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u-lF; ? / * i:r*m '/;* v*i . ? ' ,*X ?? : " Abbeville Press and Banner; ? "* * Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Tri-Weekly. Abbeville, S. C., Wednesday, January 28, 1920. Single Copies, Five Cents. 76th Year. r ' - i BYRNES WOULD !' ' DISCHARGE SIS . 'i Congressman Says U. S. Admiral ^ Made False Statements Libelled!" Army?Cast Slus Upon th? Navy and Otherwise Showed His Un8 fitness to Remain an Officer. Washintgon, Jan. 27.?Rear Ad- ' miral Sims, a leading figure in the12 naval decorations controversy andi in the pending senate investigation of the navy's conduct of the war, c was vigorously attacked today in the r p.; house of Representative by Re-ir preventative Byrnes, Democrat, jc South Carolina. Ic Declaring if the admiral was ad-1 * monished by a high naval official not i ^ to let the British "pull the wool''Is - . it over his eyes, as he testified recent-1" ly before tsenate naval decora-'v %. tions committee, he violated a con-e 7 fidence in making the instructions^ public. Representative Byrns said he deserved "the condemnation of every! American and a dishonorable dis-ic 4';;, charge from the navy." ;c , Senator Democrats succeeded ' again today in blocking efforts of t Chairman Hale, of the committee in- i^ vestigating naval decoration bring to a vote a resolution authori-'^ r zincr the committee to employ coun- * X?7. v # *. sel. A motion for immediate con-r sideration was defeated 30 to 2-5. is * Senators ^Jorah. Idalio, and Sher-; man, Illinois, Republicans, joining * with the Democrats in. opposition. Senator Hale announced he would " < ' continue his effoi-ts to have the res- * *!<& ' . c olution taken from the calendar. # j . t Characterizing Admiral Sims as a - "hyphenated politician,"' Mr. Byrnes 1 . charged that when serving as com- c r. mander of American naval forces hi European waters during the war he had "libelled the army and depreciated the work of the navy" and had j j >*jC'r . ' j urged that the United States leave t the control of the seas to Great;, i' j*?|vf Britain. \ Accused Pershing of Failure ? "While in Paris ,on October 30,!( 1918," said Mr. Byrnes, "Admiral j Sims told Representative Glass, of c r, Virginia; Whaley, of South Carolina j 1 and myself, that the armistice asked j for by the e"nemy would have to be j granted because of the failure of,^ Pershing to break through the Ger-j( man ranks, due to the disastrous', 9 | I ^ breakdown in transportation behind j< i:- the American line*" We visited the t ' > I headquarters of the service of sup-;^ dIt and found that only a few daysj. II previous,\ Pershing had written the J j S. O. S. congratulating them upon|j their wonderful work in supplying h the forces in the field. His statement was false and for his inexcusa- f ble slander he should be made to ( V?" * A answet to the American doughboy." \ INCREASE IN DEATHS . -. - I( Chicago, Jan. 27.?Deathj from I 1 influenza for the last 24 hours, num u < bered 96, an increase of ten, whilepneumonia caused 91 deaths, an increase of 11. There were 1,3 7S cases of influenza reported today, a decrease of 238 from Monday ,and 8v t pneumonia cases totaled 3?0, a defa* ; crease of 107. JrCv WYOMING VOTES AYE ! E" Cheyenne, Wyo., Jan. 27.?The - v extra session of the "Vfjroming legislature today completed- ratification cf the woman suffrage' amendment ti> the federal constitution when the " , J house passed the bill, 44 to 0. The senate acted yesterday. WILL SUCCEED BLUE Washington, Jan. 27.?Hugh C. Cummings of Hampton, Va., was nominated surgeon general of the public health service today by President Wilson. He succeeds Dr. Rupert Blue, whose term has expired. _____ NEW CASES OF INFLUENZA New York, Jan. 27.?Fifty-seven k deaths and 3,663 new cases of influenza were reported today, the highest number since the outbreak began about a week ago. la,.: ;,., ' . MEN NOT INVITED. OFFICERS REFUSE TO DANCE IN ROME Rome, Ga., Jan. ilo.?Officers of m army detachment here for requiting purposes Saturday night refused to attend a dance arranged in j heir honor because enlisted men of! i he detachment were not invited. I The commanding officer refused to illow the military