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. Abbeville Press and Banner I Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Tri-Weekly Abbeville, S. C., Monday, May 30, 1921. ) Single Copies! Five Cents. 77th YearT :| FAILURE TO REFUTE i SUSTAINS DORSET REMEDIES SUGGESTED BY LEADERS. FIFTY GEORGIANS HAKE STATEMENT POINTING OUT THAT ONLY TWO HUN DRED AND THIRTY-FIVE GASES HAVE* BEEN QUES > T ION ED. 0 Atlanta, May 29.?The claim that Ixovernor uorseya ciuvr^ca ui mistreatment of negroes in Georgia are confirmed by the evidence that 1 , "only two of the cases have been piaikwdy queetipned" ]and denial that ibf committee on race relations is connected with the National As . sociation for the Advancement of Colored People was made in a sign v eft statement by 50 Georgians made < public here tonight. ? f The statement sets forth what the signers oppose in connection /vffoiaa a W1U WHS BUIWV1VU 0"U vuw.B ? series of suggestions for remedies, among them law enforcement, edu cation and publicity. , Referring to the governor's re cent pamphlet, "The Negro In Geor gia," the statement says: "Governor Dorqey has placed be -v\fope us 13^> cases of alleged mis - treatment of negroes called to his4 r' < 'official attention in the last two years. Only two of these cases have been seriously questioned. The ma jority of them are confirmed by let ters from sheriffs, solicitous general, the report of the adjutant general of the state, and by letters from business men and citizens whose standing can not be questioned." Stating that the negro does not and! can not threaten white suprema cy, the statement offers, brief, j . " the following remedies for^he situ-; ation it describes: Education of both races, support . ing and protecting the purity of ' both races. Immediate qgrest of all persons charged with crime, their protection while being held, a speedy and fair trial and suick punishment of those convicted. Separate, but decent, sanitary and adequate accommodations for both races. Removal of causes of friction 'by conferences between representatives of both races. Publicity. In its outline of what the signers oppose, the statement lists: Social equality between the races, politicians seeking office by fanning Tirlwve a 1 nwrl oof iOUC uoviW) vi iiaiiiaio n iivov janiwo acta 'brings condemnations on -Geor ga, murder, peonage, night riders, violation ot contracts by labor or employer and alleged propaganda de signed to inflame racial feeling. The list of signers, headed by Samuel B. Adams, Savannah, includ ed a number of prominent educa tors, preachers and social workers, about half of them from Atlanta and others from various cities and towns of the state. Dr. K. G. Matheson, president of Georgia Tech; Dr. Plato T. Durham, of Emory university; William H. Barrett of Augusta and E. Roger Miller of Macon were on the list. WILL MEET IN LONDON Paris, May 29.?The meeting of < . the league of nations commission to consider amendments ot the conven W . tion covenant of the league which was to have been held in Geneva, has been transferred to London. M. Viviani, the former French premier, will ibe unable to attend the meeting of the commission and his place will be taken by M. Noble maire. OUT AGAIN. Mr. Geo. T. Barnes, Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, is out air*in after several Havs sirlmpss which kept him confined to his room. TARIFF BILL DRAFT HALTED FOR MOMENT j Republican "Members of House Ways And Means Commttee Said to Be Split on Four Important Sched ules, Chemicals, Cotton, Wool and Silk. Washington, May, 29.?Republi can members of the house ways and means committee, preparing a final draft of the general tariff bill, were 1 said tonight to be at odds over four important schedules in the new measure. What was described as an ' open split has occurred in the writ ing of schedules for chemicals, cot- ' ton, wool aj?d silks. Despite the lack of . agreement on these schedules, and the fact that 1 i some | others have passed only the subcommittee stage, Chairman Ford ney held to his prediction of June 10 as the date of introduction. Some - members of the committee declare < the house would not receive the measure jhqrt of June 20. The chemical schedule, it was said, has resulted) in a continuation of the fight originating in the senate against the further use of restric tions other than by tariff rates <on the importations of dyeetuffs. Mr. J Fordney -is .(understood to have an- 1 nounced his vigorous opposition in the committee to any plan savoring of an embargo, although he was willing to allow the application of high rates. Neither the subcommittee nor the full Republican membership has suc ceeded in establishing ibasic rates on the silk schedule, while sectional sriews were said to hare been re flected in the attempt to fix rates on cotton and its products. The New England element in the committee was said to be fighting against the rates on cotton ,products, claiming they were disproportionate to the rates on the raw product. " Subcommittee drafts of the schedules on earthenware, paper; sttri&ries and minerals are under stood to have Ibeen accepted by the majority members of the committee. 