The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, May 02, 1918, Image 1
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HORRY STAMP SALES
tkfi FORWARD LEAP
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With Further Effort County
*4 Must Maintain the Lead
. Made Last Week
! WORK HAS GAINED
OFFICIAL NOTICE
| Horry Last Week Sprung Into
I* ^ Third Place Among
Counties.
It is very gratifying to know th it
^ Horry County is coming into her own
i ^ in the sale of War Savings Stamps.
The reports from headquarters last
week show that Horry County had
sprung into third place among the
counties of the State in woekly sales,
? the sales for that week amounting
to $4,502.2.3. The County's standing
for total sales to date is now thirV
teenth,?the total sales as last report
cil being $13,528.50.
This ia a very material increase, as
the county only a few weeks ago was
practically at the bottom. This infor...LM
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same time shows a greater responsibility
on our part to maintain this
. \ lead as the other counties of the
t State are working hard to improve
* their condition.
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Horry's magnificent work for the
past week has received official recognition
by the authorities. Mr. i"\
A. Burroughs, the County Chairman
is in receipt of the following letter
from Mr P. M. Rea, who is in charge
of War Savings Stamp sales for the
\ State:
, x>\ "Dear Mr Burroughs:
4ust a line to congratulate you or
>? the splendid improvement on the Horry
County sales last week, .158c pei
capita, giving to Horry third place
for the week. Spread the good ntwj
among thci people and urge them te
something really big."
The following table showing the
If standing of the counties of the State
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this paper:
i Bank. County. Per Capita Amoun
jffi 1 Beaufort . . . $2.07 $61,421/;?
; 2 Charleston . . . 1.37 122/525.M
o Marion 1.25 29,445.7?
{ 4 Anderson 836 66,605.0(
f 5 Orangeburg . . . .824 29,814.0(
jj <> Florence .729 29,874.21
17 Spartanburg . . . .659 63,639.21
8 Richland 515 32,034.01
k x 9 Calhoun 507 9,407.21
I ,4 10 York 484 25,230.'/.'
1 .11 Lancaster 477 13,542.01
I f 12 "Marlboro 466 15,765.01
[ 13 Horry 456 13,528.51
\ 14 Barnwell 450 15,398.51
1 15 Oconee 431 12,977.2*
| 16 Qreenville 397 31,508.51
!ll/ 1? Hampton 372 6,899.51
[1 18 Sumter 366 15,593.2:
19 Clarendon 349 12,255.51
20 Chesterfield .. . .327 10,028.71
21 Kershaw 326 9,807.51
22 Dorchester 321 6,124.01
* 23 Chester 315 9,465.01
24 Cherokee 293 8,709.51
I s-> 25 Union 281 9,320.2;
P' * 26 Darlington 280 11,204.'/!
JM'' 27 .Pickens 267 7,975.;,I
j 28 Newberry 258 9,759.*V
*^ 29 McCormick . . . .253 2,535.51
I -30 Abbeville 236 6,604.0(
I 3i Laurens 213 9,524.2!
I 32 Edgefield 212 5,976.01
1; 33 Williamsburg . . .205 9,610.51
34 Aiken 189 8,319.7 J
35 Jasper .185 1,412.01
I 36 Lee 183 5,143.51
37 Lexington 172 10,830.7!
B 38 Bamberg ! . .. j .168 3,168.7!
I 39 Dillon 163 4,200.51
I 40 Saluda 158 3,552.0(
41 Greenwood .... .157 6,156.0(
j 42 Georgetown .. . .149 3,337.21
| 43 Fairfield 143 4,235.7/
K a, 44 Berkeley .065 1,534.5<
M " 45 Colleton .... . .. .049 1,805.2!
I STATE . .... 0.472 777,606.01
I This country stands for free peo
pies goferaed by their own Potei
while the central powers stand fo
one ?an rule, which means autocracy
irv^texul of Democracy.
