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Abbeville Press and Banner Abbeville^ S. C.. Friday, June 23, 1922 Single Copies, Five Cents. 78th Yey. ..'A IIANY DEAD IN LLINOIS STRIKE WAR :ath list may exceed forty? outsiders who attempted to assist the wvuim/xii/ ?u. i DRAWN GUNS H err in, June 22.?The death 1 m the disaster last night and lay when 5,000 striking miners acked the Lester Strip mine be operated under guard of im rted workers, may run past the ty mark, it was saia umig-m, ujr ise in touch with the situation, hough thus far only twenty en positively are known to be id. n the iHerrin hospital are eight traded men, only one a miner, I six of them are believed to be ally injured. There were nine, one died. Vbout twenty imported workers misaing. Checking the death list hasi >ved almost impossible., me ;ims all (but three of them wrted workers, so far as known, e found scattered over an area hin several miles of the mine, le were lynched, some were ned when the mine was fired, ers were beaten to death and majority fell before the scores bullets noured into them. 'Bloody fWiilliamson" Oounty, illed because of several riots, ight was outwardly calm, but re was a noticeable undercur t which kept everybody on e, and wondering if further ible might ibe expected, 'he correspondent talked with es of miners today and about of them were certain that ^? ? ??? ? JioawIai* I *e wvuiu ue nv i tu. mci uuviuvi I here was no attempt to reopen mines, while the other half said r were afraid some of the men ht not be held back. Officially, situation was reported tonight county officials to t>e quiet. cenes of death today were very ;sorae, as in a real war. Bodies i many limbs shot away, lay lg the roadside or were strung n trees. Men wounded and dy were stretched out on roads in fields with nor.e of the hun 1s of passersby able to lend a ring hand. Attempts to assist wounded in the early part of day brought rebuffs from the rtators, backed in some cases by vn guns. ; is understood that there will no attempt to reopen any of mines until the strike is settled, hundreds of men, women and iren, some as young as four s, surged through the morgue ,y to view the bodies, which lay Kv on the floor with no lprt to straighten them out. of them bore no identification All were mangled. IGHTED FOOT BUT FREE MIND Irs. C. P. Townsend of Bennetts is in the city to see her son, C. 'ownsend, Jr., who had an ankle en in a fall from an electric light when he came in contact with re wire while doing some repair i about a week ago. Mr. Town is still at the Hospital but is oviag and will have a weight ?d on his foot today. He has in ed u radio outfit in his room at Hospital much to the delight of other patients and the nurses, says he is taking life easy. N. T. A. PUTMAN IN TOWN >n. T. A. Putman of Due West in town Thursday. Mr. Putman the race for re-election to the |e of Representatives and is the candidate announced in the axd Banner so far. He was lag bands with his friends. WANTS FACTS TOLD BEFORE COn DEMANDS PROBE INTO OFFICE j OF ALIEN PROPERTY CUSTO DIAN?POINTS TO HUGE SUM SAID TO HAVE BEEN PAID "CONSPICUOUS PATRIOTS" | Washington, (June 22.?Demand for a Congressional investigation of the office of alien property cus todian was made in the House to night by Representative Woodruff* i Republican, Michigan, who charged that the aggregate value of the pro perties held by the custodian, as shown by his latest report, was "near ly a quarter of a billion dollars less than we might reasonably expect to find there." Mr. Woodruff estimated that the earnings returned by the seized prop erties during the past four years a mounted to $100,000,000 which, add ed to the value of enemy property, would make a total of $800,000,000 to be accounted for, as against $575 000,000 given in Custodian Miller's report. Only an impartial investigation, the [Michigan |Representative (Declared, would disclose how much "of this shrinkage is due to depreciation, thru maladministration, how much to sale of properties below their reasonable value, how much to practical gifts to officials, friends and favorites of the custodian's office." Mr. Woodruff introduced a resolu Jimi on inv??t:icrj?.'Hr>n Heclarinc that charges of