The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, July 31, 1919, Image 1
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VPLUME XXXIV.
1 AMERICA TO BUILD
TWO GIANT SHIPS
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SPECIAL TERMINAL
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Vessels Will Carry 3,000 Passengers
and Crew of 1,000
Men.
Washington.?Two gigantic ocean
liners, larger than any ship now
afloat and designed to cross the Atlantic
in four days, are to he built by
the shipping hoard. They will be
1,000 feet long and of .'JO knots speed
and will he equipped for use as commerce
destroyers in the event of war.
Announcement was made by the
j hoard that plans for the ships had
g oeen completed and that work on
itliein would be started in the near
future. It is proposed to provide a
special terminal for them at Fort
Pond Bay, Long Island, and it may
be that two similar liners will be conj
?t rue ted later.
The ships, which are to be built under
the supervision of the navy deli
partment, will be 50 feet longer than
the famous Leviathan, now the largI.
?st ship afloat, and will have a gross
| tonnage of 55,000. Their draft will
I l>e 85 feet, depth 74 feet, beam 102
[| .feet and accommodations will be pro|
^vided for 1,000 saloon possengers, 800
| ( second cabin passengers and 1,200
I j steerage passengers.
[i The crew will number 1,000 officers
^tnd men and the ships will be of the
\4 oil burning type with a cruising raf
<lius of 7,000 miles, which will enable
II them to complete a round trip on the
i Atlantic without loading fuel over[?
seas. They will be driven by four
wj propellers on which will be thrown
the strenyt.h 110 000 hnvsonnwor
In order that the vessels may be
converted into commerce destroyers
an time of war, gun emplacements
K will be built on the decks and the ai^m\
ter dock will be constructed with a
view^of transforming it into a land
ing and launching space for seuplanes.
B: Construction of a terminal at Fort
Pond Bay, Montauk point, will repr
sent a large outlay, but the board's
B announcement said a great natural
B' depth harbor was provided there and
IB. that ii^addition the location would rcduce
the voyage to Plymouth, England,
by 118 miles, the distance being
2,878 miles as compared with 2,99<>
B; miles from New York city.
B Another advantage in using Fort
Pond Bay, the announcement said,
B; .would be the relieving of congestion
B; an New York harbor. The plans proB;
vide for double tracking the present
railroad from Mantauk point to New
B| York so as to care for the passengers
and freight handled by the new
liners.
Other improvements necessary at
Montauk point will be sea walls to
^S. protect the ships from northwest
B| gales and a customs house and immiBf
gration, station as well as wharfs and
ware Ileuses.
^^B >iNex? to Leviathan, the largest ship
afloat is the Imperator, of 51,909
gross tons, which is now used as
an American transport and which ultimately
will be turned over to Great
Britain. Her speed is only about 23
knots. The largest British liner
B| afloat is the new Britannic, nf 48.158
^B .flfross tons.
^^lans for the groat American liners
Iv/ere formulated at a mooting of naval
constructors and private builders
and Chairman Hurley has recommend
e.l to Secretary Daniels that the construction
bo supervised by a committee
to be composed of Rear Admiral
David yiV. Taylor, chief of the bureau
of constioiction, as chairman; Homer
L. Ferguson, president of the Now
Port News Shipbuilding and Dry
Dock Co., Joseph W. Powell, president
of the Fore River Shipbuilding
Co.; N. A. Neeland, president of tnc
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MOST SOON ELECT
TWO CONGRESSMEN
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The death in Washington of Congressman
J. W. Ragsdale created the
hucoihi vacancy in congressional districts
in South Carolina, Congressman
Lever resigning a few days ago to accept
a place on the federal farm loan
board. Five candidates have already
entered the race for Mr. Lever's place.
The dates for the elections to select
successors to Mr. Lover in the Seventh
district and to the late Congressman
Ragsdalc in the Sixth district
have not yet been named.
Counties in the Sixth district are:
Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Georgetown,.
Horry, Marion, Marlboro, and
Williamsburg.
Seventh District: Calhoun, 1.00,
Lexington, Orangeburg, Richland and
Sumter.
MANYllAYENTER
RAGE FORCONGRESS
(Florence Times)
Col. Holmes B. Springs of Georgetown
who came to Florence yesterday
to attend the meeting of the tobacco
growers of the eastern part, of South
Carolina, was being1 urged by his num
eious friends here and from other
parts of the Pee Dec to enter the race
for Congress to take the place made
vacant by the death of the Hon. J.
W. Itagsdale.
His friends are hoping that he will
throw his hat into the ring, but the
Colonel himself when approached on
the matter ,stated he was not in a
position to discuss it at this time.