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HUNS STOPPED IN /"'
DESPERATE ASSAULTS
Today's reports from Flanders
battle front only serve'to emphasize
the completeness of the yictory won
by the Anglo-French forces Monday
in withstanding the tremendous assault
by which the Germans hoped to
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wjcttr iiiuj me uiueu mu positions
southwest of Ypres and begin cutting
their way on toward the channel
ports.
The situation seems to have been
one of the entente high command deciding
once more to make a stand after
having forced the Germans to use
up tens of thousands of men in fighting
their way desperately forward as
far as they have. The decision made,
the stand was taken, and the Germans
were stopped, as they have
been previously on other fields since
the great offensive opened on March
21. The enemy, it is estimated, threw
as many as thirteen divisions or
about 175,000 men into the attack on
this twelve mile front, but despite
continued furous assaults was held
almost in his tracks everywhere. At
a few points there was a slight enemy
penetration, but the line was
largely rectified late yesterday. During
last night the French, in dashing
counter blows, drove the Germans
from the remainder of the small
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aurovcnes oi ground tney nau gained
in their initial drives of the day.
HIGH WATER BAD
FOR WORKING UNO
Lands in many sections of Horry
' | were rendered too wet for cultivating
by the heavy rutins of week before
> last, and again by the long rain
Avhfch set in last Thursday night and
! continued for the greater part of Fri>
day. '
These recent rains were general
over the territory from which the
1 Waccamaw ami Pee Dee Rivers- are
fed; the Waccamaw and the Little
l ee Dec were soon out of theh
1 banks. The water at Galivants Ferry
* bridge was said to be higher last
> week than it ever was before in the
opinions of many. Low lands lying
1 along the ' river wore covered in
1 places where usually at. this season
I* the crops are being planted. High
water from the Waccamaw was soon
t iii the roads at some places near Con>
way, and work along the river earlj
) last week was being interferred with
i OLDCmZENiS
j REPORTED DEAD
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> Peter Wall, an aged citizen of Lit
) tie River, died suddenly at that plact
^ on April 24th. For a number o!
? years he had been employed by Mr
} Stone, and was filling his position al
3 the time of his death.
: WORRIED OVER NEWS
i OF MISSING CYCLOPS
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3 The family and relatives of Mr
3 and Mrs. J. F. Harper, at Toddville
? S. C., have been considerably worriec
> over the news dispatches of recenl
3 date telling of the missing naval col3
licr Cyclops. Recently nearly sixtj
3 days had passed away since the ves3
sol had been said to have sailed froir
3 Barbadoes bound for an Atlantic
3 port.
3 Ulric Samuel Harper, a son of Mr
3 and Mrs. J. F. Harper, was in the
3 naval service, and was in service o?
3 the Cyclops at the time. They re?
ceived a message from the depart5
ment telling -of the fact that the
3 vessel was long over due and that tr
3 tidings could be obtained of the rea.
3 son for this
3 Several theories are advanced
> among the most likely, that the col
) lier was turned over to the enemy oj
5 at least turned away from her regu
lar course by the work of some tral)
tor, maybe with the outside help oi
German agents. In case a destruc.
- tion at sea, this could be proved b.*
i signs of wreckage, and in case of Vex
r collier being disabled, a wireless met{
sage could be seht from the ample
equipment which the vessel carried.
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S?LECT!NG*tlRIEFlS
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Board Will Keep information
. Given it Confidential if
It is True.
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The Local Board has received
amongst other information the follow
ing from the office of the Provost 1
Marshal r.nVinrul I
"Under the selective Servioc Law
and Regulations deferred classification,
except in the cases involving
outright exemptions under the Act >"
May 18, 1917, does not exist as a
matter of right; the hearing of
claims for such classification cannot
therefore, be considered controversial.
Boards sit not as referee between
registrants and the GovernJ
ment, but as representatives of the
Government charged with the responsibility
of recruiting an Army
and, at the same time, of preserving
our economic and domestic equilibrium
in accordance with prescribed
regulations."
