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CARRANZA FACES
CERTAIN CAPTURE
OBREGON SAYS FORMER
PRESIDENT IS SURROUNDED?
WILL BE ALLOWED TO LEAVE
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COUNTRY?TO BE FURNISHED;
GUARD TO VERA CRUZ.
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El Paso, May 13.?President Carranza
of Mexico is surrounded and
in desperate straits at Rinconadam, j
near Esperanza Station, in the state
of Puebla, according to a telegram i
from Gen. Alvaro Obregon received j
tonight by Roberto V. Pezquiera, j
financial agent for the revolutionists I
here.
Instructions have oeen giver to al
low Carranza to leave the country in
safety. General Obregon's message i
said.
"Carranza has not been made pi-is-j
oner," the telegram, which was dated I
today, read. "He has been surround-j
ed for the last three days, having j
fought at Rinconadam, near Esper-i
anza Station, and 1 think he can not
stand much longer. Orders have been j
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sent to the officers directing the at-,
tac:: that they notify Carranza that j
ha <m nnf- nf the dansrer zone in
order that his life may be spared,!
of c ring him a guard to escort him to
Vera Cruz that he may leave the1
country and be free to go wherever!
he wishes.
"Colonel Orozco, noted for his,
criminal proceedings, has been cap-;
tured at sea by one of our naval
vessels, together with Gen. Jopc
Murguia.
"As the shooting of prisoners to;
which you refer, I can assure you J
that it is only newspaper xaiiv, as we i
do not vet know the casualties on the'
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enemy siae.
(Signed) "A Obregon." j
REFUSES TO TESTIFY
AGAINST THE CORPORAL :
Columbia, May 13.?The trial of j
Corporal Maston, charged with murder
of William S. Chaplain, prominent
Columbian, on the night of
January 19th., was halted at the
camp today when Lieutenant T. B.
Fowler, one of the four soldiers
charged with murder, refused to
testify against the corporal. The 1
? ?? tViof Vio will nnt
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testify when Lieutenant Fowler is
tried, and Fowler refuses to testify
ajrainst the corporal. The matter is
to be referred to the southeastern
department at Charleston for a ruling
as to whether the Matson trial
shall proceed without the Fowler
testimony. The judge advocate
states that he will not conscnt to
Fowler's trial until the Matson case
is ended.
RUNNING WITH BIG MEN.
The Press and Banner has receiv
ed a letter from Uncle Jim Stark
wto? is in Washington attending the
Baptist Convention, or rather who is
there ostensibly for that purpose I
He says in the letter that he has
been running with Senator Dial,
Cotton Ed Smith, Jim Baker, "and
*r~ tke other big men around Washing(t*n."
The whole city he tells us has
been turned over to the Baptists.
Prom Washington he and Mrs
Stark will go to New Yorx where he
.expects to call on some of the bank
ers and tell them how business is
sjp^, ran down in this section. If there is
any loose real estate he may take it
?ver for Bishop Link and himself. |
I PRINT PAPER COMBINE TO
LIFT PRICE IS DENIED
Washington, May 13.?Existence
of a combination of print paper
manufacturers to fix prices and to
"act in conceit on contract adjustments,"
was denied Thursday by
Maurice Hoopes, president of the
. Finch-Pruyn Company, manufacturers
of Glen Falls, N. Y., before the
Senate subcommittee., investigating!
:be print paper situation.
ABBEVILLE COUNTY
MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
Will Be Completed in June?Finishing
Touches Now Being Put
on the Building
The Abbeville County Memorial
Hospital will be ready for occupancy
sometime between June 15 and
June 30. The finishing touches are
now being put on the building
scarcity of labor being the only factor
that is delaying completion.
When finished the building will
not only be an up-to-date and modern
hospital but will be architecturally
one of the handsomest buildings
in Abbeville. It is built of bricK and
tne specifications call tor stucco finish,
but it is possible that this will ie
omitted. The grounds are Ideally located,
well drained and can be easily
beautified.
