The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, May 03, 1917, Image 1
^VOLUME XXXII.
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PUSH ONWARD AGAIN
Gains Scored in Two of Most
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Battle Front
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CAMBRAI AND DOUAI
ARE THE GOALS SOUGHT
Nivelle'3 French Infantry Is
Also Being Used With
ft
Great Effect.
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News of Saturday says, having
withstood all the violent attempts of
the Germans to diive them front the
commanding positions they have tuken
on the Arras battlefield, the
British have again begun to forge
ahead. Cien. Haig's report today
shows advance for his troops
in two of the most important sector?
of the front. On the two and onehalf
mile line between Roeux anc.
b Gavrello, important positions have
been captured, driving still farthe,i
the wedge into the German lines toward
Douai. Likewise in the Monchy-Ciuemape
region near the Arras-Carnbrai
road, similar telling inroads
have been made in the German
defense system.
The desperate efforts of the Germans
to drive the Brittish fi*om the
captured heights on the Arras front
have failed after four days of the
bitterest fighting that the world has
seen since the blonly days of Verdun,
i Tens of thousands of Germans were
hurled forward again and again, only
to recoil blasted and withered from
inferno caused by the British fire.
& Military critics expect that the attacks
will he renewed again if the
German power can stand the awful
drain. They ba.se this expectation on
the great strategical importance of
the blood soaked heights which the
British have wrested from their foes.
These bills crown the great plain ot
Douai and their unmolested retention
by Gen. Haig spells almost certain
doom to the Wotan line, the last
last protecting barrier before Douai
|p and Cambrai.
Further French Gains.
The French armies along the Aisne
front also are empolying their infantry
to good effect. Gains of Ground
Mn the Hurtebise region, where GerMian
possession of Craonne is being
menaced, are reported by Paris today.
The French positions near Carry,
west of the Vauclere plateau, also
have been improved. The French
W likewise have advanced near Moronvilliers
and elsewhere in the Champagne.
The British campaign in Mesopotamia
continues to score marked progress.
Gen. Maude has followed the
Turks northward from Samara, from
which they have retired several miles,
and now reports the British in touch
ftvith them along the foothills of the
range between the Diala and the Tigris
where they are entrenching.
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immediate s^tion the first of the
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F0OD~BiLLSA8?
OFFEREO BY LEVER
Washington. ? The administration 1
food bills were introduced in the
k House today by Chairman Lover, of
the agriculture committee. They
sk not cover price fixing or control of
use of grains for distilling liquors.
These subjects will be covered
in a bill to be introduced later.
The bills introduced today are designed
to stimulate production, pre
vent hoarding, make for equitable
distribution and suspend the law
^ prohibiting the mixing of flour. The\
W <. ) itain provisions to prevent conflict
v ith tho anti-truot and ii erstatr
commerce lavs,
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FIFTY-FOUR MEN ARE I
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For Volunteor Sarvice in Unit-,
ed States Army for War
Strength.
The following notice has been sent
out by the recruiting officer for the
United States Army with requests
that it be published:
TO ARMY RECRUITING STATIONS:
The Regular Army MUST be increased
to FULL WAR STRENGTH
IMMEDIATELY.
THIRTY DAYS has been decided
to be sufficient to accomplish this increase.
The total number HORRY CO-UNT\
is expected to furnish on this call
is 54 men.
To secure this number in THE 30
DAY PERIOD will require COOPERATION
of patriotic citizens. I
Therefore, this letter is being sent
and I APPEAL TO YOU TO PUT
YOUR SHOULDERS TO THE
WHEEL.
TO BE EFFECTIVE OUR PATRIOTISM
MUST BE PRACTICAL.
PLEASE POST THIS LETTER IN
A PUBLIC PLACE.
On behalf of the PRESIDENT and
the whole UNITED STATES, I thank
you for what you do.
Remember that the postmaster is
a recruiting agent, and if you want to
join the United States army apply to
him.
wouldexTctMat
tribute from teutons
Paris?The equivalent of $3,200,000,000
a year is what Germany
should be compelled to pay the Entente
allies during as many years as
may be necessary to liquidate the
total war debt asserts M. de Berneuil,
honorary president of the Paris Offieijil
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calculates that she will be able to p v
such an annuity.