To put this in other words, all registrants
classified in classes I, II, III
and IV are liable under the law for
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11111\,m y service, nut it is necessary
that our farms and other industries
be run and the Local Boards have
been given the duty of selecting the
men to run these farms and other
industries. " V
Consequently, the Local Bon'fd of
our County takes the view that it
not selecting men to go to the Army;
these have been selected by registration.
But it is selecting men to stay
at home and to work on farms.
Such being the case, it is neceasj&ry
that the Local Board kno"w tbtft l^he
men it has selected to stay^at home
and work are working and are producing.
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It is the duty of every person ?ii
the County to report to the Locift
Board any mistakes it has made. -t&
i *x man litis been left at home wlio
s not working and producing more than
ufcual he should be reported to the
' Board so that the Board can put him
. in a more useful position.
This is what is meant by the fol;
lowing paragraph of the Provost
i Marshal General's instructions to the
t Local Board.
i "The spirit and intent of the Seleci
tive Service Law and Regulations is
that board members shall be in pos"
session of every available fact touch.
ing on or pertaining to cases within
their respective jurisdictions. Nc
small amount of the information obtained
by the boards is of a confidenitial
character. To open to the public
all infomation which a board may
have in a given case would be a
breach of the confidence of the per.
sons, who through interest in the sueJ
cessful operation of the Selective
F Service Law, have rendered available
assistance and would, by discouraging
I f p (yiuinrr ? '
v/1 uiivii iiiaviuii, srriuu.ii y
impair the fair and equitable selection
of registrants. The public, there
fore, should not be given access tc
confidential records of reports "
I This protects absolutely all confi|
dential information given to the Local
Board. But it leaves to the Local
Board the duty of sifting out mali
cious stories and false information.
? Little or none of this has been given
I to the Board in this County; and
t what has been discovered has been
" given by those who want to stay at
f home, or whose relatives want them
' to stay at home, rather than by oth1
ers.
Any person in the County may
feel perfectly safe in giving to mem
bers of the Local Board any informa!
tion which will aid them in selecting
I . r.'i'ftllf1!' TlfiroAni! ofr... .a 1."?
I j#. |/v* ty ota(Y Ul I1UII1U v*J
*. work and in leaving others for mili^'tary
service. Only Class I men are
- now being called ar.d those of Class
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DEFEAT FOR HON I
W HILL ATTACKS
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German? Probably Used Thirteen
Divisions Which Were ,
Badly Shattered.
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London, April 30. (Via Ottawa).? '
The correspondents with the British
army agree that the enemy yesterday
suffered nothing less than a disastrous
defeat. It was the first phase
or the battle in his desperate attempt
to capture the line of hills held by
the Allies, which endanger his possession
of Mont Kemmel. The Germans
have probbaly used thirteen divisions
from the east of Ypres southward
on the line of battle, with two
more northward, and the violence of
the gunfire was never greater or
more unceasing at any period of the
war.
The successful Allied defense made
the day the bloodiest yet experienced
by the enemy, as attack after attack
was smashed by artillery and infantry
fire. The Germans had already
suffered heavily on Sunday, when
their concentrations of troops were
caught and shattered by gunfire.
Their waves yesterday were mowed
down and the British wings and
French center neither bent nor broke.
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PHFA1IFV llia*PPMA a APi
tKtSHtl WAItKSAKt
i STILL ON THE RISE
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The freshet waters in the Waccamaw
River and also in the two Pee
Dee Rivers, are still on the rise at
last accounts There was a risi of
about three inches every day this
week,.
AU of the lumber plants at Conway
wenp ^forced to suspend work and
* tbajr will be idle until the freshet
^ .watqrfc subside. The water is inter
fwing to more or less extent with
crops planted on low lands near the
rivers, and damage to live stock has
been reported from some communities,
though the efforts of farmers
to save the hogs from drowning have
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oeen successiui in most cases.
