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Abbeville Press and Banner Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Tri-Weekly. Abbeville Friday, March 19, 1920 Single Copies, Five Cents. 76th Year. AMERICA IS LEADING ! WORLD IN BUG | . WAR TONNAGEi ? I Twelve Superdre-draughts and Six Great Battle Cruisers are Now Under Construction Washington, March 18.?The United States, American naval experts say, is building more warship tonnage than any other nation. Twelve super-dreadnaughts and six great battle cruisers, aggregating 55,400 tons, are under construction in private and navy yards. They will carry a total of 512 sixteen inch rifles and twenty-four fourteen inch rifles and all will have the new electric j drive engines. With the completion of this fleet, probably in 1923, the United States will have a battle force of 19 superdreadnaughts, and six battle cruisers in the first line and eight dreadnaughts and a number of smaller battleships in the second line. American naval men say that among the world's fighting craft the six battip cruisers and six of the new battle ships?th? South Dakota, .Montana, North Carolina, Massachusetts, Indiana and Iowa?will be in a class by themselves. The cruisers will have a speed of about 33 knots?37 land miles ?and each will carry eight sixteen inch guns. They will be S74 feet long j over all, ninety feet wide, will displace 33,500 tons, and have 180,000 horsepower. 6S4 Feet Long1 The six super-dreadnaughts will be even more powerful, each mounting in its main battery 12 sixteen inch rifles. They will be 084 feet long, 105 feet broad and displace 43,000 tons. Their speed will be 23 knots and horsepower 1 GO,000. These ships and the battle cruisers are just now being gotten under way, r\f ?Vio ntlior civ hattlovhins UUl lUUOt VI U?v VWUV* W??k W?.vv.vw...rw are well on the road to completion. The .Maryland, to be launched at Newport News Saturday, and the Colorado. Washington and West Virginia will carry eight sixteen inch rifles each, will be 624 feet long. 93 feet broad, and displace 32,600 tons. Their speed will be 31 knots and horsepow- ( er 29,000. The Tennessee to be commissioned in May and the California will carry twelve fourteen inch rifles, and will be 624 feet long, 97 feet broad, and displace 32,000 tons. Their speed also will be 21 knots and their horsepower 28,500 tons. s Detectives Charged [ With Abducting \ Street Railwav*Mann Nashville. Tenn., March 18 ?The | Davidson county jury today returned j indictments against City Detectives | Walter Reese, George Redman, Gas Kiger and Earl Kiger, and Patrolman H. M. Bills, charging them with tho! abduction on November 19 last of A. B. Lawson, a visiting official of the Street Railway Employes' Association. Three sets of indictments were returned. One charged the officers with oppression, and another charged them with malicious threats A third charged the officers and "other persons to the grand jury unknown' with con- 2 tpiracy. < Lawson, who alleged that he was taken from the streets of Nashville i and carried to Springlield. Tennessee, J in an automobile and put aboard a train with a warning not to return to Nashville, went before the grand jury sometime ago. but no report from the * inquisitorial body followed. It developed later that Attorney General fi. B. Kirkpatrick, had declined to draw an; indictment. Lawson subsequently went belore a mag'sirate ami swore out warrants against the live officers indicted today, and pending action of the grand jury they have been at liberty on bonds signed by citizens qualifying to the extent of two million dollars. CENSUS STATISTICS Washington, Mai- 18.- -Population statistics for 1920, announced today by the census bureau included: Port Jervis, N. Y., 10,171, an increase of 607, or 6.3 per cent over! 1910. Beacon. N. Y., 10.996, increase] 376, or 3.5 per cent oves the 1910 j census combined populations of Fish-] kill T.arulirip and Mattpwan which . I wore incorporated as the town of Beacon in 1912. COTTON MARKET. Spot Cotton 40.50 i March . 40.23 May 38.00; July 35.30 October 32.34 j December 31.441 J This Canadian "Got" 378 Huns Ottawa, March 18.?Corporal Francis Peffahmasabow, one vf more than 4,000 Canadians who volunteered with the Canacredited with the "scalps" of 378 Germans in a report submitted to the House of Commons by Arthur Meighen, minister of the interior. Cotrporal Pegrahmag'abow, who hails from Perry Sound, was one i of a large number of bidian crack shots who were detailed as snipers. He received the military medal with two bars for his exploits. Mr. Meighen's report cites numerous instances of gallantry on the part of the Indian contingent which numbered more than 35 per cent of the total male poo^ation of military age. One Indian. John Campbell, traveled j 3.000 miles by canoe, train and 1 steamer to reach Vancouver so that he could enlist. 