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* ' \ r* * It ; / * . V WnBmii ONLY CUSS ONE , K WILL BE CALLED v ~~~~~ No Men With Dependents Will Be Drafted Into the I Army. * ? pROWDER OUTLINES * / DEPARTMENT POLICY 'Recommends Provision Be Made to Include Men Be I A 4 coming' z i. Washington. ? Provost Marsh ll General (Vowdor reporting to Congress! on the progress of the draft, expro^ped lor the first time a definite promise and aim of the government f not to take for army duty any other men than thos(. listed in class one of ' the new draft questions ire. This classification excludes marrioe i men entirely, v.'hose wives or families are dependent on them for support, rnd oth r men with dependents. Genci I Crowder does this on the I ? stimatr that 1,000,000 rnen physical-j i !v fit f< army duty will be available , from cl one. This number he! I thinks . Ticietit for the present inili! tary nr s of the nation, but to as^ sun- t future supply for thosr neeus ii recommends that man who have hi >mo 21 yours old sinc< Juno I.'6. 1917, the first draft), and who b;| come o age hereafter shall be added [ to class >n<? as they become available. \ This w insure, the general estimates. a si iply of 700,000 men a year. i New Policy. Cienq \l O/owder outlines the new | > policy i this language: f "Win ;her this guess (1,000,000 I iwnilab > men) be justified in practice | or not, .t tan be announced now as] .the policy ami belief of this office' , that in all probability it will be posi siblr to fill our military needs with, i c ut invading. any class more deferred | than elw.-i one; and this is the prom ^ i-< . the standard, and the goal, here [ for the first time announced, toward' iff ... | p vhieh every administrative effort d J this office shall he direct* 1." v>encrai t rowcier also recommends I another method of arriving at ; i State's quota. Instead of using th^ I population as a basis h0 would tak the number of men at present lisle : in class one. PUNHIN6 TO LAUNCH THIRD LIBERTY LOAN f Washington.?The next national ' loan ^ill be designated officially as the "Third Liberty Loan"?not the Victory loan, or Freedom loan, or Peace loan as had been suggested. This was made known today, after receipt of hundreds of suggested fiames from persons all over the ''country in response to a request for submission of ideas. Posters and other advertising will he prepared immediately bearing the title now adopted. The loan will be some time after February 1 for an amount and at an interest rate not yet decided. RUSSIANS WORKIN nrn nrnr nnioniirnn1 iDcnALr ur rmduretttoj Petrograd*.?The work of the remission which - is dealing with prisors is proceeding slowly. The issian delegates claimed the right send any publications they desired Russian prisoners in Germany an 1 socialist in the Central empires, icy also demanded unrestricted diet telegraphic communication with pvescntatives of the socialist parjs in the enemy countries. The Goran delegates replied they were un ilhorizod to make an agreement on is P4>int. T\wf Russians demanded the erea,?n of a special commission to inlire into the deportation of Polish orkmen for employment in privately | vned factories in Germany. To thk nnand the Germans responded they id not been authorized to take up e question. Th0 Russians thereupi asked for further instructions from ' it- council of people's commissioners. mt c< PERSHING THANKS HIS WELL WISHERS Army Appreciates Women; | Aid and Will Fight for Them | and Children. With the American Army in France.?On behalf of the American expeditionary force General Pershing has answered New Year's message from the United States. A messag* to the army from the Children's American Loyalty League, said: "Dear American Soldiers: W know the sacrifice you have made foils nad will make that we may ha safe and happy. We thank you and wish you all a happy new year." General Pershing responded as fol- ! lows: "The American soldiers in France aie very glad to have your message. No sacrifice wc can make will he too gieat if we can insure the safety an i happiness of the children of Anieri- ! ca." From Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, suf frage leuder and member of the wo. man's council of national defense. Came this greeting: "The women of the United States are with you in the spirit of service. You are our standard bearers, our hope. We love you, believe in you. pray for you." Heartfelt Thanks to Women. General Pershing replied: "All ranks of the American expeditionary force unite in heartfelt 1 thanks to the women of America for1 their love a ffil prayers. The patriot - I ism of our incomparable women, than whom there are none others more noble, shall be our constant inspira- , tion until the yiyat tasks which is entrusted to us shall he accomplished, i Accept our best wishes for the com- 1 inn year and our firm confidence in 1 , final success." | To Christmas mcssay.es from tlv women of the American Red Cross,' the American commander sent the' thanks of all ranks, adding: "The love and conl'idnccc of our women wiP make us all better men ami better soldiers and hold us firm in the couraye an determination to v. in." | TDAfiiP ncATU nr mihuiu