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Abbeville Press and Banner] ^ . Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Tri-Weekly. Abbeville, S. C., Monday, July 5, 1920^ Single Copies, Five Cents. 76th Yeai^ll ROLL CALL RECORD) GIVEN BY WARREN HAMPTON MAN CLAIMS SMITH 1 \l MISSED MANY?IRBY AGAIN! |1 . _ ATTACKS NATIONAL RAILWAYj \ MEASURE.?POLLOCK RUN-,? l< NING AGAINST NOBODY BUTi FOR THE OFFICE.?SMALL i CROWD HEAR CANDIDATES 1 V t T-1.. ft n 4 Winnsooro, JUiy O vauuiuavca ivi " the United States senate spoke to a- ( about 60 Fairfield county voters at J1 the campaign meeting held here yes- i terday. The meeting was held in the i county court house and was presided 1 over by J. E. McDonald county^ chairman. ; J George Warren of Hampton added ^ a new angle of interest to his speech when he brought out, in response to J a question, that Senator Smith has 1 failed to vote 1,327 times out of 3,- < 106 roll calls during nine of the 12 J years he has been in the United Stat- J es senate. These were failures to vote J on important matters. Mr. Warren 1 said, and were not casual roll calls to ' determine if a quorum were present. < W. C. Irby of Laurens was thfe first sneaker and he. too made some varia- < . " ' * . I tion from his usual speech by point-; ing out defects in the disability clause of the war risk measure. His conten-j v tnon, which was sustained later in a i statement by Congressman Stevenson s was that officers in the. , emergency 1 army who are disabled receive only 1 about one-third the amount paid of-3 ficers of the regular army similarly i disabled. In full agreement with Mr. 1 Irby's argument. Mr. Stevenson ex- J 1 _ plained that he had a bill to correct i this injustice. The bill jgad ,thp ap-| proval of the committee to which it c had been refered and three-fourthfe of 1 the members of both houses had ^ pledged their support of tne measure 1 but the Republican steering commit- 1 tee had refused to report it out. Of- ] ricers in the emergency army receive ] only the pay of the privates as to disability. 5 The Laurens county candidate iiiauc his attack again today on the national railroad measure which guarf antees a definite profit to the railroads on the investment much of wmcn investment i>ir. irDy contended is watered stock. If the roads lose a half billion dollars trie first six months the government must pay the roads a billion dollars, he says. He also argued for the establishment of packing houses, cold storage plants and foo.! exchanges in every community, financed by 'federal credit, to break the packing house trust, which' he snys, is operated in collusion with the railroads. Farmers who ship live stocl-, he says, at times rcceive only a postage stamp after all freight has been paid, the markets being so de-| pressed by the packers when cattle are en route. W. P. Pollock says he is not run-j ning against anybody in particular; for the office of United States senator, but is running for tne office to gratify a personal ambition to go back and establish a record commenrj surate with the honor. He bad a term of only three months in Washington, j a term all too brief in yrhich to prove; his mettle. If sent to Washington,' he will put South Carolina on the map [ He wanted the voters to ass them-! selves one question, which was: "'Has' Senator Smith by signal ability or ac-j complishment earned the right to stay! in the senate forever?" The Cheraw. candidate would oe satisned witnj their answer. Mr. Warren made his first re^er-l ence to Senator Smith and did this,1 he said in response to a question! from a voter as to the senator's ser-| vice in Washington. Mr. Warren j charged that Senator Smith was not( on the job, according to the official, record, emphazing that the voters j would think he was indigent in the performance of duty if he failed to] re-.pond to 300 roll calls in nine years j when votes were being cast on im-j i matters and measures. In1 i MO CHANGE ORDERED BY SHIPPING BOARD Not Considered "Closed Shop" Ar- ' rangements in American Ports, Says Admiral Benson. Washington, July 3.?The shipsing board is not considered "closed 1 ;hop" arrangements in American < ports, Chairman Benson announced < knight in answer to obtain exclu- i rive control of longshoremen work 1 >n its vessels. " j< "As is proper in the public ser- !