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Abbeville Press'and Banner 1 Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Abbeville, S. C, Tuesday, December 9,1919. Single Copies, Five Cents. TSri. V.Pr STRIKE WILL END ite ?' ' Attorney General Palmer, Starting to Indianapolis, Make* Statement? T?Mbj Will Tell the Tele? Gorernment Officials and Miners Gather for u Conference. if;/ Washington, Dec. 7.?Government proposals' for settling the coal strike P"* 'were tonight cloaked in a veil of ; mystery which promised to lift only atladanapolia Tuesday'when the federal court and the leaders, of the ffaited Mine Workers alike will be called upon to consider them. - Attorney General Palmer and his '' ' * '' ' Jsfanf .Ttutmi A mt>c wpfp traveling to Indianapolis tonight on. Y the same train with John L. Lewis, vr*** nd wmiam Green' secretary of the mine workers union, **bose.secret visit and equally secret "conference yesterday with Mr. Palmer vaad Joseph Tumulty, secretary to President Wilson, resulted in a pro t,?"' ii * I nrmaoAitt fit oatfla M*f Ana of the participants of-the conference would discuss its meaning or intent Before boarding the tr^in for Indianapolis Mr. Palmer, however, said ,het was quite sure that the end of the strike was in sight. It was learned that he would confer with Judge An^ dexson of the federal district court . on reaching Indianapolis, j - Fuel Administrator Garfield speaking with brevity and emphasis, added V .only doubt to the situation. "My position has not been budged I ' V one inch and will not be," he said. 'i* _ . v; v Garfield Reiterates. ' U was'recalled that yesterday Dr. i-y- Gaifield has reiterated that not bne cent could be added to the price of ?oal to finance wage increase to the tanners greater than the 14 per cent he suggested which operators could v ' pay out all pTftiiii, and thifrthe goverianent was behind him in the stand. He also pointed out that on' Novem5^. , beji 2^ he. suggested this basis of agreement to the miners, with a pro ./ . j. . - . viso tnat an arbitration commission / v be appointetd by the president to re. . view has decision with power to ' change it if the commission should : v. find economical justification. This ( . "proposal the miner's representatives jy then instantly rejected. increased pay for census enumerators fef-m ' ^has been authorized Washington, Dec. 5.?Increase in y': 'tthe pay of census enumerators now >C. v preparing to take the fourteenth cen??? - sus, is announced by Director Sam L.t Rogers. The new rates for enumerj&s gators will be four cents for each person enumerated and thirty cents for each farm reported. Senators and ' - house members from Georgia, as well as other states, have had the in5E5>:creased pay matter up with the '^.V 1 m director. The rates now allowed are 'M declared to be the maximum. Census *; /supervisors will be advised of the change. iv," '"The abnormal times make it absolutely necessary that we secure an accurate census in 1920," said Di xejptor Rogers. "To do this we musti have all well-qualified men and ' women serving as enumerators. The| pay rates from two .to 100 cents per name and twenty cents per farm |jj>. enumerated, which were superseded by our action today, were based on the rates paid at the last decennial - ' census with due regard having been -a/v paid to the increased cost of living." iib\ VV VV Vj W! ' . V GINNER'S REPORT. V V The Ginner's Report issued V V by the government Monday, V - V fives the number of bales of V / V cotton ginned to December 1, V V as 8,883,712. The number of V V bales ginned to the date V ? V stated was some two hundred V X: > V .thousand less than expected, V V which caused a rise in the cot- V V ton market of about one ht^n- V t dred points. \ V v V uvvuvvvuvvvv PRESIDENT ALERT, REPUBLICAN CRITIC . TELL$ COLLEAGUES - Washington, Dec. 5.?The Mexican embassy notified the state de partment today that American Consular Agent William 0. Jenkins, at Puebla, Mexjca, had been released from custody. / \ It was announced at the state department that the advice from the embassy said Jenkins had been liberated last night from the