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Established 1844. $2.00 Year. Tri-Weekly Abbeville, S. C., Friday, March 3, 1922 Single Copies, Five Cents. 78th Year. FIE DEFICIENCY TvAVY MAY HAVE TO TIE UP SHIPS?SUM INCLUDED IN RE PORT OF HOUSE APPROPRIA TIONS COMMITTEE FALLS FAR N SHORT. Washington, March 2.?Necessity f tying up every ship in the navy *AT lack of fuel to permit operation faced the navy department as an im mediate possibility tonight due to ac tiMi of the house appropriations com mittee in reporting out today a de |, ficiency item of $6,200,000 for naval f*el to be used during the remainder of" the fiscal year. The sum is'about o*e-half of the original deficiency es timate submitted by the department. ^ As drawn by the committee the bill d?es not provide for an additional ap propriation but merely authorized the . department to spend what it might be able to take from other current appropriations for fuel up to the limit set. Naval officials are known to regard tie situation as serious, although Secretary Denby refused tonight to authorize any comment on the action of the committee. There were indi-1 cations, however, that </rders must j forward to all parts of the navy al-! most immediately under which no! siiip .would be permitted to operate ! UBder steam for the remainder of the fiscal year, unless administration of-j ficials were successful in including! congress to make more liberal fuel. prevision. While the navy department has; authority under existing law to cre-l ate deficiencies !as an emergency mat- i ter, it is known that the policy of the j administration is against that prac-j ice and that Secretary Denby pro-! 3i?sed to keep expenditures of his j department within limits of appro-! priations if it is possible to do so. In presenting: the fuel deficiency! situation to the subcommittee on | .naval appropriations, Secretary Den-1 by. pointed out that the original es-1 rimates for the current year were| $37,000,000, which was ultimately reduced by the department to $30, > 000,000 and cut by congress to $17, 500,000. Of that sum only $14,000, 000 was available for fleet fuel, and j .Mr. Denby explained that should] vevery ship now 'in commission re-1 main at anchor throughout th^e year, the total fuel bill to keep them under necessary steam in port would a mount to $12,850,000, which would ]eave the navy only $1,150,000 for operations'under way as against $18 500,000 requested for the 192& - Steps taken to save fuel last year included cancellation of combined fleet maneuvers, abandonment of the regular full power trials conducted aAnually for all ships as a test of eitgineering personnel and engines aftd the cancellation of all maneuvers ?)>erations except during target prae tftc. ' Destroyers on both c*asts are now reduced tq a maximum of eight hours steaming per month t# save fuel and <^tprt&l ships oi Dotn neeis to a max iiftum of five days' steaming per ax o nth. To keep within the deficiency limit indicated by the appropriations committee today, however, it is said, to be obvious that even these steam ing allowances must be suspended and every ship from battleships and destroyers to naval transports and tugs be kept idle at anchor at the dock with only sufficient steam in their boilers to provide fire protec tion, lights, heating and other vital necessities of ship life. Training the aavy for service can not be conduct ed under such circumstances, officers declared, and the department is un derstood to be awaiting the final ac tion of congress on the fuel defici ency with great anxiety. Morris Meschine of Lowndesville ^ was a business visitor in the city yes terday. 1 r ' - . v. NEW BONUS PLAN GIVEN THOUGHT CASH FEATURE MAY "BE CHANG ED?EFFORT BEING MADE TO WORK OUT SCHEME PROVID ING ISSUANCE OF CERTIFIC ATES?COMMITTEE AT WORK / Washington, Mar. 2.?Elimination i of the cash feature of the soldiers' bonus bill, but .under a plan which would enable former service men to obtain funds from banks on adjusted service certificates immediately after they were issued is under considera tion by majority members of the I house ways and means committee as a possible solution of the bonus prob lem. This would' make unneessary any heavy draft on the federal treasury during the next two years while the refunding of the $6,500,000,000 short dated debt is in progress and, it was said, would remove the funda mental cause ,of the differences in congress and between the administra tion and congress oyer the bonus question. The task of working out the plan w^s assigned today to a special sub committee which was appointed by what was described as "unanimous consent" after the majority mem bers had failed to agree on any meth ed of financing the cash payment. Committee members said it was not ^proposed to change the vocation al bill. Some of them thought, how ever, that the certificate feature would be so attractive that a great majority of the men would elect that option of the bill. Under the