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WILL SCOUR SEASFOR BOLD RAIDERS

>Crew of Seeadler Put to Sea in

, Two Vessels After BeingStranded

SEVERAL AMERICANVESSELS DESTROYED

Alncrican, British and JapaneseWarships Will Join

in Search.

Washington. With definite informationof the presence of two Ger-man sea raiders in the South PacifUocean, announced in dispatches fronSamoa to the Navy Department, a

hunt for the commerce destroyershas been set in motion. The tworaiders are manned by the crew oithe famous Seeadler, which made h< »

way late last year from German?through the Allies' patrol into theAtlantic,, southward around Sou hAmerica preying on shipping, andthence to the South Pacific, whereshe stranded on Mopeha Island, * anrlhad to be abandoned. The Seeadlerdestroyed three American sailingships, the schooners A. B. Johnson.Manila and C. SldAfc, ,» in the SouthPacific. When she stranded, theSeeadler had aboard 27 white men

and 17 native pfttdViors, who with thecrew 'beached" shore in safety".'"

Off in Power Sloop.Part of the Seeadler's Crew put to

» sea again in a power slooped armedwith Machine guns, bombs and twomonths' supplies. Early in Septemberthe French schooner Lutece ar

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seized by the remaining members ofthe Seoadler's crew, who put to sea

September 5. The prisoners were

left on the island to shift for themselves.Captain Hador Smith, of the Americanschooner C. Sladc, and other

prisoners left the island in an openboat and reached Samoa September21), where the news of the sea raiderswas made known to the American navalauthorities.The-number of the raider's victim*

heuond those mentioned in the d:spafcwhesfrom Samoa can not be ascertaYned.At least four American-ownedvessels are reported overdue on

the Pacific coast from South Pacif'cports and their ow ners have abandonedhope of their safety,

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The It. C. SIado.New York..Shipping records show

that an American schooner namedthe It. C. Slade sailed from Sydney,N. S. W., April 24 for San Francisco.She was built in Aberdeen, Wash., in1900. and was of 673 tons gross, 176.6feet long, 38.7 beam and 14 deep. She

v^s owned by the Pacific FreighterCompany.

flNF MDRF ENEMIY~Vllfei IMVilB BBS a

FOR THE GERMANSil M

Monteviedo, Uruguay. Uruguayhas severed diplomatic relations withGermany. A presidential decree announcedthe rupture following a votein favor of it by the chamber, 74 to

28. The German minister has been° sent his passports. The vote in the

chamber was taken at 2 o'clock thismorning. IPresident Viesa in his message to

Si paHiament declared that the Uruayangovernment had not receivedany direct offense from Germany, butthat it was necessary; to espouse thecause of the defenders, of justice,democracy and small nationalities.

G. J. Holliday of Galivants Ferry,v/as in Conway last week on business.

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Jbert]TO TRAIN SOLDIERS

IN SIXTEEN WEEKS

Vigorous Schedule Mapped Outfor National Guard and NationalArmy Divisions.

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Washington. Training work mappedout by the War Department forNational Guard and national army divisionsbefore they will be regardedas ready for duty abroad is based ona sixteen-week course of the most inItensive kind of work in the open, variedwith lectures by American andAllied officers who are experts inmodern warfare. To insure uniformityof training throughout the entirearmy, divisional commanders havebeen urged to see that the schedulesannounced today are followed closely.

Great stress is laid upon the necessityfor night training, trench raiding,scouting, trench building and op- Jerations of all kinds which may becalled for in actual combat will beduplicated through the night hours.To give the men some respite theirWednesday and Saturday afternoonswill be free, except in the case ofbackward individuals or units. Targetpractice runs through the entire jcourse ami the schedules call for jforty hours' training each week.

Individuals ahd Units. '

Practically the entire sixteen- weeks |will be devoted to training indivdi- lUals, platoons and companies. Bng- |ade, divisional and even j, regimental .

exercises are reserved for a later period.Since the platoon-, commanded .

b>. a Iioutenant, .is the actual figh ing jft. trench battles, the new regu i

lations fix responsibility of the lieu- 'tenants of each company for trainingof less than company units.

Rigid requirement is made that offieers l>c present with their commandsat all drills and vcgulatly in

carrying out training schedules is ir-sisted upon. '

The lecture program with graph!illustrations will show all that tliieyearsof war have brought of gas attack, of bombing and of bayonet jwork. First aid instructions holdhigh place for wounded soldi rs today mu ;t depend largely upon them-

I selves for first treatment. jOUR OiSTRiGTBOARD

CERTIFIES MORE MEN.

