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IV Abbeville Press and Banner Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Abbeville, S. G., Tuesday, July 1, 1919. Single Copies, Five Cents. 75th Year. I GERMANS SIGNED THE PEACE TREATY War is Brought to a Formal End? I Ceremony in Mail or mirror*? Condition! of 1871 Reversed? President Wilson Leads Allies in Signing. ?? Versailles, June 28.?World peace was signed and sealed in the historic Hall of Mirrors at Versailles this af-1 ternoon but under circumstances which somewhat dimmed the expectations of those who had worked and fought during long years of war and months of negotiations for this a-j chievement. nosp HPIP I gates, who at the last moment were unable to reconcile themselves to the Shantung settlement and left the Eastern Empire outside the formal purviews of peace, struck the first dis cordant note in the assembly. A written protest which Gen. Jan Christian Smuts lodged with his signature was another disappointment to the makers of the treaty. Warnings and Reply. To M. Clemenceau's stern warning in his opening remarks that they would be expected, and held, to observe the treaty provisions legally and completely, the German delegates through Dr. Haniel Von Haimhausen, replied after returning to the hotel that had they known they would be treated on a different status after signing than the Allied representatives as shown by their separate exit before the egneral body of( the conference they never would nave signed. Dramatic Climax. The ceremony came to a dramatic' lose, in fact, reached its highest ramatic pitch?with the wild en-j husiastic reception of President Wil-! on, M. Clemenceau and Mr. Lloyd Jeorge by the crowds outside the ailace, who ignored or disregarded Iw* minor n-f +Vip H?v TViov I me the three statesmen from their scorts and almost carried them body in their progress through the hateau grounds, to watch the play1 g of the fountains, a part of the rogram which had been planned as dignified State processionel of all tie plenipotentiaries. Germany and the Allied and assorted powers signed the peace terms ere today in the same Imperial hall mere the Germans humbled the prench so ign ominously forty-eight pars ago. This formally ended the Iorid war which lasted juat thirtyven days less than five year. Toly, the day of peace, is the fifth anversary of the murder of the Archake Francis Ferdinand at Savere| Order of Signing. I The signing began when Dr. Herrlann Mueller and Johannes Bell, the fcrman signatories, affixed their Imes. Herr Mueller sicmed at 3.12 I lock and Herr Bell at 3.13 o'clock, sident Wilson, first of the Allied egates, signed a minute later. At 5 o'clock the momentous session s concluded. All the diplomats and mbers of their parties wore conltional civilian clothes. There was marked lack of gold lace ad pa j mi ?* * Imry. xn?y were none 01 xne ianil uniforms of the middle ages, ?e traditions and practices are so n3y condemned in the great, sealered document signed today. Almost a Tragedy. Jimmie" Harris, Claud Gambrell, :il and Harold Tate and Edwin "ksdale, the brave young boys who it to North Carolina two weeks I to have the time of their lives, at home again. Claud and "Jim" are having much to say of their , but the Tate boys and Edwin not in a talking humor yet, for thfee developed a fine case of npe and came home muffled-jawwid mad. NEGRO KILLS ONE AND FATALLY WOUNDS ANOTHER AT BROWNWELL CHURCH For the fourth time within the1 past five weeks in this county, a ne-| gro killing h?e occurred at a Sunday} afternoon church gathering. The ! last fatality happened about 3 o'clock j I SnnHnv nf+wnrvnn at RrnwnwpH' * Church ,near Latimer, when Henry Robinson shot and killed Harden Fuller and probably fatally wounded Henry Johnson. A woman is said to! have been the cause of the shooting. I A thirty-two "side-wheeler" was the' ! weapon used. Within an hour after the shooting' ! occurred Robinson was arrested by! I Sheriff Burts and Deputy Marshall j Bruce and was placed in the county ! jail. j SHIP BUILDING GIVEN NEW LEASEI ; | Washington, June 27.?Increase in the shipping board fund from $276,000,000 to $491,000,000 for completion of the government's authorized