said | more than 900,000 men have been assigned for early demoblizattoa, including 21,000 divisional troops, 43.000 engineers and 16.000 men of the military aeronautics division. ! Gen. March made public a report from Gen. Pershing under date of December 15 saying at that time a total of 3,210 American officers and men taken prisoner by the enemy had ben released and that nni. - -? * ? ~"aj icw Americans in isolated camps remained prisoner. Red Cross workers and AVI lied and neutral agents, the report said, arenow searching for the tew still held prisoner. | Gen. Pershing has reported that 3, 214 American prisoners of war were 'repatriated up to December Id, Of j these 2,653 came through Switaerland, 324 passed through the Amerocan front lines, 120 went through I Holland and 113 through Denamrk. Those passing through Holland and | Denmark are now en route for luglaud, the dispatch said. | Gen. Pershing expressed the opinion that very few American prisoners remain in Germany and haltered these would be <pilckly evacuated. He sold a continued search Is being made for isolated prisoners. British and French officials in Switserftand, Holland and Sweeden and in Germany, itself aiding in this search. o AIRPLANE LIGHTS IN BKHRHRBVILLSL ' Propeller Broken?Two Piker Rmm Intended to Come Here Bat Landed In Imfta i Pee Dee Advocate:? A government air-plane landed here about 3:10 P. M. Saturday. The machine came from the south about 3 o'clock, and hundreds of people watched it circle around the city, looking for a place to land. It came down in a spiral, and landed In Mrs. Crosland's field neer the Blenheim road, about a half mile south of the depot. It proved not to be a good landing place, however. The ground which had been in corn, was not smooth. The wheels struck a bump of earth and bounded up. When it struck the earth again, it stood ea Its head, almost cutting a somersault. An end of the propeller stuck In the soft earth and broke off about a foot of it. Lieutenant H. H. Pope, who was the pilot and his . ?. U?I geant Van Acker, escaped Injury. The machine was disabled so that it could not be used till repaired Lieut. Pope phoned to Camp Jackson for a new propeller blade, and be expected to get it on the noon train Sunday and leave for Fayetteville X Sunday afternoon, but the weather was so bad Sunday, Monday and Tuesday that he could not leave till yesterday. Many people saw the machine land Saturday afternoon and these was a big crowd around it till night. Lieut. Pope and Sergt. Acker guarded the plane continuously day aiiu iiigm, wniie it was here. Whey erected a tent near it, and took tuma about guarding it, only one of them at a time coming up town to eat or sleep. o Deae-Hodge. One week ago today yoong Me. Hardy and Miss Bernlce Deas, two yo^ng people enjoying prosperity to egree, appeared taiow Davis and said they ^^^^^^B^doubled and their In fha preeenee audience, Jalp happy meaner, hound them to their Chrht 1* B. ^???