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, gtfjs Abbeville Press and Banner! Established 1844. $2.00 Year. Tri-Weekly Abbeville, S. C., Wednesday, September 6, 1922 Single Copies, Five Cents. 78th Year. | INOT TO ABRIDGE PERSONAL LIBERTY Daugherty Declares Injunction Will Not Be Used to Abridge Personal Liberty Nor Freedom of Speech. Washington, Sept. 5 ?The injunction obtained in Chcago against striking shopmen by the government, Attorney General Daugherty said to day, will not be used to abridge per-] sonal liberty, nor will freedom ofj I speech or the the press oe interierred with. But he added, "freedom of speech and freedom of press does not means these mediums may be used to incite riots or murders.' The Attor ney General also declared that the ^njtmcftion had not been obtained to force men to work, nor was it a move to prevent strikes. The statement of Mr. Daugherty, which was made to newspaper correspondents, followed earlier deci ? -a? i - irrL.'i.. TI... Iiarations oy a n lute xauuse apwn-ca man after today's cabinet meeting that President Harding felt the injunction would not in any way endangered constitutional rights of the men on strike or of other citizens. But, it was added, the Chicago injunction proceedings would be followed up with the determina tion of preventing interference with transportation. Just how far the government would be obliged to go with prosacrnincif individuals. the I White House spokesman said, could only be determined by events. It was indicated that no activities in connection with the strike out side of court matters were now in progress. Attorney General Daugherty in his statement, declared there would be no objection by the Department of Justice to meetings of union men to perform any of their functions "that do not interfere with] interstate commerce or otherwise' violate the law." "If anyone undertakes to abridge personal liberty," he added, "I will be as vigorous in upholding the peoples' rights as I am vigorous in opposing violence.' The Attorney General expressed the belief that the strike situation would ' quiet down this week, and added: ' Jttrnvif 4-r\ r?A owtr f orfli nr I? uu uui vyoiiv uv gu auj xui vitwji i n these proceedings than is nec>ssat*y. I want to 'he reasonable ibout it, but not so reasonable as o let the government and the peoile be trampled upon.'" The injunction, he said "is sit j ing very comfortable,' adding that he department had received many ongratulatory messages on it, in-1 luding many from labor people. The great majority of the press? bout 90 per cent?that portion of he ''respectable upstanding press,'" Ir. Daugherty declared, approved he government's course. The press, ie added, had performed a "very ;ener<ras helpful service to the I.merican people."* Responding to the question, the attorney General said he thought a ourt would conattrue advocacy of icketing as being in violation of udge Wilkinson's temporary re training order. Reports to the Department of ustice today, he asserted, showed ie situation over the country to e quiet, very comfortable." As the Attorney General disjssed the situation, William H. jhnstone, president of the Interktional Association of Machinists* he of the seven striking rail pions?, declared in an address be re a mass meeting of strikers here at no change has been made in e methods of conducting the strike far as his union was concerned. Mr. Johnson characterized the picago injunction as "the big lise" and said he would "defy At Uiey General Daughertv or any Ie else to interfere to discuss mat I* fellows meetintr to discuss matr? of mutual interest." SCALE COMMITTEE WORK ON SUNDAY Breaks Precedent in Order to Get Quick Action?Approval by Convention of Miners Expected Without Difficulty? Meeting Called. Philadelphia, Sept. 4.?Anthracite miners and operators having settled their wage differences after more than five months of controversy, every effort will be made to start production of coal as soon as possible. The scale committee, summoned early today, went into session here tonight to consider and approve the agreement reached at midnight last night and to call a delegate convention of miners at WilkesJBarre this week to ratify the pact formally. It was the first time in the history of anthracite wage negotiations that miners have met on a Sunday, the precedent being broken in order to get quick action. Leaders expressed the opinion that the hard-coal mines would be in operation by the first of next week and that normal production would be quickly reached. The production is estimated at about 40,000,000 behind last year. The settlement announced by United States Senators Pepper and Reed of Pennsylvania came after an all day session of the operators, which resulted in their accepting the compromise proposed 'by the senators and a three hour joint session of miners and operators. In the joint conference the miners also accepted the proposition and an agreement made subject to the action of the miners' convention, it was added, such being the rule of the United Mine Workers. The