penitentiary, where he had been held pending. trial on charges of giving * false information regarding his abduction by Mexican bandits'in October. The embassy's dispatch reached the state department coincident with the arrival at the White' House of Senators Fall and Hitchcock, who ncic uiauukicu uy uie sciiHie wr" eign relations committer to disquss with the president pending resolutions proposing that the president be requested to sever diplomatic relations with the Carranza government. V' Text of Announcement | The announcement by the state department follows: 4*The release Of William 0. Jeni kins, the American consular agent at Puebla, Mexico, was reported late this afternoon from the American embassy, at Mexico City." While the relea,se of Jenkins served to relieve in a measure the tension here on the Mexican situation, . 9 officials have explained the Jenkins case was only an incident in . the Mexican situation. Senators regard the charges of Senatoi Fall that the Mexican ambassador and consuls in the United States have spread "red" propaganda as the more serious. Intervention in Mexico is opposed by Jenkins, who in a letter received today by Representative Davis, of Tennessee, said "it ought to be possible to solve the Mexican problem without a?tual intervention." v Request that Jenkins be released was renewed by the state department in a sharp note dispatched last Sunday, hut no reply' to this-, communication has been received. Private advices from Mexico City yesterday | said onfe was then being prepared by President Carranza. New^ of Jenkin's release was communicated to the White House by the state department while the president was conferring with Senators Hitchcock and Fall. Dr. Grayson took the message dijrectly to the president and his vis jitors. The state , department's advices gave no details and first news that the release was ordered by the judge at Pnebla was contained in Associated Press dispatches from Mexico City, . v SAY JENKINS WAS FREED ON PAYMENT Mexico City, Dec. 5.?Advices to El Demoferata state that Consul Jenkins was set free after the authorities had been handed a check for $500 (American)1 signed by J. Salter Hansen, drawn on the Guaranty Trust company,of New York. It is declared that Mr. Hansen conducted i all the negotiations for the release. ' /,. " Spartanburg Visitors. Mr. and Mrs. Burley Fretwell and their little daughter, came over from Spartanburg Saturday and spent until Monday witfo Mr. and Mrs. W. M. j Barnwell. This is their first visit since their marriage and friends were j glad to know Mrs. Fretwell. Nuts. ' I ? Abbeville has always been famous for the fine variety of pecans grown I here and this years the nuts are unusually fine and plentiful. They are bringing on the market from thirtyfive to fifty cents a pound. \ f Among the Rich. - j The Index-Journal of Sunday published a list of income tax payers in Greenwood and atnong the rich folks we find the names of Miss Mary G. Devlin and James C. Hemphill. x ' \. t ABBEVILLE BAPTISTS ) COMMENDED FOR 7ft *. MILLION SHOWING t ii ; I "I congratulate you upon the magnificent work of your church. It belongs to the list of immortals," said a message from General Director Scarborough^) the Rev. Louis J. Bristow, pastof of the Abbeville Baptist church, received yesterday. Doctor Scarborough's office in Nashville reported in the message that seven States had excedeed their respective quotas, while reports from States west of the Mississippi river were very slow coming in, because of rain, 4now and broken wires. South Carolina and Georgia are running neck-andneck for first place among the States which have reported over subscriptions. ~ A Abbeville Association a Leader The Abbeville association is well among the leaden in South Carolina. All but three "of the 291 churches had exceeded their tjuota'slast Saturday, and it was expected that these three would reach theirs Sunday. The bad Weathermay have interferred with that aim, however. The quota for, the association was $242,625, and the re-v ports up to Saturday night indioated that more than $375,000 had . been subscribed. An absent member