ship building program was approved by the senate with but one dissenting vote at a late session tonight,' held in an effort to pass' the sundry civil appropriation bill. Legislation designed to aid the government in its campaign against i bomb throwers, anarchists and radicals was adopted by the senate after long and bitter denunciation of law breakers. The committee amendment; extending permanently the war time law providing for strict federal legislation of sale, manufacture and dis tribution of explosives also was apjproved. During the debate, Senator King, Democrat, Utah, urged deportation of L. A. C. K. Martens, New York, representative of the Russian soviet., He also advocated removal by President Wilson of Frederick C. Howe,jJ New York immigration commissioner!1 Senator Sherman, Republican, Illi-j' [ nois, also attacked Martens and Howe, and added that President Wil| son should "separate himself from ; men of that type." Senator Sher-j1 man HaoIhtwI +T10 Tir/?ri/lon+ "Iiototc! j too much from men who have sym| pathy. with Bolshevism." Senator Overman, Democrat, of 1 j North Carolina, chairman of the comj mittee which investigated Bolshevism 1 j Senator Pomerene, Domocrat, Ohio; j Senator Sterling, Republican, South j Dakota, and Senator Underwood, ! Democrat, Alabama, supported the ! explosives legislation and urged thati j the government "go the limit against 1 i anarchism." The legislation was op posed by Senators Lenroot, Republi lean, Wisconsin, and King, because,! ! they said, it was unconstitutional, j iand violated State rights. Senator! j Underwood conceded that federal! i I regulation of explosives in peace! | time was in the "twilight zone of] | constitutionality," but urged thatj I doubt of the government's power be i I resolved in favor of the government, j Protracted debate on the ship I building appropriation item and the committee amendment to cut off ail] I funds from the tariff commission' caused several important items to be passed over until tomorrow, thereby j preventing passage of the measure tonight as planned. Motor Trip to Virginia. I Mr. and Mrs. J. L. McMillan, Mrs. j J. M. Anderson, Miss Margaret and ' Elizabeth T,A7.f?nhv. Mrs. O,t?o Bris jtow and Raiford McMillan left Monj day on a motor trip through North j Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia I with Bluefield, W. Va., as the desti{ nation. The Misses Lazenby's home! is in Bluefield and Mrs. Anderson] lived in Bluefield for a number of I years. After visiting in Bluefield for several days, the party will motor up the Shenandoah Valley to the Luray Caverns and then to Washington. The return trip will be made through Richmond, Va. C. W. Maclin and Mr. Curamings, of Rome, Ga., were visitors in Abbeville Sunday. GERMANS ACTIVE < AGAINST POLES Paris, June 27.?Movements of thej Germans against the Western Polish; boundary at three points are giving i great uneasiness in conference cir- I cles, and Ignace Jan Paderewski, 1 Pr?1i?Vi r?rormif?r ic mnlrincr Mrnpst ftf- 1 forts to obtain ammunition from the ] allies before the Germans cut the; principal Tail-ways which it is thought; they will attempt. Heavy artillery attacks upon j1 Czenstochowa from the south and \( west threaten to cut the railway con- '< necting Warsaw with Cracow and the < Teschen coal fields. Czenstochowa is i a city of 40,000 persons and an im- ' portant railway junction. ! The Cermans are also advancing, at Krotoechin, 54 miles south-south-1 > est of Posen and directly west of, i Lodz, and there is fighting on the ' River Netze, west of Bromberg. Pol-j ish regard the Czenstochowa action as most critical, as the Germans are 1 within 20 miles of the city at some < points. The decisior/of the council, of four to permit the Polish army to, i establish order in Galicia, east of ; _ . . i Lemburg, earned with it temporary : recognition of the River Bruez, pend-j( ing the decision of the league of na-^ tions. This decision was gratifying i to M. Paderewski, and his associates ] as the interallied commissions which visited the region supported Polish reports that the district was being ' terrorized by bands connected with no recognized army. . REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS