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. y 1 . vt ' : , V * - I f ^ \ , X < " ' " ? . . - 1 _ . % Abbeville Press and Banner t Established 1844. $2,00 the Year. Abbeville, S. C., Tuesday, March 25, 1919 Single Copies, Five Cents. , 75th Year. ' 1 SUPREME EFFORT IN VICTORY DRIVI Six Billion Dollars Will Be GoalMuck Money Needed?Amount of Loan Not Actually Determined But Goal Given' May Be Made. % Washington, March. 22.?With th announcement today that collection from the first .25 per cent, instalmen payment of income and profits taxe last Saturday amounted to $1,001, - * * 'ii 1. 1 000,000 and might go higfter witn ia ter reports, the last financial "mile stone preceding the Victory Libert; ^ Loan had been passed and it seem probable the loan willl be for approx imately $6,000,000,000. Governors of federal reserve bank attending a conference closing to nighty were, told that although officia statements of the amount of the loai heretofore have referred to "five .c sijc billions" the higher figure 'at. nearer correct, v Treasury official.* tc day emphasized?^however, the amoun of the loan had not actually aeen ' termined. # '. Tax collections of a xittle mor than $1,000,000,000 mdica? jd th total tax yield thU y"<jar fr'^n incom ^and profits levies vould h* more tha $4,000,000,000 a/id mi'.nt reach th 700^0,005 estinvice^of coftgres nCthi'^me-cjf ena<"3\ng the revenu ,bt|. The aggregate' qf fijst insta] T%.:t pr/mentr wSl liring into th only- dbout $200,000,000 ne at; f .is tap?however, since $800 reared to pay certificate *' F :h?;lp".tedness. ? . '' J ' ? * * ? ti J* m ** , I In ,upport ot tne Denei tne ireai -ury "would ?make $6,000,000,000 th ^oaT of the Victory loan campaigi oS^ials pointed out th^$4,855,000 . OWjcertiTicates 6f indebtedness wei outstanding to be redeemed out c proceeds for the loan, and they probably another billion mast be ii sued before loan receipts begin t pour in. Ordinary government e: penses now are running at the rat of 1,200,000,000 a month and ind cations now are unless the Victor Loan is largely oversubscribed" th treasury will have to begin within r few months after the campaign t market the new securities ?ellin them mainly to banks, as a means o meeting future government expense: NEW HOTEL MAN. The news that W. Harold McFa! ii to assume the management and t become the proprietor of the Eurek Hotel will be good news to the pec pie of Abbeville and to the travelin. public, with whom Mr. McFall is ver popular. Everybody will regret, how ever, that Mr. and Mrs. Jamieso: have decided to give up the hotel an move away. They have run it mos acceptably and have made man; friends among the people of the cit; who will part with them reluctantly Mr. McFall, as we understand ii expects to take charge of the Hote about 15th of April. He will be ii Abbeville again this week perfectinj arrangements for opening up on th date stated. Mr. McFall still owns the farr which he purchased some years ago He kept it because he knew that j man who once lived in Abbeville al ways comes back, unless he dies to* soon, and he expected to live his al lotted time. ,The farm will be run ii connection with the hotel, and fron , it will come many things to make th tables attractive to people who an hungry, as well as to those who lik good things to eat on general prin ciples. LllLUl. ULVLin KL1UKH3. Lieut/J. Roddey Devlin landed a New York from overseas last Frida; and is now at Camp Jackson. He ex pects to bte demobilized at Cam] Jackson within a short time.?Index Journal. 