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* "VOLUME xxxn. Buy I > ? WILL SCOUR SEAS FOR BOLD RAIDERS > Crew of Seeadler Put to Sea in , Two Vessels After Being Stranded SEVERAL AMERICAN VESSELS DESTROYED Alncrican, British and Japanese Warships Will Join in Search. Washington. With definite information of the presence of two Ger man sea raiders in the South PacifU ocean, announced in dispatches fron Samoa to the Navy Department, a hunt for the commerce destroyers has been set in motion. The two raiders are manned by the crew oi the famous Seeadler, which made h< ? way late last year from German? through the Allies' patrol into the Atlantic,, southward around Sou h America preying on shipping, and thence to the South Pacific, where she stranded on Mopeha Island, * anrl had to be abandoned. The Seeadler destroyed three American sailing ships, the schooners A. B. Johnson. Manila and C. SldAfc, ,? in the South Pacific. When she stranded, the Seeadler had aboard 27 white men and 17 native pfttdViors, who with the crew 'beached" shore in safety".'" Off in Power Sloop. Part of the Seeadler's Crew put to ? sea again in a power slooped armed with Machine guns, bombs and two months' supplies. Early in September the French schooner Lutece ar * ? i / rr.. Li.: 1 _ rivfxi at iviopcna irom ianu aim seized by the remaining members of the Seoadler's crew, who put to sea September 5. The prisoners were left on the island to shift for themselves. Captain Hador Smith, of the American schooner C. Sladc, and other prisoners left the island in an open boat and reached Samoa September 21), where the news of the sea raiders was made known to the American naval authorities. The-number of the raider's victim* heuond those mentioned in the d:spafcwhes from Samoa can not be ascertaYned. At least four American-owned vessels are reported overdue on the Pacific coast from South Pacif'c ports and their ow ners have abandoned hope of their safety, r The It. C. SI ado. New York.?Shipping records show that an American schooner named the It. C. Slade sailed from Sydney, N. S. W., April 24 for San Francisco. She was built in Aberdeen, Wash., in 1900. and was of 673 tons gross, 176.6 feet long, 38.7 beam and 14 deep. She v^s owned by the Pacific Freighter Company. flNF MDRF ENEMIY~ Vllfei IMVilB BBS a FOR THE GERMANS il > M Monteviedo, Uruguay. Uruguay has severed diplomatic relations with Germany. A presidential decree announced the rupture following a vote in favor of it by the chamber, 74 to 28. The German minister has been ? sent his passports. The vote in the chamber was taken at 2 o'clock this morning. I President Viesa in his message to Si paHiament declared that the Uruayan government had not received any direct offense from Germany, but that it was necessary; to espouse the cause of the defenders, of justice, democracy and small nationalities. G. J. Holliday of Galivants Ferry, v/as in Conway last week on business. N tfhc Jbert] TO TRAIN SOLDIERS IN SIXTEEN WEEKS Vigorous Schedule Mapped Out for National Guard and National Army Divisions. ! I Washington. Training work mapped out by the War Department for National Guard and national army divisions before they will be regarded as ready for duty abroad is based on a sixteen-week course of the most inI tensive kind of work in the open, varied with lectures by American and Allied officers who are experts in modern warfare. To insure uniformity of training throughout the entire army, divisional commanders have been urged to see that the schedules announced today are followed closely. Great stress is laid upon the necessity for night training, trench raiding, scouting, trench building and op- J erations of all kinds which may be called for in actual combat will be duplicated through the night hours. To give the men some respite their Wednesday and Saturday afternoons will be free, except in the case of backward individuals or units. Target practice runs through the entire j course ami the schedules call for j forty hours' training each week. i Individuals ahd Units. ' Practically the entire sixteen- weeks | will be devoted to training indivdi- l Uals, platoons and companies. Bng- | ade, divisional and even j, regimental . exercises are reserved for a later period. Since the platoon-, commanded . b>. a Iioutenant, .is the actual figh ing j ft. trench battles, the new regu i lations fix responsibility of the lieu- ' tenants of each company for training of less than company units. Rigid requirement is made that of fieers l>c present with their