Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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. - - :-.^ * \.- .... - . - .- - ~ 1 '* /'V '* ? .># ? \ ; ' ' , . V' ; ' ' - '. - ' . ;iV ; .> . ' >& #& , v I I vnS Abbeville Press and Banner ! ; - Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Abbeville, S. C., Friday, June 13, 1919. Single Copies, Five Cents. 75th Year. FRIDAY, JUNE 13, IS " OMINOUS FOR HUNS i T i Reply of Allies May Be Presented on V That Date?r-CIemenceau Wins S Point?Little Change in Treaty. Irish Question Comes Up. h W&nt Return Colonies. b Washington, June 12?Hope again b is expressed in Paris that the reply b of the Allied and associated govern-,r menta to the German counter propos-1 f als to the demands made in the peace! E treaty soon will be in readiness for,1 3 presentation to the Germans. Friday! k again is mentioned as the probable ! day. tl The commissions to which were * entrusted the study of various problems brought up by the German re- *joinders all have about completed - . r their work and the council of fouri has settled by discussion more of the J Important provisions of the treatyover which there had been diverr gence of opinion inside the council. These questions include the repara- p tions Germany shalf make and a re- n fusal to give Germany the mandate ? over her former colonies. 11 a Clemenceau Wins Point. n Premier Clemenceau, of France, r prho has ocntended strongly against j tl any lessening in the severity of the | g terms of the treaty, apparently hasj 0 tfon his point, for advices from Paris j, lay that the document is to remain r virtually unchanged as to the text md that the main changes are ex- t; Sanations rather than modifications. r Settlement of the Silesian question ^ las been reached. The question of 0 Germany's admission to the league 0 >f nations is still under discussion, t) >ut, it is reported, with a tendency o accord. ^ Austrian Treaty. ^ On the other hand, little progress r s being made in drafting the missing _ *ns<* of the Anrtrian md 8. neanwhile, the Austrian chancellor, Q is head of the Austrian peace dele-L nation, \ is protesting against the J E:onditions of the treaty." and ii ig that his country is over- ^ id with despair because of Particular stress is being laid pleas of the chancellor against n memberment of Austria. Irish Question. [dent Wilson is to do what be ^ officially to bring the Irish d to the attention of the other o jomimssioners, according to a v,; u , ' o >nt. said to have been made . II President to representatives i societies in the United States r some time have been en* C ng to have Ireland's claim to fcion laid before the peace I inference. s g IR. JNO. C. CALDWELL DIES * AT HOME IN GREENVILLE 8 a i " a Greenville, Jpne 11.?John Cal- y >uri Caldwell, aged 68, formerly as- j stant city treasurer, died at the c imily residence at an early hour on c uesday morning after a brief ill5ss, although he had been in de- s inig health for several years. The; r j 1 arial will be at Greenville church in.} Ibbevile county, the time to be an-!t junced ater. 11 Mr. Caldwell was a native of the | ( onalds section of Abbeville county, j t it had resided in Greenville for I < tany years. At one time he was as< i >nnected with the Southern rail- j ay and also with the Greenville and j inoxville, which is now the Greenille and Western railway. He was [so assistant city treasurer for a me. Mr. Caldwell was a life-long I ember of the Presbyterian church id was an elder in the First Pres- ^ rterian church of this city. ] The deceased is survived by one . n> Donald Caldwell of Anderson; ro daughters, Miss Vivian Caldwell id Mrs. Louise Russell and by one lughter-in-law, Mrs. Ida Caldwell. *o small grandchildren also sur- j! 5MALL BOY DROWNED IN BIG RESERVOIR AT CALHOUN FALLS! Little William Culberson, the 9 'ear old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Julberson, of Union, was drowned on 'riday afternoon at Calhoun Falls, rhen he fell into a large water reervoir while playing at its edge. His mother was visiting in Cal-j oun Falls, being called there to the, edside of her father, Mr. J. D. Mas-| ers, who is in very poor health and rought her son with her. The little oy was evidently playing near the eservoir by himself and probably ell into the water and was drowned. Te remained in the water for some 0 minutes before his death was nown. Physicians worked frantically on he lad for several hours in an efort to revive him, but were unable o do so. The body was taken to rnion Saturday for burial. HAL INTERESTED IN MOTOR ROUTES Washington, June 6.?Senator Hal has under discussion with the ostoffice department the establishlent of parcel post motor routes f in k>uth Carolina and is also investigatig neighborhood cooperative associtions for motor transportation and larketing. He has some hope of aranging to have the adaptibility of lie latter ti conditions in his own tate tried out through the operation f one or two demonstration routes, i