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' -v,' : - --Kti ' ' ' ? ' ' -fi Abbeville Press and Banner f Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Abbeville, S. C., Friday, October 3,1919. Single Copies, Five Cents. 75th Year. VOTE THURSDAY ON f FAIL AMENDMENT! 1 N I Deaocrati Are Confident Every One - - I WLB Be Defeated?Action In senAte Will Clear the Way For Consideration of Pact and Hasten Final Disposition. i Washington, Oct. 1.?The first,' ote on amendments to the German J peace treaty will be taken in the Sen- j ate tomorrow afternoon. Formal agrement was reached late, ^oday by Republican and Democratic) leaders to call up at 2 o'clock the | thirty-six amendments proposed by i, Senator Fall, Republican, New Mexico, adoption of which would elimiA1-~ Qfatoc from reDre Bate tut; um?u wwv. ( sentation on numerous foreign com-J missions created by the treaty. The | agreement provides for the five-min-; ute rule and a vote before adjournment tomorrow night. Democrats Confident. Democratic leaders declared to > night that all of the amendments would be beaten. Some Republicans admitted privately that the vote would not be an accurate test of the line-up of the forces on the question of ratifying the treaty with its league of nations covenant. Indeed, some Democratic spokesmen have stated that they would inform President Wilson that as matters stand now the treaty cannot be ratified without reservations. Action of the Senate on the Fall amendments will clear the way for consideration of the past ana nasten its final disposition. The opinion waa expressed today by a Senator high in the councils of the majority party that treaty discussion might end in two weeks with a vote immediately. thereafter. ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL. Columbia, Sept. 30.?T. H. Wannamaker, of Columbia, state chairman of the Roosevelt Memorial Commission, announced today that Joe L. Nettles, of Columbia, had accepted the position of state secretary of the commission and that G. M. Berry, of Columbia, had accepted the position of state treasurer. Former Governor R. I. Manning, and D. C. Heyward are honorary state chairmen and Mr. Wannamaker is the active state chairman. A chairman is being named for each county and the full list will be announced within the next few days. There will be no quotas in this campaign, it was announced by Mr. Wannamaker today and all contributions will be voluntary. That ther4 wlil be a liberal contribution from the people of the State to the memorial fund is the" opinion expressed by many representative men of the state, who say that South Carolina will join the other states of the Union in honoring the memory of the former President, who was famed for his Americanism. The Place to Trade. Rosenberg's is a good place to trade. In addition to having a first class line of groceries, they have an intelligent person to answer the telephone ahd two of the best looking delivery boys in the world. Arthur Rosenberg and Frank Roche drive up in a fancy Ford with a big flourish and deliver anything from a dozen eggs to a sack of flour. V V V COTTON MARKET. V V v| V October 2. V V Spot Cotton 32.85 V V V New York Cotton Market V v V V January 32.23 V; V March 32.30 V1 V May 32.85 V| V October ? 31.13 V - V December 32.07 V ' : ?? V SUGGESTS CURE FOR . < INDUSTRIAL UNREST St. Louis, Sept. 30.?Increased production as a means of settling the present industrial unrest and the ] declaration of an industrial truce for ] six months as a mjtLod of reducing-1 the cost of living were suggestions by 1 W. P. G. Harding, governor of the ] federal reserve board, in an address \ ( before the convention of the Ameri- 1 can Bankers Association here today. ( (Jauses of the labor trouble, Mr. ( Harding asserted, are directly trace- 1 able to the great war, to its waste ; and destruction, to its heavy drain upon available supplies that consti- ] tuted so large a part of the world's < wealth and to financial expedients i which, he said, were necessary to ob- j tain these supplies. The governor < expressed the view that credit tx- ! pansion, rather than currency infla- i tion is responsible for prevalent eco- ] nomic troubles. ] Paying Off Indebtedness. J As the government is paying off ] its indebtedness at the rate of $750,- ] 000,000 annually, the speaker pre- ! dieted that within the next few J months it will be possible for the < government to do away with the is- ] suance of treasury certificates and ; operate on incoming taxes. 