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_ * v/lf? ?' ? - t ' ' . ? . "Mi ^ ' / Sr^.? ' " # ^;.5| Abbeville Press and Banner 1 ' ? ; ' - - ' N .V '-Vj* _ n~ " ' ? ' ' " - ^z M Established 1844. $2.00 the. Year. v Abbeville, S. C., Friday, August 22, 1919. Single Copies,.Five Cents. 75th Year. . RANSOM PAID FOR . AMERICAN Sl! ^ AA R a nrJifd Amej Only fo.uu ui*cu iu can Troops Cross Border in Pur suit?Airplanes Used to Scout? Torrential Rains May Oblit erate Trail?Bandits Scatter. ' Maria. Texas, Aug. 19.?Sprei out fanshaped over a wide stretch < Mexican country south of the R Grande. United States cavalry troo] r.idecf by airmen as scouts tonig] are combing the mountains for tl bandits who held the two Americs aviators for $15,000 ransom. After the forward dash over tl bolder today, the ^ troops probab were being handicapped tonight by storm which was reported in mess ges by field telephone to be raging . the mountains below the border. . It was feared torrential rains wou obliterate trails left by the bandit The expeditionary force for a tin moved forward in the face of hij winds, according to the reports. The two lieutenants, H. G. Pete r. son and Paul N. Davig for whom ra som was demanded and who were r leased early today, guided the Amei cans in their quest of the Mexic? outlaws. Witfh nearly six hours start on tl punitive expedition the banditst a believed to have scattered in tl mountain passes and canyons, and probably will be-necessary to sear< every square mile of the rough cou try below the border to find them, the opinion of military men. Airplanes u Scouts. Despite the difficulty .in Rcatir the bandits from the sir, Americt aviators who left the flying fie here early today, scouted a^nost tl entire Ojqp^ district. It was known tonight how mar are in the 'bandit band. Lieutena: Davis and Lieutenant Peterson sa they saw six men. There were J * -other bandits at the ranch where tl outlaws stopped. American aviato were told the band numbered 60. Arrangments for nurses, amb lances and surgical dressings for tl punitive expedition troops were beii made tonight by Elmer Donnell of ? Louis, for the. use in case of emer ency. A report from the expedition in< cated that pursuit has continu throughout the day but that the had been no contact with the bandi H. N. Fennell, a banker of tl City, arrived late today and annour ed that the amount of ransom act ally paid for the release of the avi tors was $8,500. Fennell took t ?ik nnn demanded to Candelaria y< terdajL He declared a re^unt of t money brought back by Captain M* lack after release of the aviato showed $6,500 remained. Fennel! brought the $6,500 ba to Marfa this afternoon and depos ed it in a bank. The money was $50 bills. Fennell said the air would reimburse the cattlemen w .^subscribed the ransom money. Fennell tonight told the first co nected story of events preceding t .-ossing of the American aviators the United State? today. He outlin preliminary negotiations Monday t tween Captain Matlack and the Me: 'can brother in law of Renteria, W acted as a go between. v ? V SCHOOL OPENS SEPT. 8. V V It was stated in the last isV sue of The Press and Bannfer V that Abbeville Schools would V open September 15. This was V an error. Schools will open / V one week earlier, September V 8. Capt. Fulp ,superintendV ent, has asked that all teach7 y v ers be . in Abbeville SeptemV ber 6 in order to attend a + M^orc mpptfnc. V .WVVSIVVVVVV. I ORGANIZE POST OF j i AMERICAN LEGION HERE SEPTEMBER 10 1 . ' | J! Wednesday, September 10, has, hppn set as the date for the orprani-'] * I ; zation of a post of the American Le- 1 gion in Abbeville County. There are'1 '- about 600 service men in this county 1 who are eligible for membership and ] everyone of these men are urgecl to i attend the initial fneeting of the or- i ganization at which time officers will i be elected. v ') The American Legion is an $stab-; < id lished fact. It is the concrete reali- < if zation of "some sort of organization'1; io after the war" which was talked of' ps in every cantonment in America, on ( tit board every ship in the Navy and in r ie every unit and section of th*e. A. E.. t tn F. It is the crystallization of the l wish of every soldier, sailor and ie marine to organize after the war. I ly "In union there is strength," and in! I a this particular