Lust week the district hoard "or theeastern district of South Catclina, ti*.tified additional men back to the localboard for military service, haviiv:passed on their claims for exemptionor appeals as the case may be.The list returned to the local board

hero as bcim* liable are as follows:Forest Forney Vaught, Gertie Shan

non, E. M. Hill, William A. Hammon ',McDuffie Suggs, Philip Rabon, BenjaminLangdon Hume, Walter MonroeStroud, Leonidas Polk Watts, EdgarGrey Stanley, Mnrsden C. Anderson,Benjamin E. Sessions, Steven JohnDawsey, Willie Stevens Powell, SamuelBranton Howard, Chas. BishopFore, Dozier Hemingway, Jas. Tlios.Booth, Noah Johnson, John McLaurmHux.The following were given temporal y

discharge, but are held to service:Pearley S. Page,' held to service

after December 1, 1917.J. Thurman Mishoe, held to service

after December 1, 1918.o

CASE WAS DISMISSED.By oversight we neglected to state

in our issue of last week that inthe case of the State v*. E<L Loner'

* find Rotho Chestnut, that tho solicitorafter careful investigation noll-prossedthe case as to Rotho Chestnut, and*he was discharged form.his bond.The other defendant, Ed Long, wasabsent and his bond will be oollectedand pfcid into the county treasury.Investigation showed that the Defend%af Chestnut was entitled to be dismissedfrom the vharge.

WmxCONWAY, S. C., THURSDAY

j BomBAYBORO FARMER IS I

SERIOUSLY HANDLEDIrvin Bell, one of the best known

farmers of Bayboro, came to Conwayon the late train last Wednesdaynight in a serious condition from numerouswounds with a knife, inflicte ion him him in a peculiar manner. Hewas here for surgical attention.As he was driving along the road

after night-fall, with his wife aadchildren, some person by the road,whose identity, at last accounts, was

unknown to him, caught him and pulledhim out of the vehicle, and with '»

sharp knife cut and slashed him untilhe was almost dead. There were manycuts on his hands and arms. He hadsevere slashes on other parts of hisbod v. and t.hn wnmlor i« 1

spot was touched . He was coveredwith blood upon his arriving here >nthe late train and was taken to theBurroughs Hospital where his painfulwounds were sewed up.He was able to be taken back to his

heme on Thursday morning.

AIL COUNTRY STORESMUSTHELP US OUT

"We want all of the country storesin Horry County to aid us as much as

they can in making it easy for thefarmers of the county to get seedwheat, if they mention it and want itfor planting. We have noticed thatmost of the supply stores are carryingplenty of seed oat3, and abruzzirye to supply the farmers with seed;but we have yet to learn of one ofthem carrying seed wheat in stock.Well, we want to make a diffeiencefrom now on, for we want > to see th<farmersof Horry County raisinmore than enough wheat to make theflour they need, and we want it to beeasy for them to get the seed.

Lot every merchant offer to write1 - l i » "

wiuci nit." wrt'ui ior tnc scudv/hncever called for by any farmer.

Befor elong it is sure to be the casein this county that the farmers wouldno more think of missing their whealcrop than they would think of leavingoff their corn crops.

gathe^tTiegornm LOCAL MARKET

David R. Coker, Food Administrut >»for South Carolina, has issued tlie following statement to the farmers u.

the State:"The grain dealers of the country

now have very little corn for sale.Within the past few days several merchantshave told me that they couldnot get quotations on corn or on grit.-..There is an actual scarcity of corn a'present in many of the towns of theState

"p.Ql'lir rilo a/1 i- c *1m-mhi ijr jiinui^i wi n in ouuin v,nn>linais now thoroughly cured and

re ady for the market. The farmeiwho promptly gathers, shucks, shel.s,and sacks his crop can possibly get$2.00 or better for it from his merchant.December corn is quoted inChicago between $1.15 and $1.20.Should the market remain at thesefigures corn will shortly come down inthis section to about $1.50 per bushel,

j 1, therefore, urge the farmers of

I South Carolina to gather enough coi n

promptly to supply the local demandand not wait for western com to come

| in, flood our local markets and takethem away from us."Merchants should give preference

to home corn at all timps Ifless moisture and will keep betterthan most western com. Many preferhome ground com meal to the boltedmeal of commerce, and merchantsshould arrange with local mills to supplythem and fill this demand."By the right sort of cooperationbetween the farmer* the^merchant

iand the housekeeper* the tremendouscom crop * made in this Stale can beconsumed right here at house. Lackof cooperation will mean shipping inwestern-corn and meal and later shippingout our owfl product. Housekeeperswill not consume as freely ifthey have to buy imported meal."

