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Abbeville Press and Banner Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Abbeville, S. C., Tuesday, Nov. 26, 1918. Single Copies, Five Cents. 75th Year. : I - ] 7 : FREW OF SEAS IS A BIG QUESTION Diplomats Discuss Mat ters to Be Taken Up at Conference. MANY QUESTIONS i FOR GREEN TABLE Puce Congress Expected to Restrict [ Activity of Submarine Against Ships Forming Part of Regular i Navy.?U-Boat Operations V May be Restricted by Peace I Delegates. ? Paris, Nov. 24.?The restriction I of submarine optrations against merI chant ships so as to prevent attacks I like that against the Lusitania doubt1 less will be proposed in the discusIsion by the peace congress of the "freedom of the seas" question. It lis the view of leading naval authori ties who have examined this branch of the subject that submarine operaBtions should be limited to attacking lahips forming the regular part of a navy. Attacks would be prohibited against merchant ships, either paslaenger or freight and whether anned defensively or otherwise. According to this view, submarines would conItinue to be an arm of a naval ser vice, but their service would be conI fined strictly to naval warfare. I This any many other subjects to come before the peace congress are now in a formative state as it will be some time, perhaps a fortnight, be fore the regular sittings of the in terallied conference are resumed to | arrange for the preliminaries of the ' * - A I congress. In the meantime, uvuc of the British, Italian or ether foreign delegates are here except Col. E. M. House, the American representative to the conference, who is confined to his bed with the grippe. Several members of his staff also are down with the prevailing epidemic. But those charged with the preliminaries are going ahead and diplomatic circles are actively discussing various phases of the big questions to come before the congress. According to information from one nuarter, negotiations for the can rr>t commence before early in January. The discussion will take a ?i. i il.. month and a nan, so tnat me signling of the protocol would not occur before the end of February. This will necessitate a renewal of the armistice which expires on December 17, unless extended before that time. Previous to the January sittings of th econgress, however, the interallied conference will have sessions during December in which President Wilson will take part. Active preparations for the peace congress are shown in the requisitioning of a large number of the nost important hotels in Paris for the accommodation of the extensive rtaffs of the British, French, Ameri:an, Italian and other delegations. In all some 25 of the largest ho;els in Paris have been taken, creatng a great stringency in hotel ac:ommodations so that army and navy Iuiiucia auu oxc iitiumg viiv neatest difficulty in securing quarIt is declared that Marshal Foch, he allied commander in chief, has aid he will give no heed to protests >f the German armistice delegates aade through communications from ^oreiern Minister Solf concei'ninjr the nanner of carrying out the armisice. This reply doubltess will cover .ny further representations that m <y >e made by the Germans. JUST ONE REASON. There is just one reason right now an Abbeville m n might want i) live Iii Greeti'.vooci. nn'l ihnt is is five cents a pound choap o\*or there than here. It is said to e chewable at that. SECRETARY M'ADOO QUITS HIGHLY IMPORTANT POST Step Made Necessary Solely on Account of Need for Replenishing Personal Fdrtune Which Has Suffered From Heavy Demands Made by Cost of Living in Washington. Washington, November 23.?William G. McAdoo has resigned office is secretary of the treasury and director general of railroads, to leave he treasury on the appointment of a successor and the railroad admin istration on January 1, next. It was announced last night that he had asked President Wilson to relieve him now that the war is over so that lie might return to private business after six years in office. President Wilson has acceded to rr. McAdoo's request and accepted , -:s resignation.-' Upon the new secretary of the treasury, whoever he may be, will devolve the task of financing the nai tion through the transition period of i war to peace, which probably will j include at least two more Liberty I 'oans and possibly also a further re| ision of the system of war taxation. Letters between President Wilson j -nd Mr. McAdoo, made public today j -vith the announcement of the re-j | signation, give Mr. McAdoo's reai sons for leaving the cabinet solely j I 3 a necessity for replenishing his j ^rsonal fortune and express the I president's deep regret at losing his son-in-law from his official family. The retirement was made necesj - ary, Mr. McAdoo said, because of j i 'inadequate compensation," allowed! ( \ibinet officers. The secretary also explained that "ie is seriously in'need- of rest, although