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' Abbeville Press and Banner ; . \ ' Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Abbeville, S. C., Friday, Feby. 28, 1919. Single Copies, Five Cents. 75th Yean DEMOCRATS NAME jl HOMER CUMMINGSj Chairman Elepted for National Com- I mittee?Other Places Filled?Bbth 1 New Vice Chairmen Come From Western States?For Woman Suffrage. Washington, Feb. 26.?Homer S.' Cummings of Connecticut, was elect- ^ ed chairman of the National Demo- c cratic committeeHoday and the com-'f mittee voted a complete reorganiza-( tion for an aggressive campaign in c 1920. J* The resignation of Vance McCor- f mick as chairman, tendered several ^ months ,r.go when Mr. McCormick t went to Paris as an adviser at the * peace conference, was accepted fin- < ally. The resignation of Carter * Glass as secretary also was accepted. r The reorganization contemplates' that the standing ""officers of the com- i mittee shall include in addition to ^ * - the chairman, two vice chairmen; a secretary, who shall be a member; an; * executive secretary, who may or may ; not be a member; a treasurer, who ^ shall be a member; a director of fi-'s nance, who may or may not be a ? member; and a sergeant-at-arms,Is who may or may not be a member, j' g Other Officers Named. t J. Bruce Kremer, of Butte, Mont., r and Samuel B. Amidon, of Wichita, i Kan., are named as vice-chairmen; E. G. Hoffman, of Fort Wayne, Ind., secretary; W. R. Hollister, o{ Jefferson City, Mo., executive secretary;' W. D. Jamison, of Shenandoah, Iowa, \ director of finance. Wilbur W. Marsh, of Waterloo, ( c lowaj and Col. John I. Martin, remain respectively, as treasurer and sergeantrat-arms. t The selection of vice-chairman 'c from Vrisivm states was pointed to as indicating the purpose of the committee to conduct a vigorous cam- . paign in that section. j Practically every member of the committee was present at the meet- r ing. Mrs. George Bass, of Chicago, chairman of the woman's bureau of g the national commitee, sat with the committee with the proxy of National ^ Committeeman Charles Boeschengtein of Illinois, who held the proxy ^ of the committeeman from New V Hampshire. Mrs. Bass thus gained a the distinction of being the first wo.- T * r ma^ to participate in the committee proceedings. Mrs. Bass invited the committee to ^ meet again in Chicago when it was proposed the woman's advisory committee of the national committee p should be invited to attend.. The invitation was accepted. r Greeting for President (j The committee adopted a resolution * greeting President Wilson on his re- r turn to the United States and con- ^ gratulating him on his achievements ^ at the peacc conferencc and another 11 favoring the federal enfranchise- 11 ment of women. It also created a nationwide woman's auxiliary. 1 * t AS WE EXPECTED. F As Supervisor Stevenson was on his way home on last Monday evening, he was stopped by a small boy near Norris Creek and informed by u him that one of his companions had F been shot. The Supervisor stopped a and found a young son of Mr. Cress- 1* well, of the Mill village, suffering t from a gun shot wound in one of his f legs. He and a son of Mr. George t Godfrey and the third boy, whose t name we could not learn, were out a hunting robins with a parlor rifle, c As is usual in such cases, one of the boys got shot. t The little fellow lost considerable f blood before Mr. Stevenson bound 1 up his wouncfs and was very sick c from the effects of the shot, but Mr. c Stevenson soon had him in his car and took him home, where he receiv- c ed proper medical attention. j ( 10 EXTRA SESSION BEFORE JONE FIRS! 'resident So Announces to Senator Martin?Failure of Measures?Reported That Wilson Will Charge Republicans With Defeat of Big Money Bills. Washington, Feb. 26.?President ,Vilson will not call an extra session >f congress until after his return rom Europe. Senator Martin of Virginia, Demo:ratic leader in the senate, made this innouncement tonight after a con'crence with the president at the iVhite House. While the presideut lid not state when he expected to each home after his second trip >verseas, Senator Martin gave it as lis personal opinion that it would lot likely be earlier than June 1. President Wilson was said to feel t his duty to remain in Europe un11 the treaty of peace was concluded. "The president said he would reurn to Paris immediately after Harch 4 and was positive that he ?iJ ?i. ?n 1; vuuiu iiui v;an ail cali aui umai v sea;ion of congress until he returns," Senator Martin said. "He did not .t:\tc the date of his return nor did le authorize me to quote him in reipect to that, point but my person?.! pinion and judgment is that there is '0 reasonable expectation of his beng back prior to June 1." Conference Lasts Hour. Senator Martin was accompanied o the White House by Sc.iator Simnons of North Carolina. They con'er'.e:' for n-fody an hour with the ixecutive, discussing in detail the :ongestion of legislation in congress. Further than the formal statement >f the Democratic leader, both senaors declined to comment on their iiseussions with the president, but it vfts understood that the executive vould vigorously insist that all pendr.'