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I \ i p VOLUME XXioV^ ~ MEXICO'S WAR PLANS < ARE REVEALED Enormous Supply of Arms Bought?U. S. Protest ' " Movement CARRANZA PLOT . BROUGHT TO LIGHT M Rifles, Machine Guns and Ammunition Orderod Prom Abroad. i ? Washington.?Large orders for arms and ammunition, placed by Mexico in Belgium and Spain, in preparation for the possibility of American intervention, came to light when the State Department' let it become known that the government had taken steps to prevent their shipment. The charge d'acaires of the United States embassy at Brussels has protested, under instructions that shipment of the munitions would be in violation of the international arms convention. As Spain is not a party to the agreement which was designed to aid in keeDinor the neace of the world during the after the war transition period, no such direct action i.-> probable at Madrid. The order in Belgium was -_ed with the Fabrique Nationale Arms, at Liege, probably under the direction JS \ of Candido Aguilar, Merican minister B iff foreign affairs and President Carranza's son-in-law; who went to Eu4 rope recently after stopping here and < placing a wreath on George Washing ( ton's tomb at Mount Vernon. Machine Guns. The orders in Spain, which included rifles, millions of rounds of ammunition and a large number of machine guns, were negotiated through the Mexican minister there. Eleseo Arredondo, former ambassador to the United States and President Carranxa's nephew. The Spanish munitions, according to information in the hands of the government, began passing to Mexico more than a year ago while the European war still was going on and in violation of the inter-Allied embargo. Rifles and ammunition and some sam-place machine guns are reported to have passed Havana on their waf to Mexico as late as June of this year. For later shipments, cargo space had becm reserved for October 19, on Holland-American line stealers, sailing out of Antwerp, ami furtner space had been reorved for Tampico, Vera Cruz and Puerto, Mexico, on December 3. The United States has been denying shipments of arms and ammunition into Mexico for many months for the reason that they generally fell into the hands of bandits and often were used against Americans. Soon after the end of the war the Mexican jgovemment asked for the release of munitions bought in this country is 1917, but it was refused. ] Enormon., Orders, v Such information as has now come into the hands of the government showp that Mexico already was turnmJjf inggio European manufacturers for Kl he*%upply and has since placed cnor'mous orders. It appears from the government's T^s information that while the peace, con ferenco was in session in Paris and Gen. Mondragon, a jr eminent Mexican was there advising his government of its probable course toward .-Mexican affairs and particularly the attitude of the United States, the ''Spanish munition makers with whom large orders already had been placed, were being* urged to speed up the delivery of powder and cartridges and particclarly of the machine guns which were reported to be a new type descjilbed as perfect and unimprov able^ Gen. Mondragon, it appears reported from his conference in Paris that Mcx ico need not fear intervention by the United States, but information received at the same time disclosed that the orders for munitions steadily m* MISS NINA SASSER I PUBLIU HEALTH NURSE Mi.js Nina Sasscr, R. N.f has been t appointed through the Red Cross, t Public Health Nurse for Horry Coun- , II ty. She is a general visiting nurse, a }, tuberculosis nurse, a child welfare t r.urse, a school nurse, a mental hy- ^ giene nurse, a sanitary inspector, and ^ a 'eader in all health interests. | 4io will have very little time to sp id in bedside nursing, except in ^ cases mostly needed, especially those ^ thufc can not afford a private nurse. ^ Absolutely free care will only be t given. When she considers it a no- t cessity patients will bo requested to j pay according to their means, and services rendered. Visit basis ranges from ten to seventy-five cents. If tlmre is no other nurse available and its necessary to go to homes who can | ^ afford a private nurse's care, one dollar will be charged. Maternity j cases are not included in this work, ( except cases of emergency. She will r also not do any night duty except in ( emergency. CANNOT CARRY UQUOR ; AROUND ARMY CAMPS! New Orleans.?The President of the United States is the only person who can say when the war with Germany ended and therefore the sale or carrying of intoxicating liquors ( into territory adjacent to a military 1 camp or cantonment is forbidden un- 1 til he does so, ruled the United Stat- ' es circuit court of appeals here in affirming the sentence of fifteen months in the federal penitentiary 1 imposed upoii Luician C. Laughler, ot 1 Tarrant County, Texas, after a trial 1 before the federal court of the northern district of Texas. 