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- ... ' y'rirM Abbeville Press and Banner! - ^ ?! 1S44. $2.00 the Year. Tri-Weekly Abbeville, S. C., Monday, June 6, 1921 Single Copies, Five Cento. 77th Year. g| ADDITIONAL HAMPER I ( PUEBLO FIGHTING GAMELY TO PROVIDE FOOD AND SHELTER RESERVOIR BREAKS AND CAUSES .WATER TO RISE : RAPIDLY IN STREETS IN SEVERAL HOURS. EIGHTY. THREE BODIES REMOVED BY . NOON. Pueblo, Colo., June 5.?Three times during the last 48 hours the waters of the Arkansas river, 0 breaking from their course, have inundated the greater part of this city v with the resultant loss of probably ; not tmore than 250 lives and property damage estimated at $10,000,000 This loss is attributed chiefly to the < first flood of Friday night and Saturday morning. The- second and third floods of this morning and afternoon found little value not already ruined by the waters and were looked upon with concern only because they hindered rescue and reconstruction work. i- First estimates of the dead, based Upon repvrvs nyui ?vt^u v#wn.. . T' peases who told of seeing hundreds og bodies wept through the streets - of the city, are considered greatly exaggerated: While no official count of the fatalities had been attempted it is said the death list probably .. will not exceed 250, if that high. . One hundred bodies have been recovered, but it is feared that when the road and 4e^ris which fills, the streets and buildings in the flooded area, are cleared away more will be found. " Belief work is progressing under the direction of Bed,.Cross officials and. Governor Shoup. The greatest danger at present is from pestilence. Food is being rationed. Those without funds with" tfhich t& pdr^ ch?se provisions ate being cared for by the Red Cross and other agencies. ' To those who have funds, military permits are being issued allowing the holder to buy only a limited amount of food from local stores. -Five hundred persons are in tem> porary hospitals as a direct result of the flood, according to J. E. Moorhead, secretary to the governor. There are cases of chickeapox, typhoid pneumonia, diphtheria and one or two cases of insanity. , The entire city is under martial law and-150 troops are patrolling the city with orders that all persona are to be kept out of the restricted - ' ? 1- -1 A JJP " area ana to snoot 11 necessary. Troops have received orders to prevent all visitors from entering the city. No persons not members of the national guard will be admitted. The Bed Cross today cooked a car load of meat to keep it from spoiling . and this will be distributed to the needy. Governor Shoup returned this afternoon by automobile to Colorado Springs from which place he ex pected to answer the message from President Harding and Senator Nicholson at Washington in regard to the measures needed to help the ' situation. Col. Ptat Hamrock, adjutant general, commanding state troops here, said tonight - it soon would be possible to Ascertain something definite on the disaster. l? isjaopossible to obtain any accurate information on the number of dead or the numbed of-bocfipa recovered, as military headquarters ia without communication with the w east ant? south sections of the city. - When the first report of the new food came this afternoon soldiers conducted a hurried search oi /buildings and in one found a woman standing in water up to her armpits and holding above her head a baby five hours old. The mother and baby were taken to a hospital, where it was said they could not live. On either ride the ruins of principal structures, twisted aud torn by the flood stood in mud and stagnant water. High water marks showed the flood haj! reached nearly to the - i . FLOODS 1 BELIEF WORK, 3 General Sessions Convened Today Summer Term Court of General Se?tiona Convened Today With ^ Judge Frank B. Gary Pre- ' i aiding?Charges Grand ( Jury With Regard to ^ Crime Ware j ' I The Court of General Sessions ^ convened this morning at 10 o'clock , with Judge Frank B. Gary, of the e eighth circuit presiding. v Solicitor Blackwell was present as were Sten- ^ ographer Syfan and the county offi- 1 J A lo??a /irnwH onfVlPTvH in the WCXO? rt V* ?w -? :ourt house when court was called indicating that the crops are not so pressing but that the farmers may turn out to attend court. A number of bills were handed the -frand jury after the charge by the :ourt. Up to noon true bills had been returned in the following: State vs. Wm. Morrison, murder. State vs. T. J. Douthart, carbreaking and larceny. State vs. Ed. McKinney car-break ng ana larceny. q State vs. Hal Morrow, car-breaking and larceny. v ' \ The docket was sounded and#it ap- 1 peared that there were nineteen cases 1 carried over from previous terms, j .Some of these it was found later ( were cases which had since been end. J ed and in some two or more cases the prisoners had not been arrested. j Both sides announced ready for i trial in the case of the State vs. i Charles Manning. Manning is'charged < with homicide, having shot and killed 1 his brother Jim Manning near Lown-,. desville