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PROTECT THE HARBORS W OF UNITED STATES ? "Defensive Areas" Designated By Government to be Observed by the Vessels CHARLESTON INCLUDED IN SPECIAL ORDER All Ships Required to Observe Very Strict Rules in the Matter. Washington.?An executive ordei designating "defensive sea areas" 01. coasts of the United States and it? insular possessions was made public today. Regulations gathering the movements of vessels in these water: aie appended, and the order concludes with this statement: "The responsibility of the United States of America for any damage inflicted by force of arms with tin object of detaining" any persons o; vessels proceeding in contravention to regulations duly promulgated i: accordance with this executive ordn shall cease from this date (April 5).' The areas specified are: Mouth oi the Ivenebcc river, Portland, Me.; Portsmouth, Boston, New Bedford, Newport, Long Island east, New York east, New York main entrance, Dele ware river, Chesepeakc entrance, Bui timore. Potomac, Hampton Roads Wilmington, Cape Fear, Savannah, Key West, Tampa, Pensacola, Mobile. Mis.; Galveston, San Diego, San Francisco. Columbia river, Pert Orchard, Honolulu and Manila. An inner and outer limit is fixed for each aiea and the Secretary of the Navy is charged with the duty of publishing and enforcing the regulations. Entrances for inbound and outbound ' vessels are designated for each port. The lightships or other markers of courses to be followed are given with compass bearings for the information of the mariners. What Vessels Must Do. "A vessel il/.niing to cross a deI ft..rive anm," the regulations state, "shall proceed to the vicinity of the , entrance to the proper channel, flying i her national colors, together with international code number and pilot signal, and there await communication with the harbor enrtanee patrol. It is expressly prohibited for any ves sel to enter the limits of a defensive sea area otherwise than at a designated entrance and after authorization with the harbor entrance patrol. Boats and other craft employed in the harbor entrance patrol will be distinguished by the Union Jack, which will be shown from a position forward; they wi.. also fly the usua' naval pennant. At night they wili show a vertical hoist of three lights, white, red nml white in the order named. "On receiving permission from th? l.uibor entrance patrol t0 enter a defensive sea area, a vessel must comply with all instructions as to pilot age and other matters that she may receive from proper authority, either before or during the passage across the area; it is understood that only upon condition of such cmnpliance is the said permission granted. No Passage at Night. "No permission will be granted to other than a public vessel of the United States to cross a defensive sea ?rea ueiwccn sunset and sunns?, no1, during the prevalence of weather cor ditions that render navigation difficult of dangerous. A vessel arriving off a defensive sea area after sunset shall anchor or lie-to at a distance of ei least a mile outside its limits unti' the following- sunrise; vessels discovered near the limits of the area at 1 night may be fired upon. "No vessel shall be permitted to j proceed within the limits of a defensive sea area at a greater speed than five knots per hour. "All matters pertaining to fishery 1 find the passage of small craft within a defensive area shall be regulated < by the senior officer of the harbor entrance patrol. 1 "Those regulations are subject to modification by the senior officer of i the harbor entrance patrol when the < public interests may require; and 1 -such notification as circumstances i may permit will be issued regarding 1 modifications thus made. j Penalty for Violations. < "Any master of a vessel or other 1 person within the vicinity of a defen- 1 aive area who shall violate these i ^W'~'" ray SPRAYING IN SPRIN6 j 1 Take Pains to Destroy "Flies'* of the Pear Psylla. Insects Are Sluggish In Their Move* ments In Early Months of Year, Making Them Quite Vulnerable to Treatment. (By H. HODQKINS. New York.) Esi>eclal pains should be taken to destroy the eggs as well as the winter "flies" of the pear psylla, as effective work greatly reduces the number of eggs deposited on the trees. In early spring while the insects are able to crawl they are very sluggish in their movements. This habit makes them very vulnerable to treatment and the grower should take full advantage of it by so spraying that none of the insects be allowed to escape. It Is to wet thoroughly all portions of the trees and especial care should be taken to force the liquid under the loose bark and into all the cracks