Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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\ , . : > . : ' " - " * -? '- :- < xffiaBtei ;,: - ' i;' ? Abbeville Press and Banner * _ .1 Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Abbeville, S. C., Tuesday, November 4,1919. Single Copies, Five Cents. 75th Year. ? ' , ... SHE SDK NO SUNS OF WEAKNESS ' j Order Foe Walkout Apftraatly Effective?More Then 400,000 Quit * Job*?Temporary Retraining Order Government Ignored. I Chicago, "Nov. 2.?Information ob-i tained from the bituminous coal fields' of the United States in which more $han 400,000 members of the United I Mine Workers of America have been ordered out on strike tonight indicate ed that there would be nothing which , could check the momentum of the walkout despite the temporary restraining order which was issued Friday in the United States district court at Ipdlanapolis. Deprived of the'directing hands of its leaders as a result of the injunction, the mem. Jberthip of the union was prepared to enter the first full working day since the* strike became effective in an effort to demonstrate its ability to halt the production of soft coal through.* out the nation. The operators, so far as available, reports show, have not yet made plans to combat the strike, notwithstanding the fact that troops, both federal and state, have been sent in many instances to localities from which they might best guard the_ coal properties in the contingency of violent efforts to prevent non-union men from taking the places of the strikers. On the other hand there has been no reported picketing acKtt maniKarg /vf thp liniory. Both operators and strikers apparently had decided to await developments before either of them takes a firther definite step in the controversy. , Coal ia Transit Seized. Reports from various rt^troad centers showed that qpisure of- crw4 in trarisit as ordered by the federal government Jhad begun. Hundreds of coal laden cars in transit were taken over by regional directors of the fuel administration and were side-tracked to await possible distribution under the administrations priority schedule. -* . Much interest was expressed by operators' representatives as to the exact manner in which the restraining order would be considered by union leaders and their followers tomor row. No intimation was made that anything but strict obedience to the terms of the writ would be offered by the heads of the unions. Rather was the conjecture based upon what orders, if any, that might cancel strike arrangements would be given, and whether the men themselves would obey such orders in the event of their issuance. Thursday Last Day. ' Thursday is the last day on which v property owners who have been assessed for street paving can decide whether they will pay all the assess-! ment or make payment in ten equal installments. If the latter method is chosen, the first installment must be paid Thursday. Many taxpayers are taking advantage of the privilege of paying up in full and thus avoiding the payment of interest. ^ - <j Buy* McComb Place. W. E. Banks bought the McComb place near town Saturday, paying $150 per acre for 50 acres , or a total of $7500. This is one of the best places in the county and is considered a bargain at $150 per acre. \ s V COTTON MARKET. \ - V V V N?remV*r 3. V V Spot -Cotton 38.25 V \ N?w York C?tl*n Market V V Jauary ? 36.72 V V March- 36.33. V V May 85.86 V \ December, 37.26 V % \ V.. ~ '* . : * t NOVEMBER 11 DAY T FOR TOWNSHIPS TO FIXED FOR ORGANIZATION Columbia, Nov. 3.?B. F. McLeod, State manager of the South Carolina ti Cotton Association, yesterday ad- la dressed a letter to the chairman of tl ?1.1. ?i- 1 vavii. vvuuigr* a^owiauuu . iu 141c aiavc tsi calling attention to the fact thatv Tuesday, November 11 , is the day a fixed for the township branches of m the , county cotton association to or- tli ganize. That day will be known as "Township Branch of the County __ Sv Cotton Association Organization Day. ^ Friday, November. 