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Abbeville Press and Banner - ' V:' ? ?? ' - , 1844. $2.00 the Year. i Abbeville, Si C., Friday, November 14, 1919. Single Copies Five Cenb, 78th Year. ROUND-UP OF I.W.W FOU.OWS III War to Dm til Against Murderers o! Ex-Service Men in Central!*, W**h. One Agitator Lynched-?19 A!- " ' ?e*ed I. W. W. Are In Jail - 1 ? - e ,ij! frOttCIM DJ JW?wn. Seattle, Wash., Nov. 12?"War t< th? death," is now on against th< Industrial Workers of the World Robert 6. Saunders^ United State: .district attorney, declared here to day. No further evidence than th< -Centralia murders is needed, he as .serted, to prosecute all I. W. W. t< the extent of the law. ^ Seattle police today raided I. W W. headquarters here, asserted three I men and seized what they describec as a'"ton of literature." , \ ' ?? . f 'I 19 Alleged I. W. W. In Jail at Cen tralia. C-entralia, Wash., Nov. 12.?Nine teen alleged industrial workers o1 the world are in jail here today. The men were rounded up yesterday anc last night after,the firing on the Arm istice day parade, which resulted ir the death ofs four members of th< American Legion and the lynching oi Britt Smith, an I. W. W. member There was no disorder here this morning. One woman is in jail. She con ducted a hotel in which the I. W. W hall was located. According to one version, she, with her husband, wher no^o/^or?c cforforl fa ronco^* fli* place, ran out carrying small Amer ican flags and demanded protection The men, it was said, took the flags from them. , Company F. Third regiment, national guard of Washington, which arrived here early today from Tacoma, was not patrolling the streets. Other national guardsmen wenkor patrol duty in many parts of the city. At 8:30 they were posted or the main streets and were guarding all the ro&ds leading into Centralia. The reason for the attack, whicl came as the head of the parade swung past I. W. W. headquarters today had not been developed fully but Herman Allen, an attorney, anc member of a committee of forniei service men, and others, co-operating with the authorities in an investiga tion, said evidence had been obtainec ? ... tnat it was premeditated. Citizens today planned to drive al radicals from Centralis, where the: have been increasing for some time .Centralia was headquarters for Lewi county industrial workers, operating from here into the logging camp: and other industrial . pursuits of thii section. American Legion member expressed determination that everj I. W. W. must leave the city. To Preach Farewell Sermon. The Rev. J. L. Daniel, recentl; transferred to the Methodist Church Newberry, will preach his farewe) I sermon in the Abbeville v Methodis Church .Sunday morning at 11 o'cloc He will also preach at night. ' The Rev.- C. E. Pcele and. faniii; are expected to arrive here nex week and Mr. Peele will preach h: first sermon Sunday morning, Nover.i ber 23. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel will leav here next week for Newberry an jH their departure will be a matter o U regret to their many friends. H wvvvvvvvvvvvvv B v Kg V COTTON MARKET. K v ? H V Notember 13. |S V Spot Cotton 39.25 9H V January 36.58 1 V March 35.02 H| V May 34.07 1 MB fc. T-i- 33 4K 1 5: $363,355,000 NEEDED FOR U. S. TO SQUARE ACCOUNTS WITH ROADS ^ Washington, Nov. 12.?Under I permanent railroad legislation proposed in the house bill the railroad administration estimates Congress ^ wil ha\ie to appropriate $363,356,- , 000 to square accounts for the ,period j of government operation of camera , ending January 1, Representative ( Denison, Republican, Illinois, told the House today in closing general de> bate onrthe measure. } He presented figures received . from the railroad administration, 3 giving "the- result of two years of - government operation" showing that i the total financial requirements for - the carriers would aggregate $1,613,> 855,000 of which sum congress already has* appropriated $1,250,000,. 