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Abbeville Press and Banner! . V' ? ' " * ' Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Abbeville, S. C., Friday, October 31, 1919. Single Copies, Five CeaU. 7Slh Year. DRASTIC ACTION , BY GOVERNMENT Food a ad Fuel Control Law HtM Adequate te Meet Situation?-Attitude of Government Made Clear. Criminal Penalty Will Be Enforced. Washington, Oct. 29.?The governy ment moved swiftly tonight to meet the nationwide coal strike order for Saturday. Refusal of the miners' organization at Indianapolis to withdraw the order calling out' half a million men brought instant announcement that drastic action would be taken to keep the mines in operation. . As to those miners who go on strike and thereby curtail production the food and fuel control law with its recently added criminal penalties : of fine and imprisonment will be enforced without regard to persons. . J?ius attitude of the government Attorney General Palmer made cle.^r, Idoes not affect the right of workers < to stride for redress of grievances in other cases where no violation of the law is involved. Every resource of the government la the words of attorney general Palmer, will be used to prevent the "national disaster" certain to follow the stoppage of work. ' r: Adequate police protection, with troops as a last resort if necessary | -will be given these men desiring to .remain at work. Reports from government agents show that a big part of the miners ordered to quit work ;to stay on the job. *J. Rights of the public will be protected through revival of price con"trol regulations suspended when the "fuel administration went out of existence February 1. This means an early dr6p in the price of soft coal * and gives assurance against profiteer TRAINMEN TAKE VOTE ON CALLING OUT 160,000 MEN ' A . * Chicago, Oct. 28.?Twelve thousand members of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen embraced in 14 j j lodges in the Chicago switching district today were ready - to strike .'Thursday unless wage demands filed i July 30 last, were met in "ftfH" and vote on the proposition by the other >ijodges of the 180,000 trainmen throughout the country was ijncer ; way. : Headed by W. G. Lee, president of ; the brotherhood, a committee of : twenty-three tomorrow will confer at 1 ' 1 *-*- Tir-.ii n it;?o.O ^vasmngxon WIUl fVBUVCi u. uuwat '/director general ef railroads and in i-the event the demands are not met ,).^iave been empowered \o call out all ^.passenger and freight brakemen, suburban service men and yard men. The action of the Chicago district v trainmen was taken at a secret meeting Sunday. P; t FOUR HELD FOR PLOf TO KIDNAP SON OF FORD Toledo, Ohio, Oct. 28.?Statements of a private detective that he had discovered a plot to kidnap Edsel Ford, son of Henry Ford, and hold him for $200,000 ransom, led to the arrest here today of four men. The detective gave his name as Floyd Gray, and he said he came to Toledo from the east in connection with strike disorders and became aware of the plot while stopping at a local hotel. Gray and Kinney revealed the plot to seize yoang Ford and imprison him in a house in Mount Clemons, Mich. Street Paving. The work of grading North Main street preparatory to placing the asphalt having began Wednesday. The work on the Square will be completed in the next two weeks if the weather permits and as soon as Trinity street has been completed work on Washington street will be begun. . s GENERAL PERSHING IS PLANNING TOUR OF CANTONMENTS Washing-ton, Oct. 29?A trip of inspection to various army camps and cantonments where the soldiers for the American expeditionary forces were trained in this country will soon be majle by General John. J Per stung. Although General Pershing declined to( mention any camp by name; it is quite possible, that his itinerary will include Camp Gordan at Atlanta General Pershing said, however, he would not at this time make specific promise covering any camp, as his itinerary had not been made up nor did he know when he could leave Washington. The general's departure depends on his work here and "whenever congress is through with, him" He is soon to appear before the military committees of congress to review his administration in