cooperation with the federal bu-j eau of markets. Secretary Houston, a graduate of! lie University of South Carolina, has esponded with cordial interest and as offered Senator Dial the benefit f data gathered by the department f agriculture. He says in a letter o Senator Dial: "The bureau of markets has conucted an investigation of the possiilities of motor transportation for ural districts and it has cooperated rith the local interest in several 4. in Aoiaklioltmanf /1am. CUblV/liS 1X1 111C Mbauitouuivuv va uvu* j nstration routes where transporta-j ion facilities are inadequate. As a esult of this work, two bulletins on lotor transportations have recently een issued. "It might be well for the commerial organizations of the places you lention to consider, ^n their own initive, the feasibility of establishing aotor truck routes through the secions you have in mincU If they hould decide to do this, the experts f the bureau of markets will be ;lad to render all possible assistance ti an advisory way." . . I I RAIN EXHIBITS FOR PIEDMONT FAIR! i __ i Greenwood, June 3?Plans for thei xeatest fair in the history of Green-j rood on October 22-23-24, the dates! elected for the Piedmont 1919 Fairi re steadily progressing. An unusu-! lly large and generous Premium List j las been prepared and will be" off the j tress at an early date, as soon as . ertam aetans 01 tne rair program :an be completed. "Farmers throughout the Piedmont ihould begin getting ready to win >remiums right now," said Secretary iVarren T. King of the Association oday; "Last year's premium list has >een enlarged and amended to'in:lude in the agricultural department ;he newer and most important of the jrass and grain crops, less attention >eing paid to listing species which ire not widely and favorably known n this section. ELECTION SATURDAY. I The run-off election between J. E. Jones and George C. Douglass will be held Saturday. These two men [ed in the four-cornered race May on SI. BIRTHS. Born?In Tampa, Fla., June 9th, 1919, to Rev. and Mrs. Henry Pressly i daughter, Margaret Bradley. BODY OF NEGl IN SAVA1 Body Is Mutilated and T1 Before Sheriff Can Ke To Perpetrators?I Are Aroused?F men Wednesda The evidence seems to point to c the fact that the body of Mark Smith, n negro, killed nepr Abbeville last Sat- d urday, after having been thrown in 1j the Savannah River, and discovered p Wednesday afternoon by some fisher- ii men, was pulled out on the bank a again by unknown parties, mutilated beyond recognition and thrown back a into the river. Sheriff Burts, Deputy Sheriff Cann n and James Thornton returned to Ab- n beville shortly before going to press n Thursday afternoon, having answered a telephone call from the sheriff g of Elberton County, Ga., who said f that the body of a negro had been g found near ,Cherokee Shoals. The y sheriff and the two men set out im- d mediately. g The ferryman at Cherokee Shoals, s who had seen the body in the river M Wednesday aiternoon, acted as Sl guide. As soon as the sheriff and deputies approached the place they no- ^ ticed a marked stench. And on the ^ bank were signs of where the body ^ had been pulled out of the river on : the sand. There were small frag- ^ ments of half decomposed flesh, t( shreds of clothing and what appear- n ed to be pieces of bones. A large c portion of a pants leg was found ? nearby and this was brought back to Abbeville by the sheriff. It is thought that after mutilating the body beyond all possibility of recognition a the remains were thrown back into e the river. No one could be found in the^ neighborhood by the sheriff who 0 knew anything about the affair. n b Sheriff Burts received Thursday a s knessage from the sheriff of Elberton c County, Ga., saying that a negro c had been found by several men who tl were seining Wednesday afternoon in the Savannah River at Cherokee si Shoals and that it was thought that s< it was.^he body of Mark Smith. The i< sheriff, vMr. Cann and Jas. Thornton left immediately in a machine for c pherokee Shoals, but up to going to g press they had not returned and no g word had been received from them. p Doubt was thrown on the suppjsi- Sl tion that the body of the negro found t] late Wednesday by the fishermen j. at Cherokee Shoals, when a reporter 0 of the Press and Banner called up v the bank at Calhoun Falls for in- t( formation. It was stated there that n it was not thought that the body was c that of Mark Smith as another negro had been drowned near Cherokee ^ Falls early this1 week. e All efforts to get telephone con- n nection with persons livine near ? Cherokee Shoals failed as the lines, c were down. n The murder of Mark Smith, negro, f which occurred last Saturday even- a i ing, about 9 o'clock near Abbeville, e still remains a mystery. The authori- a ties state that they have discovered ii no clue which will throw light on the p killing or indicate the perpetrators a of the crime. f The boldness of the deed, the suc- jv PICNIC AT MARTIN'S MILL. I J ' ' .