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0 ? ' VOLUME XXXIi. POPE BENEt h wElilii Kr FOB NATIONAL ARMY i Firct rirolto '4r\n M (\\ KI C -Nnr rv ? ? vi ivI u I lO I \JI I JUW I U1 V> J Will Report to Local f ^ Boards' Headquarters ? 8 L- WILL THEN PROCEED TO MILITARY CAMPS J r Not Until They Reach Cantonments Will Be in Charge f of Uniformed Officersj ^ Washington. ? Regulations under which me i of the now a:my will be r calir 1 to tin? colors, beginning .Sep| timber 1, were issued by Provost 11 Marshal General Crowder. The\ map ou'. in detail the whole program to be followed until every soldier of the selective draft army has been ac^ ccpted by the adjutant general of th? training cantonment to which he i. . assigned. , Two hundre<i thousand of the firs | G87,0(X) men will be called up Sep* tember I and forwarded to the i: * tramps before Septembre f>. Th whole business of assembling th? levies at entraining points, providing them with shelter, food and transportation and giving them their actua induction into military lives is ontusted to the civilian local boards which selected them for service. L'ntil tlie men reach the camps, they will not be in contact with uniformed * officers. The actual call for men will go i: each from the provost marshal gent oral to the State adjutant genera!, stating tlie number of nrrm to be; sup plied at a specified time. ftach loca H I;, ird will be nramnHv .. .i I Is proportion in the call and the ad utant general will i'ix toe date wl.e cii from his State shall entrain to he camps. Immediately the loca r.ard will make */Ut tiie list of mei. o fill the call from the roll of ac( pted men ami it will also fix thence of * ntra;nn:ent and the exac iine of departure. Ueport t<> Hoard. Orders t> the men wiil !> posie .) d aiso bo sent them by mad. 1 h .ili he directed U) i" port to the loca >oard at iis headquarte. s not le11 an 12 hours or ir. ro than 21 horn >ofore tiie time of depaiture ?- . am p. "From tiie time specified for r jorlingn. to the local boaid [\ mili i-.ry <lud.y," the regulations state 'each man in respect of whom notic ,e report has he n posted or maile I r11! Iu> in (I ?> rnilit ?i?- . .>i' ?S ITjnited States." Prior to the arrival of the men ? W>e boai'ii headqu nrcors, boi-wl me bars arc instructed t > make acang* Vnents for their sleeping places an uneuls. The board will is:.ue ticket, for accommodations to be redeemer for cash later by a government d'> Imrsing officer. In their discretion L.ho boards may grant permission t'oi the me" to remain at their homes. [ Arrival fit the board headquarters |\t the hour fixed for reporting, the F ien will be drawn Up, the roll called llnd agents of the board will take I rem personally to their quarters, redlining with them until every armigement for their comfort has been made. Emphatic instructions arc i.i i 11 -i.'j? f " ? - Iiven mat wie quality or loort ished shall be good and the board is tld liable 'or seeing that meals are i equate. | Retreat roll call at the board head-) jarters, set for 5:30 p. m. on the ay of reporting to the board, will be i? first military ceremony the draft k men pass through. The board mem i h's are rjirected to be prseent in < krson 4Nhd to impress on the men 1 le fact that disobedience of orders < j the gravest military crime. The < |ht hand baggage, containing toilet 1 [tides and a change of underclothL which the men are permitted to i See with -tiwm 1 toted by the board and the lists of 1 Rn sent forward made otit ami < I (ontinued on Page Six.) i % (L It t IICT PROPOS i _ CHIP JACKSON SOON nfa 4 M ii w.-AM ? n A KtAU'f HJK IRUUre >. ' '|i Big Cantonment at ColMiibih] v > is Assuming Slhape?9,000 Workmen. Columbia.?Work is progressing rapidly on the construction of the buildings at Camp Andrew Jackson six miles from Columbia. More than 9,000 men are now employed in making the place ready for the reception of 45,000 men from Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina. Advices from Washington show that! 151000 men will reach the camp about September 0. Several hundred buildings a:o in process of construction and many of these will be readv to roeoivo tln> ~ " ~ I troops on the above named date. A large reservoir is being constructed near the camp. Two million gallons of water will be required l daily. The water will be brought to the camp by a Lb-inch pipe line from the city of Columbia. The camp is located in the sand hills several hundred feet above the city and a special pump will be required to force the. water to the elevation. The work on the street car line ha* been practically completed and operation cars, it is said, will begin early i next week. Forty cattle cars, 33 large motor trucks and several bundled 'private automobiles are being used to transport the men to and from Columbia. j The coming of the camp has causer! a real and substantial business boom in Columbia. The payroll last Saturday was over $100,000 and Main street entertained a regular fair week crowd. All of the merchants report greatly increased business. RED CROSS TOBACCO GIVEN AT LORIS S. H. Harrclson who has managed the campaign for the red cross among the /^rowers and tobacco warehouse men on the Loris market spent soim time in Conway last week. He i> vroy active in behalf of the red cros>. Tlie campaign was opened by a .