1 "We need more production," the 1 governor said. "We need to develop our export trade. We should not J send luxuries to impoverished coun- J tries, but should send them necessi ties. Luxuries should be sent to 1 Latin-America for the South is just 1 entering on its most prosperous per- < iod. i CLOSING OF ENGLISH MARKETS MAY HALT HIGH PRICES HERE Washington, Oct. 1.?American business men are today facing losses that may t<&&l $10,000,000 from the strike of British railway men and the threat of transport workers to tie up all operations in ports of the United Kingdom. This is the value of merchandise now being manufactured and shipped daily from United States ports, part of which shipments already have been cut off by the order of the United States shipping board, in cancelling all sailings to ports in England, Ireland and Scotland. Complete stoppage of all but a small portion of American exports is expected to come before the end of the week if British transport workers strike in sympathy with the railway workers. American commodities now are being sold and shipped to the United Kingdom ports at a rate of nearly $300,000,000 a month or more than ever before, according to commerce department reports. May Reduce Costs. American manufacturers, farmers, cotton raisers, shippers and exporters will be hard hit by the halting of the stream of gold and dollars that have been pouring into American pockets since January 1 when war export came to an end, officials say. On the other hand, the closing of the British markets may have a tendency, officials Relieve, to reduce costs here of food and meats, since much of the merchandise ordinarily exported may have to be thrown into the domestic markets in case the British port tie-up continues long. Farm products and meat form the great bulk of American sales to the United Kingdom. America's farmers are selling for export to the United Kingdom in these quantities: What, $13,000,000; wheat flour, $20,000,000; corn, $500,000, and eggs, $70,000 monthly. Farmers, it is pointed out, also produce live stock which packers are turning into dressed meats and other; products to ship in these quantities: Hog products, $37,000,000 month-' ly; canned beef nearly $600,000;' hams and shoulders, $25,000,000;; condensed milk nearly $9,000,000; and lard and lard compounds, nearly $14,000,000. ) % G. O. P. FEARS PEACE LEAGUE AS ISSUE IN NATIONAL ELECTION Washington, Oct. 1.?Presidential primaries are six months away?they | have the first vote in Oregon?and1 today there is neither a crystallization of strength behind any particu1i lar candidate in either party nor *nv certainty that the two old partie3 ? the Democratic and Republican?will draw their support from the stune elements which have contributed to their alternative successes in the past. \ ' President Wilsot disclaimed any political ambition on fiis tour and denounced any man who would look at the peace treaty and League of [Nations witn an eye to tne elections of 1920. That made it possible for Republicans everywhere who favojV. gd the league to gather around the president without giving M;he local Democrats the opportunity to garner advantage to their party out of the presence or activity of Mr. Wilson, but much as Mr. Wilson tried to destroy it, the notion persisted in many places that just as the president made a non-partisan toijjr for preparedness just before he r^h for a second term, so might the league tour be a feeling-out process looking toward a third term. So everywhere I made inquiries of Democrats as well as ^Republicans as to whether they would support Mr. Wilson if he ran for a third term and the universal answer was that htey would not. ^at is why every time Mr. Wilson himself gave the impression in his speeches that he had nothing political or personal j in view with respect to the passage | of the treaty and league, he got a | his own desire I know positively is most enthusiastic response. HJs best friends do not want him to run. And in accord with that advice. Hard Mailer to Decide. ^ But if this is so, why hasn't m??a announcement been made? It is true that many political persons among the Democrats thought it wiser to withhold any statementon that poiftt, believing that nothing would be calculated to make the Republican leaders watch their steps more than the creation of a aet of circumstances compelling Mr. Wilson to take the league to the country as an issue ii^a presidential campaign as between the precedent of a third term and the rejection of the League of Nations. J Many voters would find it haxd to decide, but admittedly Mr. WSson a mnnor vnffi tVtHTY Iw WUUIU gCV C* ?Virv would if he had only the issue of personal capacity and not the broad question of international affairs to argue. Mr. Jamea Botta. James Botts, 40 years old, died Tuesday afternoon in Columbia. His body was brought to Abbeville Wednesday morning and the funeral was held Wednesday afternoon at Gilgal Church, the Rev. J. L. Daniel conducting the services. Mr. Botts was the son of Mr. C. A. Botts. He has three brothers, T. H. Botts, Arthur Botts and Charles Botts, and two sisters, Mrs. W. A. Calvert, Abbeville, and Mrs. B. G. Carroll, McCormick. New* From Mrs. Stone. Friends in Abbeville have heard from Mrs. A. M. Stone recently, and every one will be glad to know that she has recovered her health and is "mothering" some of the little folks in the Methodist Orphanage in Greenvile, Tenn. Store* To Cloae. The Rosenberg Mercantile Com-| Danv and D. Poliakoff will be closed 1 Saturday until 7 p. m., on account of Yom Kippur, a Jewish holiday, which begins Friday at sundown. Football Came. ?