plan now contemplated the face value of the adjusted service certificate would be equal to the sum of the adjusted service pay of the veteran ($1 a day for domestic ser vice and $1.25 a da? for foreign ser vice less the $60 bonus paid at the time of discharge) increased by 40 per cent, plus interest thereon for 20 years at the rate of 4% per cent, a year, compounded annually. The to tal face value thus would be approxi mately 3.38 times the amount of cash that a veteran lyould have re ceived under the cash feature. Immediately after the certificate was received the service man could obtain from a bank an amount equal to 60 per cent, of the total of the adjusted service pay. If at the expir ation of three years the sum thus obtained plus interest had not been paid by the service men the bank could make demand on the federal treasury for the amount due. The government thus would take over and carry tne loan. ft C. HAMER TALKS R. . Hamer, one of the organiz ers of the South Carolina Cotton Growers Association, spoke to a small audience of farmers and busi ness men of Abbeville yesterday in the court house. Mr. Hamer is a farmer, merchant and banker and a very interesting talker. He explain ed in detail th? purpose of the or? jgani^ation . and answered many questions asiud him by thjse pres ent He eocpressed a desire to hav^ Mr. Sapiro, the organizer of the California Fruit Growers Associa tion, come to Abbeville to make a talk provided sufficient enthusiasm is shown. DEATH OF MR. DICKSON Chas. J. Dickson , of Calhoun Falls died at his home on Wednesday night and was buried Thursday afternoon at the Hester burial ground after a short funeral service at the residence fnnHiift.pd hv Rev. G. M. Telford oi Abbeville. M^. Dickson was about fifty years of age and is survived by a widow three sons and two daughters. On< son, J. T. Dickson resides at home; one at Hester with his uncle and one at St. Augustine, Fla. One daughtei Mrs. Greene resides in Atlanta anc Mrs. DuPont at Houston, Texasv J LLOYD GEORGE MAY QUIT OFFICE ? / HINTS HAVE BEEN CURRENT i IN POLITICAL CIRCLES IN LONDON FOR . SOME TIME. NO PUBLIC THREAT TO RE SIGN YET MADE London, Mar. 1.?Premier Lloyd George has thus far made no public threat to resign, but be has don? so definitely to Austen Qhamfberlain and other Unionist leaders. His ac tion is in the nature of a protest against the tactics that have been employed to undermine his power i in the coalition and in parliament. If the prime minister presents his resignation, it will merely be a per sonal resignation, and not the resignation of the government. The prime minister's threat of resignation has been the political sensation of the day. Hints of Lloyd George's' resignatin have been cur rent ever since Sir George Young er, head of the Conservative party organization, engineered a revolt on som? 50 "die hard" Tories against the premier during the latter's ab sence at the Cannes meeting. On? outcome of the revolt was a practical split in the coalition, and public abandonment of the socalled coupon system under which candidates, whether Conservative or Liberal, entered the electoral con j tests under a united banner. The attitude of the "die hards" is that they decline to recognize Lloyd George's leadership unless they are allowed to dictate the policy of u _i..j? | tneir cuaiiLiua, wmuii wuuiu muuuc restoration of the legislative veto to the house of. lords and a protective tariff. The prime minister is said to hav? threatened to resign when he returned from Cannes, but was dis suaded "by Austen Chamberlain. (Since then disintegration in the coalition has proceeded rapidly, a large body of the Conservatives showing a disposition to support the revolting element. At the same time, recent bye-elections, in which th? government candidates were de feated, tended to show that the country was completely out of sympathy with the coalition, while the Labr party and the Asquithian Liberals, who opposed the coalition, a^e constantly gaining strength. LEGION MEETING " i Committee Appointed to Secure Club Room. At the meeting last evening of the American Legion, plane were gotte# under way to secure a suitable club room for the Abbeville post. The members also discussed and agreed to support and promote the Ada Jones show which will be in Abbe ville on the night of March 14. A very favorable contract has been signed and the proceeds of the en tertainment will be used to furnish the proposed club room. Various ad vertising schemes were discussed and a. committee, consisting of John Lo max, G. A~ Neuffer, and D. H. Sul livan, to be known as the barrage throwers, was appointed to put them I . # into execution. The committee on club room is i * ',3 "i * \C J. - . cpmposed of "Wallace Harris, G. A. Neuffer and Arthur Rosenberg. This committee is as instructed to have a definite proposition to submit next Thursday night, which is the next , meeting date. G. C. Swetenburg, W. T/-.ol QmifVi TJVnnV McNeill were i appointed