The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, May 19, 1920, Page PAGE SIX, Image 6
WAR MUStUM WILL
BE THRILLING ONE !
3 I,
Collection of Mementoes in London j
Will Be Large One. J/j
London, May 18?Sign posts bear
ing the inscription "Hell-Fire Cor
ner," "Piccadilly' and "Haig Avenue'
erected by British troops just behind
the front lines in France, are
among the more than 10,000 exhibits
being assembled at Crystal palace,1
London, to form the Imperial War
* Museum. It will be opened by the
king in June and will continue for
^ four years.
Exhibits innumerable have been
gathered from every land where the
war cast its trail to show the com-'
? mon effort of the Empire during the
^ ^ 4- ClmvfKr O "f f O V tVl Q
gieau i..11. wuviwj Mi-wA
signing of the armistice, the memor-:
able sign posts mentioned were fount!
discarded as lumber. In addition to
those bearing "street"' names, which
to many of the men who knew them
, , k best, had meant so many direction
posts to avenues of agony, there was
found the rallying trench sign of
Verdun with its "no thoroughfare."
They were all rescued and are now
to be preserved as relies of posterity.
There will be on display the gun
that fired the first British shot in the
war?from the decks of destryoer
Lance at the minelayer Koenig
Louise; the E battery gun that open-;
ed the military hositilities; the anti-'
aircraft pom-pom which, mounted at
Gresham College, fired the first shot.
ever directed at a foreign foe from'
London since the days of the Romans
.1
4>1%A AAAoci/vn kainn> 4"V? 7onnoUn
?IUO vvvaoivu UCU15 vut. uvyi/viiu ,
raid in September, 1915?and scores j
of other entries which have equally,
vivid associations.
The larger pieces of ornance,;
some of which weigh 14 tons, are|
being arranged on the floor of the j
spacious hall. But the galleries will
hold displays of equal, if not greater1
interest. These include war paint-1
ings and trench implements, realistic
scenic models and protective devices
and curbs that throw an illuminating
light on conditions which existed in
I
the German army. Some of these
are amusing some tragic
j <
There is a cycle with a dynamo attachment
for lighting an officer's]
.. dugout upon which two of the worst
offenders had to sit in shifts andi
I pedal in order that those within!(
might have illumination while they:(
devised new plans of aggression
Far less amusing is a specimen of'
the enemy's "bear trap." A soldier *
exploring, No-Man's-Land might step
into its ugly spikes, concealed in'
the grass, and escape from their grip1 ?
. was virtually hopeless. | *
Looking at the lifebuoys of the 0
Lusitania, the shattered funnel of the! ^
Vindictive, the portion of the Zee-ia
brugge Mole and the formidable min-j f
eg that bestrewed the Dardenelles,'1
the exhibit will recall to "those who;*
"Were there" many chapters of a great!n
epic. | ?
KEEP THEIR MONEY jt
STORED IN BARRELS; $
i c
Ttkei a Large Hunk of it to Go Any-'
where?You Can Take One J e
American Dollar and Buy ! p
4,000 Russian Rubles i v
-? ji
On Board United States Destroyer. t
Black Sea, May 17.?Russian money c
ie ?ne of the cheapest of Russian pro- q
<hicts. It is literally dispensed in 0
i d
bales. The old-fashioned pocketbook'
no longer is sufficiently large to carry ?
??ic-'s daily or weekly supply of rubles
of which one American dollar will
r
buy about 4,000. In normal times the
ruble hid an exchange value of about C
half a dollar. *
There is a colony of millionaire
Russian refugees in Yalta, a Black
port, who have to keep their currency
in trunks boxes and barrels.
Ti'.v kopek has long since disap- 1
pea red "a.-- a standard unit in Russian
r*oaey. In Yalta, smaller donomina
tions of rubles scarcely exist. People
branJi.sh ;:m! ?0.ny0-ru
notes as though they representee! only
a :\">v farthings.
