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li VOj^TME xxxil. ^ I HOOVER WILL BEGIN f FOOD CAMPAIGN NOW , Will Not Wait for Legislation to Start Efforts for Con> ^ versation m MUST ENLIST WOMEN !' IN GREAT MOVEMENT < ______ I Effort From Beginning" Will Be Directed Toward Elimination of Waste. f r ? P Washington.?Congress' delay in passing the administration's food hills drew from President Wilson today an order directing Herbert C. ' Hoover t<> proceed immediately with organization of the food administration in so far as it contemplates food conservation and elimination of v.aste through the ocoperation of volunteer forces. Plans for enlisting every house wife in the country as a volunteer member of the food administration { have been announced by Mr. Hoover. Every woman will bo taught to save food in the kitchen and how to purchase for her family. President Wilson's insistence that the food bills be speeded up caused the senate today t0 put the food control bill nCott on the calendar and the snea3U?R,^Jtftt be taken, up Monday, when ?he. house also begins debate on the>6ill. The measure was reported to the senate today without recommendations. The president's ^letter to Mr. Hoover follows: Can Begin Now. "It seems to me that the inauguration of that portion of the plan for food . administration whuv.i contemplates a national mobilization of the gieat voluntary forces of the country which are ready to worx toward saving food and eliminating waste admits of no further delay. "The approaching harvest, the immediate necessity for wise use and saving, not only in food but in all other expenditure, the many undirected and overlapping efforts beir,'/ tv* vc-'i flc: lli! j /???<! ..II . -llft .?.v*<4v b?y i> L?I \iu vjini an jii'trj^rs i't.r national direction and inspiration. While it would in many ways be desirable to wait complete legislation establishing food administration, it appears to mc so far as voluntary effort can be assembled we should not wait any longer and there fore I will be very glad if you would jfocede in those directions at once. Women Would Help. "The women of the nation are alrcady earnestly seeking to do their part in this our greatest stiuggle for the maintenance of our national ideas and in no direction can they so greatly assist as by enlisting in the service of the food administration and cheerfully accepting its direction and advice. By so doing they will increase the surplus of food available for our own army and 'or export to the allies. To provide adequate supplies for the coming year is absolutely vital importance to the cw:duct of the war, and without a very conscientious elimination of v.n.?te and very strict economy in err food consumption, we can not hope to fulfill this primary duty. "I trust, therefore, that the women of the country will not only respond 1 to your appeal and accept the pledge to the food administration which ' y.u are proposing but that all men also who are engaged in the person- * a distribution or* foods will cooper- 1 ate with the same earnestness and in the same spirit. I give you all au- ' t ,?rity to undertake any steps neces- ' ? v for the nronnv .... 1 ' ,, - - - - - -j-w. ?! n11< I 1 nutation ct' their eti'orts." ^0 ACQUIRE [ANDBY CONDEMNATION "Washington?A bill to empower ihe Secrt/tviiy War to acquire inr.d i~r training cam p.-; and other military purposes by condemnation, was passJune lo.' by the Senate. (th r "1 1ST REGIMENT WILL BE AT STYX AGAIN Detachments Now on Guard Duty are Being Called in by. Colonel McCully. Columbia.?Detachments of the first regiment on duty at trestles and tit other points in South Carolina are being called in by Col. McCully. It is expected that within a week the entire regiment will be concentrated. The men will use Styx as heathjuart< rs, it being considered as more desirable than the fair grounds as head qua rters. The men will undergo a course o t?aining before being sent to France. Men in the regiment express the belief that they will see service on the battlefields of Europe within three months, but no official indication has been received to warrant a definite statement. OFFER OF PEACE MADE TO RUSSIA Stockholm.?The Social Domnkru. l< n says Germany has made an offer o! peace to Russia through a member of the Swiss federal council. The Social Dcmokraten today pub-) lishes the translation of a telegram said to have been sent in cipher from the political department of the Swiss fedreal council to E. Odier, the Swiss minister at Petiograd. It is dated at Heine, June 5, and says: "Hoffman, a member of the federal council, authorizes