last year. The defendant < olead. self-defense. The case went to 1 trial at 10 o'clock and at 4 o'clock i this afternoon the case was being i argued to the jury. The judge will 1 liKeiy deliver nis cnarge ana turn : the case over to the jury by 5 o'clock. < Just what-other case will be tried I the following Manning case has not ?l been determined. The case of the i State vs. Simpson, charged with mur- 1 der in connection with the killing of i Ernest Cheatham has been set for Wednesday morning. The case of the , State vs. Lawrence Callaham charg- i j withmurder is set for Wednesday < xfternoon. K ? * 1 OUR BIGGEST ADVERTISER ] _____ 1 The Belk-Walkup Company of 1 Greenwood is the largest advertiser s in this issue. The large advertisers j do a large business. More and more t Greenwood merchants are finding space in the Press and Banner worth t purchasing for advertising purposes, s as is attested by the fact that more i and more of the merchants over there < \re advertising with us each week. >1 This means that more and more peo- 1 pie are going to Greenwood to do i their trading. < 1 ANOTHER TYPHOID CASE i i James McComb, thirteen year old j , son of Mr. and Mrs. R. S. McComb < is ill at the residence of his parents 1 on - Cambridge Street, Fort Pickens. < The young man haB been ill for some 1 two weeks and the doctors in charge n believe that he is suffering from an 1 irWeoV t\f limVnU ffia litfclp avMkvn- V* i Miss Mildred only recently recovered i from an attack of this malady. ! ?? , second story. In the union station i ij the high water mark was 14 feet. At 1 the Congress hotel hundreds of per- j sons were fed, coffee being made ] t with lithia water. The eggs ran out j r early this morning and ham and j steak was on the menu. Tonight ] there was chicken, cold roast beef < and ham sandwiches. ; No one has had a bath or a 3have i since the flood. It has been impos- ( aible even to wash one's face and hand? or obtain a change of cloth- ] ing. 1 \ Farm Conditions Get Attention Sill to Abolish Office of Currency iCompitrof l?r?Two Othev Measure*? In Response to Deflation Kicks, Federal Reserve Act Under Fire. \ Washington, June 5.?In efforts ;o find ^a. remedy for present conditions irrthe agricultural 'belts of the :ountry, and possibly to impress their constituencies with an idea of beir constant vigilance, numerous nembers of congress are preparing a amend and thus make perfect the tct which created the federal reserve' fyttem. Representative McFadden of Pennsylvania, chairman of the bankng and,-currency committee of the ioum has a bill under the proviartoins )f which the office of comptroller of ibe eu&rency would be abolished, md that of Tinder-secretary of the treasury created?'die under-secre ? o.inn, ciohnn / kl J w A CVUi C a OMW1J VA y*?|WW?j iischarge the duties nt>w discharged >y the coroptroHer of tike currency ind be a member of the federal reserve board. Senator Capper of Kansas has a >ill under the provision of which the jecretary of commence and the secretary of agriculture would be made nembers of the federal reserve toard. Representatives Steagall of Ala>ama has a bill which would deny 3xe right of the federal reserve joard to enforce He regulations rerardinir the uar clearance of checks >n the part of state or non-member >anks. Practically every member of congress has bills limiting the rate of Interest legally, demanded by banks yt the reserve system, limiting reiiscoimt rates and extending.- the ame of credit. r Dnxring the entire administration }f Woodrow Wilson, the people of he country .as a rule, regarded the, reserve system as the protection of ivage earners and producer against :he millionaire gamblers of Wall street. Practically the sole bitter ypponents of the system were the jankers of Wall street; and the state uanks. which, by the oar clearance rules, -were forced to suffer a loss throughout the union of approximately $50,000,000 per annum. But since the beginning of the depression following rapidly on the leels of the armistice, and the period >f reconstruction, up to the present time, those with opinion adverse to the reserve system have "been legion. Kicks from everywhere have jarred Washington. In response to such ticks various members of congress, is indicated above, have sought to imend the act which created the system. It is the concensus of opinion that ;he great bulk of bills aimed at the system will die aJborning. It is the idea of the conservative element of :ongress ithat the federal reserve t>oard should be permitted to regulate its interest rates, discount rates and length of credit by prevailing jonditions?that the policy should >e elastic, in other words, and not invariable fin the face of changing season and changing' conditions. The aar clearance struggle will be fought sut in the courts of Georgia and in the supreme court. Pending the conjliwfion of the fight, the SteagaH bill will probably remain in the hands of the banking and . currency committee. 