A ' orre-pon Sent of Thv As::ociatcil
I'rcs.s v.-no has just mrule ;i tour of
iht* lilac' Sit. t;>\vns uii b*>ar.i th
Anu dei-tvoyor. Smith-Thompson,
f< un.i Yalta to be* unique anv>i:v
he ? ? ' V" ii l;listiv
??. At our- t"n:e \ was 1!j?
I <0? I'. - !:.1 . Imp'.-ror o;
Uus-'n. Tin !' !?' h;.vo . .')! i::i- \
]\ 1 1) j ?j? * v ; |. \ ij 1 :4% }\ ; m o* 1.1 (-us
1 f'j ?*,?r i["on?
grawigui*.
I
There were upward of 20,000 Rus- |
sian refugees in Yalta when the cor- M
respondent visited the city but the K
majority of these were well-to-do K
and able to take care of themselves. K
[n anticipation of Bolshevik invas-E
ion many of them were preparing to.E|
leave for Constantinople, France and Ig
England. Those who were temporari-?
ly short of money were peddling R|
their diamonds and jewels at a ^rac*!B
tion of their cost. Every second H
store in the town was a clearing 8p
house for valuable furs, rugs, trink- |E
ets and other personal possessions.' ?
Sebastopol, the chief city of the 1,'j
Crimea, had 30,000 rerugees but ;j
most of them were satisfied to re-.jg
main as they felt Sebasropol was ?
comparatively secure from the Bol- Sp
sheviki. There seemed to be ample
food for the population but the hos-'H
pitals were short of vita! necessities, wj
In the area north of Novorossisk, raj
running as far as Kuban, there are
said to be 500,000 refugees who were jS[
forced to flee from their homes in
Kuhsk, Poltava, Kiev, Kharkov and tig
other cities. Throughout the towns $jg
of southern Russia there js a general gl
prevalence of typhus, due to overcrowding,
lack of soap, scarcity of
physicians and indifference to clean- K.liness.
. Kg
G. O. P. CONVENTION ;fl
TO COST $150,000 ?i
Chicago, May 18.?The directing H
genius of four republican conven- ?
tions in the past, Fred W. Upham, re- 1|
publican national treasurer, this year H
has planned his fifth and greatest
one. ! ! M
Mr. Upham has been chairman of H
the Chicago convention committee EfI
for 16 years and in that time proba-|K
bly has promoted more national po-'H
litical gatherings than any man liv-:^
ii:g. He has organized and financed K|
the local arrangements for the re- U
publican gatherings since 1904. ?&
Every four years the planning of p>j
the big gatherings has become a more , Kj
complex and more costly affair. In
1904, the first year the republicans El
met at the Chicago Coliseum, the H
convention arrangements cost $70,- El
000. In 1916 the expenses had in- ?
I ^^E
:reased to $110,000 and this year the H
sum will exceed $150,000. ||j
To raise this money, contract for l|
3uilding alterations, extra seats, dec- Bg
>rations, tickets, badges, and all the l|]
>ther myriad details of staging, big Kj
luadrennial spectacle, in which more U
han 13,000 delegate sand spectators ?
rill this year participate, is Upham's
ask. j =
Cost of altering the Coliseum and WC
lecorating it will alone cost more
han $50,000 this year. The task ofi
taining and then safeguarding the \
ickets, is a problem in itself. The mei
idmission cards are printed on safety mei
taper, in special inks and then locked lim:
n vaults until the Thursday before the
he convention. None are sent by tior
nail, all being distributed here. In unc
pite of these precautions, many fall Son
nto the hands ctf speculators, who re- plai
ail them at anywhere from $60 to ( met
100 each; and even counterfeiting
?f the cards is not unknown.