you to make to! Grimm (a Russian Socialist profes-j sor who returned to Russia from. Switzerland after the revolution), tlic following oral communication: * " 'Germany will not undertake an offensive so long as an arrangement with Russia seems possible. After | conversations with an important per-; sonage, 1 am convinced that Germany aims at a peace wtih Russia honorable to both parties, with intimate economic and commercial relations and financial support to place Russia once more on her feet. No in- ( tcrfcrence in the domestic affairs of I 1 Russia. An entente cordiale on Po-|( h nd, Lithuania and Courland in!, view of the relationship between the peoples. Restitution of the occupied' provinces, and Russia, on the otheri hand, to give back to Austtia the1 provinces which she has been able to take.' I o ^; YV. H. Oliver, a leading farmer of the Socastoe section visited Conway on business last Friday. o llfM Mil am WILL HAVk KkUkPTlUN ; NOT ANNUAL PICNIC' \ The Worker's Council of the Con- ] way Methodist Sunday School decid- j e l Sunday afternoon, that it would s be best for the Methodist Sunday , School to have a reception for the . benefit of the Red Cross Work in , place of their annual School picnic. ^ Colonel and Mrs. D. A. Spivey have , kindly consented to the use of their , lawn for the reception. Monday af- ? ternoon, June 25. The reception will \ begin at 5:00 o'clock in the afternoon j and run to 9:30 at night, so as to give opportuntiy for all the small i children and young people to get the J full benefit of it. The committees are planning for games and refreshments, and a general good time for everybody. Age limit: 1 day?09 years. Everybody in the town is invited to attend the reception. All t are requested to bring an offering t amounting to at least one cent for i each year they are old. 1 TUn : ...it iwuuwinj? committees have t been appointed: i On Invitation: Will Goldfinch, John c Cartrette, and Ella Sessions. i. On Entertainment: Edna Earle i Spivey, Stokes Kins, Nina Lewis, t Rcss Johnson, Kathleen Sessions, t Bessie Clarke, and Mrs. C. J. Epps. Or. Refreshments: Mohol Mnrtr?n 1 Archie Sasscr, Maye Goldfinch, Chap : man Thompson, Howard Ambi ose, T, \ J Perrett . HORRY COUNTY AND HER PEOI1 CONWAY, S. G., THURSDAY, SUNK BY SUBMARINE LOSS OF L90 MEN 5,557-Ton Ship Had Senega1 lese Riflemen Aboard of Her L.EYLAND LINER ANGLIAN ALSO REPORTED SUNK Boston Agents Hear of Loss of the 5,532-Ton Vessel. Submarines early last week were again giving evidence of pronounced activity. Paris advices announce the sinking of the French liner Sequana, of .r),o57 tons, from whom 100 men were lo <t out of ooO passengers. Among those on board were members of Senegalese Rifles. Another vessel reported sunk is the I.eyland liner Anglian, of 5,532 tons, which left Boston for Liverpool with a general cargo on May 30. Her agents in Boston have received word that a German submarine had sent her to the bottom. Her crew was saved. BRITISPOLD NEW POSITIONS; In the field of military operations lust week the greatest activity continues t.o be shown by the British. Last night witnessed no new advance for thorn, General JPlumcr's troops ;;ppare ltly bei;^ engaged in making good their advance scored on a twomile front east and northeast of Messincs yesterday, when the village of Gaspard was occupied. Further, south, however, the British forces had to withstand a counter Kt tack on the now positions they won yesterday below Lens, on both sides r>? the Souchez river. This was successfully met, the Germans being driven off by artillery and machine cun fire. j On the Fro. ch front, there was Utile activity except by the artillery. SHIPBUILDERS ON STRIKE AT TAM9AI v i n i iv l. n i i ftn H W Tampa, Fla.?One hundred and fifty employees of the Tampa, En-' E>ineering and Shipbuilding Company,! nearly all the force, left their work this morning when they heard that Ernest Kreher, general manager of the plant, had refused to buy Liberty Loan bonds. The rotary club which s carrying on a campaign for bond iMes sent a committee to see Kreher ( yesterday. He is of German descent; md refused to buy bonds, saying that .vhile he is an American citizen he ftould not pay to fight his friends md relatives. Early today, when the nen heard of the remark, they quit, >f? men in the machine shop being j "irst to go out. Their leaders claim ] here were 150 men out by 8 o'clock. 