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VOLUME XXXV. _____ PROCEEDINGS IN CRIMINAL CASES Disposed of at March Term Beginning Last Monday Morning . i COURT MAKES TIME AND DOES WORK No Cases of Unusual Interest Among Large Number on Docket. The Court of General Sessions convened on Monday morning with ."Tiwlcro T? w M~ - ?? " iuciiillllll^CI ) Ul V/Ilcll'lt'N" ton, presiding. Contrary to the practice of the past several years, the court was convened in the forenoon and not in the afternoon. At the opening of the term Judge | Memminger delivered an able charge t to the grand jury, this being the first term in the year at which the present grand jury, as a body, is acting.! Tie went over the general outlines of their duties and the rules under which they are to conduct their work; he spoke of the times he had been here before, since he bec;yne a judge, and stated that while he saw there was a great number of criminal cases to i be heard, and that therefore there! was crime being committed in the county, yet he found much good here, i and that great improvements had taken place since the times when he; was here before; that on each occa-j sion when he had come here he had I been cordially received, showing the hospitality and open-heartedness of j i the people. He hoped that the time I would come when there would be no high crimes nor petty violations of the law in this county, and lie used an apt illustration which impressed those in the court room at the time. The grand jury then retired to consider bills of indictment and the docket of cases held over from the last term was called. There were many cases called and investigated by the grand jury, but i none of great public interest. m Th? court made good time and disposed of cases quickly in most instances. The State vs. D. J. Richardson, Jr., was nolle prossed at the request of the prosecutor. The State vs. John Johnson, malicious mischief, was nolle prossed. The State vs. M. Conner, on similar charge, nolle prossed. The State vs. Jim Jordan, similar charge, nolle prossed. The/ State vs. Sam Creel, for bastardy, was dismissed. r?? i ' r< . ? n r~i l 11 1 _ 1 The .M.'ito vs. Mim oneney, cnai-jruu | wijth seduction, was called on Monday evening. The defendant was found not guilty. Tuesday. The case of the State vs. Frank Davis, charged with striking W. B. i Graham at the cot,ton gin here in Oc-j Itoher, 1910, which blow made in the; head with a pitchfork, made a dan-j gerous wound, from which it was i thought the prosecutor might die. The ' defendant was a negro and the testi- j mony showed that he had tried to | drive into the gin ahead of his time] and this brought on the difficulty. It. was not proved that W. B. Graham j had anything to do in causing the dif-1 ficulty. The jury found Davis guilty Of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature. 1 The State vs. Waterman Graham and P. I. Graham, charged with assault and battery with intent to kill, f was next tried, resulting in a verdict Iof guilty of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature. Defendants were sentenced to six months each in the public works or penitentiary. The Court sentenced Frank Davis, who was convicted of the crime of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, to six months in the state penitentiary, or a like period on the public works of Horry county. The next case taken up was that against Ben Bessent for breaking into the warehouse of W. H. Stone at I Little River some time ago. He was convicted of the crime as charged. Wednesday. On Wednesday morning the court 'did not take up the trial of Morgan Todd, charged with murder, although this case had been set for that time. It seemed to be understood that it would come up later in the week. The case of the State vs. Ben Besaent was called foi< the purpose of sentencing the defendant. He was placed on the public works without the alternative of a fine. He was convicted of stealing three sacks of jjjirf?,*vp',dy flour from the warehouse of W. H. Stone, at Little River, some time ago. The court next went into the trial of the case of slander against Greely Strickland, charged with having uttered a statement about one of the school teachers in this county. This case had not been disposed of when this issue of the Herald went to ? ?1tc TO THE TEACHERS OF HORRY COUNTY Announcement of Field Day and School Fair has been mailed out. Please read this carefully and enter your pupils in as many of the contests as possible. We especially urge that you and all of your pupils take part in the parade, even if you cannot enter any of the contests. The name, age, grade and subject of each pupil who wishes to take part in any contest should be sent to Mrs. M. J. Bullock not later than April 2nd. I shall be glad to furnish a soil survey map of Horry county, which : can