France. This examination may take a day or two,, or it may hold General Pershing here for several weeks. . General1 informed newspaper men at a conference Tuesday afternoon that he wanted' to see the places where America's armies had been some of the munition factories. When interviewers endeavored to pin the general down to a promise to visit a certain camp he parried, saying he! wanted to mention no names, but hoped -to get_ around to most of the camps in this country and possibly as far west as the Pacific coast. PROSPECTS GOOD FOR "WET" SPELLS IN UNITED STATES Washington, Oct. 29.?Nobody onj either side of the treaty fight in the senate will admit the slightest ,ooncern over whether or not there is a wet spell of a month or so in the United.St$te?,prio? to the enforcement oflKe constitutional amendment of the prohibition of the liquor traffic in January, but the truth is the prospects of a brief season of V?/Mtv*/I un tirif'V* 4*V?A nrADnnnfc VYCWilCOO UUU11U UJ^/ TT1VII Hit j/i voyvvvo for a ratification of the peace treaty, the White House having announced that as soon as the German treaty is out of the way peace will be proclaimed and the ban on war-time commerce in liquor will be formally ended. What are the prospects for an early ratification of the treaty? Very good. The senate is weary of the debate, not quite as weary as the country, but approaching the same point, which means a vote at an early date. Moreover, the time for the ending of the special session of congress called to meet the clamor of the Republican party for such a session, is ^drawing to a close and the political sharps on both sides of the action in the senate and house are beginning to take inventory of what has been done. " ~ - / Return From Korea. Dr. and Mrs. Eugene L. Power and little daughter, Mary Carrington, arrived here Thursday from Charlottesville, Va., where they have been visiting Mrs. Power's reatives, having returned to thi& country from Korea about ttfree weeks ago. They will visit Dr. Power's father H. J. Power, and his two brothers, Dr. J. R. Power and Roy Power, and his family will spend a year in this country before he returns to Korea as a medical missionary of the Presbyterian Church. He has been in Korea for about five years as the head of a large hospital, conducted by mining interests. Mr. A. F. McCord Dies. Mr. A. F. McCord, 78 years old, a confederate veteran, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Joe Brown, Liberty, S. C., Wednesday night at 8 o'clock after an illness of several months. He had been'paralizer for a long while. He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Joe Brown, Liberty, and Mrs. John Strickland, Atlanta. His wife has been dead for several years. I Mr. McCord at one time lived in -Abbeville and has many relatives here and in the county. OAK OR HICKORY BEST 'SUBSTITUTE FOR COAL; BUT PRICE PROHIBITIVE Washington, Oct. 28.?With a coal famine looming imminently above the i horizon of the American public as the 1 result of the threatened coal strike over all parts of the country, seeking advice as to what trees shoui<i-preferably be used as a substitute fuel during th<? anticipate emergency. A cord of either oak or hickory, declares Charles Lathrop Pack, president of the association, is equal- in caloric value to that of a ton of anthracite and these are, therefore, much to be preferred to any other trees. With wood, however, quoted at present prices as a substitute is almost prohibitive. Such a situation, said Mr. Pack, emphasizes very vitally the need of a strong national forest policy of which the country long has been in need and furthermore brings to light the fact that today American forests are beine replenished at only about one-third the rate at which 1 they are being cut oY$t for lumber or destroyed by fire.each year. , In striking contrast to the exist- 1 ence of such a condition in this coun- J try, Mr. Pack pointed out that in i France the public obtains one-seventh 1 of all fuel wood from cuttings along the roads, fields and canals as a re- < suit of a careful forest supervision i which has extended over a period of 1 125 years. ' < j general meeting to ; i discuss building of cotton mill i ?? . ' At a meeting of the business