14 has been ^ fixed as the day for organizing the to various county association branches of the South Carolina Cotton Associa- tr tion and will be known as "County Cotton Association Organization Day" th December 2 has been fixed as. the date for the permanent organization of the South Carolina Cotton Associ- ... ation. . " -co Each township association at its m meeting- on November 14 will elect a ? ______ m president, a vice president and a secretary, a county executive committee consisting of the president and vice president as ex-officio members ^ and five other members. The con- ^ vention will elect three members of . ut the state Board of . Directors. in In the Jtetter to the county chairman, Mr. McLeod says: "When you organize your county call attention ^ to the fact that every member of the w< township and county organizations is % AC a member of the state organization. ^ The executive committee earnestly ' requests every member who possibly can to attend the state convention in x. ti< Columbia on December 2. , til Mr. McLeod also impressed upon the various countv chairman tli# necessity of their getting as many ^ members as they possibly can with- p, in the nejct ten days or before per- as raanent organization. A R. P. CHURCH WILL A RAISE $600, 000 IN A DRIVE FOR $200,000 Charlotte, N. C., Oct. 31.?Head- vi quarters here of the Forward Movement of the Associate Reformed Cl ment of tht( Associated Reformed ? Presbyterian church (of the Soulth ^ announced today that on the basis j of the campaign for for raising G $250,000 to be started Sunday and aj to continue for a week, for educawill amount to nearly $600, 000. The denomination', although extensive in territory, is sma^l in communicants, having less than twenty thousand members. I is ' Matter's Sales. , ^ At Master's Sales Monday morning the following tracts of land was j CJ sold: Gilmer tract of 105 acres, bought by W. E. Leslie for $45 per c< acre, bid transferred to W. E. Leslie si Jr. ! n In the case of Campbell vs. Madison, 41 acres were sold to M. L. Madison for $26 per acre. In the case of Mrs. McNeill Kelley . vs. Neola McNeill Bruce tract No. 1, containing 110 lucres was sold to Jas. ^ A. Gilliam for $100 per acre. Tract w No. 2, containing 272 1-2 acres, was sold to Mrs. Ada McNeill Kelley for ^ $43 per acre. re A RETURNED OVERSEAS ** SOLDIER FIRST TO JOIN I M I The first person to renew his ^ membership to the Red Cross for the ensuring year was Capt. J. D. Fulp. Capt. Fulp gave his membership to a Red Cross worker last week, volun- ^ tarily and without ado, unconscious | of the fact that he would head the list. Capt. Fulp is the new Superin- 1, tendent of the Abbeville Schools. n< C r ? m um mw j?r?ey. Mrs. J. M. Randolph, Rahway, New Jersey, is the attractive guest of Dr. and Mrs. F. E. Harrison, Church street. Mrs. Randolph's husband and m j Dr. Harrison, yrere. colllge mates and m J Mrs. Randolph: lias been a visitor here m jln former'-years. ^ # * . V REATY VOTE MAY BE HELD UP BY STATE ELECTIONS Washington, Nov. 1.?Local poli cs in various states threatens to do y action on the peace treaty unti le middle of next week, senate lead a indicated today. An Attempt was being made to gel vote today on the Lafollette amend ent to strike out labor Clauses oi lie treaty. Senator Lodge, Massachusetts, and veral other senators, planned i ish to their home states tonight tc ?lp in local elections. They intenc i return to Washington Wednesday : next week, when work on the eaty will be resumed. Effort to force a definite date foi final vote on the treaty was made is afternoon by Senator Fall, New exico. Senator Hitchcock declared thai e administration leaders would nol insider the proposition unless the otion of the Senator from New exico was reduced to writing. Senators Fall and Hitchcock ~ arled for several minutes over the lestion. Senator Fall, in order to tain an early vote, suggested that ture debate be linjited to ten mines. Senator Lodge asked that unanious consent be given for a vote on jvember 10. Senator Hitchcock indicated todaj at Democratic senators probably juld hold a caucus next week to Tee on their reservations program, ley had previously determined on program whiofi they attempted to it through the senate foreign reac>ns committee. That having failed, ey are now preparing for a final and to force elimination of resertions which they believe would en,nger the treaty. A conference with esident Wilson is expected to be ked by Senator Hitchcock. TTACK ON PETROGRAD DECLARED A FAILURE OA ..1! D.1A. xjcuuiy * u? j. itc ami- ?