1 A formal call for a caucus of 1 house Republicans next Wednesday 1 Tyent out during the day. The con- 1 ference will discuss and attest to * determine a party policy on the reso- ( lution -of Representative Longworth, ( Ohio, which would make tariif ,dptie^ 1 carried by the general bill effective 1 upon the' date of introduction in the 1 house. Representative Young of ? North Dakota, the only Republican { member of the ways and means com mittee to oppose the plan announced ' today he would carry his fight against it to the caucus and de clared he had assurance of strong support. 1 - t BUSINESS PICKS UP 1 Washington. Mav 29.?[Financial ' conditions among the farmers are believed to have improved some what recently and farm credits to . have become easier according to re ports to the federal reserve board from it governor, W. P. Q. Harding who is on a visit to the South and Middle West, studying conditions in the agricultural sections. The recent rise in wheat prices ' was said to have resulted in better conditions, while at the same time price reductions especially in farm implements were beginning to react to the benefit of all farmers. MA J. LONG SUFFERS LOSS Sunday afternoon fire destroyed the new barn , on the plantation of Maj. W. H. Long, on the Cedar Springs road. The barn was erected by Maj. Long last summer at a cost of about fifteen hundred dollars. In addition to the barn, he lost a threshing ma chine and several hundred bushels of ) corn. His whole loss is placed at three ] thousand dollars with no insurance. PEEBLES SICK. Mr. W. L. Peebles is at home sick. 1 He is confined to his bed from the t effects of a serious attack of renal ir colic. The doctors promise that he J will be out in a few days. t PRESBYTERIA ANOTHE At a congregational meeting of the Presbyterian church held yester day, an election was held for the selection of a pastor for the local church! At this election Rev. David Sheffersoin, of Lake Village, Ark., was the choice of the members pres ent, and a call will be extended to him. Rev. Mr. Sheffierson was the choice of a majority of the mem bers on the first ballot, and his se lection was then made unanimous. The new minister is a young man and unmarried, though it is stated he is shortly to remove the last ob jection. His age is 32. He is a na tive of Virginia, but was educated ORGANS OF BODY IN WRONG PLACE Physician* Discover Patient Watt Heart on Right Side and Liver On Left. Spartanburg, May 29.?With hie leart on his right side, his liver <ra lis left side, and various other in ternal organs situated in portions of the anatomy just opposite to those jrdinarily accepetd as the proper lo nation ior such organs, a prominent ritizen of Spartanburg county is causing local physicians and sur geons much thought. The discovery ;hat this citizen possesses an anat >my seldom encountered by men of ihe medical world waia made this veek when he visited the office of a Spartanburg physician for the puT >ose of undergoing examination. The sitizen had experienced much pain n his side and fearing he was about A) be stricken with appendicitis he visited the physician's office. JUDGE BENET RETURNS Jfldge W. G^Befcet who has been n the city with friends since last Wednesday will remain here until iVednesday morning when he will return to Grimshawe, N. C. During V ri\. lis stay here he has met many of his >ld friends and he hopes to meet oth ;rs before his return. During the re nainder of his stay he will be at the e?ence 01 wm. r. vxreene,wnere ilT^ris jfriends are invited to call to >ee him. He will h^ glad to s?e them it anytime. 5ETECTJVES WORK ON < JEWELRY ROBBERIES Columbia, May 27.?The Colum jia detective force is making inves tigations of two recent jewelry rob beries in the city, in one of which L. r. Lester, Jr.^nanage r of five thea tres, lost a diamond stick pan valued it $3,500. The pin had a six caret liamond setting. Other articles of ! 1__ - x_ 1 T - T ? eweiy were uiKen lrurn me xjvbte.r lome. The other robbery in the resi ience section was in the home of Mrs Beulah Bryant, on Senate street. Sere a number of diamonds were ilso taken. DEATH OF WIFE CAUSES ARREST Spartanburg, May 28.?Marion C. Crocker, a farmer of the lower i>art >f the county, was held under the /erdict of a coroner's jury in con lection with the death of his wife, Mrs. Sally iLee Crocker, at a local hospital last night.. The jury arought in a verdict' to the effect ;hat the cause of death was un known, ibut in view of testimony showing that Crocker had struck his wife during a quarrel last Tuesday norning, after which the woman i^ras taken suddenly ill, he was held! sending further investigation. VISITORS SATURDAY. Mrs. Charles