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" %>A \ ;'-^Si .... 'ill Abbeville Press and Banner J ' , _ _ _ _ __ _ ~'"j ' p.??ki;?hed 1844. $2 00 the Year. Abbeville, S. C., Tuegday, Sept. 2, 1919. Single Copies, Five CenU. 75th Year. POLITICAL STORM IN WAKE OF WILSON Democrats Lined Up Behind President, While Republicans At Their OH Tricks of Trying To Dis credit Him?President Keit* ing Before Befinning Arduous Labors. Washington, Aug. 31.?Political pandemonium is expected this week in the senate if Republicans of the foreign relations committee carry out their plan for reporting on the peace treaty before Wednesday night when the president leaves on his stumping tour of the country. Following conferences with the president, Senator Hitchcock, administration le&der, is planning to line up Democrats for the hardest fight they have yet put up in congress. Democrats will open the battle the minute the treaty is reported. "It must be ratified without^ amendment," said Senator Hitchcock, following his White House conferences. Meanwhile, Republicans while preparing to meet the Democratic charge, also are planning to go to the country in opposition to the president. Repubicans may send out a special orators' train to trail the president and attempt to refute his arguments for adoption of the treaty as it stands. The "calm that precedes the storm" is looked for Monday and Tuesday, both at the capital and the White Mouse. , / President Resting. Acting on thfr-advio* of Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, the presi-j dent will take it easy before leaving oa his tour. The president began talcing it easy today when he did little work and went for an automobile' ride in the afternoon. j Golf tomorrow and Tuesday will be the president's prograjn with a tittle routine work on Tuesday. Only the critical labor situation precipitated by the demands of the steel workers seems likely to mar th? presidential plans for a rest for the next two days. The president may accede to requests of union officials that he take a hand in this by writing or telegraphing Judge Gary, chairman 01 xne umvea ouu? Steel corporation. Mr. Gary* has twice refused to meet the steel -work" en' onion officials. VWhat action President Wilson will take, if he gets into the fight, will depend on whether the workers today pat into effect their threat to strike. The committee which failed to obtain an audience with Mr. Gary were placed under orders, they said, to call a strike unless Mr. Gary acceded to their demand for a meeting by last midnight. Committeemen left here late last night declaring they had received no communication from Gary indicating he has changed ?-<* > . rns poncy. ^ Union officials say that in demanding that the United States Steel corporation recognize their tinion, they are merely asking for one of the principles on which the national war labor board acted during the war. President May Act. -f Officials here today expressed the belief the president tomorrow will ?ct in the matter. No intimation as to whether their belief was well founded came from the White House ioday. | f* Bot whether or not he takes a Stand in the steel situation the ! president is believed certain to issue a final treaty statement just before he steps aboard the train. That Ahia parting shot will be a hot one the prediction of those who have "studied past performances of the president. j Mr. Hutchison of Lowndesville, ti business visitor in Abbeville1 Monday. " j . | BOWDEN-SIMPSON j DRUG STORE SOLD HERE ON SATURDAY Lewis Perrin and Dr. James H. I Austin bought the Bowden-Simpson ! Drug Store from Dr. W. D. Simpson I Saturday, taking possession Monday, j This deal has been pending for some | time and is the outcome of efforts of j Dr. Austin to return to Abbeville, . where he lived for a number of ! years. He is now living in Bennetts| ville. He recently married Miss j Eliza Mabry of this citv and the j friends of Dr. and Mrs. Austin will j be delighted to hear of their return, i which will be about the first of Octoj ber. i In the meantime the store will be! j in charge of Dr. George Penney. Dr. Simpson also sold his home onj