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t . . r v < ' Abbeville Press and Banner _ t - Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Tri-Weekly. Abbeville, S. C. Wednesday, October 13, 1920. Single Copies, Five Cents. 77th Year. , , - ? _ : . ? . ' FARMERS FACING | A HEAVY LOSS1 PLAN TO TAKE CASE DIRECTLY TO WHITE HOUSE AND PLACE IT BEFORE PRESIDENT WIL-j SON. DELEGATIONS FROM j *? ? K-I7 CTDftVr. PRO. I SKJKJ 1 rx mnrwL. %j > ?w . .? TEST AGAINST COURSE OF SECRETARY HOUSTON. Washington, Oct. 12.?Steps to appeal directly to President Wilson against the currency deflation poli-j cy of the treasury department on the ground that farmers generally faced heavy losses unless the downward trend of prices of farm products was checked were taken here today by a special meeting of agricultural interests called by the American Cotton association. Senators Overman of North Caro-I v? 1 rionTorin wTift are I una miu ncnno vi 5***^ ...... _ , connected with the movement, called at the White House to prefer a request for thk conference with Mr. Wilson and his cabinet and were told by Secretary Tumulty that they would receive an answer from the pesident tomorrow morning. The senators laid stress upon the necessity of prompt action as the | regular full conference of the feder-j a! reserve board and governors of the various reserve banks also is scheduled for tomorrow. The ques-j tion of interest rates, it was said, j would be considered at tnat cwuexence and the agricultural fepresentatives, gathered here declared they wished to present their views on the whole question of crop financing before action was taken by the fed-1 eral authorities. Speakers at the meeting before adoption of the resolution proposing to take the problem to the president personally, repeatedly denounced the deflation policy of Secretary Houston. Farmers stood to lose billions unless the government acted to! check the fall of prices, they declared, adding that in many cases market prices were now below the actual cost of growing. The result would be greatly decreased production next year, they said, if means to remove the situation was not /found. McSwain Takes Hand. A charge by Farmer Senator Marion Butler of North Carolina that there was a "conspiracy" of officials to force down the price of agricultural products brought a x l x> T?1 T TW^QWroir. ivf prOt-C5L HUH I O \Jilu *J iuvk^n c*iu VA South Carolina. "I can not believe one of them capable of conspiring to rob his fellowman" said Mr. McSwain. "I believe, however, they made an error of judgment. Let's reason with them and see where they have made a mistake." J. J. Brown, agricultural commissioner of Georgia, and Senator E. D. * Smith of South Carolina also protested against a statement by Mr. Butler that the country was about 11 * XT to face a panic as a resuu 01 vne deflation policy, Senator Smith said there was "crisis but no panic." A general committee composed of representatives of each agricultural organization attending was. named to draw up a statement to the public presenting the plight of the growers in a declaration of principles to be adopted by the convention. A resolution calling for the pooling of low grade cotton under a selling commission to handle exports sales went to a special committee on cotton. Senator Smith suggested ?hat the farmers find ous their legal rights under the reserve system and demand them. "If 40. cents cotton is profiteering, if $3 wheat is speculating, who says it is?" he demanded. "Who in America gives any iine the legal right to fix the price of anything." Th^ senator said he did not see any authority in the federal reserve act for contraction of credits. "I don't believe the law gives any vV. N. FOREACRE WAS C FOUND DEAD ON TRAIN Southern Railway Official Died Tues F day in Car at Hendersonville? Acute Indigestion Cause Of His Death. Asheville, N. C., Oct. 12?W. N. Poreacre, vicc- president and genera t! manager of the lines east for the P. Southern railway, was found dead in c his private car at Hendersonville at a 6:50 o'clock this morning by his por- v ter. AcuteN indigestion was assigned A by physicians as the cause. He had p been dead about 2 hours, it is said, a when the porter, who went to his o room on the car to call him. He