There has been a good deal of discussion
today of probable candidates
for the seat in congress from this dis11r
ift, made vacant by the death of Mr
Itagsdale. Among the names mentioned
were Philip Stoll of Kingsstree,
Olin Sawyer of Georgetomn, Hal Buck
of Conway, J. A. Melnnes of Darlington,
and D. D. McColl of Bonnettsville.
Other names were brought forward
also, among them that of Col.
J M. Johnson, of Marion. Friends of
Col. Johnson, however, have no idea
that he would allow his name to be
used in connection with politics.
Locally several names have been
mentioned in connection with the cont<
st. Mr. It. M. McCown, formerly
Secretary of State, is being urged to
enter the race, and the friends of Mr.
I). (1. Baker have been persuading
him to become a candidate, as have
the friends of Mr. J. M. Lynch.
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Among the many things needed
here just now is a wide cement walk
all the way from the business section
to the county court house. Many cement
walk are needed, but this much
should be done before anything else.
CROPS WELL HANDLED
BRING GOOD PRICES
T. J. Vaught. a leading tobacco
glower of the eastern part of the
County, has eight acres of tobacco
this year on what is desciribed as
cf if f 1 ao rv> t r uaiI *?rif U /i1o*?
'v.u iuuiii; ?/?! n im v.itkv iwunuatiwii,
and which he has cultivated very care
fully and made a good crop. He has
also cured this tobacco with great
care and now has the satisfaction of
obtaining a very good price for the
product. He sold here on last Monday
three lots of tobacco as follows:
468 pounds at 60c $280.80
H24 pounds at 89c 138.88
84f> pounds at 60c 207.60
Total amount of sales. .. .$621.78
This is a good showing to come
from one barn of tobacco, and It
proves that experience and close attention
and study will bring rcsultr,
with the tobacco business. We have
endeavored to get the tobacco growers
to study the best methods of cultivating
and growing tobacco, believing
that the soils of Horry County
are among the best in the world for
the production of a high grade blight
New York Shipbuilding Co.; H. G.
Mull, president of the Cramps Shipbuilding
Co.; and W. F. Gibbs, of the
International Mercantile Marine.
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CONWAY, S. C., THURSDA
COTTON WILL GO
TO HIGHER LEVEL
Harris Advises Farmers to
Keep Cool Heads at This
Time.
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Dfiuru leaving ior me meeting 01
the cotton association leaders in Atlanta,
Commissioner B. Harris gave
out the following statement of advice
to farmers:
"Don't be uneasy," said he, "about
the price of cotton so long as futures
sell higher than spots. All you have to
do is to sit steady in the boat. Cotton
goods are still advancing. The cotton
manufactures of the world realize, and
for some time have realized that there
i-. a cotton famine. This statement I
have made before and is fact born
out by their own publications. The
mills of New England are 300,000
bales short of the normal buy.
"The condition of cotton has gone
off since my last statement, just as \
predicted that it would. The Watkins
gureau, an observant private concern,
writes to a New York paper that the
condition a week ago was only 68.8
against 8.53 a year ago. With a small
or acretge than last year and with
cotton showing such poor condition,
the price of the new crop should
open around 50 cents, against 35 last
year.
"The Watkins bureau estimate is the
lowest I have seen. This bureau takes
the position that the crop situation is
banning to look serious, a condition
of 68.8 indicating a yield of but
157.5 pounds per acre. The crop may
improve, but jt can never recover j
from the excessive rains during Ma.v
and June, continued into July, and at
this writing we are having very heavy
rains throughout the whole belt. The
low temperatures also are very much
against fruiting of crops.
"This rain, with the poor opportunity
for making seed beds and the. lack
of cultivation causes me to think that
we can not expect any improvement?
for everything is against it.
"There is greater chance for d3tc
rioration than for improvement.
"All these things will help the
farmer to hold cotton. Practice home
production of things to eat and diversified
farming and you will have
the situation always in your hands, is
) y message to the farmer. It's in
yeur hands to make the price for the
11*10 cotton crop."
specialTeoiments
NIK MAKKItU MtN
War Department Plans to Care
for Soldiers and their
Wives.
Washington. ? Special regiments
composed largely, if not entirely of
married men, probably will result
from the war department's policy
which was announced regarding the
disposition of regulars who are retturning
to this country with French
wives. Orders have * been sent the
commanding officers of debarkation
ports to transfer such men and their
wives to either Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.,
Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont, or Fort
Alyer, Va. y
yellow tobacco. Other farmers may
benefit by Mr. Vaught's experience
by following out the same plan he has
iiiin ntod
The tobacco growers may labor to
get a good stand and keep the worms
and the suckers off while the crop is
growing and have a fine crop of perfect
plants when the leaves begin to
mature and then they can easily lose
all of their labor and what they have
spent and come out in debt by being
lazy when curing starts, by lack of
reading and careful study of the best
methods of curing the leaves. It
would be good for many farmers to
take lessons from those who have
given the subject careful study and
made money with tobacco.
