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\ Abbeville Press and Banner Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Tri-Weekly. Abbeville, S. C., Monday, February 23, 1920. Single Copies, Five Cents. 76th Year. I ! IN OPEN REBELLION! AGAINST DRY LAW > a f Persecuting Attorney and Chief of ^ ? " y Police Join in Fight Against j Prohibition Agents. Trouble t Takes Place in Iron County t Michigan. s S: _ Chicago, Feb. 22.?A "rebellion ( * ' " 1? rtllf _ against proniDinon uiuucn ^ in Iron County, Michigan, and the ? county, led by its prosecuting at- s torney is in "open revolt" against t federal authority, ( L j. A. V. Dal- f rymple, federal prohibition director i for the Central States, notified Washington today. jt A prohibition agent and a party of t Michigan state constables were held < up February 19 by Iron county offi- 1 cials and what they had confiscated ' taken from them according to word i brought to Chicago by Leo J. Grove, i of Marquette, supervising prohibition j agent for the upper peninsula. i Major Dalrymple appealed to Attorney General Palmer to order war- ] rants issued for the arrest of the j prosecutor, two deputy sheriffs, two i police officers and three other resi- i dents of Iron River, a mining village. 1 While awaiting word frojn federal authorities Dalrymple issued orders ( for a company of picked prohibition 1) agents to gather here tonight pre- jl paratory to starting tomorrow on anl armed expedition which, he declared, !l will "clean up" Iron county. j< Grove, acompanied by Lieut. R. G. i Strope and Troopers Masters and, 1 ') King of the state constabulary seized .'1 11 barrels of wine at a mine two! miles from Iron River, he reported to J ( Major Dalrymple today. The wine is j] said to have been made by John,jj Peter and Steven Scalcucci, wealthy ji Italians, who own several business !i ventures at Iron River. $ j< ; McCormick Meeting Postponed. The Rev. L. H. Gardner, pastor ofp the Baptist church at McCormick and;* chairman of the committee on Fifth 1 Sunday meetings for the Abbeville ( Baptist association, has announced that owing to the prevalence of influ- 1 enza throughout the bounds of the c association, the union meeting which 1 was scheduled to have been held in McCormick next Saturday and Sun- ( day will not be held. The program ' ' which has been arranged will be car-; ried over to the fifth Sunday in j May, at which time a meeting will bp ! called to asemble at McCormick and! the order agreed upon will then be carried out. Mr. Gardner expresses the deepest regret at the necessity for cancelling ' the union meeting, but says that he ; conferred with members in various ' parts of the association, all of whom ^ felt it would be unwise to attempt a ' general meeting at this time. < Church News. 1 * ] There was a steady down-pour of rain Sunday morning which g^ve 1 plenty of people an opportunity to "play out", of going to church. There ' were no services in the A. R. P. ^ church and the usual congregation at * the Baptist church dwindled at about ( twenty-five. Rev. E. B. Kennedy! * could not make the trip from Due I West and there were no services in | * the Presbyterian church. \ j Spring Things in Anderson. C - . Mrs. T. L. Davis, Miss Vic Howie, t Miss Fannie Stark, Mr. Davis Kerr and Mr. John McKee went up to And- I erson Friday and took a look at the s spring styles and a ride over the I Electric City. They came back con- r tent to live forever in Abbeville. t t Going Down. ^ c The high cost of living has taken a jump in the right and "rib meat" is now twenty-five cents a pound. The hens of the country are finding it hard, however, to lay an egg for less a than a nickle, E J. S. ERECTING BIG COAST AIR . DEFENSE BASE An aerial coast defense station is leing built for the Army Air Service it New Dorp, Staten Island, as a base or land and seaplane patrol aircraft, vhich will guard the Atlantic shores Srection of the station was revealed hrough an advertisement asking for >ids on the construction of barracks ind administrative buildings. cfnfi/\? ie 1 Aoofnr] /\r? -fV?o I x iic acn cbuvivn 10 ivvuvcu \su viiv Id Vanderbilt estate and covers apjroximately 450 acres, with a frontige on the ocean of 1,750 feet. The itation is to be a permanent unit in he aerial defense of the nation, and jverything connected with it is beng