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Abbeville Press and Banner Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Tri-Weekly. Abbeville, S. C. Friday .November 5, 1920 Single Copies, Five Cents. 77th Year. LEAGUE DECEASED DECLARES MING PRESIDENT-ELECT MAKES FIRST SPEECH SINCE REFERENDUM. ?TELLS HOME FOLK THAT HE HAS COME THROUGH CAMPAIGN WITHOUT APOLOGY OR REGRET-NATION PLAYS PART IN NEW ASSOCIATION Marion, Ohio, Nov. 4.?Making his first speech as president-elect, Warren G. Harding declared at an election celebration of home folk here tonight that the Versailles league of nations was "now deceased" although the new administration intended to see that the nation played its part in a new international association founded on peace and justice. Mr. Harding also told his friends and neighbors, who gathered around the front porch in a cheering con course rivalling the greatest crowds : of the campaign that he had come through the fight without "an apol- 1 ogy or a regret' and that he would , rather not have the presidency than ( to win it "by speaking ill or utter- , ing a lie." The celebration in which many . from other Ohio cities joined, as ] characterized by all the carnival fea tures of an old political rally. So great was the gathering that the streets were jammed for a block j away and only a small part of those < present could hear the speech. In a 1 parade past the Harding residence , there were many special features, one man leading a donkey on whose sides was painted "Jimmie didn't treat me right," while another group ] carried a dummy corpse; silhoutted against a red fire background and la- ' belled "The League of Nations." It was from the latter tableau that 1 the president-elect took the cue for ^ the leading thought of his speech. His reference to it started a laugh, * and then he said: 1 "I didn't see as much sorrow in ' your faces as I had apprehended. ] It's not that you or I question the desire of America to play its part; its * not that we question the high ideals ' of those who were responsible for the ! Versailles covenant. You just didn't 3 want a surrender of the United States 1 of America; you wanted America to go on under American ideals. That's i why you didn't care for the league 1 which is now deceased. J "America is playing a great part now. America is healing the heart of the old world tonight as no other ! nation. But there is more to be; 1 there is a new world relationship and 1 when the next administration comes ' into power we're going to play our J part. We're going to ask for nations J associated together in justice;; but it ' shall be an association which surren- 1 ders nothing of American freedom." i In his short talk the president- < elect touched on no other issues of 1 the campaign but thanked the crowd for its tribute and asked that he go i to Washington "with your good < wishes, your confidence and your i prayers." I "It is a solemn responsibility," he said, "and when I am through I want to be able to come back and be one of you again the same as I am now. I like to stand before you and tell 1 you I don't come with a single apol- ^ ogy or regret. Before I'd become president by speaking ill or uttering : a lie, I'd spurn the office.' 1 He added that he always had liked "the Marion spirit of boosting," and > ' ' "?- ? J i-~ Trr??v, ( tnat ne was going uvwn w nasuington as a booster for the United 1 States of America." THE COTTON MARKET. The cotton market was a "right eick kitten" today. December futures i closed today at 19:82 as against 20.65 : yesterday. On the local market good cotton sold for 22 cents. The market receded according to telegraphic reports on rumors of i 1"m-mninrr fimiroQ arp to be 1 laigc 6"'"'"6 "to ? ?- ? ? | announced in the next few days. ' I PRODUCTS COMPANY TO ORGANIZE SOON Meeting To Be Held Here November 12?Special Committee Authorized to Proceed With Work? Million Dollars Subscribed The organization committees of the American Products Export and Import corporation met yesterday in Columbia to formulate definite plans for completing the organzation. The following members were present: J. Ross Hanahan, Bright Williamson, R. C. Hamer, E. W. Duvall, G. W. Gaston, B. H. Moss, J. S. Wannamaker, R. M. Cooper, Jr., F. L. Willcox, J. R. Fairey, B. F. McLeod, L. I. Guion, William Coleman, A. M. Gibbes, Dr. George B. Cromer and Richard I. Manning. Others present were Charles H. Barron, Henry S. Johnson, William Elliott and Dr. W. W. Long. To Procure Charter The committee by unanimous vote instructed the special committee to proceed to obtain a charter at an early date. Chairman Manning reported to the committee that subscriptions in excess of $1,000,000 had been received to date and that large subscriptions were daily being received. In showing how widespread the stock was being sold in South Carolina, Mr. Manning said that more than $5,000 individual subscribers had taken stock in the corporation. A tentative proposition from expert cotton men was read and the committee referred the proposition to the directors, who are soon to be elected. Cooperative feature* The committee adopted the recommendation of the special committee including the cooperative