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Abbeville Press and Banner Established 1844. $2.00 Year. Tri-Weekly Abbeville, S. C., Friday, August 11,1922 Single Copies,"Five Cents. 78th Year! *1 STRIKE SITUATION IS MARKING TIME FURTHER COMPLICATIONS ADD ED TO BAD SITUATION.?BIG FOUR BROTHERHOODS PRO | TEST AGAINST GUARDS A ROUND RAILROAD PROPERTY Developments in the rail strike Thursday included: Members of Big Four brother hoods in many sections complained Of activity of rail guards, following walkout of 1,300 trainmen when troops were called to Joliet, 111. Chief of striking shopmen discuss reply to President Harding's latest peace proposal and will give reply early next week. Rail executives gathered in New York for meeting tomorrow to dis- . juss president's proposal. Washington, Aug. 10?Union lead ers continued their discussion of the railroad strike situation today pre paratory to tomorrow's meeting of chief officers of all the transporta tion labor organizations. The gov ernment, itself awaited developments B. M. Jewell, general strike lead er, and the seven officers of the un ions on strike, called in system rep resentataves ot tne striding miners during the day. It was said at the } temporary headquarters that the < leaders were getting reports on the ( exact situation and were amassing material to substantiate their con-, tentions that railroad managements ^ had been unable to prevent equip- f r? infft Hicronuir n c a result of strike. The strike leaders continued to i intimate their determination to re ject President Harding's new set tlement proposal, making public tele- j jrams from local unions and system ^ federations urging rejection. i The white house had communica tions and reports of the attitude of a considerable number of rail execu- ' fcives todav and the Dresident was ' reported being hopeful that the man agement group would accept his fin al order. A circular urging soldiers on strike duty not to "shoot your broth ers" was received today by war de partment officials who said after an examination of the document that *4- nn?*o?anf1ir time ^Aiin ^ nrl r\Y> o it appai ciivij nao ivuituvu va u wm plete misunderstanding of the policy of government policing of strike area and was apparently put out by com munist organizations in New York. J. C. MILLER IMPROVES Mrs. J. E. Pressly has returned | from a visit to her father, Mr. J. C. Miller of Columbia, who suffered a (.4-waI-a nf not?f?lireio ertmofimo o fTA Mr. Miller is greatly improved and has the use of his hands and his speech is not impaired. He will soon be well and about again. ?-J ir> "Holv Citw." Dr. and Mrs. C. H. McMurray and family started to the ball game in Laurens yesterday and broke down near Donalds. Instead of the exciting time of rooting for the home team, they made their way back to Due West and spent the afternoon in the "'Holy City" waiting for Court ney Wilson to come and fix the car. 76 YEARS OLD. Mr. J. M. Ganibrell celebrated bis 76th birthday yesterday. He is full r 11 ? 01 energy as wen as yoara. vvvvvvvvvvvvv\ V BASE BALL. V V V V Anderson will play Abbe- V V %ville here Monday and Tues- Vj V day, Aug. 14th and 15th and V V. Greenwood will play here on V V Thursday and Friday of next V V week. These will be the last V V irames to be played on the lo- V V cal diamond. Come out. V SPUT FOR SENATE IN TARIFF FIGHT HIDES SENT BACK TO FREE LIST.? REPUBLICANS aw l/ DEMOCRATS ARE FOUND ON BOTH SIDES OF THE DIS CUSSION. Washington, Aug. 10.?Hides, boots, and shoes and leather were voted back to the tariff free list to dav bv the senate, which thus con curred in action taken by the houses more than a year ago. There was only one roll call?on hides?and the result was 39 to 26 against the com mittee rates of two cents a pound on g^een or pickled and four cents on dried hides. Seven Democrats?Ashurst, Brous sard, Fletcher, Jones of New Mexico, Kendrick, Ransdell and Sheppard? roted for the duty on hides, while 23 Repulicans voted against it. Most of the more marked lines which have developed in the senate iuring the tariff fight disappeared on :his vote, but about the only surprise was that a majority of the Republi :ans voted against making hides du rable. Not only was there a split imong the majority leadership on :he question, bat also in the finance :ommittee majority, and even in the Republican agricultural-tariff bloc, ffhich through its chairman, Senator Grooding of Idaho, had asked for 20 :ents on green hides and six cents >n dried hides. With hides sent back to the free ist, Senator Snroot of Utah for the committee, moved that the senate iisagree to the amendment proposing i rate of 12 cents a pair and 5 per :ent aa valorem on doois ana snoes ind varying rates on band, rough and sole leather, belting and harness leathers and various other kinds of this product. This