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Abbeville Press and Banner Established 1844. $2.00 Year. Tri-Weekly Abbeville, S. C.( Friday, July 14, 1922 Single Copies, Five Cents. 78th Year. * OLD AGREEMENT MAY BE REVISED NEW TREATY POSSIBLE?RE GARDING MILITARY AND NAVAL DEFENSES TO BE MAINTAINED IN INTERNA TIONAL BORDER. I Washington, July 13.?A pro posal that the century old agree ment between the United States and Canada regarding the military I and naval defenses to be maintain ed on the international border be revised in permanent form and in line with the agreements reached at the Washington arms limitation conference was the chief mission here today of W. L. McKenzie-King prime minister of Canada, to con fer with Secretary Hughes. A new treaty modernizing the Rush Bagot agreement probably will be negotiated between the two coun tries. The agreement, which the pro posed new treaty would modernize, was proclaimed by President Mon roe in 1818 after having been rati fied by the senate. It thus had all the force of an international con vention, although not drawn in the form of a treaty. This understanding was negotia ted by Charles Bagot, British minis-1 ter to Washington and Richard! Rush, acting secretary of state. It is in the form of letters exchanged beween the negotiators on April 28 and 29, 1819, and provides that: The naval force to be maintain ed shall be confined to the follow ing vessels on each side: On Lake Ontarto to rwoel not exceeding 100 totis burden aw! armea wixn one 10 pvimu vouuvu> On the upper lakes to two vessels not exceeding like burden each and armed with like force. On the waters of Lake Cham plain, to one vessel not exceeding like burden and armed with like force. All other armed vessels on these lakes shall be forthwith dis mantled, and no other vessel of war shall be there built or armed. If either party should be here aritybr desirous of annulling this stip ulation and should give notice to that effect to the other party, it ' J- 4.1^^ shall cease to 'De Dimnng ?ria mc expiration of six months from date ^f such notice. The naval force so to be limited shall be restricted to such service as will, in no respect, interfere with the proper duties of the armed ves sels of the other party. The document is held to stand as 4.1%^ -pArAwtrinai* in hlftf/VTV nf C/UC Viiijr xvi ?ii ? ><??. ^ ? ? the naval limitation 'agreements reached in the recent Washington treaty and has stood the test of years without "being challenged. FRANK DuPRE IS DENIED NEW TRIAL Atlanta, Ga., July 13.?Frank B. DuPre, convicted of the murder of Irby 6. Walker, private detective, was denied a new trial in a decision today by the state supreme court. The court was evenly divided andi under the Georgia law this affirmed the decision of the lower court, that DuPre must hang. Walker was killed on December 15 last. when he attempted to catch Du Pre after the latter had snatched $2,500 worth of diamonds from the center of a local jewelry store. Gra ham West, city comptroller*, also was shot and seriously wounded by Du ^in no/?omKor rrtf, WI1U was <*I L C31/CU ill A/vvvmvv& about two weeks later. The date for DuPre's execution probably will be set this we^k. OFF TO JUNALUSKA. Miss Ethel Perry left for Lake Junaluska, N. C., Thursday and will spend her two weeks vacation at that ppint. Miss Ethel is the efficient stenographer in the office of Hon. J. M. Nickles. j HOPS MADE READY TO GUARD RAILROAD i FIRST STEP TAKEN TO BACK UP WARNING TO STRIKING SHOP MEN?TRUCKS AND AIRPLAN ES IN READINESS TO CARRY THE MAILS. - - " " n j l Washington, July 13.?iresiaent Harding took the first step today to ward backing up with the military arms of the government his procla mation warning striking railway shopmen against interference with the transportation of interstate com merce and the mails. Instructions were sent at the di rection of the president to Maj. Gen. John L. Hines, commanding the Eighth army corps area at San An tonio, Texas, to prepare a sufficient force of troops to give adequate pro tection to the lines of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad which have been attacked by striding snopmen, particularly at Denison, Texas. Coincident with these instructions there went forth from the war de partment to C. E. Schaff of St. Louis the receiver appointed by a United States court for the Missouri, Kan sas & Texas, the advice that he should < again call on the governor of Texas for protection for the railroad proper ties, the receiver having reported that previous appeals to th,e state execu to/i Kaon unheeded. The receiver ' further was promised that should his appeal bring no protection from the : state authorities "the federal govern ment is ready to afford protection and will take action if necessary as