j / Mrs. John T. Evans and Mrs. Jos. L. Evans have sold the residence with the store-room attached near the Cotton Mill to Luther C. Martin for $5,000. At the time of the purchase; Mr. Martin also contracted with John T. Evans to take his stock of goods at an agreed price on October lst.,i at which time he will take charge of the property. j Mr. Martin will Conduct a general merchandise store at the stand now'1 occupied by Mr. Evans after the date J state, and will be prepared ito serve: all customers in an up-to-date man-| ner. The friends of Mr. and Mrs. Mar-j tin will be glad to know that they are i to return to Abbeville to make this1 their home. Mr. John T. Evans has purchased from Mrs. W. T. Bradley the lot on Church Street on which the residence of Mrs. Bradley stood before it was destroyed by fire. It is understood that Mr. Evans will erect a handsome residence on the lot. Col. R. W. Smith, on Monday, aIada/J 'o iy?q/]a n** n p WVOCTll a TY1UIL JL/1. VI* WIM?V*V| for the purchase of the W. P. Devlin! tract of land on Long Cane. The pur-: chase price is $16.00 per acre, which sound like cheap land in these times of high prices. The Colonel will takej charge January 1st. j A RUNAWAY HORSE. i i There came near being a serious ( accident at the residence of Mr. R. j W. Smith Sunday afternoon. The| horse, which was hitched to the bug-' gy, was tied to a post in the yard and j +>io irnimf* Pained Krtv twn sons' of Mr. Smith got in in the buggy to play. The boys were telling stories about driving horses and it was supposed that the horse hitched to the Raines buggy started forjvard from some of the orders given by the boys. The rein with which it was hitched brolCe, and it is thought that this frightened the animal. At any rate it started at a fast gait for home. The Raines boy jumped out, but the two Smith boys, aged 7 and 9, stayed in the foot of the buggy until it hit a heavy sand bar. This slowed the horse up a little and both of them jumped out. They were badly frightened and a little bruised but not seriously hurt. The horse ran on to the residence of Mr. Raines and ran under a shed, tearing the top off the buggy, breaking the single-tree and other parts of the vehicle. GREENVILLE WOMAN j LI ACCUSED OF ARSON, | i Greenville, June 27.?A sensation, was created here today by the arrest j of Mrs. J. W. McFarland, college: ce graduate, author of a published book, J. of poems and former city school j a teacher, who is charsred with com- 'hi: plicity in starting the fire that de- s so stroyed five buildings on Rhett and, 19 Pendleton stteets here last night., $>r That Mrs. McFarland is demented j Li on the subject of fires is the belief co of Sheriff Rector, who stated that in a addition to the confession he claim-( seed Mrs. McFarland has made to him D( that she started last night's fire, he se' has evidence to show that she was re-( so sponsible for the burning of the Co-j At lonial Apartments about two months ago. Mrs. McFarland in the cell to-.br night emphatically denied that she^0 had confessed to setting fire to the Rhett Street buildings. Friends said Le Mrs. McFarland was asleep and that f? they waked her when the fire occurr- he ed last night. j Ci Prominent persons have interested ra thmselves in Mrs. McFarland's case. an She comes from a prominent Georgia familv. it is said, and tauerht in the city schools here, having married a 3oldier in the Thirtieth Division in Greenville in the fall of 1917. Her an husband is now in France. ! co . . . . ith 1 pe ARMENIANS DIE j th OF STARVATION pr ___ ' t)h i : London, June 27.?"I have seen, towns where there were 7,000 refu^ ?ees losing 1,000 of them monthly, through starvation. I have seen a' town 30 miles from the railroad re-j ^ duced by starvation from a population of 4,000 to 2,000 in ten dayB." | That is what is happening in Ar-, ^ menia, according to Lieut. Melville | P^ "L-i? j.1.. * : r>?j f CI urmter ui wie Aiuvnuiiii xvcu vivaa, who has arrived in London after an ^ extensive tour; of the Near East. |on I gj} Condition there, he told the Asso I TG ciated Press representative, are simply appalling. The people are in j rags. Disease, no less than starvation i qq is taking a heavy toll, and it is