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Abbeville Press and Banner Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Tri-Weekly. Abbeville, Wednesday, April 7, 1920 Single Copies, Five Cents. 76th Year. GOSSETT TRIAL RESUME] Four Motions By Coi Are Overruled?Che Illegally Constitute Venire and Cc Motions A emiilii The trial of Kenneth and John tria Gossett will be resumed here Thurs- as day morning at 10 o'clock, motion seci for a change of venue having been denied Tuesday evening by Judge Sease. 1 jJud it is understood that General Mil-^3?' ledge L. Bonham, former inspector ni?t general, and native of Abbeville, has "**' been retained as attorney by de- i*"e fense in the Gossett case and is ex-,nou pected to arrive tonight from And-|so^ erson. j1'00' General Bonham is one of the! Il best known and most distinguished lawyers in the State and hi? addition silO1 to counsel for defense will be of in- mill terest not only to his many friends a Cl here, but will be a matter of statewide interest. jrea< | ; T Four Motions Overruled 'felt Four motions were argued by at- han torneys for defense before Judge' 017 Sease Wednesday morning. All were' overruled. star The first of these motions wasl t that the court was unconstitutionally l_ea] constituted and the second to quash '0f t the indictment on the ground that jje the court, ordered by the governor be . was unconstitutionally constituted feit in that the governor had exceeded his wou constitutional powers and invaded; S the judiciary in ordering a special ]ast term of court. Counsel for defense be i maintained that only the Chief Jus- to 1 tice of the Supreme Court had this wou authority, while the Supreme Court gua was not in session. onlj In overruling this motiotn Judge in t Sease said that it was his opinion jj fViot tVio (rnvpmnr HiH not have the , authority to order a special term of beli, court, but that Chief Justice Eugene jCoul B. Gary had sanctioned the order by Cou appointing a judge to hold the court |of i and had thus recognized the order of firn the governor. ;Abt 1 see Motion to Quash Venire I less The third motion was tc quash venire on the grounds that the court T for which the panel had been drawn (was was not legally constituted, because fort unconstitutionally ordered by the c governor; in that notice of the^*101 drawing of the jury had been pub-^or fished March 19 for a panel to be^011 drawn March 24, 5 days intervening, 1ue when the law provided that a ten,?011 day notice should be given; further |^en: that the jury commission had illegal- |ac^ ly thrown out from three to six :ven names in the drawing, when it had|?e* WA rtiifl* 1. _ i M 01 iiu ciuunvii iujt -lu reject names drawn < unless the persons drawn wereious fer< known to be disqualified. This last motion was overruled. I tria The fourth motion was for a con"'^ea tinuance on the grounds that the de-'g fense had not been able to get local counsel; that sufficient time for the! preparation of the case had not been i, ;fer< allowed and that the defense thought I . 'tria that thev could eret material wit-j_ ' 1C01 nesses ;f they were given further! time. This motion was also over-1 rule.!. j>>ut . squ A Public Trial , Ties Oeorpe Bell Timmerman, one of Sov counsel for defense, raised the ques- pus tion as to how the testimony of bev prosecutrix in case should be taken,jcon asking the court to allow it to be|injr taken by the clerk of court and .wil broutrh; by him into court. This was tv di. allov.ed bv court and in rloinf sn der rn-jrt ?iid tha*" it 'Intended that the Tin TO BE ) THURSDAY,; msel For Defense iwi / if I inge ot Venue, P Court, Illegal ? )ntinuance 11 Lost I DETUNED . ?? th 1 should be as open and as public w] possible; that nothing would be fj, :et. Two Questions Decided iga * IT. "wo questions were decided by;11 ge Sease Tuesday in the Gossett,^ The first was the denial of a^' ;ion bv counsel for defense forlne i nge of venue. The second wasjw< definite and clear cut pro- P* ncement by the court that no lier would come into the court; m during the trial. 