soon as you have the reply from the gtrinw." Officials In announcing the govern ment's action emphasized it was tak. en because the Missouri, Kansas & Texas was in the hands of a receiver . annninf;^ hv fl federal COUrt and ?rrv...?w? ? consequently was under the supervis ion of the federal government. Other developments in the capital in connection with the strike during the day included the receipt by Pres ident Harding of a telegram from B. M. Jewell, head ,pf the Tailway em ployees' department of the Ameri can Federation of Labor, and heads of the six striking shopcrafts, reply, ing to his proclamation and setting forth the viewpoint of the striking workers. So far as could be learned at the White House tonight the presi dent had not determined whether the telegram called for a reply. BOY KILLED BY AUTO Homer Ware, Colored, Hit by Auto mobile and Instantly Killed. Magistrate R. S. McComb was call ed to Donalds Wednesday evening to hold an inquest over the body of Homer Ware, a ten year old negro boy, killed about 7:30 o'clock by be ing hit by a Ford car driven by Claud Ashley. The accident happen ed on the public highway about half a mile from Donalds. R. P. Kyle was elected foreman of the jury. The inquest was held about 11 o"clock Wednesday night. The verdict reached was: .that Homer Ware came to his death by being run over by an automobile driven by Claud Ashley, and that the accident was unavoidable. REV. McMURRAY TO PREACH The Rev. John A. McMurray of Fayetteville, N. C., will preach in the Presbyterian church Sunday, morning and evening. He will be en tertained at the home of Mr. Amos B. Morse while in the city. GONE TO MONTREAT. Miss Bessie Lee Cheatham and Miss Edna Shearer have gone to Mori treat, N. C., to spend two weeks. While there Miss Cheatham will rep resent the Wnarn'a Auxiliary of the Presbyterian church in Abbeville,1 at the Mission Conference now in I session at that place. ' ONE RESPONSE TO GOVERNMENT ANTHRACITE MINE OWNERS <W]ILL ARBITRATE?ANSWER FROM BITUMINOUS INDUS TRY WILL NOT REACH PRES IDENT BEFORE MONDAY Washington, July 13.?Anthra cite mine owners today submitted a response to the governments offer of arbitration in the coal situation that President Harding was said to regard as a complete acceptance. Meanwhile the miners' union and to a degree, the bituminous coal operators continued to pursue a oolicv which high officials declared was intended to evade or delay an immediate response and in which officials saw a disposition to reject the government's settlement plan if public opinion would approve such a course. John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, and other officials of that organi zation called on Secretary Davis today and were understood to 'be endeavoring to induce the president to make arbitration proposals to all partially unionized territory as well; as the mining area shut down by the bituminous strike. "So far asj the willingness of anthracite miners to settle was concerned," Mr. Lewis said, "arbitration in the an thracite field would 'be considered by the mine workers along with the biftfciminous arbitration proposals at the general policy committee meeting Saturday." Responses from the bituminous industry it was evident, would not be in the president's hand before Monday. SMALLER AMOUNT PAID IN TAXES DroD From -$29,000,000 -To $11, 000,000 in Taxes To Fed eral Government Columbia, July 13.?South Caro linians paid only a little over $11,000,000 in taxes to the feder al government during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, as com pared with approximately $29,000 000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, according to figures ob tained from the department of in ternal revenue yesterday. During the fiscal year ending last June 24,433 persons made income tax returns to the government as compared with about 33,000 for the fiscal year of 1920. The returns made this year were for 1921 in comes. Out of the 24,433 returns made this year a considerable num ber paid no tax. The decrease in the total taxes paid by South Carolina to the fed eral government comes from the dropping off in "excess profits" and the repeal of other taxes in many instances. SOUTHERN MAIN LINE IS CLEARED TODAY Charlotte, N. C., July 13.?The southbound main track of the Sou thern 'Railway, blocked last night by the wreck near Spartanburg, S. C., of a freight train, was cleared) at five o'clock his morning, it was announced at headquarters here of the Southern Railway lines east. T^ie northbound track will not be cleared until this afternoon it was expected. BIBLE SOCIETY. The Abbeville District Bible Soci-i ety will hold its annual meeting at Greenvale church near Donalds, July 27th at 11 o'clock. MRS. LONG SICK ' Mrs. W. H. Long has t>een sick at her home