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'v . ' ,fx . ' Abbeville Press and Banner Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Abbeville, S. C., Tuegday, Feb'y. 18, 1919 Single Copies, Five Cent*. 75th Year. PRESIDENT WILL . LAND IN BOSTON Expects to Deliver Address February 25?He May Speak Again?Probable That Woodrow Wilson Will Make Two Speeches Before Reaching Washington. Brest, Feb. 15.?When President Wilson left here today for the United States it was announced that he would land in Boston on February 25, where he was expected to make an address which would cover the work performed at the peace conference. It was said it was mosl probable the president would mak? another speech before returning tc Washington. Atlantic City, N. J.,-Feb. 15.?In s cablegram received today by Joseph P. Tumulty, secretary of 'the president, President Wilson announced his decision to deliver an address al */ * Boston immediately upon his arriva in this country. ' President Wilson will speak at i meeting arranged for by Mayor Pet ers and the transport George Wash ington, Rearing the ; president anc Mrs. Wilsori, will make port at Boa ton op the return trip to America. President Wilson departed todaj from Brest, France, and as it is ex pected the voyage will last aboul nine days, his arrival at Boston i: expected about February 24. ?- i LIEUT. SPEED HOME. ?^ Lieut. H. 0. Speed, son of Mr and Mrs. P. B. Speed, has been mus tered out of the service and has re turned to Abbeville. Lieut. Spee< was in the first officers' training camp at Fort Oglethorpe from whicl he graduated. Since then he hai been assigned to duty in varioui parts of the country, and has serve( is all capacities faithfully. Lieut. Speed on returning; tcrpri ate life will take up the business 01 a pharmacist. He graduated from th< ^nrleston College just before th< war, taking high honors at that in titution. His friends hope that h< will make Abbeville his home. GEORGE WASHINGTON PARTY Come on time and bring a dime t< s the George Washington party to b< fiven by the Eighth Grade Fridaj sight, Feb. 21, 1919, at the home ol Mary Louise Dargan on Wardlav Street, at 8 o'clock for the benefit oi the French Orphans. Refreshments will be served free , ?Uo, "Candy Bold and fortunes told." Many prizes will be given, als< fher surprises in store. The 8th Grade. ' 7 GOES TO PANAMA. > Lieut Frank E. Harrison, Jr., . ii ia the city for a few days stay. H< has been assigned to duty at Panamt aad expects to leave shortly. He wil sail from New Orleans on the 28th At the outbreak of the war Lieut Harrison, on account of his military training at the Citadel, had no trou Me in being commissioned as an of U 1 TT. J i.1 n i ' cer. ne joinea xne. regulars anc has been in active service since thai time. Be will likely be stationed a Puutirn for ometime. ? Hi | ^ vvvvvvvvvvvvvvv V V COTTON MARKET. V New York futures showed V improvement yesterday over V Saturday. March closed at V 23.73, which was 74 pojnts V better than Saturday's closV ing figures.* The market SatV. urday was up about 60 points V over the previous close. V Good cotton on the AbbeV ville market brought 28 cts. .V . CONGRESS READS PROPOSED PLA Washington, Feb. 14.?Leaders j congress read the plan for a leag of nations in press dispatches frc Paris today without formal comme and most of them were most 'guar | ed in their observations even | cloakroom and office? discussioi j Their silence was prompted by a d j sire for careful study of the leagui I proposed constitution, not by disi | terest, and there were evidences th 'j much of the little remaining til [of the present session will be . giv ';Over to speeches on the subject I i ginning in the next day or two. In neither senate nor house w !j there any comment today althou "j the press dispatches were sought a ' read with interest. The articles de ! ing with arbitartion and disara 1 ment were read on the house flo t ' during consifleration of the army i I propriation bill by Representati 1 Harrison of Mississippi, Democr l,;and were greeted with scatteri " i applause, but without any mark demonstration or subsequent deba ! Disposition was evident on the pi ' of leaders in both bodies to suspe i both judgment and comment ur j after , most careful cpnsiderati< "j Several , senators said they expect " i soon to speak on the plan. Oppo ' J tion was regarded as certain to coi from some members of both hou! who opposed any kind of internati< r | al organization. "j From the animated private disci u sion it anneared the Question of < j forcement of the league's decri I was of principal interest. From ursory reading of the draft seve j of those who have been followi j the proceedings in Paris most closi j thought the provision for econor -1 pressure by league members 1 " principal force as a war preventiv 1 I f , MARK SMITH CAPTURED, l J Mark Smith, the negro who si s Deputy Sheriff Cann some two we< 1 ago, has been located in Washingt* | D. C., where he had gone on a Sou ern Railway train on Saturday ^ week ago. A Washington dispatch i'i Friday's papers stated that Sm i. was there in a hospital suffering fri " wounds inflicted on him at the til i, Mr. Cann was shot. j Sheriff Burts sent Mr. C. J. Bn; j to Washington for the negro, but j went without requisition papers, a I upon his arrival it is understood tl *| the attorneys for the negro refus ' | to allow him to return without 7 quisition from the Governor of t State. Governor Cooper signed a requi ^ tion on Saturday, and it will be fi i warded to Washington at oace, and is understood that Smith will be : I turned to the State in time for 1 i trial during next week's term * j court. j BILL DONALDSON AT CLEMSC "I Bill Donaldson, the colored flrem 5 of the Abbevile Ice Plant, took a t: to Clemson College Monday. k rode up as far as Anderson on Si j day, as he wanted to look over tl J town, and from there he went on ^ i Clemson. He was anxious to insp< j1 an institution "which has impro\ .1 so many of our young men so mucl .J Incidentally, he took along "Johi j the gray mule belonging to the ] j. Plant,' in order that John may t operated on and become an aris crat. Bill and John are old and fj friends. They have been at'the ] Plant since its establishment elev i >> years ago. Dr. Kennedy Magill is to perfo: 'on John. LIVES AT HOME. Pink Mooney, one of our eoloi 1 subscribers on Star Route, was town Saturday and informs us tl ' he had just sold a hog which brouj him in a perfectly good $80.80. ! has also sold during the year mc than $100.00 worth of chickens a eggs. This is what we call living home and staying at the same pla< *ABBEVILLE SOLDIER II : EXPERIENCE! s ? . I All stories of the great war are in, ; interesting to our people but the exle i periences of one of our own boys is ^ I of Especial interest and for this reaI I son as soon as it became known that .'Lieut. Gottlob A. Neuffer had been lat ne I through the big push, had been gass| ed and wounded and was on his way 611 >e | home, all our people were anxious to | hear him tell of his experiences. When the young soldief arrived in ^ I Abbeville however, he showed a tann?j talizing modesty about himself and | refused to talk. In fact he goes so ! far as to say he has had no "wonderla , , ... ' 1 ful experience, or. . . The young Lieutenant is a genuve ine volunteer, enlisting with the An^ i derson Machine Gun Company of V 1st S. C. Infantry, as a private and I BAinnn/v fVtvAiirvliAllf fVtn fimo VllQ /*Am. . OCi V 111^ billvugliv/uv bUV viiitv <*iw vvx> I ;GQ, j ' ' I | pany was on the Border. After his. "i Border service he returned to Abbeirt 1 , ville and enjoyed the pursuits ofi nd , , , peace for some time, then he was, recalled to join his company and ! prepare for the big war. In the make ' . up of the army our troops were as)S1~ signed to the 118th Infantry, 30th I Division. Lieut. Neuffer preferred, 30S the Machine Gun Company, and was. >n. J stationed for some time at Camp i Sevier, where the men spent ' their aS time in drilling, marching, eating J ?n- i I making love to the girls, looking i handsome in their uniforms, and,1 a' I i otherwise, making soldiers of themra i selves. ngj I | Lieut. Neuffer was assigned to the! . I Advance School Detachment and in! QIC ^ | company with about one hundred and forty officers a*d an equal number 6. of men, sailed from Hoboken on May 8th, 1918. There were seven thousand, five hundred men on board -'! ' I ^1 this ship, the George Washington, since made famous by the President's ( trip, and the trip was without event ^ save one submarine scare through which Lieut. NeufFer says he slept i peacefully. The George Washington ., [docked at Brest, France. I "How were you