be used as a guide by any school | that wishes to exhibit a county map. We hope that many schools will exhibit reconstructed maps of Europe. We realize the difficulties under which our teachers have been working since they have been unable to draw their pay, and we appreciate their sacrifices. We believe that the state appropriation will be sufficient to run our Equalizing? Schools seven months if we comply with requirements: As soon as we hear definitely from the appropriation 1 shall do all in my power to make financial arrangements to take care? of your claims. Lot mo remind you that the a vera pre attendance must he kept above 15 each month for each teacher if your school is to receive equalizing aid. There is no way to get around this requirement. Average attendance cannot he transferred from one teacher to another or from one month to another. However, pupils, with all of their work, may he transferred to another teacher, if this will help keep an average attendance of 15 in each room. The Teachers' Meeting will he held March 19th. Final plans for Field Day will then he discussed. Supt. Wall, of Marion, will he on the program. Be sure to come. ?M. J. Bullock, Co. Supt. of Education. ()R(M^ati(7N NAVY RESERVES Will Bring Submarine Chaser to Be Stationed at Conway. The secretary of the Chamber of commerce has received the following letter: "Dear Sir?The Commandant highly appreciates the interest of the Chamber of Commerce in the organization of the reserves of your city. There is no doubt that a live naval unit in your section will he a valuable asset to your city. We are making an effort to secure a submarine chaser to be stationed permanently at Conway, and there will be others along the coast. We hope to assemble these from time to time at the various ports along the coast. We will encourage the men to organize pulling and sail-boat crews, and at your next county fair we could probably arrange for a series of races as a part of your attractions. "As there is but small Remand on the time of the men, and on assurance that their civilian pursuits will not be interferred with, it is believed that every point on the waterfront will eventually have a unit of reserves in fine working order, keen to win and hold some of the various trophies that will be offered. "Thanking you again for your interest in the matter, I am, "Yours very sincerely, "W. W. Thompson, "Lieutenant U. S. N. R. F., Personnel < Officer." I Rev. J. M. Lemmon, who has been confined to his bed for some time, was able to be out again the first of the week. He left Tuesday to spend a few days at Florence, S. C. CHICKENS NOT ALLOWED TO RUN AT LARGE IN TOWN At the last meeting of the town council the Domestic Animal Ordinance was amended so as to make it a misdemeanor, subject to a fine, for owners of fowls to allow them to run at large. There has been a pood deal of complaint made about pardon and flower seed being destroyed by chickens. It is earnestly hoped that owners of chickens will have proper regard for other people and keep their fowls properly confined. o PITTTIMP. IN W ATKR The city water is being run into the two Buck buildings, now being refurnished for the Winstead Furniture Company. Workmen have been busy for the past several weeks putting in new fronts and installing new show windows. press, and the result of the case will be reported in the issue of next week. This case drew a crowd of people from the Green Sea section of the county. Many of them were school patrons and had heard of the difficulty about which the warrant was taken out. Sm . J-". ?... I. I 1 1 CONWAY, S C., THURSDAY i- . ? j... HORRY COUN1 STOCK I The amendment intrc to extend the free range i til December 31st, next, ence just as the Legislatu The county is now ui general stock law passed ; the stoclc law has come t( OFFICER MUST HAVE WARRANT Searching Private Home Without Search Warrant for Liquors ISIIPRFMP rmiRT w w I 1 L. Ill U> V\J U1 I 1 DECIDES A CASE Even With Search Warrant Officer Must Know Beforehand Necessary Facts. Since the enactment of the Volstead law, many (|uestions have arisen not only as affccting the provisions of the law itself but as to the fundamental rights of a free people. There is no citizen who does not appreciate the benefits that have followed since it has been hard to obtain intoxicating drinks in the small towns and rural districts if not in the larire cities. Since then whole crowds of workmen cannot be incapacitated by the introduction of a sudden flow of whiskey ordered from some other State or purchased at the Town itself under high license or a dispensary but if they get any now it is only a small quantity which cost them very high and which they know will be seized, confiscated or even stolen if anybody knows they have it, consequently they do not use it as they once did and they do more