men J of Abbeville Tuesday to discuss ' : matter of building a new cotton mill ' I here it was decided to hold a*general meeting in the near future at which ' time all the citizens of Abbeville ^ho < are interested in the ' project are-; urged to attend. The date will Be announced later. * James Gpssett, Williamston, president of -the Wiliamston Cotton j Jliil, the Brogon Mill at Anderson, j and the Calhoun Falls Mill, was present and addressed the meeting. He| ' has "been interested in building an- j i other mill at Abbeville and wi!! in I all likelihood be its first president if I the project goes through. i It is planned to build a 25,000 j spindle mill, costing $1,500,000. , j PROMINENT MEN AT FAIR. > V This is Fair Week in Columbia, and j as usual most of the prominent men] in the state who are not at home buying cotton, or givng parties to admiring friends, are in Columbia to see the. sights. . ^ Several of our most distinguished citizens tire there with the rest. Among them are Col. Pat Roche, of the Hillbillies, Col./Jim Gilliam, ,Maj. Thomas Thomson, Capt. J. L. Perrin and Corp. W. A. Calvert. These five j motored through the country, and iare stopping wherever they are "at". Col. Gilliam goes down to "inspoc1 some of the new farming imploineri*" ; now being displayed jynd explaine by the people who have) them to sell, jas well as to look over the latest j development in the live-stock industry. Maj. Thomson' desires to get rid of some of the surplus accumulated at the October sales, while Capt. Perrin is showing the pretty girls how | to get into the Fair Grounds. Col. Roche expects to meet several delegations from different parts of the state who are interested in establishing set-back high schools in their centers of learning, as well as to look at some of the ankle watches now on J display in the jewelry stores, expectjing to wear one on his return by I which Auditor Sondley may tell the) time of day. Xorp. Calvert "just went along with Old Man Roche." Harris Home Bought. _ G. T. Tate has bought the Harris, home near the S. A. L. Shops and will move into the property on Janu ary 1. >. Dr. J. A. Anderson of Antreville, jwas in town Wednesday on business. ( / "DRYS" IN HOUSE ( . TOOK "WETS" BY SURPRISE ON VETO Washington* Oct. 28.?-With many members, absent and not expecting a s rote until Thursday, the house Mon- i iay night overrode the president's reto of the prohibition enforcement ? m. ; "... - s The vote came , unexpectedly after u 5 o'clock in the afternoon, past the fiour at. which the house customarily ^ idjourns. When the veto message d reached congress late Monday, it was t informally understood there would be t \ ao consideration of it before Thurs- 8 lay, and as no important legislation was pending on the floor, various e members departed, expecting the d house to adjourn immediately. Snbee- t juently the drys say they had com- B tnand of the situation and brought * sudden action. * While it is possible the house ae- ^ tion might have been the same had x there been a full attendance, it is 1 true, nevertheless, that many, of the 1 "wets" were caught napping, and 0 some of them did not even know of 3 the veto until" the house had acted to override. There were many ab- * sentees among the delegations from 1 New York, Pennsylvania, Missouri, 2 New Jersey and Maryland.v- These 1 delegations have a number of "wets" c in them, particularly the New York 1 City and Boston contingents. I Consideration of the veto message c was "railroaded'' through the House 1 by a coalition of Republican and Democratic "drys" under tie leadership of Representative Volstead, t chairman of the judiciary committee, 1 & Republican. Mr. Volstead got the 1 message before the House with in- c bent to move a vote Thursday. It 1 (iad previously been suggested that c many members were out of the city s and away from the House that after- i noon.. Representative . Walsh, of b Massachusetts, moved to lay the veto rli Aaaorva ah flin fokl r\ on/1 f VinM o ? vii' nuc auu uicu a jiarliamentary tangle ensued which [ vought on a test vote showing the i ^fetys" well in control /Of the situa- J tion. Mr. Volstead offered to with-1 draw his motion for 9 later vote, but' he was denied this privilege and