The first floor of the building is
taken up with offices, reception room,
kitchen, linen closets, dining room,
drug room, bath and three private
rooms. The bottom floor is tne only
level that is not practically completed
and installation of the pipes foi
steam heat is delaying completion
here.
The basement will be used for the
furnace and one section may be fitted
up for a kiktchen.
The second floor has four private
rooms, two semi-private rooms,
children's ward, lest room ?or nurses,
negro ward ' two rooms) bath rooms
and linen clcsets.
On the third floor there is a
white ward, a semi-private room, a
maternity room, scrub room, sterilizing
room, operating room, laboratory
and X-Ray room.
Each floor leads out onto a large,
roomy veranda, suitable for convalescents.
On the second rroor there
are two verandas, one of which will
be used fqr the children.
The hospital will accommodate 35
patients. It is planned to have
three or four gi'aduate nurses and
six girls in training. Dr. R. M. Rakestraw,
of Chester, will be the surgeon
in charge. As soon as the hospital
is opened he will make two visits
a week to Abbeville and if the work
demands he will make his home ir
this city, giving his whole time tc
the local hospital.
The hospital plant when completed
wlil cost about $35,000 and it is estimated,
with the advance in materials,
will represent a varue of $50,000.00.
The question of raising sufficient
funds to complete and equip the
hospital has been of urgent moment
since the inception of the idea of a
hospital here. More than once lack
of money has placed the project in
jeopardy. For the most part, how
ever, the people of this city ?have
supported the hospital enough to
eep the ball a-rolling.
The people of the county have
not given the support that the hospital
management thinks it should
receive from them and to the end
that they may be {riven an opportunity
to contribute a canvas will be
made throughout the county. This
canvas will be in charge of R. S. McCombs
and will begin in the near
future. Any contribution under $50
will be considered as a gift. For a
contribution of $50 or more a stock
certificate will be issued.
COL. KERR RETURNS
Col. J. D. Kerr, who has been on a
visit to Washington, New York and
other financial centers, has returned
to the city. He spent most of the time
while away with his rlcn brother-inlaw,
Col. Austin Stillman. When
Col. Stillman could not give him any
attention, he visited Cousin Percy.
He visited all the furniture stores in
New York, but tells u& tnat none of
them are finer than the stores run
by Calvert & Sons and Hall Invest
ment Company. In going through
Baltimore he saw Col. Marston which
caused him to see a good many other
things.
PREACH AT COKESBURY
The Rev. J. L. Martin, D. D.. will
preach at Cokesbury next Sunday
morning at 11 o'clock.
' FORGERY CHARGED BY j I
SECRETARY DANIELS
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Cablegram Exhibited by Sims Not I
Genuine, He Says?Traps the j
Rear Admiral.
Washington, May 13.?Charges
that a cablegram produced before the j
senate naval investigating commit- a
t.p(> Hnrinp- t.hp test.imnnv nf Rpar Ad- t
miral Sims bore a forged signature,
were made today by Secretary Dan- {
icls. He referred to a message which t
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Admiral Sims had presented as part
of his criticism of the navy depart- ?
ment and which purported to have c
been signed by the secretary. r
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"Somewhere somebody was guilty c
of signing my name to an official dis- f
patch which the original, Tie reproduced,
shows I never signed," Mr. r
Daniels told the committee, "or of t
altering a dispatch by erasing the j
, veal signature and substituting "Dan- ]
iels." j
The concluding paragraph of the ?
, cablegram read: "In regard to con- ^
, voys, I consider that American ves- x
sels having armed guard are safer ,
. when sailing independently." ;
Mr. Daniels testified that immedi- (
ately upon reading the admiral's tes- .
, ":nouy ho knew that he never sent \
such a cablegram and he started an t
investigation.
, "I knew," he said, "that if my t
name appeared on such a telegram it (
would be because somebody had
forged my name to it."