work and lead more useful lives. Now one serious question in the minds of many people has been asked as to the right of a prohibition enforcement official or any orther official of the law acting under him; has he the right to enter the home of a citizen, or his place of business, and search for illicit liquor without having a search warrant; is he justified in so acting unless he knows beI fore hand that the liquor is stored there and for unlawful purposes, and it is actually found by means of his search. No good citizen wishes to see the law violated. Each one wants peace and quietness in the community. At the same time no man or woman wants their rights violated without due process of law. It has not been long since that prohibition officers passed through the Red Bluff district making wholesale searches of peoples houses, tearing up stills where they found them and seizing different brands of moonshine. They searched houses, where nothing of this kind was found. They had no search warrants to give them authority, they were in a dark corner of the County and they may have had suspicions of the presence of whiskey. We thought at the time that they violated the law, which placed them in the same class with those who stilled the liquors contrary to the Volstead Act, still there may have been some doubt about it in the minds of many of the officials. There cannot be any doubt now because the question has gone to the Supreme Court in the case of Lawrence Amos whose house was searched in his absence with the consent of his wife, who could not prevent it, and two quarts of moonshine was found and some more in his store. At the trial before Judge H. A. M. Smith, at the Federal District Court Amos was convicted regardless of his defense that his house was searched regardless of law without a search warrant and not even justified by the alleged consent of his wife, who could not have .successfully resisted the search. His attorneys appealed and took the case to the Supreme Court and that Court, which is the highest tribunal in the United States, reversed the decision of Judge Smith and Lawrence Amos is cleared. Regardless of what the dry officials may want and regardless of how had we all would like to see prohibition carried out none of us could uphold such action on the part of officials at any time as the homo of a man is his castle and it should not bo violated except as provided by law. Whenever it becomes possible in the United States for an official t$ search a citizen's home without a search warrant procured from a competent official, as the law requires, then this country can no longer be called a land of free' dom. i t w* 0 ! - I" > r, MARCH 10, 1921. i .< gg i "Y UNDER i .AW FOREVER : )duc.ed by Senator Smith n a part of this county unwas killed in free confer- J re died late last week. ider the regulations of the at the session of 1920, and ) stay for all time. LAST CHANCE TO VOTE FOR OT TEEN 1 v j Get Busy Now in Behalf of1 Your Candidate or Forever ; Hold Your Peace CONTEEST CLOSES OiM MARCH 12TH No Votes Counted Coming' Into Herald Office After 5:30 Saturday Afternoon. The contost for candidates for Queen of Palmafesta, from Horry county, will close at the appointed time, on next Saturday afternoon at j 5:30 o'clock. After that time there, will he no more votes counted or ac-' cepted. At the hour of 5:30 the votes will be cast up finally and the winner will he announced in our issue of March 17th. The winning of this contest will i mean much for the young lady who is fortunate to be counted the most I i popular in Horrv c.ount.v Tim Uof ?rl _ _ ? . VI candidates will be found elsewhere in I this issue with the number of votes! now held by each. Look this up and see who you want to vote for. A paid in advance subscription to this paper counts 100 votes. Every inch of advertising counts five votes. Remember that you must say when paying the money just who you want to vote, for if you want to vote for any of the j young ladies. Don't pay the money j without announcing your vote, and then come in later and claim you intended to vote for some of them, i This would not do. i We predict that this contest will i grow warm vet before it is over. Remember there is no more time after the hour above appointed for announcing the final count of ballots. If you want your candidate to go she ! or you one, or maybe both, will have to get busy. ; STOCK LAW~~AT OLD LAKE SWAMP The stock law is our choice; fences we don't want. Behold how good and how pleasant it. is for stock to live together in pas! 4-11 | iui Walter Mishoe is our legislator. Surely goodness and mercy shall be his to enjoy for a long time to come, and if he l)e weary and heavy lr.den let him come up near Zion, with his ' old friends, and take rest, and surely we will furnish him plenty of fresh sweet hams from the green