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f . . . ' ;v " " ' : r. '--V. : Vr v: ; : : . ... .'..0. r.' -V, * . * . ' : ' . V " ' li . /' ' ' ' "v x ' Abbeville Press and Banner Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Tri-Weekly. Abbeville, S. C., Monday, June 7, 1920. Single Copies, Five Cents. 76th Year. SAMUEL GOMPERS ] . ANSWERS ALLEN,. FEDERATION HEAD REPLIES TO GOVERNOR OF KANSAS MADE PUBLIC BY AMERICAN LABOR UNION SAYS ITS MEN DO NOT DESIRE TO INCON- ] VENIENCE PUBLIC * T /?' OTl wasrungcon, june o.? mc puu- ( lie has no rights which are superior , to the toiler's rights to live and to his right to defend himself against ( oppression," Samuel Gompets declared in his deferred replies to! threp questions asked him by Governor Allen of Kansas, in their de> bate at New York, May 28. Mr. Gomper's replies were made public tonight by the American Federation of Labor. Governor Allen asked whether < the public had any rights in a strike "affecting the production or . distribution of the necessities of I'fo Vine fVirontpninfr the TJllblic ' health," and if so, how would Mr. j' Gompers protept those rights. He also asked who controlled the "di- ] vine right" of employees to quit '' work. 1 Declaring that union men and 1 women formed one-fourth of the ' public, Mr. Gompers said strikes in 1 which the public peace have been 1 "v threatened "usually have been s strikes in which the employers, or s public officials influenced by em- ( ployers have created the breach of 5 peace by the use of thugs, armed J guards and detectives." "Labor," continued Mr. Gompers,!' f "has no desire to cause inconveni- Jc ence to the public of which it is a: part. The right to strike must be I and will be maintained not only 6s | a measure of self defense and self j? aHv*nppmpnt.. but as a measure * j X necessary to public progress." j r A NEW COTTON 11 FIRM FOR ABBEVILLE k ; 1 The Jackson-Jones Cotton Co., I has been organized by C. D. Jack- I son aijd W. F. Jones, both of whom I have been in the cotton business for r a long time but with different I firms. Mr. Jackson was until Jast fall ? stationed at Pacolet and Ware t I . Shoals where he did the buying for t the Pacolet mills. He has been buy- c ing on the local market during thep | past season and has made many j?' warm friends among the cotton' growers and business men by hisj affability and honest method of do-i incr business. 1. Bill Jones is.a son of the County^ Treasurer and has had several j g years experience both in Abbeville! j and New Orleans. "Bill" is the chief: -j hero of Abbeville having won the j . : a Distinguished Service Cross, the _ ! ? Croix de Guerre, etc., while serving, .j. .with the fighting 30th. division- in Flanders. ^ With Mr. Jackson's expert knowledge of cotton grades and with Mr. c Jones' personal acquaintance with practically every farmer in the j county the Jackson-Jones combination is assured splendid success in tuesr ousmess. MR. R. M. HADDON SICK * c "Uncle Marshall" Haddon has 1 been indisposed for the past few j days and is confined to his bed at i 3 present, at his home on North Main j ( Street. Mr. Haddon denies that it h was the fried chicken and ice cream! c which Mrs. Fulp fed him and J". J. J ( McSwain Friday for dinner, that c caused his downfall. \ i 35HElBJBI5ISJ5J5J51BJSJEf5I5J5i5JEM5/BISfSJBJE COTTON MARKET <5 Spot ? 43.00 July 38.49 < Oct. 35.69 . Dec. 34.20 1 Jan. 34.08 < MRS. D. F. ANDREWS . | # FALLS IN WELL' Attempted ReVcue Results in Broken^ Arm for Mrs. Wardlaw.?W. R Broom Rescues Mrs. Andrews But is Overcome With Gas ! A great deal of excitement prevail ed on Pinckney street this morning1 about ten o'clock when the residents were jostled from their regular rou-j tine of domestic duties by cries forj help which came from the backyard of Mrs. D. F. Andrews' home. Quickly a crowd of excited neigh bors gathered in response to the cries and found that a tragedy was about to happen in their midst if a prompt assistance were not render s ed. t Mrs. D. F. Andrews, who had