received by the French people when you landed?" j j "There were plenty of people around, said Lieut. NeufFer, but' ice ^ there was no demonstration. Every | man got his baggage and hiked outj to a Barracks three miles out of j Brest. We were followed by a crowd led i of children, of course, one little felrg. ' 7 ! low was particularly noticeable for j he sang in English, "What the hell ,g. j do we care, the gangs all here," and,j i as usual, asked for pennies. We I stopped in one of the old Barracks' i established by Napoleon and after re- ?, . making ourselves as comfortable as possible, watched the negro soldiers i play base ball, and waited for it to j get dark enough to go to bed. The ^ negroes were still playing at ten-' I thirty and it was still light so we went to bed anyway. i Am" . i After this we were sent clear np across France and stayed a month in an old fort built by Julius Caesar inand in a town fortified by the Romt ans. The city wall still stands and BCf-to Americrns was an impressive ped: sight. We "tayed here a month and k t> in the mea-time my Regiment had i come overseas, landed in England, ri>ol crossed the channel and landed at: ? 1 Calais. I r-ioined them at Nortlen^jlinghem an-1 in company with a few, Scotch and Irish officers, we had a, ast big celebration in honor of our ar-: r rival and a celebration of any kind in France means plenty of good ! champagne to drink. The French ' have never discovered the good uses j of water as a bevreage and many of ! them are not particular about using j 'it for bathing purposes. ed We stayed here for three weeks in going through the same drills and lat forms of military life as that at fht Cann Sevier. After this we were He sent into Belgium and were brigaded >re with the English. Our first experind ences in line was at Ypres, where at we were six days in line and about ce.' a month behind the line. All this I- ' . I \ ELLS-OF HIS S DURING ARMY LIFE: r< ti was in the way of getting the men p seasoned up as soldiers. After this^ we were sent back to France and we f, iA made the trip in cars whose capacity f( was thirty men, but we went forty- si five or fifty strong to each car, many v were on flat cars which were also ti loaded with wagons and trucks. We ti went to a village called Vallioren ti and were the first American troops s in tne xown. we were not greeteu as saviors of the world but were b given a warm reception?the natives ti immediately run the price of champagne up over a dollar a bottle, r which made us all warm under our well fitting military collars. Lieut.'t Wilkinson and I went into a restau-j rant one night arid W. D. wanted 1( to test *but whether or no champagne t would bubble and sparkle, as the r poets say, so he gave his bottle a good shake. It bubbled, all* right?j p, went right up just like the price?^ s and came down all over me, the ta-.r ble, W. D. and the pretty waitress ^ a standing near, all waitresses in c France being pretty, of course. j ( We stayed here a week and had,} quite a compliment paid us for the a 30th and the 27th were made General Headquarters Reserves, or in I J- oftl/vnfo/1 Oa "qhfwV f U IIICr WttlUOy WCXC OCii&VWU mu j troops." One of_our first experiences j c in the genuine horrors of war was 1 one night, without any warning t whatever we were loaded on a lot of. I London Motor busses and traveled t I in the darkness and rain, all nightj .long without the slightest knowledge^ of where we were going or what was ^ i going to happen. We were landed at ? Tincourt and nothing really happen- J? ed but from here we went into line i in front of Bellecourt, which was the I strongest part of the Hindenburg I line. Here we first saw action and c were under genuine shell fire. There r vere plenty of shells, g^s and big c bombs. Our boys showed va sports- I manlike spirit and went at the fight I t I ? like veterans. We were preparing to ? "bust" the line and in five days we 4 had four hundred casualties, mostly r in wounded. We came out as Divis- a ion Reserves, in other words we were t to follow up the advance. j I What did you eat when yop were ^ in line? I r Well, mostly canned goods and ? cold coffee. The coffee was always j s cold when it got up to where we, were. j * When we moved back we hiked fif- e . teen miles to Toutencourt and or- c ders were posted saying the Division' r had come