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Abbeville Press and Banner I ^ . .*. iiM Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Tri-Weekly. Abbeville, S. C. Friday, September 10, 1920 Single Copies, Five Cento. 77th Yeai.. || COX MS LEAGUE i IN THE FAR WEST! ARGUMENTS ADAPTED TO AF- j FAIRS OF THE WEST ARE USED. DEMOCRATIC NOMI- j | NEE SAYS AMERICA MUST j REMOVE DOUBT, DISTRUST j AND GROWING HATRED| AGAINST THIS COUNTRY. Helena, Mont., Sept. 9.?Arguments in behalf of the league of nations adopted to affairs of the West were presented here today by Gov-1 ernor James M. Cox, democratic j presidential candidate. He outlined: what he declared were practical material benefits to flow from the . league. "It has recently been figured," . said the governor, "that the cost of one battleship would reclaim two , million acres of land. "Multiply this by 48 ,the number 1 of states adopting the plan of one ^ battleship for each state and you ^ have a staggering total, and if ^ properly applied, answers the problem of housing in our cities, answers the question of increased pro- ^ duction for sustenance of human ^ life. The expenditure required in total would reclaim 150,000 square . miles df waste it would build ten 1 permanently paved arteries entirely ' across tne united states. "Think of this in terms of reclamation. of arid and waste lands, if you will, and think what it would mean to have one million men, ex-1 elusive of thousands required in shipyards and ammunition plants, j turning their activities to the pro-1 duction of the necessaries of life, rather than to employment in the creation of agencies for the destruction of life." The governor's speech here after a few rear-platform addresses enroute opened the final day of his Montana campaign. He came here from Great Falls and was scheduled to speak late today at Anaconda and at Butte tonight. Urging the league, Governor Cox told his Helena audience that the United States is looked upon "as a ( nation of quitters, self-prosperous ^ and self-satisfied, while out associates as well as our enemies in Europe are starving to death." "America cannot enter into the , period of prosperity to which we are j entitled," he said, "until the doubt , and distrust and the growing hatred , against us, created by the apostles of hate in the senatorial oligarchy ; have been removed." , Governor Cox also inveighed against a separate peace with Germany and- urged? world- disarmament. Republican financing and the "senatorial oligarchy" came in for more criticism and the candidate reiterated his preachment of pro, gress as against reactionarism. i OFF TO WINTHROP. Miss Myra Williams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roger Williams, 1-ft this morning over the Southern Railway for Rock Hill, where she will enter Winthrop College. Miss Williams recently won a state scholarship at Winthrop on competitive examination. Miss Margaret Swetenburg left today for 6ock Hill, where she too will enter Winthrop. Miss Margaret i? one of the bright girls who graduate 1 from the local high school the present year. She will uphold the record of Abbeville at Winthrop. Misses Lydia Owen, Mary Slev?nv son, Margaret Wilson, Cornelia an I Ophelia Clinkscales, six of last year'.?! freshman class will also return to Winthrop next Tuesday. All of these young: ladies took fine stands in their classes last year and go back to do! , better work than ever before. Greenville is making an effort io' establish a juvenile court. LABORERS LACKING EXPERT DIRECTION This Is A Serious Embarrassment To Them And Causes Much Waste Of Raw Material Reports Say. Rome, Sept. 9.?Workers who have occupied factories throughout Italy are embarrassed by the opposition they have encountered from the technical and administrative staffs of plants that have been taken over, according to newspapers here. The men have no adequate direction and expert adviee in c?r-j rying on the work of the different factories, and are declared to have made common causes with the workers. The Engineers association has flatly refused to consider this suggestion. The general situation throughout; uaiy is fepuncu uc nuuuuv change. At Leghorn railway men have turned over to metal workers occupying the plant of the Italian Metallurgic Society several trucks of raw material which have been lying at the Toretia station. Workmen svho have been occupying the Gambare Steel Works in that city returned to their normal program, there being no quarrel between them and their employers They took) >ver the plant, it is said, merely as in evidence of their solidarity with the metal workers in other parts of :he country. Disastrous waste of raw material in factories at Turin is reported in i dispatch from that city to the Siornaie Dutalia. Much of this vaste is due to the desire of the nen to convince the public that the slants are working to full capacity vhich is impossible due to the lack >f expert superintendence. At automobile plants there the injrovised directors are said to be in:ompetent, and that it asserted thati ;he men have become discouraged! )y the decrease in output and daily ire absenting themselves in increasng numbers. The