1 Clemson Freshman < Urges Classmates ; To Return 21st i ?? ] Greenville, S. March 1?,? ' Harold R. Turner, of Greenville, ? president of the freshman class at Clemson College, today issued a statement to fellow cadets in i which he advises all freshmen and . sophomores to prepare to return on Sunday, March 21, pending the * action of the parents' meeting in lj Columbia Friday and the junior- I senior meeting at Clemson Satur- ! da?'. He counsels that the cadets go hack cheerfully, unless a different course Is decided upon by c the parents and upper classmen. It TOWN OF BILTMORE IS L SOLD BY MRS. VANDERBILT , I Asheville, N. C., March 18.? j( Practically the entire town of Biltmore has been sold bv Mrs. George W. Vanderbilt to Dr. J. [( A. Sinclair, of Asheville, tieorge (% Stephens, of Charlotte, N. C., and the Southern Railway Companv. | Constantinople Is Quiet Under the Allied Occupation i( i4 Constantinople, March 17.?The'a :econd day of the inter-allied occu-|. >ation of Constantinople, carried outj1 >n "^uesday by large forces from the h mposing war fleet in the Bosphorus, la >assed entire calm, the Turkish po-1. ice cooperating in keeping order. I* The ferry and telephone service have r jeen resumed. Only small detach- g nents of allied soldiers are visible in \ the streets and about the public,8 >uildings. Jc The French and the Italians had L >nly small forces here and they are] ar less active than the British for- 5 :es. which are evcellently organized J ( ind took over the city with the pre-:j, :ision of clock-work. Among the prisoners taken were! Sssad Pasha,, nationalist leader, and |t vlohammed Pasha, who was minister L )f war just before the great war opened and has been the chief organi-M :er of the propaganda for an Ameri-j\ :an mandate. j^. k Bainbridge Colby U Delivers "Knockout" j1 Says Hitchcock!8 Washington, Mair. 18.?Bain- |s bridge Colby made an extensive t statement to the Senate foreign j relations committee today reguru- * ing the information on which the It committee Is delaying action on L his confirmation as secretary of j state. N Those present maintained the ^ silence which has surrounded all previous hearings on tlie subject, ^ but It was said the nominee would \ not be asked to appear again. The 'c committee will meet again tomor- !4 row and some members expect I that it may take filial action then. I] 3Ir. Colby declined to talk about j? *! " Mi.iHnrc iliwnuccnil lint Sonn . I IIIC 11 lilt ivi ry ui.ivuf vhv ^v.... f lor Hitchcock, Democrat, Neb- jt rasku, said he considered .Mr. Colby's statement "a complete ! knockout for the opposition." LAST AUWMKVrS IN THE L NKWiii-KKY ( ASK TODAY !r Grand Rapids, Mich., .March IS.? I^st arguments in the Newberry eiec-1 ions conspiracy trial were ffelivered ( io the jury today by Frank ('. Dailey, 'a '.ssislant attorney general. Speaking tfore another crowded court room. 1 10 took up the debate with renewed i ngor. 'j .Mr. Dailey again accented frequent-' Iv th::? there was nothing essentially 2 mysterious about the conspiracy, as r "lliirjMil in uiL* imiicuuuiii. m; .. lisrarded tlie legal term aiul called : alleged offense "an arrangement :o spend more money than the law could lie spent in the 1!? 1 s Sena-' . . c....ipaign.'' TWO GOSSI rp Ten Governor Cooper S Trial at Request < welI===Judge S burg To County Clerk J. L. Perrin received notice Friday from Governor Cooper that he had ordered a special term of :ourt to be held here April 5 to try Kenneth and John Gossett on the :harge of criminally assaulting two young white girls of this place last Sunday. The action of the governor >vas taken at the request of Solicitor K. S. Blackwell. Judge Thomas B. 3ease, Spartanburg, will be the presiding judge at the trial. Sheriff Burts said Friday mornng that he had not fully made his jlans for providing pi-otection at the ;riai dux tnat ne wouia iaKe proper neasures to obviate any possibility )f mob violence. News from Honea Path, the home )f the two Gossetts, is to the cffect ;hat the Ford touring car, in which hey drove to Abbeville Sunday was t stolen car, brought to Honea Path 'rom Columbia and bought by John jossett. It is also learned that Kenneth 5ossett was