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Abbeville Press and Banner; SSm t2.no YW. Tri-Weekly Abbeville, S. C., Monday, June 26, 1922. Single Copies | TROOPS IN SIBERIA WILL BE WITHDRAWN JAPAN AGREES TO HAVE LAST SOLDIER OUT BY OCTOBER 30, ACTION BEING TAKEN AT TOKYO BY DIPLOMATIC ADVISORY COUNCIL Tokyo, June 2a.?Japan today sealed her pledge to promote world peace, taken at the limitation of armaments conference at Washing ton, by declaring her final decision to withdraw her troops from Si beria and announcing to the world a policy of non-aggression. The diplomatic advisory council at Tokyo fixed October 30 as the day when the last Japanese soldiers must be out of the maritime provinces of Siberia, while a for eign official declared that the de cision was intended to place Japan on record as a "non-aggressive na tion, striving to maintain the peace of the world." The diplomatic advisory coun cil's approval of yesterday's cabi net decision is said to have been the logical outcome of Admiral Baron Eato's accession to the pre miership. K Kato, who led the Japanese dele gation to the Washington arms conference returned to Tokyo thor oughly imbued with the spirit of that gathering and strongly in fa vor of his country adopting a non aggressive policy. The official announcement of Si beria evacuation says: "The Japanese government has decided to withdraw all troops i from the maritime provinces of Siberia by Uctober su. suitaoie "measures will be taken for the pro tection of Japanese residents." An official of the foreign office, commenting on the decision to quit Siberia, said: "It has been a matter of regret that various circumstances prevent ed Japan from carrying out her de sire to withdraw her troops from Siberia. "It can not be said that political conditions there have attained full stability, but a change has occurred in the general conditions of the whole of Russia. Communistic measures seem to have been mod fied. The powers have altered their attitude towards Russia as attested by the invitations to the Soviet government to attend the Genoa and Hague conferences and con /vf nAn.Qfforocenrfl onrl nnn WIUOIVIJ Vi v?wi V Mttvi *tv?* propaganda agreements with Mos cow. These letters promise to im prove -relations between the powers and the Soviet government. "In view of the decision, Japan has decided to carry out her origi nal idea to evacuate Siberia. "Japan believes that with this removal of the Chinese govern ment's cause for suspicion, the Far Eastern republic of Siberia will strive to reach a commercail agree ment with Tokyo." Ir conclusion the foreign office uiuuiai ucviai^vu "Japan also believes that this withdrawal, together with Japan's conciliatory attitude at the Wash ington conference will be under stood by the world as evidence that Japan is a non-aggressive na tion, striving to maintain the peace of the world." Amendment To Bonus Bill Washington, June $4.?An amendment to the soldiers' bonus bill under which no person having an income of $2,000 a year or more could become a beneficiary under the operation of the meas ure was offered today by Senator Williams, democrat, Mississippi. It will lie over until the bonus bill is brought up in the senate. Senator Williams, who is an oppo nent of the bonus legislation, of fered the amendment without com ment. ?. OFFICIAL EXPRESSION FROM WHITE HOUSE? ADMINISTRA TION WILL CONTINUE TO BRING COAL STRIKE TO A CLOSE Washington, June 24.i?Along with official expressions of regret for the mine strike outbeak in Illi nois, it was made known today that the administration still was press ing efforts to bring about a settle ment of the bituminous coal strike through a conference between the two parties and has some hope of success. There were White House intimations that publicity for the details of the attempt might not be helpful and that details conse quently would ibe .withheld. President Harding was said to deplore the Herrin events and to realize in them evidence of the bit ter hostility arising out of the strike while Secretary Davis who was twice in conference with the president during the day issued a statement declaring tnat uiose re sponsible for the outrages in the Illinois mining town should 'be punished to the fullest extent of the law. The president is awaiting anoth er official report on the events in the Herrin field which he Is said to expect shortly. Labor department agents have been in constant touch with strike developmtents isince April 1 when the miners walked out in all union fields. Herrin, 111., June 24.?Scores of men employed at Williamson coun ty coal mines to guard and keep the mines in shape during the strike quit work tonight under threats from certain union miners, but shortly after midnight they re turned to