The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, May 06, 1915, Image 1
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VOLUME XXX.
* SPAIN PREPARING TO
JOIN WORLD WAR
Provided it. Should Become
Necessary in the Course
of Events
SPECIAL COMMISSION OVER
Headquarters Opened in New
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York For Buying Big Ammunition.
Spain is also prepairing for possible
war.
? A special communication of the
Spanish government, it was learned,
has opened headquarters in New
York for the purpose of buying 250,000,000
cartridges, several thousand
war automobiles, and a large flotilla
of aeroplanes.
The communication is also expected
to order a number of subamrines.
^ They are to be of two tonnages, a
large type for ocean cruisings and a
smaller craft for the shallower waters
of the Mediterranean.
The Bank of Spain has established
large deposits for the purpose of war
supplies with the National City and
First National banks.
There are five Spanish commissioni
crs, Col. Manuel Rr ero Balbil, Capt
B. Sarda and Capt Louis Claros, of
the Spanp army; and Commanders
Fernando do Carranza and Julio Moreira,
of the Spanish navy. Col. Balbil
is president of the commission,
which has headquaH#*^ in the Spanish
consulate, No. 18 Broadway.
Preparing for War.
Col Balbil and Capt Sarcjft were
ft seen by a reporter. In the presence
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consul, Senor de Salas shid:
"These gentlemen are here to
buy war supplies for Spain. Our
country is not going to war, but
we are preparing. We believe it
is wise to be all ready in these
days of trouble. The rest of Europe
is on fire. We do not know
how long or how far this war will
go."
"Is it true that England is furnishing
the money for these supplies?"
The question was waved away as
imposssible to answer.
The reporter then asked: Is it true
^ that fc>pain is preparing to protect the
" rights of the wealthy Spaniards driven
out of Mexico and whose interests
j are said to be represented by General
Huerta?"
f "There is no truth in that story,"
A replied Senor de Sal as. "The Span*
v ards who settled in Mexico will have
ocr look out for themselves."
4 p-merchant who has been negoCo!( }
n& with the Spanish commission
tail/ \ yesterday:
i exV * dealt with Capt. Claros. We have
V^.fi&d great difficulty in getting cartridges
because the allied- governments
have put in orders for all that
-the American manufacturers can produce.
We have been able to secure
11 about 25,000,000 rounds for the Mauser
standard rifles, but we want
many millions more."
The reporter said he had heard
Spain wanted at least 250,000,000
rounds. Senor Claros replied:
" 'I am not in a position to tell you
the exact amount. I can only say we
are anxious to obtain delivery by next
January at the latest. If you can dea
liver them by that time I think we
can do business on a big scale.' "
It had been reported in SpanishAmerican
circles that th6 ammunition
wns intended tr> rnit. TTnertn hnpk in
power in Mexico. Capt Claros was
interrogated on that point. He said:
"These cartridges are for Spain,
not for Mexico. It is true that the
4* Mexican rifle is of the same standard
Mauser type, but don't let that
fact misguide you. Although Huerta
has been living in Spain and although
many wealthy Spaniards were driven
out of Mexico and have returned to
Spain, we have nothing to do with
Huerta or the Mexican Spaniards.
f The Spanish government is paying
^ bills."
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UNDER SEA BLOCKADE
England Awaits Operations
With Interests and Some
Anxiety
German submaries which for two
weeks had been confining themselves
to the North sea, where they sank
several trawlers, again have appealed
on the trade routes off the west
coasts of Ireland and England and
caught two victims. They were the
British steamer Edale, sunk off the
Sicilly islands, and the Russian steamer
Svorono, attacked off the Blasket
islands. Both crews were saved.
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jLiiat, uiKen in connection with the
warning issued to American travelers
on trans-atlantic liners, doubtless
means another attempt with a
greater number of subamrines to
combat the blockade by England. It
is announced by the English papers
that the admiralty has found a means
of dealing with submarines, and the
people, in view of the latest attacks
upon steamers, are awaiting the result
with interest.
In face of submarine attacks, Zeppelin
raids and the bombardment of
Dunkirk, which bring the war closer
heme, England remains calm as ever.
There are some of course who feel
anxiety over the Western battel line
' t generally the feeling is one of
optimism based on the success with
which the allies have withstood former
attacks of the Germans to get
through to the coast ports.
The bombardment of Dunkirk,
which was repeated yesterday and
which has resulted in considerable
loss of life, has caused many women
and children to leave the town.. The
Germans can repeat the bombardment
whenever they desire with the big
guns which formerly were posted on
the coast to ward off the allied fleets.