_ ** TJie Abbeville High School football team will play the eleven of the Due West High School Friday afternoon at 6 o'clock on ths Ballground. PARENT-TEACHER ASS'N. IN ABBEVILLE PLANNED; MEETING TO-NIGHT Realizing the need and possibilities for a Parent-Teacher Association in: Abbeville, a meeting of the parents and teachers of the City Schools has ; been called by Supt. Fulp for this! (Friday) afternoon at five o'clock in; the High School building. It is not tiie function of the asso- j ciation to supplant the coara 01 Trustees in their duties and privil-1 eges, but the main purpose is to j Accomplish needed things for the schools through education of public option and to bring parents and i teachers into closer contact, thereby, enabling the parent to see the teach-1 ers' problems and enabling the teach-j ers to see the parents problems andj N> know the home life of. her pupi1* which she must as in order to properly understand them. A parent-teacher meeting affords the best possible forum for the discussion of school and home problems and needs.'Matters difficult of friendly adjustment' when taken up as specific or personal instances, may be dealt with as general problems in the parent-teacher meeting with offense to none and benefit to all. A Parent-Teacher Association makes it possible for the parents and teachers to co-operate effectively in making the work of the school efficient in the highest degree and leads to united effort, not only for school betterment, but also for community betterment. The meeting this afternoon will be! one of organization and a setting] xviuu vi tuc puipusco aim piano UJL i the body and officers will be. elected. I The president will be a parent, the j vice-president a teacher, the treasurer, a parent, and the secretary a teacher. Any citizen , of Abbeville, whether a patron of the schools or ajmply an interested friend of education and of the town is eligible for membership. .The gentlemen men-1 bers, however, will be only honorary, entitled to attend all meetings but not eligible to hold office or vote in any elections. Supt. Fulp has invited the ministers of the town and Chief Justice Gary to be present at the organization meeting this afternoon. It is hoped that a large number of the interested patrons of the schools will be present and'that the association will be given a worthy send-off. ?.ft the subsequent meetings it is the plan to have prominent educators cf this and other states deliver addresses. Among the first needs to be taken up by the association after organization will be improvement of school ground? and installation of some suitable playground apparatus. It J is not certain yet whether the association will remain pureiy local or be affiliated with the National Parent Teacher Associa'.'.m which hts hevdouarters in Washington, D. C. ! . i Still Captured. >. A still with 50 gallons of mash and three gallons of the "finished goods," was found Wednesday and destroyed near Gregg Shoals by De-| puty Marshal C- J. Bruce, Sheriff^ Burts and Deputy Sheriff Cann. On Tuesday Deputy Bruce found the still on a lone scouting expedition and at that time there was 100 gallons of mash. A run had been made before the second visit of the officers and only half of the mash reI mained. Deputy Marshal Bruce and Deputy! Collector Martin left Tuesday on an-! other raid for moonshine stills. Reunion Visitor*. Mr. Claud Commander came up from Columbia and spent Saturday I night in the city with his friend, Mr. Francis Mabry. Sunday they went up 1 to Greenville and took in the pleasures of the reunion of the Thirtieth 1 Division, meeting their old friends and comrades. After the reunion Mr. Ayer, of Dillon, came by and spent Tuesday night with Mr. Mabry. DR. J. D. WILSON DIES AT ANDERSON HOSPITAL . Dr. J. D. Wilson, 55 years old, died Tuesday night at 11:10 o'clock at the Anderson Hospital, where he went for an operation for ulcer of flia atnmocli TVio fnnprnl was held Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock at the residence on Chestnut street, conducted by the Rev. J. E. McRee, Dr. Wilson's old pastor at Iva, assisted by the Rev. S. J. Hood, pastor of the A. R. P. Church, Iva. Interment was made in Long Cane cemetery . j Dr. Wilson was a son of the late ( Mr. and Mrs. William Wilson, and ] was born in this county at the old , honeplace about 11 miles west of : A' ille. He was educated at the j Ai asta Medical College and in New ] Yo k. He practiced medicine in : Lo. -desville and at Iv^/ having a 3 large practice in Abbeville and An- i /loraAW riAHflflflO Ahrknf Q TMAflfll 1 UV&UV11 VVUUV1VUI AAVVWV ? *MV4*W?A ago he moved to Abbeville on account of the educational advantages here for his children. He is well known all over the county and has many friends who will mourn his passing. He is survived by his wife, one son, William, and three daughters, Margaret, Annie and Virginia. He is also survived by seven brothers, W. D. Wilson, of Haddon-Wilson; John A. Wilson, S. L. Wilson, F. W. Wilson, Thomas E. Wilson, George W. Wilson and Edwin Wilson, and three sisters, Miss Emma H. Wilson, Miss Virginia Wilson and Miss Sarah Wilson. * * The pallbearers at the funeral were five brothers of Dr. Wilson and one brother of Mrs. Wilson and were as follows: W. D. Wilson, John A. Wilson, F. W. Wilson, Thomas E. Wilson, George *W. Wilson and F. M. Sherard. Among the relatives and friends | who attended the funeral were: ! Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Cunningham, Lowndesville; Mr. and Mrs. Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. Huckabee, Lowndesville; Mr. and Mrs. Harper Hall, Iva; Mr. and Mrs. O. T. Brownlee, Due West; T. J. Baskin, W. W. Beatty, Mrs. Mally Beatty, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Sherard, Miss Fannie Lou Sherard, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. A. Sherard, Mr. Hart Baskin and Mr. Sanders Brown, Iva; B. B. Hutchison, Lowndesville; W. M. Sherard, Whitmire, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Sherard, Anderson and Mrs. T. C. Jackson, of Iva. RAILROAD OFFICIALS' ctno uroc r?w taiid k/IVI 1?M?VJU Vil 1 Wl> A number of officials of the Seaboard Railroad, stopped in Abbeville Tuesday and were motored about town by Messrs. Joseph Wilson and W. W. Payne. The railroad men are making their annual tour of the S. A. L. and are stopping at all the division points and the larger towns on the system. Improvements and changes at the Seaboard station are contemplated and will probably be recommended as a result of this visit. The men in the party were: W. J. Harriman, federal manager of five big systems; 1 Wl M. SliHHpn forJoinl A. L.; Peter Walton, general superintendent northern system S. A. L.; 1 G. R. Carlton, division superintendent; Fred Geissler- assistant general passenger agent; J. W. Stringfellow, * general freight agent; J. J. Hanlin, 1 master mechanic and D. E. Purcell, 1 road foreman for engineers. |( 1,854,170 BALES ARE GINNED ACCORDING TO REPORT ISSUED TODAY ______ < The Ginners Report issued today 1 shows that 1,854,170 bales have been ' ginned up to September 25. The cot> ^ ton crop condition is 54.4 as compar- 1 ed with 61.4 at the last report. Cotton buyers here say that crop ] conditions in this country are about 90 percent, of normal or in other 1 words if 30,000 bales is the average yearly crop of this county for the past ten years that 27,000 bales will 1 be raised this yeaT 1 * K ARKANSAS IS NOW , SCENE OF RIOTS ,A - -- -? ' rwo White Men and Seven Negroes Killed?Many Other* Hart?Situation is Tense?Another Clash _ _ . . - ' rtt Expected at Any Momeit. Troops On Way to Scene. v Helena, Ark., Oct. 1.?Two white men, Clinton Lee, and J. A. Tappan, jf Helena, and seven negroes are * y known to be dead as a result of clashjs today at Elaine near here between , legroes and posses searching for the ' persons who last night from ambush 5red upon and killed W. L. Adkins, railroad special agent, according to reports reaching here tonight. A third white man, Ira Proctor, and a number of negroes are known to have \ . !, seen wounded. Troops from Camp Pike, armed with machine guns, are y jaid to be en route to Elaine. The situation at Hi lame is critical ind growing more so, according to messages received here tonight from Foseph Meyers, who is headings the posse. Meyers is quoted as saying he , expected another clash at any moment and requested that additional reinforcements be sent. Five honored United States, soldiers from Camp Pike, Ark., are due to reach Blaine at midnight. Tappan, who was a prominent business man here, succumbed in a local hospital late today to the wounds he received in this morning's fighting in the streets of Elaine. Proctor, who ' also was brought here, is not expect- J ed to live, according to physicians. The body of Lee, who died from his wounds at Elaine, also was brought to his home here. Lee is said to have been shot accidentally while Tappan - and Proctor were wounded during the fighting. Charles Pratt, deputy sheriff who was > <|j with Adkins when the latter was kill ea last nignt, was wounaea in tne knee. Lee, Tappan and Proctor are members of the local post of the American Legion and were deputized by Sheriff Kitchena with a'number of other civilians whv he received word the situation at Elaine was get."'1 ting out of control. * STEEL HEAD SAYS CLOSED SHOP WILL HALT PROSPERITY Washington, Oct. 1.?Flat refusal to deal with union labor was made to the senate labor committee today by Judge Gary, chief of the United States Steel corporation. In face of the repeated questioning the industrial leader stood without budging on his contention that to deal with union leaders would result in the closed shop, a thing which he declared would be "inimical" to the country and prevent industrial prosperity. -* Judge Gary refused to give ground , under the barrage of questions which senators fired at him. "You are on the defensive," Senator Walsh, Massachusetts, toldv Judge Gary, but the steel magnate refused to weaken in his refusal to meet labor leaders. He will not object to meeting Mr. Gompers at the coming industrial inference, believing that there Mr. Gompers will not be the official representative of any particular group if employes, he said. Mill at Clover Bring* $750,000. ? York, Sept. 30.?Announcement if the sale of the Clover Cotton Mar?- ' jfacturing Company, of Clover, to a syndicate of Charlotte. N_ C,.. nnH Mew York capitalists, through the agency of C. W. Tillet, Jr., of Charlotte, N. C., was made today, the purchase price being $750,000 of ?375 per share, the mill being capitalized at $200,000. John Reid has arrived in Abbeville laving been discharged this week x . from the army. \