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Y, JULY 31, 1019.
RAGDALE'S DEATH
WAS SHOCK HERE,
He Had Many Friends Among
the Horry People Whom
He Favored
The many friends here of Congressman
J. Willard Ragsdale were shocked
upon hearing a report about the
streets that the Congressman had
died suddenly in Washington. Many
refused to believe the report. Later
the same day, accounts of his untimely
death appeared in the daily
papers and the news therefore, eonfirmed.
Ragsdale had many loyal friends
in Horry County who supported him
in politics from the time ho first ran
for Congress as a member from the
Sixth District in 191.'}. During the
time that he served this District in
Congress he granted many favors, not
only to the people of the District as a
whole, where the general interest was
concerned, but he was very active at
all times in rendering assistance to
individual constituents who had mat
tors in Washington to bo attended to,
from time to time. It was nothing
unusual for numbers of people to
write to him in the course of a week
for information on subjects connected
with*the federal laws, or institutions;
and he never failed to respond prompt
ly to these requests, and always put
himself to extra trouble to accommodate
and assist those who placed him
in office. During the time that he
occupied this place in Congress he
was frequently invited to Horry
County to deliver addresses on different
subjects. Many is the time
that he addressed largo audiences of
of Horry people on live questions of
the clajh'
About the time that Horry County
first organ i"ed a Fair Association,
Mr. Ragsdale managed to bring about
the coming of two torpedo boats from
Charleston, where they happened to
he at that time. These were a great
attraction during the days of the
Fair and crowds of people visited
them. He was directly responsible
for the establishment of numbers of
rural free delivery routes in Horry
County, among these the several now
running from Galivants Ferry, about
four from Allsbrook, and one or more
routes in various other sections of the
County. He was interested in everything
that came up in Congress which
would add anything to any section of
the District he represented. The
many things in which he assisted that
were of untold benefit to the County
are really too numerous to be recounted
here.
According to newspaper dispatches,
his funeral took place in Florence
last Friday.
CUT BY CONGRESS
WIPING OUT ARMY
Washington.?Responsibility for the
announced reduction of the army by
September 30 below the 325,000 men
authorized by the national defense act
was placed on congress today by Secretary
Baker, who appeared before
the house military committee to discuss
general army legislation.
"Congress did not give us enough
money to permit holding together
such an army as we recommended,"
declared the secretary, "or money
enough for the army authorized by
law. You made appropriations for
325,000 men, and we have over 700,
000 men now. After September 30,
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within our appropriation for this
year."
Questioned as to whether reduction
in the appropriations for the air serv
ice would result in the abandonment
of that service Secretary Baker said
officers for the aviation corps would
be obtained by assigning to the crops
men appointed to the signal corps of
to regular army vacancies.
Secretary Baker told Representative
James of Michigan that he could
not say when the soldiers in Siberia
would be brought home as no policy
for their return bad been fixed.
raid.
TOBACCO GROWERS
FORM ASSOCIATION
The South Carolina Tobacco Grower?
Association was permanently organized
at tne meeting last Friday
of representatives from over a dozen
of the tobacco growing counties of
this state, meeting at Florence.
President, W. H. Keith of Timmonsville;
First Vice President, D. I
D. Rhem of Rhems; Second Vice
President, N. A. McMillan, of MulIius;
Third Vice President, Ashton H.
Williams of Lake City; Secretary and
Tieasurer, Maston C. Rrunson of ]
Florence.
The above named officers with the
following constitute the executive
committee; Dr. J. H. David, of Dillon;
T. L. Smith, Ma Hon, E. M.
Mears, Horry; J. Armstrong Howard,
Darlington, It. E. Currin, Florence,
S. P. Poston, Williamsburg, W. H. ^
Andrews, Andrews; C. S. McFadden, ]
Clarendon; - W. Dabbs, Sumter; ,
Russell Williams, Rerklcy; R. M. j
Jenkins, Lee; D. P. Douglas, Chester- .
field; L. A. Walker, Dorchester. ,
After the election of officers the
meeting heard a stirring address by
Senator Dial who was a visitor in
Florence. Following this the consti- j
tution and by-laws as presented by j
the committee appointed for this ,
purpose were adopted. At a meeting
to be held soon the executive com
mittee will complete the details of the ,
organization and will then begin a
campaign for additional members.
There were nearly a hundred men in
attendance upon the meeting which
took up most of the day. There was
a recess in the morning when the
body of Congressman Ragsdale arrived
and the meeting adjourned early
in the afternoon in order to allow
the delegates to attend the funeral
services.