000. ; ' i Operation loss to the government 1 was placed at $646,777,000. Leaders expected that the rest of the week would be devoted to read. ing the bill for amendment and its passage on Saturday. m f DEMOCRATS SEEK i CLOTURE RULE IN I " TREATY DEBATE 1 Washington, Nov. 12.?A move ment to limit senate debate on the ^ peace treaty by invoking the cloture rule, was inaugurated today by 5 Democratic leaders. A petition for'1 cloture, requiring only sixteen < ' signatures for submission, was circu-P lated by the administration leaders! - and soon had more than double the < 1 necessary number. ? Before the movement had been 1 ' put into normal action the senate ' adjourned at the news of the death ^ 5 j of Senator Martin, of Virginia. Some Republican leaders said they would support the Democratic clo- 1 I ture proposal, which had been eir- A culated after consultatSdfi between ' ! leaders of both parties. The petition said in the opinion of * II the signers there was an effort to ( 11 obstruct the treaty by undue debate, , ' i and asked that the cloture rule, lim- ' j iting each speakers time to one hour I ^ 1 be invoked. * ~ ' i i } , SENATOR MARTIN, ] I ' DEMOCRATS' AGED r LEADER, IS DEAD t 1 ? Charlottesville, Va., Nov. 12.? 1 1 Senator Thomas S. Martin, the 1 | Demoratic leader in the senate, died 1 1 here today after an illness of several ' 7 months. He was 72 years old. Sen. Martin had been confined to 1 3 i his bed since last July, when he was 1 ? forced to give up active work in the 3 United States senate after a con3 tinuous service, of 24 years. He was 3 brought to his" home near here and 7 later taken to a hospital for treatment; He suffered from a leaking heart valve. His condition took a turn for the i worse two weeks ago and members y of his family were summoned to his i, bedside. 1 Announcement was made here thatj c the funeral will be held next Friday k at 3 p. m., at Charlottesville, Va. A conference of the Democratic y senators to elect a new leader will be t called by Senator Hitchcock, Dems ocrat, Nebraska, vice chairman of the i- Democratic conference. Senators j Htichcock ,Simmons, North Carolina, | e and Underwood, Alabama, have been! d mentioned to succeed Senator Martin.! f I _ MIIMfcKS IU ASK 60 PER CENT WAGE INCREASE t ^ Springfield, Ills., Nov. 12.? ^ Original demands of a 60 per cent ^ increase in wages, a six-hour day and ^ !a five day week will be presented to ^ operators by mine workers in the V joint scale conferences N called for V Friday in Washington at the inV stance of Secretary of Labor Wilson, V according to Frank Farrington, chairV man of the miners' scale committee ^ who came here today enroute to the ^ nnfi Arm 1 rtOTvi+01 j V w f NEW YORK STOCK MARKET BREAKS; COTTON DECLINES The sensational decline in many stocks in the New t"ork Stock Exchange Wednesday was followed by a break in cotton. New York futures closed 200 points off, the maximum decline for \ day. , Atlanta spots fell $10 a bale. They were 200 points off and were quoted at 39.20 cents. New Orleans spots were 50 points off, at 40 cents, i _ New York, Nov.( 12.?Prices in the stock market broke with a crash at 1:30 o"dock today. No group in the list was spared. General Motors fell belckv 300 and Crucible Steel dropped to 212 1-2/ ? > Brokers reported it was alinost impossible to borrow money at any price, and, as a result, stocks were thrown overboard for whatever they would bring. Rails held up fairly fcrell, but they had not shared in the rapid advance of industrials during the year. The market became completely demoralized in the last hour when :all money rose to thirty per" cent, the highest rate since the panic of 1907. Overnight losses of 10 to 25 points were scattered throughout the l^t and General Motors showed i decline of 65- points. The volume of trading on the stock exchange wai so heavy that at 2:30 [>'clock it was announced that the ticker tape recorded the transactions was 20 minutes behind market trading. Total sales were estimated at 2,J00.000 shares. The record on the stock exchange is 3,000,000 shares iraded in 1901. * X. Y. Cotton7 Market Breaks $7.50 a Bale. New York, Nov. 12.?The cotton narket as weak and excited today with prices breaking about $7.50 a jale owing to heavy liquidation as a result of nervousness over the money situation and, declines in foreign ex:hange. January contracts here sold off to J5.70 during the afternoon, or 146 points net lower and more than two ;ents a pouna oeiow tne recent mgn record. New Orleans Cotton Stamps $10 Per Bale. New Orleans, Nov. 12.?Continued stiffness in money rates and predictions of dearer money'abroad cut the price of cotton ten dollars a bale, the market, slumping from the opening and only stopping in the decline when the limit in fluctuations of 200 points in any one session allowed by the rules of *the cotton exchange was reached. 