on Ellis avenue for the past week. QUT OF QUESTION GERMANY CAN NOT MEET OBLI GATIONS?PRESENTED TO AL LIED POWERS THROUGH REP A D A TIAMC rAUMICCinV IN nixrvi iviiu1 wmiTii^w?v*i SESSION IN PARIS. Paris, July 13.?Germany served notice on the allied powers through the reparations commission today that she could no longer meet cash obliga tions of any sort, whether growing out of the Versailles treaty stipula tions undertaken by acceptance of the London ultimatum of May 5, 1Q91 Ar o-r?vo r? rrnr? Kv fllfl CpVlpHllIp fif VI aiiMUgVU V?W payments drawn up by the repara tions commission on March 21, 1922 The depreciation of the mark on foreign exchanges is gvien as the rea son for the impossibility of Germany to pay, and for her request that she be relieved of cash engagements, in cluding the payments of 32,000,000 gold marks on Saturday, as well as all subsequent payments in 1922, '23 and 1924. The German note admitted to the commission makes no mention of Germany's intention regarding cash payments after 1924, but asks that fnv q -fnrpiom loan interrupted at Paris la3t month, which Germany blames for the con tinued fall of the mark, be resumed at the earliest possible date, or a fin ancial, economic and social catastro phe in Germany is likely to develop. The reparation commission will de. cide today whether Germany must meet the July 15 payments, but will make no ruling as to a further mora torium until it receives the report of the committee on guarantees now in Berlin. SPECIAL REPORT ON BOLL WEEVILS Department of Agriculture Will Give Information in August Cotton Statistic* Washington, July 13.?A special report by the department of agricul ture as to the damage wrought in the cotton states by the boll weevil will be made under a resolution by Senator Smith (Democrat) of South Carolina, adopted today by the sen ate. The information is to be given in the August cotton crop report of the department. The secretary of agriculture is di rected under the Smith resolution to confer with agricultural commis sions, county agents and others in the cotton belt and obtain informa tion regarding the area of weevil in fested fields and also estimates of the money damage. The information is to be published in detail Dy suites. TO PUT DOWN PAVING | Spartanburg City Council Aw<ards Contract j iSpfaiftanJbu{rg, July . 13.?City council has awarded a contract to the Southern Paving and Construc tion company to lay approximately 9,800 square yards of paving at a cost of $27,000. The paving will begin on Connecticut avenue, at Otis iboulevard and run to the city limits and thence to Ezell spring. The paving from the city limits to the spring will be paid by S. B. Ezell and a group of property own ers, headed by Prof.B. O. Huchison. COTTON MARKET Cotton brought 23 Vi cents on the local market today. Futures closed: July 22.50 Oct. ___ 22.47 Dec. 22.31 Jan. 22.03 March 21.91 Futures closed yesterday: July 22.68 Oct. 22.72 Dec. 22.57 Jan. 22.27 March _X 22.18 1GHT OF WEEKS i ON TARIFF BILL t ENATE DISPOSES OF AGRICUL- \ TURAL SCHEDULES.?CONSID ERATION OF COTTON, WOOL, LINEN AND SILK WILL PROVE EXTENDED. Washington, July 13.?Completing onsideration of committee amend tents to the agricultural schedule af. *r two weeks' work, the senate lunched today into what promised > be a several weeks' fight over tariff uties on textile?cotton, wool, linen nd silk. The cotton schedule was the rst in order, but only one atnend lent was disposed of, this providing ar a duty of seven cents a pound (jn Egyptian cotton designed to protect le growers of long staple cotton in .rizona and southern California. A flood of amendments to some actions of this schedule were offered y Senator Smoot (Republican) of rtah on behalf of the finance com littee majority, these representing j le work of the committee in rewrit- ( ig rates. Senator Smoot explained i lat the reductions approximated 4 f er cent, on thrsad and fabrics and t luch larger decreases in the duties j ti hosiery and gloves, representing a t at of 60 per cent, in the case of the Reaper grades in gloves. Under questioning from the Dem_ cratic side Senator Smoot said the ^ ommittee majority also would pro- ^ ose some reductions on woolen goods ^ ut said that these could not exceed |; lore than 5 per cent. A sharp contro ersy over the woolen schedule is t ^recast. The seven cents a pound on long { iaple cotton was approved only after ? long fight and unsuccessful efforts , y Senators Cameron (Republican) i nd Ashurst (Democrat) of Arizona A ) have this figure increased first to ( 5 cents and then to 10 cents. Sup-' orting the higher rates, Senator j .shurst told the senate that while he ] T\ ? ?4-V?a nnl- . ^35 & ucucvmg Ait vnv ^/v/t -j :y of a tariff for revenue only, he rould be untrue to his trust if, when protective tariff policy was to be , rritten into the statute books, he sat ( Uy by and permitted discrimination gainst the interests of his state. ^ Opposing any rate on the staple , enator Stanley (Democrat) of Ken ucky declared it would be a blunder ( or the government to advance mil. ons to reclaim the acrid lands of he Southwest so cotton could be roduced and then impose a tax on ' 11 of the people of the country so j hat the cotton might be grown. 