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Abbeville Press and Ban nef I . .. . . - : .." .vy Established 1844. $2.00 Year. Tri-Weekly Abbeville, S. C., Wednesday, January ll, 1922 Single Copies, Five Cents. 78th tear; *| * ' " L " " ' ' u * -" ' ' * ' ' ' " " -y'sA AGREES TO SEND REPRESEN. 1 TAT1VE TO ECONOMIC CON. FiERENEC IN GENOA?BE GIN DISCUSSION TODAY OF REPARATIONS QUESTION . Cannes, Jan. 10.?Soviet Russia has accepted the invitation to at. * tend the coming economic confer, b ence at Genoa. A teJgram from For. eagn Minister Chitcherin announc. (~ ing the soviet acceptance was re. v ^ _ * ceiVed here this evening. The subcommittee which will met tomorrow to framq the text of the invitation for the meeting at Geinoa was confronted tonight by the nice diplomatic question of whether it should send out an invi. tation to a country which already ,has signified its intention to be . present. Simultaneously with the making public of Russia's intention to have representation at Genoa, it became known that the German delegation headed by 'Dr. Walter Rathenau, will arrive in Cannes Wednesday to discuss the question of repara tion with the supreme council. The reparation experts and com mittee dealing with the proposed in. ternational financial corporation to day ontlined their program, which comprises a vast effort for Euro, pean reconstruction. The repara_ tion experts decided that Germany should he asked to pay 720,000,000 goid marks in 1922 and at least an equal sum annually afterwards. i. 21 t_ MUCH jaymenis 11 is cuirsrueieu hiu be sufficient to meet the interest on a series of German 'bonds of 20,. 000,000,000 gold marks, which thus will .become negotiable. / The economic commission decided upon an international corporation with a capital of 2,000,000 pounds with its seat in London and with a board of directors nominated by af filiated companies in each interest ed country. These countries, in cluding the Ubited States, will or ganize corporations for promotion only, with a combined capital equivalent] to 20,000,000 pounds. These corporaitions will serve as mediums for credit transactions and facilitating the activities, of private enterprises in all countries where the business field now is obstructed by lack of credit and disorganized finances. This plan presupposes the /v# o Tin 4-n/J AAvnnoniar ui axuaiau^u wviuyaiiicv in Germany as well as in the Uni. ted States. HOTEL WILL BE SOLD Finch Again To Go On Block in Spartanburg. Spartanburg, Jan. 10.?S. T. Lanham, master in equity, has ad_ vexTtised the Finch hotel for sale again, ealee day in February. The hotel was sold sales day in January Mrs. W. T. Finch being the purchas er at $266,000. All bidders were re quired to put up a forfeit of $8,_ 000. This Mrs. Finch will lose unless 1 some arrangements can be made for them to stop the sale. It it said that Mrs. Finch has sufficient backing to stop the sale yet, and that the hotel ,?:n .r,, *vin ut vpcncu iui txaiu; 111 a j.cw we-eks. OFF TO COLUMBIA Lawmakers Met in Columbia Yester day at Noon ^ Senator J. Howard Moore left to day for Columbia to represent this county in the general assembly which convened Tuesday. T. A. Putnam, member of the lower house left Mon day. Hubert Cox, the other repre sentative, is already in Columbia, where he has resided since his mar riage. Senator Moore was not able te attend the opening session Tues day because of the illness of Mrs. h Moore. fl "ARIFF WANTED ON EGGS FROM CHINA?HARTSVILLE MAN IS ONE OF TRIO OPPOSING DUTY AS URGED BY OPPOSITION. VEGETABLE OIL FIGHT. Washington, Jan. 10.?Protection or the poultry industry was urged tefore the senate finance committee oday by B. F. Kaupp of the North Carolina department of agriculture trho protested especially against free rozen eggs from Chinii He said he ranted a tariff that would "bridge he difference in the cost of produc ion here and in China." Rates suggested by the witness irere eight cents a dozen on shell ggs, eight cents a pound on frozen ggs, 24 cents a pound on dried eggs, our cents a pound on live poultry nd five cents a pound on dressed oultry. ^ An import tax of four cents a ound on peanuts, both shelled and ,1 the shell, was requested by John I. Pinner, of Suffolk, Va., who said here werfe large importations from !hina and that there should be an qualizing of production costs in the Inited States and China. American production alone this ear, the witness said, has been suf i we in he: to wil tut dri his foi up; saj the the cient to supply all the demand in (lis country. Prices now are so low, Ir. Pinner added, that the raisers re in a bad way financially. A duty of 25 per cent, ad valorem n naval stores?rosin