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' Abbeville Press and Banner j Established 1844 $2.00 the Year. Tri-Weekly. Abbeville, S. C., Friday, January 30, 1920. Single Copies, Five Cents. 76th Year. I SOCIALISTS HEAR . RECORD DISCUSSED ?? Claimed That Radicals Favored Red Flag?Question of Party's Atti J - ? ?Hinted Assembly IUUC UU *T ?> men Call Charges Mere Scrap of Paper. Albany, N. Y., Jan. 29.?An attempt to show that sabotage in munition factories was a weapon which Socialists were virtually invited by their party to employ in its program of "continuous, active and public opposition to the war" was made today by the prosecution , at the trial of the five unseated Socialist assemblymen charged with disloyalty. Counsel for the assembly judiciary committee conducting the investigations read into the record the pro clamation find war program adopted t- at the St. Louis convention of the \ & Socialists party on April 7, 1917, one day after the United States entered If'Vthe war, m which members were E urged to oppose the war '"through demonstrations, ltjass petitions an ". all other means within our power. The prosecution also read into the record denunciation of the war in - in the. proclamation as "one caused by the treachery and trickery of the capitalistic class through their re's presei}tatives in congress." Finally committee counsel brought that the "anti-sabotage clause" in the the party's constitution assorted \ Socialists formerly I.aJ "joasieu" had been stricken out at the same convention. Part of the afternoon's session was devoted to examination of Frank r.-.. . tWassein;an, a New York lawyer, who testified that rin a debate on ; Socialism with Assemblyman AugusI Claessens, the latter had called the federal constitution "a mere scrap of paper and that the people when they goc control under a Socialist gcvernmcnfc would take things by force." ? *? ' U. S. MERCHANT MARINE HAS 29,G69 SHIPS OF 15,325,000 TONS |: ? Washington, Jan. 28.?The United States now has a merchant mai r.o f 29,669 ships with a gross tonnage V of 15,325,00 tons, acording to figures made public today by the deli partment of commerce. The total number of masters, officer:; and men required to man it is 266,000. Up to June 30,1919, it was di? vided as follows: Steam vessels, 7.817; motor vessels 11,525; sail vessels 4,474; unrigging vessels 5,583. Since then new ships have inci'eaoed ? the personnel by 31,000 men. On June 30, 1915, the nersonnel of our merchant marine consisted of 187,921 men. Latest figures on the size of Great Britain's merchant marine are those of 1914. when its total tonnage aggregated 20,300,000; with a personnel totaling 210,672 men. UPPER LONG CANE SOCIETY Upper Long Cane Society of Ab\'j beville District held its annual ! meeting today in the office of Coun| ty Clerk J. L. Perrin, secretary of the organization. This society was - founded in 1793 for the purpose of . providing a permanent fund for the , ^ support of the congregation of Up*! per Long Cane Church and for works i J of benevolence. This year $700 was appropriated to the pastors' * salaries f Upper Long Cane and Abbeville t Presbyterian Churches. $150 was ap propriated for the upkeep of Long Cane Cemetery. The members present at this meeting were: F. E. Harrison, J. L. Hill, D. H. Hill, Albert Henry, R. M. Haddon, T. M Millpr .T_ T.. Pprrin. .T_ A. Smith. Jr., J. A. Stevenson, T. P. Thomson, Dr. S. G. Thomson. J. C. Thomson, t E. R. Thomson, S. F. Reid, R. C. I Wilson. Mrs. C. L. Sauls returned home fe, Thursday from a short visit to Norfe folk. I m - r<f . EFFORT IS MADE TO RESTORE U. S. J AIR MAIL LINES J i | Washington, Jan. 29.?A fight to; save the air mail service started to-' day in congress. The air mail must be abandoned; at the end of the fiscal year, 30, unless the senate restores to the postoffice bill an SS50,000 appropriation for maintenance of this service which was cut out, by the house in line with its economy program. Otto Praeger, second assistant: postmaster general, went before the senate postoffice committee today to plead for the air mail. He is in charge of it. Friends of the air mail said to-( day that America led the world in its development and that abandoning it at this juncture is a reaction-; ary move. Its foes said they believed it was not worth the frioney it j takes to keep it running. ! Mr. Praeger declared today that' if the senate does r.ot restore the [ appropriation, an extensive program: of air mail development, which wonld bring many new cities within f its scope, rauifc be given up. 'The plan: was, during the next fiscal veai*," said Mr. Praeger, "to | extend old air mail Routes and create | new onos so that the sei*vice would include daily mail deliveries by air; over these routes: , ' f "New York to the Pacific, prob- i ably San Francisco. ; "New York to Atlanta, via Phil-! adelphia, Baltimore and Washington. "Pittsburg to Kansas City, via n.*..