was t! sitting in a chair in his night clothes with a light burning. s Mr. Foreacre, accompanied by 0. o B. Keister, general superintendent $ and S. J. Mulvaney, division superin- p tendent, was on a tour of inspection S The party arrived in Asheville yester- 1 day and went to Hendersonville and s Brevard, returning to Hendersonville t last night. Mr. Foreacre, who is-1! about 60 years old, retired apparent-J a ly in good health. j h He has been in the employ of the' s Southern Railway since 1887 when he v became a telegraph operator with the c company. He rose rapidly and before a ? i ?. iv. 11 the world war was appointed to tne | position he held at the time of his: n death, headquarters being maintained at Charlotte. ! P A special train has been made up r {lereand the body will be sent to At- * lanta, his native home, for burial. 1! Mr. Foreacre was one of the best s railroad men in this sect'ion, and had s a comprehensive view of things, both 11 big and little, within his jurisdiction. ^ P CAROLINE DeLORNE ? a There is a new young lady at thfe, a 'home of Mr. and Mrs. Sydney.Eason,i c of Wyoming, N. J. The new young! g lady arrived Tuesday, October 12th, j t< irifi oha ic Tarolinp DeLorne Eason. I f H*r mother was before her marriagejt. Miss Caroline Gary,jof Abbeville, thejP youngest daughterN>f Chief Justicel t. and Mrs. Eugene B. Gary. I c ______ _ e administrative officer the right to say what kind of business shall ' I. have ^credit and what shall not," he asserted. Smith and Wannamaker s Declaring that the. New York re- t gional bank had made 200 per cent., Q profit when the law allowed it only 6 per cent., Senator Smith said ^ "they are robbing us in interest to c pay taxes." a "Just let this situation continue," d said the senator, "and let the wheat r t r men, the cotton men and the cattle men say "here is our price." We de- p mand our rights and we will not j loosen up one pound of meat, wheat a or cotton until we get them." t A suggestion by J. S. Wanna- a maker, that a committee be ap- o pointed to work for federal revolv- a ing fund of $1,000,000,000 to be s used for the economic handling and maketing of crops was not acted b upon. s Ben L. March of the Farmer Na- 5 tional council protested aganist the * motion^, saying no one body could a be said to represent all the Ameri- s can farmers. *' Mr. Marsh also opposed a strike ^ of farmers, which he said, was suggested by Senator Smith, adding: "Everybody knows there is no panic. Let us not be Bolsheviks." n- TT7 T f1_M1 J* .! _* 3 jur. w. j. opiuman, iormer cniei of the bureau of farm marketing of the department of agriculture, ^ charged that Secretary Houston and the reserve board were engaged in a n drive to force down the price of wheat. ( "Those gentlemen are using authority placed in their hands for the p purpose of manipulating the market" he asserted. ^ Alfred Tumlin of Cave Springs, Ga., said not a half crop of cotton would be raised in his section next year. "The whole trouble," he said, 'is in Washington. There are night riders in Georgia and day riders in Washington." R :OTTON MEN MEET S IN COURT HOUSE armers, Merchants, Business Men, I and Others Interested in Better Prices for Cotton to Meet Here Saturday Capt. G. N. Nickles, Chairman for his County,.of the branch of the c imerican Cotton Association, has I ailed a meeting for Saturday, 16th 1 t 11 o'clock at the Court House, r ,-hen the plans and purposes of the c imerican Products Export and Im- i ort Association will be outlined, s nd an effort made to get the peoplfe s f this county to take an interest- in s he organization of this association, r Briefly stated, the plan of this asociation as outlined is the formaffon ^ f a cnrmianv with a ranital stock of ^ 10,000,000 for the purpose of dis-, ^ csing of the cotton raised in the i louth? directly to European/buyers, 'he American Cotton Association ha3ls een the economic waste suffered by I he farmers of the South in selling * heir cotton on the" streets to buyers * t the buyers' prices, and then of, I aving it go through the hands of j * everal middle-men, all of wh^mi* .rant a profit, before it gets vto the * onsumers. There is in fact no more,J ntiquated and out-of-date machine: i i existence these days than the leans of