terms of the agreement as announced are as follows: "The contract in force March 31 ly^a, to be extended to .augusx 01, 1923. "The production of coal to begin at once. "The miners and operators to join in a recommendation to congress that legislation be forthwith enacted creating a separate anthracite coal commission with authority to investigate and report promptly on every phase of the industry. | "The continuance of production after the extension date to be upon such terms as the parties may agree upon in the light of the report of the commission." Coupled with the announcement was a letter addressed to the miners and operators by President Harding in which he urged both sides in the name of public welfare to accede to the proposal that had been advocated by Senators Pepper and Reed. Members of the scale committee arrived here today without any definite knowledge of the final agreement. This was due to the fact that the announcement of the settlement was made so late last night that the information did not reach them before they left for the city. The agreement met with the general approval of most of the committeemen and nc difficulty was anticipated by them in having the convention ratify thf new pact. After the agreement is finally apnrovpH nnerators and miners will meet and formally sign a contract The date of the expiration of the new contract is rather an odd one as viewed by the mine workers. Here tofore all contracts have expired or March 31, which in the coal industrj is the end of the coal year wher coal contracts between producers anc large consumers generally expire It is also the shortest contract pro posed since the operators have beer dealing with the United Mine Workers of America. COTTON MARKET Cotton brought 2112 cents on th( local market today. Futures closed Oct 20.60 Dec. 20.86 Jan. 20.(39 March 20.81 JUSTICE CLARK ' WILL QUIT BENCH Leaves Vacancy in United Statei Supreme Court. Former Senatoi From Utah Is Being Considered By the President. Washington, Sept. 4.?Resignai tion of Associate Justice John H , Clarke from the United States Su preme Court and the intention 'tc ; appoint former Senator George H Sutherland, of Utah to succeed him was annouced today by Presiden! ; Harding. Justice Clarke's resigna. tion will become effective September 18, when he reaches the age of sixty-five. A desire to serve his neighbors and "some cause' in ways whicti would not be possible while he was holding public office was given bs Justice Clarke in a letter to the President as th?( impelling reason for his leaving the bench. A retirement from public life at 65, h added, would conform to his philosophy of life.' Senator Sutherland, who has been selected for the vacancy is 64 years old. He was bom in 1862. He served Utah in the first State Senate, and was a delegate from thai State to each Republican National Convention from 1896 to 1920. Mr. Sutherland was twice elected to the United States Senate, his service lasting from 1905 to 1917. He was defeated for reelection in 1916 by Senator King, the present junior member from 'Utah. (Subsequently he was called upon by the present administration in an advisory capacity on several occasions, notably as a member of the advisory committee to the United States delegation to the arms conference. He recently represented the United States in negotiations with Norway dealing with waT claims. Justice -Clarke was nominated tc the Supreme Court bench by Pres ident Wilson in 1916 and in point of service is the junior associate justice. He was a life-long Democrat and was associated in politics in Ohio with Tom Johnson and Newton D. Baker, Secretary oi War under President Wilson. Ir 1903 he was defeated for the Sen' ate by Marcus A Hanna. In the Campaign for the Democratic nomination for the same position In 1914 he declared he had "favorec progressive measures when it wa: far from popular to do so, and wa: i almost mobbed for doing so.' i Among his colleagues upon the bench, and by the bar of the couri , j in general, Mr. Clarke Is held ir . jhigh esteem. He is regmrSed bj . his associates as a specialist ix ; corporation law in Its various phases. . HUGHES FOUND DEAD IN BED [ Marion, Sep. 5.?Eddings Thomai i Hughes, 42, a prominent lawyer o! i Marion and chairman of the way: ; and mtean)6( ^pommttee of [the )Ja3i general assembly was found dead ii bed at his home tonight. Then I were no signs of foul play. Mr. Hughes returned this morninj ; from Murell's inlet where his famil: ? is staying at their summer home. Hi - was seen on the streets this morn i ing and when he did not appear fo: r mail at noon and tonight a hunt wa: i made. I 1 MILL AUCTION "I i Greeville, S. C., Sept. 4.?The Sa luda Manufacturing Company an< the Riverdale mills which about i year ago went into bankruptcy, weri sold at public auction here today b: E. A. Gilfillin, trustee, the forme ; property being bought by the Sham , bow Shuttle Company of Wood socket, R. I., for $29,000, and th< latter mill being bid in by L. B Houston, agent for unnamed partie for $13,500. KING 'OF SPAIN