pastures at any season ho ma/ appear. Behold, we have a senator by name but not by works and achievements. We have the stock law, and we will not have to be guyed any more by passersby about those old bramble hedge- j rows, and we expect to keep the fence I down or up, just as we like best, but thanks to all from Little Russ and Mishoe, all the way up to His Excellency, Governor Cooper. Come up and see us and spend a week, Walter, and we will prepare a table before you in the presence of your few enemies, and enjoy good old sweet ham with you till your mouth runneth over with the sweetness thereof, for you have made the first forward step to successful and progressive legislation in a number of years, and we want you to be among us and make yourself at home any old time, and remain sound in faith and defend the right as you have done in the past. You have good friends on both sides the immaginary Mason and Dixon line which was thought about once in Horry. Thanks Tor Horry, our legislator, and last but not least, the stock law. ?The Ladies of Zion. o PLEADED GUILTY. Adline Rhodes, the colored woman tried in Florence last week, the Herald is informed, pleaded guilty to the charge lodged against her, and was fined $200 and costs. D. G. Hinson, town policeman, who went over as a witness against the woman, has returned, and stated that she was able to pay the fine. rati ... MERCHANTS' CAMPAIGN CLOSES WITH THIS ISSUE The scries of advertising the merchants of Conway have been running in the Herald urging everybody to pay their debts, as far as possible, in order to get business on a better financial basis, closes with this issue. The purpose of these advertisements have been to try to j2ret all those who owe accounts to pay them up, so one man could pay the other, and pet the money that has been held back into circulation, and then for all to live according to their income, buying as little as possible on credit. I They believe these ads have reminded the people of this fact, and caused them to realize the situation. If so, the purpose in view has been acconiI plished, and if the people will pay I their bills promptly, putting the | money into circulation, pood times are ! with us, and the country will be on j a safer financial basis than during the war. o Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Gordon, who i have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. A. 13. McCoy, have returned to their home at Edenton, N. C. ALLIES MARCH TO GERMANY Negotiations Over Indemnity Broken Off at London Conference. London, March 7?The negotiations over tho German indemnity were broken today; action comes tomorrow with the march of French, British and Belgian forces into Germany and the occupation of large sections of her richest manufacturing country. Even now the allied troops are on the move, for a late Berlin dispatch says that French troops to occupy Duesseldorf have advanced to within six miles of that city. The allied ultimatum was fore# closed apparently with reluctance by the British prime minister. The French do not appear regretful, while the Germans left Lancaster house, i where the conferences have been held, plainly depressed, to take their train for home. Two long sittings of the conference threshed out at the final break before Marshal Foch and Field Marshal Wilson wrote telegrams ordering the commanders at the fornt to execute the orders already given to them. Dr. Simons, the German foreign secretarv, presented an alternate plan whereby Germany ^grced to pay the annuities for the first five years demanded in the Paris plan, and also the equivalent of the proposed 12 per cent tax on exports, but clung to the conditions for the retention of upper Silicia and world-wide freedom of German trade. Mr. Floyd George, delivering judgment; for the allies said they deeply deplored the necessity of the decision while I))1. Simons clung to the last to the contention that tlie Paris demands were impossible for Germany | to fulfill. The allies regarded the Germany course as strategy for delay and the latest plan is one whereby I the whole treaty would have to be reconsidered and debated after five l years when Germany might hold a more favorable position. Dr. Simons finally asked for further time in which to consult the German cabinet. This was denied. The French army will furnish the bulk of the forces for the new march into Germany. Great Britain's contribution in men will only be large enough to show her solidarity with the allies, who wait with the deepest interest for any sign from Washington of the American government's at lii/iuiu iim> ai u cut: iiuv> ciitui irtc? General feeling in England appears to be one of relief, without enthusiasm. The prine minister explained the position in the house of commons in a speech in which there was no note of jubilation. The