and turpen ine?and synthetic camphor was rged by Robert Ash of this city, of ounsel for the Turpentine and Ros i Produecrs' association in a brief led with the committee. Mr. Ash said that whereas the Unit d States produced approximately 85 er cent, of world's production of orpentine and rosin before the war, t now produced only 62 per cent, 'he remaining 38 per cent., he added > "supplied by the rapidfy increasing reduction of France, Mexico, India, Ipain, Italy and other countries." POISONED AT SACRAMENT fen Men Drink Wood Stain For Wine Grand Rapids, Hich., Jan. 10.? ."'en men, nine of them deacons and lders, poisoned yesterday by wood tain served by mistake for sacra, nental wine during communion ervices of the Seventh Reformed hurch here, were pronoainced out ?f danger today. Sjoerd Rolkersma vas the only on? seriously affected >y the stain, but his condition was Te'atly improved today. The sacramental wine was kept n a clqset under the choir loft. A ug of wood stain used in repairs to he closet and one of the elders >reparing tho communion acciden. ally put the stain in the com_ nunion cup. COTTON GINNED :igures to January 1 Show Crop Is Three Million Short. Washington, Jan. 10,-?Cotton gin ed prior to January 1 amounted to ,884,272 running bales, including 23,320 round bales, counted as half ales; 30,093 bales of American Igyptian, and 3,106 bales* of Sea Is and. To January 1, last year, 11, >54,648 bales were ginned, including 02,127 round bales; 64,262 bales of American-Egyptian and 1,449 of Sea sland. South Carolina ginned Y'/u, >58 bales. f / OPENS NEW SHOP IrifBn Nickels Locates in Old Edi son Parlor Griffin Nickels, who recently re_ urned from Columbia to operate he Clinkscales shoe shop on TrinL y street, has "bought equipment of lis own and has opened a shop in he old Edison Parlor, next to the Cerr Purnrtare Compauy* MUM MAY SOLVE SECRETS )PES TO AID WEATHER PRE- , DICTIONS?DISCOVERER OF SOUTH POLE ABOUT TO MAKE GREAT EFFORT AT NORTH. FOR YEAR IN ADVANCE \ New York, Jan. 10.?Within four ars Capt. Roald Amundsen, Arctic venturer and discoverer of the uth Pole, expects to return to civ lation from the North Pole in pos ?ion of the knowledge and power it will enable scientists to predict ather conditions for a year or more advance. Captain Amundsen, who arrived re tonight from Seattle, is en route Washington, where he will discliB8 th directors of the Carnegie insti ;e details of his renewed attempt to ft across the top of the world in i iee-boujld craft. VfiJh him he will take instruments , a super-scientific study of the per air reaches of polar regions, he rs he will attempt to work out the sory of Prof. Vilhelm Bjerknes of s University of Christiania, Nor y, that the weather conditions at , ! North Pole govern the weather the remainder of the earth's sur :e and that an intimate knowledge viAwfll will l/IIt: Ittl UlCOV IIUJL UI nwuvuv* W.... ible scientists tp determine for a it or more in advance a more or 3 exact chart of weather conditions the remainder of the world. If s is accomplished he said, it will >ve an inestimable boon to the rld's crop growers. REELECT OLD OFFICERS nks Hold Stockholders Mooting* Yesterday Stockholders of the" Planters, rmers and National banks held setings yesterday and today, re nting officers and directors in ch case. The Farmers Bank directors re nted are: J. F. Barnwell, F. E. irrison. C. C. Gambrell, J. F inkscales, P. B. Speed, C. D. own and W. H. White. The old icers will serve another year: F. Harrison, president, t" a speea :e president, J C Thomson, cashier d G C , Sweten'burg, assistant shier. The Planters Bank stockholders sleeted L. C. Parker, W. H. White D. Kerr, J. S. 3ark, J L McMillan, A. Gilliam, H A Benton and Otto istow directors. The executive icers also were reelected: J. S. ark, prsident; L. C. Parker, vice, esident; Otto Briatow, cashier; ,y Gallman, assisant cashier. Directors of the National bank of Seville are J. Allen Smith, Sr, * M Rftmwplil. Lawis Perrin. A. Smith and J. #S. Morse. The dir_ tors chose the following officers, of them reelected: J. Allen idth, president; W. M. Barnwell, :e president; Lewis Perrin, shier and Neil Swetenburg, as_ tant cashier. HIGH PRICE FOR LAND storic Plantation Sold In Spar_ tanbprg. Spartanburg, Jan. 10.?One of i most historic places in Spar, aburg county, known as the Bobo i ice, the home of H. S. Lipscomib, Id under bankruptcy proceedings s afternoon, was purchased by S. T. D. Lancaster of Pauline r $12,000. Additional land sold ought more than $24,000 averag. I something over $150 per acre. nneiiee Road Bring* $1,500,000 Nashville, Twin. Jan. 10.?C. H. >vey assistant manager of the idhville Industrial Corporation lay purchased the Tennessee Cen. U railroad at the upset price of ,60*,*00. CONTINUANCE UK MADE FOR CORBETT SLAYER OF THREE AGAIN IN COURT?JUDGE HAS NO RE. SPECT FOR OFFICER WHC RUN AWAY TO PROTEC1 PRISONERS. Orangoboirg, J?j. 10.?Motjoi for continuance of the trial of Car. los Corbett, charged with the mur. der of,Hugh Faijaing, was made when the case -was called her? todaj and after hearing argument, Judge Prince announced he would make his decision. tomorrow morning Corbett was indicted on charges oi killing three men and blinding c fourth in March! 