union will be found l a-'the bulwark of Americanism. in! The LegiOn has grown and its spirit has'spread because it is worthy. Id In every, test-at the outset it re-, I ;s. pelled selfishness, narpwness, partile sanship and clung-tenaciously to the rh1 underlying theme?democracy. In J every test it has withstood the temp-1? r-.tation of exploitation for its mem-jJ n_i hers at the expense of the country at; 1 e-jlrge. In no instance has it sought ji i-i anything that was not just and equit-: I "n i able and in the best interests of all j < America. It is now, always has been i i \e and will continue to be nonpartisan 11 re land non-political in the accepted:] ae' sense of those terms,, |) it ' But while it is non-polificai it has^ 1 ;h and always will have politices, in * rfs' that it reflects the will and opinions in; of .the majority of its members-*? < | whose sanity, unselfishness and pat- i (riotism may be dfepended *upon in I ig questions affecting national or inter- : m national integrity and adjustment. i id le GERMANY IS GETTING ' > 1 AMERICAN COTTON j iy ' * ' T nt The Hague, Aug. 15.?The Deut-p id sche Allgemeine, Zeitung says that < *0 Aucr. 1 marked the opening of the!: lie American cotton season, and that j' rs since that day Bremen and Berlin i have been in direct radio communica- i u- tion with America. The paper points tie out that this means a decided im- < ig provement in cotton commerce, as ' >t. up to the present telegrams by Way g- of England often took five days, so I that no arrangements could be ' li- reached under ten days. The paper : ed says that already Americans in Brere men a^e busy and only too willing to 1 ts. do business, to give credits, and us complete with the English. lc- Eighteen thousand bales of cotton, u- wtych armed at Hamburg destined. a- for Czechoslovakia, are to be put at he the disposition of German industry, 5s- whcih requires'2,000,000 bales 'in he i the coming xear, the paper adds, and it-1 points out that the burden of duties >rs would be lightened if German indus-j tries could immediately begin work ck! for export, but that the incoming it-: cotton must first supply the dire in' needs of Germany, although some ay textile industries already are manuho facturin^ for export. m-! GEORGE A. SHILLITO. he' The funeral of George A. ShilHto, toj 71 years of age, who died in Columedi bia Tuesday night, was held at Long! >e- Cane cemetery Thursday at 121 si- o'clock noon, the body arriving onj ho the 11:20 Southern train. The Rev.| J. L. Daniel, pastor of the Methodist! ? rimwk PAnHnpfoH fVlP QATvi^A. ' .V The pallbearers were: J. Allen' V Smith, M. E. Hqjlingsworth, J. L.j V, Hill, T. P. Thompson, P. A. Roche, j V. and R. S. Link. V Mr. Shillito was born and reared' vj in Abbeville, being the son of the V1 late James and Mahala Shillito and v! the last of a large family of children. He had lived in Columbia 18 years. V: ' He is survived by the following vj children: Frank L. Shillito, George V| A. Shillito, Pat Shillito, Mrs. F. M. V.1 Lindsay and Miss Nellie Shillito. W I Wo Knrl fVio follnwinp' nieces livinc! in Abbeville: Mrs. J. L. PerrinJj V1 Mrs. W. D. Wilson, Mrs. R. M. Hill,! Aj and Mrs. W. C. DuPre. I DTIS McMURRAY, VISITOR HERE, IS SERIOUSLY HURT IN BICYCLE ACCIDENT -Otis McMursay, 13 year-old* nephew of C. H. McMurray, a yisitor From Clinton, was seriously injured Wednesday afternoon about 4 o'clock ivben he 'fell from his bicycle on damsburg mil, struung on ms neaa mcj back. He was unconscious for nore than 10 hours. He was found on the side of the road by Mr. Cox, of the Pierce-Wood 3o., Greenville, "and brought to Dr. j.. A. Neuffer's office where medical attention was given. Yhe youroggd. still remains in a iaze, thotj^PP partially conscious. The attendant physicians do not ;hink that there is concussion of the jrain. ' j?d:!5t:on -to .the blow on the lead the boy suffered a sprained jack- and bruises on his bacfc and egs. aL CAMPAIGN TO RAISE $400,000MEMORIAL FUND FOR SOLDIERS k: Columbia, S. ?., Aug. 21.?Every ninister in South Carolina will be isked'^o call attention on Sunday, September 28th# to the fact that Monday, September 29th will be the irst anniversary of the smashing di ;he HTndenburg line by the ^ South Carolina, iTorth Carolina and Ten. tS lessee" troops of the Thirtieth Division, and that on that day