The great Pee Dee is higher than
the stream has been since the great
flood of 191G.
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THE PRICE OF STAMPS.
Commencing May 1, the price of
War Savnigs stamps will be $4.\G
, each, instead of $4.15, the price dur.
ing April. The price advances one
cent ?ach succeeding month during"
: 1918. This is because the stamps increase
in value, and while they cost
i more, they can be redeemed for
more. A stamp purchased in April
. for $4.15, for instance, can be redeemed
in May for $4.16. The price
of Thrift stamps will be the same?
25c?all the year.
I who are actively, completely and
assiduously engaged in farm produc1
tion may be held for a season on the
farm before going into service.
To this end the Local Board has
prepared a list of Seventeen (IT)
questions which has been sent to ev'
ery one of Class I men now liable for
military service. These questions are
1 intended to ascertain whether the
' registrant should be passed over and
1 held on the farm in filling current
; quotas for the Army. Every claim by
1 Class I men for deferred service wdl
be examined so that the Board will
know with what degree of strictness
to enforce the law. Outside of these
the Board would like to have all the
information possible with reference
to Class I men" and the grounds for
1 deferring their service and retaining
' them at heme. All such information
will be held in confidence, if it is
1 true.
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THDRSIMf^SS
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HOUSE DECIDES .
TO GALL YOUTHS
Washington.?Th^ house late today 1 |
u) op ted the seriate"' resolution for the!
registration for military service of |
young men who have reached the age I
of 21 years since June 5 last. The
measure now goes to conference. An
amendment offered by Representa- |
tive Hull of Iowa, and adopted 119 to
SI, provides that men registered under
the bill shall be placed at the
bottom of the classes to which they
may be assigned. The house sustained
the military committee in
striking out a provision of the bill is
it passed the senate which would exempt
from registration those eligibles
who have entered medical ,or divinity
schools since June 5 last.
Pflnvncrmfof M'nt! I<* OUM
.<vcivi.iviiuiviirv.fl i\ ailll V^illliurnia,
told tho house the proposed new
registration would place from 500,000
to 700,000 registrants available for
military service. In that connection
he recalled that Germany recalled
into sei*vice its class of 1919.
Chairman Dent of the military com
mittee opposed the amendment of Mr.
Hull. He said he understood it is
the plan of the war department to
place newly registered men at the hot
torn of the respective classes unless
something unforseen occurs to prevent,
but did not believe it proper to
tie the hands of the department, by an
j amendment which would require that
action.
MEN BECOMING 21
ARENUMBERED
Washington. ? Provost Marshal
General Crowder today requested
Congress to eliminate from the bill
extending the draft to youths now 21
years of age, the amendment nuttiny
at the bottom of the eligible list
those who would register under the
measure and asked that the bill basing
draft quotas on the number or
men in class one be amended to make
its operation retroactive.
URGE CROWD MEETS
AT PASTIME THEATER
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A large audience gathered at the
Pastime theater on last Wednesday
e\ening to hear addresses in behalf
of the third liberty loan One of the
largest gatherings the theater has
ever had heard the masterly address
delivered by Mr. Lynch in the interest
of liberty bonds and war savings
stamns. His address whi^Vi wnc fml
of information on the war, was the
feature of the occassion.
Subscriptions to the amount of
about sixteen thousand dollars resulted
from this meeting and placed Horry
almost up on the total amount apportioned
to the county in the third
liberty loan. Business men do not
hesitate to invest their money in
these bonds. It is the best business
they could do at this time.
victory Indicated
for administration
Washington.?Victory for the administration
in. the long senate fight
over the bill to confer blanket authority
on the president to reorganize
government departments and war
agencies was forecast late today in
the defeat by narrow margins of
amendments exempting the federal
reserve board and the interstate commerce
commission from the operation
fo the law.