>ui9 liest paper Prisyp (apparently at sthonian paper) prints a communi ition from Gen. Yudenitch date, ct. 27, declaring that the attack ot etrograd was successful. Reports from Reval state thai eneral Yudenitch is falling bacl ong the entire line. , Gen. Yudenitch has been com jlled to abandon Gatchirta and t< :move staff headquarters to Yam irg, sixty eight miles from Petro rad on the road to Reval and then J consequently little hope of retain ig a base for the advance agains etrograd. Gen. Yudenitch, in his communi ition to the Prisyp, declared-the at ick on Pterograd had been unsuc issful because of the^ack of as stanc. 1SM1SSES CHARGES AGAINST DR. TAVLO' Dr. Julius Taylor was given a pre ninary hearing; before Magistrate oker Wednesday afternoon on th< targe of manslaughter and the ease as dismissed; The physician was ar isted on a warrant issued by W. N raydon, who charged him with beinj sponsible for the death of Norwooc raydon. The magistrate d*?ridoc ia; the/ prima facic evidence was no! ifficient to send the case before *h< rand jury.?The State. RtffflMd Wifimm Norru. Raymond Wiliam Norria, infant sor ' Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Norria, diec iturday night at the home of the irents near town, of pneumonia he funeral waa held Sunday after >on, interment being made in Long ane cemetery. S?U or MuUa. McKenzie and Douglass sold 11 ules and seven horses Monday orning at public auction. - Thif iniah were "brought here fro-ny- S' >uis; ' DEALERS MAY BUY SUGAR WHEREVER i THEY CAN FIND IT - Washington, Nov. 2.?The impres sion that he sugar equalization board 1 or any other governmental agency - would interfere with the purchase of sugar in any. part o?th#Icountry 4of t shipment to any other section is en. tirely a mistake. It was a natural erf Tin* growing out of the fact that during the time 'the equalization board /Yurnos) -fill fYia ohmt in tliA /?Annfrtr I r " "" ? - ^ it observed a rule against shipping t from one zone or section to another I In the western zone the dealers and r refiners were confined to western beet sugar, the eastern zone to Cuban sugar and the southern zone to the Louisiana supply and a paij of the Cuban sugar. ' Investigation today by Senator Hoke Smith, for the wholesale and retail dealers and brokers of .At' lanta,develops the fact -fhat-'th'ere is ' no restriction of that nature at the ! present time. Atlanta, -Savannah, Macon or other Georgia merchants may buy sugar in any market, south. 1 Ti. x- L.? 1 coot vi west, it appears tu w* u I act ' that northern refiners are paying > 20 cents or more for the Louisiana sugar. Unless the food administration is revived and continued in authority as has been recommended this week > by the attorney general, sugar piices may go very high , SAY GOVERNTMENT WAS DEFRAUDED OF GIGANTIC SUMS AT CAMP SHERMAN Columbus, Ohio, Nov.., 2.?Astounded by the mass of evidence ' tending to show that the government ' had been defrauded of, thousands, if not several millions of dollars, in the construction of Camp Sherman, 1 Congressman Lewis C. McKenzie, of Illinois, chairman of the sub-congressional committee which is investigating the . camps construction, ) declared-tonight that he would inij troduce a bill in congress making it {treason to defraud the government j in time of war. li Chairman McKer.zie said he was | certain, before entering upon the 11 inquiry, that the. government had i; been defrauded in the construction ! of contonments, but that lie never I expccted to *each such gigantic proc' portions as are indicated by testimony given before the committee here. ? ,i,. Fifty Chicago professional crap .J shooters obtained positions as plumJ bersat-Camp Sherman and were } I paid