Giornaie D'italia estimates that only 20 per cent of ;he men occupying factories are vorking. English unions, it is reported, mvo coTvf- n roTriTrninication to the [talian Confederation, of Labor, isking news of the metal workers novement and expressing a desire ;o work in common accord with the confederation in extending the conflict. Pietro Mascagni, the composer, was given an ovation by workmen it the Orlando factory at Leghorn festerday when he visited the men, He left a written expression of his sympathy and before leaving made a brief address. EASLEY MILLS ARE __SOLD TO WOODS IDES ' Sale Includes Plants Numbers One, Two And Three Greenville, S. C., Sept. 10.?Announcement was made today of the sale of the Easley Cotton Mills, including plants Numbers One, Two and Three at Easley to John T. TTr 1?2 J - T* T7? TIT 3?: n%.AA? w ouusiae, hi. r. n wusiuc ui uiccnville and others. The Easley Mills of which R. E. Greer of Greenville is president have 75,000 splindles and manufacture a high grade of cotton cloth. The purchasers are identified with the Woodside Cotton Mills company, of Greenville which owns plants at Greenville and Fountain Inn. The consideration was not given. ICE PLANT SHUT DOWN The boiler at the Ice plant has a leak making it necessary to close down for three or four days in order to make repairs. A man was secured in Atlanta who came here to make the repairs, but when he got here he found it necessary to return to Atlanta to get his tools having left them behind. No, he is not a plumber. He is a boiler maker. An effort is being made to get ice elsewhere for a few days, but with no success so far. i COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS B. Stark Convicted of Murder, With 1 Recommendation to Mercy.?The Manning Case Postponed Account Sickness The Court of General Sessions opened Thursday morning:. The case 11 of the States vs. Bee Starke was call- f ed for trial. Starke killed another ne- s gro near Antreville some little timels ago. He set up a plea of self-defense, F claiming that he was suddenly at- b tacked by his assailant whom he was * not expecting sucr attack. The t State, however, proved that he had P repeatedly threatened to kill his man t "even if it was tne last tning i ao."i The Jury did not sustain his deefnse r and he was convicted of murder, with r recommendation to mercy, which r means life imprisonment unless he r secures a new trial. A motion to this d effect is pending. ..-a The next case tried was the State c vs. Dave Barksdale, chargel with o murder. Dave is an ex-soldier. He d had been living with Cora Haskell c before he went into the army. After I his return she went back to live with S hi'm. But it seems that Cora had an- a other lover named "Chuck" and she s sometimes liked his company. She h left one day and went to the home of e her brother. Dave thought she was p going to see "Chuck" and went over c to make her return home. She refus- I ed and a difficultv resulted. Dave a shot Cora's sister, killing her almost Si instantly. He claimed that the sister, p Daisy and a sister-in-law were at- h tacking him when he shot, one ofje them with an axe. The jury failed to a sustain his plea of self-defense and o found him guilty of manslaughter, tl He has not yet been sentenced. The case of the State vs. Charlie n Manning has been continued on ac-jn count of the serious illness of one of jb Manning's children. Mr. Manning,C shot and killed his brother Jim Man-J a ning several months ago at their;c< home near Lowndesville.' v jt< The court was engaged Friday 0 morning in the trial of the case of the State vs. Jesse Freeman charged with v murder. The evidence showed that p j . the negro and Will Hall, another ne-(f< gro had a previous difficulty. Theyitl met on the plantation j? Mr. Wm.jo Wilson near AntreviUo and agreedjf to shoot it out. Hall was killed, and.o the jury found the defendant guilty j a oL manslaughter. Ii2 has not yet been o sentenced. ^ The case of John Sibert, charged with assault and battery with intent s to kill was next called, and the P trial begun. At the time we go to f press the jury in this case is still I out. Sibert shot his father-in-law ? with a shot gun, thte affray growing t out of a family fuss, in which Sibert |S is alleged to have given his wife a c beating. t At the afternoon session the r white man Landers; living near Lit- j"*" tie Mountain, entered a plea ofic guilty of violation of the prohibition law, and was sentenced to serve six a months on the chain gang and pay a 1 fine of one hundred and fifty dol- 1 liars, the imprisonment part of the * sentence being suspended during c good behavior. * The court is now eneraered in the * trial of the case against Cooter * Hamilton charged with the homicide * of a negro near Antreville, the s homicide occuring at the same * house and on the same night that ' Bee Stark killed another negro, for x which Stark was convicted a day or c two ago. This will be the last case tried. * After sentencing those convicted of s 'crime, signing orders, and hearing ^ motions, Judge Moore will adjourn I1 this court, sine die, some time to-1c morrow. v c FROM GEORGIA * . c Leon Dillon, a young Georgia boy c who is after a good education, has I come to Abbeville and entered the seventh grade. The young man will e spend the time with Mrs. Frank An- ? drews and Miss Lown will make him 1 "toe the mark" during school t hours. if THE ELECTION IN GEORGIA rom Watson Nominated For United States Senator Defeating Senator Smith and Governor Dorsey The primary election for a nomilee for United States Senator and or State Officers in Georgia had the tage this week. Everybody in this ection on South Carolina, and peo>le all over the United States have ieen listening to and reading with nterest every word of news about he progress of the campaign, es ecially with regard to the senaorial race. Tlio anfvloc in +V?a a.