* : i t 1 l * ^inicinimu cinu xiiuiunujjujis. | "St. Paul to St. Louis, through the Mississippi Valley. !,Th<y:p r?]ans must be abandoned | as well as extending air mail routes which are New York to Chicago, via Cleveland, and Washington to I!c-v: York. j "Thirty planes now constitute the : air mail fleet. They carried more than 22,000,000 pieces of mail frotn1 the beginning of the service to Jan- j uary 6." i The air mail as now operated can i carry the mail it handles much liian if mrrteri hv rrtilrnnrl ' x ? ? J , Mr. Praeger said. Thus* it now cost-:; about $365,000 a year to operate. If1 abandoned it will cost $600,000 an- i nually, Mr. Praeger figures, to carry the same quantity and class of mail! by train. The new air routes plan- j ned for next year, Mr. Praeger as-i serted, would mean a saving of ap- j proximately $2,600,000?seventy per cent in charges paid railroads and thirty per cent in salaries of train (clerks. To open up these new lines the post office department is asking congress for a $3,000,000 appropria-1 tion for equipment. More than 100 cities have applied for air mail routes, Mr. Praeger said i i and interest in the service is rapidly: increasing all over the country. 1 Members of the senate post office icommittee said they wanted Mr.; j Praeger to give them facts and jf'gures showing how the air mail has! worked cut financially. I Senator McKellar, Tennessee, mid j I today, he will lead a vigorous fight' for return of the appropriation. He ! also is fighting to have eliminated. .from Senator Now's bill, creating an' aircraft department, all reference to the air mail service. This bill is now, pending in the senate, and Mr. Mc-j j Kellar has prepared an amendment j to take out the air mail service and | : leave it. under post office supervision, j Senator Moore "Agin It." I i j Senator Moore voted against the 'Susan B. Anthony Woman Suffrage, ! Amendment Thursday. Only four^ j members of the Senate voted for the i I measure. Suffrage seems to have lost ground; | steadily in the State for when the J measure was first brought before the! ! public in 1892 by Gen. Robt. R. i | Hemphill, then senator from this J county, fourteen votes out of $ MilV ! ate of thirty-five members, were cast | in favor of granting suffrage. At the constitutional convention a very complimentary vote was given but since the measure has lost friends steadily. $500,000 TO BE USED IN STUDY OF FLU GERMS Washington, Jan. 28.?Plans for extended research and study of the influenza situation are prepared and waiting upon the final passage of the appropr: ition of $50,000 now be ing considered by congress, Assistant Surgeon General J. W. Schereschewsky said today. Dr. Schereschewsky made this statement as reports to the health service from all section of the country indicated that the disease still is spreading. "We shall immediately .send squads of investigators into epidemic centers," he said, "to study the disease at clo.'-.e range. Medical schools and research laboratories will be invited to assist. "The investigation will be divided into two parts; first, a study of the nature of the disease including how it is transmitted, and to what degree immunity is conferred by previous attacks, and second, a laboratory study of means of prevention, and how to avoid complications." MEXICANS HOLD TWO LIEUTENANTS McAllen, Texas, Jan. 28.?Two army aviators, Licucs. E. i'1. Davis and G. E. Grimes, carrying a mili taiy' message from Fort Brown, Texas, to Nogalcs, Ariz., today were forced to make a landing in Mexico, 30 miles south of Zapata, Texas and tonight arc being held by Mexicans. According to a message received here tonight from the aviators they have been promised their freedom tomorrow. Lieutenants Davis and Grimes, who are attached to the air station here were carrying a message, duplicate of that winch was sent Fort Brown to Nogales in another piar.e today. They became confused in a fog and followed the Solado river from Zapata into Mexico instead o? preceding up the Rio Grande. Thirty miles up the Solado river, the plar.e was forced to land, and there the Movirtnne f aaIt A mnvino xucAiuaiio ouvA tnu .unci p;uu';!* ers, it is understood. The only means of reaching the section quic!:ly is by plane. All day aviators from the Eighth Aero squadron here have searched both sides of the Rio Grande and far into the interior without sighting the two lost men and tonight's message was the first, word received. The men are believed to be near Herrera, a mining town. The message was received from Guerrera, a small railroad town near the border. INFLUENZA INCREASING iN THE AMERICAN ARMY Washington, Jan. 2i).?An increase in the number of cases of inlluenza among the American troops in Siberia was shown today in a statement issued by the war department dealing with the outbreak of the disease in the army both at home and abroad. For the weeks ending January 2 and 9, respectively, 24 and 41 cases were reported. The only disease death reported, however, was one due to tuberculosis. The report showed the death rate among troops in Germany continuued high. For the week ending January 16, it was 36.74 per thousand cliolitlif Kiwliov fVinn "frv t the preceding week. During the week ending January 16 there were reported 63 cases of influenza and 30 cases of pneumonia, with twelve deaths from the latter disease. DR. CODY RETURNS Dr. Z. T. Cody, editor of the Baptist Courier, a member of the commission of the Southern Baptist convention who has been investigating r?n/ ]if i anc in fVtn ?rn v ciironf nnnn. tries of Europe will return to Greenville Friday. The commission will report its findings to the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist commission.?Greenville Piedmont. AMERICAN FARM CROPS WORTH TWENTY-FIVE v j BILLIONS IN 1919 j !