Schram and Mrs. T. 3. Watson were in from Sharon Sat lrday shopping and seeing the town, rhey brought along young Nicholas; Schram who saw what they failed [ o see. lNS call R PREACHER at one of the colleges in Arkansas. His theological course was taken at Union Theological Seminary. He has had two charges., and has been pas tor at his present charge for three years. <Be is a b:*other of t>ue Pres byterian pastor at Cheater, and several of the members of that church have heaad him preach. They recommend him very very highly as a preacher and fs a pastor'. It will take so.ne little time to ex tend the formal Gill to Mr. Sheffer son, and he will likely desire to in vestigate the field, so that the Pres byterians will iwrt know for some time whether th<? call will be ac cepted* ELECTRIC SHOCK KIIXS YOUNG MAN t B. L. Galloway Loses Life When Re moving Light !3ulb From Socket In Rock Hill Rock Hill, May 28?B. L. Gallo way was instantly kilted this after noon when a hi?h voltage passed through an electric wire from the socket of which he was removing a light. The accident occurred in tjie dye room of the Carhartt mill, where Galloway^ras employed as a mechan ic, a id was due, it is believed, to the fact that a high power wire ?ell acro:is the feed vrires leading to the mill. Mr. Galloway was standing on a damp concrete floor and fell with out making a sound. He was 31 years of age and is survived by his mother and three brotheis, one, Walter Gal Inwoif' fViie /n+ir fln/1 fwi iwnajr va who v/\v,r | uuu wtt v i in Hamlet. He whs a world war vet eran and a leading member of the lo cfcl military company. Since coming here several years ago he had won many friends, being an upright and highly efficient citiicen. DR. HARVIN HERE. Dr. A. L. Harvin was a visitor to the city Saturday and yesterday. He came down from Washington to accompany his pretty little daughter Frances, who comes to spend a little while with her grandmother and grandfather, Mr., and Mrs. Richard Sondley. Dr. Harvin was looking well and he continues to find favor with the people in Washington, wjiere he is one of the noted men of the coun try in his profession, and the good .wishes of friends in Abbeville con-1 tinue to follow him. much COTTON CLOTH DAMAGED BY FLOOD Lynchburg^ Va., May 28?Many thousands of dollars worth of dam age were done here last r ight by a cloud burst probably the heaviest loser being the local plant of the Consolidated Textile corporation, whose plant was flooded and 600,000 yards of cotton cloth damaged. The city was a heavy loser by street wash outs and several street car lines were tied up during the morning rush hours by washouts and tracks cover ed with mud. Much damage was done to tracking in/and near the city on Creek lowlands. CHIEF JUSTICE HERE \ v Clief Justice Gary came up from Columbia Friday afternoon and spent until this morning with his home people While here the Chief Justice had as his guest his old preceptor and friend, Hon. W. C. Benet. mrs. McMillan hobie Mis. W. L. McMillan who has been at the County Hospital for several days following an operation for ap pendicitis has so far receovered as to be able to return home Friday after noon. Her friends hoDe to see her out soon, well and strong. STRIKE ORDER READY SAYS TEXTILE OFFICIAL Vice President of National Organic zatiori Declares Document Hao Been Drafted by United Textile Workers of America to Affect Mills Throughout South. Charlotte, N. C5., May 29.?A gen eral strike order to affect textile mills throughout the South has al ready been drafted by the officials of the United Textile Workers of Am erica, Thomas P. McMahon, vice president of the national organiza ton said upon his return here today from New York, where he conferred with President John Golden and other officers. Mr. McMahon, however steadfast ly "refused to name even thfe approxi mate date when the strike order will be issued, further than to intimate that it will be in the very near fu ture. The impending strike, it is offi cially stated, will be the result of wage reductions an excess of twen ty-two ?.nd one-half per cent in the textile mills, that scale of reduction having been fixed by the union au thorities as the "dead line." Mr. Mc- 1 Mahon lias been in the South for 1 several weeks, most of the time can vassing the various textile centers and investigating wage reductions. 1 President Golden also spent consid- ; erable time in the South during the * last five or six weeks. Mr. McMahon declared today that reductions have averaged about 1 50 to 55 per cent, and in many cases 1 have been much more drastic. There 1 is "absolutedy no reason for these ' reductions," Mr. McMahon declared, adding that in his investigations he j has gathered data on the cost of pro- 1 duction of vdrious types of goods 1 manufactured in the mills and has < figures to show that the reductions 1 in wage:, were without justification. More than 100,000 mill .opera- : tives in North Carolina .alone will ] be affected iby the strike order, Mr. : McMahon said. Not all of these are : ordered but he expressed absolute confidence that the unorganized workers will walk out with the i; union workers when the order is made effective. 