commands at all drills and vcgulatly in carrying out training schedules is ir- . sisted upon. ' The lecture program with graph! illustrations will show all that tliieyears of war have brought of gas at ' tack, of bombing and of bayonet j work. First aid instructions hold ' high place for wounded soldi rs to day mu ;t depend largely upon them- j I selves for first treatment. j OUR OiSTRiGTBOARD CERTIFIES MORE MEN . Lust week the district hoard "or the | eastern district of South Catclina, ti*. tified additional men back to the local board for military service, haviiv: passed on their claims for exemption or appeals as the case may be. The list returned to the local board hero as bcim* liable are as follows: Forest Forney Vaught, Gertie Shan non, E. M. Hill, William A. Hammon ', McDuffie Suggs, Philip Rabon, Benjamin Langdon Hume, Walter Monroe Stroud, Leonidas Polk Watts, Edgar Grey Stanley, Mnrsden C. Anderson, Benjamin E. Sessions, Steven John Dawsey, Willie Stevens Powell, Samuel Branton Howard, Chas. Bishop Fore, Dozier Hemingway, Jas. Tlios. Booth, Noah Johnson, John McLaurm Hux. The following were given temporal y discharge, but are held to service: Pearley S. Page,' held to service after December 1, 1917. J. Thurman Mishoe, held to service after December 1, 1918. o CASE WAS DISMISSED. By oversight we neglected to state in our issue of last week that in the case of the State v*. E<L Loner' * find Rotho Chestnut, that tho solicitor after careful investigation noll-prossed the case as to Rotho Chestnut, and* he was discharged form.his bond. The other defendant, Ed Long, was absent and his bond will be oollected and pfcid into the county treasury. Investigation showed that the Defend %af Chestnut was entitled to be dismissed from the vharge. Wmx CONWAY, S. C., THURSDAY j Bom BAYBORO FARMER IS I SERIOUSLY HANDLED Irvin Bell, one of the best known farmers of Bayboro, came to Conway on the late train last Wednesday night in a serious condition from numerous wounds with a knife, inflicte i on him him in a peculiar manner. He was here for surgical attention. As he was driving along the road after night-fall, with his wife a ad children, some person by the road, whose identity, at last accounts, was unknown to him, caught him and pulled him out of the vehicle, and with '? sharp knife cut and slashed him until he was almost dead. There were many cuts on his hands and arms. He had severe slashes on other parts of his bod v. and t.hn wnmlor i? 1 spot was touched . He was covered with blood upon his arriving here >n the late train and was taken to the Burroughs Hospital where his painful wounds were sewed up. He was able to be taken back to his heme on Thursday morning. AIL COUNTRY STORES MUSTHELP US OUT "We want all of the country stores in Horry County to aid us as much as they can in making it easy for the farmers of the county to get seed wheat, if they mention it and want it for planting. We have noticed that most of the supply stores are carrying plenty of seed oat3, and abruzzi rye to supply the farmers with seed; but we have yet to learn of one of them carrying seed wheat in stock. Well, we want to make a diffeience from now on, for we want > to see th<farmers of Horry County raisin more than enough wheat to make the flour they need, and we want it to be easy for them to get the seed. Lot every merchant offer to write 1 . - l i ? " wiuci nit." wrt'ui ior tnc scud v/hncever called for by any farmer. Befor elong it is sure to be the case in this county that the farmers would no more think of missing their wheal crop than they would think of leaving off their corn crops. gathe^tTiegorn m LOCAL MARKET David R. Coker, Food Administrut >? for South Carolina, has issued tlie fol lowing statement to the farmers u. the State: "The grain dealers of the country now have very little corn for sale. Within the past few days several merchants have told me that they could not get quotations on corn or on grit.