The secretary said he finally found
l the original of the dispatcn In the
t British embassy, through which it
had been sent, and that the name
signed to it was A. F. Carter, by directions
of the chief of naval opera- ,
tions." j
'! VOTE SATURDAY ON
PEACE RESOLUTION
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Washington, May l.?>.?The provi- 1
1 sion of the Republican peace re sol u
! tion requesting that the President c
' jpen negotiations with Germany for *
a separate treaty was stricken out
' today on motion of Senator Lodge,
of Massachusetts, the Republican
1 leader.
: After this provision had been j
1 stricken out, an agreement was j
' rcached for a final vote on the reso- c
lution at four o'clock Saturday. t
' The agreement was made by unan- ?
, imous consent after negotiations be- ;
' ;\veen Senator Lodge and Democratic ]
" Leader Senator Underwood, of Ala- ;
bama. j
Mr. Lodge s motion was made at (
the conclusion of an addi*ess by Sen-1]
ator Kellogg, Republican, Minn., if
supporting the resolution and it'f
came as a surprise. The Republican r
1 leader did not explain the reason for )
his motion, which was sustained in
1 the absence of any objection.
1 Tfie section of the resolution
I stricken out had drawn particular
fire from the Democrats ;;n.l from I
Senator McCumber. Republican, of 1
Xorth Dakota, who spoke against I
:he resolution Monday. r
FARM LOAN AID IS PRO'VCD ,
Washington, May 12.?I! j
. tentative VV. F. Stevenson, of Che
r
raw, who'is a member of the committee
on banking and currency says
that his committee has agreed upon,
legislation to relieve the emergency
in the farm loan situation caused by;
I the attack upon the constitutionality i t
of the farm loan act. ' rl
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The Supi'eme Court has postponed ! S
until next fall the rearguments of j t
this case, aid in the meanwhile the j t
farm loan board is tied up, and so 1 S
are many millions of dollars' worth u
of mortgages which have already <
been executed, but on which no!
morey has been advanced. Mr.
Stevenson says that the matter is one,
of great importance to South Caro-, ^
lina. ! *
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MEMORIAL EXERCISES !r
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' Major Henry Tillman, of Green-1
; wood, and Major R. B. Cheatham, of 5
! Abbeville, have been invited to make!
addresses at the memorial exercises,
I here Saturday morning. The exer-i
! cises will begin on tne Square at 1
J 11 o'clock. Dinner will bo served to (
' the veterans at the Eureka Hotel. i
CITY COUNCIL MET
WEDNESDAY NIGHT
In Regular Session?Grants Twenty
Year Franchise to the Telephone
Company.
The City Council met in regular
0*iCCM/\r? WT fiflnrtfdnTr vi i r*U f nr!4-Vt #*11 4-U/%'
AVORS, ALLIANCE
OF ALL BAPTISTS
)r. J. F. Love Presents His Report
At Baptist Convention In
Washington.
Washington, May 13.?Southern
Baptists should lay plans for an alii j
ince with Baptists of all the world,
)r. J. P. Love, secretary of the for-,
jign mission board declared hero tolay
to the Southern Baptist convenion,
in his annual report.
As a start in that direction it was
;nnouncod there will be a confcrence
>f all European Baptist missionary
>rganizations at London next -July to
onsider a European Baptist. program.
Indicating the growth in foreign
nission interests of Southern Bap.
;ists during the last fifty years, the
eport said that in 1870, Southern
Baptists had 11 foreign missionaries
n the field with a church membership
there of 250, while the home
K'ople contributed during the year
;> the cause $21,083. Twenty-five
rears later, or in 189"), when the con/ention
last met in Washington, the
lenommation nad el xoreign missionaries
in the field, 3,493 cnurch mem>ci*s
there and the collections for
oi'eign imssions amounted to $129,.
548. Now, the convention has more
;han 400 missionaries in ten foreign
ields, many thousands of church
ncmbers, and the contributions for
;he last year to foreign missions ran
nto the millions. The number of conrcrts
on many of the fields during
:!/c last year has been larger than
aver before.
In addition to making available
nrirn rnnnpv frtv flip nrnspfiit.inn nf
foreign missionary work, the 75 milion
campaign has produced more
.vorkers for the foreign fields, the
report said, with indications that
nore than 500 of the best trained
poung men and women among South
:rn Baptists will offer themselves for
;hs foreign fie* 1 during the fivo,-ear
period of the campaign.