features] jf the company as follows: ' All SbVC&UVlUClS l/U UC cuviwtvu w i 3 per cent, cumulative dividends on paid in stock. "After deducting from the total amount of profits realized during any year the aforementioned 8 per :ent, dividend, one-half of the remaining profits shall be paid out as patronage dividends' to the indiviiuals, firms, or associations furnishing business for the corporation, such dividends to be distributed pro rata in proportion to the amount in money of business furnished. "The remaining half of the profits in excess of 8 per cent shall be ihe property of the stockholders, and may be distributed to them, to 3e held to their credit as surplus. "No person, firm or association shall receive dividends until he or it becomes a stockholder to the par ^ <? C A /?ocA q r?tr Y\ AT> -Ct/vV- I Veil Ut; UI ?P C V. All VftOO ?ujr Uva wvvvu holder furnishes patronage, his 'patronage dividends shall be placed to bis credit on stock account until he accumulates or purchases stock to the par value of $50, after which he shall participate in cash dividends an patronage the same as stockholders." Mr. Manning said that the special lommittee will at once proceed to secure a charter and a meeting to arganize the corporation will be held Friday, November 12. JUDGE LYON "iN EXTREMIS News from the bedside of Judge J. Fuller Lyon, now of Columbia, but for many years an honored citizen of Abbeville, is \o the effect that he is in extremis and the end may be expected at anytime. Judge Lyon lost his balance com ing down trie stairway in nis residence some weeks ago, and since that time has been confined to his room. For awhile it was thought that he was improving, but last week he grew worse and has constantly lost ground. Mrs. McDill, his laughter, went to Columbia last night and is with her father. JACK NORRIS SICK Jack, the four year old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Norris, is seriously ill with pneumonia at the home of his parents near the city. BIG COAL SUPPLY IN NEW ENGLAND No Shortage in United States, Says Expert?President of National Coal Association Appears Before Committee New York,Nov. 4?D. H. Wentz of Philadelphia, president of the National Coal association, composed of bituminous coal operators, declared there was no shortage of bituminous coal in the United States, in his tes timony here today before the United States senate committee on reconstruction and production, investigating the coal situation. "The production of bituminious coal for the month of October, 1920, is practically the same as for October, 1918," he said. "At that time a tremendous effort was made to have each miner mine all the coal possible because of the war. The tonnage for October of this year, without any special effort, is about the same as 1918." J Mr. Wentz said there is such "a 'great supply of coal in New England" that many of the contractors have stopped shipments on their contracts. He also declared that both spot prices and contract prices as they are now are fair an dreasonable. He also testified that coal shipped to Europe is being sold on a 12 month contract for $6.50 a ton. He was asked by Senator William E. Calder, chairman of the committee, why that price should not prevail throughout the country, and he replied that a comparatively small percentage of[ bituminous coal goes to Europe. HOME DEMONSTRATION AND THE COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Geo. T. Barnes, Secretary of the Abbeville County Chamber of Commerce is now engaged in making business talks to the Women's Clubs of the County. He is meeting with splendid success and a remarkable attendance. The ladies are very much interested in their work and are advancing rapidly under the fine leadership and instruction of Miss Ruth Crowther. From the interest manifested and the questions discussed at these meetings one must acknowledge that these 1 clubs are of great benefit and that the good women of the County intend to profit by them. Many questions brought up are of such magnitude that they should have the earnest consideration of the Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Barnes spoke at Cold Springs last Thursday, At Arborville on Wednesday; at Calhoun Falls Thursday and at Monterey Friday. THEATS TO BLOW UP VtUUL.YYUIVin BUlbUillu CAUSES AN ARREST New York, Nov. 4.?Albert Baillin, a naturalized Russian, was indicted today by the federal grand jury on a charge of mail frauds in connection with the alleged mailing of letters containing threats to blow up the Woolworth building. Baillin sent these letters, it is -1 ? ? 