1 COTTON MEN DISCUSS POLICY OF TARIFF Philadelphia, May 28.?The Am erican Cjotton Manufacturers' as sociation at its closing session today adopted a resolution favoring what- j ever tariff policy congress decides upon as essential to the welfare of oom. The value is $250. There is io postmark, and no clue whatever ;o who sent them back, Mr. Robin ion says that whoever the thief was evidently made a haul at more han one place and got some of the ewelry mixed, as the scarf pin re~ urned to him was not the one itolen. Mr. and Mrs. Otis McMillan and Mr. Oscar Cobb came over from jreenwood and spent Sunday w;th Mr. ar.d Mrs. J. M. Gambrell. this country. Resolutions were adopted urging the necessity for a permanent self contained coal tar industry to guard against a possible repetition of the plight in the Am ercan textile industry found itself at the' outbreak of the war. In his annual address President ' Alien F. Johnson said no one antici pated the disturbances experienced during the last year. ? "While all know higher prices could not continue indefinitely," he declared. "It was hoped and rather expected that liquidation would be gradual and extend over a period of , years that the decline when it came would be an orderly retreat and not a rout." STORM AT CLATWORTHY'S The people from the Clatworthy's 7 section of the county report a severe 1 wind and rain storm last Friday eve- - ning. A tenant house on the Hemp- * hill place and a barn were unroofed, i wJ b i*a rt A mat1itt *n arvirtAO UTOrfl CPQT ! f uau a 5VVU iuaiij avgivvu ??viv wv ed almost to the point of death.* ANOTHER PRETTY GIRL Miss Lila Teal, another pretty Lander girl, ,js in the city to spend a few days with her friend Miss Mil dred Cochran. Miss Teal is an ac complished violinist. Our young peo ple are glad to welcome her to the city. Miss Rebecca McQuerns, of near Hodges, is visiting her sister, ?Mrs. Ernest Botts. Ti ML TO J-EAD NATION TODAY IN HONORING MEMORY OF VAL IANT DEAD?ATTENDS SEJU VICE AT CHURCH IN WHICH WASHINGTON WAS ONCE VESTRYMAN. SPEAKS AT UN- /' VEILING OF TABLET Washington, May 29.?Leading the nation in commemoration of its heroic soldier and sailor dead, Pres cient Harding tomorrow will deliver the Memorial day address at the amphitheater of the Arlington Na tional cemetery. .Exercises in Lne national capiwu in honor of the men who followed their country's flag began today, but the formal homage of the states will be paid by the chief executive, him self the son of a veteran of the Unon army, who resumes a custom broken by the war?the annual ad dress of the president of tie United States in the midst of the graves of the nation's dead. Cabinet officers, high government officials and officers of the army - and navy, with the representatives of foreign governments, are to at tend the ceremonies at Arlington, which are to be conducted by the Grand Army of the RepuMic. Prior to the ceremonies, a parade of veter ans and troops of the regular army will pass in review before the White House. Led by Lieut. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, the marching ranks are to (include members of the Grand Army of the Republic, Veter ans of Foreign Wars and the Na tional Disabled Soldiers' league. In remembrance of the men whf> fell in the World war, paper pop pies, patterned after the blood, red flowers of Flanders, have been made for distribution by school children. Besides the official ceremonies at Arlington, the graves of service men in other cemeteries in Wash ington and its environs are to be decorated with fitting exercises by veteran and patriotic organizations. Special services will be held at I > Arlington in memory of the un known dead who fell in France, while tribute wilf be paid the na tion's dead airmen from the banks of the Potomac. Memorial day was described to night by Secretary Denby as "the day of solemn pride." All graves of Ajnerican soldiers and sailors in Europe will be de corated tomorrow with an honor flag and wreath according to advices from Paris, the American Red Cross announced. "Not a grave in France, Belgium, Englamd, Serbia, Czecho slovakia and Spain has been forgot ten, it was stated, and wreaths and flags have been sent to seaport towns where coffins of many soldiers are awaiting transportation. JEWELRY RETURNED AFTER FIVE YEAJIS Package Dropped in Mail Without A?? Mavtra Tn pArtOB ' : ^ ;dJ Who jStole. i -m Anderson, May 29.?A package )f jewelry which was stolen flvfc rears ago has been returned to Mrs. J. L. Robinson through the mail* \cross one end of the package was ;crawled the name Carrie Catts. rhe jewelry was two rings, a pin, ihirt studs and a scarf pin. They I-H'O tol-on frnm a in a