of the local church sent a telegram yesterday subscribing $$00 to the fund. The quota of the Abbeville church was $27,500. The subscriptions up to Sunday night added up to $45,721. Well-Nigh Unanimous In the church bulletin, of Sunday it was stated that there are 308 members of the1 church, of whom 80 do not livein.Abbeville, "18 are atfay attending school or teacfiing,and 275 here. Of the resident membership, all but 13 had subscribed Sunday, and only one who is away at school had not been heard from. Officers and members, of the church are being com plimented upon the excellent Showing the church made in the campaign. When it is . remembered that this chupeh has very few welf-to^To members in its membership, and that it has built and paid for & $40,000 church plant in the last'eight years (there being now only $2,000 due on j it), the result of th<? cumnoicm ? ?u! AO Ctll the more striking. WILSON TO LET' TREATY REMAIN WHERE IT IS NOW v 1? Washington, Dec. 5.?President Wilson has no intention of withdrawing the peace treaty from the senate for the present, Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska, announced today after his visit to the President. Hfc discussed the treaty question with the president briefly after .the conference { on the Mexican situation. ; J ? a ii ? * - ? j. m: president xninKs tne laiiure of j the senate to act on the treaty at the j special session shifted the responsi-! bility in the matter to "cither should ers," Senator Hitchcock said, adding: ' "He is just going to let it stay | where it is at present." ', col. youn6, negro, goes to post in african republic t TW O r?~l I >* JUCV* u* *" vtuju unanes Young, retired, the only negro officer of the army to attain that rank, has been selected as military attache to Liberia at the request of the African republic. Some years ago Col. Young organized the military establishment of Liberia. He was retired in 1917 for physical disability, but was recalled to active duty during the war and detailed to train recruits. I Chick and Butter. Things are always happening at the Baptist church and last, Sunday| was a field day. Champion Chick Galloway, short-stop of the Philadelphia Americans, who has just moved to Abbeville, was prevailed upon to join their excellent choir, thereby disturbing the religious thought of all the boys in teh congregation while Buster Howie burst upon a peaceful world in a pair of "long breeches." i I I THE REV. H. W. PRATT J [] ANNOUNCES INTENTION - TO LEAVE JANUARY 1 ? The Rev.'H. W. ' of the Presbyterian, Church lvironday 5 announced his intention of leaving i his present pastorate January 1. His i statement came as a distinct surprise < to the members of his congregation, i rr.* J.'.;. ? * m 11 ms qecision was reacnea iouowing a i meeting of the session' "Friday nigfitj j after which Mr. Pratt came to the 1 Conclusion that his years of useful- J ness here were ended andthat he i could best serve his church in somp < other position. v Mr. Pratt has not announced what his.plans forthe future are, but it is j understood that he has tmder con- < sideration an offer from the Pres- i byterian Seminary in Columbia. Mr. Pratt came to Abbeville in < July, 1910.from the Second Pres- 1 byterian Church, Washington, D; C. < During that time he has served the < Presbyterian Church here ably. and < eioquenuy as a preacuer . ana w- 1 ficientiy and energetically as a i pastor. \ Be has few equals as a 'preacher. 1 His style is dear, vigorous Imd logical j to a degree. His sermons show care- 1 ful study and have a background of ' scholarly attainment. To quote lnm, 1 "it was a well grounded" gospel that he preached. 