constructed on that basis. Work has already commenced on ;he hangars and the pier. The pier, ;ogether with a concrete ramp at the >ther end of the beach, will form a laven for seaplanes and flying boats.; The beach will be equipped with a narine railroad for hoisting seagoing lircraft ashore. The open water affords ample -ce for landing naval lircraft. The new station, has been named Vliller Field, in honor of Captain Tames E. Miller, who was killed in iction near Corbeny, France, March 1918. Captain Miller was a mem)er of the 95th Aero Squadron. Miller Field will be complete in ;very particular. A wireless transnitting station and a separate wireess receiving station will be erected. Directional wireless apparatus will De installed to guide aircraft in :oastal patrol in foggy weather. The landing ground is in the cen;er of the quadrangle formed by the iuildings and the ocean. It has facilities for landing in any iirection, according to the wind. The anding ground is rectangular in ;hape, providing a runway of 3,200 :eet in one direction and 1,625 feet n the other. ' j The bids advertised for yesterday ire for construction of thirty-two iuildings, including baracks, officers' quarters, mess halls, post exchange md administration buildings. The )ids will be opened at noon March 1, it the office of the constructing quartermaster, 39 Whitehall Street. Miller Field is being constructed, iccording to plans made during the :losing stage of the war and from npjrepriations made at ttiat time. :OURT CONVENES HERE * I MONDAY, JUDGE SEASE, SPARTANBURG. PRESIDING February term of the Court of General Sessions convened in Abbeville Monday, Judge T. S. Sease, of Spartanburg, presiding. Other court officers present were, Solicitor H. S.j Blackwell, Clerk J. L. Perrin, Sheriff R. M. Burts, Stenographer H. D. El-j liott, Deputy Sheriff C. L. Cann and Jury Boy, Howard Ramey. The present court promises to be sf short duration. There are a num-| ber of cases docketed which have seen continued because Senator J J Howard Moore, attorney in the cases,s attending the state legislature. Judge Sease ordered a special term >f criminal court to convene Monday,1 March 29, to take care of the cases ;hat were postponed at this term of iourt. Judge Sease will preside at;his special term. Joel S. Morse is foreman of the ^rand jury. Solicitor Blackwell re-j 'erred a number of cases to the grand ury Monday and several true bills vere returned. | The grand jury pre-i sentments are expected to be made oday or tomorrow. One case was disposed of Monday.; Ilijah Hunder plead guilty to as-! lault and battery and was fined $100.j n sentencing Hunter Judge Sease emarked that formerly it was cus-j omary to fine simple assault and bat-J ery cases around $25, but that along vith other living expenses the cost if sentences had advanced. ' i Bridge Club. The Bridge Club will meet Friday fternoon at 4 o'clock with Miss i !lise Bowie. < V BOLSHEVIKI CLAIM OF SUPREMACY IS PROBABLY CORRI London, Feb. 20.? Bolshf forces have captured Archangel, the White sea, accoi'ding to a less dispatch from Moscow to< The "whites" abandoned the t and the troops joined the Bolshei the message declares. The last advices to the British office on the north Russian situa were that on February 18 the j? nn ?A xurces were iu nines suuiu ui. n. angel. Bolshevik possession of the would mean a material weakeninj the EVivina line. Archangel was for a long pe during the war the main port of e: for Russian war supplies from allies. Abandonment of the Archangel pedition by the allied and associ; powers was determined upon year and the British , American other allied forces there were v drawn during the summer and fi The military situation throug] Russia has been very favorable the Bolsheviki for several weeks, fall of Archangel was not unexj ed. Recent communications repo the red forces advancing along Onega and Wwina" rivers, while i Bolshevik troops were mutiny murdering their officers and joii the soviet troops. The ahti-Bolsh garison at Nakolsk about 100 n north of Archangel, was reporte ,imunion received yesterday |ha\i revolted and joined the sc I troops. The fall of Archangel, seat of north Russian anti-Boishevik ernment, if confirmed^ will p ucauy verny tne soviet s claim active military opposition in Ri has been crushed. First red art defated General Yudenitch, heai i the northwestern anti-Bolshevik iernment and later the Denikin south Russia and Admiral Kilcha Siberia was dispersed. 