getting either raw or manu- t actuued products from the man who I roduces to the man who consumes, t 'he people are finding this out and i he cotton farmers of the South, it s 5 to be hoped, have reached that tate pf mind when they will give I ome attention to matters of business s i connection with the tnarketing of heir crops, , and less to political oppycock^ , It is believed that a company or ' ssociafion such as that proposed, cting as the representative of the otton producers of the South, as a reat selling company, will be* able o'save the expense attendant on the j ormer method of getting cotton to t he manufacturers, thqs helping the \ rice, and that by marketing cotton t hrough an association of this kind a omposed of business men, the cotton ^ an be marketed in a manner and at t imes which will guaranteg us against \ asses which attend sales made at ) ap-hazard as in the past. The association it is believed, once 1 t is started, will eventually be the J elling agent of all the farmers of t he country, and that cotton instead ( { being sold on the streets to buy- * rs who are often indifferent, will < ie sold in large quantities to the onsumers of the cottpn who want it, ' nd on terms which the sellers will * ictate rather than the buyers as at present. '< It is evident that there are great * lossibilities for such a company and j [ is hoped that the people will take 1 n interest in it, at> least to the ex- ^ ent of seeing that business men are 1 t the head of the enterprise and its fficers, and that it do not drift into c political spring board froih which > omebody expects to get into office. 1 One of the things to be done will e the appointment of committees to olicit subscriptions to the capital) tock of this company. In order that! ull committees may be appointed,!1 nd that they may understand the 1 cheme and their duties, Capt. Nick es has already announced their tames, and he urges the following to e here Saturday for this meeting, c s they have been selected for com- * litteemen: 1 Abbeville?J. S. Stark, Jim Gilliam nd C. W. Norris. x ^ue West?-G. N. Nickles, J. R. Vmn. Donalds?L. J. Davis, R. L. Bar-1 riore, J. F. Agnew. 1 Level Land?W. W. Wilson, A. F < 'arwile, J. K. Temple. Antreville?S. ?J. Wakefield, A. M. Irwin. Rice Crowther. Lowndesville?E. W. Harper, J. G. luckabee. W. E. Ellis. Calhoun Falls?Judge Hicks, C. H. faylor, Henry Hester. Cedar Springs?J. B. Gibert, W. 3. McNeill, T. A. Sherard. Long Cane?A. B. Robinson, E. R. liller, John R. Lomax. SYNOD HOLDING ANNUAL SESSION n Bennettsville This Week.?Dr. S. C. Byrd, President of Chicora College is Elected Moderator of Meeting Bennettsville, Oct. 12.?The Synod >f South Carolina met today in the 5resbyterian church here for its ,08th annual session. The retiring , noderator, the Rev. Hugh R. Murhison of Columbia seminary, accordng to custom preached the opening ermon from Galatians 1:11-12. His ubject toas, 'Paul and His Message," ind was presented in a discourse of are clearness and force rising at imes to eloquence. The music was led >y the Columbia* seminary quartet, Messrs. Berryhill, Spencer, Pratt, and tandell. with B. F. Whitner. nresid ng at the organ. At the conclusion of the preaching ervice synod was constituted with >rayer by the moderator. .The synod vas then organizeM for the session by he election of the Rev. S. C. Byrd, ). D., president of Chicora College, or Women, as moderator. The stat:d clerk announced the death during he year of Dr. W. S. Bean, the Rev. r. G. Henderson, the Rev. R. N. Maron and the Rev. James A. Wilson. The Rev. J. R. Bridges, D. D. of he Synod of North Carolina, the lev. Dr. Miley, the Rev. Dr. Adams, he Rev. Alex Martin, D. D? and Dr.: V. E. Spencer, were appointed a! iteering committee for this session." The Rev. Mr. Wilcox, pastor of the Sennettsville church, delivered aj ihort address of welcome. I I \ COURT ADJOURNED TUESDAY I I doming, No ,Caiel Being Ready For Trial.?Only Two Casea Tried Yesterday. t i The Court of Common Pleas adourned Tuesday morning, no cases >eing ready for trial. No jury cases vere tried after those of yesterday xcept two cases of John R. Tolbert 'S. R. A. Vance - of Honea Path, in vhich Mr. Tolbert had judgment for ;he possession of certaiii property valued at about $400. Mr. Tolbert vas represented by J. Moore Mars. In the Hamlin case the court ap)roved a claim in favor of Wade H. iamlin against the estate of his fa her, the late A. B. Hamlin, for $1517 iredring the same paid out of the es;ate. The claim was for money loan;d and for services rendered. In the case of Rebecca Belcher vs. / T. W. McCord the judge gave judgr.ent against Mr. McCord for $100.70 The complaint was for a settlement of i year's farming transaction in which ;he plaintiff claimed Mr. McCord ;ook the crop and refused a division n accordance with the contract. J.