On the remainder of the Western
front things are comparatively quiet,
although the French appear to be
still on the offensive between the
Meuse and the Moselle the Germans
claiming to have repulsed attacks
there. Consequently with the situation
at the Dardanelles established,
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mi,crest nas turned again to the Eastern
front, and particularly to the Russian
Baltic provinces which are being
raided by the Germans.
The extent of this new raid has
not been disclosed. Although the
Germans announce that the Russians
evacuated and burned Szawle and retired
toward Mitua, there is no evidenc
of any big battle being fought,
and the Russians express confidence
in their ability to deal with this new
diversion.
Along the East Prussian frontier
and in central Poland there has been
a renewal of the fighting which the
spring floods interrupted, while in
tne Carpathians, where the ground is
drying, the Russians and Austrians
again are contending for Uzsok pass.
For the moment the Russians have
turned from their offensive against
the passes to attack the Austrians
who were threatening their communications
in the direction of Stry and
have, according to their report, won
considerable success, capturing two
heights and a number of prisoners.
They also claim to have repulsed an
attack by the Germans who hold a
line near Wyszkow further eastward.
It is expected a big offensive soon
will be undertaken on the Eastern
trout, probably by the Germans, who
have been feeling their way toward
the Russian positions around the East
Prussian frontier, although this may
be a feint to hide a movement on
some other part of the line.
There is evidence that the allied
fleet has resumed the bombardment
of the Dardanelles but there is no
official confirmation of this report.
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Zepplins in Flight.
London, May 1.?A dispatch to The
Mail from Armwells, on the north
coast, says that four Zepplins were
seen at 6:30 o'clock last night eight
miles from the coast.
No airships have been seen by any
of the coast stations in this vicinity.
UlY COUNTY AND HER PEOPLE, FI
CONWAY, S. C., THURSDAY,
STRAIT WILL TELL
OF ASYLUM MUDDLE
Says He Will Enter Political
Arena Next Year in
Earnest
RECENTLY SUPERCEDED
Dr. T. J. Strait has a Lot to
Say in an Interview
Recently.
Announcement that he would prob
ably enter the political arena next
year and tell the South Carolina public
fully of the details of operation of
the State Hospital for the Insane, at
Columbia, of what changes and improvements
were made by him and of
the treatment accorded him by the
present state administration was
made by Dr. T. J. Strait, of Lancaster,
recently removed superintendent
of the asylum, shortly before he left
for his former home after being succeeded
by Dr. C. Fred Williams, of
Columbia.
Dr. Strait said his mind was no
fully made up as to what effort he
would take to make public his views
upon the situation at the asylum and
upon the actions of the administration
with regard to him. He forecast
ed a political upheaval in 1916 with
the asylum as the center of the vortex.
Dr. Strait said he did "not know
| whether he would run next summer
i for governor, or lieutenant governor,
I or for cnnffrpcc fvnm Vile "
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i That "some of the leading lawyers
i of this state hold the opinion that a
| superintendent of the asylum can not
. be summarily removed without cause,
; and that such action without cause
I would be illegal" was mentioned by
j him during the interview. He did not
' express his own opinion.
Dr. Strait said he had not brought
partisan politics into the government
of the asylum, and that he had
brought about 'a considerably more
efficient government at a less aggregate
expense to the state than that
which I found there." He declard a
comparison of th emonthly expenses
of March, 1914, and March, 191.5,
showed he had saved $7,200 for that
month. He also asserted the installation
of bread cutters saved the state
the cost of 82,000 loaves of bread
since he assumed charge. Giving
strict care to the amount of meat
cooked for each meal resulted in a
daily saving of 175 pounds, he said.
Dr Strait told of how he had become
very friendly with the patients
not wholly demented and "they shed
tears when told I was to leave." He
was informed, he said, that the stafT
of nurses had petitioned the,governor
not to remove him.
As he closed the interview, Dr.
Strait said he had assured Dr Williams
that he would gladly assist him
in any way possible.
Dr Strait left Columbia in mid-afternoon
for Lancaster. He said he
would resume the practice of medicine
at Lancaster after a rest of 10 days.
Gov. Manning made a statement to
the press yesterday regarding his action
in guaranteeing personally the
payment to C. Fred Williams, M. D.,
of $3,000 to supplement the salary of
that amount allowed the superintendent
of tho Stato
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sane by the general assembly.
Dr. Williams yesterday succeeded
as superintendent T. J. Strait, M. I).,
of Lancaster, an appointee of Gov.