band to play at; he proposed dance, and the young, adies of Rome who had arrange.! the] iffair, deeply hurt, called the func-j ion off. Major J. A. Heywood, commanding! >fficer, asserts that "if my enlisted j? nen cannot be entertained, my of-i icers will not be. I welcome this in-1, ident as showing democratic spirit j ?f the new army. In the old army! his would not have been possible.!. Ve expect to travel throughout the; tate and I put the people on notice i hat where the enlisted men are in- J ritcd the officers will go, and not! lsewhere. That point was decided ' efore we started on our recruiting! rip." . Major Hevwood declares that a i ommittee declined to arrange aj lance for the enlisted men after be- j ng requested to do so. The commit-: ee says the only reason for declina- j. ion was that it was impossible to j btain dancing partners for nearly i !00 men in Rome, and that no hall j vas large enough to accommadto! hat number," while plans for a| treet dance were abandoned due to j he opposition of church people and f >ad weather. The troops are from Camp Gordon i md Camp Benning and have been ' lere fcr a week, stimulating re-' . 1 ruiting and illustrating array lifoj 11 .1 mi i _ o o tne people, iney Jen ouuua.v: norning for Dalton. ;enate approves education bill Washington, Jan. 26.?The senate >y a vote of 36 to 14 today passed | he Kenyon Americanization ' bill; vhich require all residents of the! Jnited States of 16 to 21 years of tge, not mentally or physically dis-j jualified, and all alien residents be;ween the ages of 16 and 45 who :an not speak, read or write Eng-1 ish, to attend school not less than. J00 hours a year. Administration of the bill's pro-j visions was placed in the secretary! intormr wnrlHncr t.hrniicli thp hll-' eau of education. The measure re-j luires that the sum appropriated bcj ;o the number of resident illiterates,' ;o the numebr of resident illiterates,] iroviding, however, that -the state ap j jropriate an equal sum for the same j jurpose. Not less than $5,000 would J >e allotted to one state in any year. I Efforts to transfer the administrc-j ;ion of the measure to the secretary! >f labor was defeated just before; ;he final vote was taken. The measure had been before the senate for about a week and during iebate several senators expressed ap-, prehension that the variance in the; j ige limits fixed for American and j ilien illiterates would conflict with j 2xisting treaties. RED CROSS. I At a recent meeting of the Home| Service Section, Abbeville Chap-' ter, Red Cross ,a plan was adopted \vnereoy trie committee ui sixteen i was divided into groups of three or! four to meet once every week for[ Conference and consultation: The( first group met at the Red Cross rooms last Monday afternoon. The, meeting was devoted to the reading, of the records of a Red Cross case in' Abbeville county, and to a discussion) of plans for service for the family. Miss Louise E. Bishop, Field Agent j of the State Board of Charities andj Corrections, was present at the meet-, i? ?j ?* +?il ing, ctiiu gave a muou lutcicdixng oain. on the problem of feeble-mindedness in the state. The members of the Home Service Committee attending this conference were, Mrs. F. B. McLane, Miss Eliza Lindsay, Hon. J. M. Nickles, W. M. Langley, C. H McMurray J, S. Cochran, Dr. G. A. Neuffer and Mrs. M. T. Coleman. WORLD REVOLUTION IDEA ABANDONED BY LENINE, ENVOY SAY Washington, Jan. 26.?Lenin has abandoned his idea of worl revolution, Ludwig C. A. K. Ma tens, soviet representative in th United States, told the foreign r< lations subcommittee today. The success of the soviet goveri ment, Mr. Martens- asserted, hs demonstrated that ti can survive i the midst of the present system. "There was a time when the Ru; sian Socialist? believed that revoli tion i nail other countries was ne< essary," he said. "That idea is disappearing now be cause Russia has demonstrated ths it san exist against the rest of th world. Russia is now strong enoug to defy the other governments. Ths is the reason Lenine wrote the Ita ian Socialists advising against reve lution. He believes this is a perio of reconstruction." Tentative contracts for America goods totaling $7,000,000 have