0 . PEACE CONFERENCE , ACCOMPLISHES MUCH ? I Commission on League of Nation* j With Woodrow Wilson in Chair .J Completes Consideration of Eight Articles of the League Covenant. J Paris, March 22.?The peace con! ference commission on the league of. nations, at its meeting at American headquarters this afternoon under! i the chairmanship of President Wil-j e son, completed consideration of eight-' s articles of the league covenant, the * changes being formal. The important s amendment concerning the Monroe rj doctrine, the ' Japanese amendment for just racial treatment and the ,Jj French amendment relative to t^iei ^ creation of a general staff were de S ?? ? * /lAnPirlnVoflAYI of fllO Tl GYf. ~ ms-pJng * j be held Monday at 8:30! ! p. m. . & ' ., I 3j % Th. 3apa' ese amendment hap been, revised so as to be introduced into V the preamble and recites the equality) r of nationals of the states belonging r( to~ the league. ': v S! Tire official statement ontlye meet"t ng of the committee on league of nations says: "j "The commission on the league ofj j nations met this afternoon under the . e I chairmanship of President Wilson. |' e, This ^ was the first meeting of the, ^ commission since the draft';of the n covenant was presented to .the plen-j e ary- session of the conference on. *1 February >14. j J Washington, March 24.?Secretary n Daniels, who arrived yesterday at Brest, will go to Paris this evening. e : According to present plans the Secre-j e i tary and hi^ party \$iH visit Rome in! e! company with Italian Admiralty offi-^ .jcials before going to London. V ' COTTON MARKET. V I: - i |X , v; t;V Good cotton on the Abbe- V yi V ville market brought 28 cents V :-!v yesterday. March futures V p! V closed in New York at 23.90. V :-V V1 ' ! cj A discussion took place on a num-> ber of amendments suggested by the i }.. ?, i . " ^ .1 e members of the commission** as a re-[ * suit either of the recent exchange of ?" views with the representatives ofj s neutral state or of the constructive. I criticism to which the covenant has: 5"j been generally submitted- ? e % "The commission will resume its V examination of the covenant on Monr, day evening?5at 8:30 o'clock." ? e, ? . .. ?f u WILSON RELIEVES J MONEY STRINGENCY ;o! I i Washington, March 24.?Financial; i stringency of the War Risk Insur,6 . . ; ance Bureau was relieved todav bv; * la message from President Wilson to' y j . ' Secretary Glass, saying the President! i had made an allotment from his em-' EL I i ergency war fund to pay expenses of i the Bureau until Congress approprig ^ ates at the next session. The amount i alloted -was not specified. H ! NOTICE TO OLD SOLDIERS. i "" It is desired by the new board that [1 all old soldiers and widows of soldiers o1 who are not now on the pension roll a and desire to make application _for i-! pensions, will meet them here onj g Mondays and Tuesday of each week' y to file their applications. r-' The hew board consists of Messrs. n J. H. Barksdale, J. S. Gibert and J | d' L. Hill. i t* y MANNING ON WAY TO FRANCE. ; r?j Former Governor and Mrs. Man-i ' > ning sailed last week from New Yorkj 'l.for France. The former Governor' 1 11 .will attend the meeting of a Peace! I i ? League, will study the cotton oil e situation and will visit the grave of j 'his son, Major Manning, who was ^ killed in action. ... a SECRETARY DANIELS J WILL VISIT ROME I INCOME TAXES SHOW INCREASES First Quarterly Collection Reported to Treasury?Number Paid in Full. Total in Sixty-three of SixtyFour Districts Amounts to Over Billion Dollars. Washington, March 22.?Collections from the first quarterly installment1 oT income and profit taxes due last Saturday srmounted to $1,001,244,000 in -63 of the 64 collection districts, Internal Revenue Commissioner Roper announced today. This figure probably will be increased by later returns, since some revenue collectors have not yet reported their final tabulation!. This is more than the treasury expected from this installment and without a complete analysis officials believed it 4s accounted for by the fact that many pitizens paid their tax in full instead of taking advantage of the installment privilege. The second , New York district re< ported $145,551,000, the biggest collection of any district. All but live districts showed decided increases over the twenty-five per cent of past year's income tax collection." The largest increase in collections over last year's record was shown in North Pakota and,.the eighth Illinois districts, where there was a 240 per cent advance. The fourth North Carolina district showed a 155 per cent increase and the fiftfi North, and South Carolina districts each showed 125 per cent increase. An examination will be undertaken later to 'ascertain whether the total yield from income and profit taxes exceeds the preliminary estimates of annrnximatelv $4.000.000.000. -X-X- - 1 ' ' Receipts by internal revenue districts in the South were: Alabama $7,419,000 Florida 2,016,000 Georgia 8,424,000 Louisiana _ _ 9,072,000 Fourth North Carolina.. 