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. . . j . . . - - t- , ; v-: > ' Abbeville Press and Banner! Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Tri-Weekly. Abbeville, S. C., Wednesday, June 23,1920 Single Copies, Five Cents. 76th Year. , STATE AND SENATE] . CAMPAIGN OPENS YEjSTERDAY AT COLUMBIA j AND SUMTER, LESS THAN < 200 LISTENERS AT SUMTER ' 1 AND NOT OVER 50 IN CO- j LUMBIA?GOV. COOPER AND i SENATOR SMITH ABSENT 1 < FROM MEETINGS ' , i A 1 Columbia^ June 22.?-The cam- ) paign for state offices opened here ] today- under rather unfavorable auspices, the audience being com-jl posed of approximately fifty men < m 1 rtf fVlO l I | mostly onic p5 auu auovnco v* .. ? . state government and local office-ji seekers. The speeches, due to the < meagre attendance, were not above i the ordinary campaign dissertation, 1 except in a few instances. - i One ripple which broke the placid- 1 ity of the audience was when thejt chair on which was seated William Is Banks, Dove secretary of state slip- j c ped on the waxed floor of Craven i j Hall where the meeting was held, j 1 and tossed him on the floor. Wilson s G. Harvey, of Charleston, candi- I date for lieutentant governor was i speaking and Mr. Dove remarked c that Mr. Harvey generally "brought i down the house." As he left this morning for San c Francisco to attend the National 11 7-1 i-:~ Pnnvantinn ne oViairman 11 ueimrciabiv w..?? of the South Carolina delegation,.* Governor Cooper was unable to be I present. Unopposed candidates who c spoke were: Walter E. Duncan, of ? Aiken,. for comptroller general; s John E. Swearingen, of Columbia, i state superintendent of education,' 1 and B. Harris, of Pendleton, com-Jc missioner of agriculture, commerce j a and industries. ' i ^ C Sumter, June 22.-r-tOandidates r for the United States senate made ' 1 their initial appearance in the state- j 1 wide campaign here today before ji an average sized crowd. Only three t * of the entrants were here, but^c these made the "hop off" in easy!j swing, and tonight each is pleased s with the gait sustained to the end | a of |the first of the 46 laps to be run.! c Those who spoke here were: W. C. t ^ Irby, of Laurens, W. P. Pollock, of;p r.Vinriur ami f^ora-p W Warren of 1 r Hampton. Senator Smith was absent, he, now being en route to San Fran-! cisco in the capacity of delegate, at! I large from South Carolina to the. { national Democratic convention,1 ? which opens next Monday,. He willj c be out of the running for two weeks | * I this determined by the duration of , j c the convention deliberations. How-1 j ever, Senator Smith sent a full re-! y view of his acts in the upper house i j of congress, which statement was j ? read at the opening of the meeting; j by State Senator J. C. Clifton,! county chairman. if I RETURN FROM GREENVILLE ' I ' ! J Messrs. W. D. Barksdale, S. A. | Q Graves and J. S Stark returned last!, 11 ^ evening from Greenville where yesterday they attended a meeting of ^ the South Atlantic States Association as representatives of the Cham ber of tDommerce. These gentlemen: report a very pleasant meeting and I that a committee of 25 men from j i cities 'and towns of the Northern | ^ District of this State was appointed t to form a traffic organization to i look after the equalization of local: freight rates with the newly esta-| klichorl t>Ynni+ ratoc hotuioon +V10 I Western cities and the South At- j lantic ports. The representatives irom this city recommended that r Mr. T. G. White be named as a member of this committee which was done. Mrs. C. F. Graves, Misses Sydelle i Graves, Annie Belle Little and t Janie Belle Pennal spent Tuesday t in Greenwood. 