j North Main street Saturday^ Dr. J. i R. Power being the purchaser, the j consideration being $6,000. Dr. Simpson has not definitely decided on his future plans but will move in the near future to either Charlotte j or Monroe. Dr. Simpson and his family have, ! made many friends in Abbeville dtir! ing their sojourn here who will reI gret to learn that" they are soon to ! leave. ! ? ACTUAL WORK ON HOSPITAL COMMENCES I Actual work of the remodeling ofi the Abbeville County Memorial Hos-| jpital began today when eight work-, [men and a foreman began to tear| I down the porch and other parts of, | the building that will have to be re-J I moved before the plans of the archi-j tect can be carried out. In the near future another cam'nign to raise additional funds for the hospital will be begun. The board of managers have estimated that it will take at least $12,000 to complete and equip the building. This is absolutely necessary before a hospital which will fill the needs of this county can be built and furnish* ed. OPPOSITION PLANS REPLY TO WILSON Washington, Aug. 29.?As the final itinerary for President Wilson's ' ' A. Xl | speaking tour in support 01 ine peace | treaty was announced today, Republican senators began conferences to decide on plans for sending opposition speakers along behind him. The president's plans call for speeches in 80 cities throughout the West between the time he leaves here next Wednesday and his return to Washington, September 30. While resolutions were being offered in the j house calling upon'the president to abandon his our and engage himself in Washington with domestic affairs of the nation, Republican senators who oppose the treaty met with Senator McCormick of Illinois. Nothing| was finally decided and another con-J J ference will be held tomorrow when) it is expected a definite program will j 1 he announced. j Leaving Washington on a special | J train, the president will swing^ j through the Middle West, thence i across the Plain States to the Pacific j coast at Washington and down the ! coast as far as San Diego. On the re-' j turn trip he will speak in Nevada,! Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee and I Kentucky, his last address being at' Louisville on September 29. Whether the president will make j speeches from the rear platform of j his train has not yet been decided.! | He has set for himself the task of I | making 30 addresses in 26 days and' j to carry out this program, it will bej i necessary for him to deliver two j speeches a day for eight days of the trin. as his itinerary does not call fori any addresses on Sundays. The president will leave Washingi ton before General Pershing returns from overseas. I Mr. and Mrs. Otis McMillan came down from Anderson and spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. M. G-ambrell. SEPTEMBER TERM OF 1 COURT BEGINS HERE MONDAY; MANY CASES The September term of Court convened ^ere Monday, Judge R. W. 1 Memminger, Charleston, presiding, t The docket is a heavy one and the j \ court will be kept busy all week. 11 In his charge to the Grand Jurylr Judge Memminger stated the duties is of that body, calling attention to itsj j general supervision over the affairs1] of the county with power to make j any recommendations as to finances, a impovements and law enforcement in c addition to its usual duty of investi- h gating indictments and bringing in p true or no bills. v The following cases were disposed b of Monday: State vs. 0. E. Devlin, charged ( with enticing labor and appealed from magistrate's court, fine reduced from $50 to $25. 