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NEWBERRIAN ON ROBIN MOOR TELLS OF SINKING BY SUB Newberry, July 2H?Henry H. Blrod, veteran seaman, whose niany thrilling experiences Include a ship wreck In the Baltic when bin whip bad Ith bottom torn out when It ran onto u rock and his ihohI recent, one which he freely agrees la his moat unusual experience, that of having his ship uunk by u Merman Mubinarlne, arrived In Newberry yesterday with his nephew, Troy Klrod, who accompanied htm on his last trip. The Itobln Moor on which Mr. Klrod was chief engineer and Troy, a wiper, wua aunk [ In the early morning hours of May 21 In the South Atlantic, en route to Capetown, South Africa. Mr. Klrod la visiting his slater, Mrs. Alice Rinimer, and his brother, Wilton Klrod, and Mrs. Klrod, Troy's parents, here for severul days. Both men, though considerably tanned from exposure, are apparently none the worst for their experience. ! Though very modest, they anawored (juestlona freely ou their experience,1 the sinking of the Itobln Moor, 18, days in lifeboats and their rescue by ' the ship, City of Wellington. Mr. Klrod, in relating the story, said that It was about 4 o'clock in the morning when they huw lights of, an approaching ship end after algnala ' were exchanged found that they were talking to the captain of a submarine,! who ordered them not to use their' wireless and to stop the engines. I Captain K. W. Myers sent the chief officer, Melvin Mundy, in a small boat to the submarine at the submarine captain's command, "Send boat to me." Chief Mundy pleaded with the submarine officer to no avail, lie kept repeating to Mr. Mundy, "You have supplies for my country's enemy, I must sink you." Me finally agreed to extend the time for us to leave the Itobln Moor from 20 to 30 minutes after it was pointed out that In addition to the crew, there were eight passengers, among whom waa a little boy of two and a woman of (JO. Mr. Mundy suffered a broken anklo when jammed between the lifeboat arid the ship on bis return and "I was sent to take the ship's paper". Mr. Klrod stated. The submarine officer was told when handed the papers, "You will be sony.jf yjriCyarry out your threat to sink olfr ship." "See you In New York after the war." was his reply.. All the time that we were at the submarine they were busy taking our pictures. We asked for something to 11 x up Chief Mundy's ankli s and were given some (Jerman bandages. it wtlH (,H,k HU(1 1 couldnt mXke out the make or markings of tin* equipment on the submarine. "We wore given 30 inluutea to leave the ltobin Moor. Dob pi to his leg ^r> Mundy h an luted me with the removal of the crew and passengera. *1 was the lant to leave the Bblp. The la?t life boat had Just been loaded and pulllod out when I realized that 1 was the only one aboard, and although I could have Hwlinined tho dlatanee 1 called and they came back for me. In a few minutes the HUbmarlne began shelling and 18 minutes later the ltobin Moor was a floating ma?8 of | Hinall plecea. Just as we loft the ship It began pouring rain. "Three of the four lifeboats carried 11 men. while the boat I was in had 12 passengers, including little ltobin McOullough. Three of the passengers, being women. Mrs. It. W. McCullough, Mrs. II. M. Cohn. Mrs. H. G. Oemmell, and their husban'cls. I bad planned to take Troy In tho boat with me. but the chief mate In another boat asked that Troy be allowed to go with him as he was one of tho best men he had. All of tho boats stayed close to the hpot where the Robin .Moor went down for 24 hours In the hope that the submarine had sent out the SOS that they had promised and help would come. After that wo drifted and came together again on the eighth day and separated again. However, tow of the others kept a little better contact with us. "We really got hungry as we only had hard tack, one can of German bread, one can of Danish butter and ten gallons of water, a three day's supply. We asked for more water, but the submarine officer replied that they did not have any more tins. It rained continually .but we were not able to catch much additional water. It rained often. Just enough to keep us wet. The lifeboats only 20 feet long and very narrow, there was very little space. None of us could sleep except little Robin, who bad a soft bed on bis father's chest. He was the only one who could stomach the hard tack. Kvery one was so dumfounded when they came on deck to find that we were facing a submarine that there was not time for anything except to try to get Into the life preservers. "On the morning of the thirteenth day. but really I Just lost count of what day It really was. we saw something like a cloud In the distance that proved to be the smoke from a steamer. That was about nine in tho morning and it was 12 before we were picked up. Those were the most tense hours of the entire time for we were but a tiny speck and did not know whether the ship would see us 0,0,0.7 Had it been at night we could have sent up flares to attract attention. which we <ti< 1 every night. I.ater the ruptaln of the rescue ship The ( ity of Wellington, said that he would have probably thought we were a submarine had he seen the llares, Anvwav we kept hoping and finally when they were near enough we held up little Robin McCullough for them m see that we were not enemies. They soon picked us up and then began I the search for the other boats. Wo I circled for several hours a distance !?f some I" miles and when we