majority of English newspapers have taken the view that the most important point in volved was that the allies should stand together, while the French press has freely voiced its fears that Lloyd George might desert France. All recognized that if M. Briand returned to Paris tearing the burdens of a concession to Germany his premiership was doomed. The scene of the proposed allied occupation in Germany which was set to commence at daybreak Tuesday, is on the river Rhine in the heart of the great industrial region of the Ruhr valley, with Essen, the city of steel and munitions, the center. The three _! i! - 1 n A rn,ies Hnnouiifeo Tor occupation are Duesseldrof, Duisburg and Ruhrort, lying along the Rhine, commercial ports into which flow the vast traffic of the Ruhr irVi region. Those cities adjoin the British zone of occupation, Cologne. The American one is at Coblenz, 7.r> miles further south, and t he French zone at Mayence, another 75 miles south. As all three cities are on the Rhine, the proposed occupation does not involve marching in land beyond the Rhine, except in the immense vicinity of the occupied cities. / NO. 47. MUCH INTEREST IN STOCK LAW Farmers Came to Conway Last Saturday to Learn the Result ALL SEEMED PLEASED AT FINAL OUTCOME Even Free Range Men Were Opposed to Keeping the Matter in Uncertainty. One of the largest crowds that ever visited Conway preceding: the opening of court was here last Saturday. They were interested in the free range and stock law question. They were anxious to know what had been the final result of the bills introduced in the Legislature. This paper had been printed and mailed out the middle of the week, giving all the information possible to obtain at that time, but all of it showed that it was extremely uncertain that free range would succeed even until the end of December. Late last Friday afternoon persons who had been in Columbia from Conway in the interest of one side or the other wired to persons here that the county had the stock law for good nul til si* ill" ffark l,n'1 1 * ...... mi. i i v-v- uuif;i; IUH.I lUJSL OUk entirely. This was a great relief to almost every farmer in the county. Those who did not hear the news otherwise came to Conway on Saturday for the purpose of finding1 out what had been done in Columbia. There will be no further free range in Horry county, because the stock law regulations which went into effect under the act of 1921 will now continue for all time to come. It is known that the entire state favors the statewide stock law, which will confine everybody's stock, and the whole experience is worth all it cost in eliminating the trouble and worry of bad fences. The fences in Horry county have been going to the bad for some time until the county was practically without fences even before the act of 1920 was passed. ONLY HOPE IS LESS ACREAGE Columbia Conference Last Week Renders This Decision on Situation REPORTS MAHE NOT FAVORABLE As Showing Much of A Reduction by Cotton Planters in This State Columbia. March 7.?That the only hope for tho salvation of tho state from financial ruin lies in a drastic cut in the cotton acreage this year, was the unanimous opinion of the conference held here last Wednesday at which were present representatives of the South Carolina Bankers Association, the South Carolina Development Board, the South Carolina Press Association, the South Carolina Commercial Secretaries Association, the South Carolina Automotive Trade Association and the South Carolina Division of the American Cotton Association. The conference was called by the South Carolina Division of the American Cotton Association, and Governor Cooper presided until the selection of a chairman. Mr. Broght Williamson was chosen as chairman. Speakers included Governor Cooper, Governor K. I. Mananing, R. C. Hamer, R. B. Stackhouse, J. Skottowe Wannamaker and others. The one theme of the meeting was that unless tV<n 'imwi'i ivn in in tlin cut to a point where only one-third of the cultivated lands of the state are planted in cotton that the state is facing tho most distresing financial period in its history. The speakers pointed out that there is absolutely no hope for a fair price of cotton unless only one-half of a crop is raised this year. The production of over half a crop this year would mean that cot tpn woukl bring only about five cents a pound next fall. It was declared by some of the speakers that too gloomy a picture of present conditions could not 1)0 painted. Reports at the meeting were not very favorable as to the prospects for a reduction in this state. It was brought out that while some farmers are planning to reduce others are not. The situation was threshed out from every angle and it was decided that the bankers alone could enforce an acreage reduction by refusing to extend loans to those who do not reduce.