a fewj i1 minutes before been sweeping some,b trash about an old well, stepped near e the curbing and the loose dirt gave'p way precipitating her Into the well, J a a depth of some ten feet. The well' has not been used for years and was c filled up to within ten feet of the S ton.. ! v Mrs. Ida Wardlaw in an attempt; s to rescue Mrs. Andrews lost her bal-| 1< ance and also fell into the well,jd breaking her arm. j E Mr. W. R. Broom, with much cool-!1" ness x-escued the ladies but was just;3 about overcome from the effects of | Inhaling the irrespirable gases, which; >vere pouring from a well like smoke. n Mrs. Andrews who remained in the!n >vell and gas for some minutes was! ^ asphyxiated and did not recover con-] e: I sciousness for over an hour. She |D suffered no broken bones, but is^' Ireadfully shaken up and bruised jP about the shoulders and back. ' The ^ physicians in attendance state that'*' r\f\ infomol inliirv . man ,,4V" **v V4WViUM1 | Mrs. Andrews will recover in a few,3 lays. ' Ja: x ! r< MR. HOWIE'^IMPROVES. ' Q ? !tc The friends of Mr. and Mrs. T. V. rr iowie will be glad to know that the w ormer is recovering from injuries g; eceived on the Seaboard Air Line bi Railroad last Thursday. While en-] w ^aged at his duties on one of the big g, ocomotives of the railroad, Mr.'y, iowie in someway received a severe t? >low in the chest from an iron bar.'e, ie was taken to Chester for exami-] n lation an'd has since been i/i the Hos- g, >ital there. | sl Mrs. Howie and Tom went over' Saturday to see him and returned oday, reporting that Mr. Howie . hinks he has passed the worst part ^ if his injuries and pain ancf that he vill soon be home and at himself . Us lffain- jlc ABBEVILLE GROWS APACE jI ?? y The report of T. G. Perrin clerk of: he city council on' vital statistics j or the month of May shows now! I \v teadily Abbeville is growing. Dur-1 ng the month there were recorded i 5 births, ten of which were whites 1 ind only seven deaths, four colored i. in tnd three white. Mr. Perrin says hat the birth rate has steadily in- t xeased duirng 1920 there having ai >een GO Stork deliveries since Jan-1 t lary 1, while the Grim Reaper hasM ..i. J no __ ???? ~-C ?i: v.4-1i :ui uuwn &o an avciagc ui auguwijr ^ nore than one death a week since r 1 a' lanuary 1. 01 Toll Bridge Over Savannah ?] A charter was issued from the of'ice of W. Banks Dove, secretary w >f state, Friday for the .New p( fork-Atlanta Highway Bridge com- r V-/ )any of Iva. The capital stock is g 5100,000. The company proposes to ^ >perate a toll bridge over the Sa- p rannah river between Anderson ^ :ounty this state, and Elbert'county n( Georgia. W. T. A. Sherard is presi- m lent of the company; R. Stapleton, nee president; and H. S. Wake- ^ 'ield, secretary ami treasurer. q UNCLE JIM AT HOME b B Mrs. J. S. Stark and Miss Fannie 0 stark have returned to Abbeville ifter spending several weeks in \\ Mew York as the guests of Mrs. rhos. Lyles Davis. Their friends 0 velcome them back. tl TOWN OF SEC GETS PL 5ECEDER TOWN LANI ERNMENT STATIOI ESTING TESTS Ol ITY AND DIRE( CURRENTS MADE I t Due West is coming in to its own \ fter years of lethargy, save for its , piritual progress. The Holy City is i o be profaned by receiving within \ ts confines on^ of the government allistic stations which are being , stablished over the United States \ preparatory to the inauguration of \ n aerial mail service. ] There were numbers of oflher ities and town& over the states of , louth Carolina ^nd Georgia who , fere bidding for this particular tation, but the official in charge of icating the station almost immeiately, upon first sight of what >ue West had to offer, wired his ecommendation to Washington nd received confirmation within , c en hours. The requirements of the governlent in regard to the establish-,.j lent of a ballistic station are that ; shall be located at least, two miles ast of a small village; there must; e no railroads with telegraph or ^ jleprone lines to entangle the iano wires to which the aerial ' s