1 HORRY COUNTY IS OVERSUBSCRIBED In some of the cities of the State ,1m liberty bond oamoaiirn fnilnU in *, a v Cot the full allotment of subscribers; n this county however, where the al- j otmcnt to be taken was twenty-five housand, the subscriptions reported it last accounts amounted to a total ; >f thirty-five thousand, being ten . housand dollars more than the imount allotted to Conway. More ban five million was subscribed in he entire State of South Carolina. It appears that before the sale of i)vn"tv twvmls is pntiv#>lv tho no. * * * ~ " ;ire United States will have sold to \?r people more than two billions in iberty bonds. j ? ? I Wm -.E, FIKST, LAST, NOW AND FOKEV JUNE 21, 1917. WILL NOT ENTER f IKAININU Str 1.1 <? First 650,000 Mens May Go to | the Camps Six Weeks Later OFFICERS WILL BE READY IN AUGUST ! , Cantonment Contractors Will ? Not Be Permitted to Over- < * charge Government. , i \ i j f l, {ashnigton, June 18.?Unles ( * are foreseen developments t< y construct ion of the sixteen eai ' \ents for training the new national army the first icrement of ' GbO.OOO troops will not be in training by September 1 as generally has been supposed, and in fact may no get into training i'or six weeks there after. J War department officials said to , ' (lay that no spceific date ever haii , been set for the opening of the train ing camps. Secretary Baker, however, in a ict- j ter to Senator Jones, several weok> | ago, answering a suggestion tiia some of the trpop., be used for liar vesting spoke of September 1 as the probable date of opening tho camps, and pointed out that most of the j, harvesting would be over by that time. { j War department officials general- r ly had fixed September 1 in thei: minds as the time training would be- f gin. The first body of officers foi t the- new army now being trained ir. t camps throughout the country, is 1 f be turned out in August, to mak I room for the next body. Tins wa; t' | arranged on the plan of having th b | draft complete, exemptions disposed C of and troops ordered into training f camps by September 1. t Cantonment Contracts. The 16 cantonments for the new ** army will be built under the form of ^ contract by the terms of which no c contractor will be permitted to over- 1 charge the government, the maximum profit of any contract being I fixed at $250,000. The government I also will have complete supervision over the work and may terminate any contract at will, ^ The terms of the contract were I made public by the War department ^ | today. The primary object in the 1 wording of the agreement is to se- t ci re speedy construction and avoid- ti ance of unnecessary expenditures. a The contractor is to be paid 'nis ex- ^ peases and percentage of their total S amount, out of which lie must meet H his overhead costs. His profits are to come from the difference between C this percentage and overhead ex pen. sos. h A RIPE TOMATO S FROM GREEN SEA ; h Miss Veronica Mills of Clreen Sea, S. C., sends in to the Herald from her e< home near that place, the first ripe ]y tomato we have seen this year. The \\ tomato came to the Herald by mail and was in good condition and of fine * variety. We hope that Miss Mil's ^ will have abundant success with her tomatoes this year and anything else she may undertake in the progress of her work as a member of the girls' clubs. ? FIRST TO SEND j! IN COTTON BLOOM ; ??? O J. H. Atkinson is the first to report tl an open cotton blossom in this coun- ir ty this year. This first bloom report- v. ed was irrown on the large farm of it George J. Holliday at Jordanville, where Mr. Atkinson is the genera! d manager. f< rati ER.M WILL RUN TRAINS LUCE LAST YEAR Except lllight Train Will Noi r> i? ^ mim ig ueacn Sundays and Mondays. Owimg to the recent rumors; of taking off certain trains, the people sent in. a petition to the operating heads of the Atlantic Coast Line las week, and as a result Senator H. i. i I luck received a letter stating that infective 011 next Sunday, the Atlanti Coast Line will give the 5am * traitservice to Myrtle Leach, that the company gave last year except that the lute night trains will not be rui ?n to the beach on Sunday and Mom day nights as was done last year. According to this the iui(Lda\ tiain will run on to the beach. Tin train on the Aynor branch will leavr.cre in the evening about (> o'clock \nd arrive at the beach at 6:-1 "> 5*clock. Returning, it will leave the )each at 7:110 o'clock and arrive her< ihout 8:00 o'clock. This will giw ) actically the same service that wa.