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Abbeville Press and Banner * Established 1844. $2.00 Year. Tri-Weekly Abbeville, S. C., Monday, June 19, 1922. Single Copies, Five Cents. 78th Year. = T f j McC UMBER THREATENS TO SIDETRACK TARIFF? AC T]ION- MAY EMBARRASS PRESIDENT AND PUT SOLI DARITY IN JEOPARDY Washington June 18?If the tariff >ill is sidetracked in favor of the >onus bill Tuesday, according to the >lans of Senator Porter J. McCum >er, the president will suffer the raiharassment of his executive ex stence. The passage of the bonus r-n .'x. ?? v.. j*. ^ 4. Jill, its rejection uy me i?t?iucut ind its passage despite the veto of ;he president will make public a jplit between congress and the exe cutive, which the president knows, vill give reason for additional dis gust to the pepole and provide the )emocnats with another excellent campaign issue. There is no necessity for immedi ate action on the bonus bill which :an not be effective before January L, 1923. But McCumber is apparent y anxious that action be taken at lis instance prior to June 28, the iate of a primary in which hi3 con stituents will pass on his record. The mlk of the Republican membership Would prefer to follow the presi fent; but if McCumber requires them to vote, it is believed that they vill follow McCumber, for many of them, like McCumber, have elec l; j-1- j:_i? [iions in LLieir uisnitw. x uc wi'cauc of McCumber and the president is [io leas strenuous than that of Jacob ind the angel. Acting on instructions from < larding, Senator Lodge, Republi- , ran leader, has called a caucus for , Monday. In the caucus Lodge will ?ndeavor to dissuade McCumber on <( he plea that party solidarity will be < jeopardized. He will promise, it is inderstood, to put the bonus over < after the elections and in plenty of < time for it to be operative the first ; of the year. But after the elections McCumber will probably be a dead cock in the pit. It is kn^wn that he will argue that the party will be more criticized for wiggling and wobbling respecting the bonus than for any action which might re^ilt in an open rupture between the legis- 1 lative and administrative branches. 1 The indications are that the caucus will stand against calling up the bonus and that McCumber will de fine to be bound by that action. 346 AT SUMMER SCHOOL Outlook (or Successful Year at Clem son College. Otemson College, June 18.?The . first week of the Clemson College Summer School ended yesterday, eve rything having started off With prom ise of a successful session. Th e en rollment so far is 346, consisting of 180 teachers, 72 make-up students, 11 entrance students removing condi tions, 8 cotton graders and 75 feder al board students. The work started off promptly on the second day, the first day having been spent in regis tering and getting courses arranged. o-nrrtllmpnt. rnnsistmc of about fifty Smith-Hughes teachers of agriculture, who will come in next week, and about seventy-five club boys, who will come in on July 11, will make the total enrollment for the session approach the 500 mark. BAPTIZE J. ALLEN SMITH 3RD. J. Allen Smith, III, son of Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell Smith, was bap tized at the home of his grand father, Mr. J. Allen Smith, Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock by Dr. F. Y. Pressly of Due West. Mrs. Pressly and James and Stratford Pressly accompanied Dr. Pressly and were present at the baptism, aS were members of the Smith family in Abbeville. Mrs. H. B. Oakley, a sister of Mrs. Smith, of StarkitflJe, Miss., was also present. \ ' HOUSE WILL IN 10 SUBSIDY BILL ATTTFR SENATE HAS DISPOS ED OF TARIFF?COMPRO MISE PLAN SUGGESTED AT WHITE HOUSE AND PRESI DENT DOES NOT OPPOSE IT. Washington, June 18.?Under a compromise plan suggested today to President Harding by house Republican leaders and which, it was said, did not meet his disap proval, the house will take up the ship subsidy bill Immediately after tne senate nas passed xne xarin bill. While the question will be con sidered further 'at a White House conference next week, Chairman Campbell of the rules committee, who outlined the situation to the ' president, declared tonight it "was morally certain no action will be taken on the subsidy bill iby the 1 house until the senate has conclud ed consideration of the tariff." ^Meanwhile