dif- . ficult to check its spread because jtl? there are no medicines or disinfec-'an j tants to be had. The people will, ^ have to be fed by outsiders, he said,; 1 US until the harvest which follows the! , th next sowing. The new American state, known as j0] the Republic of Erivian, is a country | so despoiled by the Turks, the Red, jQ Cross officted state, that it does not ag possess even any seed grain. t(> "During the war," he said, "The to Turks made systematic attempts to ^ to destroy the Armenian people. Theyjth forced their way through Armenia-bo with the intention of joining forces j ed with the Tartars to the north, massa-j creing and committing widespread is depredations as they marched. On el< their way back they swept Armenia en clean for the Armenians at the time tr; of the armistice had only 22,000 sol- ar diers in the field. The Turks wanton-! to ly destroyed everything in their: co nath. The result is that the Armen-! \rr *" ; j v ian republic has no cattle, seed jn grain, flour?nothing at all to eat." The American committee for relief' in the Near East is making every effort, according to Lieutenant Chater, to succor the starving Armenians, j From February 8 to April 1, with; ^ the aid of the American Red Cross,!., llf it put into the country 5,600 tons of ^ flour. Distribution is a difficult prob-l _ IM lem. rood is earned .to interior, SO points by native bullock carts. m; I WRIGHTSVILLE FIRE DESTROYS HOTEL ni . su Wilmington, N. C., June 26.?The hi Seashore Hotel, one of the two big hotels at Wrightsville Beach, ten at miles east of Wilmington, was burn- ac ed to the ground at a late hour to- bt night. More than 300 guests escaped unhurt with most of their belong- as ings. The loss is partially covered w by insurance. Fire fighting equip- hi ment was sent from this city. ai V EUT. W. OSCAR STEVENSON CITED FOR BRAVERY BY GENERAL PERSHINC Supervisor W. A. Stevenson re ived a dispatch from General Joha Pershing Sunday which contains citation for bravery, awarded t< 3 son, Lieut. William Oscar Steven n, killed an action October 8 18. The citation was, for unusua avery in battle on September 25 eut. Stevenson was out with a re nnoitering party in a truck, whei shell burst over the truck, killinj veal and wounding the others men jspite the fact that he was woundei verely in the back, Lieut. Steven n brought the truck back to th< nerican lines. This is the second citation fo; avery accorded to Lieut. Steven n, the first being a divisional cita m, given by Major General W. W ;wis of the 30th Division, and wa r unusual bravery in action Ooto r 7, the day before he was killed tations from Oeneral Pershing an re and are given only for unusua d conspicuous bravery. TVip rihnfmn frvllnwc" Second Lieutenant. William Osca evenson, (deceased) Company A 8th Infantry: For distinguishe< d exceptional gallantry at Hargi urt on 25th September, 1918, ii e operations of the American Ex ditionary Forces in Testimon; ereof, and as an expression of ap eciation of his valor, I award hin is citation. Awarded 27th March, 1919. Signed John J. Pershing, Commander-in-Chief. GRADUATES IN AGRICULTURE Clemson College, June 28.?A to 1 of seventy-two men have com eted courses in agriculture a emson College this year. Of thi imber ten were members of tb e-year agricultural course an< cty-two were graduates of tb gular four-year courses in agricul re. Ten members of the one-yea urse completed their work in prac :al agriculture in Friday, June 6 id were awarded certificates bu >t degrees. The sixty-two member the four-year degree courses grad ited on Tuesday, June 17, whei ey received diplomas which con rred on th?m the degree of Bache r of Science. Of the sixty-two graduates in th ur-year courses twenty-three tool Tonomy as major work, thirteei 1 1 _x H ok agTCiuxturai cnemisiry, nv ok agronomy and horticulture, si: ok dairying and animal husbandry ree took horticulture, three tool mtany, and nine took agricultura ucation. There were a bo in the class o '19 fifteen graduates in mechanics ectrical engineering, six m civi gineering, seven in textile indus y, five in chemistry, and four i: chitectural engineering, making < tal of 99 members of the degre urses or a grand total of 