by. Commander Cheatham ^ to assist Mr. Verchot in handling va rious details in connection with the . Ada Jones show. Miss May Robertson was prevailed upon to accept the /chairmanship of a committee of wom en to aid the Legion in putting the [ show over. AT THE A. R. P. CHURCH President R. C. Grier of Erskine I College will preach in the A. R. P. church Sunday morning. I . . i Ill LI THE I. C. C. TO MAKE RATES WHICH WILL ALLOW RAIL ROADS REASONABLE RE TURN ON VALUE OF PROPER TY. ^ Washington, March 1.?Two im portant changes in government poli cy towards the nation's railroads became effective today. The section of the transportation act fixing six per cent as the return on railroad properties which rail roads are entitled to earn under in terstate commerceCommission, regu lations expired toaay. Also with to day there expired the period during which railroads which wer? control led 'by the government during the war are entitled to ask government loans to aid them in continuing op erations after return to private management. The six per cent return clause, generally called the "guarantee pro vision," Is superceded today by the transportation act provisions which j hereafter require the interstate commerce commission to make rates that will give railroads a "reason able return on the value of property used in transportation." The com mission is expected therefore to de fin? for itself what earnings consti tute reasonable return and to . make rates accordingly. The subject of the definition of^ reasonable return has already been taken up formally by the commission for the purpose of securing arguments from rail roads and interested parties to pro ceed (before it in relation to' rate regulation. Applications from roads desiring the loans have be^n pouring in on the commission jn considerable numbers during the last few days, in the endeavor to get in before the limitation begun. Among roads asking for monetary aid today were the Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis which sought $1,000,000 for new equipment and repairs, and the Memphis, Dallas and Gulf whi^h asked $246,782, half of which is to be used for new equipment and the balance for improvement to its line. There are also in the files of the commission, it is understood, a number of applications which will be *iade public after being record ed. COURT ADJOURNS to p< N Ward Thompson Found Guilty. Get* 40 Years The jury charged with the trial of the case of The State against Ward Thompson, indicted for as sault with intent to ravish, was ont when our Wednesday's issue came from the press. The aigumente in the case were finished Tuesday af ternoon, and Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock Judge Wilson delivered his charge to the jury. Considera tion of the case began at 10 o'clock, or shortly afterwards. After the jury retired no word came from it until the verdict was announced Thursday morning. The on embers of the jury were in con tinuous deliberation for a period " * ' A? 1 V - n aiooui twenty uvura. irvwiug uw come from the jury directly but it is generally believed that the whole debate was over the question of a recommendation to mercy in the case. To have found the defendant guilty without such recommendation would have meant death by electro cution, while the recommendation to mercy saved the life of the de fendant Thursday morning at about 6:30 the jury notified the sheriff that an agreement had been reached in the case, and as soon as possible the Judge convened the court to hear the verdict. When the verdict carry ing the recommendation to mercy had been read and the jury dis charged, Judge Wilson immediately sentenced the defendant to hard labor in the penitentiaiy for a peri OUR-POWER PACIFIC PACT IS BROUGHT UP?BIITTERLY FOUGHT DEBATE EXPECTED. NO AMENDMENTS OR RESER VATIONS TO TREATY Washington, Mar. 2.?Taking its rst ratification roH call on the s^ es of international covenants ne jtiated during the arms conference le senate today ratified without iservation or amendments the eaty .with Japan confirming Amer an cable and radio rights on the land of Yap, the final vote, 67 to 2, representing a maigi^ of seven the necesary I two-third3. The 2 Democrats present divided, 13 ? ratification and ' 19 against, hile only three Republicans voted i the negative. As soon as the result had been > inounced the four power Pacific eaty, the pivotal agreement of the :ms conference series, was brought jfore the senate for action. The rolonged and bitterly fought de ite which is expected to precede a )te on it will begin tomorrow. Ratification of the Yap treaty >llowed an all day battle over re lations and amendments during hich dissatisfied senators on the emooratic side joined by a few lepu'blicans sought unsuccessfully > attach qualifications to the rati :ation resolution. A half dozen roposals all presented by Demo ats were voted down successively j overwhelming majorities. Leaders of the various senate ements disagreed as