and crevices in the bark. One tree should be thoroughly sprayed before proceeding to another, for in balmy weather the flies may dodge quickly to the op- , posite side of the tree. In planning this work be sure to select days when th^re is no danger of the spraying mixture freezing on the trees. The eggs about to hatch and the young nymphs succumb easily to an!] application of lime-sulphur mixture.'] In this lies a very important hint to /fcb A A Illustration at Left Shows the Best ( Stage for Spraying to Destroy Psylla j Eggs?At Right, Too Early for Ef- i fcctive Control. the fruit grower. The eggs of the psylla are laid principally during April , and commence to hatch early in May! or when the blossom cluster-buds arei1 beginning to separate at the tips. |1 Most growers spray much earlier thanii this for the San Jose scale, but byji postponing the treatment of pear or-jt chards until the blossom clusters are ( well advanced one may deal an ef-1 fnfltl.fi. I. *!._ 11- -1 icvmu uiu? aftrtiii.il uiu psjrua anu with the same treatment successfully i: combat the scale. The spray should! be used in liberal quantities and pains! Bhould be exercised to wet all portions ', of the tree, especially the fruit spurs; and the under sides of the young i wood, where most of the eggs are laid. o There is mischief in those eyes. I, There is a marvelous charm in her every rythmic movement. Th pre i c ca wnn derful n m. MVl W 11/ t* T T V/llVlVl till J appeal in every install- 1 ment of our new photoplay JPatria \ cRria! <Juptvntt ^JhVernon Gastk MtBmtJDnrmtd.X/jtKHoimirunaAlKJMfrtm *y INTERNATIONAL KtLiiifJ iy PATHS <> Bad Cough? Feverish? (irippy? You need Dr. Kind's New Discovery to stop that cold, the soothing balsom ingredients heal the irritated membranes, soothe the sore throat, the antiseptic qualities kill the germ and your cold is quickly relieved. Dr. King's New Discovery has for 48 years been the standard remedy for coughs and colds in thousands of homes. Get a bottle to-day and have it handy in your medicine chest for coughs, colds, croup, grippe and all bronchial affections. At your drug gist, 50c.?adv?No.2? regulations, or shall fail to obey an order to stop or heave-to, or shall per form any act threatening the effi-1 cicncy of mine or other defenses of the safety of navigation, or shall take any action inimical to the interests of the United States in its prosecution of wfcr, may be detained therein by force of arms, and renders himself liable to prosecution." . % THE BOEBTHERA TERRIFIC BATTLES FOUGHT IN THE AIR Twenty-eight British Machines Missing, Says Report From Headquarters in France. London, April 7.?In terrific air fighting duiing the last two days and nights in Northern France B.itisl aeroplanes carried out numerous raid ing and dropped more than eighty tons of bombs. Twenty-eight Brit ish machines are missing, says th< official statement from British head quarters in France tonight, and fif teen German aeroplanes were seen to crush to the ground and thirty-one German machines were driven down damaged. Ten German balloons, the statement adds, were brought down in flames. For two days and two nights, Thursday and Friday, British aeroplanes have been active in raiding German ammunition denots ami 'rail way junctions, More than 1,700 photographs of scenes and localities fm back oi' the Gorman lines were taken by British aviators, who also harass t'd German lines of communication. French Plans Active. Paris, April 7.?"On Thursday night one of our aeroplanes squadrons made seven sorties and dropped 140 kilograms of projectiles on one my works at DumviHers, Spincourt, in Manginesc forest and in Billy forest. During a bombardment of Rheims yesterday several In os brok< jut. Ten civilian", of whom three ire women, were wounded. During :he night German aviators threw lown several bombs in the region of Nancy, causing neither loss of lit' lor material damage.'' Berlin Statement. Berlin, April 7 (Via I.ondon).? Die Entente Allies yesterday lost 'orty-four aeroplanes en the Western front, says the official statement issued today by the German aimy leadquarters staff. Thirty-three of he British or Fiench machines were lestroyed in aeiiul cngagments. Five jcrman aeroplanes, the statement ulds, did not return. MANY SUBMARINES ARE DESTROYED I 1 Mount Pleasant Man Just Back j From England Tells of Costly Policy. Capt. Thomas F. Webb, who resides at Mount Pleasant, has just return id from a trip to England, having 3ecn second mate on an American steamship whi^h sailed from Savannah No submarines were sighted on 3ithoi tho outward trip or when returning, and no consideral le uneasiness was experienced, especially on the trip across, because