-.. There is an actual scarcity of corn a' present in many of the towns of the State "p.Ql'lir rilo a/1 i- c *1 m-mhi ijr jiinui^i wi n in ouuin v,nn>lina is now thoroughly cured and re ady for the market. The farmei who promptly gathers, shucks, shel.s, and sacks his crop can possibly get $2.00 or better for it from his merchant. December corn is quoted in Chicago between $1.15 and $1.20. Should the market remain at these figures corn will shortly come down in , this section to about $1.50 per bushel, j 1, therefore, urge the farmers of I South Carolina to gather enough coi n promptly to supply the local demand and not wait for western com to come | in, flood our local markets and take them away from us. "Merchants should give preference i to home corn at all timps If less moisture and will keep better than most western com. Many prefer home ground com meal to the bolted meal of commerce, and merchants should arrange with local mills to supply them and fill this demand. "By the right sort of cooperation between the farmer* the ^merchant iand the housekeeper* the tremendous com crop * made in this Stale can be consumed right here at house. Lack of cooperation will mean shipping in western-corn and meal and later shipping out our owfl product. Housekeepers will not consume as freely if they have to buy imported meal." U pei , OCTOBER 11, 1917. ds & _ **' > REGISTRATION BOARD HAS BEEN APPOINTED Governor Richard I Manning, last I week, appointed the board of Regis tration for Horry Ceonty. They are; J. Hiram Long, 6f Longs, S. C. P. K. Peasant^ ijitte River, S. C. George M. Huggins, Galivarrts Fi ery, S. C . All of these are gentlemen of high character and standing in this county, and they will fill this important offk e to the credit of the people. SAPPIN6 GERMANY'S I MILITARY POWER; Washington.?Great Britain's new embargo on shipments of practically everything to Sweden, Norway, I)? nmark and The Netherlands is regarded as a most important move in tightening the cordon which slowly but surely is killing the military power of Germany. Coming close on the export embnr go of the United States, which is be- ' ing administered to keep from the European neutrals everything that might supply the Central powers, Great Britain's action is regarded as one of the most important of the war. I As the British embargo excludes everything except printed matter, about the only thing that will be permitted to go to the German people by way of neutrals will be expressions of world opinion that they should rccogi nile their system of government to <|c? away with the military Autocracy In a figurative sense, Great Britain holds one end of the rope and the Ignited States holds the other. Gradually, but surely, as it is being drawn^ taut, the millitary power of Germany is being strangled, because the embargo cuts off the supplies she has been receiving through the adjacent neutrals. i PUBLiCWllLBENEFIT BY GASOLINE PRICES Washington.?Oil and gasoline refiners meeting here today with the 'federal Trade Commission were told that the government will insist that i the public share in the war prices which are to be fixed. The commission already has submit '(d to President Wilson preliminary c st estimates on which the government will base prices it will pay fo .,.,,1 i f | on iuiu ^anvMiin: iitnu'ii iur war pur ' poses. Today's hearing was to giv producers an opportunity to submit their cases before a final report i made. There has been no decision yet a to whether the government will p'ace oil and gasoline under contro. of tie fuel administration or whether it wiM enter into a voluntary price agreement similar to the steel and coupe price agreement. Producers, it is said, are for a voluntary agreement. GERMAN RAIDER ; IS CAPTURED , London.?An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Melbourne says it is j reported there that a whaleboat with a crew of Germans from the raider Seeadler has been captured in the vicinity of the Fiji Islands. The boat contained a gun and machine guns, the dispatch says, and the Germans j admitted they had been detailed from the Seeadler to make raids. 9 The presence of two German *ea raiders in the South Pacific was made known in dispatches from Samoa to the Navy Department last week. Both ve?aels were ?aid to have been - manned by the crew of the Steadier. Several merchantmen ar reported te have been sunk. The Soeadler was active in the South Atlantic last spring- sink ing eleven merchantmen there. W. J. Hardee was among those who spent some time in Conway la*t week. kkM. Save EXEMPTED OUT OF I LAST THREE HUNDRED | [ List Published Last Tuesday by Local Exemption Board as Being Exempted. Referring to the list of throe hundred registrants who were called for examination several weeks ago by the Iceal board here; the local board finishcd passing on the claims liled for examption and the list exempted by them out of this last three hundred was published early this week. Those exempted are on the grounds of dependents. The three hundred mentioned were called by the board in order to have men ready to supply si n \? Hiof mi a wnj vnuv