1 \ V ABERCROMBIE JUMPS DITCH AND PAYS TEN DOLLARS Breaks all Records for Fast Driving and Ditch Jumping With His Automobile Monday Night Near the City. The famous Jim Bludso driving Ihe Overland Express had nothing on J. Frank Abercrombie of Laurens County who broke all records for fast driving 'and ditch jumping in iis Chalmers automobile Monday light on the road leading into (the ;he city by way of Blue Hill. Aber:rombie had been to Washington, Sa., and either there or on the way here tried to mix "Pride of the Swamp" and gasoline with the usual results. Taking an abandoned road some ;hree miles from the city, which led >ver a worn out bridge spanning six foot gully, Abercrombie at;empted to make a Curtiss plane >ut of his Chalmers and succeeded 'or six or seven feet. He cleared ;he gully without hitting the bridge, vhich had sunken some two feet be-1 ow the road level, and ran his car ;o the verv edee of another gully iome twenty feet deep. The car :hoked here, which was all that javed the corner or the new hospi;al a job. The people who later assisted in removing the car from 1 its josition say that the slightest :orce applied^to either side of the 1 :ar would have have overturned it nto the deep gully. Some parties passing in another :ar met the Chalmers driver and he friend who had accompanied iim, near the scene of vthe escapade md brought, them to the city. Apparently the juice which 'Aber:rombie had let gently flow into his ystem worked in shifts, for he was is a mere man until the rescurers eached the A. R. P. church on Vienna street. At this place Aberrombie became as a mere mad man ind began yelling at the top of his! raice and tearing off his clothes, rying for help, that he was being I obbed and murdered at the same I ;ime. One of the party practicing a ittle Jiujitsu, which he had learned n his youth, let the, wild man mea- i :ure his length on the ground "land; :alled for Chief Johnson. The chief) >rovided Abercrombie with a cot i ind blanket in the Municipal Inn ! ind yesterday morning, having re-| overed his equilibrium to some ex- i ;ent, the Laurens guest, paid protrietor Mars ten dollars for his light's lodging. I 5ETITIONS FOR PAVING STREETS APPROVED i I Petitions from two-thirds of the irnner+v nwnprs nn t.he followine itreets in the city were heard by city :ouncil this afternoon and ordinances >rdering the work to be done were idopted: Church, Cambridge, West 3inckney, Poplar, Branch, Chestnut, N. Pickens, E. Pickens, Ferry to turn' eading to county home, Ellis ave.j ind South Main between Brook and 31ue Hill branch. i RETURNS FROM TATE SPRINGS Miss Grace Smith and Messrs. '. Allen Long and J. Allen Smith, r., returned yesterday from Tate j Springs, Tenn., where they have j ieen for two weeks. They were met i .t Belton by Maxwell Smith who! rought them home in his car. MISS WOOD A VISITOR Miss Leila Wood, of Spartanburg, j s here for a visit to her friend, Mrs.' iV. P. Wham. Miss Wood taught in' ;he high school for two years and' noifa momr frionde wVnlo V)OTP GOES TO FORD SCHOOL j J. 0. Duffey, of Arnold's Garage eaves today for Charlotte, N. C., yhere he will take a course in the nechanism of the Ford self-starter it the Ford factory there. OFF FOR WESTERN TRIP Mrs. E. C. Lucas leaves today for i month's visit to relatives at Poca-| ;ello, Idaho, after which she will go ;o California to visit friends before ler return home. J ." v n RESIGNATION OF CITY FIRE CHIEF Handed to City Clerk Perrin Yester day Before Finding* of Investigation Committee of City Coun( cil Were Made Public?A Meeting of City Council This Afternoon Before the findings of the commit tee appointed by City Council to in vestigate the alleged inefficiency ex hibited in fighting the fire, which ear ly Sunday morning destroyed I. C Brown s store ana TJie urace mewru I dist church ?n South , Main street were made public or officially, report ed to the city fathers, Fire Chief J E. Haralson Tuesday afternooi handed in his resignation to Citj Clerk T. G. Perrin. The resignatior I is to take effect immediately. The investigation committee con sisting of councilmen Otto Bristow H B. Wilson, T. M. Miller and M. B Syfan ordered a hearing for Mondaj evening at which time a number o1 witnesses were examined as to th< prevailing conditions at the scene oi the fire. Practically all of the wit nesses testified, under oath that then wop inaffinioTirtw of fVia firo | IIUO \*J UAU1WAVVU UV W??w V which the concensus of the various witnesses' opinions tends to show wai due to shortcomings on the part oJ both the fire department and the pub lie works commission. Some of the witnesses stated thai they knew several weeKs ago, thai the stem of the hydrant from whict water was secured for fighting the fire Sunday morning was so worr that the ordinary hydrant wrencl would not turn it. Others testified that after the