1 HOUSE STANDS BY "JIM GROW" GARS I | Washington.?Southern congress- < men today successfully routed all at- 1 tempts to attach to the pending rail- 1 road bill in the house any provision 1 to infringe the rights of the Southern 1 states to "Jim Crow" cars. In their fight they were aided by members * from other parts of the country. < W. E. PORTER HAS i FINE POTATO CROP 1 1 ' < W. E. Porter, who owns a fine 1 place about five miles East of Loris, has had unusual success in raising sweet potatoes this years. He has just finished gathering the potatoes from one acre of a two acre field, i and f.Vinf of a 1 mi; ncfimnfo V?Ia 1 crop will produce at the rate of 1 three hundred bushels to the acre. These potatoes are very fine in size 1 and he brought a lot of them with < him to Conway last Thursday and * they proved themselves by their ex- i tra large size and fine shapes. J The land on which these potatoes , were produced is a light loamy soil, and Mr. Porter figures that this land produced these potatoes for liirn at a coast of not over five cents per bushel. He paid for his lard in 1901 at the price of $1.20 per acre. This same land makes an average of nearly one bale of cotton per acre. were going forward. The information in the government's hands also discloses thai the ?uuAicail officials managing the affair were attempting to estimate the attitude of Peru, Chile, Arg0ntina and other South American countries if the United States should decide on intervention. That phase of the incident, however; i-i not regarded by officials here as threatening. Such information as the government has, however, shows that Augilar discussed the South American attitude toward intervention during his conference in Europe, but officials here realize that the subject has always been discussed among the Mexican statesmen. h 4<V j, I \ Mttxv H CONWAY, S. O., THURSDAY MIGHT THIEVES BREAK TWO PLACES Thieves broke into the store of tiiss Bros., last Tuesday night and ook three forty dollar overcoats, a ot of cuff buttons, and perhaps other i/il An /\/ tvi n /I t o /v a i? t 4 ?? U i kw 1 i viLii'ii yji v;i 1441 iviiovj| a.> n ir> iiaiu r tell the missing- articles from a urge stock at first. The thief took ut a piece of moulding holding a iroken section of the front show winlow in. place. The same night the thief entered he City Barber Shop, in much the lame way by removing a piece of iroken window pane in the rear of he building, and from the shop he ook about ten dollars that was left n the cash drawer. o 1 1 1 A NK SGI VING SERVICE. Not being aware of the custom of a inion Thanksgiving Service and expecting to he out of town on that day, announced at our Services on Sunlay, Nov. 16th, that we will have a rhanksgiving Service in the Metholist church next Sunday. This is to let the public know that .his service will in no way take the place of the customary union Thanks giving Service which will be held in :he Methodist church on Thanksgiving day, November 27th. ?B. G. Murhpy. o TO THE LADIES OF CONWAY. At the last meeting of the Conway 3ivic League it was ordered that the [president write an article for the pa .. i.1 I ! i? it A _ _ A _ purs asxing me iacnes 01 trie city to 3urn their trash in their own yards.* What they can not burn to put in some sort of receptacle and side their back gates, if possible, not to block the sidewalk as is so frequnetiy done with unsightly trash piles. Conway is a very large small town and can only support one trash cart, iriven by one old colored man. If it were a city of five thousand the inhabitants would not be allowed to pile their trash on the streets. "Why should the inhabitants of a small city expect it to take care of their Lrash? No matter how small our own front yard each of us have a certain pride in its appearance, what becomes of that pride when we walk out the front gate on our city streets which are only a lot of front yards? rhe pride is still with us alright, but as yet it's a wee small pride, coax it on a little, sweep the sidewalk if it is paved and if it isn't pick up the papers just once a week, have your street clean for Sonday. ?N. D. F., Pres. o Hon. R. B. Scarborough recently <pent several days in Columbia on ousiness. o $1 A POUND FOR COTTON. Jackson, Miss.?One dollar a pound for a bale of long staple cotton, veigmnp o?o pounds, sold by Capt. W. A. Swift, of Swifton, Miss., to W. r. Rich & Co., of Greenwood, is believed to be the record price for spot otton this sason. The staple measlred one and three-eights inches. Toafethor with the seed the bale netted ?685. ; After Janua The Subscription Pi will be $2.00 per year. This has been mad< reason of the scarcity ai news print upon which tl RENEW NC All renewals, howe1 accepted at the old price not exceeding one year t< COME I Get in now while th? neglect to jiay it before 1 blame us, as we are givii time. The Hon By H. H. 1 9 ?n , NOVEMBER 20, 1919. | RED CROSS TRAINING FOR OUR LAOIEI Our local Red Cross is offering t >ou, free, a splendid course in horn care of the sick. It is the