in i u in: nnui i I v>i Lilt* quota of 2I>4 men. Just when any of those not exempted from this last three hundred will be called, is not now known. The district board will als0 have to puss on these exemptions. The names of those exempted out of the last three hundred examined here follows: Chancellor Johnson, James Alex Todd, William Benj. Singleton, Felix Wright Todd, Rudie E. Johnson, Leland Lucius Stephens, Frank Irving Jackson, Marshall Iverson Prince, Luther Pinkney Rogers, William Bertie Stroud, ? Thomas Rollin Kdinundson, Haddop jLundy, ~Talmadge Marvin Piver, Geo. Thomas Capps, Fletcher Stanley Blandon, Mc. Quin Fowler, John Stokes Smith, William Klisha Williams, niurov TnmAo T #\L?nyv?? I v/ii tci tj ami;^ ij uiiur>unt John Franklin Garrell, Noah Herbert Hatcher, Donald Herbert Dusenbury, James Olin Hucks, John Hezekiah Reynolds, Daggett Tompkins, Benj. Thomas Dorman, Moses Galloway, Joseph H. Faulk, Rufus Avry Hickman, Sam'l Peter Hearl, John IV.ul Skipper, Wm. Jesse May nurd, Henry llenj. Singleton, Edwin Bradley, Willie Leslie A1 ford, Gary Evans Hardee, William Edward Graham, Boston Wakefield Howard, Noah Webster Roberts, Sam'l Light Moore, Hooker Parker, Filmore Rogers, Charlie Gore Newton, Russel Wolf, Benj. Chestnut Todd, Thomas Kirton Cook, Harmon Morgan Reynolds, Quincy Harmon Harrelson, Arthur Washington Stephens, Lewis Benj. Faircloth, Dexter Russ Gerrald, o i111 u v 11 y, Joseph H. Carter, Henry Tillman Williams, Sam'l Dexter Harrelson, Eli Ray, Isiah Herbert Allen, Isaac Franklin Lewis, Talbert Decul Todd, Geo. Scott Simmons, Samuel Samson Carrol, Jiley Fowler, James B. Franklin Connor, Stace Shannon, FU*ni. PinUnnv Klrtvrl ^ Joseph Norman Cooper, James Fred Alford, George Fred Hobhs, Willie Johnson, Franklin Buel Todd, Emery Curtis Chestnut, Herbert Cooper, Olin Isaac Blanton, Richard Jackson Richardson, Frank Ben Moore, Jesse Asbury J ones, Van Bel ford Corter, (Continued on Page Eight.) * 0 " _ *\ I - ^ > NO. 25? Food ANOTHER LIST WAS SENT OFF YESTERDAY To Aid in Filling Out the Quota of Whites in Horry's Contingent NAMES WERE TAKEN FROM CERTIFIED LIST Quotas From All the Counties For First Increment About Supplied. The Horry Exemption Board sent still another list of white draftees *.o Camp Jackson this week; having sent out notices to them late last week to appear here in the afternoon of Tuesday, in readiness to leave For the camps on the early morning train of Wednesday, October 10th. This last number to be sent were taken from a list of those who were certified to the local board by the district board last week, their claims for exemption having been disallowed. Those ordered out to go to Citmp Jackson, Wednesday October lOtb, were as follows.: Forest, Forney Vaught, Nixoitville, S. C. I ' 4 ' Gertie Shannon, AHsbrook, S. C. I E. M. Will, Tabor, N. C. No. 2. I Witliand A. Hammond, Nichols, S C. McDuffie Suggs, Tabor, N. C. Rnbon, Cool Spring, S. C. . Walter Monroe Stroud, Green Sea> S. C. Marsden C. Anderson, Conway, S. C. Benjamin E. Sessions, Conway, S. C. Steven John Dawsev, Galivants Ferry, S. C., Route No. 3. Willie Stevens Powell, Boris, S. C. Samuel Howard Branton, Myrtle Beach, S. C. Jas. Thos. Booth, Ailen, S. C. Noah Johnson, Galiva^ts Kerry, S. C. John McEaui in I lucks, Conway, S. C., No. 2. sendsIngMTure ma y be boll weevil i __ Mr. Hudson Shelly, the Rural Free Delivery carrier or. one of the Nichols routes, brought to the Herald office last week, a queer looking insect which may be a Mexican Roll Weevil, or at least some species akin to that post. This" bug was found by Mr. John M. Elvington feeding in his cotton patch. He sent it to the Herald office where it has been the subject of interest to many. Whethei it is a real boll weevil or not the Editor does not know. SUNDAYFIREIS CAUSE OF ALARM There was an alarm of fi*e last Sunday morning when the roof of the cottage leased by Mr. and Mrs. R. SWcllons, from Mr. G. R. Jnekins, was i: ' - - | ujscuvereci in a light blaze. At first it was fully believed that the house would l>e lost. Accordingly everything was removed from it. But the neve pipe line for water supply had just been completed to the corner opposite the property, and in a few , minutes two streams of water were being played on the flames by the fire, department, and the fire was extinguish eci with only damage to the roof, and such damage as would come from wetting the lower part of tjhe building. After the fire the furniture was replaced in the house and the next day workmen were busy repairing the building.