< nee ,the shipping board stands for i naintenance of equality of oppor- J lunity for employment on its vessels i for all properly qualified men, re- < jardless of affiliation with any par- < iicular organization," the chairman itated. "No change is contemplated 1 in the present arrangements for i ongshore work on shipping board [ 1 vessels which cotinue under existing'! igreements until October 1 of the Jl current year. 1 Orders were issued by Chairman j Benson tonight to all operators of|( ;he board's vessels to subject to the :losest scrutiny overtime allow- j1* stnees for officers and men of the p merchant marine. The practice is!4 foreign to the oldest traditions of p the sea ,the chairman said and &11 J unnecessary expenses should be!1 jliminated. j1 jl CHIEF JOHNSON STANDS UP DURING THUNDER STORM 1 i' i L Chief Johnson has a nervous feel-; ing during a thunder storm and ab-j solutely refuses to rertiain seated. LJpon inquiry as to frhy such a j'1 jrave man as the chief walked the -s floor when the lightning was play-^ iig we discovered that' somebodyj lad shown him a clipping from a 1 Pennsylvania newspaper of Sunday ^ vhich says: , Sitting on a rail beneath a box/ :ar during a storm, Chief of Po- / ice McHenry of Clearfield, Pa., >vas thrown unconscious in to afield 1 ay a bolt of lightning that struck ;ne tracK. nevivea Dy tne rain, ne , found that the seat of his trousers j had been burned out. MRS. BRISTOW RESIGNS r1 After a long and faithful service as organist at the Methodist church, Mrs. Otto Bristow has resigned and her place has been taken by Miss Ruth Howie who played for the first time Sunday morning. Mrs. Bristow has serv ed the Methodist for the past ten years, and they give her up with sincere regret. 1 During this time she has pleased the congregation and the many visitors who come and go and has brought the choir up to a rare state of pro-^ uciency. j H. C. L. , The high cost of living which is as 1 annoying as the hot weather has hit ; Abbeville hard lately, inasmuch as ( blackberries are selling for fifteen 1 and twenty cents a quart ana arer.] hard to get at that price. j] Fresh "roastin' yers" are being of-.1 fered for sale and the price would.' lead one to suppose that they are( selling by the grain, instead of the "yers." / AFTER PREACHER Determined to bring the preacher back with them Amos B. Morse, W j L. Power and R. S. Link left this af-: i . TT 5 O! J T T _ I ternoon ior nampaen-oianey, va., | where they go as representatives of j the Presbyterian church to present! the call authorized yesterday, to Dr. j. Edgar B. Gammon. LEAVING FOR NEW YORK Miss Maggie and Miss Clarkie Link leave today for trip to New York, Niagara Falls and other points of interest. They will visit their brother, R. E. Link in New York for two i weeks. ? stead of 300 or 600 or 900 "absent" marks, he had 1<32(7 in 3,106 calls. If elected he pledged to be about the people's business.?J. I. K.?The ' State. J PRESBYTERIANS CALL " I PASTOR SUNDAY / Rev. Edgar B. Gammon of Hamp- J den-Sidney, Va. Called. Salary Fixed at $3600 and Mame : A congregational meeting of the Presbyterians was held in their a :hurch yesterday morning at 11 o'- t :lock. After electing Amos B. Morse r noderator and Robt. S. Link clerk ( i motion prevailed to enter into the. I ?11 of a pastor. J. C. Thomson, clerk s >f the session of the church, read a t mmberof recomendations which had t jeen received from various ministers md laymen regarding Dr. Elgar B. Sammon, pastor of the Presbyterian :hurch at Hampden-Sidney, Va. A motion was unanimously carried :hat Dr. Gammon be called as pastor ind lifter some discussion it \^as also ananimously agreed that ,a salary of ?3600 a year, payable monthly, and ;he use of the manse be offered the minister. A committee one elder, one ieacon and one other lay member from the congregation were selected to present the call to Dr. Gammon ;his week. The three members selectad to take the call were Amos B. Morse, Roy Power and R. S. Link The Presbyterians have been ivithout a pastor for a number o^i [Months ;and they are very anxious that Dr. Gammon, who is the unanimous choice of th'e congregation, will consider the call favorably. Those who know the minister speak ( if his qualifications in the highest f terms and one of the very prominent 1 ministers of the Southern