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LIGHT r In^ufy fo Berry Crop is Slight, li Says Trucker's Journal MOVEMENT WILL BEGIN Ik Around May First to Fifth and jlV Will Approach 1,500 Cars For the Season (Wilmington Star.) ^^^^ Vhat the damage to the strawber^H^^Brrop from the cold wave, snow and of last Saturday, Sunday and ^^^^^Kday^will not exeeed 10 or 1.") per I . and that damage to the other crops is tV.r below what had 1^^^^ expected is the opinion of the ^^^^^Polina Fruit & Trucker's Journal, ^^^^Hbhis city, of which Mr Z. \V. WhiteI A-1 is the editor, as expressed in ^^^^Btprehensive review baaed on reHBts from more than 100 shipping I^^^Knts in North and South Carolina Virginia, appearing in its issue today. Strawberries, according to Journal's forecast, will begin to ^^^Rrsre al>out May 1st to 5th, three ^Peeks later than last season. The Journal's review of the situation is as follows: "Special reports to the Carolina Fruit & Truckers Journal from more than one hundred of the largest shipping points in North and South Carolina and Virginia, regarding the damage wrought by the cold wave and freeze of last Saturday-, Sunday and jMonday, place the damage at figures far below what many had imagined it would be. So tough were the strawberry vines, lettuce leaves, English peas and wax beans as the result of the long and protracted cold spell of the past three weeks?about the only things now growinir above the L grouiul?that even the snow and cold of Saturday and, Sunday di/1 but littfe^lT^Ry damage' but the Monday morning got in its work, killing practically all of the strawberry buds in bloom at that time as well as peach and pear blossoms out at the moment. "To strawberries the damage will not exceed ten or fifteen per cent, and in a majority of cases for every bloom killed, another will come out to take its place and possibly two. This the loss on this score will, be greatly minimized. But in all cases where the berries had become formed and the bushes strawed, the snow percolated through and killed the immature fruit in this tender stage by freezing. It was chiefly from this cause and in this way that any material damage resulted to the strawberry crop. As the result of this last freeze however, the berry movement wiU be delayed for at least a week or ten days, and this added to the already backwardness of the season will start the berry movement in motion about May 1st to 5th?fully three weeks later than last year. "With reference to lettuce, would say that the damage will be so slight as hardly worth mentioning, although the cold was so severe as to hold back growth and development, thus dalay nik cm- bcuboii's movement for at least another week, in addition to the delays caused by the cold weather and frosts of the past three or four weeks in March. Hut a little real warm weather and sunshine sufficient to heat the ground will bring this around all right in short order, th same as strawberries. "The damage done the bean, potato and English pea crop in South Carolina will be from 20 to 25 per cent of the hearts, .10 per cent of the peatf and nothing insofar as .regards potatoes, for the reason that this crop was only sprouting cleverly and but partly out of the ground. All tops will therefore sprout again and in a short while he as vigorous and thrifty as ever. In North Carolina and Virginia the potato crop had but little more than begun to crack the ground here and there, and vines not. being more than two or three inches high in only a few instances. In consequence of this fact the damage to the potato crop in these two states will be a mere bagatelle. Some damage may result to potatoes from rotting in the ground because of having to lay there so long before sprouting, but, tins vyill bp, aboutth# extjent of the damage if;W5*faf"'? "The peach, -pear and appie trees wotild seem to have been hit hardest for the damage crop a will be something #ke $r''air $enk.v pro^dlnr^'toss elscwt^re'^ " on a * vHtJt the damage wrought around reports we get from peach , i*r South Carolina and Georgia would indicate less damage to the fruit crop in those two states than is fejKth.o case,in North Carolina. Reports! L'Xiin