stem was turned witt the Stilson wrench the flow of watei was insufficient to fill the two feec pipes attached to the hydrant from the fire engine and that one of the pipes was pulsating with the actior of the fire pump due to a lack of water. One witness testified that there was sufficient/ water and force tc have saved the church had the stream Knon utiah HfUoTo focfi 1 uugvv^^i U^V/il XV* VWU&J.O l/gjlii' fied that the church could not hav been saved with the water available, Some said that if the stream had been directed upon the church that Mr, Brown's house would have burned.Supt. Townsend of the waterworks commission stated that onlj two hydrants had been reported to ,him as being defective and that the one used Sunday morning was not ere of the two reported. He produced a record chart of the water pressure on the Square as recorded Saturday night and Sund?<y morning as evidence that there was never less than 50 pounds of pressure in the water mains during that time.' He stated that with the drop or* approximately 50 feet from the square, where the record is made, to the hv drant at the community house would increase the water pressure some 20 or 30 pounds per square inch. Mr. Townsend also stated that he had witnessed efficient fire fighting with 50 pounds pressure and that the pressure at the time of the fire was considerably more than this. After the meeting of the investigation committee was adjourned Monday evening, the committee made a thorough examination of the fire engine and pump and equipment and on Tuesday morning the engine was taken to the hydrant in question and tried out. The results at this test were far from satisfactory and water which should be available from a four inch main could not be obtained. Findings of Committee?Barnes Elected Fire Chief City council at their meeting this afternoon heard the report of the fire department committee which made an investigation in regard to the recent fire and adopted the report as a whole and put themselves on record as intending to see that the provisions of the report are immediately carried out. The resignation of J. E. Hai-alson as fire chief was unanimously accepted and A. M. Barnes, Jr., was elected to succeed Mr. Haralson. The sum of the findings of the ... /. - . . HOME BUILDING CORPORATIOl - Completes Organization Yesterdi By Electing Board of Directors and Permanent Officers.?$41 000 Wortfir*of-Capital.Stock Taken?Work Already \ Under Way. f The stockholders of the Hon j Building Corporation met in the o - fice of J. M. Nickles yesterday mor - ing and after being called to ord by W. H. White, temporary chai - man, proceeded to name a nominate ,' committee consisting of C. H. M -j Murray, Lawrence Parker and J. ] . j Nickles. This committee reported th 1 the following gentlemen were non r nated by them to serve as directo l of the corporation: T. G. White, \ j A. Calvert, D. H. Hill, Albert Henr - C. H. McMurray, L. d Parker, E } ,' Gregory, Otto Briatow and M. .1 Tolbert. Thi? board of directors w rj unanimously elected by the 3toc E | holders. ?| The newly elected board of dire< [ ors then met and elected T. G. Wiii - president- and treasurer; L. C. Par 51 er, vice president; Otto Bristow, se ,1 retary, and appointed a building coi 5 mittee composed of T. G. White, j H. McMurray, and D. IT. Hill, [j The directors-voted that 20 'p -1 cent, of the stock taken should ! | paid' immediately and that the r t maining 80 per cent, should rema b on call. l - A total of $41,000 has been su ? scribed, leaving only $9,000 of tl t original capital stock of $50,000 t' be taken.-Persons desiring any of tl I stock should notify one of the offi ij ers of the corporation -without del) as it is likely that all the .stock w I be taken by Saturday night, i! In addition to the lots bought la week and reported in this ' paper, house and lot on Cherokee stre vhas been purchased from Dr. J. j Pressly and carpenters) ore alrea< ' at work remodeling this house ai ' making it fit for a residence. | A representative of the Mint , Homes Corporation of Greenville in the city today going over the pla; ; with the officers and offering su gestions as to the best methods pursue to get prompt and saclsfactoi ' results in the splendid undertakii assumed by the.corporation. rj President T. G. White leaves t 'j morrow for Greenville where he w: ! I study some of the styles of hous ' and bungalows recently erected the by the Homes corporation in tl 'j Mountain City. Mr. White will al: j approacn some 01 tne large contrac ;; ing concerns with regard to lettir the contract for the erection of number of houses immediately. 