> Washington, Jan. 29.?American fanners have just completed the most prosperous business year in history, the agriculture department showed today in announcing the estimated value of the 1919 crops, an:-, mals and animal products as $2^, 982,000,000 an increase of $2,500,; 000,000 over 1918. This farm turn over represents ani 'average income of nearly $4,000 for !each of the 0,000,000 farms in the , United States. It is approximately j | five times as great as the sum th*u : jgovernment is preparing to spend in jthe current fiscal year. Farmers still have a large part of > jthis sum to spend since a percentage : of the 1919 harvests still remains on ithe farms. And prices of farm; | products now are still unusually ; high. ; Crops produced 64.1 per ccnt of ; the total and animals and animal products the remaining 3-5.9 per ,cent. Crops alone are valued at $16,-! 025,000,000 while animals and anijmal products are estimated at $8,957,000,000. MEET IN GREENWOOD. Chester, Jan. 28.?The Rev. John C. Roper, the centenary and mis jSionary secretary 01 tne upper oouui : Carolina conference, who has been charged also with the leadership of the evangelistic movement being put on by the Southern Methodists in this conference, as conference evanjgelistic director, left torvi?ht for . Greenwood, where, together with the Rev. J. W. Kilgo. D. D., the presiding elder of the district, will set up the evangelistic program. All of the pastors of the Cokesbury district, will be present. This is |the first of a series of district group : meeting to be held. / j The P.ock Hill district group meet-] ing will be held at Rock Hill next 'Monday, February 2; the Spartanburg district meeting at Spartanburg next Tuesday, February 3; the i Greenville Wednesday next, Februlary 4; Anderson district at Anderjson Thursday, February 5, and Cojlumbia district at Columbia W6dnes-< day, February 11, and BatesburgJ Thurf'r.y, Fobruarv 12. * PRBSiDENT i5 ABLE TO j TRANSACT CONSIDERABLE ROUTINE BUSINESS : j Washington, Jan. 29.?President j Wilson has now reached a point of (convalescence where he is able to j transact routine business daily as [well as take an active interest in, i politics and world affairs, it was | learned today. As soon as the president has had {breakfast he is wheeled onto the j south portico of the White House j overlooking the mail and Potomac jrivex*. Here all matters which re! quire his personal attention are gone over and callers, who are rarely allowed to talk to the president, sec him here. Secretary Tumulty generally sec Jthe president while he is taking his jairing and goes over official business with him. In Greenwood. Miss Victoria Howie and Miss Mary Hemphill Greene went over to Greenwood thos afternoon to attend a reception to the B. M. I. cadet corp, j tendered the young men by Miss An| nie Laurie Andrews and Miss Ruby j Hill Devlin, who are sponsors for j some of the companies. J Mrs. Jas. S. Cochran and Mrs. W. j P. Greene went along as chaperones. . ^ Major Fulp In Columbia. i Major J. D. Fulp is attending aj joint meeting of superintendents and college presidents in Columbia today, j The object of the meeting is to se-j cure a more uniform system of rat-j ! ing high school students by the dif-j ferent colleges and to discuss the general relation of high schools to! colleges. I WHISKEY CAN BE SECURED LEGALLY FOR MEDICINAL USE Washington, Jan. 29.?It's all very well to permit hospitals to lay in a supply of alcoholic liquors with which to treat influenza patients, but how about the thousands of victims who are confined to their homes and whose physicians have had and may have difficulty finding drug stores \Vith a stock of such stimulants? Inquiry at the legal department of the internal revenue office herje, where direciioas\are given for the national enforcement of the prohibition law, yielded me some pertinent information as to the manner in which the law is being construed "as well as the legal method by which the wants of anybody in the United States suffering from influenza or any other ailment for which a physician declares alcohol is necessary a medicine can be upplied. The process is this: Any physician who sets forth under oath that he needs alcohol, whether in the form of a beverage or anything else and makes the proper affidavit before United States attorney can get the liquor. The United States attorney of course, must apply to federal court in his jurisdiction for the i necessary permission and if there is an available supply in the hands of i the collector of internal revenue obtained through confiscation, the 'court may require the collector to sell to the physicians or to tlrug ;stores who hold permits for sale ofl distribution of alcoholic ^medicines. Available Whiskey | Under the law the United States , court may authorize the grant of liquor free of chargc to any mcnt agency; thus th<5 army or navy could get it from any collector 01 internal