Virginia would indicate less the poach crop than was r:' V > w \ * i "Y T ' Sea Fight Rumor. ' ^London, April 12.?No official in-1 formation is obtainable yet concerning tbe naval engagement reported to have taken place off the Norwegian coast. While awaiting details cf this action, the public has been kept interested by the news of sounds of firing off Scarborough. France reports continued progress in the Argonne and beyond the Mouse, but admits that the German counter-attacks have been exceedingly fierce. At Kparges the French have not advanced beyond the positions they captured April 9th. Paris admits also that the Germans have recovered some ground between PontA-Mousson and St. Mihiel. The fighting inthe Carpathians conj t tinuos fiercely along a military mile front, with Kusaia claiming to have renulsed a detormhirxl I sive. On the Eastern flank the Rus; sians are drawing near to Uzsok pass, | which commands another easy road to Hungary. Interest in the near eastern situatii on has been stimulated by two special i despatches. One declares the recent mission to Berlin of Field Marshal von ! dor (loltz was instigated by the Young Turks, who have declared that Germany must send a strong force to invade Serbia and threaten Bulgaria in order that munitions of war might be i sent to Turkey. The other quotes tlv Bulgarian prime minister as saying a situation has been brought about by the action of the allies in the east in which Bulgaria sees a possibility of realizing her national expirations. The sinking of the Belgium relief ship Harpalyce, on her retina ^v^ge has created much comment here, but ! the American relief commission has not yet made ativ protest. ifiterest in the prohibition in England continues unabated. A morning paper asserts that the government is ni'OJ*'! I'm) "? 4-.. 1 - ~ ?.w uiive uvur IIIC * V ^ ",y Ot manufacturing light beer! press all other intoxicatingV : ? \ Will Stop Fight. ^ CharlestVb S. C., Apv^G__Sheri(y Martin of C^ai'lestot^T^ounty, who received instruci<ionj5r from Gov Manning today to en force the law in regard j to prize fighting, stated this afternoon that the scheduled 10-round bout and preliminaries at an athletic club here tonight would not be permitted. Kid Brown of Atlanta and Tim Callahan of Savannah were the principals annoui\ped. Virginia strawberries, as the crop in I that State is usually two weeks or j more behind the North Carolina crop, | and the berry crop was backward in that territory in production as it was j in this State. In the Norfolk territory a most fearful storm raged, as j told in a dispatch printed elsewhere, i North Carolina shippers suffered nothing of this character, neither did . the South Carolina growers have anything of this.kind to contend with. Taken as a whole the damage was slight indeed as compared with what many feared at the time. Had we had the usual wai m weather in February or March that ordinarily comes our way during one or the other of these months, the strawberry, lettuce and vegetable crops would have been practically destroyed; but | as it was the protracted cold weather all during the month of March and the greater part of February toughened the strawberry vines and lettuce plants to tbo nnitif -* ? [/vim in jyi cpunii^ in esc crops for the worst. "Based on a normal output of the acreage this year, the berry movement out of this territory should closely approach 1,500 cars, under refrigeration and by express. Of course the length of the season, prices, demands, etc., will naturally have much to do with the final result. Had we had ordinary spring-like weather during the month of March so that vegetation might have made some progress, strawberries would have been moving easily by the 15th, as they began rolling last year on the 9th of April. A long season always yields the best returns in the end, but all I 7 sections have been held back by adverse weather conditions this year | and we are still JHfjkpeful that we shall be able to market a full crop, although we nyjjMf reasonably expect a short sea^frhe Mcrriman plant coyer* Vould have made a hit ^his year had general use, as the r tiiles WestblXJOlj&y ites fcJTv demongrated with ibc^Tettuce and strawiQ \ . Are You Just at Odds With Yourself? Do You Regulate laving? Are von snmot5m?o ..