192&. and at his first trial was acquitted of the mur. cfer of BryaA Salley. When called tc trial, charged with the murder oi Julian Cooper, has counsel entered a plea of former jeopardy, which ii pending in the United States sup. reme^ court At the opening of hi* trial today on a charge of the mur. der of the thind of ithe trio, Cor. bett's counsel moved that the case be continued until the supreme court decides the appeal in the Cooper case which, It was indicated a*j?o would be made in this case. The three men, who, were killed, and Jonas Salley, who lost his eye. sight, were passing Corbett's home in the western part of Orangeburg county and he opened fire on them in the belief thait they had set fire tc a pile of ibrush in his front yard with intent to destroy the place, it was contended in the earlier hear ings. There ;had -been previous trouble between Corbett and the four men, it was also declared. REFUSED MILLION Now Garland Decide* He WoaU ' Like To Hare it Middleiboro, Mass., Jan. 10.? Gharles Garland wiho fourteen months ago refused one million dol. lars from the estate of his father the late James A. Garland, of Bos. ton, on the ground that it would be inconsistent with his views re. garding property, today confirmed a report that he had had a change of mind and that he would accepl the legacy. Hamilton Garland, his youngei brother, has also reconsidered hii determination to reject nine iegacj and will accept it, according tc James Garland, the oldest of th( three brothers. Charles Garland said he stil thought the property system agains1 which he revoJted a year ago, was wrong but he had come to the con. elusion that he ought not continu< to refuse the money and allow it tc li^ idle. He believed it 6hould # ib< put in circulation. HOWD HE DO IT? Has Bottle of liquor 150 Yeari Old Wilson, N. C., Jan. 10.?Henry E Thompson of Stantoniburg, neai here, ilays claim to'having one, oJ choicest hottlee of moonjJiine liquoi in the world. Mr. Thompson is the pro<ud possessor of one quart oi apple brandy distilled in Jb-'dgecomc county, North Carolina, in th? sum. mer of 1770. The whiskey has been in the Thompson and Snuggs fami_ lies more than 150 years, Mr, Thompson having had the brandy more than 50 years. Pittsburgh ha$ a $250,000 Blaze Pittsburgh, Pa., Jan. 10.?Fire which swept the Eichbaum building in the Fifth avenue district toda$ caused damage estimated at $250,. 000. For two hours after the fire. men responed to a general alarm they were unable to enter the build, ing but the flames were finally brought under control by water poured from the tops of adjoining structures. [ EXPECTED THAT COMPLETE . TEXT WILL BE READY FOR I PUBLICATION JLATE THIS WEEK?FINAL QUESTION UP. Washington, Jan. 10.?Only de_ tails of technical phraseology re main to be worked out before the ; treaty for limitation of armanent is ; ready for signature by the pleni potentiaries of fte five great pow_ , ers. ' ' j Passing today on its last question i of policy, the armament committee of the Washington conferences de_ cided aaginst any present attempt to limit or regulate aerial warfarey < tfA+A/l +A I^A A aim Tugcu bu iww utu jnwicui rw a continuing commission fof future I study. * Then each of the five delega. , tions, meeting separately, (began an ; 1 examination of the tentative treaty ' draft prepared by the subcommit tee of experts. The delegation heads , ! are to come together late tomorrow < ! to compare opinions and it is ex. . ! pected that the complete text will . ' be ready for publication to the world at a plenary session of the ' conference on Thursday or Friday. Questions of definition, particu. * lariy with referece to the status of - * merchant vessels in war time, are , 1 understood to be the chief concern 1 of the delegates in their efforts to i ' agree on a wording acceptable to . ' every one. Some features of the j merchant ship prdbsbly already 1 have been cleared away, however, and there is no indication that aj' prolonged discussion will result. "With the armament end of the conference approaching final dis position the delegates are preparing to press