party leaders pro fessed to be relieved that a solu- ' tion of an admittedly vexatious ' problem has been reached. It meant, they said, that the presi dent's insistence that the bill be put to a vote prior to adjournment would be met by opposition on the part of some Republicans. ? How long it might be before the senate ended its tariff fight no member of the house* would pre dict Traders declared, however, that if the suggestion laid before the president by Mr. Campbell was definitely accepted the hlrnse about 1 1J 1 J ~ ?a J uiy i vuuiu 14UL cc vuijr cesses to run approximately a month. A quorum would 'be need ed to send the tariff bill to confer ence and with this- out of the way these members believed the ship subsidy bill, once before the house could be passed or defeated within a week. NEWSPAPERS TAKE LEAD In Discussing Her Divorce, Says Mrs. Astor. Paris, June 18.?"I am getting bired of denying and discussing my divorce which has .been taking place in the United States news papers for the past five years. If ] the newspapers are hound to di- i irorce us, let them, "I don't care." This sitatement was authorized today by 'Mrs. Vincent Astor ' through her secretary. She is liv- < ing here in a modest three-story ; private house. Her husband came < especially from the United States j to see her ten days ago and spent two days with her in the house. He then went to England to visit his mother. He was a passenger on the steamer, Mauretania, which sailed from Cherbourg last night. LAURENS VISITORS Mr. and Mrs. Mac Irby, Mrs. Samuel Evans and Miss Rosa Gray of Laurens came over Saturday and visited until Sunday at the home of Judge and Mrs. Frank B. Gary. Hospital Auxiliary Birthday. The Hospital Auxiliary will cele brate its second birthday with appro priate exercises on July the 6th. COTTON MARKET Cotton brought 22 3-4 cents on the local market Monday. Futures closed July 22.76 October 22.70 December , , 22.49 January . 22^34 [Futures closed Saturday July *_ - 22.04 October 22.00 December 21.75 January 21.65 CAVCTBFiCIIQY uniu iiiLnuum PERMISSION BEYOND THREE MILE LIMIT?BELIEVE THAT CONTROVERSY STARTED BY ADOLFHUS BUSCH WILL BE AGITATED FURTHER Washington, June 17.?Sale of liquor on shipping board vessels out side the three mile limit is permis sible under new treasury regula tions issued today, according to P. A. Vise, general counsel for the pro hibition unit. m This interpretation was taken as setting for the time being the con troversy over liquor on govern ment ships precipitated by Adolphus Busch, 3rd, the St. Louis brewer, when he wrote President Harding that the government was engaging in the bootlegging business ;by per mitting sale of alcoholic beverages on shipping board vessels. Solution of the problem, Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel 01 tne Ajrti-Saloon league, declared today lies in "excluding all ships that sell [iquor from American ports." Legislation to this end is being jonsidered, he said, asserting that t>y putting both American and for eign vessels on equal footing with respect to liquor the competitive feature of the question would be Te noved. The new regulations were not drafted with the intention of set ting the question of liquor on ship ping board vessels, Mr. Vise said, ind in fact were written before that luestion arose. As drawn, however, 1a said, they would apply equal to American and foreign ships^K' per-j, nitting intoxicating sea stores with-, n the three mile limit under cus toms regulations which provide , ;hat, while in American pojts, all-; iquors on "board a snip must be , sealed up. I It was freely predicted tonight at prohibition headqarters, however, hat an early opinion would be orthcoming from Attorney General Daugherty definitely ruling on the luestion of liquor on American ships. ARREST NEGRO PREACHER Sheriff McLane lodged George Keller from near Hodges in jail' ;his morning on a charge of disposi ng of property under mortgage. J rhe arrest was made by Deputies r. D. Ferguson and C. B. Prince. j George Keller is a negro and claims to be a preacher. The prop-j ;rty disposed of was under mort gage to J. S. Stark. WORLD'S LAR( One of the main features of th held recently in New York was tl 11 feet 7 inches high, 4 feet 7 ir weigns more tnau i<ju iua. xnc ^ finger, are 7 ft. 10 in. long. Th keys 8 in. long. The Bow