to the signi ;apce of- today's action with re ird to the four power and > other eatiee awaiting senate .action. The inuinistration managers declared, iat on subsequent ratification roll ills they expected to lose very few : ,the votes they commanded to ly, while the "irreconcilables" pre cted that at least seven and prob )ly more who voted for the Yap eaty or were absent ^rould vote jainst the four power pact. By a vote of 2.9 to 54 the senate ijected an amendment by Senator ittman (Democrat) o ? Nevada op o si nig that the United States lould be "'exclusive judge" of hether the radio service maintains /. Japan on Yap island is adequate, he amendment would have applied - /vP irr^Q^-V whlVll ' a UlVTlOAUil V/A W**C ? jrmrts establishment of an Ameri in wireless iplant on the island not ily in the case an "efficient" ser ce is not provided by Japan. iFjour v Republicans, (Senator orah of Idaho, France of Mary ,nd, Johnson of California, and orris of Nebraska, voted for the mendment, and five Democrats, ' J \ enators Underwood of Alabama, ial of South Carolina, Myers of [ontana, Pomerene of - Ohio, and Williams of Mississippi voted gainst it. TATE HOME DEMONSTRATION AGENT rkJotixa VinfliTAn ffam eaquartere at Wirtthrop College, nd .Hiss Bessie Harper, District f?ent, arrived in Abbeville today > assist Mrs. R. T. Gibbons, Home 'emonstration Agent, outline the ears work. i of forty year3. The Sheriff had ie prisoner taken to Columbia on le morning train and has begun is term of service. No appeal will e taken. T-T Will anrf .T Mnore. [ars represented the defendant by ppointment of the court and per jrmed the disagreeable duties hich fell to them with fidelity and sal. They were thanked by the aurt for their services. J. M. ricklos, Esq., assisted the Solicitor 1 the presentation of the case for le state. i' UU II FORMER CABINET MElBBR LEAVES NEW YORK,?WELL * / - ; </< fr MP f sji - ' f > nr~'K3 > . <-a3 \ v >3 ' H A vl - M KNOWN MAN FEELS URGE TO ANSWER "CALL ?>F THE - J; $ WEST v New York, March 2.?.William G. McAdoo, secretary of tike tre&s- - ury under President Wilson, an- - > nounced tonight, that he aoon will ; leave New York, his home sinca*' 1892, and fettle in Los Angeles, Cal. With Mrs.^MoAdoo ha will leave - ? for the Pacific coast on Friday. His, son, Francis H. McAdoo, will sue ceed him as a memfber of the New ' ^ York firm of McAdoo, Cotton & - '" < Franklin, of which he was senior member. .,?^1 Asked whether he meant to re tire from the practice of law, Mr. vs McAdoo said: "No, sir; I intend my new life to be the beginning of greater activity -v *. than ever before." Replying to further questions he flouted the suggestion that he mighf, be -going West to .become head of any part of the fiovie industry, or ^ that he was making a political ' '1% '..'1 ... ; "I'm simply going to Los Angeles to make my home (because Mrs. Mc- \ Adoo and I like the climate and the \ country," he said. "I expect to hang out my shingle and practice law, just as I have been ' "v doing since Heft my office at Wash ington." :i? It is in answer to the "call of the wild" that he will go West, Mf. Mc- * Adoo confessed?"the great .open - spaces where one can ride and climb and swim whenever the heart de? 1/ sires?and still keep on with the > business of life. - - * j "My work in connection with,the^ Hudson tunnel followed by six strenuous years in the United | States treasury, with the additional \ . ;$jj burden of being director general of / rM raikads, sapped my vitality. When I left {he treasury Mrs McAdoo and' 0 I took a three weeks' vacation In the West and my vitality returned. v j Ever since then I have wanted to make my home there. "I want to feel a 'broncho be- . U tween my knees again and go *ex- ,'r> plorijig' in the mountains. I believe ' with Admiral Grayson, Mr. son's physician, that the outside of a horse is good for the inside of a $ man.' " iMr. McAdoo became boyishly en- , > thusiastic about his prospective . "good times" in the West. He re called a rondero at Pendleton, Ote., where one of the bucking bronchos was named "Bill McAdoo" in his honor. ( "I told them that if any cowboy ever subdued that broncho they'd have to change his name. . But the last I heard from Pendleton 'BilL McAdoo' was still unbroken. The fonner secretary then sprang from his desk to demon* strate to the reporters just how a steer is overtaken, caught and thrown the famous Western sport of "bull dogging." , , TO MEET MARCH 8 Homo Demonstration dobs Called To Meet in Court Hoaie Mrs. R. T. Gibbons, County Home iffont inwi fa a oil the officers of the Home Demonstfa - f tion clubs to me?et in her office at the court house Wednesday, March 8, 1922. The purpose of this meet ing is to discuss (Cooperative -Mar Kenng. Lome ana lee tnis meeting ibe a success. AT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Dr. J. B. Greene, former pastor at Greenwood but now of Columbia, will preach in. the Presbyteriam church Sunday morning and even ing.