< ale for the re i cross there on Aug. (j'.li. The sum of about was realised from the tobacco do sated by ;h. growers that day. Kach Tu \ d y there will be a special sale for th * benefit of the red cro.-s. Toba e. given by the growers frr tiie red cross always brings a good prii thus showing how the tobaujo com-, panics and their buyers appreciate) the donations. NEW PEACE OFFER I MADE 3Y POPE i Rome Aiitnwh 14 ?.... .... i' 1 , . - "? > ?- \i i * ' 11 ^ J made by Pope Benedict have been delivered to all the belligerent govern-1 ments. i The Pope suggests restoration of Belgium, Serbia, and Rumania and peaceful solution of the problems o1 Alsace Lorraine, Trent, Triest and Poland, according to reports received from Vatician sources. It is expected the proposals will be published tolay by the Vatician. i The weather last Thursday was very warm and wound up with a thunder shower in the afternoon. < HORRY FARMER HAS SOME GOOD RETURNS < D. E. Moore, one of the young far- { Tiers of the Horry section of this lounty, had fine success with his to >acco crop. He had about two and >ne half acres planted in tobacco and cleared from his crop something over >700.00. The Herald expects to publish tvtaiy other good reports from the | c.bacco growers as soon as some et < ;hem have .disposed of their entire i ;rops and had time to make up state- 1 -nents for the paper. \ ^ J,' CONWAY, S. 0., THURSDAY, ES PEACE-? TRAGIC STORY OF BELGIAN PRINCE :On|y American^SurMor, Jacksonville Negro, Tells of Horrible Experience TERRIBLE SIGHT AS MEN DISAPPEARED Life Boats Sunk and Life Belts j Thrown Away by Germans. I _____ Liverpool.?William Snell, a negro o!' Jacksonville, Fia., the only Am| erican survivor of the British steamship Belgian Prince, which was sunk July 31 by a German submarine with the loss of 38 lives, today gave details of his experience to the Associated Press. He said: "A torpedo hit the engine room. A submarine then quickly came to the surface about 200 yards to starboard and fired at our wireless apparatus. "We left the Belgian Prince in three boats and had got fifty yards from the ship when the submarine came alongside and asked for our| captain, who was taken aboard and inside the U-boat. "We were then ordered to the deck of the submarine, where we were told by the commander to remove our life belts and to lie on the deck. This we did. Then the commander went int > the boats, threw the oars into the sea and had his men remove the pro-! visions. After that the plugs wee j taken out of holes in the boats, which were then cast adrift. Throws Life Belts Away. "The submarine went to the northeast for twelve miles, the commander taking the life belts to the top of the cunning tower and tin owing* them' overboard. 1 hid mine under a rain-, coat, and as the submarine began to submerge. 1 tied it around my neck and jumped into the sea. "The rest oT the crew stayed on the i deck until they were swept off by the sea as the boat dived. It was a te>. ' rible sight. One by one they threw | 11!) t llfii V I Mr, ,.1 ' 1 ... H.m WlMlt (IOW11, OV | , fighting to keep up, they splashed > water as they disappeared." Four Americans Lost. Washington?Four Americans we" lost in the tragic destruction of the y German submarine. , How the submarine, commander teak the life preservers from the vel-,, ugecs, destroyed the oars of their, life boats,, and then, after ranging' them aling the deck of his U-boat, j suddenly submerged, leaving his victims to drown, was told in recent news, but is told anew in today's official consular dispatches. The Americans lost were William Crissy, Philadelphia; James Shea, Dt j troit, Mich; Thomas Gilmore, Mc>-[, rick, Mass; and Benjamin Cain, a no- . gro, Norfolk. An American negro, j William Snell. of Jncks^vllin i v? < on? of the three survivors. REGISTRANTS BUSY I! ON EXEMPTION CLAIMS! Several days of last week wors | busy in Conway by reason of many of the registrants among the num.! ber notified, coming to Conway to' obtain from the board the necessary blanks on which to fill out their ex-1 pmption claims. So far as we could ) tell the greater proportion of the i c claims were made out on account of !v iependent relatives. CHINA DECLARES {; WAR ON TEUTONS! London, Aug. 14?Renter's, limited, t has been officially informed thAt * China has declared War upon Gcr- t many and Austria-Hungary, the dec- a laration dating . .from 10 o'clock this fc morning. .. i I ji jk AUGUST 16, 1917. -CHINA OECL " ? - " ??r THIRD OF QUOTA PAH APnTfUf*!"" J rUH StntMBtH 1 CrJfed9r4.