'american special driven by mar Washington , Feb. 20.?Sen 'Dial- and Representative Nicl | have been called on at their of I lately by a constituent, James | Martin, who had some rather unu j experiences overseas, after ha been severely gassed near Lune while serving with the One Hun< and Seventeenth Engineers of [Rainbow division. 1 Mr. Martin on leaving the hosj ' was piiysicauy aisquauneci ior ther duty with his regiment, but 1 ing been a locomotive engineer on Southern railway at home, was signed as engineman to the "An can Special" when that famous t between Chaumont and Tours established. It was while on this signment, in the latter part of ! tember or early in October, 1! that he performed the stunt w brought him considerable atten at the time. An unusually large party of im tant officers and civilian dignitai filling 13 coaches, was making rounds of the service of sup drawn by Jim Martin's big Ameri locomotive, No. 5897, a Schenact built passenger speedster of the t known in the service as "Mik Martin picked up the train at Pierre des Corps and all went 1 until just before he reached Vier; when his throttle somehow beci disconnected. There was neither t nor opportunity for making repair and Martin somehow hanc the big engine with its long ti from Vierzon to Nevers, about kilometers, with throttle wide op controling the train entirely by ms pulating his airbrakes and his reve lever. It was necessary on reach the end of the run to "kill" the lc motive by exhausting the steam, fore it could be uncoupled and into a siding. Martin meanwhile k his own counsel and it was not ui they reached Nevers that his < tinguished passengers knew un what circumstances they had b< whirled across France. Fireman M roe of Greenville was Martin's "b dy" on this trip. \ . .-.v.:-;*/-. .. FURTHER EXCHANGE $ NOT NECESSARY IN XT OFFICIAL'S OPINION 2vik Washington, Feb. 20.?President > on Wilson's latest not- on the Adriatic c rire- ' + . settlement regardec at the White T day. own House, as his final vord on the sub- I _;i_; -ionf it uf!>c +i da\r flno t /IK.1, J"Vf OWM.UV.V* UVJIAMJ. ~ "V. V.UV?? said he thought no further correspon- 5 war dence would be necessary. tlon It was said today, however, that by red , this it was not meant the door to rchfurther exchanges had been shut. On city the contrary a reply to the presi? of dent's latest communication is anticipated and a final agreement bcn0Q tween the great powers on th vexntry . * , ^ mg question is expected. The president throughout the exex changes now in progress is under- ( ated stood to have made it perfectly, clear last that the United States cannot accept and the settlement reached by the allied /ith- premiers and eoncured in by Italy all. and which was made the subject mathout t$r of the ultimatum to Jugo-Slavia for last month. He also is said to have The made it equally clear that enforce>ect ment of the Adriatic terms of the rted secret treaty in London, negotiated the before this country entered the war inti- would be wholly unacceptible to the ring, United States. ( mug i-?cjiuic uic picoiugilb o iiuic 10 pui/j^ evik on the cables a copy will be sub- ^ liles mitted by him to the state depart- , d in ment for final approval.- I , to Officials who are anxious for pub- ^ >viet lication of the entire correspondence j hope to arrange for giving out the | ^ the president is not adverse to such ac-j] gov-jtion but will defer his consent until1, irac-jhe is advised on the subject by Actthat jing Secretary Polk. I issiaj Summaries of the allies' "reply to'( miesjMr. Wilson's first note published in!( & ofithis cou.itry were' declared not au-| gov-'thentic by the White House and state J in [department. jj k in J Formulation by the United States |( I Great Britain and France of a new.( proposal to Italy and Jugo-Slavia for' ^ [settlement of the Adriatic contro-;, i TINjversy is likely to result from Pre si- , 'dent Wilson's re-entrance into the , ator.negotiations, it was believed here to-', lolls; day. ficesj Faced with Mr. Wilson's reported:( E.iintimation that he might consider;, sual the withdrawal of the treaty of Ver-'( ving failles and the treaty of alliance be-'^ ville|tween Great Britain and the United !j ired; States for the deferise of France, it,< the'is believed that Britain and France'; jwill exert themselves to cause Italy j aital to make concessions to the Jugo-1. fur-'Slavs the line with the president's^ !iav- ; stand. Premier Nitti, if Italy, has|( i the | declared that the January plan of1 j as- the allies was the least that his!