'rrj: I a making this last statement no ge Sease said that he wanted no Ft at nf Pvusiiianism. no sitrn of sr> tarism with bristling bayonets in'ni: ivil court; that the tendancy to- g'; d such an order of tilings has al-' ly progressed too far. !q? . Od Ik* court further said that he of certain that Sheriff Burts could j in die the situation with a select ca is of civilian deputies. ilai , udge Sease, in fact by his firm a id on this question placed the j^c ter on the high ground of ap-j*0 I tell ;ing to the honor and integrity! ;he people of Abbeville County. en did not believe that there would my mob violence and that he;m sure the citizens of this county ac Id bear him out in his attitude, heriff Burts when interviewed mc night said that no attempt would soi iiade to "slip" the two Gossetts^be Abbeville for trial, but that they:all Id be brought here openly under;it rd of a few deputies; and that'pr r a few deputies would be keptcu he Court House during the trial. (ac: 1 denying the petition for change lw^ renue, Judge Sease said that he ^0< eved Kenneth and John Gossett ^ !d get a fair trial in Abbeville|^e i , nty; that there was no danger Ke nob violence and that he was|^( lly convinced that the people of jW? eville County did not want to jon the two Gossetts punished un-|cu they were guilty. I '? isai he motion for a change of venue , argued Tuesday afternoon be-! D( i Judge Sease, court convening. 5 o'clock. From that hour until i rtly after six o'clock attorneys defense and prosecution spokeJ . .i. , dn pling cogent reasoning with elont appeal. Proctor Bonham, of. iham and Price, attorneys for de-,pr se, made an unusually masterly' ress in his appeal for a change of i I of ue. He was answered by George "" CO 1 Timmerman, of the prosecution, j su re than 150 affidavits from vari-l 1C' sections of the county were of-1 4 id to sustain the plea that the | Gossetts could not obtain a fairjtl( 1 in Abbeville County. A great i 'e: 'M 1 was made of the fact by Mr. j I fp lham that local counsel could not, obtained. !so ^ 'St he prosecution in reply also of- j sd affidavits to show that a fair j .1 could be obtained in Abbeville inty. Deputy Sheriff T. L. Cann, De-'p;( y U. S. Marshal C. .T. Bruce ami a' -jad of picked deputies left Wed- jp] day morninjr on the 10:00 o'clock p, ithern train for Greenville. This | 1 se will brintr the Gossetts to Ab-. ille in time for the opening of rt at 10 o'clock Tnursdnv morn-! ' . During the trial tln? Gossetts'G 1 be kept in the Abbeville Coun-|th jail under a rruard of civilian jc<i >uties. Anions the cleput ios wercli; . T7: 11 1 TT r m ruiui?\ ann \v. i. i.asoi). w EWARD FOR FINDING OF BODIES DROWNED SUNDAY IN SAVANNA The latest news from Harpe rry concerning the unfortuna ' AiimSnrv f a? rvnfPAM P TMAof VWXIUJg, VI 1 OVllOj iiom were children, last Sundi ening brings the tidings that noi ' the bodies has been found, thouj e river was carefully dragged f ro miles below the ferry Tuesd; ternoon. One thousand dollars was raisi the Lowndesville section Tuesd; be paid as rewards for the findii the bodies. $100 is to be given e person finding one body and tl hole amount will be given for tl nding of all the bodies. Several thousands of persons we ithered on the banks of the riv lesday, while many were draggii e river. People from Greenwoo cCormick, Anderson r.n.! oth arby towns were there. Mai ?re relatives of the drowned pe e. All came to assist in the sear< r the bodies. \ An undergarment of one of tl rls was found late Tuesday afte on about five miles below Harpe rry. The garment had caught on ag near the bank and was reco. zed by the mother of one of tl rls. The ferry was one of the typic vannalj river ferriers, consistir a flat bottom boat, which is he place by two strands of wi; ble connecting the boat to anothi ger cable which extends from or nk of the river to the other. Tl >w of the river furnishes the powi propel the flat. The front cable ken up and the rear cable lengtl ed, making the flat present c lique surface to the force of tl *er's flow, thereby propelling ross the stream. The main cable which is usual: jored on each side of the river i Tie large tree or post which hi en especially constructed is gene y fastened to a spool and ratche being highly necessary for tl inicpal cable to be kept taut to s< re the flat and to make it trav tj. *1. LU35 tuc rivci. xi waa .1/1IC apw lich gave away Sunday afternoo; >sening the big cable and causir i boat to sink. While the cab Id tight, the loaded boat natural! pt itself ^suspended, the force < b river bearing it up, but when is loosened, the "flies" of swee] the side of the boat caused tl rrent to dip the upper end of tl it under water. The flat quick nk out of sight. 