'investigating committee is: 1. That the hydrant used durin the fire did not furnish a sufficier amount of water for the pumper. ] is the opinion of this committe that this hydrant is either choke . with mud or obstruction of som : kind. i 2. That the Commissioners c jpubhc works investigate this lin 'and hydrant as well as all othe lines and hydrants in the city an place them in repair at once. | 3. That the fire department wa a little dilatory in getting to th ; firmand further that the fire df jpartment was somewhat dilatory i getting their hose connections du .to the fact that" Fire Chief J. I Haralson did not take* persom [charge of the connections. 4. That the hydrant stem wa worn round and that hydrar wrench would not fit same. Thi condition has existed for ten year and other hydrants in the city ar in similar shape. 5. We recommend that in case o fire the telephone operator call th superintendent of the water an light plant and the telephone com pany be furnished with a list con taining the names of all voluntee firemen who shall be notified i: case of fire. 2. That the telephone compan; gave the alarm promptly at th engine house. \ . ' v. xi:-. .. WET PLANK WORRIES || , DEMOCRATS MOST f * I Opinion Prevailing that Wet Plank Will Furnish Most Material For* Main Show at San Francisco Meeting San Francisco, June 22.?Post- v' S master General Burleson's statement today at San Antonio regard' ing Democratic platform issues drew particular attention among " party leaders here for the national n" convention next week, because of er its frank declaration for modifica. tion of the Volstead prohibition enT(? 4 , , f orcerr.ent act. c? ^ | Mr. Burleson's demand for re*?peal of "drastic and absurd" provis. |ions of the act, expressed in more h U"l direct fashion views which some of t the party leaders now here pre- a 'iviously had voiced privately. Com- q ^'l ing from a member of President h '/Wilson's cabinet ,the statement was j ^ regarded as a possible intimation of a8| the .administration't attitude on the k" I prohibition issue before the convem- y ' tion. r *t- v * | Senator Glass, of Birginia, who is ? t6 , due here tomorrow is understood to 'Ki have been entrusted with a, formal ? kC" ? | expression of President Wilson's views as to the platform. On other ^ ' occasions, however, the postmaster 'general has been the direct spokes- v man of the president on impor- j ? , tant issues and Democrats here j J f'jwere inclined to take his expression 1711 as to the prohibition plank as more | than a statement-of his own views. fi ^"l The preliminary convention disi/Micainn in nrnOTPM liflrp. wllllft.? ^! attended the funeral were: Dr. and | T I Mrs. C. H. McMurray, Mr. and Mrs. fi ! Alf Lyon, and Dr. McMurray's ot iS ' mother, Mrs. McMurray. d< it jj 3 , DR. BUTLER SENDS |p( Si APOLOGY TO PROCTER ? e A New York, June 22.?Dr. Nicho.f las Murray Butler, president of Co-J^1 ejlumbia University,-Thursday sent a J j j telegram to Col. William C. Procter L_; chief financial backer of the presi[m | dential candidacy of Gen. Leonard r j Wood,'apologizing for remarks he Jj n made in a public statement imme- M j diately afteif the Republican Nation- jt y al Convention. These remarks re 0< e fleeted uoon some of General d ' (Vood's supporters. 