there is no "actual impairment" of his health. The secretary plans to take about Hree months' reet and then may resume the practice of law in New York. The president in his letter of aci ceptance expressed regret at the secrnfow'o voBi'nmofiAn j v. v vui j a avoi^uuvivu) ! ticularly to Mr. McAdoo's "distin-j guished, disinterested and altogether admirable service rendered the country in both posts." Mr. McAdoo announced his resignation at a conference with newspaper correspondents and made public correspondence between himself and President Wilson. Mr. McAdoo explained to the correspondents that he had intended to resign before March 4, 1917, but remained because of pressing war problems. ? As yet there is no suggestion of vho Mr. McAdoo's successor may ie, either as secretary of the treas-i ury or as director general. NEWS FROM DR. BRIGGS. News from North Augusta, about' the condition of Dr. Briggs is alarm-1 ling. The doctor contracted Influen-i 1 za several days ago and pneumonia j soon developed. He has been criti- ] ' cally ill for several days, and the, i news yesterday was that his condi-; ! tion was most unfavorable. ! i ! Mrs. Briggs, who was Miss Eliza, 1 Gary, before her marriage, is also' Jill, but her condition is not at pres-! ent alarming:. Mr. L. C. Merchant of Batesburg, i i ; spent last Friday night in the city with Mr. and Mrs. W. G. McCord. ' V SHOW CALLED OFF. S. V. V Since going to press with ' \ the first side of this paper V. \ the show, "As You Wore", V \ lir:f?n callcd Mrs. \ S. T?T. T. Coleman hr.s received a V \ telegram i-lntirjr that tbe V \ cvovcr'/.m-'it ] ?.'] cvlored the \ show and for V \ that reason the ?'imo c*:nnot V \ lie fvi'-cn in Abbeville. V, V. V i ' GOVERNOR 10 PRE SIDE AT KRESS Will Stress Part Played By Section in Winning World War. TENTH ANNUAL COMMERCIAL CONGRESS IN BALTIMORE Many Prominent Government Officials Take Part in Deliberations at Yearly Meeting?World Commerce, International Recon? struction Important Subjects. J Washington, Nov. 24?The SouthV part in winning the world war occupies a prominent place in the theme of the tenth annual convention of I the Southern Commercial Congress! flaaamkav q f a 1 k Ill JDaitllHUlC) J-scvcuih/d u w AV* World commerce after the war, international reconstruction and other important subjects in addition to the constructive program framed at a conference at Atlanta in October find a place on the official program made public here today. Officials of the congress look Upon this year's convention as one'of thej most important? in the history of the organization and have arranged an intensive program. President Wilson had hoped to, be present at the opening session, butj his trip to France to attend the peace conference will prevent. His' place will be taken by Champ ClarkJ speaker of the house, who will deliver) the opening address. Secretary Daniels will mobilize the( Atlantic fleet in the Chesapeake bay for a naval pageant. The secretary of war has ordered an entirc^brigade of troops under General Carter to participate in the military parade. Many of the diplomatic representatives to the United States will attend a special banquet in their hon! or. Many on Program. Approximately 5,000 delegates from all parts of the country are expected and among those taking part in the discussions will be members of the president's cabinet and other j government officials, governors of States and mayors of cities throughout the South and elsewhere. Manning to Preside. Visiting mayors will be given an I honorary dinner Tuesday evening | and the night session will be devoted r> I tu i/uc uuuac ui ouuiiACiii uuvciuurs, with Governor Manning of South i Carolina presiding and Secretary Mcj Adoo as chief speaker. Wednesday's sessions will discuss : farm problems and world trade in | the morning and in the afternoon the ! cotton conference will be held with 1 Col. Harvie Jordan presiding. The trade expansion constructive program of the Atlanta confcrence also will be taken up Wednesday afternoon. Agricultural problems and commercial education for the foreign Held will occupy Thursday morning's sessions and the afternoon will ?e devoted to the naval pageant. Shipbuilding, the merchant marine and agriculture finance, will be discussed at Thursday night's sessions. Friday's sessions will take up dairying and bee keeping. j The military parade will begin Friday at 11 a. m. and sailors from ilia an/1 cr?l /15nvc frnm noovKr cantonments will march. A pilgrimage to Mount Vernon will he made from Washington on Sunday in vessels placed at the disposal of the congress l?y Secretary Daniels. The ' *Ohristpirs ship wr'h gifts f./ {lif hvs sail';! others :!1 fo'-ow ; ! ir.lenjvs of five days, ". ry i:i the Exysoai'-ioriary ico.-- wi"! :< nap'cr?ge. The Hed Cro-'s lias arranged for fifty *hoiir,;vvl extra packages !o he given ricn who fail to get one from home. 