5BERT L. CADE CALLED TO RES Mr. Robert L. Cade. 45 years ol sd last Friday morning at his hon Lisbon. He belonged to an old ar ominent family of this section ar is one of the most lovable men e state. His remains were burii Friendship church in Wilk unty on Saturday. Mr. Cade rvived by his mother, Mrs. L. i ide, to whom he showed a love ai votion that challenged the admir )n of all who knew him. He al aves one brother, John >S. Cade, t. Carmel, S. C. Hundreds < iends will learn with profoui rrow of his going away.?Elbert* ar. LAND SOLD L. M. Tolbert, of the Dixie Lai sold this week to J. A. Shan T> acres of the Gordon WTii ace, four miles south of town. t: ice paid being about $-">0 per acr Mr. McKissick in Town Mr. Rion McKissick, editor of t roenvillc Piedmont, arrived he lis morning to handle the Gossc iso for his oant'i'. 'Mr. MoTv??-ji is many friends in Abbeville \v ere clad to se<* him. ?! BOLL WORM MOST -| SERIOUS MENACE TO j :l COTTON INDUSTRY ne I Department of Agriculture yL | 9 I Alarmed Over Failure to! or | Control the Pest iy I Washington, April 6.?Re-ap! pearance of the pink boll worm in; ? I nnrl Hlcnnvor? nf the inRAPt ' 0?j ' ? DAUt} auu U1UVV T VI J Wfc ?MV ...wwv. . j in Louisiana present the most scly!rious situation which has ever con-, ig fronted the cotton industry of the f ?0 United States, according to experts I of the Department of Agricultui*. j "e Unless preventative measures be lie | immediately taken, a review of the j situation issued, today said, the boll i ! worm will become a permanent and ! re serious limiting factor in the pro-i jduction of cotton. j The drastic quarantine now be-! igjing .enforced in Louisiana g>ives! j 'hope of an eradication of the pest ' j in that section, the review said er:but the "unfortunate result" of the ly I resumption of cotton growing in Texas districts where the boll worm j has become intrenched threatens; to '"'undo the work of stamping out the | destroyers. "As a result of the failure of the ie state of Texas to carry out the pro<1 gram of control which had been' 1 promised, *if the insect should re-t rsjappear,v the review stated, "a new' a1 and very serious phase of the sit-] _!iiation developed early in 1920.; Tim nnp drawback to success now is le: the delay in Tnxas in establishing i non-cotton zones for the infected areas, a delay which already has real suited in the planting of considlfr erable areas in cotton. Destruction of this cotton later on, if authorized* by the state, will simply J re: mean that much greater cost." er \ -e ie More Indictments ic Expected by N. Y. Jrj Vice Crusader 1 isj New York, April 6.?Assistant Dish-' trict Attorney James Er Smitii, vice crusader, announced today he expect>nted more members of the police deiejpartmfent would be indicted next! tj Thursday when the regular grand ; jury resumed its consideration of 'charges that the tenderloin is "wide | open." Third Deputy Commissioner 'y i Porter and two detectives already in | are under indictment. j j The Fourth inspection disfrftt, over which Inspector Dominick r-j Henry has charge, was described by I ! Mr. Smith as "the skunk hole of New '[York." He added that charges of: Je;Rev. John Roach Straton, made Sun-, e- day in a sermon at Calvary Baptist j I church, that vice was rampant along, the great white way were "correct." | ol! n.i Palmer Blamed |g For Sugar Prices 'e Washington, April 6.?Hearings in ly,connection with the investigation of; Attorney General Palmer's action in | | fixing a 17 1-8 cent price for Louisi-i it j ana cane sugar as figures that would. pS I govern federal actions against sugar ] ! profiteers was begun today before a ie ! sub-committee of the House judiciary le committee. Representative Tinkham, | ]v'Republican, Massachusetts, author of! ' resolutions proposing the inquiry, ap- J peared before the committee. He would prove. Mr. Tinkham said,! .before concluding his presentation! | that Mr. Palmer's nction cost the peo. j 7 nle of the country $900,000,000 ini increased sugar prices, i Representative Tinkham contended , d? that the Attorney General was with-J leout authority under the Lever act 1(j nr nnv other statuTe to fix the price of sugar. in i\ q W Plane Will Cros? the Pacific, es! Daniels Believes1 is | I ! Washington April 6?Secretary DanJ iels told the Senate naval committee id today that he hoped that "in two years 1 or less we will have a machine that a_ | has flown across the Pacific.*' so' The Secretary was discussing a proof vision in the annual naval bill, for the i preservation of the trans-Atlantic seao^plane X. 0.