Presby- i terian church states that he considers Dr. Gammon one of the fore- ] most ministers in the church today. < Dr. Gammon is a young man and 1 is married, having two small children s Mot only the members of the Pres- < syiterian church but those of the >ther denominations as well will < welcome D{*. Gammon "knd his family 1 to Abbeville should ths doctor feel i " * -i u i. iL. h tnat ne snouiu accejji, tue w?i wiiivn, i will be presented him this week. I I CAPT. SHAW HERE. j Capt. W. C. Shaw, war horse and simon pure democrat, of Lowndesville Kvas here Monday to attend the meet-1 ing^ of the Democratic Executive; Committee. The Captain is always interested in the welfare and progress of the county. Abbeville County could do no better than to send a man of ; his calibre to thelegislature this yearj He served the country in the days of * ow; o;vn great war and is eminently qualified to serve it in the time of i peace. ' I, HARDING TO GO HOME I < I1 U, nclimntnn Tultr P. ^Jonn + nr I . T? ttOlUli^UUli, %J\A*J cr. , 1 * I ' Harding, the Republican presiden- j , tial candidate tonight had com-1 pleted preparations for his depart-1 c are tomorrow from Washington byi, automobile to his home in Marion,' Ohio. The itinerary of the nomineej was not disclosed beyond the state-, nent that several stop.s would b*2 j c made and that he planum K arrive'j in Marion shortly after noon Mon- J iay. ( COURT STENOGRAPHER RALPH SYFAN HERE , ? j c Ralph Syfan, the new stenographer, ^ for this district came by Abbeville ( ^ last week to spend several days with1 . his Darents. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Sy-| fan. Mr. Syfan has just completed!^ his first week's work as court stenog-j j rapher in Greenwood and is taking' the testimony at court in Newberry j . j; RESTING FROM LABORS. !t " ??? 1 . j j;a r rru_: I 11. li. uianc, assistant editor ui a jib; Medium, left Saturday for a visit to-* his parents at Salem, Va. Mr. Clark took a new r6ute home this time go-j ing by way of Dante, Va., over the' C. C. and 0. through the beautiful! mountain country of North Carolina!, r.nd Tennessee. 11 Arthur Rosenberg and Frank t iWhe are spending the Fourth in { Greenville seeing the ball games. 1 >. H. HENRY NAMED AS ASSISTANT PRESIDENT! Mso Director of Student Activities?iv New Duties Placed Upon Former Abbeville Man. The Anderson Daily Mail of Friday ^ iays: "It is understood from sources ] hat are considered reliable that at a' neeting of the board of trustees of j ^lemson college yesterday, 2'rofessorj, 3. H. Henry was elected director of j student activities and assistant to ( ;he president^ It is also understood , hat Professor Henry will give up the , :hair of chemistry and devote all of. lis timp tr? thu tipw Hnt.ips Inriimhpnt'. ipon him by the new offie. , As director of student affairs, Professor Henry would have charge of ill athletics, the mess hall, student lances, the hotel and everything peraining to the student life, outside of! icademic requirements. President Riggs, as president of , Dlemson college has the aormlnistra- : ;ion of the huge plant of the college , ind has a position that is too much , :or any one man. President Riggs ms administered the affairs of the :ollege very successfully in the past ind will doubtless be enabled to give j lis time to the more important duties | >f his office, now that he has such in able and efficient assistant." A message received by The Press ind Banner Saturday afternoon from Prof Henry confirms the above re-jj >ort from the Anderson paper. Of. :ourse we all believed the rumor at irst and were satisfified if it were lot true that the Clemsofi trustees', vere missing a mighty good man. j Professor Henry's well-deserved,' promotion is the second honor to (. :ome to Abbeville folk in the educa;ional world this summer, Prof. Mason DuPre being recently elected lean of Wofford. Professor Henry's promotion :omes as no surprise to those who enow him. His clear judgment, pleasng address and unusual intelligence lave made him one of the most popilar of the Clemson professors and n the recent misunderstanding be-j Aveen the cadets and the Clemson authorities Professor Henry was frequently quoted by the "striking" ca-] lets with respect and admiration for, lis sound judgment. It is regrettable that the new du-j ;ies assumed by Prof. Henry