1 1 iic - wholly informal in character, has * lls. shown a striking unanimity of 0 lC"l opiion on two points thus far. The u first of these is that the platform j *** struggle will be the real fibHt of the j I convention; the second, that the 1 d ^ prohibition plank will be the chief j3 a issue in that fight, out-rivaling the' ^ et League of Nations declaration in, c interest among the delegates. a Jy id DEATH OF DR. JOHN LYON r |n I Dr. John Lyon, of Greenwood,: ^ . died Monday afternoon at his resi-jn dence on South Main street. For ns i some hours before his death Dr r e- ' Ji Lyon had been in a comatose condi- ? tion and his passing away was not q unexpected by the dear ones who | p keRt watch by hi? bedside. ip ! Dr. Lyon was one of the best L ?" loved physicians of Greenwood, _ ill . . ' |ri having moved there several years j es ago from Ninety-Six -where he had n 18 built up a very lucrative practice. ^ He was a graduate of Erskine ColS0|lege and of the Medical College of g j South Carolina. He was closely identified with everything that .made for the advancement of^ his 'city and in his death the people of] = Greenwood realize that they have I u lost one of their most substantial fs g ! citizens. p ^ j. While practicing at Ninety-Six, j i Dr. Lyon married Miss Emma Ilill, r ,e of Greenwood, who with four chil- g .j'dren survive him. In addition to!... ie j these he is survived by two brothers a j Major T. J. Lyon, of Greenwood, ^! Mr. Alf Lyon, of this city, and by j g. e;two sisters, Mrs. C. H. McMurray, j of Abbeville, and Mrs. W. R. Brad-i_ jr, jo ^ ley, of Columbia. j ^ The funeral services, largely attended by the relatives and * friend" I of the deceased, were conducted ie jfrom tbe Presbyterian church in n | Greenwood by the pastor, Dr. J. B. vi | Greene on Tue^ay afternoon. tl , j Among the Abbeville people who pj iE ARE KILLED IN IRISH CUT] INN FEINERS AND UNIONISTS ^ 1 CLASH AT : LONDONERRY ; RESULTING IN THE DEATH ^ OF NIN5 AND. WOUNDING OF SEVERAL?LONDONERRY IS' vj WITHOUT BREAD AND VIR- ;oS TUALLY IN SIEGE J London, Jun^ 22.?Nine civilians ave been killed'in the fighting beween Sinn Feiners and Unionists ' t Londonderry and a scores wound- ' d, A. Bonar Law announced in beaJf of the government in the louse of Commons Tuesday. : ^ Two policemen were wounded, \*j ne fatally, when a party of five ' ' v. /ere ambushed by Sinn Feiners at '' Hones, Ireland, said an Exchange l 'elegraph dispatch from Bantrv. ? Sanguinary .fighting between inn Feiners and unionists was re- '. | lewed at Londortderry Tuesday . '-'-Jj nd. three Sinn Feiners were rounded, said an Exchange Teleraph dispatch from Londonderry. Seven persons were killed in the v, ighting at Londonderry Monday. t British troops are patrolling theitreets, but sniping is continuous. . .jgj Two thousand soldiers were rush- $ d from Curragh to reinforce the |j roops at Londonderry, but no word ^ f their arrival had been received: ^ p to nocn and it was suppose^! >v hey had been held up en route. H All passenger trains nearing Lon* onderry are searched by British oldifcrs and constables to prevent , 'M imn, reiners trom approaching the Ity from South Ireland, to mobilize gainst the unionists. ' Dublin reported that rioting was y esumed at Londonderry during thq^ \ ' ight and that further casualties / -.sS ad occurred in street fighting; but , o figures were given. It is reported in Dublin that the ,> ; ,;s ^ itish government contemplates * uspension of railway traffic? in lentral and Northern Ireland to revent the concentration of Sinn 'einers. Leaders of the Irish , rail-BM ray unions declared they were vt eady to extend the strike which ' ^ I Iready is in effect if the governlent attempts to carry out such a ecision. v . ;> '~|| ENATOR MOORE WITHDRAWS FROM SOLICITOR'S RACE Senator J. Howard Moore, who ntil yesterday was considered the trongest man in the three-cornered ace for solicitor of the Eighth ' udicial district, withdrew from the v . ace, leaving the battle between H. Plo/?l/nra11 a-P T .onrnnc flin rn- * umbent, and T. Frank McCord, an ttorrtey of Greenwood. Senator Moore's friends will reret that he seen fit to withdraw > rom the race for solicitor but are lad that he will represent his cunty again in the State Senate. ~ STOCKHOLDERS MEET k The stockholders of the Lowndeslle Light and Power company held leir annual meeting at the com-. , <?: " my's offices at Lowndesville,' uesday, June 1. The following ofcers were elected to serye for an;her year: M. P. McCalla, presi;nt and treasurer; Dr. J. R. / utchison, secretary; H. M. Schum;rt, superintendent; directors: M. , McCalla, Dr. T. 0. Kirkpatrick, . M. Bonds, T. D. Cooley, T. C. iddell, D. K. Cooley,and Rev. H. Fennell. fgjgj5MBJ9J5J5!SI5J5fSf5i5J5JSM5fSJ5J5JEEJSIB COTTON MARKET inuary ^ 31.90 arch 31.45 lly 36.24 ctober 33.63 ecember L 32.59 5J3?3J3?3JSJ2M33SMSJ3fSJSMSM31SIc'^ . ??m?i