grandcs opportunity you will ever have t learn to care for your family durin an illness, just as a nurse would whe one's services can not be secured. Micu i >:.i - l&WYYC A\1UU1U Ijs il ** ICIIII HI II st rue tor and has had succecssful ei thusiastic classes at Little Rive Aynor, Galivants Ferry, and is no conducting- one at Green Sea. T1 ladies in the county realized the splendid opportunity anil arrange their home duties so that they eoul attend the classes, which were or hour and a half each day for fifte< days. Some of them drove from foi to six miles to be there. We hope that at least twenty ludh o- the town will grasp the opportui ity that is being granted them. A yet only five have handed in the names. The class will be organized tl 22nd or 24th of this month; all thoi desiring to attend will please 'phoi Mrs. V. F. Piatt for further inform tion. GEORGETOWN PUNS BOLL WEEVIL FIGH Georgetown.?The joint meetii held here a day or two ago betwe< the farmers of Georgetown, the cha ber of commerce and the represent tives of the South Carolina Lan owners' association in the rooms the chamber of commerce was one the most enthusiastic and benefici of its kind so far held in the coast section of the state. Under the boosting- of P. M. Brie man, least 50 of the progressive bu: ness men and farmers of Georgeto\ assembled to hear the discussion the boll weevil and how to meet i ravages. George B. Wheeler, manager of t] South Carolina Landowners' asscci tion, was the first speaker and for . minutes told plainly and positively the immediate necessity of facing ai overcoming the boll weevil menace. John T. Grier of Moultrie, Ga., ne told of the action that had been tak< in his section under exactly the sari conditions. Mr. Greer, who built ai is one of the operators of the Mov trie packing- plant, explained tli four years ago the future of h county had a more gloomy prospe than has the coastal plain section South Carolina at this time, but th through co-operation of the farmc merchant and banker the per capi wealth of his section had been mult plied by five, that the banks in h city which carried a total deposit ? $1,000,000 had grown to over $f>,00( 00-, all through hog growing, tl packing plant and diversified fam ing. Sweet potatoes, Mr. Greer state is another crop which, if handled the right manner and under the s pervision of some one who knows ho the commodity should be handled ar marketed, was made a great reveni producer for his section. Potato cu ing warehouses, said Mr. Greer, ai try 1st, 1920 rice of The Horry Herald 2 absolutely necessary by nd high price of the white te paper has to be printed. )W AT $1.50 vcr} until Jan. 1st, will be of $1.50 per year, for :> any one subscriber. TV NOW :> price is low, and if you the 'time is out, dp not ng you this notice in good 7 Herald WOODWARD. ra Id. / v <. v "SUPREME TRIBUNAL 5 RULES GRACE OUT o The municipal election in Charlesie ton, held August 19, was declared it null and void by the supreme court in o so lar as it applies to the office of g mayor. The opinion was written by n Associate Justice Hydrick and is concurred in by Chief Justice Gary and l- Associate Justice Fraser. i. Associate Justice R. C. Watt filed Vf a dissenting opinion, Associate Ju.w tice Gage joining Judge Watts in IC this. ii In the majority opinion the court lt| held that the action of the executive Id committee in referring the challenge.', u- votes to a subcommittee was an or?ii ror of law and prejudicial to the lr rights of the petitioner, Tristam T. Hyde. It is also held that the executive u committee erred in refusing to con sider the alleged mutilated votes. The ir difference in the votes hot ween Mayoi Hyde and John P. Grace was so ie small, it is emphasized, that a prose consideration of those by the enie tire committee might have changed a- the result. The court contended that neither the rules of the party nor the election statute justifies the manner in which the contested votes and mutilated ballots were disposed of by a T subcommittee. Judge Watts contended in his contrary opinion that the question was one dealing wholly with the political ig branch of the state and was beyond ;il uiv yiv/vmu; U1 J UUlClill power. 1 lie m committee declared the result, acting u- within the scope of the authority d- vested in them. Their decision on the of facts aro final and no errors have of been committed, and I think the ptoal ceodings should be dismissed/' ht ,al said. k. SUBSCRIBE NOW. o- ^ you think this paper is worth vn the sum of $1.50 subscribe for it before January 1st, 1920, at that price, As things stand now, it is worth more than $2.00 per year. The price oi lu, the paper will be $2.00 to everybody a_ after January 1st. E AVOID FROST INJURY ? IN SWEET POTATOES en Clemson College, Nov. 15.?With 1( the coming of the first heavy frost in 1 ~ a large part of the state, sweet potaa toes which have not already been i % o * ' harvested should be harvested at c once, says the Extension Horticultur0 ist. Weather conditions have been at ideal and a part of the crop has been 11' hai*vcsted. This is as it should be V1 whenever the crop was mature, without waiting for frost. If potatoes are 18 still in the ground when frost arrives, lose no ime in getting them out, or be sure to cut the vines at the 10 main stem and thus prevent frost inrl" jury to the potatoes until they can be. taken out of the ground. ' The following five pointers are sug 1,1 gested for general guidance in haru" vesting: NN' 1. Harvest when mature and before frost injury. ' 10 2. Remove vines, by means of an 1 ** ordinary hay rake, only so much as "" can l>e dug each day. ? 