1 WINS SCHOLARSHIP Miss Helen iMilford takes hSgh rank among the young ladies of Ab aevuie who are ciiscinguisrung tnemjelves in their college courses. She has finished successfully a year at Radolph-Macon Institute and was awarded a certificate, of merit in all lier studies and at the closing exerrises of the Institute her name was innounced as one who has been awarded a scholarship in the Raniolph-Macon Woman's College. The scholarship was a surprise to Miss Milford and is a source of pleasure to her friends. Nineteen Senators To Assist Farmers Bill by Senator Capper to Add Secretaries of Agriculture and Commerce to Federal Reserve Board Also Indorsed by Southern and Western Combination. Washington, June 4.?Reduction of federal reserve rediscount rates and time extension of loans on agricultural paper were favored at a meeting today of 19 senators of the new agricultural "bloc." A bill by Senator Capper, Republican, Kansas, to add the ^secretaries of agriculture and commerce to the federal reserve board also? was indorsed. Senator Smith, Democrat, South Carolina, was delejfated by the bloc to discuss such legislation with Secretary Mellon and other government officials. The senator has drafted a tentative bill amending the federal reserve act to make the time limit on agricultural loans one year, in lieu of the present six-month's limit, when secured by warehouse receipts. - Senator Smith has discussed with President Harding tie question of reducing the rediscou nt rate on agricultural interests. He (received a letter today from the president in reply to resolutions adopted by the cotton consultation conference in NeW York last month. The conference recommended reduction of the rediscount rate to 5 per cent and also increased credits through the federal reserve system. President Harding, in response to the resolutions, wrote Senator Smith an expression of "apjireciation of the expression made by the confer ence. rne president aaaeu mat "many of the suggestions are receiving the attention of the administration in the most effective way possible." Senator Smith gave out a statement declaring that he had found the president "enthusiastic in his desire to relieve as far ar> possible the present unfortunate and disastrous condition in which the agricultural interests of the coutniry are." "The administrator. seems desirous/ said Senator Smith, "to extend credit to the cotton producers and to open up the farm markets as rapidly and as extensively as possible." v . I % ' ' Every department of the government having to do with finance and commerce that he has Visited he added, are earnestly at work to meet this desperate situation and to relieve it. CJjOCK punching cost RAILWAYS $6,445,658 Washington, June 4.?Provisions of the national agreements placed in effect during government control which required ."the railroads to allow employes one hour extra p?y each week for punching the clock regardless of the numtber of hours actually worked," cost the railroads $6,465,658 during the first six months of last year. E. T. Whitner, of Philadelphia, chairman of the con ference committee of managers, told a senate investigating committee today; An order issued by the director general in July, 1918, guaranteeing to men employed on piece work "the same minimum hourly rate as those of hourly workers, resulted in a decrease .ranging from ten to forty per cent in the output of piece woric men," Mr. Whiter said. A CAMPING TRIP Mis9 Gladys Wilson left Monday for Greensboro, where she mil join a party of friends and enjoy a camping trip in the mountains for a month. SPENDING SUNDAY Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Edmunds and members of their family, went to McCormick Sunday and attended Sunday School, going on after to visit friends in Plum Branch. MORE WITHO THAN D Memorial Service For South's Dead Exercises Held in Arlington CemelerjrV?Missiatippian Pays High * Tribute t* President of Confederate State*. Rep. resentative Lowry is Principal Speaker ' _ 'j Washington, June 5.?Memorial exercises for the South's dead who lie in the Confederate section of Arlington cemetery were held today, special ceremonies 'being held at the tomb of the unknown dead and the tomb of General Joe Wheeler. The "exercises were under the auspices of the Confederate Veterans associations, Sons of- Veterans', Daughter of the Confederacy and Southern . Relief society. Representatives B. G. Lowery of Mississippi was the principal speaker. Hundreds grouped around the stand draped in the stars and stripes and the stars and bars and around the Confederate monument where after the sounding of taps by a bugler, a beautiful piece in the shape of "The Southern Cross" was unveiled. Children of the Confederacy dressed in white passed among the graves placing flowers upon each. Representative Lowery told of the! life of Jefferaon Davis, whom he described as "the lone star of American history." "He has not a nrototvne." Mr. Lowery said. "Pew men could have ntye-t the conditions he had to face and made the record he did. He occupied a place in the United States senate in the most tumultous times that the body has even known; he