* appropriation bills and other ur:ent legislation be enacted before ongress adjourns next Tuesday to irovide for operation of th^e governnent in the event his work at Paris hould hold him after July 1, when he new appropriations would be leeded. It was reported that failure of any if the mass of urgent legislation vould be charged by the nresident ;nd administration leaders to the lepublican opposition. The present ituation was such that all appropri tion and other bills could be passed. ?he president was reported ready to idvise the country of the situation md insist upon enactment of all ur;ent measures. The president's decision added toLight to the uncertainty of events luring the closing days of congress, lepublican leaders were said to be eady to disclaim responsibility for ailure of legislation on the ground hat enactment.of all the mass of noney and other bills in the remainnjr five working days was impossible irith continuous debate schedule daiv on the proposed constitution of he league of nations. ?? ART OF THIRTIETH NOW COMING HOME Washington, Feb. 25.?The first init of the Thirtieth Division, comiosed of Tennessee, North Carolina ,nd South Carolina troops, is due at Joumnrf TVTomU O ?V.. |/Vi V A1VTVO) iuaivu o, auuaiu LUC attleship Michigan, which sailed rom Brest, February 18, according o official information available here oday. The unit is the One Hundred md Fifth Trench Mortar Battery, omposed of six officers and 181 men. The battery will be assigned to hree camps for demobilization as ollows: Camp Sevier, South Caroina, 69 men; Camp Gordon, Ga., five >fficers and 67 men; Camp Lee, Va., ine officer and 45 men. The Michigan also brings casual ompanies 1205 (Virginia) and 267 Georgia.) MM SOLDIERS TO GAIN RESPITE Courtmartial Sentences Will Be Re; viewed?Crowder on Stand?Judge i Advocate General Tells Senate Committee That Errors Will Be Corrected. ( Washington, Feb. 26?Maj. Gen. E. H. Crowder, jucjge advocate general of the army, appearing before ' the senate military committee today at a resumption of hearings on the courtmartial situation said that all . imprisonment sentences imposed on men of the army during the war and found upon review to be too severe would be mitigated through the president's power of remission. General Crowder said that within 60 days the 5,000 sentences imposed since the beginning of hostilities wnnlH hp rpviewpH Viv a sneeial board headed by Brig. Gen. Samuel | T. Ansell, who was acting judge ad| vocate during the war, and whose j testimony as to severity of courtmartial sentences led the committee , to extend its investigation. Steps towards mitigating the sentences were begun, General Crowder > said, prior to the investigation by ! the senate committee. Practically all of the men sentenced to dishon, orable discharge and imprisonment, ne saia, aireaay nave naa xne aisnonorable discharge provision revoked, He added that 1,200 men sentenced ' to long terms at Leavenworth, Kan., had been honorably restored to duty in the last year. Too Much Authority. ! Provisions of the pending Chamberlain bill authorizing review by the judge advocate general of courtmartial* sentences were opposed by General Crowder, who said it would give the judge advocate general extremely broad powers and authority to administer the entire system of army discipline. He indicated that the commanding officer in the field was in a better position to review the case. ASK CHRISTENSEN TO RECONSIDER Finance Committee Says He Should Not Resign. Columbia, Feb. 26.?The finance committee of the senate, at a meeting yesterday afternoon, upon the motion of Senator Alan Johnstone, the ranking member of the committee, adopted by a unanimous rising vote a motion requesting Senator Niels Christensen of Beaufort, the chairman of the committee, to reconsider his announced intention to re sign irom tne senate atter tne close of the present session. Senator Christensen ar.ounced several months ago that at the end of this session he would offer his resignation. Since that time friends and admirers of the 'senator from Beaufort h-ve been insistent that this intention be abandoned, and they are hopeful that the action of the financc committee today will have such an effect. Mr. Christensen has represented Beaufort County in the senate since 1905 and has served as chairman of the finance committee since the extra session of- y>14. THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS. There is no use for the Peace Conference or Congress to worry over the League of Nations, the whole question is being settled permanently at the High School this week by the tenth grade. In their English course the grade is taking a week of practice debate and the League of Nations is the subject chosen. One young lady advanced the argument that "we have had the Hague Conference, and I am sure that waa a very great success." THOUSANDS SIM HOMEWARD TRIP Eighteen Troop