'his brought a fiery reply from Sen tor Ashurst, who told of the great onsumption of Eastern made goods y the people of the Southwest to how that reclamation of the land iad benefitted the whole country. INCOME TAX FUND )ver Half Million Already Col lected By State Columbia, July 13.?A total of M>5i2.91.1.7'2 hasj been collected Tom the state tax on incomes, in iluding figures up through the 10th of July, the tax commission innounced yesterday. Taxes to be paid at the end of xtentions and fay "corporations at :he close of their fiscal years will >rmg the total amotmt for the year ;o approximately $700,000, the :ommission estimates. The gasoline tax hdte afready >rought in over $200,000 and this, vith the corporation license tax, nakes a total of around $900,000 tlready in "new revenue." A HOME COMING Judge and Mrs. Thos. S. Sease, of Spartanburg and Miss Frances Cal toun otf Decatur, Ga., are expected n the city today for a visit of a few lays at the home of Mr. L. C. Hask 11. R. E. Henry of Columbia was in own with Mr. W. H. Cobb Thursday. VAR FINANCE CORPORATION TAKES FAVORABLE ACTION. TEN MILLION DOLLARS FOR COTTON GROWERS ON DELIV ERY OF STAPLE. Washington, July 13.?Advances stalling $24,000,000 to assist the narketing of cotton have been tenta ,iveiy approved Dy in.e war nnance :orporation, it was announced today )y Director Meyer. The two Caro inas are to share the major portion )f the sum, the advances providing 510,000,000 for the North Carolina Hotton Growers' Cooperative associa tion and $1,0000,000 for the South Carolina 'Cotton Growers' Coopera tive association. Of the other, $3,000, 500 will be allotted to the Alabama ?arm Bureau Cotton association and ^1,000,000 to the Arkansas Farmers' Jnion Cotton Growers' association. In announcing the approvals, Di. ector Meyer said it is expected that >nly a portion of the amounts author zed will be advanced by the corpor ition and that the banks in the in erested districts will do the greater >art of the financing for the associa ;ions named. Columbia, Juljr 13.?The war fin tnce corporation at Washington yes. ;erday approved an advance of $10 )00,000 to the South Carolina Cot ;on Growers' Cooperative association. \nnnnn<?PTnpTif. nf it* artion was madp ifter a hearing in Washington yes ;erday morning at which were pres et H. G. Eaminer of Gadsden, presi lent and general manager of the as. sociation; L. D. Jennings of Sumter, nember of the executive committee; iV. Rogers Scarborough of Bishop rille, treasurer, and J. Pope Matthews >f Columbia. Harold C. Booker, sec retary of the association received a ;elegram yesterday afternoon from VIr. Kaminer stating that the applica ;ion had been approved, The $10,000,000 will be used in naking advances to members of the issociation on the delivery of their :otton. Each member will get 60 per :ent of the current market value of ;he grade of cotton delivered to the association at the time of its delivery it was announced yesterday at the offices of the association. Great satisfaction that the war finance corporation had seen fit to ap prove the loan was expressed by of ficials of the association last night. They anticipate no difficulty in fin ancing the association. ANOTHER FAMILY WIPED OUT AT GRADE CROSSING Greenville, Pa.,JuIy 13.?A fam ily party of five, traveling 'by au tomobile from Altoona to Erie, to attend a wedding tomorrow was wiped out near here today when the machine was struck by a train on .the Bessemer and Lake Erie railroad. Among the dead was; Miss Editlj Schultz, who was to have been the bride. > Hjarry Schultz, -Mrs. Mary Schultz, Florence Schultz, age four, Miss Edith Schultz and John Hamer, age eighty father of Mrs. Schultz all of Altoona are dead. The automobile was dragged al most a quarter of a mile. Mr. Bell Hat Boll Weevil Blues. E. L. Bell of Antreville is in town this morning and has a well develop. ? j m II 1.1 TJ? eel case 01 tne "Don weevn mues. i*c has 60 acres of the finest cotton in this part of the country. The boll wee vil made his appearance two days ag?> aMMr. Bell claims at the pres ent rale of destruction they will clean him out inside of a week. He is not going to poison he says and believes the boll weevil a special dis pensation of Providence. Claude Gambrell, Allen Edwards and Donald Harris motored to Green wood today on business.