1 SUGAR SHORTAGE BROKEN BY NEW ORLEANS DEALERS New Orleans, Nov. 12. ?Al though the sugar shortage here -has been broken and refineries are agair lunning, many housewives purchaser large quantities today in fear of another shortage ?ind some retailers threatened to limit their sales. The shortage was completely bro ken with the unloading of several bags of the 100,000,000 pounds from the ships tied up here during the longshoremen's strike which ended Monday. This sugar is Cm.'P.n raw and is being refined. News of the Dick Boys. Alex Dick, who is so well known to Abbevile people, has been discharged from the army and has returned to Oxford University, where he will resume his studies as a Rhodes Scholar. Mr. Dick served throughout the wai as 1st Lieutenant, distinguishing himself on the Southern battle line. He returned to America with General Pershing, and after a ten days stay with his father at Hartsville, has gone abroad again. Mr. Dick is a young man of splendid attainments and will reflect credit on his home country at Oxford. Blanding Dick is military instructor of w Q rvowifli fVio nonIr Moiai* *-?w AAMI * u&u "?VH vug AOim VJL funjvii COUNCIL TAKES NO * ] ACTION ON SOFT DRINK PETITION * v/ % ' The petition of Major W. H. Lofig. Fourth Ward, requesting City Coun- > cil to rescind its aption of last meet- j ing, allowing restaurants > and ho- t tels to sell bottle drinks and tobaccos j( on Sunday-,- met a, ^parliamentary a death Tuesday night as pone of 'the majority members would make a mo- t tion for reconsideration. The question elicited considerable'^ debate, t ' during, which the' major was admon- ? . ished to do a little missionary work' { among the Greeks?and others?such t as persuading them to a more care- ^ ful handling of that specific commandment (the number etydes memoryfc which refers to deportment on the Sabbath Day. v 1 ~ 1 The question of selling soft drinks on the Southern train between here and-' Hodges came up and as this concerns, more or less, one of the alde^mftn, M. B. Syfan, who is chief fact^ttqn on this important link of a great railway system^ there was a ? livelV interchange of words, thoughts 1 and^views. -The result of the dis- * course in ethics was that Mr. Syfan ? pro raised that from now on the train front here to podges, of a Sunday. I would be like unto a traveling Sabbath^school, and that as far as he t was 'concerned he couldn't see why f the Churches of Abbeville shouldn't t furniSh a few Sunday school teachers, j so that, while the Sabbatfc was being \ warped if not fractured by the running 6t train, some providential in-N * dulgence might be obtained . by the Sunday school idea. The chiff matter before Council being Anally disposed of the members ^ got down to real business, O. K.'d ^ some bills, received reports from the Chief iff Police, the Superintendent of the' Water and Light Plant and , Healthier. These reports were J received as information and filed. t An ordinance was passed making it ^ uhlawful for any engines or tractors j with corrugated or flanged wheels to e move upon the paved streets of this ^ city unless the wheels should be so protected as to obviate any injury to e ?._ i . line streets. ^ The Williams lot on ^Washington p street ivas secured by Council for a x hitching lot, the rent to be $100 per c year. ii STRIKING CHANCE ' . . J MADE BY BAPTISTS The most far reaching change made in the Baptist state, convention dur ing its history of 99 meetings was eh- c i acted yesterday afternoon