Ships Leave French Ports?Many Units Coming?Department Announces Biggest Movement Returning Soldiers Yet Leaving for America. Washington, Feb. 25.?The largest J homeward movement of troops since the breaking up of the American overseas army started last November was announced today by the war department in reporting the departure from French ports of 18 troop ships with nearly 30,000 officers and men aboard. The announcement of the movement was made coincidentally j with the issuance of a statement that all divisions in France except those of the regular army^ould^be i returned as shipping becomes available. [I Among the transports listed as ,! having sailed were the Aquitania and , Great Northern, each with more than 5,000 soldiers on board. The organiJ zations which have sailed include i most of the units of the Ninetyj second (negro) National Army Division; independent units from the ,j Eighty-seventh (Arkansas, Louisiana, .j Mississippi and Alabama) National j Army Division and a score of aero squadrons. The Aquitania has these units of j the Ninety-second, Three Hundred and Seventeenth Train Headquarters, the military police, the Three Hundred and Seventeenth Ammunition i Train complete and the Three Hun I U1VU Ultu UIAUJ'OIAUII AllXCkiltJ. y VJVJXIl" j plete. She also carries the Second i corps artillery park, a casual company of Illinois troops, 60 casual officers, three convalescent detachments. and 57 naval officers. On the Great Northern due at i New York March 1, are the field and staff, headquarters and supply company, medical detachment and Batteries A, B, C, and D of the Three Hundred and Forty-ninth Field Artillery of the Ninety-second. The ship I also carries a casual company of nei gro troops for Georgia, eight con[ valescent detachments and 15 casual ! officers. STORE BURGLARIZED. i The store of the Rosenberg Mer' cantile Company was entered Wed: nesday night by a small negro boy, ! and several dollars taken from the ! cash drawer. Some person had been i going in the store at night for some' time, as was evidenced by the fact that articles and cash were from time to time taken. Wednesday night Albert Rosenberg and Frank Roche decided to spend the night there, and catch the burglar. Toeir watch was rewarded. During right a small negro boy enter-' 'he store and made his way to the sh drawer taking the (fash as already stated. He was taken charge of by these young men, and with him in their charge they soon learned that he had confederates. On yesterday morning the police began to round them up and soon had the following in the lock-up: James Henry Fisher, Tony Wharton, Henry Oglesby, Willie Walker, Arthur Wardlaw, Ralph Rouse and Hubert Zimmerman. It is believed that still others i implicated. The entrance was secured through i the basement, the small negro getting j i"-: the basement through an oporj ing in the window made by a broken ! glass. The other negroes acted as ! pickets and in case of danger were to give the alarm. , It is not believed that any great amount of property has been lost, but the catch will probably make . burglary unpopular as a sport for i sometime among the negro boys | about town. Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Wilson havej ' returned to the city from a visit to t i ! relatives in Brevard. N. C. ! 1 i [bill authorizes HALF MILLION MB I i | _ . Appropriation Measure Provides fo Big Army of a Temporary Force of About 538,000 Men After Next July 1?Senate Military Committee Approves Bill. Washington, Feb. 26.?Coinciden with the final enactment today o legislation providing for resumptio: of voluntary enlistment in the arm under the national defense act o iai/? 4-u? l v io limning tilt; iiiiutai^ catauuai; t ment to 175,000 men, the senat military committee approved and r? ported to the senate the annual arm appropriation bill with provision fo a temporary force of about 538,00 men after next July 1. ! The increased force for the nes fiscal year was recommended by th war department, but legislative?pre visions authorizing it were stricke out in the house on points of order. It was explained tonight that th I enactment of legislation to perm: I resumption of voluntary enlistmer , immediately was for the purpose o j enabling the war department to er roll now any men of the present wa ' army who desire to continue in th regular forces. j Before approving the regular arm ' bill with its appropriation of $1,250 i 000,000, the committee adopted a j amendment providing for the estat j lishment of an independent burea ; of aeronautics to combine the activ ties now being conducted under ths I head by the army, navy and marin corps. This plan had been vigorous ly opposed by the administration. . The director of the bureau, to b appointed by the president, with th I consent of the senate, would receiv ' a salary of $12,000 and would nc be under the supervision of any cab net officer. An assistant director a i a $5,000 salary also was provided. Increase in the entire bill over th house provisions totalled about $140 000,000, a large part of which^wa