Mr. Upham, who has been treasurr
of the national committee since;
February 1918, has been associated F
/ith national politics for 28 years. T\w
n 1802 he was a delegate to the na-' ette
nmal convention from the 8th Wis-lmer
onsin district. He represented a, Rar
Chicago district in 1912 and 1916 one
,nd ran on Governor Frank O. Low-, his
len's slate for election as a delegate-1 ed
it-large from Illinois this year. ' tr.ki
He was western treasurer of the'
lational committee in the first Taft'
:.mpaign in 1908 and again in the
lug'nes campaign of 1916. The only *
l.o nvov V.oM ? ?? ?. of
I V v > V V/ 11 J \ "? ? II v ltu>7 V ? V. * 11V1U UV.lv
i] ierniur. i:i Chicago in 189G and 100
iv.mber of the Cook county board of c,s
ax review for 1-1 years. lie is presi-j >ot
it ' i large coal company. . A'''
lool
i
I'.UT TO 12E 3EATE7\T j
i "
A:i .\!<;ba:n-'. i/wkv \v]'m iwMc-I
i ..,.P
- .I boinu al)!t." 'o ??!?:* : tiy i
. I i'-r- lif'.iT v.' !i;i : h r _
1- '' :i:*M s:,,r OP '.il1: . .! |
s .. i.'.i >ii". Siunltiy jnoninjr :n ! be-.
r . . . % y. * :V tV ,* :
: > VI)".' !): I '
i ; vy at it."
March 3, 1920,1
cause of the mere,
deemed necessary
tions and misquot;
ing given out. So
x sentation, we here
RUNABOUT ...
TOURING CA1
t COUPE ..
SEDAN
TRUCK CHAS
(With pneu
i
Fordson Tracto
Any-of the Deal
ceive your order,
in delivery.
INSIST ON G
>ULD LIMIT THE CASH ST
BONUS TO $500 EACH
I Food C
Vashington, May 15.?Republican Washingt
nbers of the house ways and' "We m
ins committee decided today to ew?et
it the maximum cash bonus under'''es acros
proposed soldier relief legisla-j "In a i
1 to $500 and to limit the grants'said, whe
ler the other provisions to $625.! "Hey, -1
ae opposition to the casfl bonus'portion o
a developed at the committee' "Oh, la
;ting, members said. ! must be
. j monsieur.
I i * ?
YOR FIGHTS ALDERMEN Itlon 0x 5
24 HOURS; RESIGNS ! SWipeS lt!
"ayetteville, N. C., May 13.? j ISSUI
snty-four hours as Mayor of Fayiville
with a hostile board of alder- Budape
1 was enough for Mayor Charles new mom
ikin, and, after holding the office by the A
e around the clock, he handed in be the mc
resignation today. Rankin charg- will be w
that the board cf alderman had j most imp
jn over all his functions. j cording t<
IT'S ONLY FAIR. | L\XCHAN
ii the wild and wolly west a game
poker was in progress. A tender-' Rcprcsent
t, looking on, saw one of the play- anc} (
deal himself four aces from the,
torn of the pack. Tiie tenderfoot
? pored indignantly to another on- .Washin
!Cer: * tatives of
Did you see that? changes ^
What?" asked the other. lopublica
Thnt swi.v.Her <lcal: hin-.-'jl!" four ,v.,v. j
s!' the i'.'Mdi-tf'i-a : i. ^
W-i il." ' . "'?ni-!>("I reply,
?. . . . tyi vj
; . OP. \\
1 .-.<>! v .. ; ''i!!.
:v:%' *o*
&XJFH4S
THE UNIVERSAL CAR
the Ford Motor Co. advanced the;
ased cost of production. No specii
at the time, but ithas developed
ations of these advanced prices hi
to safeguard the public against
j"with give the present prices:
<geer| with dual electric
?pOOU system
o * <t?E"7? with dual electric
* $575 system
<?7Ca w^h dual electric s
?p/Ov lem ancj Jemountab
tfjoye with dual electric s
*po/0 jein aucj <jem0untab
isis 77
matic tires and demountable rim
These prices are all f'. o. b. Detroit.
r $850 f. o. b. Dearborn, Mich.