revenue who happens to be nearest any camp or port. Also it lis quite probable that the American Red Cross would be construed to be a "government agency." The Red Cress hitherto has not supplied medicines to influenza patients, but has confined itself to distribution of gauze masks and nurses, but it would appear to be possible for the Red Cross to obtain a supply of liquor for distribution in needy cases, although this point is still under discussion at the headquarters of the Red Cro^s and at this writing no decision has been reached. COL. E. H. AULL URGES PEOPLE TO BE SURE THEY ARE COUNTED Col. E. H. Aull, director of census for this district, was ir^ Abbeville today and had a conference with JVIrs. Wham and Mrs. Faulkner, enumerators for Abbeville. He said that the census had been practically completed Here, out mat u was possible that some people had not been counted. He urged that anyone who felt that he had been OiiiitLeu, ?.c reI ore new, because new was the time to be counted not next year. It will be true 'in many towns that as soon as the result of the census is published that howls will go up that the count was not complete. To avoid any possibility of this being true those who think that they have been omitted should report at once to either Mrs. Wham or Mrs. Faulkner. FLORIDA DEMOCRATS FIX PRIMARY DATE Jacksonville, Jan. 29.?The Florida State Democratic executive committee met here today and called a State primary for June 8 to nominate all officers, national, State and county. A resolution to call a convention to elect delegates to the national convention and adopt a platform was voted down. Hospital Nurse Secured. "Jln HjT I Tin 1 /-I _ ivi.155 yv iiiic lvieciuuwsi, wiiiuer, vja. has been secured as nurse for the operating room of the Abbeville County Memorial Hospital and will report here March 1. Miss Meadows is known in Abbeville having visited Mrs. Frank Andrews here. She is a very charming and beautiful young lady, all of which augurs well for the hospital. RETURN IOROADS 1 Would Divide Excess Profits To Protect Public?Director General >*$ Gives Views on Necessary Future Policy?Must Be Dealt With Effectively. : ' I ; LcuLville Ky.. Jan. 29.?Walker Jh|j jD. Hines, director general of rail- ! j roads, in an address before the jTransportation club here \ tonight, | urged the necessitv of a division of i excess earnings of railorad corpova|tions above a reasonable return in order to protect the public against ! excess earning^ of very prosperous railroads and in order to insure a fair return to all railroads. j Mr. Hines declared his belief that unless the railroad problem at the 'present time is dealt with "in ^bold and effective way" the return to private management after federal conjtro! "will be wholly disappointing." The director general^ also urged the compulsory consolidation of the : railroad system of the country into a few large systems and suggested the narticipatiou of the public - and labor in tiui management of the roads. Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, who is visiting Louisville on an inspection trip, was another speaker at the banquet. In his discussion of the railroad rate question and the reorganization of the railroads which he believes necessary after government control, Mr. Hines said: "I believe that no prompt, confidant and , liberal regulation of the , railroads will be practicable unless provision is made for the annvopriating for tiny benefit of the public # V interest an important part o? the excess which any railroad company ^ " , , ,, may -earn over a cieariy reasonaDie return. ''The excess earnings thus appropriated for the public benefit oughtto be used largely for the creation of reserves to protect the railroad "S situation in unfavorable years and thus an additional element of stability will be given to the situation. 1 CONGRESS DRIVE ON HORSE RACING IS NOW PLANNED' i Washington, Jan. 29.?Reform forces in congress are quietly organizing today for an offensive against horse racing and gambling .which is expected to drive those pastimes into the limbo where liquor |new lies." The fight will not be 'started in the often until the reform forces are certain that, they have ;enough votes pledged to give them victory. The work of lining up those votes is in full swing today. A Portrait Painter. IV ? v.* \ ! Mr. George Ade, who is rememberi ed in Abbeville as having visited here ! some years ago and as marrying Miss I Mary Orr, then a resident of Abbej ville, has been in tlie city recently and has taken many orders for portraits of our people. Mr. Ade has spent much of his life in Paris and Italy and is a painter of wide reputation. When the Mona : Lisa was stolen some years ago he i was commissioned by the Italian gorj ernment to make a copy of the picj ture and on the restoration of the f J original was commissioned to retouch j it and restore it to its one time beauj ty and mystery. j Mr. and Mrs. Ade were in America j when war was declared and have j since made their home in Tryon, jN. C. I ws.vvv.vvvvvvvs.vv V COTTON MARKET. SI V ' ^ V January 30. ' V V Spot Cotton r-^-- 40.00 V V V V March 36.48 V V May 34.53 V T"'~ 29 51 V I x juiy - j V October 29.85 V IV December 29.35 V ...