employed here last week vith his father as a brick mason, re- 1 uming Saturday to Honea Path. Columbia, March 17.?John Gosett and Kenneth Gossett, you.g vhite men arrested yesterday in Jreenville and Honea Path, respecively, on the charge of criminally .ssaulting two young v/hite women n Abbeville last Sunday, were >rought to Columbia late lasc night .nd lodged in the state penitentiary or safe keeping. The young men adait having been in Abbeville last !unday and taking the two young ;irls out riding. The boys are first ousins. Kenneth Gossett is the rounger of the two, being about 21 rears of age, but is married. John Jossett bears a good reputation in lis community. The Gossett boys were placed in he same cells occupied the previous wo day by James B. Wallace and -.ee bourne, young men from Greenwood, who were arrested in connecion with this case last Sunday night, >ut relased yesterday after the young vomen had declared positively that Vallace and Bourne were not their issailants. Kenneth Gossett, whose assault is aid to have been successful, claims hat he did not get out of the autonobile. John says he walked back up he road a short distance to Long }ane bridge with the other girl, vhere the car was first stopped. Vhen the latter two came back the rirl who remained behind in the car vith Kenneth the other girl says, viinnintr rlnwn t.hp road crvine\ 'He has ruined me." Kenneth denied ast night that he had made further idvances than laying his hands on he young woman. Honea Path, March 17.?John i iossett and Kenneth Gossett, arrestel this morning charged with crimilal assault, live in Honca Path, and lave made their home here for some ime. They are first cousins. John jossett, who was taken into custody it Greenville, is 22 years of age and mmarried. Kenneth Gossett, arrestd here at 4 :*i0 o'clock this morning, s a married man and is about ID oi >n Tl,?. fnvmnx n .1J y\:uir> ui u^c. i nc iwimvi <? nechanic and the latter a brick : nason. After the arrest, Kenneth Gosv,a? taken to Anderson, and it ir 'nod that John Gossett wa? , TTSTO iD APRIL 5 iets Date for Early J of Solicitor Black- < ease of SpartanPreside. i brought ther?; from Greenville. The young women were brought to Anderson from Abbeville and according to advices received from them, the men were identifed by the girls. Anderson, March 17.?John Gos-j sett, arrested in Greenville this morning and Kenneth Gossett, arrested in i Honea Path at an early hour, were j brought here today, where the young women from Abbeville identified them as their assailants. The Gossetts ; were held here for several hours and j then were taken away by officers to parts unknown here. The Gossetts are from Honea Path, John Gossett is about 22 years >f age and Kenneth is about two j Tears younger. Greenville, March 17.?Governor, hooper, here to deliver an address | onight, said that he would meet I jolicitor Blackwell in Laurens tomor-i ow and would call a special term of; ourt of so requested by the solici-, tor. (From Index-Journal) The Index-Journal was Informed over the telephone this afternoon by Solicitor Homer S. Blackwell from Laurens that upon his reqnest, Governor Robert A. Cooper has ordered a special term of court to be held at AbbebeyiHe the first week in April for j the trial of John and Kenneth Gossett, the young white men held in the penitentiary at Columbia ' on the charge of assaulting two voiMiir white women nenr Abbe. ville last Sunday afternoon. The first day of April falls on Thurs- ^ day and It is presumed that the ; n trial will begin on that day. I G Solicitor Blackwell retnrned to !K Laurens last night from Abbeville j where he went as soon as he Iv heard of the attack on the young girls and where he did every- A: thing possible to assist In appre- " bending the guilty parties as soon t( as It was established that a seri- a ous error had been made when ^ the first two young men were tak- f3 en in custody. fc Solicitor Blackwell stated that J1 he did not know who would preside at the special term, but that he had suggested that the Gover- S nor recommend the appointment of Judge Thomas S. Sease, of Spartanburg, who will be disengaged at the time. Chief Justice Gary will name the presiding ir iiwhfn of d\ ns?A M J"?Ov "I v uv?i t It, is not known liere whether 1 or not the Gossett brothers have retained counsel. I'1 Pi CHICAGO EXPRESS EMBARGO IS PARTIALLY LIFTED ni T Chicago. March IS.?Partial lifting of the embargo on express shipments imposed more than a week ago ,as the result of a strike of Chicago express jS workers was announced today. Re-j strictions 011 outgoing shipments ex- j * cept ordinary parcels, to Southwestern | ' points and on all through shipments! . from Boston. Philadelphia and Haiti- j s. more via New York were removed. ! f' Shipments of perishable goods, fruits J !