U pei, OCTOBER 11, 1917.

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REGISTRATION BOARDHAS BEEN APPOINTED

Governor Richard I Manning, last Iweek, appointed the board of Registration for Horry Ceonty. They are;

J. Hiram Long, 6f Longs, S. C.P. K. Peasant^ ijitte River, S. C.George M. Huggins, Galivarrts Fi ery,S. C .

All of these are gentlemen of highcharacter and standing in this county,and they will fill this important offk eto the credit of the people.

SAPPIN6 GERMANY'S IMILITARY POWER;

Washington..Great Britain's newembargo on shipments of practicallyeverything to Sweden, Norway, I)» nmarkand The Netherlands is regardedas a most important move in tighteningthe cordon which slowly butsurely is killing the military power ofGermany.Coming close on the export embnr-

go of the United States, which is be- 'ing administered to keep from theEuropean neutrals everything thatmight supply the Central powers,Great Britain's action is regarded asone of the most important of the war. IAs the British embargo excludes

everything except printed matter,about the only thing that will be permittedto go to the German people byway of neutrals will be expressions ofworld opinion that they should rccoginile their system of government to<|c? away with the military Autocracy

In a figurative sense, Great Britainholds one end of the rope and theIgnited States holds the other. Gradually,but surely, as it is being drawn^taut, the millitary power of Germanyis being strangled, because the embargocuts off the supplies she hasbeen receiving through the adjacentneutrals.

i PUBLiCWllLBENEFITBY GASOLINE PRICES

Washington..Oil and gasoline refinersmeeting here today with the'federal Trade Commission were toldthat the government will insist thatthe public share in the war priceswhich are to be fixed.The commission already has submit

'(d to President Wilson preliminaryc st estimates on which the governmentwill base prices it will pay fo

.,.,,1 i fon iuiu ^anvMiin: iitnu'ii iur war purposes. Today's hearing was to givproducers an opportunity to submittheir cases before a final report imade.There has been no decision yet a

to whether the government will p'aceoil and gasoline under contro. of tiefuel administration or whether it wiMenter into a voluntary price agreementsimilar to the steel and coupeprice agreement. Producers, it issaid, are for a voluntary agreement.

GERMAN RAIDER; IS CAPTURED

London..An Exchange Telegraphdispatch from Melbourne says it isj reported there that a whaleboat witha crew of Germans from the raiderSeeadler has been captured in the vicinityof the Fiji Islands. The boatcontained a gun and machine guns,the dispatch says, and the Germansadmitted they had been detailed fromthe Seeadler to make raids.

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raiders in the South Pacific was madeknown in dispatches from Samoa tothe Navy Department last week. Bothve«aels were «aid to have been mannedby the crew of the Steadier. Severalmerchantmen ar reported te havebeen sunk. The Soeadler was activein the South Atlantic last spring- sinking eleven merchantmen there.

W. J. Hardee was among those whospent some time in Conway la*t week.

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EXEMPTED OUT OF ILAST THREE HUNDRED

|[List Published Last Tuesday by

Local Exemption Board as

Being Exempted.

Referring to the list of throe hundredregistrants who were called forexamination several weeks ago by theIceal board here; the local board finishcdpassing on the claims liled forexamption and the list exempted bythem out of this last three hundredwas published early this week. Thoseexempted are on the grounds of dependents.The three hundred mentionedwere called by the board inorder to have men ready to supplysi n \? Hiof miawnj vnuv in i u in: nnui i I v>i Lilt*

quota of 2I>4 men. Just when any ofthose not exempted from this lastthree hundred will be called, is notnow known. The district board willals0 have to puss on these exemptions.The names of those exempted out

of the last three hundred examinedhere follows:

Chancellor Johnson,James Alex Todd,William Benj. Singleton,Felix Wright Todd,Rudie E. Johnson,Leland Lucius Stephens,Frank Irving Jackson,Marshall Iverson Prince,Luther Pinkney Rogers,William Bertie Stroud, »