when all * denominational work in South Caro- * ; lina was placed under the guidance 1 of a general board. The convention, * [immediately after creating this new 1 (UVliJ, ?CVKU ?IIC JLiCV. V. ?) DUiUf UD. D., pastor of the First Baptist | | Church of Columbia, general secre.jtary and treasurer. i Dr. Burt3, when seen last night, ^'aid that he had not ma^e up his r I nind in regard to the secretaryship. . ff he accepts, it will mean, most like- t i ly, that he will leave the First Bap- < tist church,, where he has labored so < . succesfully since coming to Columbia t I about ten years ago. He has great 1 , influence in the city and is honored I , and respected not only by his wn i I congregation but throughout the city c [ and state. His congregation will be sorry to see him leave.?The State. Dr. Burts is a brother of Sheriff R. M. Burts of Abbeville, and is a native of this county. < , Since the above was set in type * [ the news of Dr. Burts acceptance has f , been received. ' 1 . * ( Abbeville Vs. Greenwood. ! i Abbeville High l School football t team will play the Greenwood eleven ^ , at the Fair Grounds Friday, the c ! game to begin at 4 P. M. The local t team, under the tutelage of Coach I . Swetenburg has made marked prog, ress in the past few weeks and the , game Friday promises to be an interesting exhibition and merits the * . patronage of the friends of the gam^ J in Abbeville. n ' V LENIENCY SHOWN tO i OBJECTORS' BY WAR j DEPARTMENT 19 HIT Minneapolis, Minn., Nov. 12.?The var department was censured by the American LegionJiere today as conributing to the spread of anti-Amer:anism through leriiency to con- J cientious objectors. * j ' Resolutions drawing a parallel be- . wcoa puiiiouiuciib vi f tvi?wio ux nilitary discipline and the conscienious objectors were adopted unaninously. Withdrawal of honorable lisfharges granted the objectors and 1 leportation of aliens among them 1 vas urged . 1 , \ . y ? 4 . The legion also recommended twd. fears probation for immigrants, irovisions for teaching them Engish, no "softness" for military prismers who refused to serve in the irmy, the filing of records of im> . nigrants -with every Naturalization :onrt. The "parlor Socialists" and Boliheviki wenje condemned and the justce department urged to act against1 ;hera, instead of being a 'mere pas- { rive evidence-collecting agency." ^ Restrictions for foreign language ( >apers were demanded. ; .... - ^ The legion took*, immediate* notice 1 ;oday of the attwk'Jji^lggJotijiaires t it Centralis,-'Wash., yesterday. At- c orney General Thompson, of Wash- c ngton, reported the oecurance. t X / _ _ s t .OWER TEMPERATURE AND PROBABLY FROST IS t PREDICTION FOR ABBEVILLE ( c The downward movement of ( Lbbeville's mercury which started t 'hursday, is likely to continue, ac- ( ording to weather bureau announce - , aents, and by th^ end of thirty-six ( ours the temperature is expected to ( e about fwenty-two degrees ltfwer han registered Thur.xiay morning. Lbbeville people probably will/awake 'riday morning to ,find the city cov- red with the first frost of the season, ' he weather man predicts. 1 However, Abbeville is not going to 1 nter into competition with Lander, < Vyoming, for honors as the coldest < lace in the country, and the cold j rave affecting other parts of the 1 ountry is not even expected to bring ce to this part of South Carolina. j UDGE HOLDS WAR-TIME DRY LAW NOT VAllD 1 Louisville Ky., Nov. 12.?Fediral Judge Walter Evans in open j ourt declared here today he is "firm- i y of the opinion" war-time prohibir " ion is unconstitutional and indicatng a disposition to enjoin Efwood lamilton, collector of internal reveme for Kentucky from interfering nth the sale of about 1,000,000 galons of tax-paid whiskey known as 'floor stock." Paring Certificates. About $25,000 has been paid into he city treasury by assessed property wners for paving. This includes the >ne-tenth paid by the majority and ;he whole amount paid by a few. This leaves $65,000 to be issued in >aving certificates, bearing 6 percent, nterest, which will be sold to the lo:al banks. Hunting Season. The