utHin ur i BAILEY B. ST ANLEY | i China Grove, N. ('., Jan. 7th, 191^.1 Kditor Herald: ? I wish to thank you in advance for the* print ?ng of a sad happening in our community on Wednesday, January 2nd, 11HS. It happened as follows: Starting' out from my place in the afternoon of the day mentioned above I unting Bailey B. Stanley in company with John Nobles, Herman I). Stanley, Jesse White, and Cliff White, and, after reaching: the Branch close by some where in the hunt, soon after being' gone, men and dogs all together coming up with a squirrel. In the fun and merry for the squirrel some v ay the gun in Herman's hands fired off, and the load took effect in the body of Bailey B. Stanley under his left shoulder in the back, resulting in almost instant death. It is very sad indeed to lose one who was at every call of need, ready and willing to respond. He was industrious, truthful and honest, quiet and of sound judgment. He was kind-hearted and loved by all who knew him, wjiich was fully shown from the time of his accident until his body was laid away in th * cemetery at China Grove. Let mo return my thanks to my friends both m Horry and Columbus for their interest. J. H. Stanley. jamessmartIstate offered for sale We have for sale the estate land of the late Mr. Jas. Smart, containing thirty-two acres, with 1(5 or 18 acre.cleared, with dwelling house, lying ;n Rucks township, on Pee Pee Public Road. Wire fencing round about onefourth of field. Call or write us your best offer for this property which th0 heirs want dispose of at a fair price. The only time to buy land is when it is offered for sale. Afterwards it is too late.?ad HORRY LAND AGENCY, Co way. M. M. Hodrick. H. H. W.oodwar I | %mx jnway, s o 7 thursdayv jaj SALES AT AUCTION MADE LAST MONDAY * $? Conway hud less than the usua lumber of legal sales last Monday ban has been the rule for the firs J Monday in January in several years. One tract of fifty acres in Galivants Kerry township, was sold by the sheriff to Mrs. Pearlie Johnson for tin sum of $1161.00. Another tract in Little River township was sold under partition proceedings brought by the M. B. Thompson Co., and was knocked down to two of the defendant heirs. This sale was mnrlo hv Yf ? W T . ..?,v,v WJ I . ?T . U. Ill V UK, V-/1*.: I l\ Wl Court, acting as Special Master. A saw mill, grits mill and lumber planer, located at Warn pee, S. C., was sold by the sheriff under a chattel mortgage made several years ago, by a former owner of the plant, and this complete, went to E. I). Hurdwick for the sum of $000.00. The weather was warmer but the roads were very wet and muddy owin t to last week's snows; and these conditions no duobt kept many people from visiting the county seat on salcsda>, who otherwise would have been seen here. NATIONALCRisiSDEVEL0PIN6 IN GERMANY London, Jan. S.?A reply from the Central powers to the statement of British war aims trade by Premier Lloyd George Saturday is awaited here with the greatest intreost. It is believed they cannot decline to repiy Mi some form and to make the reply more straightforward and definite than any previous statement of their aims. But if the German papers correctly mirror the situation there, the test which the Bolsheviki have made of Germany's attitude toward the principle of no annexations has thrown Gremany into political turmoil. Ad* j \ ices from * the rnnitnls nf nnntfil I countries bordering on Germany show that the opinion prevalent there is; that one of the most severe national j crisis in the history of Germany i> developing as to result of the difference of views between the militai ist ! and non-militarist leaders regarding' tlie govei nment 's attitude toward R v { si a. | Ludcnderlf Threatens. I It is reported generally that Gener- ! el von Ludendorff, as leader of the1 former group, aetualK has gone sol !'ar as to threaten the resignation >?f lumself and Field Marshal von Him! eenburg if further countenance U1 given even to such views as those advanced by men of the type of Dr. vo<i Kuehlmann nad Count Czernin, tlv 1 German and Ausrtian foreign minis- i tors. | At the same time the views of von ; Kuehlmann and Czernin fail to satis-j fy the Gorman socialist, who regard | their middle of the road policy us! trickery and who also are determined | that the spirit'of the Reichstag rose, j lution must ho followed sincerely ar.d 1 without qualification or reserves. Neutral observers declar0 that the gap between the German parties suddenly has become a chasm so wide that there is little hope of bridging ;t. and that the development of an internal crisis of serious proportions seem pi obable. On the other hand, it is pointed out that the various parties of Entente t countries never seemed to completely ! united as in their support of the war j aims formulated by Premier Lloyd i George. I A. P. McGec of Virginia was in Con I way one Hay last week. ? o? I ! hiw-W . m. wmMan ! i l~buy if wifh thought j 2 ? cock if wifh care 1 1 ' 3? serve just enough wh^f will keep ; $ h. e&f: wliat wo-ald spoil fahome-firpwu is best 1 vV '?*>#* ?*> :af rn* at*?*.*??vr&j*rj *' r* f vr .v t: v.* **? Y. " .' v n % ,Vt> * A / i ? t: v^.I w n_ 1^ ? ITjk&V 10. 