\ad last year. The service will he [ jin, according' to the letter above Mentioned, on next Sunday, Jun JJth. KING OF GREECE f QUITS THRONE Athens.?Constantine is no longer ting of Greece. He has abdicated his throne in avor of his second son, Prince Alexander. The "abdication'" virtually amount id to dethronement at the hands of he entente. Ctoym Prince George, he logical throned heir, shared his ather's fate. Both \\ ill leave on a British warship for Italy at once and ,o to Switzerland. Thev* are enjoined >> the three protecting powers of ]\eece, Prance, England and Russia rom entering any country belonging o or allied with Germany. What the ex-king's brother-in-law, imperor William will do to lepay Constantino's loyalty, which now has ost the latter his crown is the chief npic of speculation. lOSSUfPGOES TO WILLIAMSBURG Some large turnips raised in Horry * County have recently been reported1 n this paper; but the boss of all the! umips it appears has been grown his year in Williamsburg County, nd has been reported in the "County j tecord" published at Kingstree. Re-| arding this hugest of all turnips, he County Record says: "One day this week Mrs. S. K. Mc'ullough of the Bryan neighborhood, ent to The Record office by Mr. B. 1. Clarkson, a turnip of the purple >p variety which weighed fourteen i ounds including top, and measured d inches in circumference, 11 inches' i diameter and was about 5 inches in 1 i<lth. Mr Clarkson will vouch for ie above weight and dimensions as' e weighed it and saw our office devil" measure it. We are inform{ that the other vegetation in Mrs. IcCullough's garden is in keeping ith her turnip patch." SUFFEREOlcciolT WHILE OUT RIDING I 1 Miss Sadie Magill suffered a pain, il accident one day last week while iding in a touring car returning to lyrtle Beach where she was visiting !r. and Mrs. D. M. Burroughs. Deep oles were cut in the road by the feint rains. The car running into one i* Fhosid /MiiiooU ?..i'. ?? * i.?iv n|?i injja to v 11 row \e youn^ lutly against the top and | ljured her head and face in a way 'hieh was painful but fortunately ot of a permanent nature. The accident caused Miss Magill t j rfer Ivv v^ir? heme to Abbeville j jr several days. It ^v *1/ NO. 9. END OF METROPOLIS BOMBARDED BY AIRMEN British Airplanes Engage Germans in Great Battle in East London ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS FIRE UPflN INVADtaS j One of the German Machines. Reported Brought to ! Earth. London.~-The oast, end of London was bombarded tod^v by 15 hostile (airmen. This is the fourth raid the Germans have launched at England since airplanes were substituted for j Zeppelins in these bombing attacks. A, large number of British airplanes pursued the Germans who flew over Essex to London. The German airplanes appeared over Loudon shortly before noon. A. gnat battle occurred in the air. The invaders were attacked by anti-aircraft guns as well as by British aviators. A bomb struck a school house buil 1 ing, killing ten children and injuring ">0. One German airplane is reported \ > have been brought down. Andrew Bonar Law, member of the British war council, stated in the House of Commons that til persona had been killed and 67 had been injured in the city pi' London alone. The casualties in the whole metropolian ur?a. he said, weie not yet known. , . . The,east end of London. which i?v*? the city's poor. suffered1 heavily from cl "* raid. Bombs fell in many ccngested districts and wl\ile the nurn bor of casualties has not yet been ascertained, two hospitals report handling upwards of dO cases, four of whom died and many of whom were seriously injured. SUBMARINE'CHASERS BEFORE PROMISED <r Washington.?The submarine chaser building program is more than a month abend of schedule. The Navy Department announced today that nearly three times the expected number of 110 foot chasers would be delivered by August 1, according to present indications, and that all of the large number of boats ordered are actually under construction. FEEDING GERMANY FROM AMERICA Washington. ? German agents bought large quantities of condensed milk here and snipped it to Germany through neutral ports recently. The War Committee of condensed milk industry has informed the departing nt of C >mmerce. The milk was bought at retail stores to avoid suspicion. Afata ? a ? - - ? SENUS SLACKER UP FOR ELEVEN MONTHS Now York.?Federal Judge Chatfield, in Brooklyn, imposed a peniterHary sentence of It months ami *21) days on Herman P. Levine, school teacher and college graduate, for not registering under the selective draft law. II k 1 r nn i mir CiLLlUN BEYOND MARK Washington.?The -Liberty Loan has been over subscribed by manji hundred ruilli >ns of dollar*, the treas t.ry off rials estimated an hour b IV.re the n; "hs closed that *he total '.;r' v\ v. be at least two i . a -a. i* o: .