regular plumbers wages of .1 $8.25 per day, though they spent all [.'their time "rolling the bones," Ben i ttf i.: l-i- -a- ' m. uima, iiuue-ueeper ut otunp Sherman testified. These crap shooters made as much as $100 per da; at their profession. Clark said the; never worked at plumbing a day. / J U. D. C. Exchange. The U. D. C.'s will conduct an exchange on the plaza at the City Hall (Saturday, November 8, for the bene fit of the hospital fund. Abbeville s housekeepers are urged to take ad vantage of the opportunity offered by the exch&nere to hnv sompthinf* . for Sunday's dinner. a , ; l i Greenville Visitors. I t CoL A. W. Smith and Mr. W. B. i Perrin of Greenville, and Thosk S. Perrin of Spartanburg, came down . Sunday and spent the day with Mr; and Mrs. T. G. White. . Mrs. Smith, who had been visiting in Abbeville, r returned- to Greenville with them in I the afternoon. % i . . . j , - I, UelegitM t? Sjravd. ? >. O > WWMW p The Rev. H. W. Pratt and A. B. Morse will leave today for Anderson to attend the Synod of South Carolina, being delegates from the Presbyterian Church here. r Mr. and Mrs. Walter Devlin and , jaughter, Miss Ruby Hill Devlin, .of Verriery.wero visitor? in A'>beviJ!;? Moiidny. . . "FINISH FIGHT" IN COAL STRlfcE PLAN OF GOVERNME Washington, Nov. 1.?It's a fir fight. Coal is the circumstance but the issue. Back of the threat to ps ?Jize 'industry aaul^ withhold the - WnV<i^ supply at its fcouvce is principle ofreapeCtforthe laws the United States a&d ihe courts. ' government has determined onstrate that the cdnaj&ution of TT?\?^a>] O^Afncf in A ^Vm?i | uuiicu uvouvo mo mvic tjm?i viiaii constitution of a miner's (Jonventi Injunctions - to restrain the min from carrying out their strike ord are being sought by the departm of justice from the federal cou Failure to obey such instructions i place individual leaders of the min in contempt of court. Thi record contempt cases is a confusing c Eugene Debs servW time lor c tempt and Samuel Gompers fough out in the courts through -convict after conviction and thp court of United States finally sustained 1 and other labor officiate. - But t merelywa* over the' printing of article reflecting on the counts. A action by miners disobeying a fede court order enjoimngthem from Ing specific things, whiek ave.in i -M 11 . 1 * VAPiLti.'i mnon 01 tne law, wia joe neK vja prosecutions, and official here b I little doubt that inVwlch tirct stances they would lifrt^na-difBct in securing: jail sentences. But the government is making: threais. It is awaiting the initiat jof the miners when they attempt carry out the strike order; There a disposition to refrain from whc sale arrests, which might j>nly tensify the situation and .prevent I conference between miners and erators later. If forced to do so, however, 1 government will go the limit. A j power that the federal courts n .j request to carry out its injuncti* will be promptly granted even if ! means the use of federal troops. INDIVIDUAL RECORDS OF MEN WHO FOUGHT IN WAR TO BE COMPILJ 1 I Washington, Nov. 1.?Major G jeral Pete C. Harris, the ad jut (general of the army, has put a la: part of his office force to work oi compilation of the records of the 'dividual men who served in the \ | with Germany. These records, wh jwill cover South Carolina and ot I states, are to be furnished evenfrpt | to the state adjutant generals t 1, will be distributed by these local ficials to the counties and munici ities. . t Thus the part Georgia played" the war and the records "of her c i'zens, who fought for democracy 1 become a -matter of permanent i ord in the archives of the natio and state governments. Adjutant General Harris, who i | native Georgian, will use sevc thousand clerks in the compilation these records for the entire couni He has placed a force of a thousi clerks at the preliminary work, i as soon as the demobilization of army permits, will add 3,500 to c atitute the working force. On acco of the adoption of the individ cards for the men and the ncqui mfent of modem appliances and i thods, this body will be ready to liver to the state adjutant genei in a year what it took a force of i clerks: thirty years to accomplish about one-half the number of men the Civil War. OUt Bui PUc? S?mZ The Old Bass place was sold M day morning in front of the Co House following Masters Sales. total price paid for the three tra of 127 acres was $11,211.75. Tract No. 1, 13 1-2 acres, i L Ll. 1 ^11 ? ? ? A oougnt Dy unaries Havana ior fi per acre. Tract No. 2, 66 3-4 acres, the homeplace, was bought by G. E. F nam for $95 per acre. Tract No. 3, 46 3-4 acres, \ bouprht bv G. E. Putnam for $75 acre. v ;-? .V ^ r. t.