work when Hugh Willis mine union district board member personally promised them protec tion and placed union miners to guard them from any fresh out ureaiva. n,uotnct vj. w**vuv ers on the job through agreement of operators and miner officials would have meant ruin for millions of dollars worth of mines through flooding. COTTON EXPORT INCREASED DURING MAY $115,000,000 Washington, June 24.?Exports of cotton increased in value by $115,000,000 during May as com pared with the same month last year, according to reports issued today by the commerce department. Raw cotton exports during May aggregated 469,000 bales valued at; 546,000,000 compared witn 411, 000 bales worth $31,000,000 in May 1921, while for the 11 months ending with May raw cotton on ship ments aggregated six million hales worth $544,000,000 against 5, 000,000 worth $570,000,000 daring the corresponding period of 1921. . Exports of cotton cloths during the month aggregated 60,000,000 square yards valued at $8,000,000 compared with 40,000,000 square yards valued at $5,000,000 in May 1921, while for the 11 months period the total was 550,000,000 j square yards worth $68,000,000 as against 508,000,000 square yards worth $136,000,000 during the 11 months ended May 1921. ON THE GEORGIA SIDE Messrs J. S. Stark, L. W. Keller, t *r ? t\- n a t J. IVI * IMC ivlCb, UL\ u* n.. iicuutij w A. Gillam, W. A. Calvert, of this city and R. L. Barmore and C. B. Leonard o*f Donalds, attended a barbecue and fish fry on the Geor gia side of the river at Cherokee' Ferry Saturday. The meeting was| in the interest of good roads and was grealy enjoyed by the mem bers of the Abbeville commission who attended. TALK OF C WE ON TARIFF BILL REPUBLICANS WILL SOON ; (MAKE MOVE? IF TWO THIRDS VOTE CAN NOT BE HAD FIGHT WILL FOL LOW Washington, June 24.?Slow progress in the senate of the tariff < bill today resulted in a new clot- -1 ure movement. Republcan leaders 1 j in private conferences planned to 1 invoke the existing cloture rule 1 [ limiting debate by a two-thirds | vote, and if unsuccessful they said j they were considering the drastic t steps of laying aside the tariff bill < to fight for their pending majority cloture rule. 1 Senator Watson (Republican) of : Indiana, was said to have made the < suggestion for an attempt to apply j the two-thirds rule now in the rule ] book. He said he was planning 1 within a day or two to begin circu- j lating a petition, requiring only < 16 senators' signatures, for pre- ] sentation to the senate. i Senator Lodge of Massachusetts 1 Republican leader, said he believed i the cloture move would be made. If < this effort to get an early vote on the bill should fail, Senator Lodge i a"dded, the .Republican leadership : was considering seriously the plan 1 to lay aside the tariff bill and make J a fight for the new rule to invoke 1 cloture by majority vote and "fight 4 it out all summer" if necessary. < Committee amendments in only 1 two paragraphs of the bill were dis- < posed of today and the votes on i woi?a fVta ifiref canoto lvnH C had since the consideration of the measure was resumed last Tuesday ] following passage of the naval ap- i ipropriation bill. Rates approved t were on chains and spades, scythes < etc. The rates on chains ranged ( from 7-8 cent a pound to 35 per 1 cent ad valorem and represented a i material reduction from the duties 5 originally proposed by the commit- ^ tee majority. Amendments offered x by Senator Simmons (Democrat) s of North Carolina, calling for s even greater reductions, were re- t jected by large majorities. The duty on spades, etc., approved was 35 per cent, ad valorem as original ly recommended. j < 1 TAX RECEIPTS OFF Government Revenues Decline in I Fiscal Year. Washington, June 24.?Govern ment tax receipts fell off by more * than $1,000,000,000 during the 11 s months of the current fiscal year, as * compared with a year ago, according v to the classified collections for May, r issued tonight by the internal reven- * ue bureau. For the 11 months ended with 1 May, revenues from taxes, according e to the bureau's statement, aggregat-|S ed $2,732,000,00, as against $3,806,- ; 000,000 for the corresponding ; mrm+hc nf 1921. while for the month 1 of May the total was $102,515,000, compared with $217,560,000 during the same month a year ago. Tobacco taxes collected for the peripd amounting ito \$244,000,000 showed an increase of $12,000,000 over the previous year. MAC r.RPAT TRIP t Mr. Irwin Cleckley of Lowndes- j ville was in town today, and re- 1 .ports the trip of his life when he went traveling for his health sev- 1 eral weeks ago. He went to Atlanta 1 and was joined there hy a beauti- 1 ful trained nurse who took charge I of him on a trip to Washington, < New York, Niagara Falls and on to 