hunting season for birds will . >pen Saturday, November 15, and vill close February 15. The season 'or rabbits, oppossum, mink, squirrels, raccoons and skunks opened on )ctober 1. About 600 hunting licenses have leen sold to date in the county. Of | his number 300 have been sold in Abbeville by Sheriff Burts. In the ounty the licenses are dispensed by he magistrates. ( Buys Lot. I 1 / Albert Rosenberg has bought a lot | c lear the Ball Ground from J. H. | f loore on which he will build in the'a tear future. > i NOMINATION SET ASIDE _BY COURT >ao. K Grace'i Nomination in Ch?rleston Declared III* gal By Supreme . Court?Dissentjnf Opinion Call* the Ma t ter Political : - .v,-. Question. ' 4 , iJt , Columbia, Nov. 11.?Special: fi lolding that the action of the Olufifeston City Democratic fixective Cdtn- (. , > nittee, in the manner in which it delarei John P. Grace the Democratic lominee for Mayor of Charleston on* August 22, was illegal and pre judicial o the incumbent Major, T. T. Hyde, / he State Supreme Court, in a maj>rity opinion' handed down this mornrig shortly1 after 11 o'clock, set aside' he nomination. Nomina* Not Determined. "From what has been 'said," the najority opinion sums up in its con- j ilusion, fit is clear that we cannot do- v! ermine from the record before us ' * ?' vhich of the candidates for Mayor revived the majority of the votes that i ver^ find ought to^uve been counted. We cannot therefore sustain the conention of the petitioner that the y' ; :ourt will consider the votes and de- .>. ?. *? :iare the election.. Nor fan we susairi the contention that, in the ai>- '& lence of a declaration of the execu- v . ^ ;ive committee, the cotint of the man- . > j . i igers were not authorized to declare he result. That was for the executive/ > 1 ' ' 'j / iommittee, and it has not done so ac:ording to law. It follows that all we _ '' T: lan do is to hold that the result of he election\has not been legally as- , . w zertained and declare*!, and that the actions of the executive committee in attempting to do so were affected by errors of law, prejudicial to the petitioner, Hyde, and must be set aside1 and it is so adjudged/' The majority opinion was written by Associate Justice D. E. Hydrick ind was concurred in by Chief Justice Eugene B. Gary and Associate Justice T. B. Fraser. A dissenting ' opinion, written by Associate Justice Richard C. Watts, was concurred in i \ by Associate Justice George W. Gage. ' v.t T o ustice watts dissented on the * grounds that the Charleston election case was political and not judicial, and, for that reason, was Without the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. "As nothing is involved in this , but political rights, I am opposed to the court interfering in any forth," he saicL k ' ? The majority opinio^ dismissed the petition of W. P. Sellars and Thomas B. McCarthy, Hyde andidates for Aldermen, because, said the opinion in substance, the face of the returns showed clearly that John P. y Michel and F. H. bold, their Grace ' factional opponents had been nominated by such majoritiees that they would not be overturned even if the contested and disputed 91 votes be-' fore the execute oomirvitt^e had been counted for Sellers and Mc- > Carthy. The petition Of John L Boykin and some 40 other Hyde voters challenged by Grace supporters, was dismissed. The election for the nomination of Mayor and 24 Aldermen for the City of Charleston, as shown by'the majority opinion, held on August 19, resulted on the face of the returns in a majority of one vote for the incumbent, Mayor T. T. Hyde, the result being that Hyde received 3,421 votes and Grace 3.420 votes. In ad dition there were 77 challenged votes from the city at large and 14 "mutilated ballots" from Ward 12 which were not counted but which were 3egregated and left to the decision >f the executive committee. )HIO WET 542 VOTES ON OFFICIAL COUNT \ Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 12.?Of filial count of the vote on Ohio's ratiication of the national prohibition imendment was completed today. It hows a wet majority of 542 votes. . .. - .