the cam paign to rai^e $400,000 to erect a fitting memorial to the South' Carolina heroes participating in the Great War will be formally opened. The South Carolina Memorial Gommission believes that the memorial fund will be raised within the list week of the campaign, and prohibit during^ the first; two or three lays.. . The S&te is how being organized Eor the campaign. County organizations have already been set up in several of the counties and all is in readiness for the beginning of the campaign a month hence, but there are a few counties yet? to be organized. All will be in readiness, however, before the day the campaign is tc open. ' It i! being arranged to send speak ers into counties where they may be needed, and the County Chairmer will have the full cooperation of the State organization everywhere. The women of the State will render the 9ame splendid service they have giv en in the several Liberty Loai campaigns. COTTON ASSOCIATION MEET HERE TODA\ - V? The farmers, busness men and ali interested citizens will meet at the Coujrt House at 11:30 o'clock todaj (Friday) for the purpose of organizing county branches of the SoutV ^ is? o-i-i. A Carolina V^ULLUII nsmiauuu. ucu M. L. Bonham, Anderson, an olc resident of Abbeville, and W. B. Ut sey, St. George, will make addresses HYDE LEADS GRACE BY ONE VOTE IN MAYORALTY ELECTlbN . Charleston, S. C., Aug. 20.?The result of Charleston's mayoralty primary of yesterday will not be finallj known until Friday, when the citj democratic executive committee meets to canvass the returns and consider challenged votes as the com plete tabulation shows T. T. Hyde tc have a majority of one vote ovei John P. Grace with some seventj challenged votes yet to be passed on and either counted or rejected. Oi the possible total of 7,715 a total oi 6,911 were cast and some seventy challenged. ' Dave Magill Here. iJ. H. Magill, Esq., of Atlanta, Ga, was in Abbeville Thursday. Mr. Magill formerly practiced law at Greenwood, but for several years he has been making his home in Atlanta. / DEPUTY BRUCE CAPTURES ! C TWO MOONSHINERS IN McCORMICK COUNTY i-V .j Single-handed Deputy Marshal C. J.-Bruce captured two mftmshiners, ^ T.. T. and J. M. Lawton, and a still .P _ at their home one mile west of Mt.' s Carmel Wednesday morning. He al- n so seized their automobile, in which '1 he found some whiskey. It is the first case in this section wher n au- .ti . w * jomobile-has been seized unaei the w Federal law, recently enacted. - ; d Fifty-two gallons of mash was tl poured out and 1 and 1-4 gallons of n booze was found. A complete still 1( >vith the exception of the furnace, fi was destroyed. v i The two men were arraigned be- U j fore Commissioner C. E. Williamson- tl Wednesday and were bound over to C _^the next term of Federal Court under bail of $1,000 each, which was ^ given. ? CITES DANGERS IN PACKERS SPREADING * i 1 ti Washington, Aug. 19.?The dan- h ger as seen by the federal trade com- f 'I - - ; - I X1 mission in -the entrance or tne pacK- w ir.g industry into lines of business be-, P 1 yond the packing, of meat was de- g 'j scribed by William B. Colver, mem- F 1 ber of the commission, today to the a rj Senate agricultural committee. In its'a L! opening hearings on . the Kenyon bill a ' to divorce ownership of the stock- 1 ' yards and refrigerator cars from the' s packing concerns of the country and( e 1 io regulate-by license their operation,! r I ' the committee was taken over -much c 'i of the ground traveled by the commission in its investigation of the ii ^ packing industry. ^ ' a "The refrigerator car and their use d 1 of it," said Commissioner Colver, re-'t " terring to the five big packers, "waa c 1 .ot in itself ft bad thing. But ttey n * iave turned their refrigerator car' into a traveling wholesale grocery,!8 'j peddling at every city in the country| ? " every day almost everything that. ^ l| people eat. " y '"' j*1 ' Supplying Other Thing*. " j 1 ! ' When the packers," he continued,!y '! "have found their customers ouyingj ts 'I something else besides the meat theyj n 1 have to sell, or its by-products, theyi t nave gradually commenced to get in-! u " to the business of supplying * the! d - other things. "?