is 30 THIN GRAY LINE IN VIRGINIA CITY?CONFEDERATES NOT ALONE AT PFIINION. COM. PAN ION ORGANIZATIONS AL SO TAKING PART. Richmond, Va., June 18.?With the proverbial outstretching of welcom ing arms, Richmond, the center of all that true lovers of the South and the Confederacy hold dear, is ready and eager to play host to the fast dwind ling romnant of the "thin gray line." the vanguard of which descended on the one time capitol of the Confed eracy with the arrival of every train from the furthermost stretches of Dixie tonight. While the lanes leading from the South are lined with the oncoming throng the roads from the West, and North too, are bringing a great gath ering of grizzled Confederate veter ans, their sons and daughters, grand sons and granddaughters, who have strayed far from the shadow of the Southland during the last few dec ades. The reunion of 1922, probably the last that ever will be held in Rich mond, is taking on an unwonted mag nitude because this city was the heart of the Confederacy, the headquarters of its government and the site of familiar spots made famous by Lee and Jackson, Stuart and Davis, which native Richmonder3 pass over with but scant thought, but which are hallowed ground to the Con federate veterans who are coming fired by a return of the old impulses that made their love for the South land and all that it represented so ?reat in 1861. Richmond never has and probably never again will be host to such a gathering as will be within its con fines this week. The city from one end to the other is in gala attire and the holiday spirit is in the air. Broad and Main and other' thoroughfares have been liberally and in some in stances lavishly decorated with the familiar and beloved Stars and Bars, the inspiring starry blue cross on a field of red and the red, white and blue of Old Glory. VISITORS FROM N. C. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Cheatham and Miss Naritta Cheatham are in the city from Charlotte, N. C., to spend until Thursday -with Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Cheatham. Mr. Cheat ham is taking his vacation and they will go from here to Greenwood Thursday to visit Mrs. Cheatham s parents, Mr. and Mrs. ?T. K. Durst. e nation wide music conference 3-J-L- 1 - . - . . -1 T? iff ae worm s largest viuna. m ? tches wide, 13 inches deep and trings, as thick as a man's little ie bridge is 12 in. h'gh and the inches tang. NEW AGREEMENT. I ON SIZE OF ARMY SENATE COMES DOWN AND 1 HOUSE GOES UP?COMPRO MISE C^JLLS FOR ONE HUN OREO AND TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND ENLISTED MEN. Washington, June 15.?House and senate conferees on the army ' appropriation bill reached a com- ? promise late today on an army of c 125,000 enlisted men for the next * 12 months. This represents a re- 1 j j.:? - . o AAn ? a.1 ??? 1 UUCbruix ui o,uv/u i-iuxii wie ocuaw figure and an increase of 10,000 over the size of the army fixed by the house. , Decision as to the conference re port on the enlisted strength leaves only two important sections of the annual supply bill to be con sidered, exclusive of the Muscle Shoals amendment approving $7, 500,000 for the continuation of work on the federal power project in the Tennessee river. It already has been agreed by the conference committee that the question should be submitted direct to the house because of the controversial character of the subject involved, Chairman Wadsworth of the sen ate military committee; said that I Anl tr ! ^ 4<Va /vffl yjiiij i/uc lucdiid ucaiui^ wnu tuo isiu cer strength and the national guard provisions remaining to be determined. \ It was expected that a reduction from the number of officers fixed by the senate would follow the compromise as to enlisted person nel. The house fixed a maximum of 11,000 as.the number of officers while the senate amendment put the officer strength at an average of 12,530 for the coming year. DEATH OF MISS EWIE KLUGH Miss Ewie Klugh died suddenly Saturday June 17, 1922 at 6 p. m. at the home of her sister Mrs. Jen nie Purdy in the 71st year of her age. She had been In frail health jlwi inaiij vuw tt c*o v?y talking when the end came. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. . E. Peele at the resi dence Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock and 'burial was at the old Tabernacle church near Cokesbury. Miss Klugh is survived by one sister, Mrs. Jennie iPurdy, and two brothers, P. Di Klugh of near Hodges and Henry Klugh of Greenwood and a larffe circle of nephews and nieces. Attending the funeral from a distance were, Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Klugh from Hodges, Mr. and Mrs. Henry G. Klugh, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Klugh, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Klugh and Mr. and Mrs. Willis Harley of Greenwood and Mrs. Klugh Purdy of Ridgeland. I DR. THORNTON WHALING. Dr. Thornton Whaling of the Pres byterian Theological Seminary at Louisville, Ky., preached in the Presbyterian church here Sunday, and delivered two excellent sermons, morning and evening service. He was entertained while in Abbeville by Mrs. W. D. Barksdale. C. D. BROWN, Jr., APPOINTED 'C. D. Brown, Jr., has been ap pointed Superintendent of the In surance Department of the Knights of Pythias and will have charge of a state not yet assigned. For the present he will stay in South Caro lina until he becomes thoroughly familiar with the business. MARION McDONALD HURT Marion McDonald had his ankle * i a --li? t>^:i hurt on ttie seatxoara Amine ivau- o road at Elberton this morning and si w&s brought to the Abbeville C County Hospital for treatment. e: JIG CUT ANNOUNCED BY LA BOR (BOARD?CLERKS SIG NALMEN AND STATIONARY niuunui m LAiui AC TION. Chicago, June 17.?Pruning neaaf y $27,000,000 from the annual roll >f 525,000 railway employees !by :utting clerks, signalmen and sta ;ionary firemen from 2 to 6 cents an lour, the United States railroad la )or board today announced another vage slash, bringing total reduc aons undee; the board's orders up to ?135,000,000 beginning July 1. Clerks were cut 3 and 4 cents an lour, according to classification; signalmen 5 cents and firemen 2 :ents. Approximately 1^00,000 railway jmployees will share the total reduc :ion which has 'brought vigorous protest from every union arganiza on involved and is expected to re mit in a strike vote of ten railway abor bodies. The voting already is inder way in seven, unions. A dissenting opinion protesting igainst any reduction was included n the decision. It was signed fry Arthur O. Wharton and Albert Phil ips, both labor members. W. L. Mc Hanimen, the third member, is in ihe east on an investigation trip for he board. Definite recognition of a "living vage" and "saving wage," was nade for the first time by the board nt today's decision. Although ab lormal post war conditions were jointed out a3 obstructions to fixing tny scientific living or saving wage it present, the board declared that is soon as this condition cleared .way it Would "give increased con ideration to all the intricate details ncident to the "scientific adjust ment" of such a wage. The bulk of those hit by the new ut will be 200,000 clerks and 100, 100 station employees. Telephone ;irls, who, the board declared have uffered from improportlonate in reases and decreases, are given a ninimum wage of $85 a month. Signal men helpers suffer a 6 ents slash. Signal foremen, assis ant foremen and inspectors, how ver, escaped a cut. Stationary engineers, firemen and filers, numbering 10,000, were re luced 2 cents an hour. ^ A decision covering 75,000 me rraphers will be issued by tbe ioard later. Dining car employees and the cul nary workers on the ferries in San ^rancisco bay will continue to get heir present pay. Marine workers' wages were un ouched. Figures in the decision showed hat clerks will receive, under the iew scale an average of 58.5 cents .n hour compared with 34.5 cents in JL?/A | ITUVU WiV 5VT tJ.14 nent took over the railroads. The firemen and oilers have re eived an increase from 21.8 cents tour in 1917 to 49.6 cents July 1. GRENDEL SCORES 6 TO 1 In the game of ball Saturday af ernoon at the mill ?all field be ween Grendel No. 2 of Greenwood nd the Abbeville team Grendel ralked away with a 6 to 1 score. Vuman Reames knocked a Babe Lath clearing the fence beautifully rreenwood featured a home-run by forris and the fielding of R. Duck tt. Batteries: Milan, Reames and tob Galloway: Calvert and Morris. ARRIVE AT HOT SPRINGS A card from Mrs. R. N. Tiddy tates they arrived 6afe in Hot prints, Ark., and find the climate imilar to the climate in South arolina. Mr. Tiddy feela very much aeouraged, and all are irell.