ites are fastened and reeled out; le location must be on .cleared | round, level, free 'from stumps nd ditches, of at least 40 acres, nd sufficiently neat the town to jach telegraphic communication s uickly; and the citizens of the * >wn which secures the station r iust form a stock company which v ill .erect observation station, 0 arages, quarters for the observers, v ungalows for the officials, and |v hich must lease the whole to the \ >vernment for a period of five o 2ars, at the expiration of which c le government will purchase the d -ifivo nvnnnrfu TVip nnnunl rpnhal ! ll ;ceived from the government will j t uarantee the stock company a t lbstantial- return on their invest- c ient. c The company at Due West which to finance the new station will a iild quarters for the observers not i ily on the site of the station but t planning to erect some bunga-! c >ws on desirable lots within thej's EACHERS LEAVE FOR SUMMER1 By Saturday afternoon, Abbeville J as teacherless so far as out-of-town (t! lachers are concerned, the last one I sarding the Southern for Columbia c c 7 p. m. The pretty faces and smil- r ig greetings of our ''imported"!v lachers will be .missed on the streets 3 id we have no doubt "out mat Mrs. 1 [inshall has already noticed the imp in her stamp sales. We hear a lat Mac Nickles, Red McMillan, W. c . Wilkinson and R. E. Cox have * sked the postmaster for quotations r i wholesale lots of stamped envel- ^ pes in pink and blue. e J Those teachers who have left in le past few days for their homes here they will spend the vacation c sriod are Miss Lottie M. Vaughn of 1 olumbia, Miss Rachl Whisonant, of ^ t lacksburg, Miss Annie Gantt, of finnsboro, Miss Georgle Ott, of ^ ort Mill, Miss Johnnie May Lynch, f Waynesville, N. C., Miss Julia Tur- v er, of Landrum, Miss Kathleen Cole-- * ian of Shelton, Miss Sailie F. Hart,!v f Darlintrton, Miss Mary Burton of j * aurens, Miss Mary Cornwell, ofj hester, Miss Lois Jackson of Campo-j ello, Miss Susie Lown of New rookland and Miss Ella Mae Tribble J f Anderson. I ^ Mrs. A. M. Tolbert, of the Green-jr rood side, and Mrs. E. 0. Clinkscales f Lowndesville, were shopping inj lie city Thursday. x t :eders 4ce on map ds one of the govms where interf wind veloc:tion of air will be daily town limits lor the omcers in :harge of the work. ^Several of these gentlemen have families and those of them who visited Due JVest Saturday were most enthusiastic in their remarks concerning the hospitable reception accorded them on their first visit by the people of the town. The Due West ballistic station will be a source of wonderful advertisement for the town, a daily test of wind direction and velocity being made by means of kites and balloons, some of which are sent up is high as six and seven miles in :he air. The results of these tests ire also daliy sent to Washington ind from there telegraphed all >ver the United States to serve as a juide to the aviators who are drivng the U. S. mail planes. The scientific experiments which vill daily take place will also add in nttrnrfion +n Flrslririp nnH t.hp iVoman's College, in that the stulents taking physics and other I ;cientific studies will have an opjortunity offered there ' which can >e found at comparatively few universities in the country. ; And the location of the ballistic; tation means that Due West is to; lave a telegraph office which will do nuch to relieve the cut-off feeling vhich the Seceders must feel withiut any continuous electric touch vith the sinful portion of the rorld. Last but not least, the small boy if Due West will have a balloon as-i ension to watch every day, and we | loubt very much; whether for a I ong time a/ter the installation of | he big gas bag^ all of Sunday af-! ernoons will be devoted to a studvl if the Westminister Shorter Cate-I hism in Due West families. The whole people of Abbeville! re congratulating Due West forj ts fortunate geographical advan-i ages and enterprising spirit in seuring the location of the ballistic t.ation. 