* --1-1 - ?*** . _ ? ..?tit mui? WIT.r | yourself? Do you wonder what alii ! you ? True you may bo eating regu I larly and sleeping well. Yet som^ i thing is the matter! Constipntioh Headache, Nervousness and Billioui i Spells indicate a Sluggish Liver. Tht tried remedy is Dr. King's New Life Pills. Only 25c at your druggist. Bucklep's Arnica Salve for SkJi> Eruptions.?adv. V \ ' ft '' * ' I mk THE HORRY HE^A GERMANY COMPLAINS I OF BAD TREATMENT _____ * Says United States Has Acquisod in British Ortkr WITH GERMAN STATES /Ulic3 Obtain Large Shipments Nothing Accomplished by Diplomatic .Correspondence Germany has sent to the United States a note complaining that the latter has accomplished nothing in its diplomatic correspondence with the > Allies to obtain for American exporters the right to ship foodstuffs to the civilian population of a belligerent country. The communication intimates also that the United States has virtually acquiesced in the British order in council prohibiting commerce with Germany. In view of these considerations Ger many calls attention to the fact that the Allies are daily obtaining large shipments of arms and ammunition from dealers in the United States and declares that the American government while insisting on its legal right to ship arms to belligerents, does not with equal energy pursue its right to ship food-stuffs and non-contraband articles to the civilian population of Germany. The notes urges that irrespective of the formal aspects of the question of shipping arms to belligerents the spirit of neutrality should be observed. In support of this contention, a quotation is cited from President Wilson's address to Congress on Me\ica1i affairs in August 1918, when,.he said: Quotes President Wilson. "I shal folow the boA practice of nations in the nia^'f neutrality by forbidding tj^^exportation of arms or ynunitiogf^'of war of any kind from ^?fiUiiited States to any port of the MMpublic of Mexico?a policy suggestedVby several interest )|rt precedents and crtainly dictated by manifest consideration of practical expediency. We cannot in the circumstances be partisians of either party to the contest that now distracts Mexico or constitute ourselves the virtual empire between I them." Officials of the State Department have begun the preparation of a reply. The complaint that neutral countries had submitted to the influence of the Allies in connection with the right to ship conditional contraband has been made by Germany in her dip lomatic notes. i It is understood that the reply to I the present complaint will deny vigorously that this government has acquiesced in any way to the order in council and probably will refer to the last note sent by the United States ! to Great Britain arguing at length ' in opposition to the viewpoint of the Allies on the blockade question. As for the utterance of the President on the shipment of arms into Mexico, officials here hold thnt- Hm Mexican situation constitutes a special case in no way comparable with the relations between the United "States and the European belligerents. o { SUMMONS FOR RELIEF. (Complaint Served. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, ' County of Horry. Court of Common Pleas. The M. B. Thompson Company, a Corporation, Plaintiff, vs. L. W. Ludlam, Conway Savings Bank, and Conway Live Stock Company, Defendants. TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the complaint in this action, of whi^> a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a cfc^y of your answer to the said complaint on the subscriber at his office at Conway, S. C., within twenty days aftdr the service hereof; exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the complaint within ,the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this action will apply to Court for the relief demanded in the complaint. Dated April Oth, A. D. 1015. H. H. WOODWARD, Plaintiff's Attorney. TO L. W. LUDLUM, Absent Defendant: TAKE NOTICE that the Complaint in the foregoing stated action and the Summons, of which the foregoing is a copy, were filed in the office of the 1 Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, at Conway, S. on the 13th day of \ : l 4 r\ < rv ['ill V. 1 I \t I ?). 