| VI. &ickles represented the plaintiff>.nd J. Howard Moore, the defendant.! The court sustained the judgment >f Magistrate Huckabee of Lowndes-j rille in the case of Cooley vs. Dren-j ^an involving the title to a bull calf. H. L. MILLER VISITS FATHER H. LeRoy Miller, Mrs. Miller and heir young son left Abbeville today o spend a few days in Hartsville with tfr. Miller's father, Mr. L. T. Miller. Mr. H. LeRoy Miller holds a re? urifk Mofift iol "Rl'c. ijjuilsluie puaiblvil vyiuii i^uwiy iim :uit Company, at Houston, Texas. His 'riends in Abbeville, will be glad to :now that he has succeeded in his new lome and that he upholds the tradiions of his old county and the repu;ation of his people. HELPS ELECT BISHOP. M*. Wm M Ravntxroll Vin<! returned :romV the meeting of the Diocean! Council of the Episcopal Church held! n Columbia yesterday for the elec;ion of a Bishop Coadjutor for the Diocese of South Carolina. Mr. Barnwell is very greatly jleased at the selection of Rev. rCLrkman G. F. Finlay for this office. Rev. Mr. Finlay is well known in Abjeville, having been here ?b preach n the local Episcopal church on several occasions. His friends in Abjeville, like Mr. Barnewll, believe lis selection a most admirable one. CLEVELAND INDIANS / WIN WORLD SERIES This Speaker is a Bigger Man Today Than President* Wilson-^?His Team Wins Baseball _ Championship \ League Park Cleveland, Oct. 12. * ..The American League pennant winners are the world's champitins of 1920. The defeated the Brooklyns by a score of 3 to 0 today and won the big championship .in baseball. The big pole, Covelskie winning his third game of the series held the Brooklyn helpless. The series ended with five victories for the Clevelands and two for the National league champions. ^Brooklyn 000 000 000-0' Cleveland 000 110 10x-3 . -| League PaTk,Cleveland, Oct. 12. ?On the sunburnt, dusty field of League Park, this afternoon &ie Cleveland Indians closed in with a rush on the hopeless Brooklyn Dodgers for what the Cleveland home folks declare will be the final contest with the National League Champions for the world's series championship. Easily f26,000 cheer- j ing Clevelanders, sensing that the < end of the world's series wafc at ' hand, journeyed out here to watch ] the Indians clash with the Brooklynites, who?e three straight defeats , here have dealt their championship \ aspirations a seeming mortal blow, j John Heydler, president of the < National Leaugue, talked with the I members of tWe Brooklyn club be- 1 fore the: game to smooth down the J ruffled feathers of the Robins. "Just play the game that yQU did 1 in winning the championship," Hey- < aier 101a z>acK wneax, captain 01 tneji Brooklyns. "Remember the strain of ] today's game is on the Indians. Get i the jump on them tpday and then you can go back home and win the 1 series. This is Cleveland's hardest 1 game." 1 'We have the Better team,' said the Cleveland manager, "and I think four straight victories in League Park will prove it to the most biased National League partisan. There was another jam of Clev^lands cheering fans here today to miake a Roman holiday. All seats were taken and there were bids of $50 apiece for grandstand chairs. MISS VICTORIA HOWIE. ' | I Talented Abbeville Girl, Graduate j High School lyzu, Elected President Freshman Class At Agnes Scott. The friends of Miss Victoria Howie of Abbeville, the pretty daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. V. Howie, will be pleased to know that at the -election of officers of the Freshman Class at Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Ga. where Miss Howie is a student this year, she was chosen president of her ( class. Miss Victoria is _a