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I J Abbeville Press and Banner < Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Tri-Weekly Abbeville, S. C., Friday, July 1, 1921 Single Copies, Five Cents. 77th Year. ML CARIL BANKER 1 ATTEMPTS SUICIDE CASHIER OF BANK O F MT. R CARMEL CONFESSES SHORTAGE OF EIGHT TO NINE THOUSAND DOLLARS AND TAKES NUX VOMICA. \ " Anderson Daily Mail. Charles Brown, cashier of the v Jank at Mt. Cannel, is today in a se- ^ .;ous condition form a dose of. nux vomica which he took yesterday in an effort to end his own life, following his full confession of a shortage 11 at the hank of between $6,000 and t $9,000. a Brown's confession, it was under- t stood, came just before W. Frank d McGee, of Anderson, recently elect- t ed president of the bank and Assist- i ant State Bank Examier Townsend j started an examination of the e bank's affairs. Knowledge that some- r thing was wrong at the bank had t been forwarded Mr. McGee and he g with the assistant bank examiner f went to Mt. Carrmel to begin an in- g vestigation. wnen tms mvestiga- j tion started. Brown made a full con- \ fession to the officers and directors t of the bank. t 'Brown, it is said, offered his prop- v 2 to the bank, and this proposi- i was likely accepted. His indem- p nity bond holds good, and according r to information received here, he " will be given a chance to make up n the deficit. e Physicians are hopeful of bringing p Brown through the illness caused by the poison. Mr. ftfcGee is still in f Mt. Carmel and believes that the n problems of the bank can be worked s out without the bank closing. The n Branch bank at Calhoun Falls is in c fine shape, according to a statement 31 made today. t] Telephone communication with ? MX. uarmei is impossible xoaay, owing to damage to the line, ? and no p report -was learned of Brown's con- v dition. tl ^ n DEATH MRS. GEO. T. W1LSO.N a y Mrs. George T: Wilson died at her ? v v home, 857 Kitson Street, last night ^ at ten o'clock. The funeral service will be conducted at the home at 9:30 o'clock tomorrow morning by Rev. W. H. Murray. Interment will be made at Long Cane cemetery. Mrs. Wilson was 54 years of age. She was a member of the Greenwood Mill Methodist Church. Surviving her are two sisters, Mrs. Lee Scott of Greenwood and Mrs. W ^ J. E. Scott of Abbeville; five broth ers, C. H. Bosdell, Abbeville, J. L?. Bosdell, Greenwood, Willie Bosdell, Laurens, Jim Bosdell, of Augusta and Dave Bosdell of Mississippi.. The following children also survive her. N. E., J. W., A. D., L. D., and L R * Wilson, Miss Grace Wilson and Mrs M L Wright of Greenwood. The * sons and son-in-law will act as pall- . bearers.?Index-Journal. I CELEBRATING e ' \ Ray Gallmon, who is willing to t acknowledge being "born and raised" in NeVberry has, since coming j /v A'Vikovilla Ion-mo/} onniicVi nn+. t.n go tback there for a celebration. a When he celebrates he; does it in : style so he is going io spend the Fourth in Spencer, N. C., which will a make it, indeed Glorious. ? . r NORTH CAROLINA VISITORS r f Mrs. Ernest G. Owens and Marvin Owen, of Salisbury, N. C., are in J the city and will spend a few days with Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Owen on u Magazine street. HOME FOR THE HOLIDAY Misses Hattie and Hannah Roche are expected Saturday night from Columbia and will visit until Tues? I d?.y with home folks. d i < MATES FIRS! BIRTHDAY PARTY dAYOR MARS TO LEAD PARADE, FOLLOWED BY BAND, CAKE AND ALL THINGS THAT GO TO MAKE THE FESTIVAL SPIRIT. Some folks early reach the age rhen their birthdays are passed over -ithout a whisper and with no celeiration or festivity of a public charicter. But the Abbeville County Menorial Hospital has not yet reached he point at which the mention of its ;ge need make it tremble. In fact hU is this lusty infant's first birthlay and it is as proud of itself as are piece de resistance," tne caKe itseii aounted on a great float, with numrous attendants to guard it and oint out its perfection. Then there will be the first aid loat, the float with children and ban ers, the boys' comic band?(It's till a secret as to what variety of i rnsic and instruments they will un- 1 ork)?,the mill float, the Lethe :hool float, the?operatives' float and 1 be usual festive and bedecked rid- < rs on horseback. ' J That's all on the way to the party ! roper. It wouldn't be fair to reiew the whole proceeding before be event is reeled off. Something 1 lust be left topiquethe interest and ' rouse the curiosity of/the behold- 1 rs. ] The parade starts at 6 o'clock, i l/'orirocf)qf afturnnnn anrt nn nrif? nows when it all will end. The program in full follows: Mayor. Moore Mars on horseback.. 