Blease. Dr. Williams' term expires
. February 15, 1916.
Gov. Manning's statement follows:
"I have appointed Dr. C. Fred Williams
of Columbia as superintendent
of the State Hospital for the Insane,
for the term beginning May 1, 1915,
WEATHER
For Week Beginning We
Issued by the U. S. Wcath
FOR SOUTH ATLANTIC AND E
The weather will be fair the grea
what temperatures for a day or tw
j is some prospect of showers in a da
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RST, LAST, NOW AND FOREVER"
, MAY 6, 1915
FROM NATURAL CAUSE
Aim AAMAiiaHMIA ??
5AIU UUHUNtK'S JUHT
Cas$ of Mrs Ivy Cook who
Died Suddenly in the
Country.
ALARMING TALE TOLD
Coroner V. D. Johnson Called
to Examine the Cause
of Death.
Last Wednesday a tale reached
Conway to the effect that a Mrs. Cook
had been given poison by some member
of her family at her home in Dog
Bluff township, and had been found
dead in bed. The coroner was called
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death.
When the coroner made inquiries
he ascertained that it was the wife of
Mr. Ivy Cook of Dog Bluff township,
who had died and he went at once to
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me place, ne &uiuiiiuii6u aim
elled a jury of inquest who proceeded
to hear witnesses. It was soon apparent
that there had been no foul play
about the case. The mother of the deceased
was examined on oath and the
substance of what she told was to the
effect that Mrs. Cook had been suffering
from a complication of diseases
for some time; that she had been subject
to "heart spells" or something
of this kind. That there had been1
nothing unusual about the death of.
the woman and that no poison or oth-!
er substance of a deadly nature had
been given her at all. There was
nothing to show that the person died
from other than natural causes, and
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the jury rendered their verdict to that
effect.
The jury was empanelled in the
late afternoon and it was after dark
when the coroner's party left the
place.
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Steel Bridge Endangered.
The new steel bridge across the
Waccamaw river is situate on the side
near an immense pile of saw dust and
debris piled up by several years of operations
of the old Waccamaw Shingle
Co. This saw dust pile in some way
became ignited and when discovered
the approaches to the bridge were in
serious danger. An alarm of fire was
turned in, the flames extinguished
without any damage to the bridge.
and ending February 15, 1916. After
1 found the appointment of Dr. Sargent?a
man skilled in mental
troubles?was against the spirit of
the constitution, I looked around for
a physician, skilled, young, full of energy
and full of love for his fellow
man and desiring to be of service to
them. With these considerations in
mind, I consider Dr. Williams an
ideal choice.
"Dr. Williams had in Columbia a
lucrative practice and his own home.
To give up the practice for the salary
allowed would have entailed a heavy
sue mice on me parr 01 ur. Williams
and his family. Having his own home,
he desired and agreed to forego the
residence and perquisites that have
always been allowed super intendents
of the State Hospital for the Insane
and I then guaranteed personally to
him the extra compensation.
"I regard the proper care of these
1,700 unfortunates the largest work
of our State. Humanity demands it.
Money spent to give them the best
care and treatment will be well spent
I do not propose to disregard the constitution
and the law; I stand for
them, and if this increase of salary
for service to be done is forbidden,
I will pay it myself, rather than these
patients under the care of the State
should not have the best treatment
that can be secured."
FORECAST
dnesday May 5th, 1915
er Bureau, Washington. D. C.
AST GULP STATES:
ter portion of the time, with someo
over the interior districts. There
y so over the East Gulf States.
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CONCERNING THE
ROAD WORKING
Writer Explains Law and What
Results May Follow
Kicking.
(Written for The Herald.)
There has been considerable conversation
among our people about the appointment
of what are called hired
"overseers" in working the roads under
the new system; says Mr. Norton,
the Attorney for the County Board.
Most of this has been on account of
misunderstandings by some of the
road hands?and I can't blame them,
forth road law has been often changed
in the past few years; some of it
has been by those who will never have
a chance to find fault with* the style
of their halos in Heaven; a little by
those on road sections who have always
tried to make trouble; and just a
bit by those who want to beat out of
work by making confusion. The talk
is fast dying out. The great majority
of the road hands are working the
roads; and showing their willingness
to work under any suitable or competent
man selected by the Township
Supervisor."
The kickers are becoming fewer
and fewer as the days go by. Soon
a very large majority of the road
hands will have completed their work.
The roads of the County show it. This
is all the more satisfactory to those
responsible for the law and to the
officers charged with its enforcement,
because the work up to May 1st is
purely voluntary. The hands get
their credit of course, but they could
not be compelled to work until after
the first of May.