(W(ifeifie^ Manning Change Regarding Mobilization of National Army TO CONDUCT WORK WITH GREAT SPEED Must Furnish Daily Lists of Accepted Men to District Boards. Columbia.?The war department on September 1 will call for noi to exceed one third of the quota from each state to be entrained for mobilization camps, according to a telegram received today from the provost marshal general by Gov. Manning. The telegram from the provost marshal general follows: "Section 48 rules and regulations for local and district boards is rescinded. New regulations governing mobilization and the certification of men from district boards to adjutant generals will be mailed to you on August 9. In the meantime, local boards should certify to district i boards daily on form 146, these who have been called and who have not been exempted either because they have failed to file any claim or because their claim has decided adverse ly. Strict compliance with this rule is necessary, since on September 1, the war department will call for not to exceed one third of the quota from each stdte to be entrained for mobilization camps between September first and September fifth. Unless wo wish to be put in a position of not furnishing men as fast as the war department if ready to receive them, each state should have accumulated by September first a minimum o' one third of its quota not exempted oi discharged. This can be attained if local boards certify these lists up daily with great expedition." Exemption Boards Ready.. Consideration of claims for exomp tion from service in the new national army was started by the eastern and western district exemption hoard The eastern district board is setting :.. r*. i.. i n.i 111 v uiiuiiuia. i no western district I).' ard is in session at Greenwood, The two boards held a conference i i the governor's office today when lb< final rules and regulations we is :1 scussed. The work of passing on tb< claims for exemption will now b< pushed vigorously. SOLDIERS ABROAD MAY CAST VOTES Wash.in cton.?American citizens m [ 'ranee as members >f the oxi editi r try forces will be privileged to vote it the fall elections, provided their especitve States establish th.e necessary overseas voting machinery. Provost Marshal General Crowder, n a ruling on the subject, holds that lie re is no bar to any citizen's participation in an election because or ii.- absence from home while or. luty with the troops. Following the vocess used on the Mexican border ast year, soldiers at National Guar.l ( i civilization camps or cantonments of < he national army will cast ballots at heir coming elections, if the States , mact the needed legislation. , A ruling by Gen. Crowder directs ixemption boards to accept for serrice all aliens wbr> ???? .. ..w Ml v ?? tii lil^ f | yaive their immunity claims based on j kllcsgiance to another government. In his manner the rianks- of the neve < icmal army are opened to j iliens who rish to volunteer* . i ... ?-?-^^(jjT There has been ah unusually large < obacco crop and it has brought an 1 inusually large amount of mohe^ i he warehouse floors; and this has idded considerably to the volume of >usinoss done at Conway dtifing the ! ast several weeks. raid. ARES WAR 01 MODIFIED TO SU|T MODERN WARFARE s $ ; i < I ** ^ Unit of 1f),000 Men Replaces T Division of 28.000 in United States Army. Washington.?Decision of the Wat Department to abandon the army division of 28,000 men in favor of the continental unit of about 10,000 tioops was due, it was said today, to changes in modern warfare thai made the old command unwieldy and cumbersome in trench fighting. The division under the old system wa> not' sufficiently mobile for the peculiar needs of fighting on the western fr< nt. Under the new plan, a division wil include two infantrv brigades of two i * i rtgiments each, instead of throe brigades as formerly. The artillery and machine gun strength is materially increased, the cavalry regiment, now a part of the unit, is eliminated, a new trench mortar battery is added, and the old army corps plan abandoned after the Civil war is again revived. Provost Marshal General Crowdei is today working out final details of regulations governing the mobiliza- j tion schedule of the men selected un- -J der the selective draft law. The com pleted plans will indicate how each n.nn ? -- 1? - - ? * nuii uiuLtvu l<j dc assigned. | ^ FARMERS GROW WHEAT | BECOME INDEPENDENT: Let every farmer of Horry Count\ I * remember these things about wheat:!' First:?It is planted in October and 5 grows through the Winter and ma- ^ tures by about the end of May fol-(t lowing. I * Second:?Planting and cultivatio: i i are easy. Easy to plant as oats, h 1 the Winter the grass and weeds do I not grow to bother. 