-4?^ waiv&AWO AH i.lie acuabuiidi ace erre all men of prominence, rwo of hem are men of national eputation. Thomas E. Watson, former populist candidate for president, former congressman, author nd publisher, was the most spectaular candidate. He made his race n a platform in which he conemned the League of Nations ovenant and the administration of Resident Wilson /generally. Hoke Imith, former Governor of Georgia nd now Senior Senator from that tate was in the race to succeed imself, running on a platform of ndorsement of the democratic latform as adopted 'at San Franisco. He had supported some of the -.edge reservations in the senate, or t least some which he wrote himelf, but which were in the Lodge rogram. Hugh M. Dorsey, former/ governor of Georgia was the oth r prominent candidate. He was the dministration candidate, standing n milk and water reservations to le League of Nations. According to' figures just anounced it seems that Watson has lade a clean sweep of the field. He eat Smith and Dorsey in Fulton lounty, their home county, and arried more than a majority of the ounties in the state. He is nominajd. Dorsey ran second, a poor secnd, and Smith a poor third. In the Governor's race, Hardwick rho stood on the same platform ractically as Watson, is in the lead or Governor and will probably get ie nomination. It not he will run ver in a second primary with Cliford Walker. Should there be a secnd race the chances favor Walker s the other candidate, Holder ran n practically the same platform as Talker. The outcome of the race was a urprise to almost everyone. In the resiaeniiai primary, xne nowen action in Georgia which supported 'aimer, (Dorsey in this race) the imith faction, and the Watson facion appeared to be of about equal trength. The race was a threeornered affair. It was expected hat the senatorial race would be nuch the same, but not so. Just irhat contributed most to the outome cannot be told at this distance, rhe cry of persecution which Waton put up on account . of past ;reatment in Georgia no doubt had ts effect. The steam roller operated >y the Howell faction in the presi[ential situation and supported by he National Democratic Convenion militated against Governor )orsey, while Smith appears to have ost out because after taking a tand against the League of Naions on principle, he undertook to lop back and get on what he thought vas the main band wagon. The main :ause of Watson's election, howiver, we judge is his stand against ;he Un-American, undemocratic iuper-govemment which President Vilson brought back from Paris and indertook to force down the throats >f the American people, coupled vith his autocratic attitude in un lertaking to run the country singlelanded and brand every man in the ountry who had opinions of his >wn as a traitor. The American peo)le are still free. Watson is an unsafe man, he is ;ccentric and militant, and he is not i team worker, and we do not beieve he represents the sentiment of he majority of the people of Georgia. His election is due in some SHIPPERS URGED It TO ASSIST ROADS' U In Making Use of Rolling Stock?Delays At Terminals Can Also Be Cut Down By Exercise of Cooperation. Washington, Sept. 9?Manufacturers and shippers in general were urged to assist American railroads in making fullest use of their rolling stock in an appeal issued today by the railroad commission of the United States chamber of commerce. By cooperation in loading freight cars nearer to maximum capacity and cutting down delays in loading and unloading at terminals, the committee, said shippers can accomplish the , fr same effect that would be secured if 535,000 cars could be added im- ^ mediately to railroad equipment. Under present economic conditions, * it was added, the ailroads can not obtain fho oara of rp^ennotilo nwooc /\r> make terminal improvements tha \0r might expedite their ljiovement. 1 ar An average freight car spends 37 per cent, of its time awaiting loading 011 or unloading by shippers or receivers the committee estimated; 43 per cent n W moving between terminals, and nine W mg movement; 11 per cent, in train moving between terminals; and ine per cent, in shops. It was suggested that shippers voluntarily reduce the time cars are kept by them to 24 ln hours which practice, if adopted710 the committee said would produce the ^ . 