The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, October 11, 1917, Image 1
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WILL SCOUR SEAS
FOR BOLD RAIDERS
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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
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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,
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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
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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.
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TO TRAIN SOLDIERS
IN SIXTEEN WEEKS
Vigorous Schedule Mapped Out
for National Guard and National
Army Divisions.
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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
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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.
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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.
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CONWAY, S. C., THURSDAY
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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
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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."
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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
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| 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.
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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.
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EXEMPTED OUT OF I
LAST THREE HUNDRED
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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
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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.)
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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.
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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
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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
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| 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.