1 Third:?It produces one of the best 1 foods in tho world during the Winte: v season when nothing else of that kin I, I can be produced. ; 1 Fourth:?It matures and is har ( 1 vested in tiine for the same land to t glow some other valuable crop. jt Fifth:?It leaves the land in good J t condition, ready for any other crop 1 that is wanted. Sixth : ?Don't delav nbmtino* \ lii'i' 1 . I I because there is vet no mill or cveu \ > thro-hing machine in Horry Conn- i ty. Until there is a mill here, the e wheat can be sent by the grown s j e< mbining in ear load lots and ship- r p'ng t) Darlington. Florence or else g whore to the roller mills. Rest as t furod that if the farmers begin to p'nnt and raise wheat in this county f the mil's will come to it promptly ii y all liklihocd. j Seventh:?Mow is tiw b * t time i: tl the world to begin raising wheal ^ [ 'armors .generally all over ti e cou;> X] ty should have been taking advant r ago of this valuable crop Ion. 14 year.- v ago and all along", it is never too 1 late to mend. GAUSE IS FARMING ! ON INTENSIVE PLAN The success of M. A. G.iu-e a' 0 Homewood tlus year in the raising o of varied crops on the same laud, thn n same year, is worthy of note and u- ii here mentioned for the benefit of|S others who can profit by following A the same plan. On the same land where Mi*. Gaust | e< raised u crop of garden peas, he Is ir now growing a fine crop of corn thesame year. 01 On the land whero h#? h?vnw n, for the market this year, he now m growing a crop of late irish potatoes. or On the same land where he pro- ox Juced his 1917 oat crop, Mr. Cause is ifOw growing a fine crop of sweet i rf potatoes. of He has done well with thus plan, ind by this means he is making his land produce double what it other- yt fcrduld. hi e m P. P. McNeill last1 week sold one t\ tot of tobacco weighing 300 pounds at \e the price. Of 42 ccttts per pound. <v NO 17. N GERMANY nnrropi 10 nm-?r uucooa 10 rni2.ii GERMANS WANT Will Try to Secure TRich Harvest Being Reaped in Southern Russia ' i , I i NEW MINISTRY BEST CONDITIONS PERMIT Must Restore Discipline ia Army and in Country as Well. London.-- -Recent reports that the present Gorman offensive in southwest Russia is aimed at the capture of Odessa are strengthened hy a dispatch to The Times from that city saying the belief is growing there that the port is Germany's objective and that Bessarabia will soon become the principal theater of operations, as the enemy presses toward Odessa. The correspondent adds that the harvest is now being reaped i:\ southern Russia and the enemy doubt loss will try to secure it before it can bo removed. Ministry's Great Tasks.. Special dispatches from Retrograd reviewing the construction of the new ministry agree that although it is not deal, it probably is as strong as circumstances permit and on the wholtf satisfactory. All refer to the immensity of the task confronting it, ho first necessity being the restoration of order and discipline in th e irmv, the present condition of which warrants the greatest anxiety. Internal diorganization has hardly le^a ierious. t s^/ ? * v/:ic iwrn'.M)i)!liir;U rotors to facories being brought one by one to a mitial standstill owing to a lack of 'uel, which is duo to a lack of transmutation, while lengthening lines ailing at shop loors murmur apmehensively of the coming winter. The same writer refers to Premier vcrensky as "turning for advice to he aged grandmother of the revoluic.n, Catherine Rroshkovaskaya." in he tremendous burden of responsibly he has undertaken. The decision of M. Tseretelli to renain outside (he ministry as a coniccting link between the government md the workmen's and soldier's coun i' is mainly approved, and his apK-al to the latter to abandon the domestic ciuss war and range them(Ives around the government to save he country is warmly commended. It is believed he will have great in'iuence in inducing the workmen's md soldier's council to strengthen 'remier Keronsky. whose maintenmce at the head of the administraion is regarded as of paramount irstlortance. If Korensky fails, one coc cspondent says, Russian democracy I'ill receive a blow from which it will ardly recover. :9R INSURING ARMED FORGES OF COUNTRY Washington.?Authority to make ffective the government's program insuring the armed forces of the ation was sought of Congress today i bills introduced in both Houses by t nator Simmons and Representative .loxander. The proposed legislation was fram1 to follow plans already announced i general outline and would provide isurance, at minimum cost, for Amur an soldiers, sailors and marines, 10 insured men paying the preiums; family allowances to dependlts of men in the nation's military. naval service; indemnification for nubilities and the reeducation and habilitation, at government expenae ' injured men. o Last week saw the largest tobacco ties the Conway market has evec id. Up to Wednesday nifcht the arket had sold three hundred and ve.nty-four thousand pounds of the af. Conway presented busy scene* /cry day during these sales.