1 Abbeville Mill Band. Float?Birthday Cake escorted by utriders. Float?First Aid. Float?Children with Banners. Boys Comic Band. Float?Birthday Greetings from ibbeville Mill. Float?Lethe School. Float?Operative. Horseback Riders. Merchants Advertisements. The parade will form at the Bapist church and will halt on the iquare which will be roped off fhere the Birthday Party will be leld. Take a slice of interest n the party by making a contribuion to the CAKE or the HOSPITAL sOOTH. A souvenir will be given to ach person contributing. Birthday Party on Square from 7 o 8:30 o'clock. Open Air Concert, Abbeville Mill land. Opera House at 8:30?Vaudeville md Pictures. Music?Abbeville Mill Band. Song?Miss Elizabeth Edmunds md Alvin' Ellis. Spanish Dance?Miss Ada Faulkler and Fred Minshall. Dialect Stories and Songs?Dr. takestraw. Latest Song Hits?Eight Young tfen. Whistling?Mr. William Hughes. Picture?Dorothy Gish in "The ihost in the Garret." Admission to Opera House, adults >0 cents; children under 12 years !5 cents. Incised tablets found on Easter sland in the Pacific have never been leciphered. he industrious women wno are gjvng it its first birthday party. It's a rear old next Wednesday, and nevr a Jittering miss of four has had a ' nor/ joyful fete given in its honor han will this young hospital. The freat birthday cake, as is meet and >roper, will be the center of all the gaieties. Mayor Mars will lead the >rocession on a horse, maybe a milkriiite "charger," such as King Arhur rode, (or ought to have ridden o be in character.) Following him rill be the Mill Band, the syncopatng jazzers from jazzville, as their ress agents would probably desiglate them. Then there will be the! DAWES GIVES PLANS FOR ERA OF ECONOMY DIRECTOR OF NEW BUDGET SYSTEM MEETS WITH PRESIDENT, MEMBERS OF HIS CABINET AND OFFICIALS WHO GUIDE EXPENDITURES. Washington, June 30.?President Harding, the cabinet and 600 officials who guide government expenditures met today with Director Dawes of the new budget syfsem to lay what was hailed as the foundation for anew era of economy in federal administration. The president opened the conference with the declaration that "there is not a menace in the world today like growing public Indebtedness and mounting expenditures." He referred to the gatnering as nrst an extraorainay method adopted to meet an emergency, and gave way to Mr. Dawes. The new director promptly jumped off the platform, "to get mentally closer," he said, for his address and he alternately cajoled, threatened and reassured his auditors, addressed the president and admonishedthe cabinet members personally. In concluding he ordered bureau chiefs to their feet, and holding up his hand, recited the following pledge addressed to the president. x "These men, of whom I am Qne, realize the perplexity of your position, realize that the business of the country is prostrate, +hat working men are out of employment, that we are faced with intolerable necessity of reducing expendtiures, and we propose, just as we did for four >-ears ago to win the war, to try to do it. And that's all we can do." The little government auditorium set aside for the gathering was crammedto tis doors and windows sills and sweltering in heat when the secret service men forced through to the stage President Harding's party with Vice Presidet Coolidge, General Pershing and the cabinet. Major generals and rear admirals with their, stiffly uniformed aides sat packed in close ranks among civilans rt J 4- "V* A?n r? A n axiu i/iicxc was, i/uu, a apiiuiwiiig VJL women. President Harding greeted them as "fellow workers," while Director Dawes hailed them indiscrimi nately as "friends" "folks" and "people:" His job was to be the "eyes and ears of the executive, not the finger," he told them, "to get information, from a washerwoman or a vice president," not to "run a detective bureau but make pictures for the president and for congress." "You have a right vo the information/ he said, turning to President Harding, "jiist as the president of a business corporation has the right and needs to use it, for yours is the responsibility." "I have the powers of the president to get he facts," he exclaimed, swinging back to his audience, "and they will be exercised." i FINE MELONS Mr. Joe Link is at the head of the class when it comes to raising watermelons. He has sold to W. D. Barksdale this week three loads of very nne melons lor which he got a gooc price. The melons did much t^o alleviate suffering humanity around town. TELEPHONE OFFICE TO CLOSE The Abbeville Telephone office will be closed on July 4th except from 12 until 2 o'clock. Subscribers will please take note of the hours. The office will open at eight in the evening. ONE OF .THE BIG SIGHTS One of the attractions of the