Both amendments were offered by
Senator Smith of Georgia and opponents
of the bill concentrated their
strength on them. The first, to exempt
the federal reserve board, was
rejected, 41 to 37, and the second relating
to the interstate commerce com
mission, was voted down, 43 to 35.
With these tests of strength, which
administration leaders said and senators
among the opposition admitted,
presaged passage of the bill without
limitations on the blanket authority
insisted upon by President Wilson,
the senate adjourned until Monday
when it was expected the bill would
be passed without important changes.
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I. M. LYNCH LEADS
STIRRING CAMPAIGN j
"or Liberty - Bonds and Savings
Stamps in This
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BIG MEETING HERE
SEVERAL IN COUNTRY
Meeting' Here Results in Eigliteen
Thousand More for j
Liberty Loan.
Supplementing tho Campaign being
conducted throughout Horry County
by home talent for tho raising of the
$125,000.00 Third Liberty Loan allotment
and the $000,000.00 War Saving
allotment, the Horry Council of Defense
had the benefit last week of a
visit here by Mr. J. M. Lynch of
Florence, S. C., who is District Chairman
of the Third Liberty Loan.
Mr. Lynch came at the invitation of
Mr. W. A. Freeman who is Chairman I
for Horry County in the Third Liber- 1
ty Loan Drive, and while here, Mr.
I Lynch pave a groat impetus to the
work already done here.
On Wednesday night at the Pastime
Theatre in Conway at the regular
weekly meeting of the Conway Coua- j
cil of Defense, Mr. Lynch spoke to a
full house and impresses his hearers
with the importance of the utmost ef? j
fort being made by each citizen of the
county to carry Horry "Over the Top**
in its present Liberty Loan allotment. 1
Mr. Lynch is a forceful and polished
speaker and received a magnificent
recepton at the hands of the Conway
people. j
I Following Mr. Lynch's speech at I
the Pastime Theater, subscriptions I
were called for to the Third Liberty
Loan and $18,000.00 were subscribed I
in addition to a small amount which 1
had been raised a few days previous j
by personal canvass of the business
j section of the town.
On Thursday Mr. Lynch, together
with a large party from Conway, visited
the Green Sea and Wannamakcr 1
sections of the county, the former J
speaking at both places on Thursday 1
evening to a packed audience. Following
Mr. Lynch's address at Green j
Sea and at Wanna maker, the County I
Chairman, Mr. Freeman and Mr. E. J.
Sherwood called for subscriptions and I
I something over $;>,000.00 was subscribed,?the
sum of $1,150.00 having
been subscribed at Wannamakcr and
$4,900.00 at Green Sea. The-weather
was so inclement that Mr. Lynch
could not get out from Conway on
Friday, but remained over in town
until Saturday for a continuation of
his work. Saturday morning at the
town hall in Conway he addressed a
large audience; Saturday afternoon
he appeared before a large audience
at Ay nor, S. C., and on Saturday
night, together with a number from
Conway, he spoke at Pleasant View
Church on< Lake Swamp. At Aynor
the subscriptions to the Third Liberty
I.oan Bonds amounted to approximately
$10,000.00 and near $2,500.00
wus suoscrioea ac i'leasant View
church on Saturday night.
Those accompanying Mr. Lynch to
these various places were Messrs. W.
A Freeman, J. A. McDermott, J. B.
Cox, D. M. Burroughs, A. W. Barrett,
G. B. Jenkins, W. W. Russ, and E. 1.
Sherwood.
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Eat Irish potatoes and it will aid in
saving wheat to send to Europe.
MUST BE VICTORIOUS
I BEFORE AMERICA ARRIVES
Switzerland.?German newspapers
which last year ridiculed American
intervention in the war now have
begun gradually to inform the German
public concerning the danger of
present and future American inter- , <
vention on the western front. For
instance. The Zeitung, of Constance,
says:
"We must hurry to obtain a solid victory
by arms before the full Ameri- I
can forces arrive." I
The Vienna newspapers are taking I
the same line as tho.*e in Gcrmiiay. I
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