4,318,000 Fifth North Carolina 7,813,000 South Carolina 4,885,000 Tennessee 7,319,000 "^eond Virginia ?. 5,354,000 Sixth Virginia 4,555,000 G. C. GROCE, A SUICIDE* Cut His Throat With a Razor at the Residene of Mr. J. C. Mabry Friday Morning?Bad Health Thought to Be Cause. Geo. C. Groce, a painter recently residing at Ware Shoals, committed suicide at the residence of Mr. J. C. Mabry, near the Brick House, on Friday morning. . Groce had been painting in that neighborhood for sometime, but had gone*iway about thirty days ago. On Thursday evening he came to the home of Mr, M^bry and spent the night, stating that he was going to a hospital on Friday morning. Friday morning Groce was up, and Mr. Mabry saw him go >into a stable near the house. He paid no attention to this*, but in a little while his son ran to him informing him that Groce was killing himself. When Mr. Mabry reached hi? side, Groce was slashing his throat with a razor. Mabry spoke to him, but he did not answer. The deceased had been in been in bad health for sometime, and this perhaps was responsible-for his rash act. . Magistrate Hollingsworth, acting as coroner, held an inauest Friday afternoon. The body of the deceased was examined by Dr. Jack Pressly. After hearing all the testimony a verdict of suicide was rendered. At the time of his death Groce had on his person about $2.40. Whether he had other money is not known. The county authorities took charge of his body, turned it over to the I # Harris and Calvert undertaking establishment, and it was buried by them. PROLETARIAT TAKES j CONTROL. HUNGARY! "Jir'i Cabinet Headed by Karolyi Resigns and New Government Proclaims jArmed Alliance With Russian Soviets?Peasants Join Move* ment Against Autocracy. . Budapest,,March 22. (Havas.) ? [The Hungarian cabinet, headed tfy Count Michael Karolyi, has resigned, ! leaving the government tcf the proletariat. N i This action was taken after Count i Karolyi had communicated to the cabinet the entente note outlining the ; new boundary between Hungary and Roumani*. After advising Colonel ! Viss, commander of the French ! troops of occupation, of the decision | of the cabinet, Count Karolyi then ! resigned\in his tuirn. I - ' ?r - . i ' Copenhagen, March 23.?The new ! Hungarian government has proclaimj ed* solidarity with the Russian soviet government and an armed alliance ; with the proletariat of Russia, ""ac! cording to a djspatch from Budapest dated Saturday, . A dispatch received from "l?uda-: i pest dated Saturday gives the proclamation of -the new Hungarian gov' ernment as follows: . "The proletariat of Hungary from1 1 today has taken all power in its own1 I hands. By the decision of the Paris conference to occupy Hungary, the1 provisioning of revolutionary Hun-:, gary becomes utterly "impossible. Un-| der these: circumstancesthe sole 1 means open for the Hungarian gov-j ' ernment .is dictatorship of the prole-j ' tariat. j" "Legislative, .executive and judicial ,j authority wnl Be exercised by a die-' ! tatorship of the workers', peasants' ; and soldiers' councils. The revolutionary government council will be, gin forthwith work for the realiza-j ! tion of communist socialism.. ! "The council decrees the socializa-^ ^tion of large estates, mines, big industries, banks and transport lines,' /declares complete solidarity with the! ! Russian soviet government and offers' i to contract an armed alliance .with' i the proletariat of Russia." j THE SLEEPING SICKNESS , i ! i; First Case in This Section Appeared In the Bethia Neighborhood? Victim Remained in Stupor Twenty-four Days. Dr. Hunter, of Bethia, was in the city on Saturday andv reported the first case of sleeping sickness in this1 * I section. The victim is Mr. Hiram Gable, of his neighborhood, and re-1 sides on the plantation of W. W. r Bradley.. * \ . Mr. Gable had a severe case of the j flu somstjme ago. He got up but ^rrtir.usd to suffer ..from a severe ?