1 'The people of Abbeville regret to 1 learn of his' decision to leave. Bothr < as a preacher and as a man he will be ' missed. . ' '? i ' ' \ PROPOSES TO TAX I AVERAGE INCOME i Washington, Dec. 4.?Revision of the revenue laws, so as to place heav- < ier burden of taxes on the normal in- ] come was urged by Secretary Glass \ in his annual report to Congress. Mr. \ Glass declared that the excess pro- j fit tax provisions of the present law should be eliminated and the revenue \ thus sacrificed be made up form an ] increase in the taxes on the average j income. . - . c ... . ^ Revenu^ derived from the lower < amounts assessed under sur tax pro- 1 visions of the law may be well in- < creased, said Mr. Glass, who added 1 that the topmost amounts listed under : these provisions already had passed i their usefulness. The janly conse- 1 quence of increasing the tax on the 1 larger sums under the surtax law, he said, would be to drive "possessors of great" incomes to invest their wealth in billions of State andK municipal securities" .w^ich are wholly tax exempt. * . ' The Treasury plan seeks to raise more revenue from incomes above $4,000 without attempting to disturb incomes of persons whose salax?e& barely meet living costs, as any' change in that tax would only add a burden on a class unable to bear it. COAT OF PAINT. ? i Anderson, Dec. 4.?How labor agitators are treated in this city was shown here recently. It was known that a man calling himself H. T. Lawson, a labor organizer, was in the city. He mad4 arrangements to speak at ^ local jnill in the evening, but he didn't speak. The employees of the mill heard of him, and they decided that they did^not want any labor leader , "butting" into their affairs. So when he stepped out of an automobile near the mill, a committee was waiting ^ for him. They took him to a steel ( bridge nearby, it is said, stripped him and applied a liberal coat of lead ~ paint, and then he was loose and told on his way rejoicing, but never to hit this town again. It is said that he 1 gave a man $25 to take him to Seneca ' where he could catch a through train, 1 probably northbound. Pretty Visitor*. ' c Tur;~? T)..l? rr:n n?* -! wxioa auujt xim-ueviin, miss Mil- j dred Cochran and Miss Annie Laurie 1 Andrews came over from Greenwood Saturday and were guests at the party given . by Miss Mary Greene that afternoon. The young ladies returned to Greenwood Sunday af- 1 temoon. - 5URLESON SHOWS v; SURPLUS IN 1919 P. O. OPERATIONS q Washington, Dec. 5.?A surplus of f2,342,851 in postoffice operations for the fisckl year 1919 wau^anlounced in the iuinual repoB^MBby >f Postmaster General BurlesOTfl^he figures are subject to some adjuBtnent which would increase the sujj>lus,1 Mr. Burleson said, adding that was'the sixth t|mein the' seven rears of the present postoffice adminstrati on that revenues had (exceeded expenditures. An aggregate surplus of more than ^35,000,000 as Compared to an agjpregate deficit of more than, $59,000, >00 lor the preceding seven-year' period is shown in an appended table: ."The cause of the change is immeiiately apparent the report says of this comparison. "Whereas the revenues under this administration increased $737,597,818 or at the rate >{ 50.4s per cent compared with the seven-year period'prior to the time it assumed office, the expenditures increased dnly$643,335,795, or at the. rate of 42.49 per cent The difference between the increase in revenues, less losses, equals, the amount if the'net change in .favor 0^ the public treasury," Much of the criticism leveled, at the department's financial policy, Mr. Burleson said, "was due to lack of :om?Iete and accurate information." "rue tacts as presented,' ne aaaeu rtell a story, of achievement. They lo not call for explanations <pr opoiojies and none aire gfcpn. The administration stands squarely on its rec>rd." > v Discussing improvements in the service, Mr. Buzieson . said nothing iad ben left undone within his authority "to effect readjustments in A# nil OTIi) T1 nf oio vi ou Mic auu uvv in that of any special class," adding. "Because of the curtailment of what may be teamed special, class postal facilities then has grown up itrenuous hostility upon-the part ox i lim'4 v" number of speciaf "iKterjsts, expense of whose private busin >s was largely paid by the governmvut instead of by themselves. Ihis has/ particular reference to the modifying of the second-class mailing privilege which had' until the adrent of the present administration been grossly abused. . y L**t Retting Place. Supervisor W. A. Stevenson hat received^ letter from the War Department announcing