1918 ALLIED ARMIES READY FOP EXPECTED DRIVE V % \ " Y Washington, Jan. S.?The expected lorinan. offensive in the west, Sec re .ury linker's weekly war review today says, "will possibly be their great est assault," but the French and British armies can be relied upon to withstand the shock. Summarizing the situation on the (ve of a possible great offensive, Secretary Baker confidently points out that through sixteen fierce battles uf great magnitude the British and French steadily have pushed ahead with methodical and cumulative gains ; The expected offensive, he points out, probably is being delayed for massing j great supplies of munition guns and ; troops and the Germans may bo ex- i pec ted to "strain every fibre ot then \ ' emaining sti ength." ice caTeonWeI i impedes river traffic; Last Friday morning revealed t ? the people the fact that the Wacou11.aw River had frozen over during the night. For several days before that time, the waters of Kingston Lake had frozen over to such thickness that skating parties ventured out upon it. The water of the river withstood the cold until Thursday night v hen the continued cold caused a cak0 oJ ice to form over nearly the entire surface . Friday morning was the t.imo fc the regular schedule trip of the Steamer Bui roughs from Conway to Georgetown. The start on the trh) was made by the boat at about the usual time, but the steamer returned after going a short distance down the liver. latter in the day the trip was made without mishap. Reports from Galivants Ferry and other points along the Little Pee Dee Kivc'ri were to the effect that the same conditions prevailed on that st ream. SHORTAGE OF FOOD MENAGE TO ALLIES ~ S^"B I Washing ton.?-The food situation in the allied countries of Europe is j.,raver than it has boon at any time since th0 beginning of the war and < giving American government official, deep concern. Official reports picture extreme food shortages in Kngland, France an(' I tilly. The fact that conditions in Germany and Austrv. are far worse offers the only ground, for optimism in viewing the situatio i. In England and France the situation is described as critical in a cablegram to the food administration today from Lord Rhondda, the British food controller. o J. R. Bowles spent several days herc on business last week; and loft here for Rocky Mount, N\ C., the latter part of last week. APPRECIATES^HERALD AND HE PROVES !T Mr. Archie Chestnut, a son of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Chestnut of this County, and a brother of Messrs. W B. Chestnut and J. L. Chestnut, rf Conway, lives in Brooklyn, N. V. where he has done well, proving that Horry County can furnish good citi7. ns to even tin. greatest city of this country. Under recent date he wrote to his father here as follows regarding- his subscription to the Horry Herald: "Go to the Horry Herald, or rathe", Mr. M. H. Weodward and pay liim $5 0) for hack subscription and a few future ones * * * under no consideration discontinue niv paper, as 1 enjoy reading' it every week very < much." It is ener,urgoing to see such let- i ters. Aftej- sparing no pains to make tlvc Herald a good county paper : week after week, we are glad to know , it wlrm a reader says that "he enjoys having the paper. < ^ i (I t legal blanks at the Herald offico. Do your business during 1D1K n Herald blank-.. They are the best in th;s section. mlti. WILL RUSH AMERICAN TROOPS TO EUROPE Recommendations of Colonel House and Other American Delegates. Washington.?American troops are to be rushed to Europe in as large and as constant a stream as is humanly possible; the Allied nations will so arrange their shipping as to provide the necessary transport; the merchant ship building program must be rushed; there is to be closer cooperation of all the co-belligerents to present a single and united t'roni to German autocracy; the part of tinUnited States has been clearly defined and arrangements made to cuiry it out. These are tht. principal results* as they affect America of the recent inter-Allied war council in Paris, announced today for the first time by the State Department. These recommendations made by the American delegates, of whom Colonel K. M. House, President Wilson's personal representative was th? head, are the result of the great eoun cil of heads of a'l the co-belliferents. Principal Recommendations. The principal recommendations of the American delegation arc: "That the United States exert all their influence to secure entire unity of effort, military, naval and economic, between themselves and the countries associated with them in the war. "Inasmuch as the successful termination of the war by the United States and the Allies can he greatly has. toned by the extension of the United States shipping; program, that tlw government and the people of the United States bend every effort towards accomplishing this result by a systematic coordination of resourceof men and materials, "That the fighting fortes of the United States he dispatched to Kurop(, with the least possible delay, incident to training and equipment." I )e pa r t in en t Stat em cut. The following statement by tlv IV*partment of State was made public in connection with