didn t see any signs and as it was nearly j night decided there was no hope of finding them. The captain gave orders for the ship to be righted and set on its course. Just us the ship righted itself for the course we saw the other two life boats right in front of us. We were overjoyed to pick them up and really get started on our way again. Although the City of Wellington had Just enough food for the crew of 100 they saw that we were fed. They only had lOo eggs, a little sausage, hut plenty ot bread and butter and it was really good. We had traveled some 500 miles from the disaster of the Robin Moor and there was 500 more before we would have sighted land, but I believe we would have eventually made it. although there would probably have been Home dead, but 1 believe 1 could have made It. While on the City of Wellington 1 went Into the captain's quarters to listen to the reports on the small radio he had and heard the report that hope had ,beeu given up for our rescue. When I told Troy this he re* ! plied "Well I hope they don't ?ell iny car at home." "Wo arrived In Capetown, South Africa, June 16. Immediately after Retting off ship the other officers and 1 were Interviewed by the press, among the mon being, Robert St. John, Associated Press correspondent, who told us that the folks back home hud been anxiously awaiting news of us. We were Rlud to learn that our other life boat had landed at Pernabuco, thus accounting for the full ship's complement of 46. "We enjoyed our stay in Capetown and often while tnere went to some of the cafes on the ^edge of town where we ate the moat delicious fried chicken. Finally we got passage back for the crew on various ships with the exception of one of the men who was stricken as we were ready to leave with appendicitis. There are j so many people awaiting passage to the states and who are willing to pay any price to get here that we found It difficult to get epace of any kind ' on the ships. Mr. Elrod plans to remain >*ith rel* at Ives here several days, then visit around Greenville and his sister in North Carolina before again taking up his place on the seas. But as for Troy whose very first trip It was when asked what his plans were, just smiled and replied I have not decided what my future plans are. I .. . ????? Lee Safe Is Found; Money Is Missing A 600 pouud safe stolen from the J. K. Lee general store and filling etalion at the fork of the Kastover high' way undv IJ. 8. Highway No. 1 recently was recovered after being lo| rated In a thicket uear the Doby Mill section. The safe had been broken open and the caeh contents, aggregating $51 had been taken. Husiness records, personal war service records of Mr. *<ee and also private papers In the safe were all recovered, according Sheriff J. H. McLeod. The fact that a robbery of a slml lar nature, In which a safe was carted away in a truck, which ocpurrdtl near Florence has led to a belief that the two robberies were the work of the same gang. Dexter Boy kin Dead Funeral services for Dexter A. Boykln, 65, of the Hickory Hill section of I.*ee county, died suddenly at 2:30 Tuesday afternoon of a heart attack, were conducted Wednesday afternoou at 5:30 o'clock at Bfcldtn Methodist church. The services were conducted by the llev. George Phlfer. Surviving Mr. Roykln are his wife, the former Miss Virile Hancock, and the following children: Mrs. Ray | Barnes, Miss Agnes Boykln, Jack and Herbert lloykln. Also surviving are his mother, Mrs. Dpck Amersou and & number'of brothers and sisters? llishopville Messenger, . Joseph Wilson Swan, an Englishman, took out the first patent for making artificial silk In 1883. In his process, a pulp of wood and cotton wus squirted through small holes. Reports compiled by the Civil Aeronautics Administration show that persons participating in civilian aviation have increased more than double over previous years. Heavy Storm Break Extreme Heat Wave Camden's lone heat Bpell, f^aturta two weeks of near 100 degree teinjj ature %nd Intense humidity ?, checked Monday wheu a heav thunderstorm swept over this A noisy electrical disturbance ^ lug which several poles and tree, were struck featured the wash d*y downpour. I^ast Friday night, between 7:a and 0 o'clock the city was visited by an electrloal storm that was one of the noisiest and most destructive of the season. The home of Jud?e N. C. Arnett o? Broad street was struck by Ijghtni^ and it was necessary to summon the Are department to extinguish the blaze which had started. * The. home of Mrs. E. C. Stout it 2027 Broad street was also strut* during the storm. The lightning fyj.1 lowed a phone wire into the dwelling! blew out all of the electrical fuvul jumped to a nearby garage and bleu! up a section of cement flooring and I then vented its fury on a wooden! beam at the side of the garage. There! was no fire to follow this discharge. I notice of shareholders meeting To the shareholders of Chancetield Plantation, Camden, S. t\: Notice is hereby given of a meeting of the shareholders of Chancetleld Plantation. Camden, S. (V, that a meeting of tin- shareholders of said . _ uur puruliun will bit held in the law offices of Henry Savage. Jr., Ks<i.; in Camden, S on the 8th day of September at lb A. M . for the purpose of considering resolutions for the dissolution of stud corporation and the .surrender of its corporate chart IT. WALTON FKKCrsOX. T.nl. President. Camden. S. ('.. August S, 1911. 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