distinguished himself in the Mexican war and was the greatest secretary of war this country has ever known and the greatest statesman who ever sat in ^ preslident's cabinet." Today was chosen Memorial day because it was the nearest Sunday to the l'13th anniversary of the birth of the president of the Confederacy. DIES TRYING TO KILL PET CAT Philadelphia, June 4.?Frank Soudera, a Pensylvania Railroad engineer, lost his life today attempting; to chloroform an aged pet cat at his j home in Paoli while his family was; away. x The cat scratched and struggled as he tried to hold "a chloroform rag to its nose. Souders fell unconr |Siou9 and died from the fumes. The I cat ran away. I "LUKE McLUKE" DEAD I -Cincinnati, June 4.?James 3. Hastings, ("Luke McLuke") widely known as a newspaper man and humorist, died at midnight at a Cincinnati hospital. He was 53 years of age and is survived by a widow and four children. I . VISITING FOR A WEEK Prof Robert H. Coleman arrived tin Abbeville Saturday and will sj>end a-week here with Mrs. Coletman and the children. Prof. Coleman is traveling this summer in the interest of the College of Charleston, i- }. 1 ' CHEATHAM APPOIHTED R. B. Cheatham has been appointed County Treasurer succeeding the late J. E. Jones, as forecast in our last issue. A representative of the Comptroller General's office will be here tomorrow to check in the new treasurer. COMING TO PREACH Rev. Mr. Shefferson who has re. ceived a call from the Presbyterians in Abbeville, will come here and preach to the congregation Sunday, Tt*nn 1 Qi-h Mr. Shefferson has the acceptance of the call under consideration. UTJOBS 1 URING APRIL J EMPLOYMENT FIGURES AD- j VANCE ONE-HALF OF ONE I PER CENT. DEPARTMENT -OF ' J LABOR MAKES SURVEY? J NUMBER OF CONTRIBUTARY J CAUSES MENTIONED IN 1 STATEMENT. SOME IMPROVE- . I MENT. * 1 Washington, June 5.?Uriempioy- J ment increased approximately tae- || half of 1 per cent, during May, according to a statement made public today by the department of labor j based upon reports from 1,428 firms employing each -501 or Door* persons in 65 principal industrial ,-M centers of the country. The same { firm:, the statement said, employed . || 1,573,528 workers in May against 1,580,749* in April. The number of employed in to- j if bacco manufacture decreased 5.5 per cent, in May, while lumber and. ? its manufacturers fell off 2.9 per j| cent. The miiriber of workers in thp v.'Jl iron and steel industry decreased 2.5 t| per cent, food and kindred products 7 pet cent., metal and metal pro- , '-;fM ducts .004 per cent., chemicals .1 ' per cent, and miscellaneous grouped together 4.9 per cent. . S| Increases in the number of em- \s|| ployees were showed in railroad and repair shops amounting to 8.4 per cent, in leather 4.3 per cent vehicles for land transportation 3.8 per cent., textile 2.7 per cent., stone clay and glass k per cent,, liquors ana ?ever- : j ages 1.9 per cent., and paper print- ? mg .4 per cent. , ; I Cities reporting employment decreases iij May were: Chicago, 2.9 ! per cent.; Boston 3.2 per cent.; ^ijaj Portland, Ore., 26.4 per cent.; New -. Haven, 15.9 per cent; Memphis, M 15.6 per cent.; Peoria, 111., 11.$ per "" ceyt.; Perth Amboy, N. J., 10.9 per ^ cent.; Louisville,. 9.5 per cent.; Patterson, N. J., 8.1 per cent.; Buffalo, . l ' t.9 pear cent.; Cincinnati, 7.2 per -h cent.; Birmingham, 5.4 per cei&; New ' Orleans, 5.0 per cent., -and -| Richmond, Va., 2.9 per cent. Increases in the number employed were shown in New York, amounting to 3 per cent.; Philadelphia, 1.5 > ^ per cent.; Detroit, 13:3 per cent.; Bayonne, N. J.; 12.9 per cent.; ? Seattle, 9.8 per cent; Flint, Mich., 8.3 per certt,; Chattanooga, 7.4 per cent.; Grand Rapids, 7.3 per cent.; . J Atlanta, 6.1 per cent.; Indianapolis, ^1 per cent^ Unsatisfactory transportation con- ^ ditions, continued depression in steel and iron, dulless of the foreign trade markets, high cost of construction and general apathy of the buy- m , ing public, the department said in its - >i statement, contributed to the decrease in employment. , A GOOD WORKER Si Miss Victoria Howie h^s been of. L*ered and has accepted the position -vj >f Community Worker at the Abbeville Cotton Mills,for the summer months while Mrs. Shelley is away. 17 The selection is a fine one. Miss Victoria Howie is one of the really talented young ladies, of the city. She has already shown an interest in the work in the mill village, and the peole down that way will welcome her ' . \ppointment. Miss Howie's popularty is attested by the fact that she ,-as elected president of the Freshen Class at Agnes Scott her first ear there out of a class numbering '63. Not only was she a popular student, but she was a faithful and successful one as well. All of this loans that she will succeed in her w work. The Abbeville Cotton Mill imunity is fortunate to be able to ecure her services during Mrs. Shelby's vacation. ?4 \ CLEMSON BOYS. * The young men who are attending Clemson College are at home for the 'lolidays and are getting into every :ny clothes for the summer.