1 Canada; over to Boston and water r trip from Boston to Savannah, Ga. < Mr. Cleckley expects to go to Cali- : fornia this fall, and is considering ap/plijcaftions from good-looking s nurses. < FORCES OF LABOR I END com ANOTHER DEFEAT FOR RUS-| S.IAN SfkVlF.T ?AMERICAN FEDERATION WILL MAKE NONPARTISAN CAMPAIGN TO ELEOT FRIENDS Cincinnati, June 25,.?Adoption of a program calling for a nonpar- j tisan political campaign this fall to s elect th6 friends of organized la- j bor and an overwhelming defeat of t the radical forces that favored ? recognition of the Russian Sovidt j Efoverrment marked the closing 2 session today of the American Fed- j eration of Labor convention. Labor's political stand was adopt < ed without discussion, .including a resolution calling on all union men and women to enter more actively into politics with the pur pose of "ultimately controlling the machinery of our national govern ment" by capturing the Republi can and Democratic parties, but the Russian question stirred up spirited debate that was ended only on ac count of the parliamentary ma WAiMTAWMrt /V# traafar^Qtf llOVlWff fllinf ? uuutui.ui^ vi jr wyvi uuj w??v i off the flood of orators'. ( The declaration against the j Soviet was the third 4aken :by the i federation and was a victory for i the administration forces led by < President Gompers,, who in a for- j mal statement tonight declared the 1 action on the Russian question was t 3f "especial significance because 1 lot a single local union has been j overlooked by the propagandist* f for Soviet brutality and auto- < :racy." The federation's political cam- ( jaign was favored by a committee j eport and was adopted, providing { ;hat the general conduct of the p campaign gnoum De leu to une exp rutive committee of the federation. \.s a supplement of the report was i resolution introduced by the Shawnee (Okla.^ trades assembly, vhich was adopted, calling for all mion men and women to become ictive in the precinct, county, itate and national conventions of he two big political parties. Aside from th^politcal and the Russian question, the convention lisposed of a mass of miscellaneous jusiness in a hurried fashion. ORGANIZE CREAM STATIONS t n the County and a Regular Sched ule Was Adopted. j The meeting src. the Opera House Saturday afternoon for the picture how on pure bred jersey cattle and he organization of cream stations .] fras well attended, about seventy-five | nen and women interested in dairy- ? ng being present. < After the picture was shown an . nteresting address was made by Don- j ild Badger, dairy specialist of Clem ;on College. Following this address ?r. Schroeder of the Green vood Creamerv Company had some emarks to make about the organiza- j ion and details in connection with he working out of the cream stations Stations were established at Due ( West, Ashley's Store, Level Land, ( ^.ntreville and Abbeville. A Cream ^ .chedule was adopted as follows: Leave Due West 10 a. m. arriving it Claud Ashley's store at 11 o'clock; ;hence to Level Land at 12 and An :reville at 1:30; reaching Abbeville it 3:30 in the afternoon, and from \hheville to Greenwood, Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays of each week. ( Any one living on this route can ^ lave their cream picked up, but those iving off of the route will have to ;ake the cream to any one of :hese stations. Those bringing :ream to tne ADoeviue stutiuu maj eave it at the Co-operative store. . This opens up a market for cream : jqual to the market of Wisconsin or 1 iny of the great dairying states. I Messrs. Lipscomb, Sherard and >ales manager Barksdale of the j areenwood Creamery Company were t FORE NEXT OCTOBER.?AP PROPRIATION OF $7,500,000 WILL NOT BE IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE. Washington, June 25.?An appro bation of $7,500,000 for new con itruction work on the Wilson dam at Huscie Shoals, Ala, was authorized :oday by the house and sent to the senate for concurrence. Under a lim tation fixed by the house, however, lone of the money can be expected irior to next October. As authorized originally by the senate when it attached a provision ;o the army bill providing for renew al of work on the dam the $7,500,000 vas made available ror tnar use as toon as the bill was signed by the president. House Republican leaders mdeavored to obtain straight out ac :eptance of the appropriation as ap proved by the senate but were defeat ;d by a combination of Democrats tnd farm bloc Republicans. Final action was taken after Rep resentative Huddleston (Democrat)1 )f Alabama had offered an amend- j nent preventing any expenditure on :he dam before January 1, 1923, and lot then if the Ford proposal to pur :hase and lease the Muscle Shoals jroperties should have been accepted >y