'MM SOLDIERS 10 COIf BACK S00H Gen. March Announce! That Demobilization Will Be Hastened. TOTAL CASUALTIES MORE THAN THOUGH! Larger Number Accounted for is Part, However, by Trivial Wounds, Causing Little Inconvenience for Extended Time. Washington, Nov. 23.?Demobilization of the American expeditionary forces, already in progress with the movement homeward of sick and o wounded, will be "hastened by the return at an early date, of eight divisions of National Guard and Naj tional Army troops, eight regiments of coast artillery and two brigades of field artillery. This announcement was made today by General March, chief of staff. Total American casualties to November 11, when hostilities ceased, were 236,117. This includes, General March said, killed and died of wounds, died of disease, unclassified deaths, wounded, prisoners and missing. The divisions which, Genera] March said, have been designated by General Pershing to return soon aa the Rick and wounded have been moved to the United States are: National Guard? Thirty-first, {Georgia, Alabama and Florida); Thirty-fourth (Nebraska, Iowa and, South Dakota and Minnesota); Thirty-eighth (Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia), * and Thirty-nintl (Arkansas, Mississippi arid Louisiana.) National v Army? Seventy-sixth, (New England); Eighty-fourth, /Trnr?fii/?lrtr Tnrliana on/) SAiifViom \ IkVli b UV y AAA U1U11U UliVI Illinois); Eighty-fourth (North Illinois, including Chicago), anc Eighty-seventh, including Arkansas: Louisiana, Mississippi and Southerr Alabama. The coast artillery regiments to be ] returned soon as possible were an nounced as the Forty-sixth, Fortyi seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth Fiftieth, Seventy-third, Seventyfourth and Seventy-fifth. The two field artillery brigades tc ; be brought home are the Sixty-fifth j and the One Hundred and Sixty' third. Eighty-two aero squadrons 17 construction camps and several special units from England will b? brought home as soon as transportation facilities are available, General March said. I Casualties sustained by the AmeriI cans were tabulated by General I March as follows: Killed and died of wounds, 36,154. Died of disease, 14,811. Deaths, unclassified, 2,204. Wounded, 179,625. | Prisoners, 2,163. Missing-, 1,160. Total, 236,117. Many Trivial Hurt?. While the total losses at first ilance appeared to be almost double 'be total estimated by officers here probable, analysis of the table, it was pointed out, shows that among the 179.000 wounded are included the names of thousands of men v.hose injuries were so trivial they never were admitted to hospitals and vhe record of their injury was kept only in company and regimental ! vssing stations. The final total of liletl, died of wounds or disease or : the unclassified death list, the . :ou.*:ly v/ounded and the prisoners " ! missing, officers believe, will work cat not in excess of 125,000. The number of Americans taken v::oncr by the Germans little more '.i\A two thousand, is strikingly low, I.: view of General March's announce " 'at that a total 'in round numbers' ? 11,000 Germans had been capered bv the Americans. MANY TAXES LOWERED IN WAR REVENUE BILL Scale Being Revised Downward to Meet Secretary McAdoo's Estimate of Six Billion Dollars Needed Instead of Larger Figure at First Proposed. Tobacco I Included Washington, Nov. 23.?Reductions! aggregating $500,000,000 in the J yield from the new war revenue bill were made Friday by the senate finance committee in revising the! measure downward to the $6,000,-1 i 000,000 total for 1919 proposed by! Secretary McAdoo. The decrease was! confined principally to the tobacco,! luxury, semi-luxury and other special and excise schedules. Among the more important decisr ions Friday were elimination of the ! luxury schedule proposed in the ^ house bill, levying 20 per cent, on ' costly articles of clothing and other ' merchandise and estimated to raise $184,795,000; elimination of the 1 house tax of two cents a gallon on gasoline, estimated to yield $40,000, 000; reduction from 1 to 5 per cent.! r about $200,000,000 in revenue, in1 rates or many articles classed as| semi-luxuries and a reduction of j , about one-half in the house rates on tobacco, a cut of about $54,000,000 , in revenue. i \ The committee deferred decision on the plan, suggested by Secretary \fcAdoo and specifically presented' ; Thursday by Chairman Simmons for, j incorporating in the measure specific iJ -ates for 1920 taxation by which, the total revenue yield would be' limited to $4,000,000,000. Republi-j :an members still vigorously oppose ,1 legislation for 1920 and the commit-, j tee decided to pass that question j temporarily. Saturday it resumed, {\ revision of the miscellaneous taxes j with a view to cutting off another $500,000,000 necessary to reduce the whole to $6,000,000,000. In cutting the excise, or semi-lux' ury schedules, the committee reduc-j ' ed, from 10 to 5 per cent, the house 1 rates on the following articles: Pia-I no players, phonographs, photogra-i phic films, candy, portable electric ' fans, thermos bottles, slot machines! 