Birthday Party for the Hospital will be Mayor Mars on a prancing norse leading the <biff parade. < BIUON INTEREST SECRETARY MELLON SAYS NO SUGGESTION HAS BEEN MADE THAT UNITED STATES ACCEPT GEMAN REPARATION BONDS FOR DEBTS Washington, Jane 30.?Appioximately one billion dollars interest was owed the United States by European debtor nations up to about May 15, treasury officials told the senate finance committee today in explaining the administration bill to give the secretary of the treasury broad authority in funding the Allied debts. Assistant Secretary Wadsworth placed the amount of interest due at $943,534,70. Secretary Mellon told the committee that no suggestion has been made that the United States accept German reparation bonds as substitutes for the Allied obligations, and declared that the treasury had no intention of inviting any such proposal. Mr. Mellon said the only funding negotiations entered into were with Great Britain and that they had been of a preliminary nature. Questioned specifically as to the provision of the bill authorizing the treasury to accept bonds of any foreign country in lieu of those of the debtor nations, the treasury secretary said he thought "it necessary that the authority be made broad enough to take care of any contingency which m;ght arise. "There is nothing specifically con-j templated along that line," he added i "but it is deemed advisable that the I authority be given." Mr. Mellon described as a remote uggestion "an opinion of Senator Reed, democrat, Missouri, that the bi^l as. drafted, might allow the treasury to accept Italian bonds for the French debt, French bonds for the British debt and so forth. Asked if he would object to elimi-i nation of German bonds as substitute bligations, the secretary reiterated his belief that the authority should broad and unlimited. THE NEW OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS Of the Abbeville County Chamber! Of Commerce For the Year Which Began June the 29th, 1921. The following is a complete list of the officers and directors of the Abbeville County Chamber of Commerce for the new year which began June 2th, 1921: J. D. Fulp, President. ttr n n T7: l ir:A? will. r. urctrne, r iraw * icc-jr icoident. J. M. Nickles, Second Vice-President. Otto Bristow, Treasurer and Secretary of Board. Geo. T. Barnes, Executive Secretary. Directors?C. H. McMurray, J. D Fulp, J. S. Stark, C. E. Williamson, J. S. Cochran, A 0. Roche, L. J. Bristow, J?j M Nickles, A P. Rosenberg, T. G. White, M. B. Reese, Wm. P. Greene, G. A. Neuffer, J Moore Mars. SEEING THE DOCTOR ?? I Dr. J. E. Pressly left this morning for Atlanta where he goes to take his little daughter, Jenrose, to be looked over by physicians. Jenrose has been quite sick for some time and it is hoped that this trip will put her on the road to complete recovery. Miss Sherer accompanied Dr. rressiy. DR. PARKINSON TO PREACH The Rev. G. G. Parkinson, of Due West, will preach at the regular morning services Sunday at the Baptist church. TAFT CONFIRMED ji SUPREME JUDGE NOMINATION APPROVED IN ( EXECUTIVE SESSION?NO ASSURANACE THAT HE WILL ACCEPT PLACE BUT HARDING THINKS HE WILL. Washington, June 30.?The nomination of the former President Wil- ] lam Howard Taft is chief justice i of the United States Supreme Court i was confirmed late Thursday by the i Senate. '1 Mr. Taft's nomination was con- 1 firmed in an executive session of the ! oenaie Demna ciosea aoors, dui it is 1 understood that Senators Borah, Re- 1 publican of Idaho, and Johnson, Re- 1 publican of California, objected to the confirmation and voted' against '1 it.^ ! It became known later that Sena- 5 tors LaFollette, Republican of Wis- 3 consin and Watson, Democrat of Georgia, also voted against the con- -i Srmation. f < The vote was 60 for; four against. J The nomination of Mr. Taft was ; sent to the Senate late Thursday. 1 The appointment of Taft was not J unexpected, as he has been the most 1 prominent candidate for the positi<5n 1 since the death of Chief Justice 1 White six weeks ago, and his friends "I have worked unceasingly in his be- ' half. 1 In making the announcement of j1 Mr. Taft's appdtitotmenf, President 1 Harding explained that he had not intended to make the nomination 1 until the October term of court but had done so only because the attorney general was anxious to have the new chief justice installed and "made a factor" in the reorganization of the court." Mr. Taft himself has not been apprised of the nomination, the President said, and probably would not ie until he read it in the newspa- I pers. President Harding has received no assurances from Mr. Taft that he will accept the post, although ie expressed the belief that he would j do so. . . f WEEK ENDING JUNE 