>J and vegetables from Florida to Chica- ]51 go over the Chicago Northwestern sys-1 tem were also included. Officials of the American Railway |s! Express Company said 25 per cent of j the strikers had returned to work. j0'1 The St. Louis Cardinals were thej^ first big leaguers to get action in! regular ball ganu-.-i. Tlia Rickeys tarted in playing Texas league teams j right off the reel. ai Among the eatables consumed in one i recent voyage of a giant Atlantic linel* ri were T-'.OOO.OOO pounds of meat. 1.500 li? pounds of tea. !i?7.i!oo pounds of flour. A ;ind forty tons of potatoes. " Prom all acounts the Athleticsisr indulging in strenuous stunts aijiN I.Charlos. which probably mev.ns 11\that tlx* M.-cluiun will not bo tTioj . proposition they wore last sou-lis' -on. ! ii< Deported Radicals Suffer Privations Moscow, March 12.?Many radicals who were deported from the United States on the steamship Bu'ord have been suffering privations since they arrived in Russia. They 'ailed to locate their relatives and aave not secured employment. Efforts are now being made by Alex inder Berkman and Emma Goldman, eaders of the deportees, to form an nganization which will give employnent to members of the party who ire in distress and care for them sending permament arrangements. Headquarters of this organization ] vill be established at Petrograd with danned to give all deportees from i branch in Moscow, and it is ; he United States advantage of the i acilities it offers. 1 I HOW A LITTLE GIRL < FOUGHT BURGLARS l New York, March 18.? This is the story of a little girl's brave fight against the two meanest burglars in New York: Margaret Hagney, 12 years old, was asleep in her home in West Twenty-Fifth j street last night when she ; was awakened by a noise in 1 an adjoining room. Her par* J ents being absent, she called "who's there?", and, receiv- i ing no answer, turned on a light to discover two men rattling her bank, containing < 75 pennies. The men sprang i for the doorway, with the ; girl giving chase, screaming ^ at the top of her voice. < She caught the man with 1 the bank, meantime, fighting 1 off his companion, who was endeavoring to stifle her < screams and finally was 1 knocked unconscious with a | blow on her forehead with I. her own bank. I ] The men escaped, takinsr '1 the bank with them and jj neighbors a few moments ! later broke into the house t and found Margaret insensi- ( ble on the floor. She was revived by a hos- l pital surgeon and between t sobs was able to give the po- r lice a good description of 1 her assailants. t Virginia G. O. P. Are Pledged to Lowden I . r I Roanoke. Va., March 18.?Virginia i elegates at large to the Republican t ational convention will vote for t overnor Lowden. of Illinois, as the i '.epublican nominee for President, nd Henry W. Aderson, of Richmond, a., for vice president. i The instructions for Governor c <owden were adopted at the State s epublican convention last night af;r one of the stormiest sessions of f political convention ever witness- t d in Virginia. Representative C. c ascom Slemp, of the Ninth dis- f )rces led the fight for the Ix>wden t 'ict, led the fight for the Lowden s )rces. c TOCK MARKET HAD A E VERY BUSY 3IORMXG v E n New York, March IS.?Heavy trad- j ig in speculative issues in the stock t iarket here resulted in one of the c usiest morning sessions in recent a eeks, shares with stock dividend i f ossibilities scoring gains of 2 to IS {q oints. The heavv lmvine' anrt fixtpn- i n ve short covering was caused finan- f ial experts agreed, hv the recom- s lendations of the Secretary of the reasurv urging modification ov re- * = al of the excess profits tax. Sales * I the first hour exceeded 500,000 lares. The leaders in the advance included [otor Railway equipment. Leather: extile and Shipping shares. These were supplemented by food! ?ares. Tobaccos and numerous un-! assified storks, tho movement em- { acing a wider variety of issues ihm I any time since tho early weeks of! ic year. A verv large part of the I irly trading originated with com mis-| on houses and indicated thr-.t a con-! derable volume of the buying power j ime from interior points F,D CEOSS SAVES 30.000 PEOPLE FROM STARVING' Dvinck. Mar?