at that timo| the declaration of a state of war ha?. not been made by this country. Sti ict regulations were in force in Fngland anel an officer was required, to be back aboard his vessel at a certain hour every night or suffer a heavy curtailment of pay. A list of j submarines destroyed was lopt in English shipping offices and showed that two or three submarines were destroyed for every vessel attacked i ur.d sunk. Figures of the total sailings were also kept, and the small percentage of vessels lost also added to the optimistic impression. Only once was it known that the vessel v as in actual dnager, and then only after the danger was past. Thi | was a short distance off an Irish port. On arriving there, it was learned that a vessel had been sunk in the immediate waters traversed by the American craft a very short time before it passed the spot, and that there submarines were nearby at the time. Mr Webb said today that he thouirht he would not shin nevnin if sailings to Europe were continued, but that he would go if the vessels of his line were used in the South American trade, as had been talked of. One of the fleet was sold at a high figure, and the sailings formerly in force have thus been disturbed. 9 Whenever You Need General Tonic Take Grove's The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic is equally valuable as a General Tonic because it contains th? well known tonic properties of QUININE and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds up the Whole System. SO ctuts. 9 . ? ? ilD. OONWAT. 8. O. BUD WORN OF CORN IS ft SERIOUS PEST Larva of i2 Spotted Cucumber Reetle Kills Much Bottom Lanb Corn. ? Clemsoa College.?Th# Vud worm of corn, a serious pest to bottomland corn, in South Carolina la the larva or grub of our common twelve spotted cucumber beetle. This beetle or parent may be found at the present time feeding upon small grain in the fields,; fruit blooms about the orchard, or on almost any other green vegetation found about the farm. The larva or grub confines its activity to corn and various grasses found growing N in Iqw moist lands,' rommonly known as bottom lands. The eggs are laid by the parent beetle from about the first of March to the 1 middle of April. Corn planted on low lands during the egg laying period is very often seriously damaged and sometimes completely destroyed by this insect. After the corn has reached a height of about ten inches no i serious injury occurs. Remedial Measures. Avoid planting bottom lands infested with bud worms until about two-thirds | of the grubs have reached the' quiescent period. The planting dates' for various sections of the state has. been carefully marked out and are fol-1 lowed bv many of our farmers. They are as follows: ! For lower South Carolina plant after May 5th. For middle South Carolina, plant one week later. For upper South Carolina or the Piedmont re^'mv p'ant two weeks la-! tor or about May the 10th. By carefully observing the plan tin*' dates a stand of corn may be secured j while the grubs of the first generation are sleeping in the soil, then before the second generation comes. ;he corn is too large to be seriously injured. W. A. THOMAS. Assistant entomologist. Clemson College. SWEET POTATO DISEASES Seme Timely Pointers on the Sweet I Potato Diseases Which Should Be Kept In Mind at Bedding Time. Clomson Colleee ?As the time approaches for bedding sweet potatoes the way in which some of the more troublesome of the sweet pota<to dis-j eases get into the held and spread should be kept in mind. Rlack rot of sweet potato which is probably tbe most common of the, sweet potato diseases lives over winter on 'the potatoes In the form of small black or dark colored blotches or spots on the surface. Where potatoes affected with this trouble are used | for seed the disease gets into the sprouts that come from these and Is carried directly into the field. Here the disease attacks the roots and the potatoes and after causing consider- , able damage Is brought hack again < into the banks or storage houses the next fall. Potatoes used for seed should be free from disease. There are seven' t.ther diseases of sweet potatoes that can he defected /\n !?/* uond art/I fha f om?Aa/l ? " /wa i wii i m'j o^t u auu tuai ^I'trau i 11 r.\a''ll.v I the same vav that the black rot does. In picking out potatoes for seed those J should bo looked for and wherever found the seed affected with them should he discarded or if clean seed cannot be secured they should be treatod with formalin solution as indicated above. These diseases live on the tubers and roots but do not attack the vines so where potatoes are grown later in the season from cuttings irorn vines the disease would "r\t bo rvosent. This is the reason why potatoes grown from vines keep VM"' than those grown from slips. It is wkI to grow seed potatoes for next venr in this way from cuttings made from the vines. o Subscribe to the Herald?