It became known that the real purpose
of the meeting was to form a
tobacco growers association. It was
not the idea of the promoters of the
meeting to raise any fuss about the
prices, and this was a matter that j
received very little attention. It is
the matter, stated he was not in a
siderably all over the belt since the
full corps of buyers came on. The
first sales of the season were not
properly such as could be used in determining
the trend of prices through
out the season.
rrho men present at the meeting ,
shewed a most business like spirit and
it is evidently their purpose to mak?
the organization count for something
in South Carolina. A. C. Thompson
and J. P. Derham were present as
delegates from Horry.
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(Jet legal blanks at the Herald office.
HERAlDWiLLMAKE
LARGE IMPROVEMENTS I
The Publisher of The Horry Herald
has recently signed contracts for purchase
of a model "C" MultipleMagazine
Intertype Machine, the i
latest and most improved as well as j
costliest type-setting machine made. 1
The Herald office is already fitted i
with the Intertype machine model j
A-311, which has been in use for four '
years or more and which has been of j
great service in the publication of the <
Herald, and in quantities of commer- I
cial job work during- that period. <
This first machine is in good con- <
dition, having been kept strictly 1
in good repair, and it will not be 1
traded in on the new machine; so ]
that the new model "C" Intertype with i
the latest inventions and complete
equipments to produce many varities
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ui win uu evil atiuiiiuii tu
the plant that The Herald already ,
has. Further improvements contemplate
the purchase of a new cylinder ,
Press of much greater speed and capable
of a greater variety of printed
work. Those new additions to the
plant are intended to be installed as
soon as an addition can be made to
the present building so that the foundation
for these modern machines will
be properly laid, and so that the increasing
business of the paper may be
I taken care of.
The plant will be able to issue a
daily when Conway can afford one.
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NO. 15.
SALES ON THURSDAY ~
GREATEST EVER HELD
Tobacco Growers Bring Tobacco
to Conway Houses in
Quantities
FOLLOWED A WEEK
OF RAINY WEATHER
Nothing Like This as to Quantity
Ever Took Place
Before.
The Conway Tobacco Market had
the biggest sale last Thursday in the
history of the industry in Horry
County. The growers began coming
into Conway with loads of the weed
at an early hour in the morning, and
they kept coming in until the floors
j: all of the warehouses were full to
iverflowing. At the Peoples Brick
Warehouse, the floors of the main
building could not hold all that was
brouerht in. and the overflow was
taken care of on the floor of the ware
house across the alley. At the Horry
Warehouse, the old part as well as
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lai^c itc>v uuumonai noor space,
recently erected by the company, was.
full to overflowing. The floors at the
Planters Warehouse and at the Farmers
Warehouse were as full as they
could be made, every available space
in the buildings being utilized.
The reason for so much coming ;n
one day was doubtless to be found in
the fact that the weather had been so
r.u'ny for more than a week that the
growers could not come with the weed
to the market. It was very few farmers
who would brave the bad weather
of the first of last week, or the
rains of the week before, to bring
anything to market; but by last
Thursday morning the weather had so
far improved that the roads had dried
off to some extent and the showers
were growing apparently less in volume,
so that the farmers took advantage
of the change in conditions
and brought the tobacco to the markets
for sale.
dt was estimated that there was at
least two hundred and twenty-five
thousand pounds of tobacco placed on
the floors for sale here last Thursday.
Some warehodsemen said that this
was a very conservative estimate, and
gave it as their opinion that there
might be more by accurate count of
the weights.
The prices realized for the weed
on this big "break" continued to hang
on about like they started at the opening
sales. Low grades brought al
most nothing, while the better grades
brought prices which in most instances
were satisfactory to the producers.
CONWAY TOBACCO BOARD.
The tobacco buyers and warehousemen
of Conway met last week and organized
the usual tobacco board of
trade, with W. F. Henderson, as President;
J. R. Bowles, as Vice-President,
and R. M. Garrett, as Secretary and
Treasurer. 'Hie purpose of this organization
which is made every year
luring the tobacco warehouse time, is
to cooperate together in the matter
)f sales or as to any matter of dispute
)r common interest for the welfare of
die market. Two important committees
arc always appointed: the committee
on sales and the committee on
arbitration.
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MAKES IT WORSE
It is bad enough to patronize thoviolator
of the law and purchase intox
icating drinks from him even to drink
on the "sligh;" but what of it, when
the purchaser gets drunk and ex~
poses himself to the gaze of the public
on a public street, or other public
place? Perhaps the right answer is
to say that showing the effects of it
in public is what gives the user away
and lets everybody know that he has
helped to violate the law, but this is
not all there is to it, for a drunk man
in the eye of the public is nothing
but a nuisance and a shame and a disgrace
to the human race.