ers whose names are'listed below,
pledging the assurance of the bes
F.ARNO
ENUINE FORD PARTS
UCK. TO HIS FEET. trades action making
part of a broker's bus
Controller Hoover said at a sentatives from the N<
on reception: Chicago exchanges saic
ust economize our food or ,?The tax Q|i eyery ,
as short as some of our al- exporte(1 from j
s the water." Rainey saj(j> 'Vou
estaurant over tnere a man mately $1,600, which
n his coffee was brought: lent of 5 per cent, tax
there, waiter, where's my load. Competition wou
f sugar!" ly destroyed by such
i, la!' said hte waiter, 'It exchange transactions
that accursed fly again, j ed along with bonds,
Every time I serve a por- bonds which are held b
ugar, up he sneaKs and] citizens."
["?Detroit Free Press. j Mr Rainey ^edicte
! country will be in a st
I WASHABLE MONEY when there is a reallza
tent of the proposed ta
st, May 18.?Hungary's'
>y, which will be issued soon I 0yer half a million a
ustro-Hungarian bank, will posit in Qne of thfc c
>st beautiful in Europe, and banks to the credit cf
ashable and durable and al-; children> Thcse sollocl
ossible to counterfeit, ac-j addition to lar?e inV(;,
J P^ans- children in thrift i-ta
i
savings stamo i.
GES READY
TO minr PPnTr?T?
Appproxinvitc-iy 20 p
the children in the :
atives From_ New York
Chicago Afraid of Proposed
Tax.
gton, May IS.?Represen
New York and Chicago ex- H
yill appear tomorrow bofoi ; ?? 0
11 members 01" luo house yw
nu-aiis commi'tcc r> pro- ? \ &
i.-t taxing i>rovision? car
. ? . Sg-"":
! .' ji* relief bill. Demo- ?
ill i' i':; <>! tic committee a re
lo niv.i sv'Im majority mem
re<]nes to approve tiis m nrr;'.: *^*s5a!T^c-i;
? -i
tv! ) '
r.oera:. fj
' : ?'!-.WO $
: t;> f?j - ......
'IVCS :: i cili year,4
. . , . ..! ; - t
; ? i us --co;
p c - J r-j A if
. * : .> . . i :./a . . -. :..t
.. nr.i'! -.1 K J-,-,
prices of Ford cars be- m .
fic announcement was 'k
that misrepresentaive
bepn and are bethe
evils of misreprestarting
and lighting
$625 g
starting and lighting 9
$650 ^
tarting and lighting sysle
rims . . . . . . $850' -A
tarting and lighting sys- * H
ile rims $975 (
$600 I
s $640)
, will be pleased to reit
possible promptness
if n
U)
9 {jH
up a large ned of corres;ive treatment lor ej?
iness, Repre- ddefects,a according to a bulletin o*
5W York an^j?The EyesigLt of School Children,"
I today..
, . , , soon to e iisuel by the U. S. Bureau
ship load of! .
L, ? i of Education.
this country" j
Id be approxi- i .
is the equiva- vVVVWVV \ VVVW
on every car-j .
Id be virtual- "
a tax. Stock ^ COMING, OPERA HOUSE V
would be tax- V__ FRIDAY and SATURDAY ^ V
even Liberty v DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS S
iy ZD,000,000 w TV,? rinuJt Roll Bv" V
' V IScti. ' 25ct?. V
d that "the
s ^yy\\VVVV\VVVv
ate of terror
tlon of the ex
tn^i^he OCERLS 3
SryiA\i?.?M i ii^nrp I
| HAAWCLL nUUJC. I
ici- cent, of ali I COF'F'^Eb 3
bra-Cola I ?
jTC >
w* ,:. iiss/asUSES?isi^^aiaaiasiaiaa
r 'vm<? nvn ?. i - p I
i Oiiij l\L-* ,;l:r;'.:' ?3 |
_ la
. - . *; .. . m
j=n
5 exoetienca fr iive ouilJivj?,
r .t>r*'<CiV \r-O* 7 * .
VULCANiZ ? NG WORK S, : j.
A r /"*
. \ - i * V %? 'i J' ft <>* 'j %