3 - ? nMAnmn/V "foQ Y* cnargeu, m uie iiujjc ui aivuouig of an anarchist plot and then securing a post as government investigator to uncover the false conspiracy. Baillin was arrested last Monday. REPUBLICANS CLAIM KENTUCKY FOR G. O. P. Louisville, Ky., Nov. 4.?Possibility that Kentucky may go to the Republican column in the senatorial race became a probability Thursday when Chesley Searcy, State Republican manager, claimed Republican Candidate Ernest has defeated tfecknam, ms uemocracic opponent, by 10,000 and that Harding has carried Kentucky by several thousand votes. Democratic campaign officials believe Governor Cox will still carry the State and that Beckham has been elected, but admit the contest has grown closer. Returns from mountain 4 districts have increased Republican totals. REV. R. F. BRADLEY SUFFERS ATTACK Pastor of Lower Long Cane Has Sudden Attack at His Home Yesterday.?Shows Improvement Will Be Out Soon ' News comes to Abbeville of the illness of Rev. R. Foster Bradley, at his home at Troy, S. C., though the illness, as now reported, is not so serious as was at first thought. It is stated today that the attack which came yesterday was the result of uraemic poisoning, Mr. Bradley suffering a fall and was unconscious for a while. However, he revived yesterday afternoon and was pronounced much better last night. So far as we can learn today there is no paralysis as was at first reported. Mr. Bradley is the pastor of Lower Long Cane A. R. P. church and man of wide learning in the ministry. He is about seventy years of age, but of robust constitution, and this should enable him to withstand the attack, and come around to his accustomed good health in a little while, unless other complications should manifest themselves. MR. COTHRAN IMPROVES The friends of Mr. W. S. Cothran will be glad to know that he improves from the slight stroke of paralysis suffered some days ago. Unless complications occur, he should be at himself in a few days. His brother, Hon. Thomas P. Cothran, of Greenville, arrived in the city last night to be with Mr. Cothran, his earlier coming being prevented by the fact that court has been in session in Greenville where Mr. Cothran is a prominent lawyer. ASHBY GALLOWAY X-RAYED An examination of Ashby Galloway yesterday showed that his shoulder bone received a worse fracture in the recent practice game of football than was at first thought, and a further setting of the bones was deemed necessary by the physicians in charge. Ashby is now fixed up like an army - man with his arm extended on stilts, and his wound is attracting more attention and giving him a bigger reputation than was ever produced by Tom Sawyer's sore toe, or was it Huck Finn's? HUGH T. BRAMLETT IS PLACED ON TRIAL AGAIN I Greenville, S. C., Nov. 4.?Hugh T Bramlett, contractor, charged with the murder of his mother-in-law, Mrs L. C. McHugh, a year ago, was placed on trial in the court of general sessions here today. At the first trial last spring Bramlett was convicted +A Via H P OilU OVllbWUVCU WV WW v*vvv?. wvm.w. ? appealed to the Supreme Court and was granted a new trial. Temoprary insanity is his plea. GETTING READY TO BEGIN The big roller and the little wagon have been moved up on Chestnut street and the work of putting on the asphalt will begin aome time soon, likely next week, or next month of next year. MOVING IN Mr. and Mrs. Tolbert are moving this week into the house on Parker Avenue recently vacated by Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Hammond. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cheatham are taking the Tolbert house and are getting comfortably settled. NO HIKE TOMORROW Boy Scouts, Attention! Scout Master Derbyshire asks us to announce that he is ill and will not be able to go on a hike with the boy scouts tomorrow. He hopes to be out in a few days when the boys will get the out ing which they have been planning. PAUL MANN APPOINTED. Paul Mann was yesterday appointed a member of the County Board of Education for Abbeville County, the appointment being made by Governor Cooper. HARDING TO WORK P| FOR WORLD PEACE I Senator Lodge Says Republican! Will Form Some Kind of Ai. Association to Aid World Peace. RE Boston, Nov. 4.?Senator Lodge, in commenting upon the election today, said tne -Republican victory was so large he could not grasp it. "It is distinctly an American victory," he said. "We shall not bring any millenium to the country," he added. "We don't promise it. One thing we can do is to bring the government back to its constitutional form and limitations under which we have lived and progressed. We can p0 lemedy the present tax laws and we can revise the tariff so that duty on re* imports will be made to pay for some of the taxes which they don't do now. co TT "We can make peace with Germany and remove what is technically a state of war. "Lastly, we have nei brought to an end the attempt to en- a ter into the League of Nations which en Mr. Wilson brought back from Paris. c0' That is not the only league that Re can be made to promote the peace of ^rc the world. One of the first duties of ^ Th Mr. Harding will be to draw up an agreement looking to the preservation of the peace of the world. Call it 'entente' association, or what you will? not an alliance." 