INDEPENDENCE
COUNTY YOUTH
GETS HUN SUB
Helps Fire First Shots
That Sent Submarine
to Bottom of Sea
Tht* following letter has
been received from Raymond
T. Yates, a former Indepen
dence county boy who is now
in the U. S. Navy. The young
man is a son of Mr. and Mrs.
Alec Yates who formerly re
sided at Charlotte, but are now
living near Paris, Tenn.
On or about April 28, 1017,
my ship, the U. S. |S. C—, a
torpedo destroyer, left the na
vy yard somewhere in the Uni
ted States for sea. We knew
not where we were going for
we were sailing under sealed
orders. We hail been at sea
two days when we sighted land
and some time later we dock
ed. We oiled that night, the
ship burned oil instead of coal,
going to sea again next morn
ing still not knowing whither
we were bound.
On our third day out at sea
the weather began to get
rough and by the next morning
we were* in a pretty good
storm. At eight o’clock in the
morning I was was called on
watch with the other’s of my
gun’s crew. We had been on
watch only about 15 minutes
when we noticed a man on the
U. S. S. S—, another ship of
our division, going aloft to re
lieve the man in the foremost
lookout. It was a thrilling
sight to see him climbing the
ladder with the ship rolling like
she was in the storm. Just as
he reached the top of the lad
der we saw him slip and fall.
The next morning every ship in
the division was flying its flag
at half mast in honor of this
n]an who had fallen the day
before and that afternoon he
was buried with all honors due
a sailor buried at sea. Every
man on deck stood at attention
and saluted us the body was
lowered into its watery grave.
He died serving his flag and his
country before he reached the
other side, for that was where
we were going.
I ne captain nad told us on
our second day out that we
were headed for the war zone
and the Huns. Sr me people
may think a sailor never gets
scared. Well, we are all hu
man beings and life is sweet to
us and I’ll admit we felt a lit
tle shaky the first two days and
nights we were in the war
zone, for we had been told by
some of the boys who had been
across on merchant ships that'
the subs were as thick as fleas
on a dog. When the quarter
master came below and told us
we were in the war zone every
one ran on deck expecting to
see a submarine but there were
none in sight. We were called
to man the guns two or three
times the first day thinking ev
ery time we would be hit oy a
torpedo before we could get on
deck to the guns, but in each
case it proved to be a false
alarm. This is the kind of life
we lived all the time we were
in the war zone and we were
sure a glad bunch of boys when
we sighted land one afternoon
and by ten o’clock that night
we were safe in port some
where ,‘over there.”
We were the first destroyers
to cross the Atlantic and the
first U. S. warships to run the
“WRITING HOME”
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When the soldier Is oft duty he may employ and amuse himself iu many
ways, but one of the first things he is sure to do is to write to home folks.
Writing paper, envelopes, ink and pens are furnished free to the men by the
Army Y. M. C. A.
This is a picture of u "rush hour” of letter writing and magazine read
ing in a “Y” building in a large camp of the Southern Department.
war zone and give the subs the
slip.
We were in port a few days,
long enough to give us a little
rest, when we received orders
to proceed with our duties,
which was the shore patrol. We
patrolled all the waters along
the shore, usually being at sea
five days and being in port
two or three. After keeping
this up for a month without
seeing a submarine, we one day
got an S. O. S. from a ship say
ing that she had been struck by
a torpedo from a sub which
was now shelling her with
shrapnel. We were about 90
miles from her when we got
her S. O. S. so we speeded up
to 29 knots and when we got in
sight we could make out two
subs, one painted gray and one
painted red. W e found our
range which was 14,000 yards
and when the captain gave the
order “commence firing,” the
gun’s crew did not need ihe
second invitation. We fired
live shots and both subs got a
notion that was not the place
for them and they submerged
before we could hit either of
them. We rescued all ,the
ship’s crew and kept running
around the sinking ship hoping
the subs would come up again
but were disappointed. We
saw the ship sink, my first ex
perience of the kind, then car
ried the survivors back into
port and got orders to stay in.
We were glad to hear it for it
meant liberty and rest. I got
into my “Liberty Duds” or
Sunday clothes and went ashore
on 48 hours leave. I cannot
tell you where we were, but
this much I can tell: outside
or near this town is an old cas
tle called Blarney castle and in
this castle is a famous stone
called the “Blarney Stone.”
Tradition goes that whoever
kisses this stone has a right to
| kiss any girl in all the land.
Well, I kissed the stone alright
but so far it has not helped me
out any.
About a week later we vook
up our sea life again and start
; etl cut looking for subs. Our
second day out the foremost
lookout calls down to the brid
ge “Boat O!” The officer of
the deck calls back, “Where
away;” the lookout says “Two
points off the port bow," and
in a few minutes we are close
enough to see it is a boat load
of survivors from a torpedoed
ship. We got them aboard af
ter great effort for some of
them were badly wounded
from the shrapnel the subma
rine had fired at them after
they were in the life boat. One
man had his right leg broken
and the heel shot off his left
foot and many were wounded
in other ways. When I saw
them I said old Paris, Tenn., is
not the worst place after all.