( \eri-1country would accept. j, rain! was! IN THE SETBACK SWIM. ! i x i' 1 ss-1 x j i Sep-1 The Setback Solons were all onj^ 918,|hand at Major Fulp's Friday even-j^ hichjing> in response to his invitations,^ tion'and they were ready for the game? and games. p^r-j After enjoying the dinnei served,! ries, j the line of battle was formed in ac-j( the'cordance with the plan previously!: ply? j arranged by the Major, and the con-js icanjtending forces got down to regular 'j acjy I warfare. Most of the forces on the ype'twd sides fought well. One unfor-|a es." jtunate appeared in the line of battle j] St. dressed in green, while all others i A^ell wore regular uniforms, which caused j? ion, I mm to oe made a target by the;v ime f?rces opposite him, with the result)^ ime j that all the back side of his uniform I a a,was shot off, he having his back to!4 Ued to the enemy most of the time after la ain the first few shots. L 150 Capt. Jack Perrin found out why >en, it was that he could take Dale Barks-1 inj_ dale and beat Uncle Jim and Pat .rsej Roche, while Col. Bob Link showed ing Col. Bradley Reese, of Chestnut ,co_ Street and "the rich young ruler" at", the pnrl Mnvfh \Toin cawo n-P run habits of a sharp-shooter. Cheves ept Haskell took Will Barnwell and won ntil a game, which shows that Cheves has -lis- had some poor partners at the party. der Altogether it was one of the most 2en pleasant of the many evenings spent on- by the members of the noble profes- M ucj. sion, and coming as it did at the end N of the flu it was doubly enjoyed. o' >1 a DAY BONUS 1 PLAN FAVORED BY CONGRESS J . I vVashington, Feb. 19. ?Members! )f Congress are plainly disturbed by! ,he four-plank beneficial legislative I >rogram put forward yesterday by j ;he American Legion. They all de-j >ire to do everything within their power to make the former service nen contented and convinced that! ;he country is not unmindful oi its; >bligations to them, but they shrink J trom the financial consequences of jndertaking to carry out the legion's) program in any substantial degree. The program determined upon by, :he legion, with action by Congress, iemanded within sixty days, is as follows: First?Land settlement projects covering all states. Second?Home aid to encourage : the purchase of either rural or city homes by ex-service persons. Third?Vocational education for' *11 ex-service men. Fourth?Adjustment of compensa-| tion of extra pay based on length of service. While the former soldier will be! required to take his choice between these four forms of aid, and most of them will favor the fourth, which is :ommonly spoken of as bonus, it cvas calculated today by a member of j ;he House that it would take any-|, vhere from $2,000,000,000 to $25,-1 300,000,000 to carry out the four Forms of aid. The concensus of opinon was that fourplank plan was ;herefore incapable of realization. Members who are convinced that! something should be done for the former service men expressed the;, jpinion that the outcome would be a_ :ash bonus at the rate of a dollar a ! lav fnr each dav of service. Johnson Favors Cash Plan "Opinion in Congress in solidify- : ng in favor of giving the boys a :ash bonus of a dollar for each day j jf service," said Representative ; Royal Johnson, of South Dakota, j ivho enlisted as a private during the i tvar and advanced to the rank of first lieutenant. "I rather expect to' see that plan adopted. The money | :ould be raised by a bond issue. The. jxpert financial opinion; is that it1 ivould do better to make the conpen-j sation in the form of cash derived j from a bondissue than to give the i bonds directly to the beneficiaries, as: favored by the executive committee | 3f the Legion. Bonds directly issued' in small denominations would pass;, from hand to hand so readily andj freely that such an issue would be; squivalent to inflating the currency1 by the required amount, which on the | 3ollar-a-day basis would be between' 51,400,000,000 and $1,800,000,000. I "The condition of the Treasury' A'vtow/n'nl /?An/Ufinn r?"F fVm 1 211U I/IIC X111C141V1C41 CVUUlUlVil WA. W..V country generally is such that the present session of Congress at least vould not be justified in doing more! ;han acting on the fourth plank of; ;he Legion's program in the manner j [ have indicated." I Representative Frank W. Mondell,; >f Wyoming, Republican floor leader; n the House, who believes that the j lituatoin in such that nothing on a' arge scale can be safely done in the! vay of soldiers' beneficial legislation, it present, discussed the problem1 argely on the assumption that most | f the former soldiers would prefer.