$1.00. o Read the Story in this Paper, You can't afford to miss J^htria j%r Jtnal (Juptvm*. 4f JNTRRNATIONAL WW *y P A T H E 0 TWICE VICTIM OF U-BOAT QUITS SEA F ^ ! San Francisco Youth Has Had Enough of Excitement for a While. Will TXY TO FORGET Wit M?t Hit First Submarine In the Mediterranean and Hie 6econd in Irish Sea?No Warning Given Either Time. Boston.?Joseph Barnett of Sun Francisco, lute second saloon cook aboard the Baron Ogllvy, Is only .twenty. But twice he has been the , victim of a submarine. | Young Barnett met his first submit- i rlne in the Mediterranean a year ago, his second iu the Irish sea last January. Now he's on his way back to San Francisco, where the war seems fur awuy. No more of the sea for i him, he says, until the war's oyer, j lie shipped first, when he was fourteen, as a galley boy aboard a Union Line boat plying between Vancouver, San Francisco and Australia. Four years Inter found hiui sccppd saloon cook aboard the Medic of the White Star line, hound from Liverpool to Mediterranean ports und the Antipodes with a general cargo. This was iu February of last year. They had been 15 days out and were somewhere off Sicily, Barnett thought, though out of sight of land, when a torpedo put an emphatic period to their progress. Never Saw Submarine. "We never did see the submarine or , the torpedo," he said, "it was about , dusk, and the sea was fairly smooth. 1 was cooking in the galley when she hit us. There was an explosion in the engine room which wiped out the 1 whole watch below?about a dozen of ' them?and the ship lurched to star- 1 hoard suddenly and all the dishes and pans went slid.mr. The-cooU und T rushed up on deck, and so did the rest, hut we were ordered buck. 14 'It's ul! right, lads,' the captain said. "Don't lose your heuds. Go buck, it'll be all right now.' 1 "Hut she began settling down at the 1 stern, and soon we were told to take 1 to the boats. It took ten minutes to ] lower thein?there was no trouble? , and then we pulled away and laid by until she went down, stern tirst, half 1 till llnilt' Ititop A l.*??...w.I* i ? 1 .... ....... ...iv.il n a l HIV II nil JICUU UllllL picked us up uud we were landed in 1 Marseilles the next morning." I Six months later lie shipped aboard i the Baron Ogilvy of the Baron line, ' out of Glasgow, again bound for Australia. And lie made tiie passage there and back to Liverpool on her, with no 1 unusual incident to mark either voyage. It was after his ship had dis- 1 charged her cargo of frozen mutton ? at the latter port and was on her way < to Barry, on the Welsh coast, to load with coal for the British fleet, that he , met with his second and greater adveil tn rt?. For at noon of the next day the 4 stern lookout made out a periscope ^ sticking its tiny head about six inches 1 above the waves in the wake of the i ship. lie gave the alarm, and part ] of the crew was set to work itnmedi- ] ately swinging out the lifeboats. Al most all the rest were < d below . to help the stokers crowd on steftin. i1 Meanwhile the gun crew iimnned the 4 1,'t-pouuder at the stern, and the 1 captain started his distress rockets soaring. Hut neither stern gun nor rockets brought results. And with all the extra stokers the Huron Ogilvy could make no more than 11 knots. The submarine discharged her first tor- 1 pedo at 12:15, and missed. Then, to 1 get into better position, she rose to < the surface, and in the course of the ] chase circled the freighter two or three times, diving and rising like a ( greut porpoise. Thought They Had Lost Her. The Ogilvy appeared helpless. While the submarine, whether submerged or 1 a wash, was racing ahead of her or ' abreast of her, her stern gun could not be brought to bear on Its target. The ! captain steered a zigzag course, ever edging toward shore. The submarine dipclmi^ed another torpedo about three o'clock, and missed again. Then for a while she was no longer annn f Pl\/? < ' * I*a d\**l !? At* ' octu. a iic tinv im uic \JKiiy y UIUIJKIII they were free of her. Their gun crew had fired S3 shots, all the ammunition they had. About five o'clock, to their consternation, the submarine rose from the sea on their starboard bow und started shelling the Ogilvy with both deck guns. The freighter was only about three-quarters of a mile off shore by this time, and Captain Thompson beached her, while the submarine lay off half a mile and continued her shelling. Both masts of the Ogllvy, her wireless house