A short time later we were
sent out to convoy a United
States mail steamer into an
FInglish port, but before we
reached the point where we
were to pick her up we ran in
to a storm which lasted four
days and I thought 1 would
never see dear old Paris and
home again, but we lived
through it alright, with the loss
of two smoke stacks, one motor
boat and the ice box. On the
second day of the storm all
hands were called on deck to
try and save the motor boat
but we could do nothing. The
ship was rolling and plunging
like a bucking horse, and the
waves were coming over like
young oceans, and if one of
them hit you when you were
not holding ©n to something foi
dear life you would have your
ticket in your hand for Davy
Jones and no mistake, for
there was no chance to save a
man in a sea like that. These
are some of the dangers of a
saliors life besides the subma
rines.
The English have a ship call
ed the Q boat. It is a merch
ant ship with disappearing guns
and looks very much like a
submarine, so much you can
scarcely tell them apart, and
a Germansub hates them intens
ley. If they capture any of
the members of the crews of
these Q boats they brand a U
on the right cheek of their
face. I know this to. be a fact
for I saw an English sailor
with the U branded on his face.
He told me that he and five of
his ship’s crew were captured
and taken to Germany where
they were branded and sent
back to the English Admiralty
as a warning not to use any
more Q boats.
We got an S. O. S. from one
of those Q boats one afternoon
and went to her rescue. On
reaching her we found she was
only crippled, not being able to
make but 8 knots while she had
crippled the submarine so she
could not submerge but was
making 14 knots and was run
ning out of range of the Q
boat. We started in pursuit of
the sub with all guns manned.
I was the pointer on No. 2 gun
crew and we manned the port
gun. We finally sighted our
prey, but the captain gave or
ders not to fire until we were
along side the sub. We ran
along the starboard side which
Backache
Tn Bpite of tlio best care one takes
jf oneself, any part of the human rnaehine
is liable to become out of order. The
most important organs are the stomach,
heart and kidneys.
The kidneys are the scavengers and they
work day and night in separating the
poisons from the blood. Their signals of
distress are easily recognized and in
clude such symptoms as backache, de
pressions, drowsiness, irritability, head
aches, dizziness, rheumatic twinges,
dropsy, gout.
‘'The very best, wav to restore the
kidneys to tkoir normal state of health, ’
says i)r Fierce, of Buffalo, N. Y., “is to
drink plenty of pure water and obtain
from your favorite pharmacy a small
amount of Anurio, which is dispensed by
almost every druggist.'’ Anurie is inex
pensive and should be taken before meals.
S’ou will find Anurie more potent than
lithia, dissolves uric acid as water docs
’ sugar
1,037,620 BALES
I OF COTTON GINNED
All Records Broken in Amount
of Cotton Ginned Up to
September 1
More cotton was ginned this
year prior to September 1 than
in any previous year in the his
tory of American cotton grow
ing.
The Census Bureau at Wash
ington announced Monday in
its first report of the season
that 1,039,620 bales had been
ginned .counting round bales as
half bales.
The heavy ginnings this year
are ascribed to hot and dry
weather in the Western part of
the cotton belt, especially in
Texas and Oklahoma. Much
cotton opened prematurely
and the picking was done ear
ly. There also was a consider
able increase in the acreage
planted in southern Texas and
the crop there matured early.
Ginnings prior to September
1 last year amounted to 614,
787 bales.
The latest official forecast
of this year’s crop, based on
August 25 conditions, was 11,
137,000 bales.
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WHEN HER BACK ACHES
A Woman Finds All Her Ener
gy and Ambition Slipping
Newark women know how
the aches and pains that often
come when the kidneys fail
make life a burden. Backache
hip pains, headaches, dizzy
spells, distressing urinary trou
bles, are frequent indications
of weak kidneys and should be I
checked in time. Doan’s Kid-1
ney Pills are for the kidneys
■only. They attack kidney dis-1
bases by striking at the cause.
Can Newark sufferers desire
stronger proof than this wo
man’s word.
Mrs. T. L. Stewart, Balkknob
Ark., says: “Whenever my
kidneys start actingjrregularly
or my back aches or if I have
swelling in my joints and mus-1
cles, I immediately take Doan’s !
Kidney Pills. They always give j
me relief. I don’t know what
I would do without Doan’s and
1 am most grateful to them.’’
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put her on our port side, when
the Captain gave orders to fire,
I let fly, my shot hit just at her
I water’s edge, the forcastle’s
gun hit above mine in the con
ing tower. In five minutes
from the time the first shot was
fired there wa« no sub. She
went down like the Titantic to
rise no more. We know we got
that one.
This to the people at home:
Don’t get tired buying Liberty
Bonds and Thrift Stamps for
it is doing your bit .just as much
as we who are in the service,
and it makes us boys feel good
to know that the home-folks
are behind us and all we ask is
that you will stay behind and
P-U-S-H. If you do this we wilt
win this war in a short time.
RAYMOND T. YATES.
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