out for a "well earned and t well deserved rest", and that the e men would be issued clean clothes * and plenty of good rations. Nothing c like this happened, however, for in * x J 1 v.'o uavs we were iuuucu on a aw v* I '" w jtory army trucks, takep back to ';! first line trenches and slapped *g*it into the fight where we stayed it her in line or just behind the Hne, until the big fight was over. j d It is beyond the ken of an ordi- J nary layman to understand the me- c thods used in the present day fight- C ing and during this war we have had t to get used to such word3 as a ;'trench," barrage, smoke screen, gas ? mask, &c., and the people at home o have found it hard to know what T they meaji. In this we are not un- I Mke the soldiers for when asked to I describe a barrage, Lieut. Neuffer I said it was beyond him. An English- f man with a sense of humor has de-1 J scribed it thus: When asked how c he got wounded he replied that "he 1< was leaning against a barrage when' it lifted and he fell and got hurt." j li The time for attack is called the, c zero hour and the hour and such!a "information" as is possible is given: J " * m % i 1 i /? tl. L 1 the men Deiorenana, aDout nve-tmny^ u in the morning is the favorite hourj t and the men are protected as much C as possible by a smoke screen. The 5 mode of attack is called leap^frog-j I ging and this means that one line y (Continued on pafe Four.) I r INSTITUTION DESIGNED fl TO PREVENT FUTURE WARS \ Paris, Feb. 14.?The first word?' onstitution was made public this' fternoon when President Wilson! ead the draft of the league of na-l ions organization before the general eace congress. j M While not containing a provision [ 1 or any sort of international police orce, the constitution includes tringent measures designed to preent future wars. In case any naion makes war without first submiting the questions at issue to arbi- b< ration there are the following pos- tt ible courses open to the league: 1 w Severance of diplomatic relations s( etween members of the league and in hie recalcitrant power. \ u; Economic blockade of the nation is efusing arbitration. f r( Recommendation by the execu- b ive council before the use of force. r< The use of force, however, will ir eave to each power freedom of ac-| ic ion under its action to make the tl I lecessary declaration of war. I s< The international police force or ;eneral staff urged by the French^ w md put to a vote yesterday after-! tl loon after a stirring speech by Sen-|w itor Bourgeois was overwhelmingly u lefeated. Only the French and c, ]zecho-Slovaks voted in favor of it. J tl V-ith this feature eliminated the con-; n ititution was adopted unanimously. | A The constitution includes a pream- a )le and 26 articles, having been in-1 b ireased from the original 22 articles'a luring yesterday's session of the n eague committee. The last articles' a ire devoted to purely parliamentary; natters, the other covering organiza-r * 11 1 ion 01 me league. Existing secret treaties are abro-1 e rated and future treaties must be re-' 0 'erred to an international tribunal f riven full publicity. An internation- j11 il labor bureau is established. For- v ner German colonies and Turkish ^ jrovinces are to be placed rinde^ )rotectorates, the latter on the basis r >f self determination. All arma- a nents are to be reduced to a point lonsistent with national security and ^ >rivate manufacture of munition will r )e prohibited. The affairs of the * eague will be administered by a ^ 'body of delegates," in which each nember nation will have one vote, e in executive council, on which the r' Jnited States, Great Britain, France, taly and Japan will be represented >y one member each and the other 0 nembers by four representatives, si md a permanent secretariat to be n ippointed by the executive council. ! I Congratulations on securing adop-J ion /of the league constitution pour-,s< T sd into American headquarters at. I O he Hotel Grillon before this after-; toon's plenary session. Members of | " he league to enforce peace declar-l^ id this "is the golden day in thej 0 listory of the world." They declar-j e id that, despite rumors circulated in I s< 'aris, France, is solidly .