motion prevailed without a roll call. Without roll calls the senate then :ut from 40 to 30 per cent, the pro posed duty on bags, baskets, belts, satchels, card cases, pocket books, jewel boxes, portfolios and other boxes and cases wholly or in chief value of leather. On such articles premanently htted and furnished with traveling, bottle, drinking, din ing or luncheon, sewing, manicure or similar sets the duty was made 45 per cent, ad valorem in place of the 60 per cent, originally proposed. Die.5 hKUM ilNJUKlho Mrs. Julia Anne Busby Succumbs to Hurts. Greenwood, Aug, 10?Injured in an automobile accident on July, 3. Mrs. Julia Annie Busby, 83 years of age died at her home at Ninty-Six early this morning. The accident in which Mrs Busby was'huurt occurred when an automobile in which she was riding ran into a ditch and overturned. "She suffered fractures of the right arm and left foot and uuier injuries, lruin wiiica Mie never recovered. 'Mrs. Busby is survived 'by the fol lowing children: Mrs. S. V. Mills of Ninety-Six, Mrs. S. V. Matthews of Augusta. W. H. Busby of Abbeville, Mrs.Rhett Lowe , of Langley. No funeral arrangements have been aiauc. IN THE MAYOR'S COURT Business is picking up in the May or's Court. There were 53 cases be fore the Mayor during July as a gainst 26 during June. Eight cases were dismissed as against six in June The largest number of cases were for disorderly conduct, 15; the next 10 eon: in i ui ga m u 11 Jig, utriug 10. iii fines were collected during July; $301.83 during June. Glenn Kay, Jr. Has Diphtheria. Glenn Kay, Jr., young son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Glenn Kay has a. case of diphtheria. He was taken sick last Monday but is reported improv ing this morning. mm KtrURT ON COHON CROPS REVIEW OF WEATHER CONDI TIONS GIVEN?DROUGHT IN WESTERN DIVISION OF BELT INTENSIFIED DURING THE LAST WEEK. Washington, Aug. 10.?With rain falling only in a few northern sec tinnc r>f Tpvns nnH in northern and eastern parts of Oklahoma, the drought in the western division of the cotton belt was intensified dur ing the week ending yesterday, ac cording to the weekly reivew of weather and crop conditions issued today by the department of agricul ture. "Rainfall was mostly light in the central and eastern portions of the belt" the statement continued, "al though it continued too wet in a few localities. Temperatures were scenerally some what above normal in the central and eastern cotton states, but were much above normal in Oklahoma and Tex as. Cotton made very good progress in North Carolina and showed im provement in some eastern localties where it had been too wet. While there was too much rain in some east, central ana soutnern portions of South Carolina the weather was generally favorable for growth in the state but the plants were rather sappy and ran, though fruiting well. The crop made very good progress in Georgia, except in a few locali ties where considerable shedding was reported; conditions have been uniavoraDie ior a cop crop in tne southern portion although the plants are fruiting well in the northern section. "Cotton made poor to only fair progress in Mississippi and Alabama but fairly good in Tennessee, rain was needed in much of Alabama and Tennessee. Heavy local rains were unfavorable in some central and western portions of Arkansas, but the warm weather and generally light rainfall in that state were favorable. "There was considerable rainfall in Louisiana which favored weevil activity and considerable shedding was reported from the northwestern portion of the state. "Under the influence of dry hot weather cotton made generally poor progress in both Texas and Oklahoma with deterioration in the extreme southwestern portion of the latter state. These conditions caused shed ding, although they were favorable for holding weevil in check. "Cotton bolls were opening rapid ly in Texas and Georgia and picking made good progress. Weevils contin iia/1 1 m rvi Acf Ann on/4 r?ATl_ ucu av.nvc 111 niuou oc^biuiio auu vuu siderable damage was reported from army worms in Texas, northern Louisiana, southwestern Arkansas and some delta counties of Missis sippi. EUGENE O'BRIEN HURT. Motion Picture Actor in Serious Condition. iLos Angeles, Aug. 10?Eugene O'Brien motion picture actor, is in a critical condition at a Hollywood hospital today 'with internal injur ious and a possible fracture of the skull as a result of having been run down by a motor truck last night while walking on a highway in the Hollywood hills. The Japanese driv er of the truck, who said he did not see O'Brien walking, hurried the actor to the hospital. DR. BRICE HERE. Dr. Hale G. Brice was in the city ; today, having1 returned from a two weeks stay in Indianapolis, where he will have his headquarters in the fu ture. Dr. Brice is with the Ely-Lilly Company and will travel