'da same improvement in transportation! facilities than an addition of 360,000 cars would involve. ine average ireign car capacity, it|VM was added, is 41.6 tons, while the1W average actual load carried is 27.8 j tons. Cooperating with roads to raise ci< the average load to 30 tons, the com- on mittee said, and also using care to co avoid damage to cars, reducing re-'ti< I pairs, would accomplish the balance St ! cf the results desired. ty | Jo MUSIC SITTING ROOM |38 Ifo Willie Harris, of Harris and Caljvert, says that he is not running a Co I music parlor but a music sitting fp {room. A parlor is a place in which co you can stay for a little while only 20 at a time. You soon get tired of the parlor. But, not so with the sitting pr room. That is the place where the jn family gathers, where good friends m are invited, and where everybody H< feels at home. That is the kind of a w, music place Willie is running, so he fr says. co And he tells us to invite all the good people of Abbeville County ? who desire to hear good sitting-1 room music, good every day music, V(J which is good for the "soul" to come into his sitting room and feel at home. He will give concert any hour of the day, he says. ^ In this issue he is telling you g. something about home new records he has to play for you. That is the ^ reason the invitation is urgent. AT HIS OLD HOME &i in cc Wilson Johnson is visiting at his ^ > old home in Churchland, Va. Mrs. Johnson and the baby have been . away for nearly a monith and they ln will return next week with Mr Johnson. M ' GOING TO GREENWOOD Miss Mamie Devlin leaves Satur- b( day for Greenwood where she will la resume her work as teacher in the w (High School. Miss Devlin is well be- h< j oved by both parents and pupils. sa !ni j Thirty-five thousand men employed e> by the tire manufacturers of Akron,1 th I Ohio, have been discharged since jn June 1st. The late, wet spring, the) stringency of money and the sudden falling off of sales is given as the reason. fn measure to the attempt of the At-^r lanta Journal and the Atlanta Con-!2J stitution to handpick the officers for'f0 the whole state for itself. We w are not surprised that he people of Se Georgia have risen in their might i and repudiated both of them. We j could have hoped for a better in ? L_ xiioice, nowever. jur TON ID HAVE J GEORGIA PLACE 1 __ ' m OMINATED BY DEMOCRATS ' ' FOR SENATE. GOVERNOR NOT NAMED?SECOND RACE WILL v BE NECESSARY BETWEEN CLIFFORD WALKER AND THOMAS W. "HARDWICK. WATSON INCREASE MAJORITY. Atlanta, Sept. 10.?Gompilations om 139 of the 155 Georgia counts, compiled early today by The institution, indicated Watson has 18 county unit votes; Dorsey, 110; nith, 34. These figures were based . 3 irty on official returns and partly i unofficial, but served to indicate l increase in Watson's majority. ' %. Figures compiled at the same time J i the gubernatorial race still inicated that a run off would be ' icessary between Hardwick and alker. They gave Hardwick 188; alker f76; Holder, 22. Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 9.?Thomas Watson maintained his majority the contest for the Democratic "jg >mination on the face of incom ete unofficial returns from yeaterIr.l i^s primary, compiled late today ' the Atlanta Journal. , . V.;,M Incomplete returns to the Atlanta institution tonight also indicated atson's majority. ' A run off will be necessary to deie the gubernatorial nomination !' i the face of complete returns Jj; mpiled tonight by The Constitu>n. These gave Former United ates Senator Hardwick 190 coununit votes; Clifford Walker, 178; hn Holder 18. A majority of the ;8 county unit votes is necessary r nomination. . jls The gubernatorial returns were *, mpiled from office counts sent in om all except 20 of the 155 unties in Georgia. The remaining i were from the unofficial counts. Latest figures in the senatorial imary were from The Journal and dicated Watson had 213 county lit votes. Governor Dorsev 87 and w oke Smith, incumbent, 42. These sre based on unofficial reports" om more than two-thirds of the unties. Complete returns partly official irtly from unfficial totals by The j institution tonight on the popular ite in yesterday's primary showed: Senate: Watson 98,475; Dorsey, ),801; Smith, 50,750; Cooper, 842. Governor: Hardwtick, 87,557; ralker 79,879; Holder, 23,673; rown, 2,497. The county unit vote, however, jtermines the result. All reports to The Constitution freed with those of The Journal in dicating that the eight Georgia ngressmen who had opposition id betn nominated. Later returns showed no changes standing of various state officials 3 amplified today by The Journal. i I , O INDICATIONS SO FAR OF A RETURN OF THE FLU Washington, Sept. 9.?There have sen no indications of a return of st year's influenza epidemic this inter, the' public health service an)unced today. Each year, it was id, between November and May, a imber of cases are reported, but :perts of the service do not expect e disease to be as widespread as .1919. COTTON IMPROVES The cotton market today showed irther improvement, October conacts in New York advancing to >.38 at the close, which is about iur cents higher than the lowest, ith this price spot cotton should 11 for 33 1-2 to 34 cents. About eighty women registered Greenwood Wednesday, waiting itil the last day.