* % mm - l W%mi - -7s-^s^^l -^gk ine-j Th? Smm rn. . i .->-: \i.. -i; ' the Washington, Nov. 2.?SuggMtkwr: the from the Wholesale ;<tail Trade asao- , on. ciation of New York that the gov era ernment. should not fixe maxim am lers price for coal or interfere with . the ent normal course of supply and demand . rts. during the strike brought from Afct vill orney General Palmer today vigerers ous assertion that he would take the [- in same action against persons enhancne. ing prices as was taken against the on- anion officers. . t;it - ?The action of the government ion waa taken solely in the general pubthe interest." Mr. Palmar um "and 1 stall not permit it to be Med hat ' . ' u*1' directly or indirectly for the benefit *9 of the employers' side of the controversy." ml W. A. Marshall, president of the association, wrote Mr. Palmer recomno ... ^ mending that miners wtoo want to ive work be given protection and that _ coal consumers be allowed to obtain lljlfuel through the usual normal channels. He asserted that with adequate _ protection enough coal would be pro.no duced to meet the emergency, that ? fixing a maximum price would curtail the operator's ability to meet ,u abnormal production >costs caused b^ jjg. the strike and discourage their ef, " forts to continue work, that priority a lists would overstock certain consumP~ era and allow others to go without and that the fuel control act could ' ? thek be osed to prevent attempts at pro- { k?y fiteering. lay "I am in- receipt of your lefifer # into * v* " j, :: ?? *- ,. it and am amazed.by fts contents," tilt attorney general replied. . RESERVE BOARD SHOWS GENERAL UNREST v : ED GROWING IN COUNTRY en- __ Washington, Nov. 2.?Advices ant showing "that there has been an in- " < rge- creasing degree of ^general unrest i a throughout the country" were reportin r-! >.y the highest cusirie.-s authority var in the government tonight. , i?*1 The words of the board, contained ker n a monthly review of business <ionlitions, puts into concrete form what U1U many officials are saying privately, ?'" but what few care to say for pubUPal cation. ?' f With the coal strike less than' twenin ty -four hours old and the steel strike :ltl" already weeks old, the nation already ^ is seeing two of the greatest labdr j "?c" struggles in its history. ^ , - A transportation stride which " would involve twice as many men as s a the two strikes now on is looked upon !ra* here as - far from an improbility. r of The utterances and actions of rail- ' / try. rnfl/3 limfla v)ia # ? 1>?5? I VMM uwwwv TTUU ?*& V UViV OX C liCUlK in<* closely watched. ind x: " . the Mr. J. W. Wrifhi Die.. on- . : qnt J. W. Wright, 81 years old, oneof uaj the oldest residents of Abbeville, ire. died at the home of his daughter; toe_ Mrs. H. E. Stalnaker, Saturday ni^ht at 7:30 o'clock. Mr. Wright had beeh v *' ^j3 in bad health for. more than a year joo and recently fell out of a chair and ' ' " ^or injured his hip, since which his de jn cline has been npid. The funeral was held Sunday aft- " ernoon at 3:30 o'clock at the resi- ' dence, conducted by the Rev.- H/ W. Pratt, assisted by the Rev. L. J. Bris on- tow. Interment was made in Long urt Cane cemetery, the burial being-made the with Masonic, rites. tcts The deceased is survived by two daughters, Mrs. H. JC. St&lknaker, of vas Abbeville, and Mrs. T. C. McDowell, 118 Monroe, N. C. old Will Attend Conference. ut The Rev. J. L. Daniel and Mr. J. ros F. Miller will leave today to attend per Hie Methodist Conference which convenes today in Greenwood. 0 - .