The exposition by Dr. Karl Helfferich,
the German Vice Chancellor
of the economic situation of Germany
in 1913 is taken by M. deVerneuil
as the basis of his calculations.
MR. A. HARRISON
SAUNDERS COMING
Rev. A. Harrison Saunders, the
State 13. Y. P. U. Field Secretary for
South Carolina, will visit the Waccamaw
Association, during this
month from the 13th to 20th. He will
visit the following places: Rev. Mr.
Wilders field, Sunday 13th; Rev. A.
T. Rogers field, Monday, Monday
night and Tuesday; Loris Tuesday
night, Maple Wednesday night, New
Light Thursday night, Greenwood
Friday night, Good Hope Sunday 11
A. M., Bakers Chapel 2:80 P. M.,
Salem 4 P. M., and Conway Sunday
night at 8 o'clock.
We will expect each church to ad-|
veitise the meeting, get the crowd
and look after the singing1. We beg
that all the churches get busy at once
and see that every young person in
the community has an invitation to |
be present at the meeting. Mr. Saun j
dors is an able speaker, well posted
on B. Y. P. U. work and you cannot
afford to miss hearing him.
?J. C. Spivey.
COOLMGSTORE
MAKES ASSIGNMENT
Cool Spring Supply Company, an
incorporated store doing business at
Cool Springs in this county for the
nn uf ar\\Tc\r<i! iroowo V.n? ?
r?... uvTvtui j \ <*a ii?m] tuawc iui W.Ssignment
naming D. D. Anderson a>
the assignee for the benefit of creditors.
K. L. MLshoe is the president
of the company and has managed it
since it began business in the year of
1912.
Tho debts owing by the company
imount to about $'3,000.00.
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ORRY COUNTY AND HER PEO PLE
CONWAY, S. C., THURSDAY,
HOLIWEG BESET BY
OLD AND NEW FOES
Internal Reforms, Peace Terms
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and Food Troubles Disquieting
Problems
URGED TO SHAKE OFF
SOCIALIST INFLUENCE
Austria - Hungary's Shakincss
Gives Another Cause of
Concern.
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Copenhagen?The movement for
the overthrow of Chancellor von
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Bethmann-Hollweg, halted for a time
by the adoption of ruthless sudmarine
warfare, again is becoming evident
in Germany. The agitation is encouraged
by distentions over internal
reforms, possible peace terms and
food troubles.
The Pan-German, conservative and
national liberal organs today are
sharply campaigning against the
Socialist peace program and take the
chancellor severely to task for not
disassociating himself and his administration
from Scheidemann and his
propaganda. The conservative Pent
sche Tagos Zeitung demands a
strong hand at the helm which alone,
it says, can save the country from
the breakers to which it is heading on
the dangerous Scheidemann course.
The Liberal organs speak of the hopes
and fears that ruthless submarining
has introduced and declare that a
strong and positive policy at hoiVie
and abroad is much needed.
POPULAR COUPLE
ANNOUNCE ENGAGEMENT
The following announcement will
bo read with peculiar interest by the
numerous friends of this most popular
and charming couple: "Mr. and
Mrs. Perry Rowan Casey, of Winston
Salem, N. C., announce the engagement
and approaching marriage of
their only daughter, Kathryne Jefferson,
to Dr. Herbert William White, of
Marion, S. C., the wedding to take
place in the near future.
Mi.SS Casov is ji vmmo- l.'i/lv r?f im_
! usual charm and beauty. She is a
direct descendant of President Jefferi
I son and also of the Langhornes and
iCallaways of Virginia. She graduated
with high standing from Salem
College and Southern Seminary,
Huena Vista, Va. The biide to be is
also a talented musician.
Dr. White is one of the most prominent
and promising young pharmacists
in the State, being a graduate of
the South Carolina Medical College.
civicTrepareoness
campaign is success
Out of the thirty meetings held in
various sections of the county last
week there was present an attendance
of more than 1600 people. At all the
, meetings there was good response
and at the meeting at Rehoboth there
lwere resolutions read and adopted
3r.dorsing the movement for planting
move food stuffs. At floyds there
was much enthusiasm shown by the
fact that an organization was formed
with Mr. E. M. Mears fllinirmnn imH
Mrs. C. F. DuBose Secretary, for
he purpose of getting the people to
plant more foodstuffs in that section
of the county.