for the pay of enlisted men on th war basis of $30 a month. Creation of a social hygiene boar i and other agencies with a fund o j $2,700,000 to wage a campaign a j gainst social diseases was pruviue< J under an amendment approved b; : the committee, which also, restore^ ! provision for continuance of presen organization of the war departmen until congress enacts a permanen army measure. Hous^-amendments stricken out in eluded one authorizing enlisted mei seeking discharges to submit thei cases to the secretary of war in even of disapproval by commanding ofli cers, and another aimed to preven officers forbidding social intercoursi between officers and men of th same regiment while off duty. MISS TIMMONS BEREAVED. ?Iiss Flora Timmons, one of thi popular teachers of the Gradei School, was called home on yesterda: on a sad mission. News had jus come to her family, and had beei forwarded to her, telling of the deatl of her brother, Sergt. Charles Tim mons, in a German Prison Camp. Sergt Timmons was missing in ac tion in one of the earliest battles ii which American troops were engag ed. No word could be had from him and the War Department could fur nsn no lnicnnauon. ror inan^ weary months his people have noi known whether he was killed in ac tion, and his body lost, whether tak en prisoner, or what had become oj him. But the news has now com< that he was captured and made ? prisoner in one of the prisons ii Germany, and that he sickened anc died from disease before the clos? of the war. The pupils and friends of Mis: Tirr.mons greatly sympathize with hei in this sad bereavement. ROADS AGITATION I GAINS MOMENTUM r Governor Cooper Urges Legislature to Act?Australian Ballot Law to Apply to Rural Districts?Confederate Commission Created. t Columbia, Feb. 26.?Agitation for f good roads gathered momentum last n night when Governor Cooper made y.an earnest plea to the two houses f not to go home until good roads leg L-, islation of some character had been I i e enacted. The governor does not think | it judicious to delay in referendum, yjas such procedure will mean the r loss of a year. He suggests a gener0, al property tax and a special automoI bile license tax, supplemented by a , :t graduated tax on abutting property. ) e The ways and means committee >- will meet this morning to consider n the bill introduced last Wednesday j by the committee on roads, ' bridges e and ferries. it Another measure Is pending in the it senate, which has already been passif ed by the house. It is likely that i-j some amendment calling for a pro .r' perty tax and license fee will be put e on by the senate, thus gaining severi al legislative days. y The house last night adopted the senate resolution to adjourn sine die n: next Saturday, March 1. The appro). priation bill will consume the time u of the general assembly the last few i_ days of the session, and if good tt' roads legislation is to be enacted, the e utmost dispatch with the matter will 3_' be necessary. The house also adopted a concur J rent resolution, introduced by Mr. ^ Gray of Spartanburg, to memorial I ize the South Carolina delegation in both houses of the national congress to support the League of Nations to i Enforce Peace, as outlined by Presij dent Wilson. The senate bill to create a com0 . * mission to handle all pension funds ' for the Confederate soldiers was S passed in the house with a number of , amendments. The Young bill from the senate to ^ amend the Australian ballot law so ^ as to make this law applicable to rural districts as well as to towns and ^ cities, was passed by the house. Here ' tofore, the law applied only to ciues ^ and incoporated towns. A booth is ^ to he provided for each 100 voters or z majority fraction thereof. The law ^ will not apply where there are fewer than 50 voters enrolled. r LARKIN F. AGNEW DEAD, r . ^ Foremost Citizen of Donalds Died at Anderson Hospital. t! Donalds, Feb. 24.?One of our e foremost and best citizens died at e the Anderson hospital on Sunday morning after an operation for appendicitis. Mr. Larkin F. Agnew was carried to the hospital .iust one week before his death and apparently e wns recovering after a most success] ful operation. On Saturday his sympj toms were not so good and a few t hours later he died. / 1 Mr. Agnew was 66 years old and 1 v.\?s for many yer.rr. a rco^nized leader in his church. Ho was present when the doors were onrvt for Sabbath school, prayer meotir.^ or preaching, it mattered not about weather conditions or business, and he went to all the churches. He gave freely to all charity or benevolences, he was loyal to his church and govi arnment, a safe councilor among his fellows and devoted husband and father. He amassed a goodly estate. He leaves a wife, two sor.?, and E three daughters to mourn his death. *' Truly a good man has go"o and ! one that will be sadly missed. The i funeral will be held at the Baptist j church here this afternoon and the > 'I burial at Greenville church. I j . _ . _ 5 Mr. Benton Xickles of Hodges, r was a business visitor to the city on I Tuesday.