maladministration discrimination between alien enemies and American citizens whose prop erty was seized, and payment of ex cessive fees to. attorneys "have been so frequent as to create a condition which cannot be ignored without grave injury to the good name of our country. " Rvaminatinns nf the reDOrt re cently submitted to Congress by Cus todian Miller would show, said Mr. Woodruff, that five of the most con spicuous of the patriots".serving with th custodian department received but the insignificant sum of $697, 000 for their prodigious labors. ENTERS HOME SECOND TIME Sam Wallcer, Convict, Breaks Into R R. Tolbert'* Home Again. Sam Walker, a negro tried in Ab beville about a year ago and sen tenced to the chain gang for break ing into the residence of R. R. Tol bert and stealing $75.05 from his pants pocket, escaped from the Ellis juamp near amixns ^russ ivuitus (Tuesday. Sheriff McLane was out with a posse searching for the negro Wednesday night and was being as sisted by the Tolbert boys. R. R. Tolbert is absent from home and his son, Walter Tolbert return ed home about 1 o'clock, entered his fathers bed-room and found Walker hiding behind the door. The Tolbert home is twelve miles from the Ellis i camp and it is thought the negro broke in the second time in search of money to make his escape. Walker was brought to the Abbe ville jail and will be returned to the chain gang to finish his sentence. At the expiration he will be tried a sec ond time for breaking into the Tol bert home. DEATH OF MRS. A. E. MORRIS Mrs. A. E. Morris of Atlanta, Ga., died at Mount Airy Thursday, June 22, 1922, and was .buried in Atlanta today. Mrs. Morris was 91 yaars old and was the daughter of M. 0. McCaslan of this county. She is the mother of Rev. S. L. Morris of Atlanta and R. F. Morris of Texas and a cousin of Mrs. B. S. Barnwell and P. H. Mc aslan of this city. J. M. Gambrell h^ Returned from Richmond, Va.f where he attended the reunion of the Confederate vet erans. CHOSEN PRESIDENT OF COTTON SEED CRUSHERS?RUSSELL ACREE OF DARLINGTON SUC rrrnc nr x> ?uccr a c error TT . U. TT? J I /\0 ObV(\l>' TARY AND TREASURER. > ' Asheville, N. C., June 22.?K. W. Marett of Westminster was chosen president of the South Carolina Cot ton Seed Crushers' association before adjournment of the annual conven tion here today. Mr. Marett succeeds C. C. Fishburne of Columbia. Other officers were elected as follows: Al bert Jordan of Hartsville, vice presi dent, and Russell Acree of Darling ton, secretary and treasurer. Mr. Acree succeeds W. B. West of Col umbia, who resigned to become busi ness manager of Coker college, Harts vine. Asneviue may again De select ed as the place of meeting for 1923. The association is made up of repre sentatives of 75 cottonseed oil mills in South Carolina. Featuring today's session at the convention was the address of A. F. Lever, former representative and former member of the farm loan board and now president of the First Carolina Joint Stock Land Bank of Columbia. D. W. Daniel, professor of English at Clemson college, was also heard at this morning's session. The 17th annual convention of the association was opened yester day morning with C. C. Fishburne of Columbia, president of the associa tion, presiding. Mayor Gallatin Rob erts welcomed the South Carolin ians to Asheville, urging them to make the city their permanent meet ing place. K. W. Marett of West minster, the vice president and now the president of the association, re sponded to the address of welcome. President Fishbourne made his an nual report, after which an address by A. C. Kahn, president of the In terstate Uotton iteea urusners as sociation, on "Trade Associations," was heard. Bright Williamson of Dar lington was unable to be present and his interesting paper on "Experi ments With the Close Spacing of Cotton" was read to the convention. LEAVE FOR CAMP JOCASSEE. Misses Gladys and Mildred Wilson left today for Camp Jocassee near SonofQ Mies fJInrlvs was in charge of twenty members of the Sunshine Club from the Abbeville Mill. They will be joined in Whitmire by Miss Mary Grace Wilson with twenty girls from the Whitmire club and will spend about ten days at this camp. HOW BIG Naturalist, Ansel F. Hall, of pared this section of a giant Se storm in 1919. to show visitors which is fourteen feet in diame a youngster, as compared to 40C Grizzly Giaant, the largest tree the Naturalist's forefinger and t! man long life to compare with 1 FIELDflAHL I!!! KILLED JUST OUTSIDE OF HIS HOME AF TER MAKING SPEECH TODAY. WAS MILITARY ADVISER TO I1ISTFR r.nVPRlMMFMT siNr.E LAST FEBRUARY. London,, June 22.?Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson was shot and killed outside his home on Eton Square, London, this afternoon. Two assailants of the field mar shal were arrested. The field marshal delivered a speech at the Liverpool street sta tion in the city this morning in con nection with the unveiling of a war memorial. Apparently he had just re turned home when the tragedy oc curred. A few months ago Field Marshal Wilson accepted an appointment as military adviser to the Ulster gov ernment and made frequent visits to Ulster. He spent most of his time in London, however, attending the house of commons. The Central News account of the tragedy says Field Marshal Wilson was stepping from his automobile a few minutes after 3 o'clock this af ternoon when two men suddenly ap peared and opened fire upon him with revolvers. He was struck by three shots, the account adds, and died al most immediately. Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson was formerly chief of the im perial general staff of the British army. He retired from this post ear ly in the present year and stood for the imperial parliament as Unionist candidate for North Down, Ireland. He was elected member for this Ul ster district oil Feb. 21 and shortly afterwards was appointed Dy rrem ier Craig as Ulster's prime agent for the restoration of order. The field marshal went to Belfast from England early in March with plans for restoring order which he submitted to the premier. Field Marshal Wilson's career in the great war was one of high dis tinction. [GEORGIA SHERIFF EXPECTED Willie Sims, a negro, is held in the county jail for the authorities of Washington, Ga., where he is wanted on a charge of disposing of goods under mortgage. Sheriff G. M. Walton, of Washington, is ex pected here today to take him back to Georgia. . IS A TREE? Yosemite National Park, has pre iquoia, which was felled by a how old trees are. This tree, J 3 S - 1 J ter at tne Dase, is yyo years oiu, 10 years, the estimated age of the in Yosemite. The space between humb measures the span of a hu the span of the tree's life. PART OF NORTHERN FORCES IN I MUTINY?REBELLIOUS SOLD IERS REPORTED MARCHING BACK NORTHWARD FROM KI ANGFU AFTER SETTING FIRES Shanghai, June 22.?Between 10, 000 and 15,000 northern forces sent i against Sun Yat Sen's army in Kiang ! si, burned portions of Kiangfu and < other nearby cities and killed thous- 1 ands of the residents, according to unconfirmed but apparently authori- 1 tative reports irom various sources at^Hankow and Nanchang. The troops were under command of Gen. Tsai Chen Hsun, military commander of , Peking. The rebellious soldiers are report ed marching back northward and nearing Changshu Ki, a city about 100 miles north of Kiangfu and 50 miles north of Nanchang. A dispatch from Hankow says the British gunboat Cockchafer is speed inor 11 n Hi a TTon river fftWoril Man. chang to bring out the foreign resi dents;. The American gunboat Mono cracy is coaling at Kiukiang and will proceed to Nanchang as soon as pos sible. The American gunboats Isabel and Suiros and the British gunboats Bee and Foxglove are held in readi ness at Kiukiang to rush to the dis turbed area if necessary to protect nationals. rru. i:.i i. Lie sikuauuu at* v^antuu ao quiet but ominous. Messages from adher ents of Sun Yat Sen's southern gov ernment at Canton and Hong Kong 1 said Sun has ordered his main force in Kiangsi to abandon the expedi tion against the north and return to Canton. Sun, Wu Ting Fang and oth er leaden of the Canton government are reported to be still aboard Chin ese warsnips m tne neigriDornoou 011 Canton awaiting the return of the Kiangsi army. If Sun persists in his determination to regain control of! Canton from Chen Chiung Ming, who drove him out last week, the re turn of these troops may precipitate serious fighting for possession