1 and toilet soap and powders. The: chewing gum rate was cut from 4 to 5 3 per cent; that on hunting and! Bowie knives from 100 to 10 perj " cent.; on fire arms and ammunition > from 25 to 10 per cent.; and on| sculpture, paintings and stationery ( from 10 to 15 per cent. > The 10 per cent, sales tax on pre-j i! nous stones, jewelry and imitations,! I , , . , , , . | ciocks, watcnes, opera glasses ana. , I similar articles was reduced to 5 per [ cent. > After virtually deciding upon rerluction of the amusement admission I taxes, the committee finally deterI mined to leave them unchanged as /already reduced from the house fig-' [' ures. The principal rate for such adj missions is 1 cent for each five cents | paid. The 10 per cent, tax on club I .1 _i__ 1 - Hi. 1 J ! aues aiso was xeit uncnangea. i THANKSGIVING THINGS. | The Canteen Company of which ! Mrs. R. S. Link is Captain, will run 1 an exchange on Wednesday at the | corner of the Rosenberg Block, on the way to the post office. The mem,:bers will offer for sale at reasonable , prices, cakes, vegetables, chickens, md perhaps turkeys, as well as other , !>ings which will be useful for the Thanksgiving dinner. K V \ MORE U-BOATS SURRE^r-E^ \ \ V Harwich. Eng., Nov. 2 I.? V V In the presence of Sir Erie \ Ceddcs, first lord of the ad- V. ' ? miralty, 2S more German Uboats surrendered today. Tliis \ \ was the most imposing floti!\ i.i to haul down the C"cm;n \ flag th'ts f"j\ It inr!u.;'-\' C'"V- S. \ oral vevy largo ?;ilimarines V \ an;l four oi' the cruiser type. v?. \ one beinpr nearly 3">0 feet in \ lenprth. V. STATE SUBSCRIBES MORE THAN QUOTA Some Counties Fall Far Below Their Apportionment. ORANGEBURG BANNER COUNTY OF STATE Spartanburg Next to Top?Elevra Counties Will Receive Sets of Allied Flags. I South Carolina's splendid resolta in the United War Work Campaign. besides having elicited warm telegrams of congratulation from Dr. John R. Mott, national director, and R. H. King, department director for the Southeast, have earned for a . number of communities in the state trophies which will be prized as priceless testimonials of patriotism and devotion to our troops overseas And in camp. In making public the awards, State headquarters stressed the fact that, while every district except Charleston. accepted quotas which were increased by 25 per cent and, in many cases, raised the larger amount, it was only fair that the awards be baapH nn t.ViA nffiHfll nnnfnn and rm +V>? mounts reported when the drive officially closed Wednesday night. However, the cablegram to Soutk Carolina troops in France, naming the counties and county chairmen vho went over the top, was held until Saturday night, so tljat every county could get its rural returns all reported. The State's total of $1,086,000, at midnight Wednesday, was increased steadily by late returns during the latter part of the week. " Probably the proudest county i* the State will be Orangeburg, whiek J iL. .1 : .V.V -i T O T> uuucx Liiv ui o. o. uuvrnan, raised $43,000. or 162 per cent * of its $26,500 quota. A handsoma silk flag donated by R. H. King, Southeastern director, will go to Orangeburg, as the banner county of South Carolina, Spartanburg County, with an official report of $96,389, was a close second*, having raised 161 per cent, of its $60,000 quota, .vith T. M. Lyles as chairman. To the Spartanburg district will ga desk set of allied flags, offered by W. D. Melton, State chairman, for the district first to go over the top. he district, with H. L. Bomar as chairman and H. B. Jones, as director, is composed of Spartanburg, Cherokee and Union Counties. LEAVING US. r Mr. and Mrs. Sam C. Seal and family are leaving Abbeville this week for Logansville, Ga., where they will make their home in the future. Capt. Seal will have the Logansville-Lawrenceville run which is a good one and will give him much time at home. Our people will give up the Seal family with regret. The captain is popular with everyone and will be missed in the different organizations of which he has long been a faithful member. Mrs. Seal has a host of friends who will miss her. She has been a faithful member of the A. R. P. church and its different societies and ' 1" '* ? fivi/1 If Uo f a <*nf n 1 at?r? I. 111" y Will lliiu 11/ naiu C\/ v_ u aivug without her generous help and good counsel. The Seal children are popuar at school and a wide circle of friends are sad at their leaving us. NEWS FROM MRS. STONE. Friends in Abbeville will be glad to know that Mrs. A. M. Stone, who now at )w homo in T'.etreat, i' ;r recov.. v.- : h?nlth : : t'l Mo l?? tc*.ii.! J:"a King v i?i.=rh S'/hoo1. f'V.' v.with i.'.io dii-icully ; soon to o back to nornu:! a:- i to keep up .vlih thr> w'iv!> ,.vr !">ys come u" iiov.io. ?Tv.?. ? to tie is a .r ,vo- ; i.i Ahliovillo and r . : } ? Had to know of her liea'.!:h.