1 NEW YOF.K DISAPPOINTED As usual New York City folk aie lisappointed in the figures of the 920 census published yesterday. The ensus bureau has credited the T.iet opolis with 5,621,151 inhabitant rtiich gives them an increase of ;rowth in ten years of practically 8 per cent. The small increase in growth i fttributed by statisticians to. Lwoj auses; that of the stoppage during he war of the influx of immigrant riany of whom each year made Nev fork their homes,, and to the heavyi migration of foreign born resident j luring the war and "since tnat time, j However, as near as it can be as i ertained, New York continues to b i he largest city in the world. Lon Ion which for centuries held this dis inction is credited with approximate y 4 1-2 millions. Newport News, Va., is credite j vrith an increase of 76.2% while Bos i on, the self-styled hub of the . uni erse garnered in only 11 1-2% mor >eople than it had in 1910. AT CEDAR SPRINGS. Hon. Charles P. Pl-essly, until re ently Vice-Consul at Paris, has re urned to the States since his resig lation and at present is at the old 'ressly Home at Cedar Springs. Mr j 'ressly was the anniversary orator ^ it The Woman's College at Due West his year. ASK NEW TRIAL FOR ' KENNETH GOSSETT On Ground of Bias-Affiant* Swear Ju? rora GibeH and Botts Made Statement* Before Trial, IndMfting Prejudice Against Gossetts k ? . That L. G. Botts and J. F. Gibert two jurors in the trial of Kenneth Gossett, cpnvicted at Abbeville in April of rape were not indifferent but were' "biased in behalf of the prosecutrix and prejudiced against the defendant" is the ground upon which Bonham and Price, of Greenville and Gen. Milledge L. Bonham of Anderson, counsel for Gossett, will at the term % of court opening at Abbeville next week move for a new trial for him. Notice of this motion has been served by counsel for Gossett upon Solicitor Homer S. Blackwell of the Eighth Circuit, George Bell Timmerman and J. Howard Moore, assistant counsel for the State in the I trial of the case. Kenneth and John Gossett were i charged with rape upon an Abbe| villc county girl last March and were ti'ied at a special term of court in April, the case attracting wide attention. .Jtfdge Thomas S. Sease of Spartanburg ,the presiding judge, directed a verdict of not guilty against John Gossett, but the jury found* Kenneth Gossett guilty of rape with a recommendation to the mercy of the court and Judge j Seas sentenced him to term of forty vears in the State nenitentiarv. the maximum penalty imposed by i law in such a case. Accompanying the notice of the motion tp be made by Counsel for Gossett are five affidavits. i Three residents of Calhoun Falls i < swear that before the trial they i j heard J. F. Gibert say "Damn a < married man who will go out with a single gii^." John Mullins and 0. Z. Campbell swear that before the trial they j heard L. G. Botts say that both the 1 Gossetts ought to taken out? and ] lynched while J. G. Whi?e swears < that he heard Botts say that he was i Vin iiroo nnf rlvoum An nmr 1 ?.1 c*u lit wc&o n\jo uioYTii uii uxg juijrj I but that, if he was drawn on the j jury, he could not afford to turn ] the defendants free, as he would ] lose the business of the family of i the prosecutrix if he did. < James H. Price, of counsel for ] Gossett, swears that all of the jurors were sworn on their voir dire, i that all who were accepted swore I that they were not conscious of any i bias or prejudice for or against the 1 State or the defendant, that the defense accepted these statements i in the belief that they were true, 1 that had counsel for the defense 1 known* of the expressions by Gibert and Botts sworn to in the affidavits 1 they would not have been accepted i as jurors, that counsel for defense < by reasonable diligence could not 11 have learned sooner about these ex-j i pressions,.that counsel for defense 1 knew nothing about such expres- ! sions until after the defendant had < ^>een convicted. m 1 Make Motion Next Week ' This motion is separate and dis- ' tinct from an appeal to