bee made by the Russian soviet goverr ment and will be executed whe trade is open up, he asserted. Commodities purchased includ food, largely tinned meat and mill medicines, shoes, machine, tools, rul ber boots and a few automobiles, h said. To Be Paid In Gold. The American goods will be pai for in gold on delivery. Mr. Marter said. The Russian government he between $450,000,000 and S500 000,000 in gold in its possession, h asserted. lie promised to p^oduce^ list of 11,000 persons in the Unite States with whom contracts hav been made. ...News, cf The Legislature. Members of the lower house ox ll general assembly returned to Coiun bia yesterday afternoon and la: night and among the bills passed i the lower house and sent to the sei ate was the Berry bill to increas the salaries of members of the gei eral assembly from $200 a sessio to $400. If approved by the senati the act would not become effectiv until next session. The bill Wc ampnclfr) nn mntinn r>-f MV Ri.o. ford of York to increase the salai of the speaker of the house froi $400 to $750 instead of $500 i first proposed. Another measure to be sent to th upper house was that by Messr Hamblin and Busbee to prevei teachers with tuberculosis or oth< infectious disease from teaching i the public shools. A certificate fro: county health officer or other r< liable physician is required und< the bill. Two Spccial Orders. The ways and means commits bill to create a state board of ta commissioners was made a specii order for 11:30 o'clock this mori ing. The Berry-Scurry bill to amer the law forbidding Greek let".i fraternities at state institutinns < learning was made a special ord< for Wednesday morning directly a ter third reading bills and to be coi tinued from day to day until di posed of. More Pay for Jurors. The Young-Lide-Johnson bill increase the compensation for jui duty from $2 a day to $3 a day \vj sent to third reading. The bill all provides mileage of five cents pi mile, going to and returning fro the court house. Mr. McAdams: To regulate tl preparation of cotton bales for ma ket. Referred to committee an agi culture. THURMOND CONTINUES AS DISTRICT ATTORNE I Washington, Jan. 27.?J. Willia Thurmond of Edgefield, was todi nominated by the president for a other term as district attorney f the Western district of South Cat i lina. k ASSASSIN WOUNDS ERZBERGER, GERMAN S. MINISTER OF FINANCE1 ' ... ic' Berlin, J^n. 2G.?Mathias Erz-| Idjberger, the minister of finance, wai! r-jwounded by a shot fired at him to-1 le i day. J-1 Hcrr Erzberger was shot as he was leaving the criminal courts; ). building after a hearing in the Helf-1 isjferich libel suit. Only one shotj n I struck the minister. His assailant, who gave his name - T?c nitwifr vr>n N TTircpVifioM u-nc nv. s- " , j. [rested. The assailnient of the finance minis- j ter was seized by the police and j ?_ taken to a police station where his tt name was discovered. He is twenty e years old and now is a student livhjinc: in a suburb of Berlin with his ^ parents. His father is a bank official.' I_ Herr Erzbei'ger was engaged in' ). conversation with his soliciter,* Dr.; j Friedlandcr, outside the criminal; jcourt at 2:10 o'clock when his assail-; njant, a well-di*essed young man, ap-| njproached and fired a revolver at the1 finance minister. The shot entered' n, his shoulder. j Dr. Friedlander sprang at the i le'.youth, which at the same moment . j fired a second shot which hit Herri ' : t j.1. _ -.x: _ f j.u _ _i j jj^rzuerger in tne region 01 ine stun:- i [e'ach but glanced off his watch chain| and a button. Hcrr Erzbei'ger staggered into his! j motor car which was awaiting to take him home, and drove off at a is I. ,, full speed. is While the finance minister is not; [e!seriously wounded, an operation will ?!be necessary to extract the a ; j from his shoulder. 6 SUPPORT GAINED BY -MILITARY BILL ! j Washington, Jan. 2G.?By' a' voce ; of nine to fiv^, the senate military !c|committee today approved provisions! 