5 State vs. Rouse Ricord, plead guilty to larceny and was sentenced to c 3 months. State vs. Ernest Cosby, larceny, ^ plead guilty, sentence not passed. ^ True BilU Presented. The following true bills were returned by the grand jury: For mur- ^ Her?Robert Alexander, Dave Alex " " ~ ' ? ander, charged with murder of Alford Childs, August 4; Oliu Jones, charged with murder of Nathaniel S Williams, Jufy 2; Harvey Robinson, charged with murder of Harden Ful-1 ler, June 25. J. N. Cooley, assault and battery jn C. G. McAllister; Leiwis Childs and Winston Childs, burglary and Q larceny; Otto Linsay,' assault and battery on Mary Little. C. N. Thornton, charged with nonsupport of wife. * Solicitor H. S. Blackwell states that he hopes to complete the criminal docket this week if possible, c though it is unusually large because '' so many cases were continued from r last term of court. h b GOSNELL CASE REMOVED. Greenville, S. C., Aug. 27.?The case of Jack Gosnell, charged with s the murder of Sheriff Hendrix Rector f on July 4, was today removed from the Court of General Sessions to the a United States Court for the Eastern I ^ District of South Carolina, upon the ^ filing by the defendant a petition un- ^ der the provisions of Section 33 of the Federal judicial code. The filing of the petition automati- ^ cally removed the case from the t State court and a writ of habeas corgi pus cum causa was issued by J. B. Knight, clerk of court, directing the State authorities to deliver the body of Jake Gosnell into the custody of | ^ United States Marshal Lyon. ~ ? J--? 1 j.?:_U4.I Solicitor martin ueciareu wuigut: that he would inaugurate a fight to! a have the case remain removed fromj8 the Federal to the State court andi^ expeqts to appear before Judge iH. H. [ d Watkins in the near future wittt a aj n motioixto that effect. | v . ! n Mrs. Mary Ann Douglass. If Mrs. Mary Ann Douglass, 71 yearsj 1 old, died Thursday morning at 1 0 o'clock at the home of her son, Chas. n H. Douglass on the W. R. Ellis place. Ms. Douglass was here on a visit to n her son, her home being in Orange- * burg. The body was sent to Orangeburg Friday for burial. v, si Frank Gary Home. IS Cj Frank Gary arrived in Abbeville 8 last Friday and will spend a short ^ furlough with his parents, Judge and ^ Mrs. Frank B. Gary. The young man ^ has finished his first year at Annapolis and is home after his first cruise, which took him through the B Panol frt Sqti Frank looks well and is receiving a warm welcome from his friends. fj Ltbo Dayvwas not marked by any s< unusual program. The postoffice la was closed, but all the stores remain- al ed open to accommodate the large tl rowd drawn by the opening of court, li ilesday, etc. pi rwo MORE NEGROES ARE XILLED BY GUARD TROOPS IN KNOXVILL1 /' Knoxviile, Tenn., August 31.? Two more negroes were killed her his morning by national guadsmei vhen they refused to stop and de iver their arms. The city is unde nartial law. The total dead now i even and a score are wounded. Th< ail and shevi&s residence were part y wrecklt$^iSbd many dangerou >risoners escaped. Race riots no-* ire reported from Memphis and twi ompanies of Memphis troops her< lave been ordered to leave for Mem ?his in two hours. Many store heri vere looted and further serious trou >le is expected. Chattanooga Jail Guard la Reinforc m! Sunday. Chattanooga, Tenn., Aug. 31.? Sheriff Basfe reinforced jail guard arly today, anticipating an attacl iy armed linen from Knoxville, whi ie reported, to have left here short y after midnight vowing to lyncl laurice Mayes, a negro, accused o lurder. , Mayes,< when placed in a cell hen ate yesterday, denied any knowl dge of the crime. iUPERVISOR STEVENSON ELECTED LIFE MEMBER GOOD ROADS ASSOCIATION Supervisor W. A. Stevenson is ii eceipt of a letter from the Unite< Itates Good Roads Association ap rizing him ?f the fact that he ha< een elected a life member of th< ssociation for the State of Soutl !arolina. This is quite an honor and is ac orded Mr. Stevenson for his excel ?nt showing madej in behalf of gooc oads in Abbeville County. In 191i e stood first in the State as grade< y the State highway authorities. CLEMSON REOPENS SEPT. 10. Clemson College, Aug. 27.?Th< ession of 1919-20 opens for thi egular work on the morning of Wed esday, eptember 10, according U n announcement made by Mr. J. C .ittlejohn, registrar. All old mei rho have conditions to remove axi ue to report during "make-up week rhich is September 4 to 9 inclusive o that they may begin work on th< Oth. All other old students are du< o come in on the 9th in order to be in work on the 10th. New students will report Tuesday September 16, to be ready for regu ir work beginning: Wednesday, Sep ember 17. Roughly