the terri tory of Georgia and Florida, and I will begin work next week. He was in Indianapolis getting familiar with his work. NEED FOR BETTER UNDEF STANDING STRESSED?REPR] SENTATIVES OF ENGLISt SCOTTISH AND FRENCH BAR PRESENT AT MEETING San Francisco, Aug. 10.?A nee for better understanding of the law as the people's guardian and defenc er, the champion of equal rights fc all, was the keynote address at th opening of the annual American Ba association convention here yesterda From President Harding came message emphasizing the part to b played by the legal fraternity in so ving the problems of the day; froi Cordinio A. Seerance of St. Pau president of the association, a dii cussion of the increasingly clos touch of the law with human institi tions, and from Fred Dument Smit of Kansas an explanation of the &1 tempt of the Kansas industrial coui to settle controversies between lat or and capital. A call for closer unity betwee English speaking nations, to be foi tered through the medium of the 1< gal profession was made by Lor Thomas Shaw, representing the Enj lish and Scottish bars. M. Henri At behin of Paris, who spoke on behal of the French bar, told of the rise c judicial power in France. Chief Justice Taft of the Unite States and Vice President Coolidg were among those on the platform. Coming in the midst of railroa and coal mine strikes, the story c the Kansas industrial court, told b Mr. Smith, member of the Kanss ate senate and author of the la which created the tribunal, con manded close attention. Mr. Smith said that the court procedure was entirely different froi arbitration which always failed b( cause it included both sides on th arbitration board and inevitably r< suited in a diplomatic peace wit terms dictated by the strongest. "The two main factors on whic our law rests are public peace an public safety," he said. "When strike threatens either of these th court begins to function. It uneartl all the causes which led up to tt dispute." One result of the operation of tt law, he said, was that Kansas Cil was the only city where last winter strike of packing house employe* was not attended by violence an another that trains were running c time, railroad shops were in open tion and coal war. being mined de pite the railroad and coal strike Kansas looks with equaninmity 1 next winter's coal situation," he sail "Our law declares food, fuel ar clothing are necessities of life," tl speaker explained "and although tl rieht to a strike is not denied v forbid any one to conspire to threa en the public peace or health." WIN FOR ABBEVILLE Lauren* Held Scoreless Until Ninl Inning Yesterday. Laurens, Aug. 10?Abbeville d feated Laurens this afternoon, to 1. Abbeville heJd the locals ecor less until the ninth inning, whe Laurens got two hits and on? ru Howard, for the home team,starre Batteries: Milrnam Agnew ar Galloway: Bobo and 'Culbertson. MAY GO TO EUROPE. Mrs. Alma C. Gibbons has h vacation beginning on the 16th - August and lasting for two wer^ She has not decided whether si will work on or not and take trip to Europe later. She has ti chance of winning this trip. ANOTHER TEACHER Miss Julia Williams of Yoi has accepted a .position as teach 1 in the Abbeville city school. UNLESS THE COAL SITUATION GREATLY IMPROVES.?RAIL ROADS AND PUBLIC UTILI TIES GET WHAT LITTLE IS RECEIVED. (j (.loiumoia, Aug. iv.?onui aown rS of many industries of the state ap [. pears certain, unless improvement ,r comes to the coal situation in a few e days stated Chairman Shealy of the ,r Hailroad Commission today. Mem y bers of the railroad commission who a have been out over the state inves lg tigating the coal piles, returned to j. their office here today, and they re n port that there is very little fuel any lf where and practically none being re 3. ceived. (e The cotton mills of the Piedmont i. section are making a loud protest and jj are using every effort 1;o get coal. ^ They have come to the railroad com >t mission, complaining of their classi fication by the Washington fuel or ganization, as class five, and have ? stated that if they don't get coal, they will be forced in many cases to shut down, thus putting men and women out of employment. The state commission has replied that it is helpless, that the classification was made by the Hoover committee and the mills have been referred to the national agencies to whom they will probably appeal. Chaijman Shealy, of the railroad commission, stated that only nine cars of coal were received Wednes day, whereas orders for more than five hundred cars of coal were re ceived by commission of the several hundred were approved, for today no coal has been received, so far as re ports made to the commission have been made. The coal coming into the state, according to Mr. Shealy is practically nothing whereas the de mand is enormous. The little coal