Meetings were held at the following
places: Evergreen, Dog Bluff,
Sandy Plain, Alliens, Green Sea,
Little River, Soeastee, Pinoy Grove,
Mt. Olive, Good Hope, Cedar Grove,
Gurley, Powell, Hickory Grove, Finklea,
Simpson Creek, Tilly Swamp.
Brown Swamp, Floyds, Paule\
Swamp, Savannah Bluff, Rehoboth.
Loris, Poplar. El>ene;:er, Seven Mile.
Jak Grove and Carolina.
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FIRST AMERICAN GUN
BAGS GERMAN U-BOAT
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Shot From Liner Mongolia
Sinks Submarine, Her
Captain Says
BREAKS PERISCOPE
AT FIRST ATTEMPT
Shell Explodes Just Above Submarine,
and Then Teutonic
Craft Disappears.
London.?Cant. Rico of the American
steamship Mongolia, which arrived
at a British port, told the Associated
Press that the Mongolia ha<
fired the first gun of the war for the
United States and sunk a German
submarine.
The periscope was sighted d ?ad
ahead on the last afternoon of the
voyage. The captain gave the ordei
for full speed ahead with tlie intention
of ramming the submarine.
The periscope disappeared and :
few minutes later reappeared on th.
ship's broadside. The gunners fired
hitting the periscope squarely a: <
throwing up a mountain of wate?\
Even more pertinent a fact, as regards
the ultimate fate of the submarine,
was that the shell disappeared
immediately after the hit wa&
made. The captain stated that a
shell always ricochets in the watei
and can be seen again unless it finds
the mark. Oil was also seen on the
water after the submarine disap.
peared.
UKELYWfSPAiN
WILL DECLARE WAR
Paris?The Marquis Preito, Spain's
new premier in an interview given
the Petit Journal correspondent, declares
that Spain cannot adopt neutrality
when her honor and interests
are involved. Incidently lie indicated
that his administtration would support
the vigorous submarine note bi.^
pi uuecessor sseiu uermany. "Those
who have any consideration for the
nation are not disposed to swallow
any acront," he said. He added he
would lay the entire matter before
Paraliament.
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RUSSIANS WANT NO
SEPARATE PEACE
Petrograd.?It is evident from foreign
telegrams that the attitude of
the Russian democracy toward peace
has been misconstrued and distorted
by the foreign press. The desire for
peace has become more widsepread
and articulate since the revolution,
but it is based on entirely different
conceptions from those entertained
during the old regime. The new conImvn
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premature peace with Germany. As
a matter of fact, they have not yet
taken any definite form, simply
emanating from the new spirit of
democracy, which wishes to build a
foundation for a durable world peace
The idea of a separate peace died
here with the old regime. There is :u
talk of this even among the most advanced
Socialistic functions.
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ARMED AMERICAN jj
TANKER IS SUNK
Captain, Part of the Crew and |l
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Nine Gunners Are
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London.?The American oil tank I
steamer Vacuum has been sunk. The
captain and part of the crew and the
naval lieutenant and nine American
naval gunners are missing.
The Vacuum was sunk by a German
submarine on Saturday while
she was on the way to the United
States.
The chief mate and 17 men, including
three of the American navy
gunners, have been landed.
A boat containing the master of
the ship and the remainder of the
cri w together with the lieutenant and
nine naval gunners is missing.
Fifteen American Citizens.
New York.?The American steamship
Vacuum, commanded by Captain
S. S. Harris, of this city, left Now
York on March MO for Birkenhead,!
England, carrying a crew of 34 men,
of whom 15 were American citizens, |
including nine native born.
LORIS~mlAVjn
COMMUNITY WEEK
A rare intellectual treat is in stoic
for the citizens of Loris and surrounding
country beginning on May
15th and continuing for one week.
1 Rev. W. B. Duncan, Jr., announcse
" that he has been fortunate enough to
? secure for a week's engagement one
- of the nation's most prominent and
talented orators in the person of Dr.
Harry R. McKeen, of Bentonvills,
Ark.
"The Man From The Country," Pr
Harry R. McKeen, is a community
I specialist and builder of nation-wide
j reputation. He speaks from the
heart to the heart. He is recognized
as one of the leading authorities in
America on the solution of rural
problems of Home, Church and State.