< | A crowd of sixteen young people j had a delightful moonlight picnic Tuesday evening at Martin's Mill, following which a dance was held at the beautiful home of Mrs. Beck- , c with. Music was furnished by a ^ player-piano and a Victrola. The chaperons were Mrs. Annie C. Harris ' and Mrs. Henry H. Hill. The young 1 J people were: Misses Eva Browne, I Mary Hill Harris, Eleanor Gambrell, i Marion Wilson, Ruth Beeks, Bessie Cothran, Ada Faulkner, Howard Hill, \ Messrs. Mims Cason, Bill Calvert, ( RO FOUND VNAH RIVER nrown Back Into River ach Spot?No Clue ^ople of County ound By FisherTT A-ffoVTIAAn J i.XXVVl 11VV11* ess with which the murderers have lade way with the body and the earth of clues indicate carefully ud plans, well executed. The peo- 1 le of this county are aroused and idignant over the brutal murder nd the citizens will only be satisfied rhen those responsible are captured nd punished. Smith's mother and the other two egroes with him at the time of the lurder have been interviewed a umber of times, but nothing further han has already been published was otten from them. They were too rightened and excited at the time to ather any definite impression of the rhite men in the automobile who rove up beside them and killed mith on Saturday evening. All tate that they knew none of the rhite men and could not give a decription of any of them. One negro came to Sheriff Burts j 'uesday and told him that he' bought Smith's body was in a pond last of Abbeville. He said that he ad noticed that the water was loody. The sheriff scouted the mater but went to the pond with the egro and had him go over the pond arefully with a stick. No body was ound. The theory that is held by many is hat the body was taken to the Sav-' nnah River and after being weight-' d, sunk in some deep hole. Although there were many travel-j t^)n the various roads leading out, f Abbeville about the time that the mrder was committed no one can, e found who will say that they aw four or five white men In a mahine going toward the place of the rime or later carrying the body of be negro to some other place. Several negro men nearby saw the booting or saw the men leave the^' cene, but were not close enough to lentify^the men. ' It is rumored on the streets of this . ' 1 ity that several men tried to get; mith to take them to Anderson on aturday in his machine, offerings to ay him well: However, no one eems able to tell who the men were hat tried to hire Smith's machine, t is also said that on a number of ! ] ccasions within the past month rhite men have tried to get Smith o take them various places in his lachine, but that Smith warily delined each time. When summed up all that is nown is: that Mark Smith was kill-; d about 9 o'clock Saturday night J ear Abbeville, by four or five white, len who drove up beside the ma hine that Smith was driving, the, egro jumping from his machine be-j ore it had stopped to escape, being ollowed by two white men into an djoining field. Smith fell after sev-j ral bullets had found their mark,: nd the white men continued to fire nto his body. The body was thenj ilaced in their car by the white men ,nd carried off and that the body was ound Thursday morning in the Sa-j annah River. oseph Bowie, Allen Long, Dick Kay Settings Roche and Albert Leslie. CLEMSON FINALS. The twenty-third commencement if Clemson Argicultural College will >e held June 15-16-17. The baccaaureate sermon will be preached by Dr. W. L. Lingle, of the Southern ^resbyterian church. The alumni iddress will be made by A. B. Bryan, j rhe address to the graduating class, vill be made by Governor R. A. [ Dooper. BITTERNESS SHOWN IN SENATE DEBATE OVER PEACE TREATY Washington, June 6.?Nobody who has seen the suffering of European peoples or stood in solemn meditation over the graves of any of those tens of thousands of American boys who ^leep beneath the soil of France can listen to the debate in the American senate nowadays without wondering if this is June 1914, or June, 1919, or if there has been a world war at all. Party rancor, personal bitterness, sarcasm, sneers at the statesmen of foreign nations, distrust of the motives of governments and peoples with which the United "States is at peace, and all the germs of that passion which makes bad feeling between nations and eventually leads them to bloodshed are to be found in the senate debate. Instead of an era of reconsideration which might have its beginning in expressions of altruism and idealism, so much in accord with American tradition and precedent, the senate is in the midst of a ' controversy in which men like Senators Borah, Johnson and Reed are vehemently arguing for an absolute detachment by the United States from association with other nations of the world, while Senator Lodge and almost a majority of the Republican party in the sense crive everv evidence of satisfaction that the extreme opponents of the League of Nations are conducting the assault. Leak a Mere Pretext. The row over the text of the treaty and the suposition that