REFUSE 10 111 i But Accepts Atlanta Girl's Apology. On Ball Room Floor. Mils Dickcy I Tells Alfonso to "Wait a Minute" Aa She Sees Father. \ New Yoi(hy<5ept. 4.?An embarassing incident on the crowded ball room floor of the Casino at Deauville, France, a month ago, in which the king of Spain was left standing by his dancing partner, Miss Katherine Dickey of Atlanta, while she hurried to greet her father, James I. Dickey, a director of the Atlanta National bank, was explained by the young woman today on her arrival on the Mauretania. The royal consternation at being told to "wait a minute" in the middle of a dance and suddenly deserted was assuaged, however, when Miss Dickey sought out Prince Nichols, second son of the King of Rumania, ! and induced him to convey her sin cere regrets. The king accepted the situation good naturedly and remarkijed to Prince Nicholas on the demi'ocratic ideas of American girls. ! The story goes that King Alfonso sought Miss Dickey as a dancing part; ner and dispatched his secretary to I arrange the formal introduction. At the height of the gayety Miss Dickey [ caught sight of her dad and, wishing i to tell him something of "great im. portance," stopped in her tracks and . softly told the king to "wait a min; ute." She dashed among the other dancers in the rush for her father, ?l-.'l" wU/v fV?n ni177lo/1 Willie UXUOC wuvr UUOUVCU viiv expression on Alfonso's face as he was left alone, gasped with astinish i ment. When Miss Dickey returned 1 the king was milssing and realizing the embarrassing situation caused by : her thoughtlessness, she successfully I engaged Prince Nicholas as an apopo gy hearer. "Don't make me ridiculous/ Miss i Dickey said to the reporters, "but the king was so like us Americans that ; I felt I could ask him to wait a mint ute, not thinking at all of the rigor ous etiquette that surrounds a Euroi pean monarch. | DOGS SAVE FAMILY i Anderson, S. C., Sept. 4.?Bark1 ing dogs saved former Fire Chief W. L. Jackson and his family from death 1 in the fire which destroyed his home I eight miles west of Anderson Sun5 day morning. Mr. Jackson resigned 5 as chief of the Anderson fire department some years aog and has 'been 5 living on the farm since that time, t Fire yesterday morning destroyed 1 his home ^nd dogs barking in the f yard awakened the family barely in 1 time for them to make their escape 3 from the burning: home. I - mrs. eason goes to charlestonJ s Mrs. Sydney Eason and two childfjren leavt today for Charleston to 3 visit relativts. Mrs. Eason has been t spending the summer in Abbeville 1 with her parents Chief Justice and 2 Mrs. Eugene B. Gary, and will visit in Charleston with Mr. Eason's famr ily befort returning to her home in f New Jersey. 3 raymond weeks a major r 3 Raymond Weeks has received his commission as a Major for the coming session of the Georgia School | of Technology. This is a distinction of which the young man is quite proud, and he is receiving the con CT-mfiilnf.inns of his friends in Abbe * ville. i e CHARLEY DARRACOTT j COMES BACK r Charley Darracott, who has been in Calhoun Falls for the summer, has g gone to work for the Co operative .istore. Mr. Darracott's many friends s in Abbeville will be glad to see him back. MARSHALS BUSY S LABOR DAYS Labor Day Found United State* Si Marshals Mobilized to Enforce Strike Injunction?New lActs of Violence?Jewell Misting. Chicago, Sept 4.?The dawn of pi Labor Day and the sixty-sixth day ?< of the railway shopmen's strike found S United States marshals mobilized to th enforce the government's strike in- tY junction and prepared to keep a close D watch on Ijabor demonstrations di throughout the country. c< In Chicargo union leaders said no u organized pogram had been made for ti observance of the holiday. p Arrival of the annual holiday brought with it new acts of violence n and further expressions of bitter re- e: sentment on the part of labor leaders A against the federal injunction. Many b union chiefs against whom the in- y junction was issued, declared they w had not been served with writs. The tl whereabouts of B. M. Jewell, leader i of the shopmen's strike, remained tl unknown early today. r< Central labor union bodies in various cities adopted resolutions deal- s< ing with the railroad strike. The Bos- tl ton Central Union pledged full moral ti and financial support to the striking tt shopmen and adopted a resolution g caning upon rresiqeni naming lv 11 sieze the roads and to restore the b strikers to their old jobs. The resolu- di tion also denounced Attorney General Daugherity for his action in obtaining p the injunction. w In Chicago, where one of the first y arrests for violation of the injunction w was made, the Chicago Federation of m Labor authorized a campaign for di funds to aid the striking shopmen, i'he resolution was adopted following fi speeches by William Z. Foster, one ai of the nation's foremost radicals and S former United States Senator R. F. tl Pettigrew, of South Dakota. m Foster, advocate of one big union, di for railroad workers, criticized lead- in