~:}gh. His eyes were blood-shot and' j watery. One/day after he had been,. tip a few days he went to an adjoin ing plantation to look after some land which he was to work. He re0 turned, and states that the last he remembers he was taking off his shoes : preparatory to going to bed. He went to bed and remained there for twen- , ty-four days in a kind of stupor, %or asleep. He spoke to no one during " | the time, but seemed so far conscious < as to be able to take medicine when the doctor and his wife were reacly to administer it. Further than this, i i he seemed unconscious. ( Dr .Hunter tells us that he ran a j low temperature during all this time ' with some of the symptoms of typhoid, but with less feven At the end of the twenty-four days | he showed signs of improvement and : he is now able to get up and walk ! about the house. He shaved himself ' on Friday, the doctor tells us, and/ . walked .out in?o the yard. He is ex- ' 'pected to fully recover. 1 !' - ' . 1 Miss Boyd spent the week-end at | her home in Greenville. COAL PRODUCTION PLANS SUBMITTED Government Seeks Cooperation ol Association?Commission Consisting of Cabinet Mtfmber and Representatives of Producers jp to Settle Questions. Washington, March 23.-?Plans for more effective cooperation between the government and the coal industry with expected benefits resulting to the geij|ral public have been submitted in referendum form to the memers of the national coal association, representing three-fourths of the country's bituminous production. The fuel administration in makine this an nouncement today said the plans were the outgfDwth of conferences held by Administrator Garfield with coal operators andrmine workers. The plans which the fuel administration said were submitted to Presij I N dent Wilson before his return to France provide that during the "period of readjustment and thereafter" a* commission consisting of a member of the cabinet and representatives of operators and miners, shall consider all problems affecting the industry. The commission would act as advisory board in matters of cost of production, labor conditions, transportation and o^her problems of the industry. . ' Officials of the national coal association, it was said, have urged operators in all groducting fields to study the proposals and advise the adminisr tration directorate of their wishes. The matter will be taken up at a meeting of the association's directors in Plovolnn/I Anvil A DISTINGUISHED VISITORS, Dr. R. M. Stevenson, of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian, and Mr R. S. Galloway, the business managei of that- good paper, were in the city on Friday on business. They spent awhile in the office of The Press and Banner. Mr. Galloway- plans to install a type-setting machine in his office shortly. He likes the idea of having it operated by a good-looking red-headed girl, . which he imagines will keep the boys in the office at their tasks more regularly. Mrs. Stevenson came along with Dr. Stevenson and spent" a busy day shopping in the stores, and in admiring the fine goods and beautiful hats which our merchants carry. BUYING THE BEST. Mr. Graham, of Hodges, chaperoned a party of ladies who were in Abbeville on Friday shopping. Since our merchants have begun to tell the neople about the fine goods they carry, and the beautiful hats they have, through the columns of : The Press and Banner, the stores are being crowded by people from this and other counties, all of whom are 'astonished that a town of less than fifty thousand people would have such ;up-t6-date,. stores. In Mr. Graham's nnrtv WPfP- Mrs rivaViiTvi tvt . 