will necessitate him giving up the chair of chemistry which he has filled so sat-; isfactorily for many years. iOME-COMING FOR CLEMSON MEN, Clemson College, July 5.?Just a nonth now until the gathering of the 31emson Tiger clans for the big rlome-Coming, which is to De held at ;he College Friday, Saturday and; Sunday, July 30th, 31st, and August 1st. All Clemson graduates and exstudents are urged to come and re-, lew old times and old friendships. Indications at present point to aj arge crowd of 1000 or more per day; luring tnese tnree great ciays. rnej Id beys will be taken care of in the [ arrac'j lar.r] |t fcvill be necessary)for | jach man to bring sheets, piI!ow cas;s, towels, etc., thus reminding him >f his cadet days. On account of the fact that dormi-J ;ory accommodations are limited to i 00 or 1000 the college authorities^ ind it impossible to invite the old | >oys to bring their families, as it hadi ntended and desired to do. A special feature of the Homecoming will be the fact that Rev. B. I. Turnipseed, a graduate of the first < :lass (1896), and now a prominent i nember of the South Carolina Metho- 'j | list Conference, will preach to the : >oys on Sunday morning. There will ] >f course, be various things ro enter-J ain the fellows and give them a good;' ime, but the "big idea" is to get to- 1 Tether. J i HOME AGAIN ! I Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Henry have reurned to Abbeville after a wedding < rip to Illinois where they visited Mr. i ienry's parents. They have rooms i vith Mrs. W. E. Johnson until their 1 ipartments at Mrs. Hery Hill's are ; eady for them. i < STOLEN MONEY v FOUND IN PARI % Authorities Say That Hart, Quattieand Derrick vAdmit Robbing 1 Expreaa Safe. Augusta, Ga., July 3.?Authorities [jere declared tonight that Ernesl Hart, a taxicab driver, W. J. Quattlebaum, a farmer living six mites out in the country, and Milledge Derrick, the express messenger in the case have confessed to tne robberj of the express safe on the Charlestor & Western Carolina railway trail Wednesday morning, when the pay roll of $59,725 for the Parris Islanc marines was stolen. About one-third of it, Quattle baum's share, has been recovered Hart, who is alleged to have been th< holdup man in the express car, ac ocmpanied officers to where he saic he had buried his one-third of th< money but arriving there, claimed th< money had been stolen since he hid i or else he had lofet his Obeanngs anc could not locate the spos.where h< had secreted about $14,000. Both Quattlebaum and Hart ac cuse each other of bei\ig in possessloi of Derrick's share of the money. I^LENfY OF MUSIC. One of the negroes of the couritj residing on the plantation of a well known and prosperous farmer lasl year "cleared" about $2500. Th< farmer . thought that the tenanf would work better this year if he go' his money invested early so the ten ant was advised to buy a piano foi the large crop of girls he has at hii house. The advice suited the tenanl and he got in communication wit! the piano man at once. In a. few day: the piano was delivered and paid foi Thinking to kill two birds with oni stone, the piano man had taken alonj another piano, and when the transac tion with the tenant was closed, thi piano man said to the tenant, I have brought along another pian< which I thought I might sell to somi of your neighbors, can you tell mi where I could likely sell anothe: piano?" The tenaAt looked at the piano mai a minute and then at the other piano and answered, "Boss I has a larg* crowd of gals, and if it is the same ti you I will jist take 'em bofe." SENATOR MOORE MAY MAKE CAMPAIGN FOR SOLICITOF I Senator Howard Moore stated to i representative of the Press and Ban ner late Saturday that so many o: his friends all over the district wer< urging him to reconsider his recen withdrawal from the race ?or solid tor that he may yield to their de mnnds and make the Campaign alonj with Messrs T. Frank McCord, o. Greenwood, and Homer S. Blackwel the incumbent, of Laurens. Mr. Moore had already filed hli pledge and assessment before he with drew from the race so he has a per feet right to make the campaign i] he so chooses. Should the senator de cide to make the race his announce ment to that effect will be receivec with interest over the district and es pecially among the hundreds oi staunch