3. In case of frost, cut the vines at the main stem before thawing or freezing again, and let stand until weather permits digging. 4. Haiwest with the standard twohorse potato plow or the ordinary turn plow. ft. Plow deep to reduce the percentage of cut or bruised potatoes. the same necessity to raising potatoes as the packing plant is to the cnnrtAcpftil roicinrc r\f linn'i; ** ~ ?L? This meeting was one of many which will be bold in all of the coastal counties of the state by the South Carolina Landowners' association in the interest of meeting the boll weevil danger. Immediately after the meeting a movement was started by F. M. Prickman to finance the construction ftf* iVin n of A ll.n 1?AU/\*t VI 111 OW J/\?VUVV V III IIK^ ? ill V'llUU for Georgetown county, and it only took five minutes to assure Mr. Brick man that the necessary finance were available for the establishment of the first one. m i NO." 31. NATIONAL GUARD ~ Rill INSFMATF mmmamtu 111 VbllVT I L? Measure Provides for Armed Force of 348,000?Will Retain Present Pay. Washington. Th? plan of the National Guard Association of the ' United States for reorganization of i the State militia of the country, emj bodying a proposal for a system of j voluntary military and physical train ing, functioning through the schools . and colleges, was submitted to the 1 Senate in a bill by Senator Frelingj buy sen, Republican, of New Jersey. II v an referred to the military committee. The measure provides for an anral force of approximately 1148,000 officers and men augmented by a reserve force of former service men. The bill was drafted by a special committe appointed at the associations' convention in St. Louis last May. Owing to the pending army reorganizaion bill, the Senate committe will give immediate consideration to the measure. Col. R. H. Gillett, who assisted in drafting the bill, will appear before the committee tomorrow. I National Guard Bureau. under the bill's provisions, the present milita bureau would be sub1stituted by a National Guard bureau which would be under the direct supervision of the Secretary of War with a major general jus chief of the bureau, appointed by the President. The bill would also establish a I National Guard council composed of one officer of the National Guard from each state who would have charge of the reorganization and development of the National Guard. { 'Military and physical training for boys from 16 to 18 years of ago under National Guard officers also is pno, vided with federal financial aid for !- equipment and maintenance of high , school cadet corps and similar organizations. Federal assistance for main tabling officers' training corps iru collegcs enrolling at least one hundred male students also is proposed. The present basis of pay for Nai tional Guard officers and men would ^ be retained under the bill. The National Guard units could be used both i inside and outside of the United i States by the bill's provisions. As . part of the general plan to divorce as far as possible the regular army organizations from the State militia the attorney general and not the l iudcre advocate frenornl quired to interpret provisions of the i bill. The bill left for Congress to determine the cost of putting the pl:in in force. , o G A LI V ANTS FERRY NEWS. Mrs. Anna Best was called to Conway to the bedside of her brother, Mr. Jordan, who is very ill. Miss Blanche Altman is out again after a severe case of typhoid fever. We are glad to report that Messrs. Zack and Purdy Altman, who have been very ill are rapidly inNproving. } Messrs. Estha and Lida Gerrald, who have been attending the Floycfc* High School have returned home. Mr. Guy Wilson, of Greenwood, S. C., was a pleasant caller in this community last week. Miss Evelyn Berry spent the week end \vith her parents near Dillon. Quite a number of people front this community attended the Fair i* Marion last week. \ There is to be a Box Supper at Zion School House Wednesday night, ?AtVi fnv t.hp benefit of tfaa school. The public is cordially itavited. (Signed) ?Teachers. o R. C. Boyd was in Conway one day last week. o ; AN ENTERTAINMENT. There will be a Thanksgiving Entertainment at the Deep Branch School House Thursday night, November 27th. Admission 25 cents. Children under six years of age flree. Proceeds to be used for school improvement. adv 11120 19 2t