0. A. Ellis, Mrs. Hodges and "several other ladies. VISITING AT BRENAU. Miss Victoria Howie and Miss Mary Greene went over to Gainesville Saturday and spent until Sunday afternoon with Miss Ruth Howie, a student at Brenau College. Saturday evening they attended a dinner [jiven by one of the college societies, which was a pleasant affair. In their travels the young ladies saw many things that were "just darling," "too :ute for anything," in fact, they had a "grand" time. LOOKING AFTER THE BOYS. Mrs. Sallie Bradley is spending this week on Greenville street, during the absence of Mrs. W. W. Bradley. Jack and Hugh Bradley, the enterprising young boys of the household, spent the Sabbath in a life and death struggle with the Shorter Cateihism, in fact,, the boys say "things are mighty quiet when Grandma visits us." NEW IMS CAUSE ' DELAY OF TREATY / x | Commission* Work Hard to Complete Tasks?Germans Must Pay?Lea- ? I gue of Nations Covenant Again to Be Considered Article by ' Article. i . ! .Paris, March 23.?After a week of ! strong pressure and heavy demand . on their strength, the principals in I tl>e -peace conference took advantage of the Sunday lull for a comparafive ' \ *' / rest. Premier Lloyd George made a ! "rip to Fontainebleau for fresh air ! and repose, while President Wilson j and party ^motored to the war zone, j where they inspected the -scenes of j some of*he most important battles. | While all the commissions strove I hard durinc tVio wooL- ?:?i I J,' o -"v ?t wu ww wmpxjr witll ! the ^esire of the council of ten . to I have all their reports ready by March i 20 some of them were prevented from ! accomplishing their tasks by the dej velopment of unexpected issues and i by the necessisty of coordinating j their work. * j . The council of ten appears to be ! anxious that it should be known that j it is, not the delay in the completion .' ; of the work of the commission of the | league of nations that is holding back the peace treaty. Other commissions handling subjects .even more essential I to . the treaty itself are working simultaneously and^any one of them may, be-held responsible for the delay. \ - \The reparations 4 commission has ! finally agreed what tJennany.can and ! must pay buta. contentlonV^lifficult of settlement has -arisen as Jo allotment J of damages to the different nations i and over the preferential treatment A . claimed $y some countries. r1 The league of nations commission, ; which will resume .consideration of [ the covenant article by article tomor,i row, still has to dispose of the amend ,j ments proposed by the French re' garding the maintenance of a force . to protect members of the league ,i from sudden attacks and by the Jap; | anese for equality of treatment of the nationals of all league members, ? t COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. ' The Court of Common Pleas convened Monday morning at 10 o'clock, Judge Prince, the presiding judge, J ?T?ivin? shortly afterwards over the Southern Railway. : \ " The docket was sounded and it ap, peared that only, two or three cases , would be tried. A /trtnoonf ama Vinw I Xi. v.vuov.111/ i VI VI1C llUilUlCU J dollars was taken in the case of >| Latimer vs. Donalds Oil Mill. J. M. Nickles represented the plaintiff. The first case for trial was that of R. 0. Hunter vs. Louisville & Nashville Railway. Mr. Hunter is suing , on account of alleged damages to a carload of mules and horses shipped ! in January, 1916. He claims that the ) stock was badly injured and damaged | and brought his suit for damages al| leged at about eight hundred and [ fifty dollars. He is represented by Wm .P. Greene, while the defendant ; is represented by Hon. J. L. Glenn,' ' nf Chester, and D. H. Hill, of Abbe' ville. A VISITING VETERAN i i Mr. Earl W. Daniels, of Anderson, ! spent Saturday night and Sunday with his friend. Gottlob A. Neuffer. i Mr. Daniels was a sergeant in the Machine Gun Company, of the 118th j Tnfantry, and was severely wounded. ! He was in the thick of the fight and j was wounded nine times in the space j of ten minutes. The young man suf| fered terribly and was among the l j first of the wodnded to be sent home. He has entirely recovered and is back to normal enough to enjoy the ; many pretty grils to look on him as a hero. Mr. Daniels went back to Ander-^ j son ounaay aiternoon tnrougn tne country with Mr. Neuffer and Misses j Sarah ancf Margaret Perrin.