^ehind thej eague pJan. J a: DEATH OF MRS. JANE BOWIE, i 2 i T i n i Mrs. Jane Bowie, age 75 years,1 I SI lied at the home of her daughter,' Irs. J. C. Ellison, six miles south- f ast of the city, on the night of the'.11 >':h, instant, from paralysis. She had C\ >ecn in declining health for the past :v months. She is survived by four n rown children: Mrs. J. C. Ellison, if Anderson county; Mrs. Anne ['ownes, of Edgefield; Miss Minnie ? Jowie, of Due West; and Eugene 3owie, of Anderson county. Mrs. Jowie was reared in Abbeville. The uneral services conducted by Rev.; s< lulligan, were held at St. Paul ^ hurch on Tuesday the 11th.?Eas-' p ey Progress. j n' Mrs. Bowie was a sister of the; ate L. H. Russell., of Abbeville, and: f Miss Ann Russell, and was an;C ,unt of Mrs. S. G. Thomson and Miss1 2i Nettie Russell, of Abbeville. Her'b; lusband was L. D. Bowie, at one j e< ime Clerk of Court for Abbeville, $i 'ounty, and in the War Between the m >tates a gallant confederate soldier, m le died at Due West some twenty | m -ears ago from the effect of wounds bi eceived in the war. I TRENUOUS WORK FOR LAW MAKERS ay Complete Program by End of iVeek?In Session Tonight?Appropriation Bill and Constitutional Convention Resolution Among Pending Issues. ^Columbia, S. C., Feb. 17.?Memjrs of the general assembly will reirn to Columbia today and begin hat may be the last week of the sssion. Continuance of the session ito next week will be contingent pon the time the appropriation bill retained in the finance committee )oms of the upper house* and also y the action of the two houses in ?lation to Saturday, which is Wash- igton's birthday and a national hollay. Next Sunday, February 23, is le last legislative day of the 40 day ?ssion. The general appropriation bill, rhich received its third reading ia le house early Saturday morning, rill get its first reading in the senate might and be referred to the finance ommittee. If the committee retains lie bill more than a day, adjournlent sine die this week is not likely. % i.nd with the observance of Saturday s a holiday, adjournment would not e possible, as one or two days are lurova n oonocro rtr f a n A I'naf. ATT uju iivvwooui J wv cuwv aujuo>vlents betwefen the two houses in tht ppropriation bill. To Debate Good Roads. ; The senate tonight has scheduled ood roads bills for debate.. This is ne of the paramount issues yet ending in both houses, all bills loolclg to a permanent system of roads et being on second reading. On* ill calls for a referendum on a $25,- > 00,000 bond issue for permanent oads, the bonds to be absorbed by utomobile license fees. The house has not yet debated th? roposed constitutional conventio* esolution. This has been passed by be debate, and the Christensen-lfeHiee resolution proposing a referenyn on the question in the general lection next year is now on second eading in the house. More opposi:on to this will be encountered in th? ouse than in the senate, but many f the legislators believe the necesary two-thirds support may yet b? lusterpd. The senate has not yet had opporinity to debate the Hamblin compul 3ry scnooi attendance measure, 'his bill, calling for a four months or 0 days' attendance of all children etweeri the ages of eight and 14 ears, was passed by the house by am verwhelming majority, and should x ncounter even less opposition in the / jnate. \ The Hamblin-Hamilton-Hart bill, or which the Barnwell-Ellerbe mendment was a substitute, will ?15 come before the senate this week, his restricts the sale of extracts, impounds or patent medicines, witk jfficient alcoholic content that thes* tay be used as beverages. The signlg of a certificate in the presence of vo witnesses that the extract or jiu^uuiiu 10 iwi luiici ui vuiiiiai j urposes is required. The first of;r.se is punishable by a fine of not iss than $100 nor more than $500, r imprisonment for not less th&a iree months or more than one year, ' the discretion of the court. No *1;rnative of a fine is allowed for th? icond or subsequent offense, but iolators when convicted will be imrisoned for not less than one year or more than two years. Want New Citadel. The Hart-Mims bill to rebuild the itadel is also pending. A site of 00 acres of land has been offered y u/narieston. ine dui incrormc3 called for an approp-iatlon of 500,000. The ways and means comlittee gave a favor -ble report on the leasure, with amendments. The comlittee recommended passage of the ill, provided the appropriation were (Continued on Page Eight)