-h 1.?Thirty tlions-1 id persons have been saved from' arvation here by the timely ar-j vai of an American Red Cross re-j *f tin it from Warsaw. When t he | meicr'iis arrived with the I'nlish i my they found l!x pntplc dying by I '.res from liusurer. Food Imd brer ihausted for two \vo"ks Kforo iht? des had ro;H'h<-d tln> oily and tin! pi in 11:111 r of the population was demol- t, !?>ncr ;ill wood<*n houses to proour" iif . wood wis011 K-Iicf reached thorn. ir NAVY NOT READY WHEN 1H CAME DECLARES SIMS The Admiral is About to Reach the End of His Lengthy Statement of Criticism Washington, March 18.?Concluding his long arraignment of the Navy Department's conduct of the war, Rear Admiral Sims laid before the Senate investigating committee today thirteen specific counts in his indictment charging mistakes and costly delays. He reiterated his declaration that his criticisms were aimed at no individual but that "responsibility for any failures'' rested upon "the Navy Department as an organization.'* The admiral's summary of his charges follows: "That, in sp'te of the fact that war had been going on for nearly three years, and our entry into it had been imminent at least from February 2, 1917. the vessels of the navy were not ready for war service when the United States er.tered. "That the first few months after America entered the war were extremely critical ones for the whole allied cause, due to the success of snemy submarines. "That this critical situation was made clear to the Navy Department i few days after America entered the isar ana repeatedly thereafter by cables and letters, supported by indepenlent advices to tte government from !he American ambassador in London aid by Mr. Hoover. "That the Navy Department supplied me with no plans or policy covering our partici] ation in the war hree months after our entry therein. No Prompt Assistance "That, having information as to the critical situation of the allies, the S'avy Department did not promptly issist them, and thereby prolonged ;he war by delaying the sending of inti-submarine vessels, none reaching Europe for nearly a month after war >vas declared, and two and a half nonths elapsing befor? thirty vessels irrived. "That the Navy Department failed ;o appreciate the military value of irae. "That the Department's representaion with the allied admiralties was lot supported, during the most critical months of the war, either by adeluate personnel or by adequate forces hat could have been supplied. "That the Navy Department violat!tl fundamental military prinicplos he situation was changing from day o day. "That the Navy Department, in not :Iearly defining the responsibility md de'egating authority to its repesentafive in Europe, failed to folow sound principles, common alike he direction of details although hree thousand miles distant from he scene of active operations, where ;nowledge of the whole situation. Dictated 3,000 Miles Away "That the Navy Department violated n dispersing forces away from the xitical area in order to meet diverions of the enemy. "That the Navy Department, in the irst months of the war, attempted o the business and military profes>peration without having sufficient undamental military principles in atempting to formulate war plans of ions. "That the Navy Department, by ontrolling the operations and movenents of certain forces within the i-ar area, violated the fundamental nilitary principles of unity of comnand. "That the Navy Department failed o keep its representation abroad ompletely informed as to its plans ffecting dispatch and disposition of orces in the war zone, and freinently reached decisions in such natters through information gained 10m sources other than its repre entative in the war zone." j DIad in Rags, Grand Duchess Olga Is Found in Box Car Washington, March 1"?.?( 'rand Duchess Oltra, sister of the late Czar Nicholas of Kussin lias l?e??n found by American Red Cross workers, livinc in a box car near \onorossiek. south Russia, it was iiinoiiiK'OiI today at tlio headquarters of the American Ked Cross here. Tin* urand duchess, arcordins to the announcement. is one of three survivnir members of the house of Romanoff. >?!< uas fonnd 'Moiliitir iiinomr fellow ivfu trees fr??m ilie territory recently c:??w liiered ?>y the IIoK'mm Mii. irliiiisr such assManre ;i>? "I'e ronM. ::1tliontrli herself j-I'h! i;i rairs and irratei'ii! fur ;mv food :i;i! ^lie could tind." Tennessee ( . o. I', For Wood. .Vnshville. Ter.r.. >hr\ is.?The He i< MivcPtioti of the lil'tH I' :!;"-- o iii--ric: ;od:iy Murfroo'*>:n nutt 1 for Leonard Wood for