001 1 nu: EXPORT OF COAL tui MUST GO TO THE the LATIN COUNTRIES a f Washington, Nov. 4.?Little at- no1 tentions on the export of coal to insure an adequate supply for home ne5 industries and to direct the trade to *or p countries that are natural markets for American coal and to those to 1 which American ships sail in ballast were advocated today by Secretary of e^e Commerce Alexander in a discussion ^as rph of a national coal export policy. When conditions return to normal, pu' the Secretary said, there ig little sor possibility of American producers me obtaining a permanent foothold in ^ Europe and competing with the vot mines of England, Germany and ha; France. For South American coun- rei: tries, however, he declared, the po^ United States is the logical and ^ Sta natural source of supply. "Our national prestige in these um countries would be increased," Mr. anc Alexander continued, "if the United ?re ' f States were looked to as a friendly and certain source for such indus- cra pensable raw material, and our in- in fluence would be correspondingly injured if any drastic action was taken HptiicrnpH tn hinder the free move- ^ ment of coal to these countries." cor ga: CHIEF JUSTICE IMPROVES. Sta ( 12' Chief Justice Eugene B. Gary continues to improve from his recent attack of pneumonia and is so far on ca^ the road to being well again that he was allowed to be up and to dress in ^ ? men's clothes yesterday. His friends ^ hope to see him out in a few days. tin; HER NEW HONORS ing an< The women in Abbeville are tak- Z0I Inff their honors calmly, only twelve the availing themselves of the privilege fro of voting. Every woman on the street Tuesday was supposed to be ] armed with a ballot with which to Soi save the country, though a Greenville an< street lady, when asked if she was by going down to vote replied, "No, has Don't tell anybody, but I've lost my Ge registration ticket. I've looked in cla my husband's Bible, and the top coi bureau drawer and I can't find it, jor so, of course I can't vote but I wa wouldn't let husband know it for lesi nnwt.liino-" Sn sh? hurried on to the.nef meeting of the Merrie Matrons. thi: ha\ PLAN TO POOL COTTON Corpus Christi, Texas, Nov. 4.? Plans to pool all low grade cotton in Texas for shipment to European^ 3 countries will be considered at a fro statewide meeting called today by wit the United Cotton Growers' associa- rar tion for November 16 at Waco. The Mr call is signed by Fred Roberts, pres- as ident of the organization, and 31 the farmers of 29 Texas counties. ye? OUBTFUL STATES on cnD UAnnmin uu run (ihhuinu :publican plurality bids fair to reach 7,000,000? cox gets 127 votes in electoral college?many political fixtures go down. champ clark among them. n. y. for g. o. p. by 1,080,000. New York, Nov. 4.?The unprecented Republican victory, growing leaps and bounds hourly since the lis closed Tuesday night, reached maximum proportions when late :urns dispelled the doubt that linred over Tennessee and New Mexiand placed these States in the irding-Coolidge column. With only three counties in Ten 3see missing, Senator Harding has jad of about 10,000 votes over Govlor Cox. Inasmuch as the three jnties yet to be heard from went publican four years ago, returns >m these are expected to increase i size of the Harding plurality. us is the Republican dream of a If century realized. The Solid uth has been broken. In New Mexico, with only two inties missing, Senator Harding 3 a lead in the returns of 3000. Re ns yet to come in can not change s result. Along with Arizona, Missouri and ew other States the Democrats did t give up until the last moment, ! addition of New Mexico and Tenssee gives the Republicans a vicy so gigantic that even the G. O. leaders found it hard to realize. 1 Senator Harding and Governor olidge will have 404 votes in the ctoral college. Only once before i this electoral vote been surpassed at was in 1912, the year of the Realican schism, when Woodrow Wili polled 435 votes. Before the morable year Theodore Roosevelt d the honors, having received 336 es in 1904, the year Republicans re always pridefully pointed to as resenting the high water mark of itical endeavor and victory. Warding and Coolidge carried 36 .tes, taking along with them to triph the governorships of 26 Statea 1 numerous senatorial and conssional candidates. They even shattered some Demo* tic institutions like Champ Clark, Missouri, and Senator George amberlain in Oregon. Plurality Near 7,000,000 Sven Texas elected one Republican igressman and several Texas towns re Harding pluralities, although the ite, of course, went Democratic. 3ox and Roosevelt will have but 7 votes in the electoral college. While it probably will be some ?s before the popular plurality of rding and Coolidge will be known, seems certain it will be around 7,3,000 votes at a conservative estate. rhe greatest plurality given Hard; was from New York, 1,080,000, i the smallest probably from Arila, New Mexico or Nevada, where > Republican pluralities will be m 3000 to 5000. Republicans gains in the Solid nth are not confined to Tennessee i Texas. In Georgia it is conceded the democrats that the G. 0. P. 5 carried fourteen counties in orgia, while the republicans are iming twenty-two. At least two inties in Alabama have given maities for the republicans, while one rd in the City of Columbia with 3 than two hundred votes gave a irly 2 to 1 majority for Harding, s, however, is stated to be a ward ring many negroes. SEEING MR. COTHRAN Mrs. Arthur Thompkins is here m Edgefield for a few days stay ;h her niece, Miss Margaret Cothi, during the illenss of her father, . W. S. Cothran. Mrs. Thompkins, Miss Cleora Brunson, attended i Abbeville Graded School some trs ago and has many friends here