Jhatthe' bodj ofTiis son, Lieut. W. Oscar Stevenson, killed in action in France, had been placed in rts*peraanent resting place, one of the United States cemeteries in France. New Books Ghrea By Mr. Haddon. '+ r.. Below is published a list of booki now in the library. These books, wen purchased "with money given the library by Mr. R. M. Hdddon who hai the welfare of the institution a1 heart. These books are the latest oi their kind, an^ are all by populai authors: ' / 1 "Sherry", by George Barr Mc? Cutcheon. "The Forbidden Train", by Honore Hillsie. "Leave it' to Doris", by Ethel Houston. "The Rivers End", by James Oliver Curwood. "The Re-creatoin of Brian Kent", by Harold Bell Wright. "The Daughters )f the Land," by Gene S. .Porter. Sunday Dinner. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Welsh were hosts at dinner Sunday to a number r? 1 Ti. jjl menus oiiu rem uvea. xt a regular old time Sunday dinner and ivas greatly enjoyed. The guests arere: Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Durst, rhomas Durst, Mrs. Graham Payne, Fohn Durst, Greenwood; Mr. and Mrs. B. Cheatham and Mr. and .Mrs. 5V. D. Barksdale.v 10 Attend Sister's Wedding. Mrs. Foster Barnwell has left for 3ell City, Ala., to attend the wedding >f her sister, Miss Gladys Thompson. . 1 HUUTOFF j Sweeping Redactions Are Mid*, fa paE That Other Trala* tiqr B? Withdrawn To Coiuorre . Norfolk, Va., Dec.J.?The general Jj officers of the Seabofetd Air Line to- :|| night announced that, oh and after /r Tuesday at ^ noon, all local trains on .yjjM the main line will.be ^discontinued \ until further notice,'The load passenger traffic will be handled by .the present through,train?, official time , being added to the schedule to permit the handling of tJ* traffic. The 4 -l11ml ii.il in i i < ' 1? i ii illii il' ' k? ->Va ' curtailment was atrecteo. ny to# jijwF railroad administration for tin con- ' \I 1 service Will be made In lineB operate % ing in the Sooth as a result of> the -^f ested' in the curtailment <m the Sori, ''jlH thern railway, Seaboard Air I4ne -;|jj railway, slte^ M the Seaboard will cot off all local j| Coast Line announced Saturday f 1 certain changes in their trains. ?:>; Washington, Pec. t-SubrtantuU ^ in Hiu fl/mikani wtlwwiJ -* " .. .?v tamvau uuco, w fective Tuesday morning, was an- |*a nounccd' tonight from headqitiiurteti of the company here. The coal short* / : ^ | age may forc.e withdrawal of other , | | through traine and many local trains /??j? on matin, lines and . branches, also wid, ^ betatfenpff. " . The full schedule of changes has | no? been mapped out, but the fOUpw- J ing trainp will be withdrawn: ' .?ilB Trains; Nos. 137 m* 138 between f WashingCte airf ^trta. *- -,,r-' ".'TifB /''^Trains -Nfos.. 23 and 24 between Washington and Iffemphis. -f Trains Nob. 3, 4, 9 and 10 will be -a consolidated between Cincinnati' and :*, Oakdale, Tenn. Trains Nos. 9 and 10 will' be di^>continued between Atlanta and Oakdale. ^ x .-Jra TrainB 13 and 14 between Cohimbia and. Charleston. Trains Nos. 35 and 47 b^ttffeea ^ , Washington and Atlanta will be-tcife ^ . solidated. ; P Train, No. 32, Charlotte to Wash- \ . . ington will run on present schedule , 'XT-. .il?? " >' * i vi viiuii nu. ioo> ' ~ . , DOPE UPSET. ,, " when the Greenwood eleven dp- ,^3 - feated the Abbeville ifogh, School football team by the score pf 12 to ?.'< The local team had previously de- V ! feated Greenwood 25 to 0. Greenwood outweighs AtSeville 30 pounds \ to the man, which fact counts. And ' " Greenwood has had several weeks in nrV?i/*V* +a i- ?? Ta 9~ , tv IMVM by XLD 18 ? probable that a third game will be ' played here Friday to settle "the tie. ''1 Lewis H. Haskell in America. The State of December 3rd carried the news of the arrival in Washington -18 of Mr. Lewis H. Haskell, who is a member of the consular service. Mr. Haskell has served for the mat f?ni? -^88 years at Geneva and did excellent Yj|| work during the war. Mr. Haskell -t|| will vi^it relatives in South Carolina soon. V COTTON MARKET. ^ V December 8. V ^ j V Spot?No Market. V V January 37.53 V v March 34.98 V VVijJ V May 32.97 V V December 39.34 V