congress. His motion was lost 119 ;o 132. The vote on the substitute of- j 'ered by Representative James (Re jublican) of Michigan fixing the ef 'ective date as October 1 was adopt1 id 145 to 105. Washington, June 25.?The South Carolina delegation voted today to >ostpone the availability of $7,500, 100, voted by the senate for the com detion of Wilson dam, until Octobeer It was moving in the probably fu ile hope that by its action it could orce congress to accept the Henry i'ord offer for Mustfle Shoals this ses ion. While it is improbable that the enate could act even were the house o act, Senator E. D. Smith of South Carolina, ranking Democratic mem >er of the committee on agriculture, leclared today that he would insist in an immediate "showdown" in the ommittee between the advocates of he Ford offer and the advocates of jovernment ownership and operation, leaded by the chairman of the com a 4? XT Wn'kToeVa rattee, ocj POTATO CURING HOUSE FOR CALHOUN FALLS A meeting will be held at Cal-j loun Falls July 1st at 2 o'clock dn ;he afternoon for the purpose of securing information regarding the | erection of a potato curing house it that point. The iprospects are jood tor tne project. HOME COMING SERVICE Home coming service will be leld at Ebenezer Church Saturday, July 1st. All members, both old and new, are requested to be pres ent by Presiding Elder E. S. Jones the Greenwood Circuit who will preside over the meeting. J. H. BARKSDALE ILL Mr. J. H. Barksdale was taken sick last Thursday at his home on Haigler street and is in a serious I condition. His daughter, Mrs. j Oullar, is down, from Greenville to j be with him. - ; Charges Without Foundation Washington, June 24.?Charges of misconduct in office filed against Judge C. S. Lobinger, of the con sular eourt of China were said at rtio White House today to have been found without foundation. )resent assisting Mr. Schroeder with he organizations. SOUTH CAROLINA ASSOCIA TION MAY BE LARGEST IN ENTIRE COTTON BELT Columbia, June 27.?With ap proximately 440,000 bales of cot ton already signed up, a vigorous campaign to sign up 100,000 addi tional bales will shortly be launch ed by the South Carolina Cotton Growers' Cooperative association, officials announced yesterday. The campaign will be conducted during the months of July and August and every effort will be made to se- -,r| cure the signatures of several thou sand more farmers to the contract. The report of the auditing com mittee of the association shows . "jj that up to May 15, a total of 433, 524 ibalea had ibeen signed. Since that date approximately 7,000 bales have been signed. The number of bales signed up by counties up to May 15 follows: Abbeville, 6,139; Anderson, M, 619; Edgefield, 4,985; Greenville, 12,719; Greenwood, 10,416; Lau rens, 17,446; McCormick, 4,297; Newberry, 9,070; Spartanburg, 14, 197. South Carolina now has the see the belt. The sign-up of an addition al 150,000 bales would maka this association the largest in the belt, H. C. Booker, secretary of the as sociation, said yesterday. Plans for handling the 1922 crop ' are being perfected now, 'Mr. Book er said. The board of directors ifl weighing carefully each step taken realizing the importance of the board's duties. In announcing the campaign to sign up more cotton, it was said that quite a number of farmers over the state had indicated a de sire to join the association now that the directors had been named and that the board had decided to give them this opportunity. The more cotton sold through the as oncio+inn +V10 -more effective will be the results obtained by the as sociation, it was said. ARMY WORM INVASION Entomologists in Anderson to Mak? Study of Pest. Anderson, June 24.?Two repre sentatives of the United States de partment of agriculture, P. E Lugin bill and S. Blum, are here to investi gate the army worm infestation which has been found in some sections of the county. While the worms are al most gone now, these experts say they will reappear in corn worms, apple worms and other fruit pests. The worm is not the regular army worm, according to these entomolo gists, for it does not travel in ar mies, but a worm that looks like the army worm. DEATH OF MRS. HUGHES 4 Mrs. Mary Hughes died at her home in Donalds, Sunday, June 25, 1922, in the 85th year of her age, and will be buried tomorrow at Turkey Creek church. She leaves J three children, one by her first hus band, J. W. Pratt, and two by her I second marriage, Richard and Mamie Hughes. Mrs. Hughes was a sister of the late G. W. Johnson of Donalds. COTTON MARKET No cotton was sold on the local market today. Futures closed: July ? October iDecember January Futures closed Saturday July 1 j October , 20,97 21.11 2(b93 20.79 <21.41 21.40 December 21.24 January ; 21.10