* adjusted compensation" if they! /ere to have their choice thus re-! ucmg the financial load to minimumj nd involving an outlay of from $1,00,000,000 up to $2,000,000,000,1 ccording to the rates of compensa-L io n most generally favored. i I t POSTPONE 250 MILE RACE l Is id Los Angeles, Feb. 22.?The 250 ,tl mile automobile race scheduled for'n the new Los Angeles speedway tomorrow has been postponed until1 Saturday because of wet ground. ! Book Club The Book Club will meet with Miss 'amie Hill at the home of Mrs. G. A. bi euffer Wednesday afternoon at 4 st clock. C ft SUPERS APPOSED 10 LABOR PARTY Labor Leader Declares Separate Party Would bo Detrimental To D ? m. i_?_ ??- i _i Strong Letter Condemning Movement Washington, Feb. 22.?Formation of a political labor party would be , "detrimental to the interests of labor and exactly in line with that which is most ardently desired by those who seek to oppress labor." Samuel Gompers declared in a letter to William Mitch of Terre Haute, a leader of the Indiana state labor party, made public here today. Mr. Gompers wrote in reply to a telegram from Mitch and his associates supporting the action of the Indiana state labor party in opposing the political declaration of the American Federation, of Labor calling on organized workers to elect their friends and defeat their enemies. Mitch's telegram declared in favor of making the fight solely through a labor party. "By what right," Mr. Gompers letter said, "do you assume to declare the work and the policy of the American Federation of Labor to be impractical?" DR. ROBERTSON TO PREACH Due West, Feb. 22.?Special: Dr. Alexandria, Robertson, of Glasgow Scotland, is expected here tomorrow to begin a series of preaching services to last a week. Dr. Robertson was formerly professor of Hebrew in Glasgow University, and last occupied Spurgeon's Church in London. Dwifeht L. Moody brought him to this country at the time of the Chicago exposition to preach for him. Recently his congregation at Glasgow purchased the city hall for him to preach in. During the recent war he was a chaplain in the famous Scotch Highland regiment. During one engagement his regiment lost all of its line officers and he took charge and led the troops to victory. For this service he was made a major general the only chaplain to have this honor Dr. Robertson is a preacher of international fame and it is an honor to have him here. He was holding a meeting in Washington, D. C., someone informed him that Due West was a place that still kept the old Scottish Presbyterian custom of singing the Psalms and he expressed a desire to come hrru. By this means he was secured to hold a meeting to the students of Erskine College. ' . y \, -St . ED. H. DECAMP IS -* < RAPDILY IMPROVING Gaffney, Feb. 22.?It was reported from the local hospital yesterday afternoon ,that the condidtion of Ed H. DeCamp, of the Gaffney Ledger, showed great improvement, and his friends all over the county will be glad tq know that, barring complications, he will soon be well. While there are still a number of cases of influenza in Gaffney, it is thought ;hat it will soon be a thing of the that it will soon be a thng of the ? past. FORT IS QUARANTINED Chattanooga, Tenn., Feb. 21.? Quarantine in effect at Fort Oglehorpe, Ga., for the past ten days as percautionary measure against the pread of influenza, was raised toay. City health authorities report hat the "flu" conditions in Chattaooga are very satisfactory. WILL FLOAT LOAN Paris, Feb. 22.?It has been decided by the city council of Paris to float a municipal loan of $20,000,000 in Canada. The nroceeds are to e used for the purchase of food;uffs and the other essentials in the anadian market.