of the 1 city. The report that Sun's army is to return to Canton was given color tonight by reports from Hankow and Kiangsi cities of Kiukiang and wanenang indicating ngniing in xvi angsi province between the north ern and southern troops had ceased. TRUSTEES TO ACT AS MANAGERS OF ELECTION At the election to be held next Tuesday, the 27th, for the purpose of voting on the question of an ad ditional two mills school tax, the managers will be composed of school trustees as required by law. Messrs J D. Kerr, Robert S. Link and E. R. Thomson will act as managers, and only property holders who paid their taxes before the first day of Janu ary are eligible to vote. COTTON MARKET The best price for cotton on the local market today was 23 cents. Fu tures closed 70 points off. July 21.69 Oct. 21.68 Dec. 21.51 Jan. 21.40 Future market closed Thursday: July 22.40 Oct. - 22.48 Dec 22.19 Ton 22.08 ROAD CONTRACT LET The contract to top soil the 14 miles of road from McCormick by way of Sandover, Bellevue, and Bold Branch to the Abbeville county line at Clatwortby's Cross Roads has been let to B. Jones Con struction Company for $23,923.02. Work will begin not later than July 3, contract to be finished in 180 days. NEXT REUNION HELD AT NEW ORliEiAiNiS? MEETING AT .RICHMOND WILL BE AD JOURNED AT END OF TO DAY'S PROGRAM .Richmond, Va., June 22.?The reelection of Gen. Julian S. Carr of Durham, N. as commander-in chief and the selection of New Or leans as the reunion city in April, 1923, featured the closing session here today of the 32nd annual re union of the United Confederate Veterans. General Garr's election followed a hot debate resulting from the nomination of Gen. J. A. Thomas of Georgia, and A. J. Twiggs of Augusta. As soon as General j/nomas was nonnnatea, uen. rr. M. Wroten of Mississippi announc ed that the entire Mississippi dele gation supported General Thomas. A member of the Mississippi dele gation jumped to his feet and ex claimed that this was untrue, that the delegation favored General Carr. An argument between the dissenter and General Wroten en sued, in which heated words were indulged in. When order from the confusion had been restored, General Thomas withdrew his name in the interest of harmony and good feeling, whereupon General Carr was elected !by acclamation. Other officers named were: Gen. J. A. Thomas, commander of the Army of Tennessee; lieut Gen. C. D. Howry, Washington, D. 0., commander of the Army of Nor thern Virginia; Lieut. Gen. E. W. Kirkpatrick of Texas, commander of the trans^Mississippi depart ment. 'Staff officers and other officials of the veteran organization will be appointed >by the commanders at a later date, it was announced. At the closing session of the Sons of Confederate Veterans late today, W. McDonald Lee of Irving ton, Va., was elected commander in-chief. He was named without opposition. At the veterans' sessions late to day a resolution was adopted call ing upon the wealthy members of the United Confederate Veterans to lend $30,000 without interest to the association which is erecting the statue of Jefferson Davis at Fairview, Ky.,. The resolution fal lowed a plea by Col. W. D. Halde man of Louisville, 'Ky., who ear lier in the day had been promi nently mentioned as a candidate for commander-in-chef. Colonel Haldeman, nowever, in a caucus with friends, declined to enter the race, declaring that he preferred giving his entire time to the com pletion of the Davis monument. SCHEDULE OF THE CARO LINA BASEBALL LEAGUE The following schedule for the Carolina Baseball League has been adopted: June 26-27?Greenwood at Ander son. Abbeville at Laurens. June 29-30?Anderson at Green wood. Laurens at Abbeville. July 3?Abbeville at Anderson. Greenwood at Laurena. July 4?Anderson at Abbeville. (Morning game.) Greenwood at Lau rens. (Morning game.) July 4?Abbeville at Anderson. (Afternoon game.) Laurens at Green wood. (Afternoon game.) July 6-7?Anderson at Laurens. Abbeville at Greenwood. July 10-11?Anderson at Laurens. r* J _ i. Vireenwoou ai nuucvuic. The balance of the schedule will he announced later. Mrs. S. M. Grant and children >f Lawrenceville, Ga., are expected in Abbeville Saturday to rioit Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Grant.