11. 11. WOODWARD, Attorney for Plaintiff. W. L. llRYAN, (I,. S.) C. C. C. 1\ a' LD, CONWAY, S. C. GERMANY PAYS FOR ! VESSEL AND CARGO But William P. Frye Matter Goes to*Prize Court REPLY' TO WASHINGTON Assumes Liability for Sinking of Schooner by German Cruiser, EUtel Freidrich. Germany's intention to'compensate the owners of the American ship William P. Frye, sunk on the high seas with her cargo of wheat by the com ^ . . . ... - uicict; rmuer rrinz HJitel ifreidrich, was communicated formally to the United States government last week. Ambassador Gerard cabled a note handed him by the Berlin foreign office in reply to the recent American communication submiting an indemnity claim for $228,059.54, on behalf of the Frye's owners. The foreign office upholds the legality under international law of the raider's action in sinking the Frye and bases the liability of the German government to pay indemnity solely on the old Prussian-American treaties of 1799 and 1828, which provide that contraband belonging to the subjects or citizens of either party cannot be confiscated by the other, and may be detained or used only in consideration of payment of the full value. In view of this situation, the note says, the American ftwnoi-o i? ...i j.i J1 I IA CI t UU compensated their loss. It is pointc, , ac, however that the case must go into a prize court that questions of ownership, cargo and destination may be established formally. o? UNIVERSITY NOTES. Columbia, S. C., April 10.?This i:as been Easter week at the University of South Carolina, and every evening has been made to contribute its particular part to the general enjoyment of this time-honored University fete. Monday was a holiday, and on that morning the student body selected as their Easter week queen to preside over the festival Miss Elmira de Graf fenreid, of Alabama, who is a niece of Dr. and Mrs. A. C. Moore. The queen,' an exceptionally sweet and gracious young lady, is a junior at the College for Women. The coronation occurred at the stunent body reception on Wednesday evening, the crown of blossoms and sceptre of flowers being bestowed by President Currell amid the enthusiastic acclamations of right willing- serfs. The Easter German was given Mon dav ovoninff nt T ^ f ..? ? Tr-1-1 ?...b ?vv vuc ovm;i sun noit'l to more than five score quests and was one of the most brilliant and successful social functions ever staged by the University's dance club. Following the reception of Wednesday evening, the Varsity Glee Club gave its annual concert in the chapel auditorium Thursday evening. This was the initial performance of the 1914-15 troubadours and was very well received indeed. Friday evening the student body gave its annual dance in compliment to Her Majesty Elmira I, the dance being held at the University gymnasium. The only ball game of the week was played Saturday afternoon at League Park, the warm spring luring an unusually large number to the boxes and bleachers. Carolina's athletic park will soon be ready to accomodate the spring fans, the general repairing o? [ bounds and grandstand being now' very close to completion. L. D. SINGLETON. o French Steamer Sunk. Fecamp, France.?The three misted fishing vessel, Paquerette of Fecamp was sunk by a German submarine off Etretat, nine miles southwest of yecamp. The crew was rescued. 1 American Army Officers Recalled Washington?The five American Army officers on duly as mllharW observers with German armies Qiavc been ordered here and their places will nnt 11a nn?1'? * ..... ?? i i t.aTj.in by Secretary Garrison for the njcal\ order was that their mission had ?een fulfilled. That statement, It uas an- . nounced, would be the war ciTepartment'a last word on the matteV is known, however, that other reasons, largely of a personal /Character, were considered by army'officers, in determining to withdraw observers. Big Steamship Company Fails. New York.?The International Mercantile-Marine Conipany, the giant steamship combination organized ii*. 