-4 in the national museum. lcj He did not go into any details as to j the proposed trans-Pacific flight. )n | Mrs. C. B. Alexander of Ware Shoals, | i is spenuixiK uie ween wuii utrr bisieia, I Mrs. Engles Mrs. Middleton and .Mrs.! CSreene. , Plan to Raise Red Flasr in the East; Moscow. M;srch 2H.?At a meeting | to of tbe Persian communist party held. ;le Mirch 27. a manifesto was issued: :--a\ ii i : j "The time is not far distant when j th<> Pod fla.ii of (lie free proletariat | J will be raised in the e.'-st." according j i to ."d vices received here. he Ordered to Restore Street Car Service! t Toledo O.. A?>ri! 'V ?Fed"r;'l .li'dce j CK Ki'!ii< todj-.v ordered I'.ih Toledo llail-1 ho v>';:ys I'nu I.igli; ?nniiK'ny hi restore; street cor service Thursday morning.' i thr?:itenir.fr to name a receiver if the Southern Freight Rate Association Is Now Organizes Atlanta, Ga? April 6.?Organizatio or tne soutnern rreignt Kate uommii tee, with offices in the transportatio building at Atlanta, has been complel ed, it was announced today by Lincol Green, vice president of the Souther railway and chairman of the execi tive committee of the Southern Freigh Rate Association. The committee is composed of th following: G. K. Caldwell, formerly assistar freight traffic manager. Southern rai way system, Atlanta, chairman; S. I Mitchell, formerly assistant to th freight traffic manager, Louisville < Nashville railroad; Louisville, Ky, C. McD. Davis, formerly gener; freight agent, Atlantic Coast Lini Wilmington, N. C., E. K. Bryan, foi merly assistant general freight agen Illinois Central, Memphis. Tenn.; ( S. Rains, formerly assistant genen freight agent. Seaboard Air Line, Noi folk, Va.; L. E. Chalenor, Atlanti formerly chajrm^n of the Old Soutl eastern Freight Association, secretar; The committee will have jurisdictio in the entire territory south of th Ohio and Potomac and east of th Mississippi rivers. Opposition to the Government General Throughout Irelan< Dublin, April 6.?Opposition to th government never has been so genei al throughout Ireland as it is todaj Some critics protest against the sc versity of military regime but thei attacks are met by demands from otli ers who assert that steps taken hav not been sufficiently drastic and tha measures intended to be coerciv have failed in their object. Inability to discover leaders of re cent disorders and failures to gai information as to plans for raids i future has resulted in sharp criticisr Government agents are apparent 1< often victims of misinformation an some military raids seem to hav been based oi> data given by person who are desirious of embarrassing th administration. From time to tim raids result in the capture of arm and ammunition but very often th soldiers take only quantities of sedi tious literature.^ So much is printei adverse to the government that man; homes quite innocent of sympath; with rebellion contain pamphlet that might be easily classified as se ditious but possession of such litera lure is in liseu a crimmai uuense. Palmer Attacks Smith and Backs President Wilsoi Gainesville, Ga., April 6.?Openini his campaign to obtain the st&port o Georgia's delegation to the Democrati national convention, Attorney Genera Palmer in an address here today at tacked the candidacy of Senator Hok Smith for the Democratic Presidentia nomination, assailed the record of th Republican majority in congress am upheld the position of President Wil son in the treaty controversy. The attorney general at the outse of his address said he had enterei the Georgia primary because "certai: enemies of the administration propos ed to enter a candidate'' with the in tention 'only to secure a delegatio: to the San Francisco conventio: which might be controlled by the crit ics of the administration.'' "The change in the plans of the op ponents of the administration whic' has resulted in the entering of th name of a distinguished citizen c Georgia as a candidate does not mater lally alter the situation nor chang my duty with respect to it. Toledo Officials Plan to Restore lraction kervici Toledo, 0.. April 6.?Following r< fusal last night of city council to r( cede to cover a wage raise deraande by striking street carmen, Mayor Coi nell Schreibet. Judge John M. Killil of the United States^district cour and Henry I. Doherty, head of the Tc ledo traction interests, planned a cor ference today in which an attemr