MAIL THEFTS CHARGED
Spartanburg, May 13.?Postoffice
inspectors here today arrested three
l'.gro men employed in the handling
)f the mail at the local transfer sta-,
ion on the charge of stealing from
he mails. It is estimated that goods
alued at several tftonsand dollars
lave been taken from the mails at
his post within the last six months.:
Robert Shelton, Thuimond Kelly and
Uleve Ellington are the men being
leld for a preliminary hearing be- j
rore the United States commissioner
omorrow. The inspectors who
nade the arrests are E .J. Mansfield,:
iV. H. Tafel, and William P. Lathe.
EVANS WILL NOT RUN
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Spartanburg, May 13.?John Gary
Cvuns, ex-governor of South Caro
ina, and now chairman of the state
Democratic executive committee and
islional Democratic committeeman
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'v.m South Carolina, announced to
V. ' '.hat he will not accept the stat
! airmanship again. It is reported
icre that T. P. Cothran of Greenville
nay be put forward to succeed Mr
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^avns.
INDIANA NAMES DELEGATES ,
Indianapolis, May 13.?Indiana;
Republicans here tonight named 2G
lelegates to the national convention.!
Six were instructor! by their dis-l
ricts to work for General Wood for.
he presidential nomination, four for
Senator Johnson and the others were I
ininstructed. j
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HEARING THE MUSIC
Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Greene, Mrs. j
. S. Cochran, Miss Mary Greene and j
Sill went over to Greenwood this
fternoon and attended the music
ecital of Miss Ruby Hill Devlin at
.ander College.
SERVICES AT UPPER
LONG CANE SUNDDAYl
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The Rev. J. F. McKinnon, of Oak j
and, Fla., will preach at Upper Long
^ane church Sunday morning at the,
isual hour.
JVOOiUlI T? VUUCoUflj illgUb Wll/Il ail LIlW|
aldermen present. The usual routine
matter of receiving reports from the'
various city departments, auditing,
cf billts, etc., being disposed of the;
matter of granting a franchise to E
W. Gregory, who recently bough i
the Abbeville Telephone Company,
was taken uo.
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Mr. Gregory appeared before
Council and asked for a 20-year
franchise. On motion of Alderman
Henry this was granted, the franchise
to be prepared by the city at
torney ana approveu oy council
The request of Major J. D. Fulp
that Council extend aid in the matter
of getting out a handsomely illustrated
booklet of the Abbeville
City Schools was referred to a com
mittee to investigate and report.
Water was ordered placed on
Whitehall street, a committee of citizens
appearing before council and re
questing that this action be taken.
DEBS CANDIDATE
FOR FIFTH TIME
- Xew York, May 13.?The national
convention of the Socialist party today
acclaimed Eugene V. Debs, fedoral
convict No. 2,253 in the Atlanta
Ga., penitentiary, its candidate for
the fifth time for president of the
United States . A 21 minute ovation
followed Debs formal nomination, as
"Lincoln of the Wabash," Seymout
Stedman of Chicago, general counsel
of the party was nominated for vice
president by unanimous vote on a
. econ l ballot. The first vote for him
was 10G agt-rst 2G for Mrs. Kate
Richards O'Hara of Kansas City,
now serving a sentence in a Jefferson
City, Mo., prison for violation of
the espionage act.
In nominating Debs the Socialist
party of America signified its determination
"not to recede one inch
from our revolutionary program"
Morris Hillquit, of New York leader
of the "conservative forces declared.
"Socialism in the United States!
has not changed and does intend to]
change" he said.
Another ovation greeted this
declaration.
Tonight a special committee of!
five, headed by Hill quit will leave j
for Washington wheie tomorrow it!
has an appointment with Attorney]
Ceneral Palmer to plead for amnes-j
'v for all "political prisoners".
vrmcyhmrf fVio /?nn>tfrir
NEW LATIN TEACHER.