Dr. McKeen has spoken in every (
section of the United States and is
kept constantly on the iro. Below will
1 be found what some who have been
fortunate enough to hear him think
of him:
"Dr. McKeen proved himself master
of his subject, intensely practical,
highly inspirational. Have heard
many great leaders for securing full- :
er life for rural communities, but
I have never heard any one who can
'surpass Dr. McKeen in this line."?
It. P. Scott, Vice Pres. Miss. Normal
1 School.
"I have heard Dr. McKeen. By
some means spread the news. Ho j
ought to be heard by every man and
woman interested in school, church |
or State. Urge, even constrain them,
for these messages are powerful and
pertinent."?John VV. Dyson in Montgomery
Standard.
BERLIN APPEALS FOR
SUPPLIES AND MUNITIONS
Amsterdam .? Berlin newspapers
publish an appeal by General Groe-1
j ner, director ol munitions and supplies
to be placard in all public places!
in which it says "our army needs'
arms and munitions, did you not i
read Hindcnburg's letter? How dare:
you defy him?"
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NO. 2.
SELECTIVE DRAFT j
DAOOcn dhtii uniioro
thoolu ouin nuuof.o
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Opposition Dwindles Awav to
Mere Shred Before Vote
Was Taken
GREAT CHANGES
FOR AGE LIMITS
House Puts Liability at 21 to
40 While Senate Malse$
it 21 to 27.
Washington, April 28.?By an over
whelming: majority both the senate
and house passed late tonight the
administration bill to raise a war
army by selective draft. The final
roll calls brought into line behind the
bill many senators and representatives
who had fought for the volunteer
system until routed by the decisive
ui vuiuiueer amendments earlier
in the day in both houses.
The senate, which had voted down
the. volunteer plan, 09 to 18, passed
the bill by a vote of 81 to 8. In the
house the vote against the volunteer
plan was 313 to 109 and that by
which the bill itself passed was 397
t > 24.
As passed by the senate the measure
provides for the draft of men
between the ages of 21 and 27 years,
while in the house measure the aga
limits are fixed at 21 an.I 46. This
and lesser discrepancies will be
threshed out in conference early next
week, so that the bill may be in tha
hands of the president as quickly as
possible. The war department already
has completed plans for carrying
it into effect.
Senators who voted against the bill
ure: Democrats: Gore, Hard wick,
Kirby, Thomas and Trammell. Republicans:
Borah, Grotina, and LaFollethte,
Total 8. '
The Representatives who voted fn
the negative were: Republicans: Bacon,
Hayes, King La Follette, Lundeen
of Minnesota; Mason, Nolan,
Powers. Democrats: Burnett, Church,
Clark of Florida; Claypool, Crosser,
Dill, Dominick, Gordon, Hillyard,
Huddleston, Keating, Soars.
wood, Sisson. Prohibitionist: Randall.
Socialist: London.
The senate approved an amendment
by Senator Stone which would
definitely confine the operation of
the draft to the period of the ' existing
emergency and another by Senator
New providing that notwithstanding
exemptions each State must
furnish its quota in proportion to
its population. Chairman Chamberlain
accepted another amendment
authorizing the president to raise
by voluntary enlistment or draft
such "special and techincal troops"
as he deems necessary. Mr. Shamberlain
said this would apply particularly
to railroad and other workers
of this character.
Both senate and house adopted
amendments just before the final
roll calls which would greatly increase
the pay of enlisted men during
the war. The house provision would
make their pay $.' '?() a month, and
that approved by the senate would
fix it at $29 a month.. The present
pay is $lf>.
In the house at the last moment
m...:
viuiiriim:i r uzgerald of the appropriations
committee objected vigorously
to the appropriation of $8,000,000,000
carried in tlm bill for the
expense of. the now army, ar.d the
section finally was eliminated. Mr.
Kitzgerald declared that to place
this vast sum in the hands of the
secretary of war would make of congress
a "mere automation" and promised
that if the section were voted
lown the committee would provide
funds promptly in a separate measure.
Among amendments adopted in
the senate was one \vh; *h would peril
it Col. Roosevelt to recruit a volunteer
force for service in Funce.
(Continued ou page Eight.)