will be made to restore car service. City officials were working frant cally today trying to install an eff cient motor bus service to tal^j car of the working- public, many of whin have been obliged to walk to an when the carmen walked out. Snow and freezing temperature nvo nddfnsr 'n discomforts fm mer oar ride;*, and downtown bus ness is said to have felt the result < the strike. Albany. . Shows Henlthv Tncreas \V,:s! . V?v*il ?: 'YiiiUwiIi > -tatfsl!. < rr'tioi; < (] lorfav ' the '-r>i - as l'lireiii inrl'vl < '<Mi;:nv. fJa. '' mi iiHT<"*as" i .... ! i . i nver i 11". p.,r,]>., 1,1 ;,ii! ;in i I I'.ST or 71.7 per (Viit. UN PICKETED ! AT CAPITAL UNO \ 111 DEMI HOUSE n Irish Sympathizers Now Plan |t to Bomb British Embassy With Literature e Washington, April 6. Disregard- ' it ing the warnings of the federal gov1 I m nn f ? V? ?-? * ' J * i- v^auiiicul Luat tiicy w^uuiu ue prose3. cuted under federal penal statutes, e two women favorable to an Irish & republic resumed today the picketing of the British embassy which il led yesterday to two arrest, e. | A few minutes after the women r-, appeared carrying, banners they t,! were warned by the police to leave 5-|and when they failed to obey were *1 j arrested. They gave their names r*|as iMrs. Honor. Germantown, Pa., a> and Miss Elaine Barrie, of Washl" ington. L* The second group of women arrested were Miss Helen O'Brien, of ' 8t. Louis and Miss Kathleen O'Brien ' of Philadelphia. They also were k"ri to House of Detention. After being booked at police he-idquarters on charges of violating i the federal statute making it a felony to assault a diplomatic repre, j sent?tive of a foreign government lithe women were taken to the House of Detention. United States District e! Attorney Laskey, who gave orders '. for the arrest, placed the amount of r. 'bond at $1,000. Tt was not furnish. ed and the women were locked up. r| As soon as the word of the arrests i. reached headquarters of the women e'rt a hotel, two more pickets with t banners were Sent to the embassy e vnd it was announced that the pickets would be sent out in relays as ; rapidly as those "on duty" were arn rested. n When two women appeared the n.ploice stationed at the embassy sum? ironed the patrol with police women "to arrest them. el Later when it was announced the s | police were interfering with the ej picketing on the street, it was then c; planned to send women up in an s!-irplane to drop literature on the e; rmbassy. The first flight, it was " i said, would take >fiace today, at j 4:30 P. M., y\ ^ Red Cross Home Section Meets. 3 ,_! - j The Home Service Section of the I Abbeville Chapter American Red j Cross held an interesting meeting in the Red Cross rooms yesterday afternoon. Reports covering the work jdone during the past three months | was submitted, showing that the op% portunity for service has not def ? creased but is broadening each day. 1j The Section is planning to con" 'duct a "Model Office" during the ? I month of May. The plan is an educae tional campaign to increase interest _ ,in Home Service and to secure volunteers. Assistance in this campaign t ? will be given by experts from the a Division and a great benefit to the 1_; County is expected as a result. a Miss Annie Doty, Supervisor n from the Southern Division, is exipected in the city today to visit the Chapter and assist in planning for g he "Model Office." if Rev. Louis J. Bristow, Maj. J. D. ~ jFulp, Hon. J. M. Nickles, Mrs. J. Dendy Miller, Mrs. Foster B. McLane, Miss Eliza Lindsay and Mrs. jM. T. Coleman were present at the meeting. e Republicans Pick j- Candidates Today 1 d i New York, April 6.?Republican 1 contests in 17 congressional districts :s j and one in the state at large for delete 1 gates to the national convention fur ? j uisiieu rne principal interest in today's state-wide primaries. j With the exception of the Seventh district in Manhattan, where two in1 dependent candidates for delegates '-| are pledged to support Herbert Hoove' er for the Presidential nomination, 111 all of the contests were made by can. d'didates favoring the nomination of g I Senator Hiram W. Johnson of Calii forsia. The "regular" Republican ?s i delegates, by (' " uneflicial / state convention last February, will ' }ijO to the convention unirstruetH. 12J lit isj lii E.' Gil ril EJ EJ EJ Ei EJ EJEJCi/EJ Gil iHI ?J Qi! G! IS GL! Gil Si COTTON MARKET i 8 Spot Cotton 43.25 May ... -10.07 !) .Inly ... SS.'S O:.