then j he proceeded to bring about a vote! immediately. * The matter did not- come before the Hou:;e until after five o'clock I and it was move than an hour later! when tfc? vote was *r.':en. A few' absentees heard of the proceedings! ahd reached the House but the majority of them had no inkling that so important a matter was before the lower body. , ' TVr n T?! Dmnn^tr 1 aKKttiof fVto ' -Y ? *^??4T?AUJ ^ 1VUVJIOV iVl l-UC |j Anti-Saloon League, reached the Capitol within a few minutes after the president had vetoed the bill. NEGRO WOMAN CHARGED MUkDER OF HER HUSBAND\ i< Lois Watt, negro, has been arrcct-J ed on the charge of killing her'nus-p band, Lewis Watt, in a cotton field^' near Me&ns Chapel Tuesday, October j< l.>. 1 According to the tale told by the negro woman and Will Johnson, who was present, Lewis Watt's pistol fell * from his'pocket and she picked it up 1 and in returning it, it was accident- * ally discharged, the load penetrating * Lewis ^att's temple, killing him in- 1 stantly. A coroner's jury pronounced it a case of accidental shooting. 1 Sheriff Burts, however, had #his * suspicions and has been investigating ^ the case with the result that he arrested the woman tfiis week and | placed her in the Abbeville jail. Another Rabbit Farm. Col. E. R. Horton, of Anderson < Real Estate and Investment Company < has sold to Wm. P. Greene seventy- eight acres of Flatwoods lands, ad- 1 joining Glowing Springs Park and ex- 1 tending along the Calhoun Mills road < to lands already owned by Mr. i Greene. The price agreed to be paid < is $100 per acre. A rabbit farm will i be tried as "a project" to compete < with the farm corporation lately or- ] ganized by Corp. Kerr and Col. E. C. Horton. - ' i . V* . \ )RDER FOR STRIKE OF COAL MINERS ON . FRIDAY IS ISSUED Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 29.-^-".A trike of bituminous coal miners cantot be avoided/' "If it must be decided upon the teld of industrial battle, the reaponibOity rests fairly and squarelj ipon tbe coal barons alone." Thus did chiefs of the United lllne T VllkCtS U1 iliiniiut ICJ/IJ W JT05W tent. Wilson's request for eaneeilakm of the 6rder which calls move han half a million coal miners or trike Saturday morning. In a meeting late today, the excutive board, the district presents, the scale committee of the cenral competitive field and the intertational officers endorsed these seniments drawn by a special commit ee appointed at an earlier meeting They accepted the^report of the comaittee because "the highest authorty in the organisation acted in tfcSt nanner and no rapresentaave8 0if. th< organization haye authority to set uch action aside." -v Whi1f? til* tma ?---W wvw?w*uvMW vt?0 0 President Wilson, the miners die lot feel free to send the execotiv< 1 copy, inasmuch as they had not eceived the ofijeial text of the president's statement, issued last Satur lay, in which he characterized tin >roposed strike as "unJawful" in viev >f the Washington wage agreement rhich he said still exists. ^ xi ii ^ * Washington, Oct. 29.?The gov irnment set its machinery in motioi ate today to deal with conditoni ikely to arise after Friday in viev >f the refusal of .the miners -to he^c 'resident Wilson's command to. cal >ff the strike. Prdbably the firsl itejk will be revival *of the fuel admin stration to "prevent hoarding Vane >rofiteering. It is understood that the govern nent's next step will be to provide >olice or other protection to the met vho are willing to remain at work; . - DiofinKiifiAn on/1' "#!# MioviivuMvti ?au oitwawivu va vvo ;o railroads and essential industries is was done during the war, was on* >f the principal questions taken u] it a conference attended by Fuel Ad ninistrator Garfield and members oi ;he cabinet. . The government, it was said, doei lot contemplate seeking-indictmen >f strike leaders on charges of con spiracy to reduce production of ai issential commodity, or other tech lical violation of the law througl ssuance of the strike order. MR. LAWRENCE BROWNLEE OF DUE WEST SUFFERS FROM PECULIAR MALAD1 Mr. Lawrence Brownlee, of Du( West, is in a critical condition at An ierson county hospital suffering fror hiccoughs, brought on by an opera non for appendicitis, when the ether itjs