Miss Annie Radcliff, of this coun
ty, has been elected as teacher o
Latin in the High School Tor nex
:<>ssion. Miss Radcliff ts a daughte
of Mr. W. F. Radcliff, of Long Can !
township. She graduated severa i
years ago from the Woman's Colleg
of Due West, since which time sh
has been engaged in teaching. Fo
the past several years she has been
teaching Latin and Mathematics Ii
the Brunson, (S. C.) High School
where she also acted as principal
and at Dublin, Ga. She ranks well a
a teacher, and will be a valuable ad
dition to our schools.
VISITING THEIR SON
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Judge and Mr... Frank B. Gar" J
left Thui'.:c'.ay for Annapolis, where i
they will spend several days with I
Frank 13. Gary, Jr.. who is a second!
year cadet in the navy. Frank will j
soon leave on a tour which will takej
hiiii through the Pacific instead of |
European waters as was first intended.
MISS RUDISAIL LEAVES.
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Miss Mary Rudisail for the past
eighteen months stenographer of W.
P. Greene, left Friday afternoon for
Spartanburg, where she will mak
her home with her parents. Mis
Rudisail has endeared herself to a.'
large circle of friends in the city^
and county and they will regret to;
learn that she is leaving Abbeville. :
BAPTISTS TAKE IF
PHI QUESTION
UE.MAINU IS MAUL UfUN rSU1 H
PARTIES TO TAKE DEFINITE
STAND ON ENFORCEMENT OF
18TH AMENDMENT?NO LONGER
QUESTION OF POLITICS.
Washington, May 13.?Taking the
position that prohibition " is no
longer a political question" but a
question of the "authority of the
whole people expressed in law" the
Southern Baptist convention today
called upon both the Democratic and
Republican parties to declare openly
for the enforcement of the eighteenth
amendment and to nominate no one
for the presidency who is not committed
to this policy.
?>y a standing oasiot tne i,u'ju
messengers enrolled at the conven.'011
unanimously adopted the lesolu.!
n offered by Dr A. J. Barton of
Alexandria. Va., which recited that
it is the will of the representatives of
:3,000.000 white Baptist? that prohibition
as the law of the land shall be
strongly maintained.
Regret at his inability to attend
the convention was expressed by
President Wilson in a letter in which
lie said that "it is of special significance
and timeliness that a great'
Christian convention should be held
in Washington because the nation
now faces nothing less than the
. question whether it is to help the
Christian people in ether parts of the
?orld to realize their ideals of justice
' .-.id orderly peace."
Questions of education and the exi
pansion of foreign missions were discussed
at the morning session today.
E. J. Dillard of Birmingham, Ala.,
. spoke of the need for Christian edu!
cution among the students of the
i South and Dr. John E. White of
! Anderson, S. C., described -the ilI
literacy prevalent in the South which
| he declared it was the duty of the
Baptists to remedy. Dr. A. P.
T.obertson of the Baptist Theological
seminary, Louisville, Ky., discussed
the problems of theological training
vnv ministors
HAYS MADE CHURCH ELDER
Surprises G. O. P. Committee By
Opening Session With Prayer.
Sullivan, Ind., May 13.?Will H.
Hays, chairman of the Republican
National Committee, was ordained
an elder in the Presbyterian church
here today. He takes the place left
voi'ont v?v tVip Hpnfh of his father.
John T. Hays, nearly a year ago. The
father had held the place for thirty
years.
Chairman Hayes, who has been active
in church work from boyhood,
.surprised the members of the National
Committee when he opened
4he first meeting after his election
with prayer.
SPECIAL COURT TO
HEAR IRISH CASES
London, May 13.?The British government
has decided to create a spe;'.al
judicial body 10 examine the
uses of Irishmen who are under
urest, it was announced in the House
. f commons today by Andrew Bonar
.tv, the government leader.
Mrs. Norwood Better
Mrs. Ellen Norwood, librarian,
who has been quite ill for some time,
is greatly improved and her friends
will be glad to learn that she will revjiimn
Vipr duties at the librarv in the
near future.
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