/ } * 1 "When they themselves have been'i 5 arge buyers of a '^ivfen - commodity, J ( * ;hey have gotten into the production jE s of that article and gone into com-| / * petition with their former purveyors, j1 1 When they have found a substance (a which has become to some extept a ^ substitute for meat products, they "f have gone into the business of mak- 9 f ibg and selling that substance." . t j Extreme instances^of the tendency: j -he commission asserted, had turned1 | meat packers to hotel operating when' ! they had started only to sell soap, toj ^ j making tennis racquets because gut, * j strings went into such articles andir j to selling soda fountains because!1 ! | beef tea was there served', j "Suppose they can reach out, putir ( ie wholesaler out of business," Sen-J* 'j itor Kenyon, a member of the com-1 j .iiittee, asked at one point of the in-!3 i quiry, sefl products cheaper to the'' .onsumer in these unrelated lines, de-je [ /elop efficiency of supply, is not that j' . sound economic principle which is M , being worked out? . 0 aIaoa T o/t/tanf I ^ Jill tuc HLO1/ piatc ? vatiitvv avv.?yvi f any promise on which you put the J11 r question," was Mr. Colver's reply. j ^ - " k I > Land Sales. ( J. Allen Smith and D. H. Hill sold | . 1200 acres, eight miles south of; d , town this week to John Tate, Ander-| h { son, for $30 per acre, the total j t i amount paid being $30,000. The salej a ( was made through E. F. Geiger and; h / S. M. Johnson. ! o Albert Henry bought the Jim' Boseman place Thursday from L. C.j ! Parker, paying $75 per acre for a a | tract of 94 acres. tl ?f. H. Anderson, Anderson, bought a .i the Jim Campbell place about five li Smiles from Antreville this week,'s paying $40 per acre. The sale was'r i made throu- '.i L. M. Tolbert of the' ti j Dixie Land Company. i tl / 0 AYLIGHT SAVING , if LAW IS REPEALED OVER WILSON'S VETO I Washington, Aug. 20.?Repeal of he "daylight saving * act was accomlished today, the Senate voting ' to ustain the House in passing the teasure over the President's veto.! ? 'he vote was 57 to 19. * The repeal of the law which now, ikes\its place among the very few 'hich have been passed over a Presiential veto becomes effective after ift. clocks are-turned back to nor-" lal in October. It will go down in ;gislative history as one of the very 'v ew measures which have twice been ti etoed by# a President and became a d iw after all by the vote of more 'Is lan two-thirds' in both houses of. t] ongress. | w ?_?i ib ERMAN MILITARY . L POLICE A MENACE , , 13: Goblenz, .^Saturday, Aug. 1<*?^ lilitarization of German police, con-' w rary to terms of the treaty of'peace, r as already begun, according to in- p ormation reaching American au- v horities in the City of Cansel the c olice were recently completely oranized on military . lines by the -j. 'russien government, it is 'said, and a re now equipped with-steel helmets ^ nd.rifles and* follow the routine -of v military company in their barracks, t 'he 300 State police in office in Cas- r el, 100 have elected to be-transferr- c d to the new organization, and the s emainder have been given places in 3 ivirservice. V - - 'a The exact size of the new militar-j zed police organization has not been v rinoftnced. Americans studying the f emobilization and reorganization, of G he German army say that the signifi- r ance of militarizing police in Ger- s nany is great. . e American officers- have record* oil n announcement that the Prussian ft ;overnznent, quite apart from the v National government was to organ- g ze a "Schutzlanschafft", or State po- 8 ice force, throughout Prussia, which j rould be virtually military units in ;arrison4 with full infantry equiplent, but would be under control of a he minister of the interior and used p nly for the repression of internal t lisorders. These troops according to t he Dlan. were to be quite apart and t n excess of the army permitted c Jermany under the terms of the t eace treaty. '4 *' '? A semi-official however, state* that t t is appreciated that these troops t re not permitted under the term# of ? he peace treaty, but the hope, is ex- v >ressed that the Allies will be "rea- t oiiable" and permit t^eir organiza- r ion. . , ; . i - L . i Mr. Dtrid Gilliam. *t The funeral of Mr. David Gilliam, t >5 years of age,* who died at his a tome near Haskell's Station, lastj ? Monday afternoon, was held at Leba-I? ion Church Tuesday afternoon at| v t o'clock, the Rev. H. C, Fennell, of-j ^ iciating. Interment followed in the ? Lebanon Church cemetery. " kr fniir iYir. vjniiam is suivivcu uj *vu| ons, George Gilliam, Fort Smith, | \.rk.; Charles Gilliam, Watts; RoSbirt Gilliam, and John Gilliam, the r ast two living at home, and three laughters, Mrs. Foster McLane, Ab- j. >eville; Mrs. C. L. Rock and Miss c k Mne Gilliam, both of whom live at lome. He is also survived by two nothers, Henry Gilliam, Abbeville; ^ nd J. A. Gilliam of this county. 