copies of it fell into the hands of1 financial interests is a side-show, a pretext, a vehicle for the outlet of argument against the League of Nations itself ?an opportunity of opportunities to discredit it and stir up opposition to the covenant. AMERICA MUST HE1> EUROPE SAY BANKERS 1 ? Washington) June 11.?Chairman Lodge, Senator Hitchcock and other committee members said this afternoon it was doubtful whether any further treaty investigation would be made. Mr. Lodge received a message from Paul M. Warburg, in which Mr. Warburg was understood to have disclaimed any knowledge of any copies of the treaty in New York. The resources of the United States must be pooled and poured into Europe to rebuild and restore if ond thft United States eoverament must co-operate with American bankers and European governments in mobilizing America's dollars to help the old world. This, three great international bankers told the senate foreign relations committee/ is why Wall street has been interested in the peace treaty and the League of Nations. The bankers are J. P. Morgan, Frank A. Vanderlip, and Henry P. Davison. From these witnesses and from Elihu Root the committee drew the following statements in its investigation of the "leak" whereby the treaty got into the hands of New York men while it was denied to the / aoriofo ' . J Result of Inquiry. Mr. Root: That he got a copy ot the treaty two weeks ago from Mr. Davison; that he felt he has a perfect right to it because it has been made public by Germany and therefore! was "public property." Mr. Davison: That he got hii copy on May .9 from Thomas W, Lamont, partner in Morgan & Co., and expert adviser to the Americac mission in Paris. That his primarj interest in it was at head of the International League of Red Cross so< cieties, but that he also was deeplj interested in it as an international banker. That the United States must co ordinate its money resources to re store Europe. UNION LEADERS CLAIM SUCCESS Say wires Will Be Tied Up WHU& Three Days?Press Report* Indicate That Telegraph Business Has Not Been Seriously Hampered. Chicago, 111., June 11.?Union Ipftftara rfprlnrpH frvniwM-. tViof fho ? ? ? ? ??"? VVM*^MW Vi*MV VUV first day's response to the call for a ' nation wide strike of commercial telegraph operators promises that the tie-up will be complete in three days. \ despite claims of company officials that the strike has failed. Reports received by The Associated Press from many towns in various sections of the country indicate that commercial telegraph business waa ; ,'.i not seriously interrupted in most districts. A statement by President Carlton of the Western Union Telegraph'Co., that only about 166 persons, 121 of them operators, answered the strike , . call brought from S. J. Konenkamp, international president v of the Commercial Telegraphers Union of Am- erica, a remark that more than that number of Western Union employes in Chicago alone had joined the strike, by noon today. ; ' Kjonenlounp'i Claim*. "Reports up to late toddy point to a 90 per cent response in the Postal ? Telegraph Company service and a 70 per cent response from Western Union employes", said Konenkamp in a statement to the Associated Press tonight. "The East has shown up 1 ... surprisingly well and in the South> east alone the number of strikers now exceeds 3,000. Telephone workers have added to the strikers numbers in Philadelphia, New Orleans, Columbia, S. C., and Brunswick, Ga.' ' *" ' ' j[ ' * .. ! . - J*. DIRECT FLIGHT IS NOT PLANNED I Plymouth, Eng., June 1.?A canvass last night among the members of the crews of all the American . navy's NC boats regarding the feasibility of a direct Atlantic flight by the NC-4 developed a wide divergence'of opinion. No one would say it was impossible or even impracticable, but there was general agree,j ment that much depended upon the direction of the wind and that there ' ^ was greater prospect of success in. flying from New England to Ireland than the reverse. Lieutenant E. F. Stone, pilot of the NC-4, was positive no attempt ' would be made to fly home by way of Ireland and New Foundland. He pointed out that all the NC planes are still in an experimental stage aod that none of them was built for a direct atlantic flight. He thought tfre chance of a favorable wind from this side was too remote to make serious consideration of the project possible. j AUVVtaiCO VA VUW |/1MM VVM?VM?iWW that if one or two member of the crew were dropped, enabling the plane to carry a greatly increased supply of gasoline, there was an ex1 cellent chance of success. They argued that the destroyers used to 1 aid this flight could be stationed along the direct course to ensure 1 the safety of the crew even if the plane came to grief. ! ATTEND"LAYMAN'S CONVENTION IN ATLANTA ! . Rev. and Mrs. H. W. Pratt and ' Mr. and Mrs. Amos B. Morse left Monday for Atlanta to attend, the 1 Layman's Convention of the South* ' em Presbyterian Church, in session . 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