that is received is being allocated to flnRs two demands, nublic utilities and public institutions', though class one, railroads, gets most of the coal shipped into the state. GIN NEW COTTON Bamberg Man Ship* First Bale To Charleaton. ie Uamberg, Aug. lu.?soutn uaro y lina's first bale of 1922 cotton was ?s turned out this morning from the JS Farmers' Gin Company of this place 1(j The bale weighed 490 pounds, and ,n was produced by ?T. C. Hewitt, a a_ farmer who lives two miles from s. Bamberg. The bale is being forward ed this afternoon to Charleston b> express to be sold at Auction. Notwithstanding the presence in the county of the boll weevil, the people have not forgot the art oi producing the fleecy staple, and one of the methods employed by Mr Hewitt and other progressive farm - ?i __ n i I ers is getting it in eariy. rjany ma jturing of boll is considered by ' Mr Hewitt as a fine weevil beater. fch WINS SCHOLARSHIP. Gary Banks of Abbeville h*s 1 1 been notmed cnat ne nas ueei awarded the four-year scholarship to tho University of S)uth Carolina from Abbeville County. The exam inations, which was competitive one, was he.f! early last month ir in the court house. Gary's frieid: are congratulating him on success ful examination. e.r THE COTTON MARKET oi The best price for cotton on the local market today was 22 1-4 cents Futures closed: Oct. 21.17 Dec. 21.15 Jan. 21.01 March _ 21.05 Miss Ola Winn visted Dr. ant! Kirkwood at Greer this w&ek. NOT TO ASSEMBLE IN LONDON UNTIL FRIDAY.?DISCUSSION TO BE HAD THEN DEPENDS ON BRITISH CABINET ACTION TODAY. London, Aug, 10.?The allied pre miers will not meet, tomorrow to dis cuss German reparations. They will gather again on Friday but whether only for the purpose of formally ad journing and arranging for a furth er meeting elsewhere, or to consider an entirely new plan for, a settle ment of the financial situation in Germany probably will depend on the outcome of a gathering of ' the British cabinet today and whatever < new suggestions France may have to offer. The plan of M. Poincare, the French premier, submitted Monday, which was referred to the experts to determine whether it would result in "productive guarantees" has been rejected by the finance ministers who agreed, with the exception of the French minister, that it would not be "productive of hard cash." -V.'v The reports of the experts' com ' mittee opposed all the French pro posals by a majority of four to nine. The Belgians, however, supported the French plan of allied control of state owned mines in the Rnhr re gion. A majority' of the experts branded this proposal as "useless, ex cept as a sanction." The suggested establishment of customs lines be tween the occupied area and the rest of Germany and around the Ruhr region was rejected as unde sirable. . As recounted by the British spok esmen the majority of the experts held that no real moratorium would be afforded by remitting the present ?-C 5 ^ A/111 olltr ATI flrATI a 1UIU1S UI pajfuicui/ AX gvjuaiij vuw*vmw obligations were placed upon Ger many. Teh view of all except the French delegates was that if any guartantee qf this nature were to be taken it wouuld be simpler to take over the present customs ar rangement at the German frontiers than to divide Germany by fresh customs barriers. The proposal to seize 60 per cent, interest in facto ries, especially the dye works on +v.? l"-fKonl- r\f +V10 PKSno alan WAR declined on the ground that this could Be done only by compelling the German government to buy out the present proprietors, which in volves an issue of more paper mon 1 ey and a further aggravation of the German monetary situation. r On this, the third day, the confer ence seemed to be on the shoals. The prevalent belief was that it was not . likely to survive the present week. | The apparently irreconcilable views on the proposals which have been * i . ii-- ti 1_ made, mainiy Dy tne rrencn, consideration by the experts' com mittee has led most of those connect ed with the conference to admit that a situation of extreme gravity has arisen. X-RAY MACHINE INSTALLED 1 The new X-Ray Machine bought 1 for the County Hospital has arrived L and has been installed and is now in use. The machine is of the Wapper ' make and is stated by surgeons to 1 be the best of its kind in the coun 5 try. The X-Ray machine was bought for the hospital with funds raised by Miss Rebecca Cater, whose ef forts in the past few months have been untiring. The hospital owes much to her and to those who have contributed for this latest addition to the facilities there. The first picture made on the new machine was of Billy Long's injured foot. Billy hurt his foot in one of the football, games played by the high school team last fall and it has I lioon cMvintr him trniihlp since. The new machine revealed a small brok en bone in this foot.