0 ' lf ' Mr*. J. T. Baskin. j s Mrs. J. T. Baskin, Lowndesville, i ied Wednesday night at a hospital a a Anderson. The body was brought . o Lowndesville Thursday morning > nd the funeral was held frota the S ome Thursday afternoon at 4:30 N 'clock. . ^ * " S Winston Salem, Aug. 20?Bankers ^ nd business men from all parts of j ^ fie State are gathering ftere tor tne > nnual convention of the North Caro S na Bankers' Association, the first ^ ession of which will be held tomor- ^ ow, at which it is* expected Secre- ^ ary of the Treasury Glass will make V he principal address. % ! \ r% i ^* mn*' - m*. W A mm. A * ? rflui s mm. < &, - ,V>. &V*.' Republican Senators "Of the Same Opinion Still" Despite Elucidation By President ' Wilsoo?Can't Agree. On. What the Treaty* Mean's?A Compr?gnise v-.T May Be Accepted. V Washington, Aug. 20.?Anybody rho expected the Republican senaors who have been opposing Presi- , ent Wilson's ideas on the League of rations to be overcome at once by h spell of presidential persuasion ?as doomed to disapppintment Any- ; ody, who thought "the senators . rould emerge from the White House * ^ onference and- issue statements v ; \ " aying that they-had heen all' wrong . r their __ speeches of " the last few reeks and that . Mr. Wilson was ight, doesn't understand senatorial isych'ology or the reverence with - irhich the congressional mind holds- ; ^ onsi^tency and inflexibility. ' But whilst senators of the' foreign elations committee were going round the capital today saying they ladn't" got' a bit of information ~ whilst- othervsenators were wading'" hrough twelve to fifteen: columns of eading matter en the presidential [uiz of the day before, and whilst undry statements were being iisued aying not a vote had been changed:' ? f Jnd not an opinion previously held ^ lad been shattered, nevertheless one ' rho watches 'Senatorial maneuvers^ . rom year to year took with a grain if salt all'these utterances and could ' <? >.: J lot but'conclude that. President Wil- ' on's offer of a compromise would >>' ' ; \ 1 .** * ' iventually be accepted. The d&ate brought out' just one1 hdng?that lawyers can't agree oh trhat the treaty- means and that language doesn't mean the same to two ets of minds when one set i? Retublican and the other is Democratic. - Law* Are Ambiguous. Congress every day makes laws : . ;s ind puts language into thtem which' /. produces law suits galore for genera* ior\p to come. Mr. Wilson admits hat there may be different interpre ations today of America's future iKIfcrafinna nndor thp nrnnMAtl \ 1 - reaty. .But he says to the senate 'adopt a separate resolution emtodying your understandings." To ' he suggestion that Mr. Wilson's rerbial assurances today and his pitate records and conservations with he other delegates at Paris would tot be 'bipding upon future ministries md-parliaments and that without an ixcellent record thereof a dispute nay easily arise* as to what was said, ** he president offers a solution. He ( iays the joint resolution adopted to iccompany the peace treaty but not* is a part of the act of ratification vould be preserved for years to come , ind would always be a basis for fuure policy by the United States. v Bis Land Sale. Of considerable local interest is a x > eal estate transfer of Tuesday bJ vhiclf the J. Allen Smith farm in Ableville was bought by J. L. Tate, of -s x !tarr. The Smith farm is one of the finot in that county, having very good touse and outbuildings and a grade if land high above the average. The arm is 1,200 acres in size and was old for $30,000. The deal was made through Geiger nd Johnson.?Ander^pn ^Daily Mail. ^VVxvVVVVVVVWW V COTTON MARKET. V August 14. V v: New York Cotton Market. V > October 30.35 31.10 .V December __ 30.60 31.34 V , January ... 30.40 31.20 V . March 30.52 31.39 V . May $0.48 31.40 V Abbeville Spots. No Market. V M AVVV \ /