1902 by J. P. Morgan & Co., which placed under one control some of the principal English, American and Belgian steamship lines between the United States and Europe went into the hands of a receiver. The company has for six months been unable to pay Interest on its $r?2,744,000 four and a ' half per cent, collateral trust bonds \ said to he on account of war. I I . . - , ... Error Corrected * Kditor Herald:? I notice in the Herald of inst., you make two typographie^^^B rors in the article I sent you foi^^^B lication. The first is 'in. one graph where 1 \srotc 50 percent.J^^B publication reads 5 per cent. Thl^^B ond is another paragraph wrote 100 per cent., your publh^^B* makes me say 10 per cent. The^B1'" rors are confusing to the reade^^fc,R we have never claimed to assess^^JP" erty at 5 or 10 per cent., but \\^Hirc how assessing at 50 per cent. a^B*ny contention is that it should be sed at 100 per cent., as the CoiJBtu* tlbn requires. If you will kindljB01'rcct these errors the reader wW able to comprehend the whole ;afl mle without confusion. m Vours truly, ^ JEREMIAH SMI'nJ (Wo are glad to make thesjE corrections. 'Stich mistakes will no matter how careful we are.?M| ) TOWN COWNCIL MEOTS Discusses Several Subjects in Relation to the Improvement of the Town. I The Town Council of Conwal at its regular meeting on Monday niglnt proposed quite an advance, and yelt much needed step?that of bond isJue for public improvements, Nothinjg definite has yet been decided upon, but the matter was gone into prctt j thoroughly l?v the members of fl, e Council on Monday night and fin x\ action postponed until the people of the town*could be consulted with /and uiv en an opportunity to e.xprelss their views pro and con. > The Town is so badly in lebt, and the necessity of more and gi eater improvements, so apparent, that this was considered the only feasible plan to bring the town out of debt and place it in keeping with th > naterial progress and development o f the town and community. Monday night's meeting was a very important one. At this meeting, the Secretary of the Hoard of Health announced the expiration of the term of office of one of its members, and oh recommendation of the) Board, Mr J. S. Battle, was named a.s a member of the Board. The Board as now composed consists of: A. T. Cjoflins, H. H. Burroughs, A. E. Goldfinch, J. S. Dusenbbury and J. S. Battle. On request of the Board, the Town appropriated $250 to the use" of the Board for the present year; appointed a committee to look into the feasibility of securing a house for the use of the Board as a Pest House for those having contagious and infectious diseases. Every evidence of the Council and the Board working in strict harmony has been shown t|ius far. The loPal fire department at this meeting made a report c^f its recent ^ reorganization, and asked' for an ap- j propriation from Council to further equip the department. The Council expressed its hearty appreciation of the recent good work of the depart- ^ rrie'nt, and put itself on record as favoring better equipment and will ( make every effort to comply with the department's request as the finances of the town will permit. The Town Treasurer reported to the ^ Council that he had since the last j meeting reduced the indebtedness of the town by the payment of the $1,i>00 note given the Peoples National! Bank by the last Council, and one y given by them for $4.r>0 to the Ureka } iFire Hose Company, and the payment oi some interest due by the town on | some other notes. An Ordinance was introduced for a first reading making of force the re cent Act of the Legislature relative to a gallon-a-month consumption of whiskey,w-and also one relative'to the selling by local merchants of such intoxicants as Beef, Iron and Wine, considerable complaint against such having recently been made by the citizens of the town. The following claims were approved by the Council at this meeting: A. T. Cpllins, feed, $25.95; L. R. Ambrose, aajary, $80; A, H. Long, salary, $40; Conway Drug Company, paper, $1.00; Attorneys fees, $25.00; Conway Iron Works; repairs, $1.75; Horry Hardware Co., buekots, etc,, for firo, $5.90; Stamps and Stationery. $16.25; Wood, $1.25; Bjnkie Davis, scouring, .50; Nisson-Todd Co., equipment for street workers, $2.03; W. O. Burroughs, lumber, $17.00; Conwby National Bank (fire hose note, former Council, $483.75; Peoples National Bank, note (former Council) and interest, $1,510.00; Peoples National Bank, interest on $750 tank note, $25.00; Conway Light & Power Company, lights, $238.10; Conway Drug Co.. medicines, .65; S. P. Hawes, feed, $7.30; Pay Bolts, street hands ^ for five woek^, $96.80.i , I > wM JJMfcP' t'MmP+r' ' ITALY HANGS : . t' Riissiaris Continuing' r "'v' V t *7,' j *a /.'