1_!providing for compulsory military! il (training for boys between 18 and 11121 years, inclusive and ordered aj 1-, I favorable repoi't on the army regula-! se'tion bill. The compulsory military! i-,ti-aining provision which fixed the! n'training period at. four months, was' e, | opposed in the committee by Senate, tors Lenroot, Wisconsin, and Capper is Kansas, Republicans; Senators Mc] Kellar of Tennessee, Sheppard of Texas, Kirby, Arkansas, Democrats. j ai Senators Wadsworth, New York, ls Warren, Wyoming, Sutherland, West Virginia, New, Indiana, Frelinjjhuvsen, New Jersey, Knox, Pennsylvania and Spencer, Missouri, Republicans s. ^jand Chamberlain, Oregan, and : Thomas, Colorado, Democrats, supn ported it. Senator McKellar announced that he would submit a minorim . , ty report in which a number of the [senators who opposed the plan are j expected to concur. As finally agreed upon the bill ? '? .1 > is vinuauy tne same as reported by (the subcommittee buils radically ci itaj!ferent from the reorganization bill I submitted by the war department to congress. 1 In addition to establishing compuljsory military training ,the bill provides for one army to be divided injto a citizen army composed of men " who' have received the compulsoi'y training, a standing army consisting a of 280,000 enlisted men and 18,000 officers, and a national guard. i Prophesviner About Tr**? to j ry! Foster Barnwell is a prophet who as j is honored in his own country for he so i makes this prophesy and the boys on erj Greenville street believe every word m he says. He says that "the big pine tree in the Bradley's yard, immedi1C j ately in front of the house, will fall r_ on the night of January 3, 1922, and .}_ j will not hurt the house and the Brad ley's will have plenty of stove-wood. The pine tree at the sidewalk will fall in 1923 and will tear up the >Y house." Jack Edmunds knows something im about trees, too, for when the two ay trees in front of the High School n- were cut down by the street paving or force, Jack counted the circles on the o- tree trunks and announced that they were sixty-four years old. WORLD' S DEBT IS FIVE TIMES AS GREAT r.TV/ AS IT WAS IN 101 New York, Jan. 26.?The world debt was estimated by the Nationi City bank today at $200,000,000 000, compared with 340,000.000 000 in 1914. Paper currency throughout t? world increased 600 per cent sine 1914 while th gold reserve behin it increased only 40 per cent, a< cording to statistics compiled by th bank. The face value of paper cu rency of thirty principal countrie which totaled $7,250,000,000 in 1! 14, had increased to $40,000,000 000 at the time of the armistice an to ?50,000,000,000 in Decembe 1919, exclusive of $34,000,000,00 issued by the Russian Soviet go1 crnment. Gei*many, Austria-Hungary, Tu key and Bulgaria show an advanc in note circulation from $1, 200,000 000 in 1914 to $12,300,000,000 j the close of the war, and $18,770 000,000 in Deoember, 1919, the rat of gold reserve falling from $600 000,000 in 1914 to $327,000,000 i 1919, the ratio of gold to notes d< dining: from 40.7 per cent in 193 to 5.5 per cent in November, 191 and 1.7 per cent in December, 3 31 In the eight principal countries < the allies, paper note? increased fro $1,606,000,000 in 1914 to $2,420 000,000 in 1919, while the gold r serve increased from $510,000,091 to $1,150,000,000, a ra^o of 44 in 1914 and 59.9 in 1919. ANDERSON, S. C., CUT OFF SINCE MONDAY FROM OUTSIDE COMMUNiCATiO Anderson, S.; C., Jan. 27.? (E Courier to Greenville, S. C.)-i?1 the result of one of the heavie formations of ice in the history < this section, Anderson, since Moi dr.y morning, ha? been wifho-v electric lights, power, trolley < telephone servicc, and wire cor munication with the outside wori has been severed completely. I; dustry virtually is at a standstill, ; nearly all the manufacturing: plan in the city depend upon hydro-ele trie lines for their power, and se1 eral thousand workers are idle. T1 power lines went down shortly a ter midnight Sunday. With the electric pumping static out of commission the city's wat< supply now consists of a reservo < only 2,000,0000 gallons. The Dai' Mail, which was unable to publi; yesterday, was attempting today 1 rig up a gasoline driven tractor : the basement of the plant in ord< to opex-ate typesetting machines ar press. Telegrams are being brought i Anderson from -Greenville by trai , Lineman have been at work sin< Monday repairing breaks in wire : but so