I may as well give a hint to the
kickers: It will be a hard matter soon
to get a jury without all of them or
most of them having..already worked
their six days tax on the roads. I
would hate to go before six men who
have sweated six days on the public
highways to be tried for trying to get
out of it. I'd have to have a mighty
good case; I'd lack sympathy; I'd get
justice.
The employment of hired overseers
is purely a question of policy. Some
of the Township overseers desire to
have their road hands work as close
home as possible and at the most convenient
times. They know that it is
virtually impossible to get an overseer
to work his hands after his own
six days is up, and, if he does, it may
be of great inconvenience to the
hands
An overseer under the complete
control of the Township Supervisor
can go over a long section of road
calling out hands closest and work
them one or two days a week, then
call out a new squad and work, and
so on until he gets to the end of his
section; then go back and start again
until the full six days of each hand is
put in close home and in short
periods. There are many other reasons
for such a policy on the most
important roads.
The Township Supervisors, I understand,
arc all attempting to suit their
methods to the best interest of good
roads and to the convenience of their
road hands. The hands are finding
this out and are mostly taking whatever
mistakes are made good naf
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help the Supervisors and overseers
make fewer or none next time.
There are few places from which
complaints are heard that have nol
been accustomed in the past to stb
ring up confusion. I have hoard them
before.
The present law makes it pretty
hard on the kickers and hold-backs.
After the first of May there's no
chance to pay. And after the work
next door to the kickers bus been
done by the kickers' neighbor, the
the kicker himself may be assigned to
another overseer any where in the
Township within ten (10) miles,
where he must do his work. And if
there are a majority of kickers in a
neighborhood, those who desire to
work may be put on their closet road
or may be assigned to some other
road to put in their time. Such section
may be left unworked; the traveling
public will soon be kept up,
such people will cause land values
I to fall as does any other war foolishj
ness.
NO. 3
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OF EPWORTH LEAGUE
Will Meet at Conway on May
Eighteenth to Twentieth
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MARION DISTRICT LEAGUE
Send in Names of Those Who
Will Attend to Mr Claude
B. Dusenbury
The Marion District Epvvorth League
Conference wil be held at Conway,
S. C., Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thurs
day, May 18, .19, and 20, 1915. The
meeting will open on Tuesday afternoon
at 3:30. Delegates may come on
the mid-day train. At least two
young people from every Methodist
Church in the District are requested,
and the organized Leagues should
send at least four.
Please send names of those who will
attened to Mr. Claude 13. Dusenbury,
Conway, not later than May 12th.
Delegates are urged not to arrive in
Conway on the night train, as it comes
so late that the committee cannot
meet it.
All the Pastors of the District are
expected to attend. Let all come
praying for a good Conference.
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BRINGING NICHOLS
TO SOUTH r A POT TV A
Federal Ofticers Start For This State
With Recent Prisoner at
Leavenworth.
Topeka, Kan., April 30.?W. J. Nichols,
formerly a member of North
Carolina legislature, today lost his
fight to prevent his return to South
Carolina on a federal indictment in
connection with operation of a farm
loan scheme, Federal Judge Pollock
denying his application for a habeas
corpus writ. A United States marshal
started South with Nichols late today.
Nichols was indicted in South Carolina
in 1910 for using the mails to defraud
. Later he went to Oklahoma,
where he was convicted of a similar
charge and sentenced to the Leavenworth
prison. When he completed
his term March 23, South Carolina officers
met him at the prison gates
and arrested him on the old indictment.
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First Shipment of Strawberries.
The first shipment of strawberries
o fthe 1915 crop went out of Conway
in refriderator cars Thursday of last
week. They were as fine as the Conway
berry generally is but the quantity
was not so large as the crop had
not ripened. Shipments have steadily
increased since then.
The crop will not be a very large
one, the same being cut short by the
cold and still shorter by the dry weath
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or. At the time of writing this item
prices on the northern market are an
unknown quantity to some extent;
but what there is of the crop it is expected
will be well developed and of
fine flavor, and the growers are ex
peeling very fair prices on an average
through this season.
But it is very evident that useless
and unnecessary complaining about
road working will soon be highly un11
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his six days on the road, the fellow
who tries to get out of it will feel his
anger; if the officers of the law allow
the fellow to get out of it, they will
feel like his kicks, too. There has
been times when a few persons coulu
get together, stir up a little confusion
and get out of their road duty
because the County road officers
, were too much burdened with other
i duties to bother with them. That
- time is past; it may as well be recognized.
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