talented musi- ; cian and was an honor graduate of ; ^he high school the past session. She ] is very popular with the students a. ] her college as is attested by her se- lection, for this honor. DEATH OF MISS LIZZIE CANNON ] Another Christian woman passed , from amongst us when Miss Lizzie Cannon was claimed by death Tues- ( day morning, 12th inst. Miss Can , non had been sick for three weeks j her illness being the result of an at- | tack of influenza earlier in the year. , She suffered terribly and when the < ] death messenger came at 3:3.0 Tues- , clay morning, he came as a relief mes- ] senger. . y Miss Cannon was a sister of Mr. H. r? l i~i?cv,q ' oabL'UIHU V^ailJlUU, Ul tllld ^iigr. fcjitv; was 71 years of age at the time of her death. She is survived by her brother and one sister, Mrs. Sarah i< Culbertson, of Laurens, S. C. ! The funeral services were held to < day at 12 o'clock being conducted by ! Rev. C. E. Peele, pastor of the dec eased. Interment was at Gilgal ceme < tery in the Cannon plot. ] OPERA HOUSE IS LEASED FOR 5 YRS. i * ______ -EASE FOR ABBEVILLE OPERA HOUSE GRANTED TO J. A. VERCHOT FOR TERM OF 5 YEARS AT A MONTHLY RENTAL OF $110?PAYS YEAR'S RENT IN ADVANCE?CHIEF OF POLICE MAKES REPORT. ^ * The City Council met last night for ;he regular monthly meeting. Outside of attending to matters of rou;ine, the chief-thing to engage the ittention of 'the members was the easing of the Opera House. Advertisements for the lease of the Opera Souse for a term of five years aroueht three bidders for the lease. Mr. J. A. Verchot put in a bid for ?110.00 per month; Mr. James- A. Hill a bid at $100.00 per month; and Messrs H. L. Paschal and J. W. Mar,in a bid at $77.50 per month. The ^ ease was awarded to Mr. Verchot, he being the highest bidder. In order to show his appreciation ind at the same time help out the ' City Council's "sunken ship" Mr. Verchot immediately paid in a year's rental in advance. The City Council sometime ago increased the rentals of the offices in the Municipal Building to $112.50 , per year each. The offices are all* occupied. But even at this rate and at the new rental for the Opera House the Municipal Building will not be i.1 If Li more man sen-supporting. The new lease of the Opera House will safe-guard the interests of the :ity to a much greater extent than the previous lease. Thgrtf is to be aj provision in the leasts that the city authorities are to ha#e the Opera House twelve nights in the year free of charge for public entertainments, etc., on seven days notice of tfyeir desire to have an entertainment of this kind. This will provide for the school exhibitions, commencements and meetings of this kind. Chief of Police Reports. Chief of Police Jos. L. Johnson submitted his monthly report to the City Council at this meeting. The report was full and indicated that the police force have been on the job. It showed that during the month of September the force made 89 cases for violations of ordinances of the city. In 79 cases there were convictions by the Mayor, and 10 cases were dismissed. The amount of fines collected was $475.50. The following is a statement of the number of cases of the law's infractions: Larceny ?? 1 Disorderly ? ? 21 Disorderly and concealed weapons 1 Gambling ? ? ? --- 16, Violation San. Ord. ? ? ? 13 Keeping Disorderly house ? 1 Visiting same ? ? 1 Cheating and swindling 1 ^ Violation auto, law 19 Reckless driving ? 1 Drunk and disorderly ? 5 Fighting 4 Loafing and loitering ? 1 Violating Hog ord. 1 Reckless riding ? 2 Walnut Street To Front. A TiPtition was presented bv the property owners on Walnut Street requesting that this street be r paved, rhe City Council took the matter unler advisement and will decide the natter later. Walnut street just now s a ditch by which all the water from ;he South side of the .city finds its ,vay to the property of the Ice' Plant. It should either be paved or the iitch should be dug deeper so that the joys may sail boats in it when the .vater is high. THfc tUi lUN MAKML1 Cotton was still far from king tolay. December futures closed about LO points down from yesterday's :lose. The best spot cotton, sold for 23.50 on the local market today. The forecast by the local cotton affice was for better prices in the next few days.