speaking, there will b< mong the new men 300 freshmen bout fifty one-year agricultural stu ents and about fifty disabled sol iers, making a total of about 40( ew students, out of about 826 rhich will be the capacity enroll lent. A noticeable feature of the appli ations for the coming session is th< act that a very large number oi Id students who have been in th< 1-: A lilitary service are seeK.m& iu xemn a complete their courses. Quite1 t umber of these have been out sine* 917 or before. All necessary arrangements foi iking care of the 800 or more whc rill enroll are now being made. A apply of new beds, mattresses, etc. 1 now coming in, and a carload oi anned goods purchased, from tht overnment surplus has been ordered t>r the mess hall. Everything pointf > a successful opening of the flrsl all session under peace conditions. LANCHETT FARM SOLD BY THE PROBATE JUDGE Monday was salesday and the irm of the late T. J./Blanchett was >ld by Probate Judge Miller. This md consists of 59 1-2 acres, lying t>out 10 miles north of Abbeville on le Martins Mill road. E. A. Wilams bought the land at the auction, $60 per acre. POST OF AMERICAN LEGION WILL BE I ESTABLISHED HERE A meeting of the ex-soldiers of the e Great War will be held at the Court a House, Wednesday^ September 10, - to organize a post of the American r Legion in this county. A large at- 1 s tendance is urged. # J;||? e The progress of the AmfgEteair Le -:gion is unprecedented: a nt tie" more sjthan five months ago a few men of v: he A. E. F., in France were puzzling i) I over a "big idea." They were tryej ing to launch the inevitable veterans' -1 organization coincident with demob-jj e: ilization and establish it on a worthy t -| plane. It got under way in Paris ^ I March 15 to 17 and was called The t American Legion. -j There are today approximately j 1,000 posts full^ organized. Double ( _ that number are in process of forma- j J tion in every State of the Union and . 3 I Ij in Alaska, Hawaii and the Philippine ( ^ Islands. The demand for a unified and organized patriatism ha3 taken ^ ^ form in every section of America. j ? Embraced in. the posts already organized is a membership of 100,000. j B A similar number is included in the 1 posts in the process of formation, j And it is just two months since the ^ St. Louis caucus where the Legion ^ was launched in America. Sixty . . . t days ago there was no American ^ j Legion in the United States. There ( .-.as nothing more than a small band j of volunteer workers with faces set ^ 1 to the task of vitalizing "the big J idea." 1 With state roganizations rapidly j! nearing perfection, with posts filled , with former soldiers, sailors and ma* e , rines in almost every community in a c j every state and territory that "Big ^ I Idea" is rapidly becoming a finished [ product?The American Legion. ; I WILSON LEAVES - . 1 ' NEXT WEDNESDAY * Washington, Aug. 28.?'President Wilson will leave Washington next r Wednesday on a tour of the country ^ 5 to give an account to the people of ^ 5 the negotiation of the treaty of Ver- ^ . saillea.' : . ) Secretary Tumulty made this an- j . nouncement today, finally putting at g j rest rumors current during the past g i few weeks that the proposed trip, ^ ? which would take the president to the j t Pacific coast, had been abandoned. ^ ? The trip will occupy 25 days, and, J speeches appealing for the immedl- f . ate ratification of the peace treaty without change, will be made in the principal cities of the West. ' The opening address, Secretary Tumulty said, will be at Columbus, Ohio, next Thursday, probably in the evening. 