Thomas Rollin Kdinundson,Haddop jLundy,

~Talmadge Marvin Piver,Geo. Thomas Capps,Fletcher Stanley Blandon,Mc. Quin Fowler,John Stokes Smith,William Klisha Williams,niurov TnmAo T #\L«nyv»» Iv/ii tci tj ami;^ ij uiiur>untJohn Franklin Garrell,Noah Herbert Hatcher,Donald Herbert Dusenbury,James Olin Hucks,John Hezekiah Reynolds,Daggett Tompkins,Benj. Thomas Dorman,Moses Galloway,Joseph H. Faulk,Rufus Avry Hickman,Sam'l Peter Hearl,John IV.ul Skipper,Wm. Jesse Maynurd,Henry llenj. Singleton,Edwin Bradley,Willie Leslie A1 ford,Gary Evans Hardee,William Edward Graham,Boston Wakefield Howard,Noah Webster Roberts,Sam'l Light Moore,Hooker Parker,Filmore Rogers,Charlie Gore Newton,Russel Wolf,Benj. Chestnut Todd,Thomas Kirton Cook,Harmon Morgan Reynolds,Quincy Harmon Harrelson,Arthur Washington Stephens,Lewis Benj. Faircloth,Dexter Russ Gerrald,o i111 u v 11 y,Joseph H. Carter,Henry Tillman Williams,Sam'l Dexter Harrelson,Eli Ray,Isiah Herbert Allen,Isaac Franklin Lewis,Talbert Decul Todd,Geo. Scott Simmons,Samuel Samson Carrol,Jiley Fowler,James B. Franklin Connor,Stace Shannon,FU*ni. PinUnnv Klrtvrl

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Joseph Norman Cooper,James Fred Alford,George Fred Hobhs,Willie Johnson,Franklin Buel Todd,Emery Curtis Chestnut,Herbert Cooper,Olin Isaac Blanton,Richard Jackson Richardson,Frank Ben Moore,Jesse Asbury J ones,Van Bel ford Corter,(Continued on Page Eight.)

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FoodANOTHER LIST WASSENT OFF YESTERDAY

To Aid in Filling Out the Quotaof Whites in Horry's

Contingent

NAMES WERE TAKENFROM CERTIFIED LIST

Quotas From All the CountiesFor First Increment About

Supplied.

The Horry Exemption Board sentstill another list of white draftees *.o

Camp Jackson this week; having sentout notices to them late last week toappear here in the afternoon of Tuesday,in readiness to leave For thecamps on the early morning train ofWednesday, October 10th.This last number to be sent were

taken from a list of those who werecertified to the local board by the districtboard last week, their claims forexemption having been disallowed.Those ordered out to go to CitmpJackson, Wednesday October lOtb,

were as follows.:Forest, Forney Vaught, Nixoitville,

S. C.4 'Gertie Shannon, AHsbrook, S. C.

I E. M. Will, Tabor, N. C. No. 2.I Witliand A. Hammond, Nichols, S C.McDuffie Suggs, Tabor, N. C.

Rnbon, Cool Spring, S. C.. Walter Monroe Stroud, Green Sea>S. C.Marsden C. Anderson, Conway,

S. C.Benjamin E. Sessions, Conway,

S. C.Steven John Dawsev, Galivants

Ferry, S. C., Route No. 3.Willie Stevens Powell, Boris, S. C.Samuel Howard Branton, Myrtle

Beach, S. C.Jas. Thos. Booth, Ailen, S. C.Noah Johnson, Galiva^ts Kerry,

S. C.John McEaui in I lucks, Conway, S.

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sendsIngMTuremay be boll weevil

iMr. Hudson Shelly, the Rural Free

Delivery carrier or. one of the Nicholsroutes, brought to the Herald officelast week, a queer looking insectwhich may be a Mexican Roll Weevil,or at least some species akin to thatpost. This" bug was found by Mr.John M. Elvington feeding in his cottonpatch. He sent it to the Heraldoffice where it has been the subjectof interest to many. Whethei it is areal boll weevil or not the Editor doesnot know.

SUNDAYFIREISCAUSE OF ALARM

There was an alarm of fi*e lastSunday morning when the roof of thecottage leased by Mr. and Mrs. R. SWcllons,from Mr. G. R. Jnekins, wasi: 'ujscuvereci in a light blaze. At firstit was fully believed that the housewould l>e lost. Accordingly everythingwas removed from it. But the nevepipe line for water supply had justbeen completed to the corner oppositethe property, and in a few

, minutestwo streams of water were beingplayed on the flames by the fire, department,and the fire was extinguisheci with only damage to the roof, andsuch damage as would come fromwetting the lower part of tjhe building.

After the fire the furniture was replacedin the house and the next dayworkmen were busy repairing thebuilding.