pr? of +hf> rail iininns fr>r lank nf nni- tV ty in failing to make the rail strike c< general. He attended the meeting a] as a delegate from the carmen's tt union. si F.ormer Senator Pettigrew said nothing could be expected from a con ogress composed largely of lawyers. f< "A lawyer," he said, "is the only si man who can take a bribe and legally G call it a fee. Their training makes o them unfit to represent the people." t< Investigation of yesterday's disas- li trous fire at Pittsburg, Pa., where ti seven car repairmen were burned to death and a number injured when a tl Pennsylvania railroad bunkhouse was y destroyed, had resulted in the arrest h of*one man. r At Louisville, Ky., the failure of a alleged train wreckers to remove a p derail device prevented the head-on t: -l _ ? _ t : ~ j ~ i _ crasn ox a Jjouisvnie aiiu maaiivme c train inio a string of cars loaded wth n stones. The locomotive, baggage and n mail cars were derailed, but the s coaches remained on th e tracks and c there were no injuries. b Seven men were under arrest at Q Gretna, La., a suburb of New Orleans charged with having beaten and slashed a round house employee. At Carbondale, His., an Illinois Central employee was attacked and beaten. Two trains were stoned at ^ Grey Court, New York, and state p police went to the aid of railroad detectives in dispersing crowds in the Erie railroad yards at Port Jervis, N. ' Y., where a workman was injured by stones. Other incidents included attempts n to wreck trains at Trinidad, Colo., and Montgomery, Ala., and the burn- n ing of freight cars and buildings at ^ Denison, Texas. Several rtrikers were arrested at j_ Memphis, Tenn., in connection with the killing of a Frisco shop work er who was shot from ambush Sat- jj. urday. Police said the men confessedly Mr. S. L. Wilson was in town to {ti day 011 business. n IMITH WOULD 1 ITARVE BOLL WEEVIL oe? Way to Stop Trouble?Want* State and Federal Governments to Join in Battle on Farmer*" Enemy. Washington, Sept. 5.? The projsal for a one-year sttspenaioin of otlton planting (in tthe Uitfted tates as a means )of eliminating le boll weevil was suggested in . ' le Senate today by Senator Smith emocrat, South Carolina, wno preicted wholesale abandonment of ? j )tton farms throughout the South nless governmental action was iken to aid in destruction of the arasites. The South Carolina Senator anounced he hac[ written to the chief ntomogolist of the Department of griculture, asking that a study e made to determine whether- a ear's lay-off in cotton growing ould eradicate the weevil. He said ie entomologist had expressed in telephone conversation today ie belief that such action would fl ssult in destroying the pest. Senator Smith annotmecd that as jon as he received the report of ie entomologist he proposed to in oduce a resolution as far as constiltionally possible of the federal overnment in the stopping of plant lg for one year "so that there may e a tomorrow for the cotton' inustry. "Unless this heroic remedy Is apHpH.I' rnhifirmpH t.Vtp "it ill be only a question of a few * ears before the supply of cotton ill be inadequate to meet the dolestic needs, much less the world emand." The present loss to the country rom the ravages of the boll weevil mounts to a billion dollars a year, enator Smith said. He suggested lat the federal and State governlents should join in paying the eficit occasioned by the growers i the one year's lay off, declaring lat it would be cheaper for the wt in AMfl I f -14 t? A/I 4 M juuisijr in wic cxiu even ix il uau uu ppropriate that amount to defray le expenses caused by the sUspen on of cotton growing for one year. Senator Smith suggested that nee the weevil was eliminated the sderal government could and lould resort to zoning the Rio Grande border for a distance of ne hundred miles in which no cotDn could be planted expressing beef that this action would effeciially stop the insects' migration. Pointing out that production last (lis year's crop would nyt exceed ear was only a little more than * al? of normal and estimating that J,ne million faale^, Seiutofr (Smith sked how long the nation could xeect to maintain the balance of rade in its favor if its export of otton fell away. The export delanded 6,000,000 bales with the dolestic demand exceeding that lightly. On the basis of this year's rop he added, the country would e 2,500,000 short of the export retirements. ? PROCEEDINGS OF THE COURT The following cases have been dis iosed of: Adam Crawford, violating rohibition law, found guilty and s?n enced to sixty days. Tom Crawford, violating prohibition iw, found guilty in his absence.. rtn 1 nrJ Qnnf AWrtn v ^aicu ucu^u^c. -N Walter Jackson and Wayne Tolert, violating prohibition law, found ot guilty. Clarence Prince, larceny, pleaded uilty, and sentenced to eighteen lonths. Robert Howard, housebreaking and n-ceny, pleaded truilty and sentencd to twelve months. T. M. Worley, violaing prohibition nv, pleaded guilty and sentenced to ivelve months. The Court is now engaged in the rial of Tom and Jesse Botts, for mrder.