9 I ( i Eleventh hour changes by Presi' dent Wilson prevented announce- r ment today of the completed itiner- c ' ary as had been planned. White A House officials worked far into last! * ' - - - . .. h * night completing^tfte details of thej" tour but today when it was sent tor . IT the president he made slight changes " that necessitated reconstructing the J entire route. Announcement will * t i f [ therefore, be made tomorrow Secre-i tary Tumulty said tonight. l! Some of the stops en route to the n l! Pacific coast have become known and 5i according to the best information | available the second speech will be * ?J made at Indianapolis, followed by w >j speeches at St. Louis, Kansas City e ki and Topeka, in the order named. " From the latter city the presidential ~ '\ party will go to Omaha, thence to ^ >. Sioux Falls, S. D., St. Paul of Minne-j ^ Ijapolis, and Bismarck, N. D. tl Then will follow speeches at Billings, and Helena, Mont., Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; Spokane; possibly Se- n attle; Portland, Ore.; San Francisco, j Los Angeles, and San Diego. Speech- t] I es may be made from the train be- Zi ' ? , ti tween these cities duc iv is smwu ^ the president is opposed to making W I open air addresses. 1 P' J cl jv V VVV VWVV VU VVM ti IV COTTON MARKET. V 'V No cotton market on ao- V V count of Labor Day. V ir |VV\VVVVNVVVV^ W^jhi LIEUTENANT PAYNE ] IS KILLED IN IT brother of W. W. Payne, of Abbe* ville?Riot Not At End?Story of Trouble Brought About By Effort of Mob to Lynch Negro I ^ Accused of Murder of White Woman. . y| Lieutenant James W. Payne, killed >y his own men in the r\ot Saturday light at Knoxville, Tenn., was a broker of W. W. Payne, engineer, of his city. The account of the accilental killing and the riot follows: }. "Lieutenant Payne was killed accilentally early today by machine gun Juliets. He was 200 yards from the machine gunners with several other )fBcers when the party was fired up>n by negroes from a second story vindow. Payne and his companions eplied with their automatics and .ought cover. Just as Lieutenant. Payne stepped behind a telephone jole for protection from the negroes' thp ctaw nf mflcJiinft cmn 'urther down the street opened fire lpon a crowd of .blacks seen advancing and shooting in the distance. lieutenant Payne fell into the arms ' j >f Capt. A. C. Parker of Memphis^ vith a dozen wounds in his legs and )ody. He died in an ambulance. -I lieutenant Payne was attached to he Forty-sixth Infantry, regular ."S irmy, and had been detailed to the encampment of the Fourth Tennessee ib an instructor. He volunteered for luty when the riot call came Saturlay night. Dead and WtuM . The known dead are: ' First Lfeut. James W. "Payne, Madsonville, Ky., regular anny; Joe Stter, negro. The injured in hospitals are: Fred Johnson, shot through abodaen, may die; E. V. Henderson, shot hrough lung, may die; Grant Odell, 'owgton, Tenn., shot through anJe; J. H. Lucas, gunshot wound; 'oticeman W. P. Morton, shot thru ^ eg; ~W. B. Clapp, shot through foreirm; Deputy Sheriff J. H. Clowes, hot through leg; Gib Thomas, scalp round and nose broken; Carter Watans, negro, may die; Claude Cham>ers, negro, dining car cook, may lie; Charles Morton, negro, shot in nouth; Sol Jackson negro, gunshot round; George Haden, negro, hotel >orter, skull injured; Ben Glorer* legro, shot in thigh by soldier while eristmg search. Knoxville, Tenn., AugL31.?Minor iisorders occurred in Knoxville te light following the race riots Satarlay night and early Sunday which vere the sequel to the storming of he coonty jail by a mob intent upon S'% ynching Maurice Mayes, a negro ac:used uf the murder of Mrs. Bertie jindsey, a white woman. The casualty list increased Sunday ?y four negroes who resisted atempts to search them for arms. All /ere wounded by National Guards nen, two being shot and the other wo stabbed with bayonets. Eleven hundred guardsmen of the 'ourth Tennessee Infantry, under ommafid of Adj. Gen. D. B. Sweeny, of Nashville and Col. Ewing Carthers, of Memphis, supplemented by 00 special policemen and 75 special eputy sheriffs, patrilled the ^ city, ispersing crowds and searching all egroes. Hundreds of weapons were iken from both whites and flacks. The guardsmen, who were in camp ear the city for annual target pracce, searched all negroea arriving on J L-Llf.L.J - 1 J rams, ana esuiDiisnea a oarrea / one in the heart of the negro dia ict where the worst of rioting earl/ unday occurred. Four machine guns ere mounted at a commanding oint in this district and other outline guns were mounted on motor ucks ready for eventualities. Francis Welsh, who has been visitig for several weeks in Greenville, as returned to Abbeville. -4l