the Supreme Court of South Carolina and +Vio tiMconf ie inrfononrlont nf that recourse of the defense. If the defense secures a new tri^l, it can 1 renew its motion for change of i venue, if it desires to do so, Judge i Sease before the trial having re- 1 fused a change of venue asked by the defense on the ground that i Gossett could not eet a fair trial in < Abbeville county because of the 1 state of public sentiment there. If i the new trial is refused, ^uch re- fusal can constitute an ' additional < ground for an appeal to the Su- 1 preme Court of South Carolina. In all- probability, the presiding judge before whom the motion will be made will be asked by the defense to summon Jurors Gibert and Botts to testify as well as those who have made affidavits impeaching them. In reply, the State may summon witnesses to contradict the makers of the affidavits. On the afternoon of the last day ? PLATFORMS BEING REPAIRED TODAY : 1 THE PLATFORM BUILDERS . BUSILY REPAIRING WEAK PLACES IN REPUBLICAN ' PLATFORMS BY INSERTION OF STRONGER PLANKSREADY FOR BATTLE / Chicago, June 6.?With the convention circle of party leaders virtually complete ,the Republican platform builders went seriously to work tonight on the more troublesome of the planks remaining to be fashioned. . v One of these was the declaration wi i/iic vicai/jr v/x v cioauics aiiu iuc league of nations, a subject of long standing disagreement and bitter controversy. Another dealt with the industrial relations, bringing into contrast widely diverse schools of economic thought. A third relates to Mexico, always a topic of debate, / and'now somewhat complicated by recent developments south of the * Rio Grande. f'Yp On all these entire harmony was predicted by all the party leaders, although most of them conceded that some interesting scrimmages, possibly reaching the convention POLICE NEWS Saturday and Sunday the activi;ies of the efficient police force .vere confined to arrests of speed' fiends and those drivers who like to lear the cut-out sounds. Three drivers were fined for ilarming the inhabitants with their :ut outs while two others paid :ive dollars each for burning the vind. )f the trial, after the verdict had jeeri reached and sentence pronoun :ed, there were persistent rumors n Abbeville to the effect that at east one V>f the jurors before . the ;rial had made statements indica ;ing that he was biased and prejudiced as to Gossett. These reports mmediately came to newspaperTien covering the trial and one of ;hem later communicated them to :ounsel for the defense after conrt lad adjourned. ? floor, would have to be fought out before fnere could be an agreement. With the belated arrival from Washington of several senators, representing extremes of Republican opinion on the treaty, the long senate fight over the league of nations virtuaJly ^transferred to the conference rooms here. Ready for Battle The irreconciliables and the mild reservationists of the senate are prepared for a hard battle on the treaty plank. Senator Borah, of fdaho, a leader of the irrecon- . ; lilables, arrived late in the day svitha plankwith a plank which will lave the backing of the Johnson forces. The mild reservationists leld numerous conferences and ,Vv>; prepared to draft a plank for sub- , i ^ mission to Ogden Mills, chairman jf the executive committee on policies and platforms. "We will submit our plank to the resolutions committee," said Senator Borah, "and if we do not see it in the platform we will offer it in the convention." Senator Borah was not ready to nake the Johnson-Borah pjank pubic, but said it would be 'presented 10 the resolutions committee. It was learned that the mild reser? /ationists' plank would demand a construction policy for ratification )f the Versailles treaty with protective resei*vations and an indorsement of the stand of senators who /oted for the Lodge reservations. Senator Lodge, who arrived today, ieferred conferences on the treaty Jut predicted that an agreement oetween the various groups would se reached.