*\e ^arPathian3,~ t*p \k ( x; c i'il Reports T./li nfl> ; R? Important AdvaJict. i . the situation in regard * it ?f , pean war a? it stood i ft, last week's operations' tr> > 1 |p | ly stated as folows: J i tfhe par row strip >f to .iU ft ivi'fiAii i u? -. i i it i ' lHC 11 vers JVieu.se ann a. f j *n ^runce? where the (.Jen rfrh w I 01 months past hate beer j x* ri i against -tlio French line, is th ' j of some of the moat sahgui r; i; i mg of the war. A detailed statement l>v ) ft ' j war office gives a summrt-.v f f \ ^ults atained by o ensi- ?| ' A naissancos aiid attacks wh* 1 K.FI / lies have carried on siiu / ;L 1 J with the object of forcing d* ll man w*j&e aruj atraightf m f\ own lines. .im'-J in this period of time i ,i* 4'^ been a gain on a 12 mile I of (J ?|i J/ and west of Verdun, of ?n 4lYr {? thirds of a mile to two mil. b lanes have been carried tiJf njjlfjft I tench have occupied heigl & rating- the Ornc. f[ \ ||| Similarly the French ch ^ have captured the plateau c??rt ing Combres, have occupifl ji) southwestern part of the A'^J fl! aiul have gained nearly two 11 iVjr' ! a five-mile front between- tl of Montmartre ami Le Pret? 'T!^l The German war office, \> ',Utf|'|j)?j successes in this region at e.'liul'jjBj that the French have made ir, no progress, being repulse- d j:j^S rious points. 1-ujM There seenfs to be little i fj*iw the sharp edge of the w ;e AAfj been moved back (list; II there is a certainty, too, tl posing forces are payin, a H I price in killed and wound. ' fl I urges as an illustration of casualties, the French rep , t ing of 1,000 German dead The situation in the 1'ar solves itself into oncyof ?s far as the official sta'em s cerned; The Russian -ep? rt ly confined to the weste> i !i the Beskid mountains, v\d d ( sian drive has had it? uiru^B' filflijl cess. The Austrain r port ^B !$$* the east Beskids, whcR G'*t?Sfl 'V'/jj.'' s \l!fi j Austrians have been \\tifj ately in the Luborcza vnf/j^Bf lV great Russian forces, j : ( In this sector the Aistri^B J to have repulsed the flicting enormous losses, . t >; An unofficial report fr^B it ^ grad announces that the<B have peneti %ted the Aus< fl , . | cutting the army of Gen B< ;!{' / two, seriously endangering it 3rn wing of the Austriar 1 the Beskids. I^A'' A French corps from Af Gen D'Amude, has beep / Alexandria, Egypt, and th< i v j-'y orders to proceed to the su illied fleet and British e>:p tl .'orces in the operation .ag, iA V ^.-j cey. An attempt fhas 'been mi ' mtive Egyptian to assi* si t j jultan of Egypt, Hussein jf<W. iN >ullet went wild and the s "tflu/H' iailant was seistfed':" " Although Italy 'has ner army along the. Austip ( < ind her navy withiri striking ' 3f the Adriatic, she still ip'n t" ing to exhaust every diplpma' nfc t.\ for settlement with Austrr? 0/ J question of territorial ( />* cs , ( Rome advices indicate ti j should Italy enter the war b? ' ' i not strike for some time*., tj i;ij 'IjPM lieved the decisive struggle vfl : ; J begin before the ear1 y sumh iij cj I would allow, Italy a eonsif '3>u J terval to decide on 1 r polr ) I ' 1 The Austrian coi >spori*;w | Turiti newspaper tbfegraf, I reliable 4nformatioh that fl basis for the reports that ;Av fV j seeking peace with the ,'f-i >?"-JmmsA J1 tente powers the better to <V'lvjf9BBI i 'i' 1^. JBI The losses of men durinf A ! IjSSHH oitfht months of tho war f.tf J' T| newspapfer at* b,%O,O0O; 'I** thq war for tho first six m<M is placed at $8,500,QQQ,00Q, ?!, Con Pau of the French'I? Naples on his way from iM'f |j&and the I.alkan capitals. Austrian aviators drolfrlf -gfc; bombs yesterday on PodgHHp^p that 12 women and CuiljBBfc' othe*' '