the Far Eastern discussions also (to an early conclusion. The Shantung question still is in doubt, ibut fresh hope for a settlement "was aroused tonight when it became ap_ parent that the negotiations on that subject were turning into new channels. The other remaining ele_ ments of discord in the Far East are not generally considered ' of a character to lend to extended de bate. n AFTER DENBY Says He Violated Game Laws Of Virginia Richmond, Va., Jan. 10.?A com munication has been addressed to Secretary of the Navy Derrby by the Virginia State Commissioner of Game and Fisheries asking the Sec retary to explain "why he hunted in Virginia without a license." T'Vio onmmimAflf.inn WAS Sprit tO r ! Mr. Denby !by M. D. Hart, secre_ tary of the State Department of game and fisheries. Accompanying it was a clipping from a newspaper under a Fredericksburg, Va., daw 1 line, declaring that Secretary Den_ ( by "enoyed a successful hunt at ] Point Farm;- in Stafford County, i . nar Fredericksburg; that the caibi. . net officer was accompanied by , , Colonel Cutts and Major Kings. ( bury and "took back to Washington , . a fine lot of quail and duck, some ( of them for President Harding." CONDITION OF BANKS Some Facts A? Taken From Re_ cent Statements A study of the figures given In the statements called for up tp De_ comber 31st shows that nine banks in Abbeville county have corrtbined resources of $2,237,030.54 and that their loans and discounts amount to $1,572,641.73. The money credited to the savings de partments was $340;957j91 while deposits subject, to checks were $795,563.84. Bills payable amount. $79^553.84. , Bills payable amounted to $278,770.89, and overdrafts were $15,024.25. . - - . . V4 ,, ? ARTHUR GRIFFITH NOMINATED TO BE CHIEF EXECUTIVE TO ' > FORM PROVISIONAL GOVERN MENT UNDER TERMS OF THE V RECENT TREATY ' *;&2s Dublin, Jan. 10.?Arthur Griffith was placed in nomination this after noon in the Dail Eireann for the of fice of chie? executive, to form a pro visional government for Ireland, Mi chael Collins placed Griffith in nomi nation and the motion was seconded < by John McKeown. The motion to reelect Earn on de Valera president of the Irish repub- * lie was defeated in the D?il Eireann . today by 8 vote of 58 to 60. As sopn. as the Dail Eireann was V*. convened this morning Eamon .de Valera arose And nlaced hk rentnu fcion as president of the Irish' repub lic formally before the house. Michael Collins, one of the leaders in support of the Irish treaty which \ / was ratified Saturday : over llr. de Valera's opposition ?aid that so one in the Dail wished to be put in the' position of opposing President de Valera. ' He pointed out that the Dail was now faced with the problem of tak ing over the government from the British and he suggested the forma tion of a committee, whose membesr vould be chosen from both sides of the controversy, to keep the peace. Work and not talk waS now required, le added.' v , Mrs. Thomas J. Clarke, moved the reelection of Mr. de Valera tm presi* lent of the republic. Liam .Mellowes seconded the motion. Arthur Griffith, speaking after Col lins had concluded said the question af the treaty had been constitution ally settled and that there was noth ing to prevent its terms being ear ried out. Dublin, Jan. 10.-i-Arthur Griffith was elected president of the Dail. Eireann today. Eamon de Valera and his follow ers walked out while the vote was being taken, in protest against the nomination of Griffith. Speaker Mac- * Neill put the motion for Griffith's . V -A election and he was ' unanimously chosen. ' ( Griffith moved the appointment of the following: Minister of finance, 'Michael Col lins. Foreign affairs, George Gavan Duffy. Home ^affairs, Eamon J. Duggan. Local government, Wm. T. Cos Ejrave. r -MS Economic affairs, Bryan O'Higgins. Defense, Richard Mulcahy. BUYS SHOE SHOP Experienced Men Come From Corn* merce, Ga. W. E. Thompson of Commerce, Ga., and his brother, W. A. Thomp- - have bought the shoe shop on Trinity Street from Ray Clinkscales and will continue to operate the place at the ' same stand. The shop has been op ?rated recently by Griffin Nickles, who it is understood, will open an other shop in town. The Thompsons have moved into .he house recently occupied by L. Peinstein. RUMOR INCORRECT No License Charged Wood Sellers From Country A rumor that city council had passed an ordinance requiring a li cense of wood sellers and people who nell country nroduee from wagons on the street, is incorrect, according to Mayor Man. No such odrnance has even been eonshleitod hp says, and the farmer may con. tinue to sell as he always has. First Christmas pantomime was produced in London in 1702.