28 BAD ON COTTON ^ . ( Too Much Rain in Texas and Not Enough in East; Boll Weevil Is ^ Doing Damage. r c Washington, June 30.?Summary < of weather and crop condition for j the week ending June 28, 1911. t Temperatures averaged high d&r- j ing the week in the eastern portion t of the belt, but averaged mostly be-! low normal in the western part t where rains were heavy to excessive c in most localities. Generally light to , moderate showers occurred east ofj the Mississippi river where general j good rains are needed in most sections. There was too much rain for cotton in Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, and it was too dry in many eastern districts, especially in Geor- j gia. Cotton made too rank growth in most localities west of the Mississippi iver with no progress in cultivating c in the northwestern part of the belt and fields are generally very grassy. Cotton progress was mostly satisfac- 1 ory in central and northeastern por- * tionsofthe belt but while cotton is ^ V c withstanding the drought well in k Georgia, little or no progress is re- * ported. Weevil activity is increasing 1 t most districts. Weevil are very active in Georgia, notwithstanding the very dry weather there. Corn, meadows and minor crops are progressing satisfactorily in most west 1 Gulf States, but rain is badly needed in much of the southeast. SEEING THE ORIENT Mr. and Mrs. Walter D. Tusten, and little Miss Ann, have a pleasant trip in ptore for they are leaving New York soon for California and will sail from San Francisco for an extended stay in the Orient. ? 10 CUIS POSSIBLE \ IN RAILWAY SATES :hief spokesman for railroads of the country addresses manufacturers CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA. cut in costs. Philadelphia, June 30.?Complete abrogation of the national agreements and reduction of operating coasts, the largest part of which is in the payrolls, must T>e effected ; l aefore railorad rates generally can t>e reduced, E. T. Whiter, chief spokesman for the roads before the United States Railroad Labor Board, told the trades council of the Manufacturers Club here. Wage reductions recently ordered by the federal (board, he said, rewre- , sents but a very meagre part of the actual pay increases granted raiiroad employees since 1914. "That, however, is not the most important factor now," the speaker declared. "The Teal prdblem is that no relief whatsoever can be secured from the intended abrogation of the national agreements until the railroad managers and the men agree upon mutually satisfactory substitutes for them. The relief is entirely problematical. Yet whatever prospect there is of reducing rates genjrally must depend altogether on a reduction of operating costs?and :he largest part of this cost is in the [>ayrolls. The puiblic has been misled into t>elieving, Mr. Whiter asserted, that ;he labor board cancelled the nationil agreements by reducing em>loyees' wages and ordering changes n working condition. Union lead-?rs, he said, do not recognize such ;o be the case and are preparing future campaigns upon the (basis of ;he agreements still (being in force. NAMING OF NEGRO BRINGS ON FIGHT / Washington, June 30?Senator Pat iarrison of Mississippi will challenge he Republicans of the senate to conirm Henry Lincoln Johnson, Georgia legro, appointed by the president to >e register of deeds in the District of Columbia, in open executive session. Senator Harrison has a resolution >ending with an adverse committee eport before the senate providing for pen executive consideration of conirmations and treaties. The senate, t is probable, will reject the resolution. But that will not deter Senator larrison from asking the Republicans o confirm the Georgia negro in the >pen to the end that the people of he country might know what Demo:rats and Republicans think of the ippointment. -IGHTNING FATAL TO GREER NEGRO Greer, June 30.?-Toy Jackson, :olored aged 34 years was instantly cilled by lightning at 3:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon while hoeing :otton on the farm of, Landrum Duncan n$ar Berry's Mill. His body was badly burned and vas taken to the undertaking esta)lishment of J. D. Wood in Greer. VIr. Duncan, who was hoting in the :ame field nearby was severely shocked also. Jackson was a quiet ' " especta'ble negro and lived in Greer. A PAINFUL BURN Miss Nona Barksdale happened to i very painful accident Wednesday vhen her curling tongs slipped and nf.icted a very painful burn on the all of her eye. She has suffered seere pain but it is pleasing to know hat the burn will not be serious. DR. MARTIN AT COKESBURY Tlfv. Jas. I.. Martin, D. D. will v -L ^ Hftvf CiinH_a\r of irvacn ai ^Uiurswuij 1.VAI VWII.V.'U- -v ho usual hour.