supposed, gave him the hie roughs, which the doctors have beei unable to stop. Mr. yBrownlee is a brother of Mr r. I. Brownlee, cashier of the Farmer fc Merchants Bank and is well krJbwi jy many Andersonians. His condi ;ion is reported as somewhat bettei ;oday by attending physicians, thong] ;he hiccoughs have not been stopped Cases of this kind; it is.understoo( ire not commoh, and in severe cases ;he malady is often fatal.?Andersoi Daily Mail. NO DECISION REACHED ON WAGE DEMANDS OF RAILWAY TRAINMEf ^ 1 rr Washington, Oct. 29 __ Directo aeneral Hines has not reached a de :ision on the wage demands of th< Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen Details of the recommendations mad< >y the board of railway wages wer< discussed today by officials of thi railroad administration wim xrvsi lent Lee and the unions strike com nittee to develop how the recommen iations would work in practical ap plication. Mr. Hines hopes to make an aware in the. case in the near future. . US! AMENDMENT : 10 TREATY LOST yWk&i ', 1 . PropoMl of WjielM r Mr Fh>ViP? Of 4?.. Effort FdU To V*d*f; ; "SlrcBfth of LsOfrtft ?f Kltiw. ^ .... ^ U . Washington, Oct- 29.?The 46 , amendments attached to the 10. treaty by the foreign relations rom? . mittee passed into history today . when.the last survivor of the group, . a proposal by Senator Moses, Repob-, _ liean, New Hampshire, to revise vot. ing strength in the league of nations, ; . was consigned to the distant in the k- ?~4.~ Am oa '* > rcuatc Mjr O ?UtC U1 *i W OU. 4 As if gaining impetus by tlsas accomplishment the senate then upset two more proposed textual changes in the treaty brought in by individual : senators. One of them, presented by Senator Sherman, Republican, Ilti( nois, and proposing to write into the t treaty preamble a reference to the ; Deity was laid on the table by a vote t oJ 67 to 27. The'other, sponsored j by Senator Johnson, Republican, Cali. fornia,- as a new solution for voting } in equality in the league, was killed j outright by a count of 43 to 3fc t At adjournment, however, the effort to hasten final action brought up against an obstacle which . seemed likely to prevent further j progress for several days. Tomorrow 3 a determined group of senators will ' f launch a fight to eliminate the labor } section of the treaty,, opening a de1 bate which in view of unsettled labor t conditions over the country is expected by the leaders to last for at I least a week. The battle is expected to Tbe the more spirited 'because"" it is regarded as holding out t whatever i 'hope remains of writing any, amCndj men into the treaty. I.:, n- " 1 Nine- Republi?an? joined the Democrats in overthrowing the Moses 9 / ? v , amendment which provided that none 5 of the British dominions should vote in any league controversy directly, f affecting any one of them. Three Democrats voted with the Republi3 cans supporting it. On the new John? son amendment, proposed as a substitute for the one rejected last week, 1 the lineup was exactly the same as / on the California senator's original i- > a proposal, the. only changes in the S actual record vote being due to obsences and pairs, I The Sherman amendment got only ' " scattered support, most of the Re-= publican leaders helping the Demo^ crats -put it out of the way., 1*' / ?? e Paving Assessments. . / 3 Mayor JVIars suggests that property owners who have been assessed for - "< . street paving consider the matter of . payment before November 6, the last 3 day on which the first payment can be made. He farther suggests that. , it is the last day on which a whole s payment^ can be made and that those T who want to save the six percent, _ payable semi-annualy, on the paving _ x r certificates should pay the whole 1 amount assessed. , I Getting Married. | ,Miss Dorothy Napier is to be married in November to J. Rhett Clark, head of the farm demonstration work in Richland county. Miss Napier is * well known in Abbeville county, having assisted Mrs. Benton in her work ' as county demonstrator. r ' , *" B \ i V COTTON MARKET. N: 9 V October 30. V 1 ' k. a x. c%/y r a k. "v oput ..... ?<.ov 9 v V * \ New York Cotton Market V - V January 35.77 ? V > - V March 35.18 V - V May 34.76 V V December 36.51 V I V ^ vvvvvwvvvwvvvv