widespread is the damaj I there is little likelihood that wi J communication will be normal fi j several days yet. CHIEF JUSTICE AT HOME Hon. Eugene B. Gary has r turned from Columbia where tl Justices have been in consultati* on opinions about to be filed. Tue day the Court handed down fort J six opinions, the largest numb iever before filed in a single day. I . Eating and Speaking in Chester. The Knights of Pythias of Chest Viol/-! o Hier Konntiof 1 a erf uraalr a' among the speakers were Mr. C. Brown, who took as his subject, "t J 57 Varieties," while Rev. L. J. Br : tow spoke on "Life." Presbyterian Church. The Rev. C. A. Ormand, Davidso N. C., will preach at the PresbyterL Church next Sunday morning ai [ night. At the morning service t 1 sacraments of the Lord's Supper v? ; be administered. 1 W. A. Calvert, J. A. Gilliam ai J P. A. Roche left today for a visit several weeks in Cuba. I . TWO CHANCES IN : CABINET IDE I Houston Succeeds Glass?Meredith succeeds Secretary of Agriculture. Secretary of Department of 10 Interior Lane Expected to id Resign Soon. c te j Washington Jan. 27.?Two mote ' . r-1 (changes in President Wilson's caliiS ^\net were made today and a third is (expected in the near future. [{j I David Franklin Houston, of St. r ! Louis, who has been secretary of !0'agriculture since the beginning of ? j the Wilson administration, was given j the treasury portfolio and Edwin L. Meredith, of Des Moines, Iowa, was named to succeed him as head of the ;e department of agriculture. The third ^ cabinet change exepected soon is the . ^ appointment of a secretary of the interior to succeed Franklin K. Lane. 10 I . ' | ^vho desires to retire to private life. I Mr. Lane's successor has not yet in I been selected and officials generally would not hazard a guess as to ? Whom it would be. S, | i In selecting Mr. Houston to suc^jceed Carter Glass as Secretary of ithe treasury the president ran m 1 ? , , . . ) counter to all guesses 01 administra' ition officials most of whom had exe i ^ pected Assistant Secretary Liffing,,;well to be given the office. . > i ; Mr. Meredith is the editor of 'h "Successful Farming" and before establishing that paper was pub- , lisher of the "Farmer's Tribune.'' He w is president cf the Associated \dvertising Clubs of the VV'oro; a lyjdirector of the Chicago federal reserve bank and one of the excess at profits advisers of the treasury de^'partment appointed in 101". I . "Jf AMERICAN LEGION. 5rj To organize a Post of the Ameri11" | can Legion here a meeting has been ^ i called for February 2 at 8 p. m., in n" | the Court House of the former seras I v;ce men of this county. This meetj ing is referred to in an advertisement r- I . 1 ... .... * | in tnis issue and it is urged upon er* ery soldier, sailor and marine to atle tend. fA charter for the Post has already i been obtained and it only remains to ! affect the organization, elect officers ->r I " i and make plans. Posts have been or, j ganized in practically every town in lv * South Carolina and despite the fact I i.i.-.i. A ui m _ m l? _ it wiau uit: A-uuevme ^narxer is tne seeto ! . i ond in number issued in the State no in' , ' ^ Post has as yet been organized. COUSIN PERCY ARRIVES. to Mr. and Mrs. Percy W. Miller, of n- New York, are in the city for a few ' ce days stay with Mr. and Mrs. J. D. IS> Kerr on Greenville Street. Their ?e friends in Abbeville are always glad re to see them, and they have nerer or seen them looking handsomer or happier. Cousin Percy advises us that ke took no long chances on this visit as I he did on a previous visit. He wired '0, ahead what day and what hour he tlG would arrive. He says that the regular rations which Cousin Davis eats (S? when he is not expecting company i came near "killen of him" when the er I former tried them on his last visit. Williamson Home Sold. | er| L. M. Tolbert bought the C. E. fid | Williamson property on Wardlaw D-! street through R. S. Link today. Mr. he; Tolbert will move his family here is-1 from Greenwood as soon he gets | possession. / V COTTON MARKET. M ,n'|V ^ ani V January 28. V id V Spot Cotton 40.00 V he> v V ill V March 36.50 V \. May 34.64 V V July 32.61 V id V October 30.08 V of V December 29.95 V