10! iung men who completed course the institution in 1919. ILSON WILL NOT I I FT RAN ON R0071 Washington, June 28.?Presiden ilson has decided he cannot legall; e the war time prohibition ban be re the country goes dryvat midnigh onday, but he expects to do so a on thereafter aa his power has bee: ade clear by the completion of de obilization. In a cablegram made public to ght at the White House the Pres ;nt said he was convinced after con ltation with his legal advisers h id no authority to act at this time "When demobilization is terrain ed," he continued, "my power t :t without congressional action wi] i exercised." The message expressed no opinio: i to the authority of the Presdienl hen he does raise the ban, to mak s action applicable only to bef id wine. , FATHER AND TWO ; SONS ARE SHOT 1 > / J. B. A?klej, HU Son, Sam Ashler. Lee White and Son White Arrettj ed?Out on $300 Bjbnd Eath? Trouble Started Over Youthful Fracas. 1 ?? y J. B. Ashley, and his aon, Sam. i. Ashley, Lee White and Son White i were arrested Sunday afternoon - charged with shooting Eugene Covin, e and his two sonsj Ernest and Ellis, near Wardlaw Bridge on Little River r Saturday evening. The shooting was J done with shotguns and the father -J and two sons were peppered with J bird shot. It is feared that Ernest s' Covin will lose the sight of one eye. -! The warrants charge assault with in1 fonf 4-a w11 l# | VWUV UV mill B; The trouble started over a fight lj which occurred,Friday afternoon bei tween the two boys, Ernest Covin j and Sam Ashley, in which the former r, got the better of the fracas. It ia > said that Covin used a buggy whip V and this fact angered Ashley's father - J. B. Ashley. 11 The three Covins came to Abbeville Saturday as did the Ashleys ^ and the Whites. It is understood that a few words were passed whil? 1 in town, but no trouble occurred. The Covins left for home about . o'clock and in order to reach-- theca. had to pass the Ashley home. As they approached the placed they noticed the Ashleys and Whites and others gathered in the yard. The elder Covin made an effort to get by, . but was stopped by J. B. Adbtoy, . who claims that he wanted Ernest tj Covin and his son Sam to finish the gj fight. Covin whipped up his mule q ! and when he got several feet away j'some of the Ashleys and the Whites e opened fire with shotguns. AU three ' . of the Covins were hit. The father was struck in the face, arms and r body and had two teeth shot out. i- Ernest was struck in the face and s \t arms and will probably lose his left t eye. Ellis Covin, about 10 years oH, s was struck in the legs and body. Sev[. eral volleys were fired at the Covins, n Ernest Covin says that he return ed the fire of the attackers with * - shot gun, but does not think he hlfc anyone'; e The Ashleys and the Whites were k arrested Sunday afternoon by Sbera iff Burts and Deputy Sheriff Cann oai e warrants charging assault with intent K to kill. They were relieased on temr> porary bond of $300 each, returning ^ Monday and making permanent bond. ,1 f PLANS OF BRAZIL 1 ARE WORLD-WIDE il (. Washington, June 24.?Develop1 ments of close commercial relations a between Brazil and other countries, e the United States in particular, was 5 declared today by Dr. Epitacio Pess soa, president-elect of Brazil, to bs j one of the aims of his coming administration. In his last public address in Wash. ington, made at a luncheon given in his honor by Secretary Redfield, Dr. n - J J.V_ TT_li. J VA1/1 ? ressoa sam mts umicu unu undeniable titles to Brazilian friendy f ship. This country, he said, always t has been a trade friend of Brazil, and also in the United States the S I Brazilian people see the means thru whcih their commerce may be developed. J Ladies of the Brazilian party were i taken on an automobile trio late in _ the day while Eh\ Pessoa discussed e with American experts the expanu sion of cotton raising, ginning and t_ manufacturing in his country, o Dr. Pssoa, wife and daughter and H several other members of the party were guests tonight at a dinner at n the home of Acting Secretary Polk, t, while the remainder of the party are e entertained at dinner at the home of ir Assistant Secretary Breckinridge Long. i *