the recommendations: 14A review of the report filed V'Hh th0 Department of State by Colonel J louse, the head of the special war mission, which visited Groat Uriluin and France in November, shovvs that it succeeded in its purpose of roach ing a <lctimt0 working' plan for the prosecution of the war through cooporation of the governments represente<l at the conferences held in Paris in the various fields of activity, and through marshaling- the resources of the nations at war v;th the Central Powers and coordinating their uses under a common authority, thus avoid ing- the waste and uncertainties that arise from independent action. "The results of the conference, as shown in the report, are most gratifying to this government, first, hecause they indicate that the conferees were inspired by the desire to he mutually helpful; and second, became the agreements, which were reached, when in full operation will greatly increase the effectiveness of the efforts now being put forth by tb" United States and the Alllies in the conflict against Germany and Austria. Hungary. "A summary of the results accomplished at their conferences and of the recommendations made by the American mission will indicate the value of the work clone and the practical methods which were considered by the conferees, and which arc recommended in the report.'' ICE KING GETS ! KINGSTON LAKE ' Kingston Lake, for the first time in j many years, was frozen over severn clays beginning the first of last week, with a solid cak<> of ice which was said to be at least six inches thick, j Several skating parties were ar ranged among boys and these wore r>n joyed to the greatest extent; the novelty of it in this section of the country as much as anything eh e. j The point on the lake selected for the skating was near the bond in the la.ojust this side of the upper bridge. Hero the ice was thickest and st;\n.g- I est to hear up weight. ( ho; is. CONWAY HAS RRE IN EARLY M0IWIN6 I Dwelling and Tenant House of Mr. J. E. Nicholas Lost i FIRE COMPANY FACED BY FROZEN SYSTEM Neighbors Galhrrorl r?r?ri ... ^ u ???< * . ? in Saving- Furniture From Flames. k i "* i v'onway had an earl\ morning: fire , la>t Saturday. Fire broke out around a stark chimney, in out* of the rooms i ; ! the residence of Mr. and Mrs. I. 'i. Nicholas, and the dwelling was totally lost. The flames spread across to another dwelling owned by Mr. Nicholas which was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. .). O. Chestnut as tenants, and this too was a total loss with exception of the win| dows and doors and such other fixtures as it was possible to tear away from the burning building. The fire company responded quickly to the alarm but could do practically nothing for the reason that water mains were frozen, the stain* pipe under the big tank bursted wide open, and the gasoline fire, eninne extremely hard to start. Finally the. company strung a line of h.o-<e from the reservoir near the .town had and began playing a stream on tfwr flames in time perhaps to keep it from spreading and doing a lot move damage. Neighbors gathered at the scene and aided in bringing; out Iho furniture and personal, property f the occupants of the houses. At ! ~?no time the flame:; caught the roof , ' f the Planters Tobacco Storage War* house. Men were on top of this .howoc r very soon with buckets of " V ami this was saved with very islitle damage. L '< W. W. Uu ss had a number of curs o.ed in this warehouse, and those .voce moved out for safety, as was r '.her properly in the building at the vimo. Men went on top <tf? nearby ^..utses a vl this no douht prevented he fire from burning a wide gap 'through the entire rcsidneco portion j <d the town. j The fire occurred in the early , morning before the family had brettfcfast. There was $f>00.00 Insurance or* ; co"h house and $,'>00.00 otl the prop( i ty. Many expressed sympathy for Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas in sustaining ! this loss. nUCKJllNtlNGCOSTS LIFE OF THRFF MFN ? - - - ? rn?immm ! C MM? V ' (ieorgetown, Jan f>.?Thursday ni^ht the community was shocked by ho news of tho death of the thr^ yoiaur nu n, Marry McNaron, J. T. , Schroder and Dozier Mishoe, whib? I <;uck hunting. I I These young men had been v?it '.mting* all day. Nothing was known [of thc accident or at what time of ?fav h took place until another hunting parly returning home saw the boat with Ann 1 1 f/* 1 -- ? A ( . .... III? IV.-I.I wv/u^ .sm'U'.n^l cr. ss it. Tht supposition is that the >ther two wn*r drowned, the third 1 cur reaching the boat but afterwards ai'vumbnig to exposure and the ?ni ten ,? cold S( arching parties have not yet succeeded in finding the other two bodies. i EGISLATURE MEETS TUESDAY JAN. 8TH The 1 legislature convened in Oohimbia last Tuos<lay January' 8th. Sraaf,M ll?.l I * ** w v.. i4. nuv i\ it-it uisi/ monaay be on hand at the opening of th0 State Senate. So as we could learn, nor representatives, Messrs. W. 1,. Mi.shoe and Waterman M. Booth, left for Columbia, in the best of health and spirit . ready to take care of the interests of this county, and their State in *reneval. Tli0 Legislature will iret down to actual work bv yesterday or t >day.