and her funnel were carried away, but th6 only human casualty aboard her was a leg wound suffered by one of the gunners. The battle speedily attracted the coast guard ashore, which brought out artillery and drove the enemy off. Two days later the Ogllvy was pulled off the rocks and into a floating drydock. Her crew made their, way to Barry and were discharged. Young Harnett MUNITIONS TRADE I COMES TO AN ENlfl American Factories Built tol Supply It Rapidly H Closing. B The business of making sheii^H for the allied Governments came to^B an official end Satuiday in the Unit-^B ed States. Plants erected in many^B parts of the country for the exolusivc^B purpose of Manufacturing shrapne^B and high explosive shells and fuse*R| have been closing down during last two weeks, says The New York^B Times, and workmen have been shift-|^| ing into other lines of activity. AirH the shell contracts have not been con^^B pleted, and some will run for a time^B but the gieat bulk of the work, whicl'^B amounted to hundreds of millions oflH doPars last year is finished. rpi iir _ i? ? a iie v> csungnouce Klcctiic aiul^| Manufacturing Company, the Re: flB ington Arms-Union MxUllie Cart^W ridge Company, the Mid vale SU in and Ordnance Company, and the Win^H ehestoi Repeating Arms Compui v^B have eonsidt abie work to do on ri contracts. The Bethlehem Steel Coiiv^B pany has some she MY? for Russia : o^fl coirplete and a considerable u'nr>urtjH of heavy ordnance, it is understood j^B for Great Britain.' The American^B Locomotive Company's Montre.il^B branch will continue to make shel's^B while Canadian concerns are calk. i^E upon to supply the armies, but ^B orders taken by the company in thi.-i^B country are nearly, if net cntirley d \ B livered. Bfl The Canadian Car and Found: y^M Company's order for $83,0^,0! O^B worth of shell.' for Rus-:i;: war, wit > bB three hours of completion when thej^B fire at Kingsland, N. J., plant twn^B months ago destroyed the final ^B L'limulation of finished materia'. T:m^B plant was not rebuilt, and the New^B York agency of the company began ^B shortly to wind up its munition-ma* nig business. Other corn panics whi h^B have completed original oukrs in t' <>^B last three'months have received ><>^B renewals from the Allied govcm-tH merits, and the word came apparently^B from official sources ree-ntly tin < BB the bulk of the unfilhd orders wouhl^B t>e annulled on March 31. Comment- H ing on the shell situation, The Ivo t^B Trade Review says: ^B "On the western front in Franc guns are roaring as they have newr^H thundered before in the histrry < fflB the world. Mountains of :ir illc qflB ammunition are being swept away^B every day, yet so confident are tl e ^B Entente Allies of their ability to pr..-\M vide their own supplies that at tbi:^H very moment, while shells are bein ^^B consumed by thousands scores of co- .^B tracts for munitions are expiring >:fl| the United States, ancT no effort is.^B jeing made to renew thorn. Furthe - H more, manufacturers who fail to com ^B pi etc their orders before March 81 v'li get no extensions of time fromv^B the foreign governments. As far r.s ^B orders from abroad are concerned,. the shell business has nmH-!v spent itself in the United States." fl Most of the original contracts were H signed in the spring and summer of 1915, and from four to six months H passed before the majority of cor- fl porations which took up The busir.ers fl for the first time were thoroughly fl equipped for the work. The Bethle hem Steel Corporation, the New York V Air Brake Company, the E. W. Bli: s ? Company, the Scovill Manufacturing \M Company, and a few others were in U shape for the task, and were taking I care of "repeat" orders while the others were on their first contracts. H From August 1, 1914, to January 31, 19J7, shipments of explosives and M fire arms from ports of the United H States amounted in value to $1,059,- J R28,156. It is estimated that shells,JH complete with charge and fuse, ae-^H counted for $500,000.00 of the totallfl Exports of gun powder amounted toJH $301,438,572, and the filling of powe^J orders is expected to continue on a H hp.lUV Trwf on Jn/lnfi'n.'i/. *! ?? ? wj wvwiv ivi an 11iijCIlIIJHH Notice of Discharge. jl The undersigned administratrix^] of the personal estate of I. T. Bel-V lamy, dec'd, will apply to the Judge of Probate of Horry County, at his m office at Conway, S. C. at 11 o'clock 1 in the forenoon, on Tuesday May 1st, 1917, for a final discharge as suck I administratrix. I MRS. RrTH BELLAMY fl Qualified Admx., of I. T. I Bellamy, Dec'd. I March 30th, 1917. shipped on the Leyland liner, I lan. at London, February 3, and land- I ed in Boston two ?veeks later. - fl I