supporters he has In his honu onnnttf GENERAL NEWS Major General W. V. C. Gorgas former surgeon general of the Unit sd States Army, died in London Saturday morning where he has been a >atient in Queen Alexandra Hospital 3ince May 30. Mrs. Gorgas was witti her husband at the time of his death, The body will be removed to the United States on board an American transport, the time of sailing, how ... j ever, has not yet oeen announced. OFF ON VACATION Miss Minnie Ruth Cox is the firsl of the Press and Banner force to gel a vacation. Miss Cox left Sundaj morning for Honea Path where she svill make glad , the hearts of the young men and then move on to Beltcn to break more hearts. NO NOMINATION AFTER 22 BALLOTS ; THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION J HOLDING ITS TWENTY-SEC- tyM | OND BALLOT LATE SATURDAY A \o s EVENING RECESSES UNTIL 4 r THIS MORNING.?COX A LEADS J i McADOO AND PALMER IN LAST ; , BALLOT SATURDAY. Auditorium, San Francisco, July 3.v? - ?Alter 22 fruitless ballots, the . Democratic national convention just 5 before midnight gave up hopes of se-_ - lecting a presidential nominee within v : i the first week of its session and ad-' -yj ? journed until 10 o'clock Monday i ? i morning. kl ' ' -&M K Repeated attempts to adjourn were lj defeated throughout the early part of 31 the night, but as midnight approached and it was about to become Sun i day the tradition that a Democratic ' % i national onventioji never works on a y'^jj Sunday, oupled with the fact that the * convention was tired, worn and frazzled had its effect, and the final mo- .'ri tion to adjourn was unopposed. rj When the convention stopped , '? J was leading with four hundred ana Vs t' seventy-two and a half. ?' Palmer was down to a hundred and ;:jj, t' sixty-six and a nan. t The final ballots of the night were 7" J full of McAdoo movement, but it f failed to make much headway. Geor3 gia, his home state, pledged to Pal- : .s9 t mer Swung over with her twenty-eight i votes in a block for one ballot to see a if it would start her native son to- . . /? J ward victory, but it failed to do so a and she swung back to the attorney ^ . j ? general. . j No dark horse appearea curing the^"^*" e night's balloting to carry off the I honors and the convention adjourned j' just as much in need of somebody to 3 rally about as it was when :c began B j the balloting. rj It was in a deadlock w:tn nobody I in sight to break it. Sunday will be 1: devoted to efforts to finding some, I body to whom the convention cin e' swing. 9\ Wilson "Hands Off." I The Cox, McAdoo and Palmer/ :?,] | forces 'and those hoping to develop ! a' dark horse. sDent the hours be ( tween recess and reassembling at eight p. m. tonight in hurriea conferi'tf>V i ! ences and desperate efforts to line up' a compromise ticket.-. Word from :, / f Washington that President Wilson a was pui'suing a '"hands-off* " policy JS* t added to the confusion of the situa_;tion. . . > To every argument advanced for , some dark horse, objections were f heard in opposition. Those opposed 1 to Cox argued-the , Ohio governor j had reached the maximum of his ! .strength and lost his opportunity _iwhen the suspension of the baiioting was permitted for the recesj. Mc j Adoo and Palmer forces were lmJ portuned by each other to find a way _i to stop him. ji Despite the statement of some adj ministration leaders that it cannot .) .'"go-to Cox" the Cox forces pointed k | out that the dark horse movement j had found no rallying point and that / I Cox still remained a potential force, | which from a small number at the j start had taken the lead in the balj loting and nosed McAdoo out of first j place. ! At 8:17 Chairman "Robinson began calling for order. Vance McMormick former chairman of the Democratic t national committee, recalling that a Democratic national convention nev'i er sits on Sunday, and predicting no 1 nomination before midnicht. said he thought the convention would go over to Monday. The Palmer forces i were making a drive to get back I some of their lost strength as the I convention was coming to order. The first votes to be cast for Woodrow Wilson in the convention ' j came tonight from Missouri, two 5, of them on the twenty-second ballot. !, Contrary to expectations, they did ' not cause any particular demonstration in the convention.